Ambeth R. Ocampo's Blog, page 68

Weekend at the Ayala Museum with almost 40 Ocampo relatives on Friday (Top Left), then with Christina Lee (Princeton U.) author ...

Weekend at the Ayala Museum with almost 40 Ocampo relatives on Friday (Top Left), then with Christina Lee (Princeton U.) author of "Saints of Resistance" and outgoing Ateneo Press Director Karina Bolasco (Bottom Left) on Saturday. Icing on the cake was meeting Toby (Right) for the first time. He is now one of my favorite GRANDSONS(!)
Museum going should not be a school requirement but part of our leisure options aside from malling and the cinema.



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Lecture at Rockwell VIP Cinema next Saturday July 29! The Lopez Museum and Library is presenting “Cultural Intersections,” ...

Lecture at Rockwell VIP Cinema next Saturday July 29!
The Lopez Museum and Library is presenting “Cultural Intersections,” a lecture series that explores the history, culture, and heritage of the Philippines during the American Colonial Period at Rockwell Cinemas.
I will deliver the inaugural lecture next Saturday 29 July at Rockwell Cinema on "Re-discovering the American Period." I looks back on my research in the Lopez Museum and my recent finds during my recent term as Visiting Professor...

WARNING!Parental Guidance is advised for today's post. Friar vocabularios from the 17th-19th centuries documented our lang...

WARNING!
Parental Guidance is advised for today's post.
Friar vocabularios from the 17th-19th centuries documented our languages, including various "verbum turpissimum" or words considered so vulgar modesty dictated that these be rendered not in Spanish but in Latin.
One 18thC vocabulario noted the phrase "poqui nang Yna mo" while another in the 19th century gives specific anatomical terms for a woman's private parts: "Laman sa hati," was descriptive; "Quinababainan" was the general t...

This 19th century photograph of the UST Physics Lab from the Biblioteca Nacional de España is best seen with Rizal's description...

This 19th century photograph of the UST Physics Lab from the Biblioteca Nacional de España is best seen with Rizal's description from Chapter 13 of El Filibusterismo:
"...a day of the year was set aside to visit the mysterious laboratory and to admire from outside the enigmatic apparatuses placed inside the cabinets; no one could complain; on that day could be seen such brass, much glass, many tubes, discs, wheels, bells, etc...The laboratory had been set up to be shown to the guests and the hig...

Ay Ewan! Is the way 18th century Tagalogs said, "I don't know."Browsing through the 1794 Vocabulario de la lengua tagala compil...

Ay Ewan! Is the way 18th century Tagalogs said, "I don't know."
Browsing through the 1794 Vocabulario de la lengua tagala compiled by fray Domingo de los Santos provides hours and hours of fun. I did not know that "boa" was the synonym for "poqui" (vagina) and that the vulgar phrase "boa[ka] nang Ynang mo" was already in use in the 18thC.
My Inquirer column today is on History from dictionaries.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/164878/h...



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If I had a Time Machine I would visit the 19th century library of the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas in Intramu...

If I had a Time Machine I would visit the 19th century library of the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas in Intramuros (Top), just to check if the magnificent 18th century altar table in the present UST Library (Bottom) is one and the same.
The eminent Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera had a similar one, that I dined on once. Smaller than the UST table but it had finer carving and details of the Chinese lion-masks on the legs that the ignorant mistook for demons, thus making these a...

The Ateneo Municipal de Manila in Intramuros was a high school, but the main staircase is grander than any of the modern ones we...

The Ateneo Municipal de Manila in Intramuros was a high school, but the main staircase is grander than any of the modern ones we have at Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City. What's more, Rizal and other historical characters trod up and down those stairs as students. Photo is a prewar postcard, part of a set on the old Ateneo received as a gift from my Malabon classmate Ramon Lucas.



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Two of my favorite poems by Jose Garcia Villa that need no explanation.

Two of my favorite poems by Jose Garcia Villa that need no explanation.



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Re-enacting an experience of terror during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.

Re-enacting an experience of terror during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.



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Flooding in Manila is not new. It is documented in this charming engraving from the 1857 Illustrated London News. My column tod...

Flooding in Manila is not new. It is documented in this charming engraving from the 1857 Illustrated London News.
My column today is on natural calamities classified in archival documents from the Spanish period as "Calamidades Publicas."
https://opinion.inquirer.net/164745/c...



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