SULYAP

SULYAP (Filipino; verb) - glance; glimpse; passing look. In the nationalistic sense of the word, "sulyap" is connotatively linked to remembering the nation's history. Not necessarily to relive the agonizing chapters of yesterday or to live in vain, but to be aware that the depressions and horrors experienced "need not be lived again."  In this context, every province has its own stories to be told, a product of the rich and diverse history it holds etched in the footprints of those who wandered in the motherland, continuously illuminating through the orb of existence of its people. Despite the bittersweet memories it sequesters in its palms, colonization after colonization, to preserve and mark the fragments of the past in the face of today is by looking back , immersing oneself , and taking pride in the tangible parts we can have access to and fortunately behold until now, allowing us to grasp the concept of the present and grab an opportunity to light the way...