"Mahalus-Halus" is a word in HILIGAYNON
mahalús-halús - Neither poor nor rich,
moderate, mediocre, middling, satisfactory,
not too much nor too little, of moderate
means, rather well off, middle-class. (cf.
mahumánhumán, mahingánhingán,
dawâdawâ, dirâdirâ).
Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret, that it takes the form of a rebus whose message must be deciphered, that the stories we live compromise the mythology of our lives and in that mythology lies the key to truth and mystery. Is it an illusion? Possibly, even probably, but I can’t rid myself of the need continually to decipher my own life.
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Why did the man lose his job in a fruit packing firm? He kept throwing the bent bananas away.
mahingán-hingán - (B) Of some means or use, neither poor nor rich, possessed of moderate means, neither much nor very …
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