I am Jimple Borlagdan

2009-10-18T23:04:00.000-07:00

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:

Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo handed me the Grand Prize for Fiction:

This one is a year ago at the 2008 Gawad Komisyon where I won Second place for Fiction. With me is First Placer Estelito Jacob.

2008-08-15T02:32:00.000-07:00

"Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya" by Jaime Jesus Borlagdan, new song for Krear Bathala. Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya means I offer my humble obeisances to Sri Krishna the Lord of the Universe

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya

Gabos nagpuon
sa sarong hangos kan Dios
bilang Maha-Visnu.
Nakahigda sa dagat kan pagmukna
hali saiya an kagabsan namundag.

Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
Gabos na paggalang pigdudulot ko Saiya.

Nakatukaw sa satuyang puso

Apat an kamot, Paramatma
Lotus, pamakol, sankarsana chakra
arikurong an kamot kan Kagurangnan
sa satuyang daghan

Namaste! Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya!
Gabos na paggalang pigdudulot ko Saiya.

Para linigon an kinaban
kan gabos na kabalbalan
nag-abot an Dios bilang Krishna
an totoo Niyang itsura,
daing sagkodan an kagayunan, kapangyarihan
kamurawayan!

Om namo bhagavate, om namo bhagavate....vasudevaya
Gabos na paggalang pigdudulot ko, gabos na pagkamuot pig-aatang ko
pigsasamba taka Sri Krishna!

2008-08-15T02:29:00.000-07:00

"Sa Dios Sana" by Jaime Jesus Borlagdan, new song for Krear Bathala

Sa Dios Sana

Naglalakaw, ang tawong patal
sa tikong dalan, daing pakiaram.

Pighihibian an minsan na laogan
Dai aram na an laog an daing katapusan.

Piggigibong paraiso kan laman
An dagang ining sa hudyan satuyang babayaan.

Dai ka magsarig sa
igwang kasagkodan ta
sa hudyan dara kaan
dakulang kamunduan.

An gabos na may puon
sierto an pagkatapos
dai man ki minundag
na dai nagadan.

Sa Dios sana
an kaogmahan ta
makukua sa Dios sana

Nitai-Gaur Haribol
Sisay an dudumanan?
Haribol Nitai-Gaur Haribol
Sisay an raranihan?
Nitiyananda, Nityananda
Sisay an dudulukan?
Chaitanya, Chaitanya
Sisay an sasarigan?

Pag-abot kan kagadanan? Sa hudyan.
Sisay an hahagadan sa hudyan
sisay an makakatabang sa hudyan
pag-abot kan kagadanan, sa hudyan?

Kun saro-sarong nawawara an gabos?
Kun saro-sarong nagrarayo an gabos?
Sisay an sasarigan sa hudyan?

Oh, sa Dios sana makukua, an ogma.
Oh, an Dios sana an makakadapa satuya.
Sa satuyang kagadanan, sa hudyan.

2008-07-20T23:41:00.000-07:00

ASTRONOMO (song)

"Padaba niya sana, an dai niya kayang kaputan;

pighahanap niya sana an dai niya kayang makua."

"He loves only those he cannot touch;

he seeks only those he cannot find."

2008-07-20T23:33:00.000-07:00

AN ISTORYA KAN HALIPOT NA BUHAY NI ROMY (song)

"Ini an istorya

kan halipot na buhay ni Romy

sa pagkamuot niya ki Josefang tindera..."

2008-07-07T21:19:00.000-07:00

Hamot Kan Narumdon (Scent of the Remembered) is Jaime Jesus Borlagdan's supposed third book of osipon (fiction) and rawit-saysay (prose poem).

The rough publication will be launched on July 18, 2008 at Cafe Novoue, Legazpi City, and at Sugba Bar and Grill on July 25, 2008.

2008-07-07T21:07:00.000-07:00

Karangahan: Pagranga sa Panurat Bikolnon is a monthly folio of osipon (fiction), saysay (essays), arte (drama), and rawitdawit (poetry) by Bikolano writers.

Karangahan, as editor and creator, Jaime Jesus Borlagdan, states aims to gather Bikol Literature in the hope of cultivating the language and attracting Bikolano's themselves to use it.