book review

                                    PROMDI@MANILA

       there are two types of living in the philippines: life in the city or a life in the province. living in the province is relaxing and peaceful there are no hustle sounds from the cars and buses or noise from people. there no polluted air like in the city and people wake up in the morning with fresh air. there is a friendly neighborhood wherein everybody knows everybody and respects each other. a story about the promdi means "probinsiyana or probinsiyano" by Genevieve L. asenjo.. asenjo was a filipino poet, novelist, translator and literary schoral in kinaray-a, hiligaynon,and filipino. she is an associated professor at de la salle university in manila, she a collected of poetry in kinaray-a with translation in filipino and that is promdi@manila. the story started when julia sebastian she wants to come in manila. julia a 25 years old assistant creative director, and her sister. neighbor teray their "manikurista" and carpenter fred, teray's husband, when they were in high school. julia idolized the people from manila because when they come back their skin lighter, have on trend outfits and lots of money. and because of that she wants to go manila and buy the bread and biscuits they always bring. and she study in college to manila. at first julia was not used in her new environment because it was over crowded unlike antique. she study at UP and she became an assistant creative director in harrison communication. she was a writer for three years before she got promoted. one day she receive a text from teray. teray wanted to meet julia. but julia send the english word,julia realized that teray might get hurt of what she composed, so she erased it. julia was thinking whether there was someone else in her barangay who could go with teray but she could not contact the people she knew. julia was annoyed because she could not say no but she was also afraid that something bad might happen to teray. she got confuse on what to do: go to the last day of a cinema or go to teray. julia walked back and forth thinking how to fetch teray because all the people in her directory were not available. they met in the church.julia was so worst. they just got out from the church and julia knew that it will be a long talk. she wanted to sit and she also hungry. teray wants to go jollibee .. because teray go back to province she tell them she already eat the fried chicken endored by aga. they talked while having their lunch. julia kept on asking what happened to teray and her family. she found out that teray stopped being a maid to a generals family because they dont treat her right. she also knew that teray has a lot of unpaid bills. teray took out the list of contacts of people where she could stay for a week before she will go to antique. teray said she just wants to buy these things pants of acay because he really want that, and fred briefs, and new nipper and colorful on trend nail polish for me, but julia go to rest room. because her eyes was watery and she realized that her one trip in dermclinic or davids salon is expensive than what teray wants to buy.