I am Jimple Borlagdan

You are about to be someone whose mind is a park on a Sunday

Haribol!

Welcome to Jaime Jesus Borlagdan's primary page on blogger. Here you will find doors to his other more specific pages concerning his works in poetry, music and other stuff.

The blogs listed in this page are mainly used for announcements and bulletins of urgent matters which are not found in the other linked blogs.

The multiply page Suralista (http://www.lakadbulan.multiply.com/), can very well give one an overview of the Introduction. There one would find basically everything about Jimple: a view of his personal life, his passions, his opinions, his music, and his blogs on spirituality, literature and other various fields. From there you can move on to the blogger page Suralista (http://www.jimplejimple.blogspot.com/) where Jimple stores most of his poetry, or to Mahalnas na Upon(http://www.uponkanibalon.blogspot.com/), which contains his prose poems and short stories.

Karangahan: Pagranga sa Panurat Bikolnon (http://www.karangahan.multiply.com/) is an on-line Bikol Literary Journal which Jimple edits. The page is supported by the membership of Jimple's fellow ABKAT artists, where they contribute their Bikol works. For more information on the cultural group ABKAT, you can check out the organization's blog in these addresses http://www.abkat.multiply.com/ and http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24646157657.

Aside from being a full-fledged author, Jimple is also a fulltime band leader of and composer for the band Krear Bathala and Bandang Jimple Borlagdan, his solo project. These bands earned a reputation in Albay and some parts of the region as the instigators of the Original Tabaknon Music. More stuff about these bands, including samples of their music and tons of photos can be accessed through http://www.krearbathala.multiply.com/ (Krear Bathala)

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=864125 (Krear Bathala @ Sound click)

http://www.last.fm/music/Krear+Bathala (Krear Bathala @ Last.fm)

http://www.last.fm/music/Jimple+Borlagdan (Jimple Borlagdan @ last.fm)

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=864132 (Jimple Borlagdan @ sound click)

Sunday, October 18, 2009

MY 2009 HARVEST

I was wrong to think that the highlight for this year would be the launching of my book "QUE LUGAR ESTE KAN DAYO SA SADIRING BANWA" last June 22, 2009. Ecstatic as I was, it never crossed my mind that it wouldn't be all for 2009, similarly I never thought I would be winning the two most coveted prizes for Bikol Literature, the Tomas Arejola Prizes for Poetry and Fiction. And the surprises never seem to end when on the very same night I was receiving the said prizes last September 29, 2009 I was named at the end of the occasion the 2009 Writer of the Year for Bikol. I never expected to receive such amount of honor in one night, and I have to admit it took a lot of work in humility to return to my old footing after that, but it has finally sunk in. I'm back in the world. I have received the awards, now it's time to return to the labor of writing which I will always love more than planting feathers on my cap. But before that here's a little monument for that milestone.

Here are my pictures for the 2009 Tomas Arejola Prize for Bikol Lierature held at Avenue Square Hotel, Naga City last September 29, 2009:

Here I am receiving the Grand Prize for Poetry with none other than National Artist for Literature and poet Virgilio Almario: