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Once upon a time, Diwata, the nymph of the Forest threw a party for all the animals and plants. The band of crickets, frogs and maya birds came playing their old-time favorite tunes. With the music, the horse danced with the deer. The elephant danced with the bull. The zebra danced with the monkey. The string beans danced with the collard greens. The mango danced with the clementine. The banana danced with the papaya. The bamboo trees swayed back and forth. The turtle raise his house up and down.

The cashew nut was sad and lonely inside the cashew fruit. He cannot see or hear all of the celebration.

The Legend of the Cashew Nut

Diwata, the nymph of the forest felt sorry for the cashew nut. She cast a spell on him and he was reversed sitting out on top of the cashew fruit. The happiness of the cashew nut was short-lived when the monsoon rain started to pour, fallowed by thunderclaps and lightning.

The cashew nut was so scared and wanted to go back into the security of the cashew fruit but Diwata said that she cannot undo the spell.

Once upon a time, a little boy needed to go to the bathroom. He was playing outside in the field and had to relieve himself right there and then. He found a mound of earth and urinated on it. When he went home, he got very ill of urinary tract infection. His mother asked him what he did before he fell ill because he was in good health. He said that he urinated on a mound of earth in the field. His mother exclaimed, "Santissima! Don't you know that there might be elves living in the earth mound?"

The boy and his mother went to the earth mound where the boy urinated. His mother appealed to the "Nuno sa Punso" (elf of the mound). "Please forgive my son if he urinated on you because he didn't know." The "Nuno sa Punso" appeared and he was so mad as being urinated at by the little boy. He said he'll forgive this time but next time the little boy has to say "habi habi Nuno sa Punso" (give way, elf of the mound). The boy got well and learned a lesson that before he urinate outside, he has to be sure that the elf is not urinated upon.

Once upon a time, a Filipina maiden lost her beloved husband. She cried for days. The days turned to weeks. The weeks turned to months. The months turned to years and she was still crying. She cried enough that she started a river called the Pasig River.

Then she rode a banka' (canoe) and paddled on through the Pasig River singing:

I was once a maiden in the kingdom of love.

When love died, the kingdom went with it.

My heart sunk, my spirit down and my mind empty.

If you want me to live, give me back my love.

Juan Tamad was so lazy that he won't pick a ripe guava fruit from the guava tree even if he loved to eat guava and he was very hungry. He saw a real ripe guava just right for picking. The guava's color was turning yellow, red and orange. He salivated to think that upon biting the fruit, he would expose the meat inside which was bright pink.

Lazily, he lay down under the guava tree and positioned himself right under the ripe guava fruit. He opened his mouth and waited for the fruit to fall down. After a few hours, his jaws started to stiffen and he got very sleepy. He fell asleep and was awakened by a mosquito buzzing inside his mouth. Irritated, he hurriedly spit out the mosquito and at the same time the guava fell on his head and bounced 10 feet away and rolled down the ground. Angrily, Juan Tamad just watched the guava rolled by. Juan Tamad was lazy to chase after the guava.