Pinoy

[Sethius]

How many of you Robots are pinoys? Speak up!

[aurea]

i am...i'm also new here...hi everyone!

[BooBoo-Kitty]

yes.

[ironmonkey]

puuuuutanginimo!!!

[falcor]

not native...i'm chinese/american but my parents are from there...so technically, i'm practically almost.

[Decadent1]

(Raises hand reluctantly, then lowers it slowly when people start to look at him funny)

[ironmonkey]

Originally posted by falcor
not native...i'm chinese/american but my parents are from there...so technically, i'm practically almost.

falcor is down with us.

side note:
its cool seeing black people in the PI and hearing them talk straight fluent filipino. my parents were watching the filipino channel one time and there was this black guy singing a filipino song, haha shit was dope.

[BAOH]

not only am i filipino, i can speak fluent tagalog pidgin....

"e-nap ob dis calicuhan, dood"

[ironmonkey]

yoo hab to kleen de pish beddy good.

[Ryan]

i yam what i yam...filipino that is

[YelloKitty]

i dunno, but the word "pinoy" irks me.

but yeah, i eat a lot of adobo.

today i was at amoeba records, and saw this skinny white rocker boy wearing a simple shirt that said "philippines" with drawering of the islands. i wanted to buy it off of him. then another dope kid (i think he was mestizo or something) came up totally ill with this other philippines shirt (one that commemorated some centennial celebration), and we shot the breeze for a lil while. he went there on vacation and told me his mom was really paranoid he'd get kidnapped. i'm gonna wear my jeepney shirt.

[BooBoo-Kitty]

my dad used to have this superbright yellow shirt that said "metro manila aid" and he'd wear it to parties at the park whenever we went. one day i decided to try on the shirt and it was waaaaaay too tight, cuz he was only 5'4" and i am 5'9" and way swoller than he was. i was like the hulk bustin thru that shirt. i want some good Pilipinas shirts dammit!

[falcor]

hoy! i want to make tusok tusok the fishballs! astig yan pare :P

[YelloKitty]

so do y'all's eat rice with like everything? my ex-boyfriend freaked out when he saw me eating lasagna with rice. i felt stupid for a second and then i hit him upside the head with my tsinelas and said "putangina, doood!"

[falcor]

i'm not so bad. but my one friend mikko used to eat slim jims with rice and mang tomas. hahahahaha.
i like rice and vienna sausages. i used to eat that all the time in grade school cause there was always rice and vienna sausages don't need cooking. i also don't eat bread with my burgers - i eat rice.

[RazeOner]

Originally posted by falcor

i like rice and vienna sausages. i used to eat that all the time in grade school cause there was always rice and vienna sausages don't need cooking. Yes! Rice w/ vienna sausage rocks! (Runs to deli....)

[aurea]

you know what makes rice and vienna sausages better? soy sauce! i also like eggs, rice, and soy sauce...

im filipina and spaniard, but mostly pinay, was born and raised there the first five years of my life till i went here in the u.s.

[kamenriderv3]

If you Pinoy robots ever come to Hawaii then make sure to try some of the plate lunches. Its rice with whatever main entree you choose. Rice is very popular here.

[jimmy tran]

...an honorary Pinoy. I'm Vietnamese and a bit Chinese but I look damn Pinoy. Makes me wonder what my mom did in her spare time. =) J/k

[YelloKitty]

Originally posted by jimmy tran
...an honorary Pinoy. I'm Vietnamese and a bit Chinese but I look damn Pinoy. Makes me wonder what my mom did in her spare time. =) J/k

aww that's cool. just make sure to take off your shoes at my house. and pardon that fried fish smell.

[falcor]

indonesians and malaysians also look damn pinoy. and also the other way around i guess.
my mother used to embarrass me when i was little. we'd be out shopping and if she thought someone was filipino she'd go up to them and go 'pilipino ka ba?' and they'd launch into this whole thing like where were you from, blah blah. pinoys unite :P hahahhaa.

[YelloKitty]

Originally posted by falcor

my mother used to embarrass me when i was little. we'd be out shopping and if she thought someone was filipino she'd go up to them and go 'pilipino ka ba?' and they'd launch into this whole thing like where were you from, blah blah. pinoys unite :P hahahhaa.

yeah my mom would do the same thing, yo. or if i had a filipino friend, she'd ask me what their last name was and know automatically what province they were from. that stuff always cracks me up.

[ironmonkey]

Originally posted by YelloKitty
Originally posted by falcor

my mother used to embarrass me when i was little. we'd be out shopping and if she thought someone was filipino she'd go up to them and go 'pilipino ka ba?' and they'd launch into this whole thing like where were you from, blah blah. pinoys unite :P hahahhaa.

yeah my mom would do the same thing, yo. or if i had a filipino friend, she'd ask me what their last name was and know automatically what province they were from. that stuff always cracks me up.

haha whose filipino mom DIDNT do that? what kind of filipino is everyone? my dad is tagalog and my mom is visayan. most filipinos i know are ilocano(did i spell that right?)

[falcor]

my dad grew up in pasig. he's pure chinese but lived with his filipina godmother for like 5 years when he was little and when he came home, he called his dad baboy and got spanked. my mom grew up in q.c. i think.

[BooBoo-Kitty]

Originally posted by falcor
my dad grew up in pasig. he's pure chinese but lived with his filipina godmother for like 5 years when he was little and when he came home, he called his dad baboy and got spanked. my mom grew up in q.c. i think.

my mom's from QC too. dad's from Bikol. wouldn't it be strange to find that there's a connection between you and someone else here aside from the board? like your mom went to school with my mom or your dad was the neighborhood bully and he picked on my dad? that'd be a trip.

[falcor]

my dad's mom is from bikol!
i've already found a weird connection. geki goes to school with a girl i went to highschool with. weird!

[ironmonkey]

my dad is from talisay!

uhhh is talisay up in here? where my talisay heads at? BUK BUK BUK!

[YelloKitty]

my dad is a dark brutha from tarlac. my mom's a light-skinneded sista from cagayan. so my dad is ilocano, and my mom... well i know my grandma was pure spanish, so shes one of those mixes. and i was born in manila. lived there for three years so i don't really remember much about it. went back there seven years ago but i don't think i fully enjoyed it cus i was too young.

[Ryan]

moms from pampanga dad is from dam..i dont even know...well his family is in manila now so hehehe jeez i suck

[Decadent1]

Originally posted by ironmonkey
Originally posted by YelloKitty
Originally posted by falcor

my mother used to embarrass me when i was little. we'd be out shopping and if she thought someone was filipino she'd go up to them and go 'pilipino ka ba?' and they'd launch into this whole thing like where were you from, blah blah. pinoys unite :P hahahhaa.

yeah my mom would do the same thing, yo. or if i had a filipino friend, she'd ask me what their last name was and know automatically what province they were from. that stuff always cracks me up.

haha whose filipino mom DIDNT do that? what kind of filipino is everyone? my dad is tagalog and my mom is visayan. most filipinos i know are ilocano(did i spell that right?)

Goddamn, my pops does that. Once he did it to some salesperson at the mall and I felt obligated to have her ring me up every time so that she would get the sales commission.

my dad is from QC, Ilocano, and my mama is from Manila and is quarter Chinese--almost the same experiences with my parents--I'm starting to do that strangely...Went to Georgia/S.Carolina for a wedding (don't ask.) and I met a guy at a restaurant who looked Pinoy so I just started talking to him (I don't speak much tagalog) he's all like 'No I'm from Indonesia--we're neighbors!' That was pretty funny. Then as I was leaving, He was saying some tagalog and I just thought that was pretty cool....Suddenly felt the need to learn real soon...

[YelloKitty]

we're all related somehow.

[falcor]

no, this is the pinoy thread. you want the west virginian redneck thread :P wahaha

[RazeOner]

Originally posted by falcor
no, this is the pinoy thread. you want the west virginian redneck thread :P wahaha Where? Where?

[Ryan]

hey! dont be knockin on Georgia! thats where my mom first lived when she came to the states before movin up to environmentally sound jersey ..my uncle was already pretty established there workin for AT&T or one of the baby bells or whatever the hell they had back then...hehe some of my cousins got that drawl thing goin on and my aunt's filipino accent merged with her southern accent and thats ALL jacked up

Sorry Ryan--

Just had a real weird experience down there--wifes family new about all the trouble I had getting there to Atlanta,then to Greenville SC for a weddin'--Not really dissing GA tho. Apologize if you'd taken it the wrong way...

[Ryan]

nah its all good..i was jus sayin...takes A WHOOOLE lot to offend me on these boards

[YelloKitty]

speaking of accents...

my cousin in australia has got the weirdest accent. kind of like pilipino crocodile dundee? its awesome to talk to him on the phone. i'm just like "wah? eh? okay kuya! love you too!"

[shoegaze]

lol! yea i've done that before too!!.. rice rules! i think i've even had it w/ pizza! i mean yea it sounds strange as shit.. but you get used to eating rice sometimes.. altho there was one period when i couldn't stand white rice coz i was all into the brown rice, which is funny, coz i had previously hated brown rice, and my parents would buy white rice just for me..

Originally posted by YelloKitty
so do y'all's eat rice with like everything? my ex-boyfriend freaked out when he saw me eating lasagna with rice. i felt stupid for a second and then i hit him upside the head with my tsinelas and said "putangina, doood!"

[Cornelius]

my friend that i used to be in a band w/ was a white boy that hung out w/ other filipinos so much he started to eat pizza w/ rice...

i never eat rice w/ pizza!!!

...dang hes more filipino than me!?!?

[kamenriderv3]

i am not pinoy but i grew up with a lot of pinoy friends. even more than chinese friends.

[amboy]

yeah im pinoy. made in the usa. amboy is actually short for american boy, what my brother and me were called back home by our cousins. mom is from mindanao, butuan in agusan to be exact. pops is from dumaguete city, negros oriental. i grew up with visaya (or "the dialect") and i can sing all the words to usahay, or at least i used to be able to. dont know tagalog that well at all but a little bit. both my parents went to sillman university, and if anyones parents here went to silliman we probably know each other. ive ridden 9 to one pedicab, ridden on the roof of a jeepney, eaten balut with beer, pushed food onto my spoon with the backside of a fork, fried up spam with eggs and rice, put rice in my soup, and pointed with my lips. i also feel comfortable with guns, have rhythm, know how to dance, and am agile with my fingers (used to do a lot of classical spanish style guitar). oh yeah, and my way by frank sinatra is a staple karaoke song of mine.

[ron]

i think i'm a fiLipino.

my mom and dad has pLastic RunneRs on the caRpet and fuRnituRes Looks as if they'Re Ready foR a fLood.

i know i'm fiLipino because i have an uncLe named boy.

[Cornelius]

im a pork eating filipino son of a gun...
the light skin type

[Charlie]

Originally posted by amboy
yeah im pinoy. made in the usa. dont know tagalog that well at all but a little bit. ive ridden 9 to one pedicab, ridden on the roof of a jeepney, eaten balut with beer, pushed food onto my spoon with the backside of a fork, fried up spam with eggs and rice, put rice in my soup, and pointed with my lips. i also feel comfortable with guns, have rhythm, know how to dance, and am agile with my fingers (used to do a lot of classical spanish style guitar). oh yeah, and my way by frank sinatra is a staple karaoke song of mine.

word up. i've done most of those things except ridden on the roof of a jeepney and eaten the balut (this was a challenge on fear factor...the balut that is). and rasberry beret by prince is my karaoke song of choice.

i was born in the P.I. family is from manila...marakina, malabon and pasig to be exact. came to the US when i was 3. i've been back several times since immigrating to jersey. three times in the last five years on my own and NOT because of a death in the family. although manila is fun because of all the relatives, it can be a little too much because of the congestion, poverty and pollution. i like taking trips to the outer provinces of luzon. also, to the other islands like mindoro and mindanao. there's so much untapped, natural beauty in the philippines. i'm kinda hesitant to go back now because of all the kidnappings. i stick out like a sore thumb over there...big american motherfucker talking shit and waving the mighty dollar in their grills. they have the most amazing beaches there.

does anybody have an uncle, cousin or house boy named bong? that name always makes me chuckle.

[YelloKitty]

bong. yes. i have a relative named bong!

[ladybug]

hoy! do i have a relative named bong?

i am that relative! my childhood nickname was bong bong...as a tot we lived near a church and ma says that when the bells would ring i would go to the window and just go bananas...bwong! bwong!

bells don't quite do it for me the way they used to...it's the other bong now that gets me dizzy.

[scrub]

I am filipino. I was born and raised in the "Little Manila" part of Long Beach, CA. I'm probably the only kid that calls it "Little Manila".

My favorite words as a child were (pardon the spelling):

- too-too-lay
- koo-lahng-oht
- peck peck
- killy killy
- ack ack (that's what my lola called vomit)
- soo-kah
- moo-tah

Ahhhhhh, memories. Now, I wish I spoke fluent tagalog. *sad*

[Charlie]

Originally posted by scrub

My favorite words as a child were (pardon the spelling):

- too-too-lay
- koo-lahng-oht
- peck peck
- killy killy
- ack ack (that's what my lola called vomit)
- soo-kah
- moo-tah

Ahhhhhh, memories. Now, I wish I spoke fluent tagalog. *sad*

i like:

- ca-chi-chas (stinky feet)

Cebu City represent. I don't know tagalog, but I can rock it in cebuano.

[m1]

i'm half filipino. dunno any tagalog except how to say "i'm hungry" and "i'm full."

born there in manila. left when i was one. visited once for a couple weeks when i was about 12. bagio city (sp?) was fun. i rode a horse up into the mountains and he stopped to pee. the piss thrusted so hard it bounced off a rock and back onto my foot. my aunt tricked me into taking a swig out of this generic cola can that had left over cooking grease in it. i saw my first farmers blow in the streets. it was splendid. can't wait to go back.


m1

[gkon]

Originally posted by ladybug
hoy! do i have a relative named bong?

i am that relative! my childhood nickname was bong bong...as a tot we lived near a church and ma says that when the bells would ring i would go to the window and just go bananas...bwong! bwong!

bells don't quite do it for me the way they used to...it's the other bong now that gets me dizzy.


I have a filipino friend whose nickname is bing. I thought she was kidding when she told me her sister and cousins nicknames are bang and bong.

[gkon]

I’m not Filipino, but I love pancit, lumpia and adobo. Does that count? I even made a map of Cebu for my friend’s restaurant with the same name.

[utinni2]

I am a half filipino twinkee.

[falcor]

AMBOT SA IMO!!

hahaha

[YelloKitty]

thee other day i rocked my thrift store shirt with the map of the philippines and got lots of props for it. 'twas pretty cool saying "here! this is where i was born!" and pointing at my boob.

[m1]

Originally posted by YelloKitty
thee other day i rocked my thrift store shirt with the map of the philippines and got lots of props for it. 'twas pretty cool saying "here! this is where i was born!" and pointing at my boob.


think you can score me some thriftshop undies with the same map? i'd like to be able to do the same.


m1

[el garo]

Originally posted by ron
i think i'm a fiLipino.

my mom and dad has pLastic RunneRs on the caRpet and fuRnituRes Looks as if they'Re Ready foR a fLood.

i know i'm fiLipino because i have an uncLe named boy.

yeah, everyone has an Uncle Boy

and a relative named JJ or GG or Baby or Jun etc...

but do you have a barrel man and a plaque with the weapons of moroland?



[Edited by el garo on 06-22-2002 at 07:01 PM]

[perseus]

Originally posted by sexy vixen
im filipina and spaniard, but mostly pinay, was born and raised there the first five years of my life till i went here in the u.s.

meow!

Have any of you guys been to Boracay lately? I was there a couple of months ago and have been missing it ever since.

[YelloKitty]

my sister is a dork. it runs in the family. she sent me this email:

YU AR PILIFINO IP...

1. Yu wan tu bi a dansir, a singir, or an aktore, ibin dough yu hab dayjob as a nars, a sikyo guard, a dis wasir, a witir/witris or an accountant.
2. Yu kip tilling ebriwan dat a mimbir op yur pamili back home is a politisyan or a mobi-estar.
3. Yu brot lots ob dried pises when coming back prom bikisyon in Pilipinas.
4. Yu like wearing GOLD on yur iir, nick , hans an pinggers.
5. At leas one mimbir ob yur pamili is a nars.
6. Yur sister or daughter marries a! U.S military serviceman, hay naku!
7. Der ar 20 pipol sharing roms in yur home.
8. Yu hab at leas 2 P! ULL-TIME jobs.
9. Yu ar nat aprid ob egots; in pact, yu wis yu wir black.
10. Yu don't care ip yu ar superyor to all ader Asians.

the "nars" thing murders me!

[Zaius]

i cant figure out the "egots"

[YelloKitty]

"egots" is tagalog for black.

[scrub]

Originally posted by YelloKitty
my sister is a dork. it runs in the family. she sent me this email:

YU AR PILIFINO IP...

1. Yu wan tu bi a dansir, a singir, or an aktore, ibin dough yu hab dayjob as a nars, a sikyo guard, a dis wasir, a witir/witris or an accountant.
2. Yu kip tilling ebriwan dat a mimbir op yur pamili back home is a politisyan or a mobi-estar.
3. Yu brot lots ob dried pises when coming back prom bikisyon in Pilipinas.
4. Yu like wearing GOLD on yur iir, nick , hans an pinggers.
5. At leas one mimbir ob yur pamili is a nars.
6. Yur sister or daughter marries a! U.S military serviceman, hay naku!
7. Der ar 20 pipol sharing roms in yur home.
8. Yu hab at leas 2 P! ULL-TIME jobs.
9. Yu ar nat aprid ob egots; in pact, yu wis yu wir black.
10. Yu don't care ip yu ar superyor to all ader Asians.

the "nars" thing murders me!
GHAHAHAHAAHAHA @ "nars"

Everything on that is pretty accurate, except that my lola is "scurred" of "egots"

[age/sex/location]

negro would be the other term. it's not derogatory per se, but you know. i stick to itim.

[YelloKitty]

Originally posted by Den
Originally posted by YelloKitty
"egots" is tagalog for black.

Funny.
Yeah, I never use that. For some reason I only use the word Itim. Then I asked my mom and she said the use of egot was derogatory.

Hey I learned something today.

you know, i haven't heard the word egot in awhile either, and it was totally ingrained in me when i was young that the word was a no no. but then i forgot all about it. thanks for laying the smackdown den. now where's my adobo?

[ladybug]

as someone who's dad is half egot i am witness to the derogatory-ness of that word. i once muttered it in a rebellious teenage fit and boy! i was never so fearful of the sting of a tsinela in my life. it was all slo-mo...watching dad pull if off his foot and just raise it...

the terms of endearment that the fam has for my pops were *boolooga* and *negrito* - these are the folks straight from the bundok, true mountain peeps. all in good fun. some of his relatives would call each other *sunog* or burnt...but as my parents always remind us that we are never too old to get a spanking, i would never dare use this word...to their faces that is.

there are a ton of those, use this english word in a sentence jokes..here is one of my faves, makes no sense but laffs nonetheless

chicken nut bread
"hoy! get your hands off your seester's neck, chickenutbread"

[-dRaGoN rOi-]

im filipino. i like hearing my relatives speak english. i don't know tagalog because no one ever talked to me in it. i feel deprived.

[scrub]

Originally posted by -dRaGoN rOi-
im filipino. i like hearing my relatives speak english. i don't know tagalog because no one ever talked to me in it. i feel deprived.
I hear ya man. Well, I can understand usually the basics, because my parents and relatives would speak it, but they wouldn't speak it to me. I won't attempt to speak it, because I'll end up butchering it.

I wish I did speak it though. It sucks when other flips look down on you, just because you can't speak tagalog.

In case you guys ever encounter Filipinos that ask you, "You speek Pilapino?", just counter that with "Con-Tay-Long" (phonetically speaking) and they'll smile and nod and walk away (most of the time). It helps you save face.

[YelloKitty]

i'm in the same situation. i was born in the philippines but we moved here when i was three. i distinctly remember my ma telling me not to speak tagalog anymore. by the third grade i could barely speak it. now... oh man, i'm terrible. i can understand it completely but i just cant form the sentences.

it sucks balls when i hear other filipino kids speaking it fluently, even tho they were born here. i'm always encouraging my parents to speak to me in tagalog, but sometimes they slip and speak in taglish.

i think i'm going to take a tagalog class this semester, if my schedule allows it.

[scrub]

Originally posted by YelloKitty
i think i'm going to take a tagalog class this semester, if my schedule allows it.
Sounds like a good plan. I would like to do the same, but it might be pretty hard, considering that I took Spanish in High School, and am taking basic Japanese right now. Maybe I can become trilingual?

[Charlie]

Originally posted by YelloKitty
i'm in the same situation. i was born in the philippines but we moved here when i was three. i distinctly remember my ma telling me not to speak tagalog anymore. by the third grade i could barely speak it. now... oh man, i'm terrible. i can understand it completely but i just cant form the sentences.

hey, i immigrated here when i was 3 too! how old are you now, by the way? just curious. i'm 26. like you, i can understand most of it, but just can't speak it well. hence, my sloppy tagalog interpretations in the "how to kick game in tagalog" thread. but my parents never flat out told me not to speak tagalog anymore. we just spoke english in our household, that's all. maybe it's cuz my parents were hippies. i remember one episode in pre-kindergarten when i still spoke tagalog, the teacher asked us what was wrong with this certain picture. i noticed the mailbox was upside-down. so, i raised my hand and said, "the mailbox is baliktad." and the teacher looked at me like, "what the fuck did this kid just say??" i tried my best to explain it, but i just couldn't convey it with my limited vocabulary. so, she just went on to the next kid leaving me hanging. i think that was a traumatic experience which was partially responsible in my fully embracing the english language and neglecting my native tongue.

[ladybug]

there was a summer when all i did was rent and watch filipino movies [this was before TFC] to try and bring my language skills up to speed...my shit was all very dramatic..."bakit ako?!" and "inaiiiiii!" was all that really stuck. chame chame on me.

language and being able to speak it and speak it well is such a sore subject among our generation. all that jazz of being *more or less* filipino based on your skills is getting wack. as long as you're not denying and at least want to try, then you're all good in my libro.

another school incident, when my cousin first came here and was taking one of those skills test, the teacher pointed to a picture of a knife and she said, "shogun" - ok not tagalog but funny to me still.

[ladybug]

we should have a cook off! adobo is one of the only dishes i have cooked ...and so it seems for a lot of peeps.

gutam na ako! i think i'm going to go to the mint mall and have me some filipino food!

utensils not necessary..ha ha..when was the last time, if ever, that you ate [filipino food that is] with your hands? and one foot up on your chair..heh heh

[Edited by ladybug on 07-09-2002 at 01:42 PM]

[YelloKitty]

wow charlie, that's equally, if not more, traumatizing than my ma telling me not speak tagalog once we got here.

i remember in middle school, a lot of the kids would speak in tagalog if they wanted to talk smack about another person. my input was limited to the bad words ("putanginamo, pek pek face!"), so it just seemed like i was an angry mofo. maybe i was.

in high school i barely had any filipino friends because i didn't really conform to what the "typical" look the gals sported, and so they all thought i was "whitewashed." bleh, whatever. that's a whole 'nother story.

i'm 22. my sister is 26. she held on to the language and can speak it fluently. my brother is 24 and can hold down pretty well. he also took some tagalog classes a few years back so it helped him out a lot.

[BooBoo-Kitty]

i am like many of you. i spoke primarily in english my whole life. my parents would teach me a couple of tagalog words, but i never learned how to speak it. i started taking tagalog last year and have been in it for two years. for me, it was a great cultural experience (because i stopped hanging out with Pinoys when i got to college, and even before that, in highskool, i was social with them but never felt like i 'belonged'), and i feel a certain kind of empowerment. i'm not fluent, but i can stammer out a grammatically correct statement under duress, and i can understand who and what is being talked about instead of just snippets.

now i'm going to move to the PI and become a moviestar. i just wanted to encourage any of you to indulge your curiosity and take some tagalog courses. hopefully, you'll get something out of it.

[age/sex/location]

yeah, thankfully my parents kept my tagalog up to speed. and the fact that i immigrated here at six helped me retain my tagalog too.

it sucks that so many second generation pilipinos (in this context i mean pilipinos who grew up here) lost so much of their history and culture. not just language, but like cultural and family history too.

we just can't leave three centuries of colonialization behind, i guess.

[BooBoo-Kitty]

Originally posted by Den

BBK> You just might become the president of the phillipines one day.

load have mercy on us if this ever happens. why don't you just give me a mansion in Hawaii and a swiss bank account already, cuz you know i'ma be corrupt like that. ;-p

[ladybug]

Originally posted by Den
Originally posted by ladybug
we should have a cook off! adobo is one of the only dishes i have cooked ...and so it seems for a lot of peeps.
werd ladybug.
Kailan?

kaibigans! it's on. anytime after i get back from nyc! i know i'll be feinding for some filipino food after 2 weeks away from the bay area.

did you know that daly city and it's surrounding area has the largest population of filipinos outside of manila?

[YelloKitty]

doods this sounds totally fun. but i can't cook worth shit! how bout we just kick it at ongpin or manila star or ling nam or the mint mall and (literally) pig out? dinaguan, anybody? come on! den, ladybug, whoever, lets do disss!

ladybug: i am feeling you on the filipino shows and whatnot; i always laugh at how overdramaticized (is that a word? i can't even speak english and i'm complaining how i can't speak tagalog!) the aktorrs and aktrasses are. "BAKIT, WHY?!?!?"

bbk: the philippines shall bow down to the hair.

[Shaftoe]

Originally posted by BooBoo-Kitty

i started taking tagalog last year and have been in it for two years.

Can I borrow your time machine, BBK?

[YelloKitty]

dope. me thinks ladybug will be leaving for new yawk soon for a week or so? so i say let's do this tha end of month, or beginning of august? then i'll have enough $crilla so i can order all the good stuff.

speaking of food, fmstlr needs some help on what to order at a filipino restaurant. go here and help a brotha out!

http://www.giantrobot.com/forums/showthread.php3?threadid=9902

[BooBoo-Kitty]

Originally posted by Shaftoe
Originally posted by BooBoo-Kitty

i started taking tagalog last year and have been in it for two years.

Can I borrow your time machine, BBK?

haha, sorry, i shoulda been a bit mo specific. i was talkin bout last skool year. i guess that's 2 years ago, but only one skool year, right? maff is makes me brain ow.

good thing i don't need a brain to become a moviestar in the Philippines.

[ladybug]

Originally posted by YelloKitty
dope. me thinks ladybug will be leaving for new yawk soon for a week or so? so i say let's do this tha end of month, or beginning of august? then i'll have enough $crilla so i can order all the good stuff.


yeah, this time next week i'll be sittin in my leather seat watching cable tv on jetblue eating a meal i had to bring myself, woohoo! i will be back on the 26th so i will check back then to see what the happs is.

our shin-dig just may coincide with my b-day and if so i want a chocolate cake from golidlocks! or chinatown cake! ;-) mmm, masarap!

[-dRaGoN rOi-]

thanks to all the peeps that showed me that i wasnt alone in not knowin' tagalog. you know who you are. i really appreciate it.

[-dRaGoN rOi-]

Originally posted by ladybug
Originally posted by YelloKitty
dope. me thinks ladybug will be leaving for new yawk soon for a week or so? so i say let's do this tha end of month, or beginning of august? then i'll have enough $crilla so i can order all the good stuff.


yeah, this time next week i'll be sittin in my leather seat watching cable tv on jetblue eating a meal i had to bring myself, woohoo! i will be back on the 26th so i will check back then to see what the happs is.

our shin-dig just may coincide with my b-day and if so i want a chocolate cake from golidlocks! or chinatown cake! ;-) mmm, masarap!

instead of chocolate cake, ube or mango cake would be more of a better choice; maybe have a side of halo halo too? oh and theres this one food place called Pinoy Pinay by my house. anyone else heard of it before?

[scrub]

Originally posted by ladybug
we should have a cook off! adobo is one of the only dishes i have cooked ...and so it seems for a lot of peeps.
I can cook a dope ass Beefsteak! Or is it Bisteak? Ahhhh damn.
Originally posted by YelloKitty
i remember in middle school, a lot of the kids would speak in tagalog if they wanted to talk smack about another person. my input was limited to the bad words ("putanginamo, pek pek face!"), so it just seemed like i was an angry mofo. maybe i was.

in high school i barely had any filipino friends because i didn't really conform to what the "typical" look the gals sported, and so they all thought i was "whitewashed." bleh, whatever. that's a whole 'nother story.
HAHAHHAHH, "pek pek face". I'm in tears!

And YelloKitty, that whole "typical/whitewashed" thing is a story I can relate to as well. But you said it best, "that's a whole 'nother story." Excuse me if I don't drive a "s0000ped up Civic"!

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Goldilocks! Pinoy Pinay! Awwwwwwwww Yea!

Man, I want in on this "pig-out session" too! Too bad I'm stuck in SoCal.

Dragon Roi, where you from?

"nux-na-man"

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[YelloKitty]

scrub, mayhaps its time to visit us folkel up north.

[Dante]

Yo,
My mom is from Quezon City too. I would nearly bet that everyone's parents on this board have some type of connection less than 6 degrees. My dad is Japanese from Idaho. Is anyone else Filipino/Japanese???


Originally posted by BooBoo-Kitty
Originally posted by falcor
my dad grew up in pasig. he's pure chinese but lived with his filipina godmother for like 5 years when he was little and when he came home, he called his dad baboy and got spanked. my mom grew up in q.c. i think.

my mom's from QC too. dad's from Bikol. wouldn't it be strange to find that there's a connection between you and someone else here aside from the board? like your mom went to school with my mom or your dad was the neighborhood bully and he picked on my dad? that'd be a trip.

[YelloKitty]

one of my good friends is filipino/japanese. in fact, he's on vacation right now, first to the p.i., then japan. he's one lucky bastard. he can speak both languages fluently because he went to school in both countries.

[Dante]

We used to have a Barrel Man in our living room when I was growing up.
I still have knife plaques.
My Mom is a Baby.
My uncle is a Jojo.
I have a bottomless stomach.
I eat rice for breakfast.
I eat with a spoon and fork.
I like ketchup on chicken.

Originally posted by el garo
Originally posted by ron
i think i'm a fiLipino.

my mom and dad has pLastic RunneRs on the caRpet and fuRnituRes Looks as if they'Re Ready foR a fLood.

i know i'm fiLipino because i have an uncLe named boy.

yeah, everyone has an Uncle Boy

and a relative named JJ or GG or Baby or Jun etc...

but do you have a barrel man and a plaque with the weapons of moroland?



[Edited by el garo on 06-22-2002 at 07:01 PM]

[Dante]

He can speak Tagolog and Japanese?!?
He IS a lucky bastard.

Originally posted by YelloKitty
one of my good friends is filipino/japanese. in fact, he's on vacation right now, first to the p.i., then japan. he's one lucky bastard. he can speak both languages fluently because he went to school in both countries.

[YelloKitty]

1. You point with your lips. (sometimes)
2. You eat using your hands and have it down to technique. (never learned the technique prolly)
3. You go to a department store and try to bargain the prices. (ooh no.)
4. You find dried up morsels of rice stuck to your shirt. (sometimes)
5. Your middle name is your mother's maiden name. (hell yeah!)
6. You love to buy sale items even when you do not need them. (notorious)
7. You say "Ha?" instead of "What?" (it slips)
8. You say "Pssst!" to get someone's attention. (helluva yeah!)
9. You turn around when someone says "Psst." (can't help it)
10. You say "aray!" instead of "ouch!" (i say "fuck!" instead)
11. You say "he," when you mean "she" and vice versa. (my parents do this a lot)
12. You know what TNT means. (um, no.)
13. You say "air-con" instead of "a/c" or air conditioner.
14. You say "Uy!" instead of "Oops."
15. You pronounce "F" for "P" or "P" for "F." (parents, yes)
16. You have a portrait of "The Last Supper" hanging in your dining room wall. (we used to!)
17. You own a karaoke system. (booya! of course!)
18. You own a piano no one ever plays. (does a keyboard count?)
19. You have a "tabo" in the bathroom. (of course)
20. You display a big laughing Buddha for good luck. (oh god, yes.)
21. You have a shrine of the Santo Niño. (yup)
22. You have a parol hanging outside the house during the holidays. (a what?)
23. You cover your back car seats with bed sheets. (um, never seen this)
24. Your sneeze sounds like "Aaaahh-ching" instead of "Aaaaahh-choo." (hahah no!)
25. You own a lamp with the oil that drips down the strings. (nope)
26. You have a giant wooden fork and spoon hanging in the dining room. (in the philippines, yes)
27. You have wooden tinikling dancers on the wall. (no but we have a matador)
28. You hang a rosary on your car's rear view mirror. (my mom)
29. You have a relative who is a nurse. (ma and sis)
30. Your parents call each other "Mommy" and "Daddy" or "Ma" and "Pa." (yeah)
31. You have a family member that has a nickname that repeats itself, i.e. "Deng-deng," "Ling-ling," or "Johu-johu." (word word)
32. You put hotdogs in your spaghetti. (mmmm!)
33. Your cupboards are full of corned beef, hash, Spam, and Vienna Sausages. (i make "ghetto tocino" with spam)
34. You have a rice dispenser. (two of em)
35. You appreciate a fresh pot of rice. (cannot eat day old rice)
36. Your neighbors complain about the smell of tuyo on Sunday mornings. (eh, my neighbors are chinese and filipino so it's all good)
37. You eat rice for breakfast. (if i have time)
38. You use your fingers to measure the water when cooking rice. (finger method not so good)
39. You wash and re-use plastic utensils and Styrofoam cups. (aww hell naw)
40. You have an ice-shaver for making halo-halo. (yup)
41. Your tablecloths have tell-tale "tuyo circles" on them. (haha no!)
42. You eat purple yam-flavored, ube, ice cream. (damn, im hungry)
43. You fry Spam and hotdogs and eat them with rice. (see above)
44. You think half-hatch duck eggs are a delicacy. (NO BALUT!)
45. You call the parents of your friends and your own parents' friends "Tito" and "Tita." (sometimes)
46. You greet your elders by touching their hands to your forehead. (sometimes)
47. You live with your parents until and at times even after you're married. (errgh)
48. You make your children sing, dance, and play the piano to amuse your friends and relatives. (my parents would do that)
49. You use Vicks Vapor rub as an insect repellant. (eww!)
50. You keep your furniture wrapped in plastic or covered with blankets. (nope)
51. Your dining table has a vinyl tablecloth. (nope)
52. You recycle shopping bags as garbage bags. (yes)
53. You eat more than three times a day. (durr!)
54. You think a meal is not a meal without rice. (frequently)
55. You feed all your visitors. (hell yeah are you hungry dood? come on, eat!)
56. You love to eat daing or tuyo. (depends)
57. You eat your meal with patis, toyo, suka, banana catsup, or bagoong. (depends)
58. You love sticky desserts and salty snacks. (who doesn't?)
59. When dining out, you always fight over who will pay for dinner. (haha, if i have money!)
60. Everything you eat is sautéed in garlic, onion, and tomatoes. (mostly)
61. You are standing next to eight boxes at the airport. (balikbayan in the heezay!)
62. You smile for no reason. (i never smile)

ugh, theres so much more too...

Originally posted by shawgirl74
my friends still call me ging ging.

I have an auntie named ging ging.

[Dante]

I was tripping when I first moved to the Bay Area. I had never seen this many Filipinos outside of Manila.

