Today in History: Severino Reyes

Have you noticed the Google logo today?

Google is changing its logo temporarily during holidays or sometimes you will see images of a person just like you are seeing with Google homepage today February 11, 2022.

If you have not tried clicking on the image in today’s Google logo, the person is Severino Reyes.

Google Doodle

Just an FYI if you are not aware, a Google Doodle is (according to Wikipedia), temporarily alteration of Google’s Homepages to commemorate holidays, events, achievement and remarkable historical figures of certain countries.

Google has been doing this for almost two decades although sometimes they are being criticized by some organizations for not featuring America’s patriotic holidays or gender and race imbalance.

I will not be mentioning a lot more of Google Doodle in this post. Just go here and see for yourself.

Mga Kwento ni Lola Basyang (Stories of Grandma Basyang)

So who is Severino Reyes?

Honestly I did not know about him until Google has featured him in today’s Google Doodle.

What seems so special about him?

He was a writer and a Filipino. Thanks to Google for letting me know (shame on me).

If you are a fellow Pinoy reading this, you may have heard of the name Lola Basyang. Actually I have heard of her since I was a kid and she was famous for her stories Alamat ng Lamok (The legend of the Mosquito), Walang Sugat (No Wounds), and Ang Halik Ni Hudas (The Kiss of Judas) to name but a few.

I was thinking that Lola Basyang was really an old woman. I don’t know if some of you already know for a long time that it was Reyes’s pen name.

Today, February 11 is the natal day of Severino Reyes, known as the “Father of Tagalog Plays” and as the “Father of Tagalog Zarsuela”.

I am proud to include him in my articles and this post is to commemorate one of the historical figures of the Philippines.  You can view his complete profile in Wikipedia.

There are a lot of great Filipino writers in the past that have been part of Philippine history. In fact I still hold a copy of Jose Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere” published in 1957 (Fifth Printing) that I have been preserving for almost two decades now.

It’s kind of old that the pages can tear off easily so I just wrapped and kept it untouched.

We see a lot of information everyday and often we tend to ignore it because it may have no importance. Or if not we may have known a little and just ignore them as there are more things to devote our time to than paying attention to them.

We have to understand that most information we receive is freely given to us. It only takes our time to take that information and store it in our minds.

So the next time you see Google has changed its homepage, take time to check it out. I think two or three minutes is not a waste of your time to learn new information.

Who knows, maybe someday Google will feature the person who drilled small holes in a cattle bone, tied a bunch of swine fibers, passed through a hole and then glued them while he was in prison.

Do you know who he is and what he invented? 

Thanks for reading. Ciao!

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