NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO

Hunggan, esta hu tungo' na sina Guahu ha', gi entre todu i Chamoru, ni' ya-na umegga' cricket. I'm pretty sure, and people have backed me up on this, that I am the only Chamorro who likes watching and following cricket. Ai adai, hunggan makkat este na tinaiga'chong. Lao esta payun yu' nu este na klasin siniente. Estaba, sina Guahu ha' ya-na umegga' Bollywood lokkue'. Fihu masangan yu' na likidu na Chamoru yu'. So, not belonging to a "cricket culture" I don't have much access to cricket, and I'm not really sure how to get access to it. I'm not sure what channels I could watch it on, what websites you can see matches for free through. If there is radio stations that I can listen to matches online, I don't know which they are, or how to sign on. Its a little bit frustrating. When there are games on that I want to follow, my only real option is to follow them through websites such as Cricinfo. Cricinfo is (probably)

Rashne: Put fin, mafatto hao! Miget: Ei adai, mungga taiguenao! Esta un tungo' na fihu gof åpmam i mubin Bollywood. Rashne: Hafa un egga' pa'go? Miget: Sarkar Raj. Rashne: Hafa enao? Miget: Este i mina'dos na Sarkar. Buente dos años tatte na tiempo, ma fa'tinas i fine'nina. Rashne: Ah, hunggan hu hasso. Para ayu ma dalalaki i estorian The Godfather, no? Miget: Hunggan, lao manmanusa familian Hindu, enlugat di un familian Italiånu. Ya ma pega i estoria giya Mumbai enlugat di New York City. Rashne: Ya gi i mina'dos kao ma fa'kopia The Godfather Part II? Miget: Gi i tinituhun i kachido pine'lo-ku na hunggan. Lao gi i finakpo' siguru yu' na ahe'. Siña na i direktot Si Ram Gopal Varma, ha kekekfa'baba hit. Ya gi un banda ha na'hahasso hit na kopia ha', ya ensigidas gi i otro banda, kulang nuebu! Rashne: Pues hafa i diferesia? Hafa ma tulaika? Miget: Kao siguru hao na ya-mu na bei na'tungo' hao? Rashne: Hu'u nai, siempre

While on Crooks and Liars today, I came across my dream come true. (or at least one of them) A website, where you can put your own subtitles over clips from Bollywood movies. I've made a couple and I'm posting them below, but let me give you some background first on why this is a dream for me, other than simply i guinaya-ku nu kachidon Bollywood siha. For those familiar with those blog, for the past few years I've had a regular feature on it called "Nihi Ta Fanchat Gi Fino' Chamoru put Hindi Movies" or "Let's Chat in Chamorro About Hindi Movies." In these posts, I basically create a dialogue in Chamorro between two people who are talking about a recently released Bollywood movie. For my first post, I used the film Swades , Ashutosh Gowariker's epic about diaspora, finding one's way back home, and the relationship between progress and culture in the "non-first" world, to create the dialogue. I'm pasting it right here for th

My brain has been a little off lately, and I think its because my mind has been persistently occupied by a strange mixture of things. Lately I've developed this unnerving habit of having two songs in my head at once, both of them playing at the same time, and in their unholy mixture insisting very forcefully that I seek them out in the real world and listen to them repeatedly until the barrage is gone. Sometimes the yinalaka isn't too bad like when the songs go well together, or just sound like an exciting new mix. Or sometimes its not even obvious that two songs are intertwined because the songs sounds so similar or are from the same artist. Its common for instance for me to get the songs "Crazy" and "Crying" by Aerosmith stuck in my head at the same time, and think that the song I need to listen to is "Amazing." The past few days have been slightly strange, because my brain has been a muddled mess of two very different songs, and the Cricket Twe

Esta chatangmak guini giya Guahan, ya sigi di humasso i nobia-hu Si Rashne. Gof fotte este na sinieñte, pues bai hu dedicåyi gui’ ni’ este na kachido. Hu guaiya hao Baloo-hu.

Miget: Hafa Adai Rashne! Rashne: Hafa adai Miget! Miget: Maila halom, maila. Rashne: Si Yu'us Ma'ase. Hafa na kachido para ta egga' pa'go? Miget: Hekkua', bei aligaoñaihon gi i fanrikohiyan. Rashne: Kao guaha giya Hågu Dhoom 2? Miget: Ahe’, ti hu fahån gui’, lao esta hu egga’. Rashne: Ya hafa hinasso-mu? Kao ya-mu? Miget: Hunggan, ya-hu sa’ bula stunts, action, ya chalek siha. Rashne: Kao kinahnåyi hao lokkue nu i mambunita na famalao’an? Kao masakke i rason-mu? Miget: Ahe’, ahe’. Actually, gi minagahet, ti parehu este na kachido yan i meggaiña na otro na kachidon Hindi. Rashne: Sa’ hafa? Miget: Well, mafa’na’an este na klasin kachido “transnational.” Rashne: Ma agang siha enao put i diferentes na lugat nai ma fifilm? Miget: Hunggan, giya Dhoom, yan otro na kachido pot hemplo Don (i mina’dos na chinagi) yan Krrsh, ti manmaloloffan i fina’pos giya India ha’. Manhahanao i actors siha gi todu i movie, ya mañasaga’ gi otro na nasion, pat mambisisita. Rashne: Fihu hu li’

Buente este un tungo' put i guinaiya-ku nu i Simpsons yan kontodu nu i bailan yan kachidon Bollywood. Pa'go hu fakcha'i este na kachido, ni' muna'unu i dos na guinaiya-ku siha. Ti hu tungo' manu na klasin yu'us chumaolao i diniseha-hu, lao hu gof agradesi i fina'tinas-mu! Gaige yu' pa'go giya New York, para bei fama'nu'i tinige'-hu gi i Association of Asian American Studies Conference. So not much to post until I'm back in San Diego.

You might have noticed a slight change in my blog. For several months I've sported i banderan Guahan as my profile pick, due to the obvious nationalistic and ethnocentric character of my blog. It was also an important strategic choice, since when I started the Decolonize Guam blog, I wanted people who stumbled across it to still connect and feel familiar to it, even if the news posted on the blog might be completely new and strange to them (since the posts on the blog portray the US in a hardly benevolent light). When I started that blog though my profile pick was an interesting and confusing choice to many, this still from the film Mangal Pandey: The Rising, starring Amir Khan as one of the heroes of the First Indian Rebellion in 1857. Surely only those familiar with my random Nihi ta fanchat gi fino' Chamoru put Hindi Movies would have understood the choice. The choice was not only related to my love for Hindi movies, but also part of a much d