Also when you are in NYC you should go to Cendrillon in Soho. It is a Filipino restaurant that is run by old family friends of mine. The chef, Romy is French trained, the restaurant is chic, but at the same time Cendrillon still serves up food that any Pinoy would love. Go on Saturday or Sunday for Brunch: garlic fried rice, eggs, chorizo, etc.
45 Mercer Street
New York, New York 10013
ph: 212.343.9012
fax: 212.343.9670
Tell them Baby Marzan sent you (that's my Mom).








Originally posted by ladybug
Originally posted by Den
Originally posted by ladybug
we should have a cook off! adobo is one of the only dishes i have cooked ...and so it seems for a lot of peeps.
werd ladybug.
Kailan?

kaibigans! it's on. anytime after i get back from nyc! i know i'll be feinding for some filipino food after 2 weeks away from the bay area.

did you know that daly city and it's surrounding area has the largest population of filipinos outside of manila?

[BooBoo-Kitty]

Originally posted by ladybug
we should have a cook off! adobo is one of the only dishes i have cooked ...and so it seems for a lot of peeps.

i am your hakulbari (that's taglish for 'huckleberry'). i shall destroy you all with the black bean + pork adobo.

[scrub]

Originally posted by Dante
My dad is Japanese from Idaho.
Whoa, that's pretty cool.
Originally posted by Dante
We used to have a Barrel Man in our living room when I was growing up.
I still have knife plaques.
My Mom is a Baby.
I eat with a spoon and fork.
I like ketchup on chicken.
HAHAHAHAHA, ain't that the truth! I never realized that it's "weird" to eat ketchup with fried chicken (not KFC or Popeyes though). I also didn't think it was too weird to eat food with a spoon AND fork (spaghetti especially). It was all pointed out to me that it was weird by my non-flip friends.

YelloKitty: Hmmmmm, maybe I should take a little vacation in the Bay Area before I go back to school...

[ladybug]

Originally posted by NotYourFriend
Originally posted by shawgirl74
my friends still call me ging ging.

I have an auntie named ging ging.

heh. is your auntie my sister? actually my sister is more a ging JENG...and the fam always over emphasize and drag out that JENG when calling for her or greeting her.

"wow, gingJEEEENGG, you're getting so big now! da laga na sha! what grade are you in? you got a boyfriend now, gingJEEENG?"

[BooBoo-Kitty]

haha ladybug! you just broached another topic that is very pinoy. the asking of "you so big now! you hab boypren?" happened a lot to my sister. i'm glad i never had that. instead, i got an uncomfortably long look as my mom's friends exclaimed "ay, ang pogi-pogi ng anak mo!" too bad it never works with the younger ladies.

[ladybug]

Originally posted by BooBoo-Kitty

"ay, ang pogi-pogi!" too bad it never works with the younger ladies.

you sure about that? *bats beautiful eyes*...you guys ever play that game, beautiful eyes? or *close, open*? you just, uh, close and open your little baby hands?

it's a trip, i find myself spitting those same lines to my neices and nephews now. in english of course...or some heavily accented facsimilie of tagalog. gots to keep the traditions going!

[-dRaGoN rOi-]

Scrub, im from SoCal too, city of Cerritos.

[-dRaGoN rOi-]

Originally posted by ladybug
Originally posted by BooBoo-Kitty

"ay, ang pogi-pogi!" too bad it never works with the younger ladies.

you sure about that? *bats beautiful eyes*...you guys ever play that game, beautiful eyes? or *close, open*? you just, uh, close and open your little baby hands?

it's a trip, i find myself spitting those same lines to my neices and nephews now. in english of course...or some heavily accented facsimilie of tagalog. gots to keep the traditions going!

yeah! ive done the close-open thing too! its crazy. and the beautiful eyes...man those are crazy. they have videos of my grandpa doing the close-open thing with me when i was a tiny tot.

[ironmonkey]

Originally posted by -dRaGoN rOi-
Originally posted by ladybug
Originally posted by BooBoo-Kitty

"ay, ang pogi-pogi!" too bad it never works with the younger ladies.

you sure about that? *bats beautiful eyes*...you guys ever play that game, beautiful eyes? or *close, open*? you just, uh, close and open your little baby hands?

it's a trip, i find myself spitting those same lines to my neices and nephews now. in english of course...or some heavily accented facsimilie of tagalog. gots to keep the traditions going!

yeah! ive done the close-open thing too! its crazy. and the beautiful eyes...man those are crazy. they have videos of my grandpa doing the close-open thing with me when i was a tiny tot.

man, now that you mention it. when i was a tiny tot my folks use to do the "close open" thing with me too! and my cousins would get the "beautiful eyes". this was a filipino thing? i guess i forgot. oops i mean porgot.

[YelloKitty]

me too ladybug! i didn't even realize it was a filipino thing till you mentioned it. and then i was all... wait a second... them white people never do that stuff on tv...

beautiful eyes. HAHAHAHAHAH!

[ironmonkey]

"i hab too hands, de lept an de right."

[falcor]

Originally posted by Dante
I was tripping when I first moved to the Bay Area. I had never seen this many Filipinos outside of Manila.

Also when you are in NYC you should go to Cendrillon in Soho. It is a Filipino restaurant that is run by old family friends of mine. The chef, Romy is French trained, the restaurant is chic, but at the same time Cendrillon still serves up food that any Pinoy would love. Go on Saturday or Sunday for Brunch: garlic fried rice, eggs, chorizo, etc.
45 Mercer Street
New York, New York 10013
ph: 212.343.9012
fax: 212.343.9670
Tell them Baby Marzan sent you (that's my Mom).

been there - had lechon kawali. it was rock. a tad expensive tho. there's also a place called elvies that is much cheaper and is more like homecooking. also, dragonfly serves melt-in-your-mouth karekare, tapsilog, crispy pata.....as well as thai, malay, etc. food.

[fad3r]

First time poster here!

How many of you had dad's that were cooks in the Navy?? I noticed that a lot of my Filipino friends had dads that were cooks. My dad once told me that he liked being a cook cuz he could spit in the food of the officers he didn't like. The thing I didn't understand thou was that even thou my dad was a cook, I hated it whenever he made dinner.

Anyways, I'm Filipino and proud of it! I'm just a little upset my folks never taught me Tagalog, but I have a southern drawl (raised in redneck FL). :(

[golivar]

if you guys are ever in toronto, you should check out Remely's in scarborough. it's pretty good food served cafeteria style - you line up with trays and pick stuff out. but in general i don't really go to filipino restaurants 'cause my mom and aunts are excellent cooks and i've been spoiled by their cooking. i haven't really been to any filipino restaurants in my area (nj/ny).

i'm going to manila over the holidays. that's gonna be wicked, haven't been there since '89. anyone have any info on cool things to do while i'm there?

[Ryan]

bwahahahah close open... man when i see my relatives doing that to my nieces and nephew im like ookay dass enough

and for some reason they have to do close open in a sing songy kinda voice....*shakes head*

[mumeishi]

Originally posted by Den


Hey, welcome aboard pare.

Not necessarily as Navy cooks, but my great grandparents were Army. A good number (but not all of us) are American citizens because our families once served in the ranks of the U.S. military.

pinay here! does that count?!?! (ilocano, to be exact!)

my dad was air force-- telephone and radio technician.

[YelloKitty]

wow. i think i might wanna take this class next semester at SFSU.

Ethnic Studies 545:
Kulintang Music and Dance of the Southern Philippines
Schedule # 13920
Instructor: Master Danongan Kalanduyan
Fridays 1410-1640
CA 153

Bulletin Description:
Class focuses on the music and dance of the Southern Philippines, with an
emphasis on the Kulintang tradition of Mindanao and Sulu Archipelago. 3
units. Repeatable for credit.

Master Kalanduyan is currently Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at
SFSU._ His list of honors and awards that recognize his many talents and
achievements is very extensive and is too long to list in this short
email.
Among those listed include being a recipient of the prestigious National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Traditional Arts in 1995. This year
he received the 2002 Filipinas Magazine Award for Distinguished
Achievement in the Arts.__If you want to know more about him and the music/dance he performs and teaches, you can look up the website for the Palabuniyan Kulintang Ensemble and its various links.

SFSU is very fortunate to have a virtuoso musician of his international
stature as one of its faculty. Filipino (and non-Filipino) students
should consider themselves especially blessed and honored to have him here to teach this very beautiful musical and dance tradition of the Philippines.

[fad3r]

woah, that sounds dope. i want to learn more about my culture and wish they offered courses around my area. i guess the next best thing would be a "lolo" or "lola" to tell you their stories. anyone got one to loan out? :)

[Ryan]

if it twere possible id like take such courses overe here, unfortunately they are few and far between, and the quality seems to go to both ends of the spectrum as ive heard from students.

im still looking for a place that teaches tagalog in the tristate area..

[fauve-io]

yes I am and also a former Navy brat

[falcor]

...i can sorta dance tinikling.

[kamenriderv3]

bring out the bamboo poles!!

[fad3r]

Originally posted by falcor
...i can sorta dance tinikling.

i did that dance with the local fsa club in college. it was fun. i also participated in the coconut dance, where they put coconuts all over your body and you slap them like drums. reminded me of filipino version of "stepping." i also remember some candle dance the girls did.

[fad3r]

so, how many flips we got now???

[DJ LunchBox]

AWWW YEAH!!!!!


fad3r bringing back the avatar heat!!!!!!

[Ryan]

Originally posted by falcor
...i can sorta dance tinikling.

i remember a couple kids from old bridge high did tinikling, but they used dancehall reggae as the backing music. it was amusing.


anyway, even tho its pretty far from now im going to back in January..cant freakin wait..

[QuaSiSReaL]

wow...it's about time someone made up a thread like this.....woooow, naks naman, hindi ko alam ganitong kadaming filopinos dito sa GR....ayos! *raises a slipper in one hand and a palakol in the other* mabuhay!

can anyone relate to this : when american parents' kids get hurt they're always like, "awwww....are you ok?" whereas flips are the total opposite...."mmmm, gago, buhay ka pa!" or "oh, yan ang nakukuha mo...takbo ka ng takbo dyan kasi..." sabay batok sa ulo mo....lang hiya, na saktan ka nanga, tapos babatukan ka pa rin sa bukol mo....

[Tony]

Hey, my grandma just moved back to the filipines. I think she's in Bagio city or close to there. So if anyone happens to be up that way and stops into a tiny restaurant
where an older lady named Florentina works at then say hello. Then again, I'd imagine there are alot of restaurants in that situation, oh well be neighborly and say hello anyway, it might just be my grandma. Oh, as a matter of fact I think it might be on the old Subik Bay military base? I could be getting it wrong and mixing up names and places, aaargghh I'm so disconnected from my filipinoness.

[mumeishi]

bagio isn't in subic... but it's a nice place... it's the only place i can recall where it was around 80 degrees with a constant beautiful breeze... during the summer... and there were oodles of trees around it.

but the terrain you drive through to get there can be a bit scary...

there's camp john hay (is that what it's called?), which has a really nice golf course... and the philippine military academy, which is prolly one of the most hard core academies out there (far, far more hard core than westpoint or annapolis.. i've heard stories of the hazing at pma, and it aint pretty).

bagio's also kinda sorta big.. so it might be difficult trying to pinpoint her store without more specifics. ;-)

you should visit her there. that's one place in the p.i. that's more bearable than most of the p.i... and not too much of an over-abundance of tourists... last time i went there was '99.. i spoke to one of the teachers at pma, and he said that they were working on a project to improve the water system and sewer system up there. i hope they did.. that stuff messed up my uncle.

[falcor]

baguio is beautiful - my bf's got property up there so maybe one day, we will build on it. i think they're having some problems keeping it the way it is. i got a letter/petition thing that was asking for help to keep it the way it is and not build it up into a metropolitan area.

i think my mom told me that one time it even snowed there! wtf. i think it must've been 30-40 years ago tho.

