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Post by Emily on Aug 8, 2008 3:17:23 GMT -5
hoy pinoy EANers! Tinikling na tayo!!  Pfft. My dance troupe's version of tinikling pwns theirs. Another thing I loved about the philippines: Super lame variety shows where the grand prize winner makes off with like $3 in gift certificates. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bx4QJaFgWkComing from the first world, it's both funny and sad. And each time I go back, its increasingly frustrating Oh, why did I know that it was going to be a wowowee link?  I'm kind of baffled as to why so many balikbayan like being part of the audience, hell even participating. Speaking of first world... it's sad that if given the choice between a cellphone load to text their textmate or food, many Filipinos choose to spend the money on the cell load. |
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Post by Roam'n on Aug 11, 2008 20:03:40 GMT -5
^ so true. On a packed bus ride to Baguio City, i saw almost every single person has a cell phone... but absolutely no one talking with it... they only text.
Another thing that tripped me out was seeing a grandmother driving a scooter... or entire families riding a trike.
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Post by joannenicole on Aug 26, 2008 3:11:41 GMT -5
^I once was ranted to by a particularly tactless drunk friend that there is a unspoken heirarchy of mixed asians - it went something like this: 1. Half Japanese, Korean 2. Half Chinese 3. Half Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnamese etc. 4. Half Half Thai, