Ninah Villa

Beautiful, unforgettable Camiguin. Your gift of peace is unforgettable.

“In his cell, with his elbow upon the window sill and his pale, worn cheek resting on the palm of his hand, he was gazing silently into the distance where a bright star glittered in the dark sky.” — Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer) - Chapter 5 Jose Rizal (translated by Charles Derbyshire)

“There were the same streets and the identical houses with their white and blue walls, whitewashed, or frescoed in bad imitation of granite; the church continued to show its illuminated clock face... “ — Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer) Jose Rizal (translated by Charles Derbyshire)

The soft, quaint, elegant beauty of this island invite you to snooze away endless summer days.

The wrath of nature spares none of the trappings of human empires.

Complete version of my fragmented chicken soup.

Camiguin and its seven volcanoes. The Island Born of Fire!

--- Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer) Jose Rizal (translated by Charles Derbyshire)

-Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

As we ponder on his supreme sacrifice, earthly lords, unable to abstain from arrogance and conceit even on a holy day, litter the path to Golgotha with names, faces, slogans and utter lack of good taste. And the faithful, who pray for salvation from the rule of these hooligans, build their own memorials of glittering rubbish, offerings to a still suffering savior. Sacrilege of the current sort.

Armed with the incurable presumptuousness of their race, those vulgar sons of the earth came in droves, only to smash their crude vessels at the foot of a most hideous siren perched upon the jaws of the sea.