[golivar]

i was driving through downtown baguio last january and i saw some guy arguing with his girlfriend and grabbing her by the throat. she was crying. it was fucked up. i felt really bad the rest of the day.

[YelloKitty]

on the flip side, my parents spent their honeymoon in baguio. they said it rained all day but it was beautiful nonetheless.

[golivar]

yeah. sorry for the downer post.

"on the flip side" - that's like a double entendre, dude! word.

[YelloKitty]

i like the fact that you got that, my brown friend. :)

[mumeishi]

driving through manila makes me feel sad.

(well, riding in a car through manila. i wouldn't actually drive anywhere in the philippines, ever. it's too scurry)

[filipEMO]

me and my sister used to do this dance with sticks, i denno... it was weird... i always got caught in the tinikling bamboo... :(

[nyonpadorje]

Originally posted by ladybug

werd ladybug.
Kailan?

kaibigans! it's on. anytime after i get back from nyc! i know i'll be feinding for some filipino food after 2 weeks away from the bay area.

did you know that daly city and it's surrounding area has the largest population of filipinos outside of manila? [/B][/QUOTE]

If you're jonesing for filipino food in NYC there's a place called Cafe Manila(I think) on 14th St., I think between 1st and 2nd ave., and there's another place on Roosevelt Ave. in Jackson Heights.

There was a street fair on the Upper West Side a couple of months ago and someone was selling filipino and thai food. I had myself some yummy banana lumpia *slurp*

[peko-chan]

i had my french toast and spam going on yesterday morning.
i think it was my lola sending me a psychic fax...

I grew up in the PI as a child, (Cebu City represent!!), but it was very odd as i was always referred to as the "americana" or "ang mestiza" by everyone in our provence. I don't think they knew my first name or whole name at all.

[falcor]

we tried krystal's in the east village. it's down the street from another filipino restaurant, elvie's turo turo, which we will try another day. but we had sisig, kare kare and paksiw na bangus - YUMMAY!

[BAOH]

Originally posted by fad3r
First time poster here!

How many of you had dad's that were cooks in the Navy?? I noticed that a lot of my Filipino friends had dads that were cooks. My dad once told me that he liked being a cook cuz he could spit in the food of the officers he didn't like. The thing I didn't understand thou was that even thou my dad was a cook, I hated it whenever he made dinner.


yeh, my pops was a barber....and the funny thing is....(in the past) whenever i'd let him cut my hair...he'd fuck my dome up for reals....(back in the days) my older sisters would say "give him a simon lebonn haircut, dad."..........20 minutes later, i'm walking around with a fucking crew cut....so i had to bust the 1st couple of weeks looking like an enlistee.....who the fuck starts at the top of the head with a friggin 1" guard?

shiet....

oh yeh, mom's from bikol (albay)....dad's from zambales (subic).

you've been learnt.

[kamenriderv3]

navy cook, navy food

[slackerbot]

one time i saw this car that had banannas hanging from the rear view mirror, more banannas on the rear deck, and big bananna "pillows" in the rear seats.

and yes, it was a Toyota Corolla. and yes, it had a "Powered by Pinoy" sticker on the back window. :D

[shammy718]

i'm not filipino but i lived there for over 8 years. have a ton of childhood memories. thought to give a shout out : )

[shawgirl74]

I've been still trying occasionally to find out about my family lineage there. It sucks to know so much about the culture/language but not know my great grandmothers last name.

[felt cap]

CHICHARON JUNKIE IN THE HIZZAZZOUSE!!!

I'm Pinay born and bred. I speak fluent Tagalog and a dialect called Ilonggo though I have trouble reading "proper" Tagalog. Went I was in college at the University of the Philippines, we had to do a book report on a novel written entirely in Tagalog and I just could not get through the thing even though the story was interesting. Towards the end I begged classmates to help me out (basically me whining, "THEN what happened???"). I still have a copy of that book and another one written by the same author and I'm still trying to get through them. They're written by author Lualhati Bautista by the way if anyone's curious. Both have since been made into major motion pictures! And the one that I saw didn't actually suck!

[YelloKitty]

i've been craving for some chicharron bulaklak...

[JLS]

I miss my lola's lumpia.:(

[BAOH]

Originally posted by herrokitty
who has banannas in they car?

my parents never rocked bannanas in the car.....but they did bust the big ass wooden fork and spoon on the wall....

my sister used to take a single straw from the straw broom and whip me with it, then i'd take down the wooden fork....

fork vs. straw whisk? shiet, that's like voltron sword vs........vs....anything, yo. for reals.


act like you know.

[beanie]

I haerd something about pinoys and this song that goes "ocho ocho ocho" and when they showed me the dance you know what I did?


chuckled.

its a cool dance...show me.

[BAOH]

Originally posted by beanie
I haerd something about pinoys and this song that goes "ocho ocho ocho" and when they showed me the dance you know what I did?


chuckled.

its a cool dance...show me.

it's the new electric slide, yo.

mark my words.

[beanie]

really? :confused:

[Ryan]

back in january everyone and i mean EVERYONE went nuts when this song would come on. the guy who wrote is also behind alot of other really stupid but popular songs. im pretty sure they moved on to something else equally retarded by now.

[westsideLBC]

that ocho ocho dance is some weird shit. just saw it for the first time this past weekend in san francisco. the main part of the dance has the "dancer" bent over with their hands on their legs just above the knees. and when the ocho ocho chorus comes up they start bouncing their chest out.

It's pretty stupid, but when the "dancer" is fine and has body that dance is dope. Unfortunately, since I saw it San Francisco it wasn't dope it was http://www.bakla.net :(

[Ryan]

http://tikyu.adamascebu.com/otso-otso.gif


auuughh

i guess the correct spelling is otso otso

[BAOH]

Originally posted by westsideLBC
that ocho ocho dance is some weird shit. just saw it for the first time this past weekend in san francisco. the main part of the dance has the "dancer" bent over with their hands on their legs just above the knees. and when the ocho ocho chorus comes up they start bouncing their chest out.

It's pretty stupid, but when the "dancer" is fine and has body that dance is dope. Unfortunately, since I saw it San Francisco it wasn't dope it was http://www.bakla.net :(

amen to that....

watching my mom and her auntie-pantie krew doing this at weddings? downright hurtful, yo.

if you've never experienced the pain first hand, you'll never know.

[Jack]

Sweet Jesus.... She has a penis.

[shawgirl74]

Originally posted by Ryan
http://tikyu.adamascebu.com/otso-otso.gif


auuughh

i guess the correct spelling is otso otso

looks like otot otot

[BAOH]

the dapper thing about this dance?

(according to what i've seen on TFC) you don't need any fucking music!!!

otso-otso dance is the new black.....

=or=

a harlem shake ripoff......



but i lean towards the new black.

[YelloKitty]

:( :( :( :( :(

[650lex]

i am sooooo craving vienna sausages and rice
or corn beef and rice
or sardines in spicy tomato sauce and rice

[aelin]

Originally posted by felt cap
CHICHARON JUNKIE IN THE HIZZAZZOUSE!!!

I'm Pinay born and bred. I speak fluent Tagalog and a dialect called Ilonggo though I have trouble reading "proper" Tagalog.

I can relate to that. I was born in roxas city then moved to the states. I hung out with some filipinos here so I learned tagalog through my buddies. Reading that language is really hard unless you are fluent.

[micomackerel]

Originally posted by jimmy tran
...an honorary Pinoy. I'm Vietnamese and a bit Chinese but I look damn Pinoy. Makes me wonder what my mom did in her spare time. =) J/k

no worries. apparently i'm honorary chinese (even if i don't look like it). my cousin is half chinese and my best friend even gave me my very own chinese name (Zhen Zi). :D not any part of my real name sounds filipino at all. my first name is japanese, second name russian, maiden name swiss, last name (obvious nga) spanish. whatever - filipino pa rin ako

lots of people ask if i'm hawaiian or thai.

[micomackerel]

Originally posted by shawgirl74


looks like otot otot

if you listen carefully to that song you can hear "sumayaw gayang F4" - "dance like F4"

isn't F4 a chinese pop group? :D :p

ugh "otso otso" sends shivers down my spine.

[atomicscissors]

I'm an honorary Mexican. Most of my friends throughout my life were/are Mexican because I was shunned by almost every flip I've ever known since I don't speak tagalog. Especially in high-school. None of the flips there would give me the time of day. Fuck 'em, they can all rot in Hell. :)

[micomackerel]

Originally posted by atomicscissors
I'm an honorary Mexican. Most of my friends throughout my life were/are Mexican because I was shunned by almost every flip I've ever known since I don't speak tagalog. Especially in high-school. None of the flips there would give me the time of day. Fuck 'em, they can all rot in Hell. :)

i hate that about some filipinos here. nakaka gulo! they complicate everything! i like teaching my friend though - she's filipino born and raised here in the US and she loves to learn!

[westsideLBC]

holy year and a half bump, batman!

[atomicscissors]

Originally posted by westsideLBC
holy year and a half bump, batman!

LOL, yeah that's what I was thinking too.

[westsideLBC]

Originally posted by atomicscissors


LOL, yeah that's what I was thinking too.

looks like a renewed interest in all the pinoy topics in the lounge.

[HwaRang012]

It's because Pinoys control the media.

[ja.net]

Originally posted by westsideLBC


looks like a renewed interest in all the pinoy topics in the lounge.

Including the goods: sneaker freaks of the boards unite!!

['jim]

Pinoy/pinay: what's the diff?

[BOON]

Same diff as espanol, come on, now...

[micomackerel]

Originally posted by aelin


I can relate to that. I was born in roxas city then moved to the states. I hung out with some filipinos here so I learned tagalog through my buddies. Reading that language is really hard unless you are fluent.

tagalog actually is harder to read than writing or speaking it. it's more of a conversational, colloquial language. if you don't read in the language regularly it tends to become longdrawn and hard to swallow. ever tried Noli Me Tangere in tagalog? that stuff is deep. what about Pugad Baboy (comix! haha!)? it's easier to read with pictures! but yeah...i'm actually reading through a tagalog book right now; not finding it easy.

sorry - where is roxas? hmmm....i'm from Baguio - i'm a shame when it comes to my dialect. i can understand Ilocano since my mom's side speaks (i'm HORRIBLE) it but my dad's is pure tagalog.

[aelin]

just came back from manila not too long ago. the place is allright. thinking of a good business venture. anyone have ideas??

[Rosita]

These are all signs of being Puerto Rican!!


Originally posted by YelloKitty
[B]1. You point with your lips. (sometimes)
2. You eat using your hands and have it down to technique. (never learned the technique prolly)
4. You find dried up morsels of rice stuck to your shirt. (sometimes)
5. Your middle name is your mother's maiden name. (hell yeah!)
6. You love to buy sale items even when you do not need them. (notorious)
7. You say "Ha?" instead of "What?" (it slips)
8. You say "Pssst!" to get someone's attention. (helluva yeah!)
9. You turn around when someone says "Psst." (can't help it)
11. You say "he," when you mean "she" and vice versa. (my parents do this a lot
14. You say "Uy!" instead of "Oops."
16. You have a portrait of "The Last Supper" hanging in your dining room wall. (we used to!
21. You have a shrine of the Santo Niño. (yup)
23. You cover your back car seats with bed sheets. (um, never seen this)
24. Your sneeze sounds like "Aaaahh-ching" instead of "Aaaaahh-choo." (hahah no!)
26. You have a giant wooden fork and spoon hanging in the dining room. (in the philippines, yes)
28. You hang a rosary on your car's rear view mirror. (my mom)
30. Your parents call each other "Mommy" and "Daddy" or "Ma" and "Pa." (yeah)
31. You have a family member that has a nickname that repeats itself, i.e. "Deng-deng," "Ling-ling," or "Johu-johu." (word word)
32. You put hotdogs in your spaghetti. (mmmm!)
33. Your cupboards are full of corned beef, hash, Spam, and Vienna Sausages. (i make "ghetto tocino" with spam)
34. You have a rice dispenser. (two of em)
35. You appreciate a fresh pot of rice. (cannot eat day old rice)
38. You use your fingers to measure the water when cooking rice. (finger method not so good)
39. You wash and re-use plastic utensils and Styrofoam cups. (aww hell naw)
43. You fry Spam and hotdogs and eat them with rice. (see above)
45. You call the parents of your friends and your own parents' friends "Tito" and "Tita." (sometimes)
47. You live with your parents until and at times even after you're married. (errgh)
48. You make your children sing, dance, and play the piano to amuse your friends and relatives. (my parents would do that)
49. You use Vicks Vapor rub as an insect repellant. (eww!)
50. You keep your furniture wrapped in plastic or covered with blankets. (nope)
51. Your dining table has a vinyl tablecloth. (nope)
52. You recycle shopping bags as garbage bags. (yes)
53. You eat more than three times a day. (durr!)
54. You think a meal is not a meal without rice. (frequently)
55. You feed all your visitors. (hell yeah are you hungry dood? come on, eat!)
60. Everything you eat is sautéed in garlic, onion, and tomatoes. (mostly)

[650lex]

Originally posted by atomicscissors
I'm an honorary Mexican. Most of my friends throughout my life were/are Mexican because I was shunned by almost every flip I've ever known since I don't speak tagalog. Especially in high-school. None of the flips there would give me the time of day. Fuck 'em, they can all rot in Hell. :)


hey - can i be your only Filipina pal?

if it makes you feel any better
I am meztisa!

