Who wants to be a Filipino. - I Do!

I don't want to start a debate on anything but i was reading this article entitled "Who wants to be a Filipino?"  This guy gave some good points and honestly he was just being honest on what he sees.I know this was published long time ago but it doesn't hurt to comment right..

I just cant stand the way he called the people who answered yes  on his question  (" If you're going to be reincarnated, do you still want to be a Filipino?" hypocrites. If he is going to ask me the same question i would gladly and proudly say YES.. why? yes most of our KABAYAN's try to have an English accent but does it bother anyone or offend someone in the way they speak the language? when i was in school a teacher told me that if i would make a project don't stop with OK go for best, so whenever I'm making a project i just don't stop with OK, so whats the relevance you may ask with the first subject. When we were in school teachers used to teach us with proper grammar spelling, pronunciation and diction, is it possible that the Filipinos tend to imitate American or British accent because they just don't want to learn the language they want to learn how the people from those country who speaks it? possible right.And so what if we speak like that??!! When our old folks talks funny people make fun of them and when we speak with a different accent were "Trying Hard".. Men!! make up your mind people!!

Wearing designer clothes or products made from other countries, oh come on, this has been dealt many times before and does it make us less of a Filipino, IMO we are human we are just admiring what other people invented, designed or thought. we want to explore, we want to experience different things, its just like food if we're eating hot dogs every single day we would want something different every once in a while right..

As history is concern, yes a lot of other countries have colorful history, true because every place has its on story.some people focus on other things that his hands cant grasp and yet they don't bother to look under their noses. our country has a very rich history. yes way different from the English and the french men because we too are different from them. just look at your hands each even your fingers are in different sizes what makes you think that we should have the same history as them? different is not bad, this whats makes us special, this whats makes us unique.

Yes most of the Filipino lack elegance, what do you expect in a 3rd world country right, i mean how could we think of elegance when our stomach is empty? not a good idea isn't it? 

Hanging out with other people who we think will be inferior than us is just a low blow, why do you even hang out with them? so you can feel superior that's racist. IMO we hang with other people to learn their culture and to be friends with them not to gratify ourselves in who's who, and what's what..

A lot of people say that filipina's are good for nothing, we are just mail order bride, prostitutes, nannies or domestic helpers. Philippines is a 3rd world country people will do anything to survive, its like survival of the fittest. if you will just lay around all day, you will starve and die. so people resort to anything just to feed the hungry mouths waiting for them at home. as for the prostitutes and mail order brides they all tell different stories, and not all of it are good. some of them are just victims of the situation and who are we to judge. we are just human, we have our own stench that we want to cover and besides all the countries have prostitutes, why we focus on ours when its clearly a global problem. and for the nannies and and the domestic helper, keep your heads up! don't let anyone pull you down, you are not hurting anyone, you are the angels of every household, if not for you who will teach children manners while their parents are away. if anyone discriminates you and your job just tell them "yes I'm a nanny/domestic helper, but you're not my boss, so you don't have the right to treat me that way!"

As for the corruption, its ancient history. Its like dieting, its easy to say what to do but when your on the situation it feels like hell to not eat, everyone's giving you opportunity so why not take it. am not saying that corruption is good, i know its very bad, but if we need something to change we need to start from ourselves and stop pointing fingers at everyone you come across with. then if you think you already changed your ways then start to persuade others to change or affect others in your own little ways. I have watched this movie entitled "PAY IT FORWARD" the lesson of the movie is very nice, its like instead of repaying the people we owe (not money) why don't we pay it forward instead of drowning on "UTANG na LOOB" pay forward to someone who need assistance the most..

As a person, if i want to wear a dress made from UK, eat Japanese food or play cricket, does it make me less of a Filipino? i think not, we can not measure the heart of a true nationalist just because we don't wear "BARO'T SAYA" everyday. some people do wear those but in their heart they are stepping on the pride of other Filipino what good would that be..if people want to be reincarnated as European, American or other race they fancy, what makes them sure that they wouldn't see some flaws into it. they have done it in this life what makes them sure they wont do it in another..

just remember.. you can never know what you're missing until you lost it.. good day everyone :)

30 facts you may not know (Pinoy Edition)

1. Gustave Eiffel, the guy who built the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, also built the San Sebastian Church in   Quiapo, Manila.

2. The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is Asia's first professional (pay for play) basketball league.

3. Eugene Torre is Asia's first chess Grandmaster .

4. Pancho Villa (Franciso Guilledo) is the first East Asian to win a world title in professional boxing.

5. Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden in Malate, Manila was the first zoo in asia.

6. Only McDonald's in the Philippine serves spaghetti, if not, the first to compete with Jollibee.

7.  Contrary to popular notion, the symbolic name "Juan de la Cruz" is not a Filipino invention. R.   McCulloch-****, a Scottish born journalist, coined the generic tag while working for the Manila Times in the early 1900's after discovering it was the most common name in police blotters and court dockets in and around Manila.

8.  "JEPROKS" - came from the word project pertaining to BLISS HOUSING PROJECTS during the 70's, instead of providing decent home to some families, the housing project became an enclave of somewhat many squatters that yields lots of unemployed and "istambays" later on we called as jeproks!

9. "JOLOGS" - somewhat related pero ang etymology nito ay from"DYOLOG" from Daing tuYO itLOG, the usual food of lower income families.

10. Davao City is the biggest city in the world in terms of area.

11.  Considered the first full length comedy film in the Philippines was "The Three Tramps," which was release in1927. It starred brothers Manuel and Augusto Silos, vaudeville queen Miami Salvador, and Enrique Espinosa.

12. First Filipino Olympians David Nepumoceno, who ran the track sprints at the 1924 Paris Games.  

13. Manuel L. Quezon was the first Filipino president to use a telephone.

14.  The first school lunches in the country were served at the American-run Meisic Intermediate School in Manila 1907. A sample daily menu for the 2000 or so students: "two kettles chicken soup with macaroni, 300 pieces of pandesal with salmon, 100 slices fried bread with mashed potatoes and corned beef, two freezers of milk ice cream, 600 square crackers, 100 pieces rolled jelly cake.

15. Consummatum est!" ("It is done!") were Jose Rizal's last word.

16. Palawan is geologically the safest province in the Philippines, away from volcanoes and earthquake faults.

17. Apo Hiking Society  was the first  foreign entertainment group allowed to stage a concert in Saudi Arabia.

18.  Paeng Nepumoceno was the youngest bowler to win the World Cup. He was only 19 when he ruled the event for the first time in Tehran, Iran, in 1976. He again won the World Cup in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1980, and a record third time in Le Mans, France, in 1992.

19. Anak by Freddie Aguilar was inspired by his 1 year old daughter Shiaianne.

20.  Over 50% of the country's estimated 800,000 ethnic Chinese (1.4% of the Philippine population) live in Metro Manila. Almost all Chinese immigrants to the Philippines were lower-class males, mostly from Fukien province of mainland China.

21.  Like the volatile it hosts, Taal Lake has a quirky history. Its waters were once upon a time salty, but now considered "fresh." Shark, in fact, were among it;s inhabitants until about 1940. There also have been tales of crocodiles being thrown thirty meters into the air during one of the volcano's more violent eruptions. Taal Lake's original name, by the way, was Bonbon Lake.

22.  The Tagalog slang kenkoy, for 'funny' or 'comical', derives from Kenkoy, the popular cartoon character created by Tony Velasquez for Liwayway Magazine in 1929. It was Kenkoy who introduced into our consciousness such terms as weitaminit, barok, and kolokoy.

23. Levi Celerio was the only Filipino musician ever featured on the U.S. television show That's Incredible! Levi Clerio, making music with a leaf. He reckons he has composed between 1,300 and 4,000 songs in a career spanning nearly half a century.

24.  Jones Bridge in Manila is the first cabled suspension steel bridge in Asia.

25.  Manila Hotel is the first air conditioned hotel in asia.

26. The world first saw the name "Filipinas: in official print in 1861 on gold coins bearing the bust of Queen Isabel II of Spain. the coins - in denominations of one, two, and four pesos - were minted in Manila.

27. Ben Villaflor was the youngest Filipino who become a world champion, he won the WBA junior lightweight title on April 25, 1972, in Honolulu, at age 19.

28.  The minor planet "Biyo", which has a diameter of four to nine kms. and was formerly called planet 13241, was named after Dr. Josette Biyo a teacher of Phil. Science HS. in Iloilo City who won the Int'l. Excellence in Teaching Award during the Intel Int'l Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) held in Louisville, Kentucky in 2002. The Massachusetts Intistute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory in the United States game the name.

29.  The Philippines was the first country to score a hundred points in an Olympic basketball competition. They defeated Iraq 102-30. The members of that team:
 

Coach: Dionisio Calvo
Players: Manuel Araneta
Ramón Campos
Eduardo Decena
Andrés de la Cruz
Felicisimo Fajardo
Gabriel Fajardo
Edgardo Fulgencio
Antonio Luis Martínez
Lauro Mumar
Francisco Vestil

30. Balut is not only popular in the Philippines. It is also popular in Cambodia and Vietnam.

 

 

 

 

 


   

Isang seryosong usapan

Mahirap maging isang pilipino, lalo na kung trabaho ang paguusapan. hindi ako nagiging nega o whatever pero ito ang totoo, masakit man pero kailangan nating tangapin ang katotohanang laganap sa buong bansa.

Hindi ka COLLEGE GRADUATE kaya wala kang lugar sa mga prime establishments ng bansa, pwede ka lang sa mga middle class business na alam naman nating mahirap umangat lalo na sa panahon ngaun ng taghirap. Minsan nga mahirap din kasi may college degree ka na nga, hindi ka pa makapasok ng trabaho, una munang tinatanong kung saang eskuelahan ka galing. Sus naman, kung nde din lang sa isang mamahaling eskwelahan at sa isang State U ka nangaling eh wala na, pahirapan na ng pagkuha ng trabaho. 

Sa isang fast food chain o pabrika lang ang bagsak mo kung ganito. Hindi ko sinisisi ang pilipinas, ang bansa ay isa lamang biktima ng mga taong naninirahan dito. Tao ang tumutuldok sa kung hangang saan ka pupunta. Oo inaamin kong nasa pagsisikap pa din yan, pero anong magagawa ng isang mamamayang tulad ko kumpara sa mga dambuhalang multi-national companies. wala diba.

Napakaraming kumpanya sa atin ang hindi tumitingin sa kakayahan ng isang tao, mas tinitignan nila ang back ground o ang STATUS QUO ng isang tao. Bakit ba sa ibang bansa nagsisiksikan ang mga pilipino?? Hindi lang dahil walang enough na trabaho sa pilipinas, dahil napakalakas ng discrimination sa atin kumpara sa ibang bansa.

Gaya sa bansa na kinalalagyan ko ngaun, merong mga pilipino na hindi nakatapos ng kolehiyo pero BIG TIME.. bakit?? kasi hindi dahil sa well compensated sila, isa lang un sa mga dahil pero BIG TIME cla dahil ina-acknowledge ng kanilang mga employer ang kakayahan nila hindi ang kanilang pinangalingan. Eh sa atin, 10 taon ka na sa trabaho, hindi ka ma-promote at ang isang galing sa prestiyosong eskwelahan na 6 na buwan pa lang sa kumpanya ang nakakakuha ng promotion..

Hindi ako bitter na tao pero kung laging ganito, pasasaan tau?

Oo.. PINAY AKO!!

Isang ordinaryong araw nanaman sa buhay ko.. eto walang magawa sa opisina.. naghahanap ng gagawin.. naisipan kong mag surf sa internet.. una nag titngin lang ako ng mga recipe.. parang feel ko kasing magluto.. pero habang nag
se-search ako.. may lumabas na filipina girls.. napaisip ako kung anong
napaloob sa search na ito..


Nagsimula akong magbukas ng mga websites at kung anong meron dito.. pero napaisip ako.. talaga bang ganon na ka talamak ang pagiging mail order bride natin.. napakarami nating mga kababayan ang mas pipiliing makapang asawa ng
isang dayuhan kesa mga kapwa pinoy.. ndi kio sila masisisi.. oo pagiging
praktikal ang dahilan ng iba kung bakit nila ginagawa ang mga bagay na ito..


Pero ang hindi ko maintindihan kung bakit kailangan nating huthutan ang matatandang dayuhan para sa ating mga pansariling panganagilangan.. napakaraming bumabatikos sa mga ganitong gawain.. pero talamak na talamak pa
din..


Napakaraming humahang sa kagandahan ng isang pilipina.. isa sa mga nabasa ko ang tanong na kung ang pilipina ay ang pinakamagaganda.. sus tinatanong pa ba un.. (joke).. pero kidding aside.. nde mo naman masasabi kung tayo talaga ang
pinaka maganda.. sabi nga nila ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ tumpak..
nde ko sinasabi sa mga ibang lahi na purihin ang itsura ng mga kababayan ko..
pero nde din naman siguro tamang pintasan ang pisikal na itsura natin..


Oo ang mga pinay maliliit, pango at kayumangi.. pero naisip nyo na bang lumibot sa asya at tignan ang mga karatig bansa ng pilipinas.. ang mga thailander, vietnamese at malaysian ay halos kamukha ng natin..HIndi ko
pinipilit ang mga taong magandahan sa itsura ng mga pilipina pero hindi ba nila
naisip kung nagagandahan din tau sa kanila.. (duh..)


Buti na lang nde na iisa ang batayn ng kagandahan ngaun.. dati pag maputi ka at matangka d maganda ka ka na.. buti lumalawak ang isip ng mga tao sa pagtingin sa kagandahan…

Katulad na lang ng model na si Tyra Banks.. prino-promote nya ang beauty with enthicity.. binubuksan nya ang isip ng kanyang mga televiewers na may iba’t ibang angulo ang kagandahan..

Kaya para sa mga pinay.. itaas ang bandilang kayumangi.. pilipino ka.. IPAGMALAKI MO!!!