[650lex]

Originally posted by micomackerel


tagalog actually is harder to read than writing or speaking it. it's more of a conversational, colloquial language. if you don't read in the language regularly it tends to become longdrawn and hard to swallow. ever tried Noli Me Tangere in tagalog? that stuff is deep. what about Pugad Baboy (comix! haha!)? it's easier to read with pictures! but yeah...i'm actually reading through a tagalog book right now; not finding it easy.

sorry - where is roxas? hmmm....i'm from Baguio - i'm a shame when it comes to my dialect. i can understand Ilocano since my mom's side speaks (i'm HORRIBLE) it but my dad's is pure tagalog.


ha - are all of our moms Ilocano?
I'm so american that my mom (or grandmother) never taught the language to me...
I'm on my own but I have taken the responsibility upon myself to learn the language and history
I want to know more than just how to properly roll Lumpias!

I guess that's why I'm involved with Bindlestiff theater (bindlestiffstudio.org)

they throw directions at me first in english then in tagalog
but lucky for me - i do know a few key words
yes, i am planning to learn more so i can understand
when my family is talking shit about me!
:D

[atomicscissors]

Originally posted by 650lex
ha - are all of our moms Ilocano?

Hahaha! Yeah, I suppose they are.

[atomicscissors]

Originally posted by 650lex
hey - can i be your only Filipina pal?

:D

[Hap]

Originally posted by 650lex
ha - are all of our moms Ilocano?

My mom ain't no fucking Ilocano. :D

[650lex]

Originally posted by Hap

My mom ain't no fucking Ilocano. :D

:p

['jim]

Originally posted by BOON
Same diff as espanol, come on, now...


I've heard it used wrong then.

[650lex]

pinoy - male
pinay - female

['jim]

26. You have a giant wooden fork and spoon hanging in the dining room.

Italians do that one too.

[ocd]

^same with my family. My mom just likes antiques though.

[Rosita]

What is a meztiso? Is that like a Latino hapa?

[650lex]

is it spelled mestiza or meztiso?

well anyways - yeah, mixed with European ancestry
a result of those friendly Spaniards
making friends with those brown savages in the Philippines!

[noeruna]

Originally posted by 650lex


but lucky for me - i do know a few key words
yes, i am planning to learn more so i can understand
when my family is talking shit about me!
:D
That's about the extent of my Tagalog language comprehension. Sometimes I look words up in a Tagalog/English dictionary. Or sometimes my Dad or Mom will explain things like conjugating verbs.
Now that I'm older I wish there had been a Tagalog "school" when I was growing up. A place to go on a Saturday or after regular school like my classmates who were Greek-American would study Greek and learn about Greek history. Although at the time, I'm sure I would have thought of numerous ways of not going. :p

My parents have the wooden Tinikling dancers on the dining room wall instead of the giant spoon & fork.

[650lex]

Originally posted by noeruna

My parents have the wooden Tinikling dancers on the dining room wall instead of the giant spoon & fork.

TIGHT!!!!

[650lex]

Pista sa nayon (http://www.angelfire.com/on4/zambalesforum/Pista%20sa%20Nayon.htm)

there'll be a large ass festival in Vallejo, Ca
tomorrow...

[Sethius]

Originally posted by noeruna
Now that I'm older I wish there had been a Tagalog "school" when I was growing up. A place to go on a Saturday or after regular school like my classmates who were Greek-American would study Greek and learn about Greek history. Although at the time, I'm sure I would have thought of numerous ways of not going. :p

that is the greatest idea i have ever heard recently!!!!!! Fil-Ams learning tagalog after school. wow, we should start something.

[micomackerel]

Originally posted by 650lex


yes, i am planning to learn more so i can understand
when my family is talking shit about me!
:D

hahhaha most of my fil-am friends are in the same position as you :p you'll get it eventually. practice! practice!

my friend's brother got to take Tagalog during highschool. yeah, you could probably already guess that it was a private catholic school where all the nuns are Filipino. yup yup! that's DalyCity/San Bruno for you.

i'm Filipino but i'm not Catholic - lots of fil-ams point fingers and think it's funny. what's all this Catholicism? is it really just a cultural thing?

[micomackerel]

Originally posted by Rosita
What is a meztiso? Is that like a Latino hapa?

something like that. in Tagalog it's spelt 'mistiso/a'
it's not just a matter of being Euro-mixed. it's social class. usually if you live in the big city, like Manila, fair skinned and tall, you're most likely part of the higher, richer class.
in other cases, it has to do with whether you are fair-skinned and tall. it's sort of a stereotype. people say my cousin who is half-chinese is mistisa because she is fair and unusually tall.

this stereotype is still a bit prevalent in the Philippines; the major impact of subjugation that Spain imposed on the country's young history has not helped to mute that mindset; not to mention that imbalance of social strata - there's the poor and then the rich. (don't deny that the middle class mostly consists of global expat filipinos)

whenever i hear or think about this i think of Allende's House of the Spirits...

although the Philippines is supposedly a democracy, the traces of oligarchial society still remain - this can be seen through high class mistiso/as today.

eh..i didn't mean to give that term a bad name and bring it down to politics. a term, is a term, is a term. for Filipinos though, it defines a major cultural aspect in the country's young history (as is this importance true for the mestizo/as in Mexico, South America...)

[Goner]

Pure Ilocano here...grew up in Baguio City. We had a house right next to Camp John Hay. Dad worked there before the US troops got booted out in the 90's.

Last time I went to The Philippines, it was last January. I flew from NAIA to Loakan Airport. It's great to know that I can now get to Baguio from Manila in 45 minutes instead of the troublesome 6 hours by bus.

I even got this awesome Juan Dela Cruz Band t-shirt at the SM in Baguio (and I rock that hard sportin' it walking around downtown Seattle). It was convenient that the mall was a less than 5 minute walk from my Lolo's house.

[micomackerel]

Originally posted by Goner
Pure Ilocano here...grew up in Baguio City. We had a house right next to Camp John Hay. Dad worked there before the US troops got booted out in the 90's.

Last time I went to The Philippines, it was last January. I flew from NAIA to Loakan Airport. It's great to know that I can now get to Baguio from Manila in 45 minutes instead of the troublesome 6 hours by bus.

I even got this awesome Juan Dela Cruz Band t-shirt at the SM in Baguio (and I rock that hard sportin' it walking around downtown Seattle). It was convenient that the mall was a less than 5 minute walk from my Lolo's house.

yo taga Baguio :D i guess i can say i'm half Ilocano but i'm super sure i can say i'm 100% Baguio-grown. man you live so close to the new SM huh!? Baguio seems so crowded these days...each day passes here in San Francisco, with the knowledge that the little city i grew up in a whole ocean away is bursting at the seams like a giant can of Ligo sardines!

by the way, did you go to school around town? i come across a few Brent people here and there; now and then sometimes - not that i went there personally.

i remember John Hay in the early and late 90's. i was so little! my cousins and i would gear up in our roller blades at the rink, eat huge ice-cream cones at the soda shop near buy, walk under the huge pine trees and watch my uncle golf near the country club. i went to alot of outdoor weddings in my day at John Hay too. i don't know what's happening to it now. the last time i went, the Manor was in full swing as a resort and the commisarry has since expanded to more commercial stores. gasp! i think there was a Star Bucks too!

[650lex]

Originally posted by micomackerel


hahhaha most of my fil-am friends are in the same position as you :p you'll get it eventually. practice! practice!

my friend's brother got to take Tagalog during highschool. yeah, you could probably already guess that it was a private catholic school where all the nuns are Filipino. yup yup! that's DalyCity/San Bruno for you.

i'm Filipino but i'm not Catholic - lots of fil-ams point fingers and think it's funny. what's all this Catholicism? is it really just a cultural thing?

HEY you have this weekend to catch a show
i work lights for:
www.bindlestiffstudio.org/movement

i am sure you are aware of Philippine history
but it's like a crash course who are not as aware

yes, we cram 500 years of history into an hour and half!

[Goner]

Originally posted by micomackerel


yo taga Baguio :D i guess i can say i'm half Ilocano but i'm super sure i can say i'm 100% Baguio-grown. man you live so close to the new SM huh!? Baguio seems so crowded these days...each day passes here in San Francisco, with the knowledge that the little city i grew up in a whole ocean away is bursting at the seams like a giant can of Ligo sardines!

by the way, did you go to school around town? i come across a few Brent people here and there; now and then sometimes - not that i went there personally.


I went to school at Saint Louis University. Catholic school has permanently ruined me with the whole guilty complex bullshit. :D

I miss "old" Baguio, where you could walk up and down Session Road without having to worry about getting your pockets picked or your bag snatched. I had to only carry cash with me when I walked around town and left my credit cards in my travel bag wherever I was staying. It didn't feel safe lugging my wallet around with me.

Seems like the other thing different out there is that there seems to be this simmering resentment and latent xenophobia toward South Koreans who're out there to learn how to speak English. If you do get back there to visit, you'll definitely see that about a good 1/8th of the total population of Baguio is indeed South Korean.

[Sethius]

watch out for them dogs.

[micomackerel]

Originally posted by Goner


I went to school at Saint Louis University. Catholic school has permanently ruined me with the whole guilty complex bullshit. :D

I miss "old" Baguio, where you could walk up and down Session Road without having to worry about getting your pockets picked or your bag snatched. I had to only carry cash with me when I walked around town and left my credit cards in my travel bag wherever I was staying. It didn't feel safe lugging my wallet around with me.

Seems like the other thing different out there is that there seems to be this simmering resentment and latent xenophobia toward South Koreans who're out there to learn how to speak English. If you do get back there to visit, you'll definitely see that about a good 1/8th of the total population of Baguio is indeed South Korean.

i hear ya on that.

"old" Baguio hmm. now that i think about it there was a time when i used to be able to call Session Road a thoroughfare since not as much people where going to and fro downtown. now walking down to the old Tiong San is a trek! ugh and the smog.

SLU! so many people taking nursing there these days (well, was there ever a time when there wasn't alot? hah). i know quite a bunch of people from there since my dad used to teach and some friends are going there now.

i hear alot about that xenophobia from my cousins. but i dunno - i guess i grew up in that part of the 90s were a wave of them started to arrive full force but i was too little understand. i had korean classmates, korean family friends - they are all people my family keeps in friendly contact with. nowadays i hear about business disputes between koreans and filipinos, sometimes violence --- kinda old fashioned stuff like when some people had issues with the chinese (well not so much anymore) and i get a headache. culture clash? nationalism issues? i'll have to see for myself (well actually i'm going home next year).

which reminds me, and i'm branching off to another topic here: i remember one article featuring an essay from a korean student criticising filipinos for their lack of patriotism.

My Short Essay about the Philippines

Jaeyoun Kim

Filipinos always complain about the corruption in the Philippines. Do you really think the corruption is the problem of the Philippines? I do not think so. I strongly believe that the problem is the lack of love for
the Philippines.
Let me first talk about my country, Korea. It might help you understand my point. After the Korean War, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. Koreans had to start from scratch because entire country was destroyed after the Korean War, and we had no natural resources.

Koreans used to talk about the Philippines, for Filipinos were very rich in Asia. We envy Filipinos. Koreans really wanted to be well off like Filipinos. Many Koreans died of famine. My father & brother also died
because of famine. Korean government was very corrupt and is still very corrupt beyond your imagination, but Korea was able to develop dramatically because Koreans really did their best for the common good
with their heart burning with patriotism.

Koreans did not workjust for themselves but also for their neighborhood and country. Education inspired young men with the spirit of patriotism.

40 years ago, President Park took over the government to reform Korea. He tried to borrow money from other countries, but it was not possible to get a loan and attract a foreign investment because the economic situation
of South Korea was so bad. Korea had only three factories. So, President Park sent many mine workers and nurses to Germany so that they could send money to Korea to build a factory. They had to go through a horrible
experience.

In 1964, President Park visited Germany to borrow money. Hundred of Koreans in Germany came to the airport to welcome him and cried there as they saw the President Park. They asked to him, "President, when can
we be well off?" That was the only question everyone asked to him. President Park cried with them and promised them that Korea would be well off if everyone works hard for Korea, and the President of Germany got the
strong impression on them and lent money to Korea. So, President Park was able to build many factories in Korea. He always asked Koreans to love their country from their heart.

Many Korean scientists and engineers in the USA came back to Korea to help developing country because they wanted their country to be well off. Though they received very small salary, they did their best for Korea. They
always hoped that their children would live in well off country.

My parents always brought me to the places where poor and physically handicapped people live. They wanted me to understand their life and help them. I also worked for Catholic Church when I was in the army. The
only thing I learned from Catholic Church was that we have to love our neighborhood. And, I have loved my neighborhood.

Have you cried for the Philippines? I have cried for my country several times. I also cried for the Philippines because of so many poor people. I have been to the New Bilibid prison. What made me sad in the prison
were the prisoners who do not have any love for their country. They go to mass and work for Church. They pray everyday.

However, they do not love the Philippines. I talked to two prisoners at the maximum-security compound, and both of them said that they would leave the Philippines right after they are released from the prison. They said
that they would start a new life in other countries and never come back to
the Philippines.

Many Koreans have a great love for Korea so that we were able to share our wealth with our neighborhood. The owners of factory and company were distributed their profit to their employees fairly so that employees
could buy what they needed and saved money for the future and their children.

When I was in Korea, I had a very strong faith and wanted to be a priest. However, when I came to the Philippines, I completely lost my faith.

I was very confused when I saw many unbelievable situations in the Philippines. Street kids always make me sad, and I see them everyday. The Philippines is the only Catholic country in Asia, but there are too
many poor people here. People go to church every Sunday to pray, but nothing has been changed.

My parents came to the Philippines last week and saw this situation. They told me that Korea was much poorer than the present Philippines when they were young. They are so sorry that there are so many beggars and
street kids. When we went to Pasangjan, I forced my parents to take a boat because it would fun. However, they were not happy after taking a boat. They said that they would not take the boat again because they were
sympathized the boatmen, for the boatmen were very poor and had a small frame. Most of people just took a boat and enjoyed it. But, my parents did not enjoy it because of love for them.

My mother who has been working for Catholic Church since I was very young told me that if we just go to mass without changing ourselves, we are not Catholic indeed. Faith should come with action. She added that I have
to love Filipinos and do good things for them because all of us are same and have received a great love from God. I want Filipinos to love their neighborhood and country as much as they love God so that the
Philippines will be well off.

I am sure that love is the keyword, which Filipinos should remember. We cannot change the sinful structure at once. It should start from person. Love must start in everybody, in a small scale and have to grow. A lot of things happen if we open up to love. Let's put away our prejudices and look at our worries with our new eyes.

I discover that every person is worthy to be loved. Trust in love, because it makes changes possible. Love changes you and me. It changes people,contexts and relationships. It changes the world. Please love your neighborhood and country.

Jesus Christ said that whatever we do to others we do to Him. In the Philippines, there is God for people who are abused and abandoned. There is God who is crying for love. If you have a child, teach them how to
love the Philippines. Teach them why they have to love their neighborhood and country. You already know that God also will be very happy if you love others.

That's all I really want to ask you Filipinos.

as a Filipino expat, i still think this is a core issue in the Philippines. i'm not into that xenophobia stuff and i'm not into other people banging that nationalism lecture into me or other Filipinos either - but, the more i read this, the more i realize how true it is. since i moved here, the view is alot clearer in a global sense. so where and what is that nationalism? when it's present is it offensive or productive? i'm an opitimist - it can benefit us all in different ways.

so i'm repetitive, but i want a bit of discussion is all. i've never brought it up with anyone before and i'm not sure if anyone here in GR has read the essay - so scold me if you have already.

sorry i pasted that whole thing - i want to know what you guys think about it.

thanks, salamat na lang :)

[Sethius]

i think there is nothing we can do about the philippines. philippines is philippines.

[Goner]

How could anyone really feel proud of a country where the corrupt run rampant and use the very same laws they break to keep the honest and hardworking people down? It's a very complex situation.

[atomicscissors]

Originally posted by Goner
How could anyone really feel proud of a country where the corrupt run rampant and use the very same laws they break to keep the honest and hardworking people down? It's a very complex situation.

Agreed. And the Philippines is just as bad too.

[650lex]

i blame her (http://www.kgma.org/)

[BAOH]

Originally posted by 650lex
i blame her (http://www.kgma.org/)


and i blame, this:

this. (http://www.pinoystores.com/image.php?productid=16497)

[650lex]

hee hee

i miss you BAOH!

[Goner]

Originally posted by BAOH



and i blame, this:

this. (http://www.pinoystores.com/image.php?productid=16497)

*LOL*

Does Vilma Santos still use that shit?

[micomackerel]

Originally posted by BAOH



and i blame, this:

this. (http://www.pinoystores.com/image.php?productid=16497)

ESKINOL! i hate that crap


must be due colonization, no? mostly South East Asian countries - Philippines and Malaysia are a big majority of that skin-whitening list. but why not Thai? they've never been subjugated.

Japan is on that list but i can see why - it's part of their culture. Hong Kong and Taiwan are other asian countries that use skin whitening products.

other than mistiso/a influences i can't help to think this kind of status quo as silly.

do you guys have those aunts, moms and grandparents who say
"git out of de sun, you'll get dark!?"

ehhh:o

p.s. so i thought you guys might be interested in this site: Get Real Philippines (http://www.geocities.com/benign0/1-00_intro.html)

cancel "maybe":p

[Sethius]

The Sick Man of Asia

[micomackerel]

Originally posted by micomackerel

other than mistiso/a influences i can't help to think this kind of status quo as silly.

actually, i think i was to critical when i typed that. probably fired up in the moment! it was rash to say it was silly, since i didn't even think about mentioning the Chinese influence on Filipino culture. it's still about status quo and totally cultural. so, can you see the connection? who's rich and who's powerful? The Tsinoys - duh!:rolleyes:

[Goner]

Originally posted by micomackerel


actually, i think i was to critical when i typed that. probably fired up in the moment! it was rash to say it was silly, since i didn't even think about mentioning the Chinese influence on Filipino culture. it's still about status quo and totally cultural. so, can you see the connection? who's rich and who's powerful? The Tsinoys - duh!:rolleyes:

And to think that tanning salons are making a killing out here.

[micomackerel]

books, as a matter of interest.

So you've read Rizal, Gonzalez and all those fabulous Filipino writers. but do you read current writers?

who here reads Jessica Zafra or Bob Ong? (other mentions?)

i don't know if you guys are into poetry but i've possibly met the best Filipino-American poet a few years back and i'm still reading his book - Al Robles - here in S.F. this guy CAN write.

any of you guys keep track of the filipino literary scene? there aren't alot of people i can mention - maybe a few essayists and short story writers here and there but not alot. i can't even count on my cousins in the Philippines to give me good recommendations...

sometimes...most times i'm glad i'm finishing my education here. public school is deplorable in the Philippines (it's not even FREE!) and private schools are mediocre - excellent ones are few. i think the compulsory system is a joke. but hey, i'm not here to say no one turns out well. it's just - it makes me sad sometimes to think the kids in the Philippines deserve better.

[Sethius]

do i have to go to the philippines to buy these books?

[YelloKitty]

yes.

[YelloKitty]

:rolleyes:

[micomackerel]

well of course you can't get alot of those HERE.

do i have to go to the philippines to buy these books?

National Bookstores (the equivalent of Barnes & Noble or Borders) don't exactly pop up like Kinokuniyas here in the states...ay nako kaya nga may Amazon.com eh but i guess not too many people use that to find Filipino books either, is what it sounds like.

who actually reads Filipino writers in GR? Filipino-American? there are sure alot of those these days (not saying all are good; not saying there are none either) so they're books are not as difficult to find.

[Goner]

Originally posted by Sethius
do i have to go to the philippines to buy these books?

Nope. You could buy those books here (http://www.divisoria.net/books-essays.html) .

Jessica Zafra was basically blogging before the internet caught on and made a killing. She just chronicled what she's been up to at the time back in the mid 90's.

I'd rather recommend Ambeth Ocampo's books (here (http://www.divisoria.net/971-270-2804.html) and here (http://www.divisoria.net/971-270-5935.html) ). He puts an interesting spin on Philippine history.

My favorite Filipino writer is F Sionil Jose. I'd never have come across his work if I never took up a class on Philippine Lit In English back in college. NVM Gonzales is another writer worth checking out--Link! (http://www.divisoria.net/books-novels.html)

[Charlie]

I always make a point to stock up on books whenever I visit the Philippines. Some of the better bookstores are Fully Booked in the Power Plant Mall and Powerhouse Books in Greenbelt. My second cousin's wife actually started Powerhouse since her family owns National Bookstore. I'm pretty happy with the books I picked up on my last two trips, a nice mix of fiction, history, and photography books. I think it would be pretty difficult to find these books stateside. Here is the checklist:

Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal. Both hardcover.
Manila, My Manila by Nick Joaquin
The Best Philippine Short Stories of the 20th Century
Tree by F. Sionil Jose
Rizal without the Overcoat by Ambeth R. Ocampo
A Philippine Album: American Era Photographs 1900-1930
Filipina: A Tribute to the Filipino Woman
Tropical Living: Contemporary Dream Houses in the Philippines
Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream 1899-1999 (this was actually published by NYU)
The Contemporary English-Filipino Dictionary by Prof. Ernesto A. Constantino
and of course, a few cookbooks
:D

[650lex]

^^ I'd love to read that Filipina: A Tribute to the Filipino Woman
book...

[Charlie]

It's actually just a book of photography. The pictures are great, in that Life photojournalistic way. I just searched Amazon and they have the book available there.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/9814155128.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[felt cap]

Man, when I was a kid, one of my ninangs (godmothers) gave me this fantastic illustrated set of Nick Joaquin's adaptations of Filipino folk stories. Nobody knows what happened to it. I never remember to look for it whenever I go home to Manila. Me so sad now. :( I'd give anything to own that set again.

[650lex]

^^ hey you!
where have you been?

[650lex]

Originally posted by Charlie
It's actually just a book of photography. The pictures are great, in that Life photojournalistic way. I just searched Amazon and they have the book available there.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/9814155128.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

NAKS! WOW!
:heart:

[micomackerel]

"happy independence day" is what i want to say to all GR Filipinos. the Filipina Fest in SF was ok - good food and even if i found the Wowowee, karaoke-singing a bit corny i had a good time over all.

i picked up an opion article from the ABS-CBN site today by Dan Mariano that might be of interest to you guys.

(http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=41422)

"No reason to love our country? Far too many Filipinos are beginning to feel the same way about their country. What is even more revolting is the fact that many of these increasingly unpatriotic Filipinos are relatively well-off and better educated than most of their compatriots who continue to wallow in poverty and ignorance.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


While mindlessly hopping channels on a slow day last week, I came across a talk show where a sometime TV variety-show host said, I wish I could love my country but I find no reason to do so—or words to that effect.

Two years ago this fellow, like so many others like him, tried to parlay his show-business celebrity into a political career by running for public office in Quezon City. Thankfully, he failed. But what he said during the talk show stuck in the mind as a pesky pebble would in one’s shoe. In fact, it was the only memorable quote in an otherwise forgettable exchange.

Outrageous as his unabashed lack of patriotism sounds, I am afraid he is not alone. Far too many Filipinos are beginning to feel the same way about their country. What is even more revolting is the fact that many of these increasingly unpatriotic Filipinos are relatively well-off and better educated than most of their compatriots who continue to wallow in poverty and ignorance.

I have no empirical data to back me up, but I believe that Filipinos who are poor and lack education tend to love their country more. After all, these are the Filipinos who, for instance, either serve in government security forces or volunteer for insurgent movements. They either man the frontlines of government agencies that deliver basic services or take to the streets to demand political reform and social justice. They either accept protracted exile and hostility in foreign lands just so they could earn money to support their families in the homeland or risk arrest, imprisonment, torture and summary execution as they pursue their vision of a brighter future. Their contribution to the nation is inversely proportional to the deprivations they suffer daily. Yet, their love of country is unquestionable—if not unquestioning.

The higher up the social ladder Filipinos find themselves in, the greater apparently is their aversion for public service or social commitment. It is as if the mere idea of nation building is offensive to them. Besides, to be Filipino simply isn’t fashionable nowadays. Their biggest dread is to be caught in some foreign port of entry with a Philippine passport and be mistaken for—horror of horrors—an OFW.

It is these inhabitants of our archipelago who would rather forget that they are Filipinos. They are the mutants that emerged out of our colonial past, our troubled present and our uncertain future. They have never developed a sense of national identity, but continue to cultivate delusions of an alien wannabe.

They would rather speak in a foreign tongue—with an ersatz accent that tries but never quite approximates the twang of the American Midwest. They try to justify their linguistic preference by insisting that fluency in English is what makes Filipinos like them "marketable" abroad or in local call centers.

They crave to literally crawl out of their dusky skins, waste loads of cash in chemicals to whiten their complexions—which only rob them of their natural protection against the cancer-causing rays of our tropical sun.

Cable and satellite TV and the Internet keep them up to date with the latest developments in Los Angeles, New York, London or Paris, but they are entirely ignorant of what is going on in their neighborhood. These are the people who complain why their barangays are always controlled by "those squatters," but do not bother to take part in village elections.

They constantly bitch about the filthy habits of their impoverished countrymen, but think nothing of receiving hefty dividends from their businesses whose operations pollute the atmosphere, foul up our waterways and turn farmland into playgrounds for the rich and famous.

A survey once found that one out of every four—or is it three?—Filipinos would rather be a citizen of some other country. It could well be that the likes of Jose Rizal, Gregorio del Pilar and Antonio Luna are turning in their grave. However, if these Filipinos would readily give up their birthright because they "see no reason" to love their country, then I say: Good riddance! Their departure should help ease the pressure on the rest of us. The longer they inflict their presence on the nation, the harder it is for us to sort out our current mess.

By the way, happy Independence Day. Not that it really matters to those Filipinos who see no reason—as if one were needed—to love their country."

[650lex]

The Manila Post interviewed a few production peeps from Bindlestiff - that was pretty cool.

Sad to see it end but am really proud of my affiliation and contribution to the Bindlestiff Theater!

[frontwards]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB2IcAO25-0

[randall fairbrook]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9435751.stm

[atomicscissors]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9435751.stm

A few from my family:

Baby
Azon
Boy
NyoNyo

[35ft6]

^ It's like an R&B group.

Left Eye
T-Boz
Chili
Jojo
Akon
Ray Ray

[wnoodle]

^ It's like an R&B group.
This.

Don't go chasin' waterfalls...

[35ft6]

^ That running joke in The Other Guys about TLC kind of grew on me.

[atomicscissors]

^ That running joke in The Other Guys about TLC kind of grew on me.

I thought it was hilarious.

[noeruna]

A few from my family:

Baby
Azon
Boy
NyoNyo

Here's some from my family:

Buding
Ti-kan
Klang-Klang
Boyet
Inee
Auring

My own nickname is in that list. :o

[wnoodle]

I'm hoping your nickname is Klang-Klang.

[noeruna]

I'm hoping your nickname is Klang-Klang.

Lol. I wish. From what my Tiya tells me Klang-Klang is very forthright for one so young.

[archonemis]

I'm hoping your nickname is Klang-Klang (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkds-Fdqiy8).

If given I would sport such a name.

[lupine]

Here's some from my family:

Buding
Ti-kan
Klang-Klang
Boyet
Inee
Auring

My own nickname is in that list. :o

I think the names ending in "ing" are just adaptations of their real names (ie, Pablo-Pabling). I have an aunt named Aurora who people call "Auring."

From my own family (counting extended family), I have the following:

Dondon
Pinky
Boy
Baby
Bongbong
Girlie

[atomicscissors]

Itok
Jon-Boy
Dar
Awing
Oskie
On-On
Fred
Emik
Boots
Mumoy

[wnoodle]

^ Are you On-On?

[atomicscissors]

^ Are you On-On?

Nah. I've been known by my initials since forever.

[pkittie]

My Dad was Chico, and my Uncle was Bro. All the kids called him Uncle Bro because we thought that "Bro" was his name. Only to find out later it was for "brother".

[wnoodle]

Nah. I've been known by my initials since forever.
BOR-ing!

[noeruna]

I think the names ending in "ing" are just adaptations of their real names (ie, Pablo-Pabling). I have an aunt named Aurora who people call "Auring."

From my own family (counting extended family), I have the following:

Dondon
Pinky
Boy
Baby
Bongbong
Girlie

I have an aunt Auring too but her given name is Aurelia. My Mom is known as "Baby."

My Dad was Chico, and my Uncle was Bro. All the kids called him Uncle Bro because we thought that "Bro" was his name. Only to find out later it was for "brother".

I have cousins who only know me by my nickname. :)

[pkittie]

Heh, that reminds me, my Dad was called "Boy" when he was a kid. Seems pretty common.

[pkittie]

Just found out that my Dad was kinda famous for reciting the Jose Rizal's "My Last Farewell" as part of a whole performance. This is an excerpt that he wrote to a long lost friend (recently found) regarding it:

Your mentioning to me of your telling Mary about my distant "child prodigy" past triggered a search for a few items that might amuse her ... or NOT. I enclose an email with photos I received from the curator of the Ripley's Believe it or Not archive. In 1948 Bob Ripley ran a nation-wide contest for unusually talented people with one of the prizes for the top 3 winning contestants being featured on his Radio program broadcast on WMAQ (NBC) in Chicago. My dad wrote Ripley a letter submitting me with a photo (see below) as a "mental marvel", a four year old child who knew "the capitals of all the countries, territories and principalities in the world", the names and capitals of all the United States (48 at the time), the names of all the Presidents of the US in the order of their presidency, and who could recite from memory various oddments of Americana: The Gettysburg Address, "Oh Captain, my Captain", "Casey at the Bat", "The Night before Christmas" and who knows what else (he didn't mention Jose' Rizal's 14 stanza "My Last Farewell" in a couple of languages as that wouldn't be of interest to most Americans). After a vetting process conducted by Ripley's researchers and talent scouts, I was interviewed and Mr. Ripley was duly impressed that I could do everything my father claimed. I have a photostat of the letter my father wrote to him with Ripley's comments on it with rather extravagant praise and even a suggestion that I recite something on the "Freedom Train" that President Truman had been sending around the country with name entertainers such as Bing Crosby, the Andrews Sisters and who knows who else. Truman was running for re-election against Thomas Dewey that year and the Freedom Train provided him with very patriotic, high-profile publicity. I ended up reciting the Gettyburg address on the Freedom train when it went through Chicago but I don't have any photos of it. I ended up the third place winner and was drawn by Ripley for his syndicated "Ripley's Believe it or Not' cartoon as well as "appeared" on his radio broadcast with the other winners. In my segment of the show I answered questions posed by Bob Ripley and his assistant. I guess I got the names of the capitals right but I don't remember very well what they all were as I wasn't told what the countries were prior to the broadcast and I had to answer "ex tempore". The ones I do remember are Madagascar, capital then: Tananarive now it's Antananarivo, New Caledonia, capital then and now Nouméa, New South Wales, capital then and now, Sydney, French Equatorial Africa, capital Brazzaville - no longer exists! and Manitoba, capital then and now, Winnepeg. Whew! I still have the set of Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedias that was one of the prizes from that contest. Unfortunately I don't have the Hammond's World Atlas and Gazetteer that my dad used to teach me all those capitals.
A modern "twist" on this bit of personal history: Some time ago, as my dear departed wife, Ellen (alav ha shalom) was reading "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan right after it was first published when she exclaimed, "Honey, you're in the Joy Luck Club!" At first I thought she meant there was a character like me but ... no it was little old "mental marvel" me there on pages 149 and 150 in a vignette of one protagonist's fictional girlhood. I've attached a scan of the pages with the relevant text. I wrote to Ms. Tan via her publisher about this incident and she graciously replied to my letter with a very nice note, a personal Chinese New Year greeting and an unposed photo of herself and her husband.
Here's the link to the Freedom Train on which I delivered the Getttysburg address in Chicago in 1948. This was arranged by Bob Ripley
http://www.lincoln-highway-museum.org/FT/FT-Index.html

P.S. They misspelt his first name, Gordonio, but not the last.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i79/pkittie/000000012294_1.jpghttp://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i79/pkittie/19481001.jpg

[kamenriderv3]

Lol. I wish. From what my Tiya tells me Klang-Klang is very forthright for one so young.

is klang-klang an uncle that drives a trolley?

:)

[kamenriderv3]

BOR-ing!

yeah but his initials are k.k.k.

[feralmuppet]

What does "chicken nut bread" mean?

[premium]

1. Tenacious - Bepor you go out, put your tenacious on.
2. Deposit- Call de plahmer. Deposit is leaking.
3. Splat- Oh my goodness, my tire is splat!
4. Associate- When I went to de bathroom, associate in de toilet.
5. Hostess- When de pone rings, I ask hostess?
6. Persuading- Tomorrow will be my persuading anniversary.
7. Depressed- Depressed is da one who leads mass on Sundays.
8. Deficit- Bepor you jahmp in de pool, check how deficit.
9. Statue- Oy, Pedro...Statue?
10. Penis- Bepor you go out and play, penis your homework.
11. Uno, Dos, Tres- Uno! Dos tres are burning!.
12. Chicken Nut Bread- My sista no can swim. When she jahmp in de water, chicken nut bread.

[fad3r]

1. Tenacious - Bepor you go out, put your tenacious on.
2. Deposit- Call de plahmer. Deposit is leaking.
3. Splat- Oh my goodness, my tire is splat!
4. Associate- When I went to de bathroom, associate in de toilet.
5. Hostess- When de pone rings, I ask hostess?
6. Persuading- Tomorrow will be my persuading anniversary.
7. Depressed- Depressed is da one who leads mass on Sundays.
8. Deficit- Bepor you jahmp in de pool, check how deficit.
9. Statue- Oy, Pedro...Statue?
10. Penis- Bepor you go out and play, penis your homework.
11. Uno, Dos, Tres- Uno! Dos tres are burning!.
12. Chicken Nut Bread- My sista no can swim. When she jahmp in de water, chicken nut bread.

AWESOME. Thanks for giving me new jokes to tell my prenz.

[slackerbot]

lulz.

[atomicscissors]

yeah but his initials are k.k.k.

This.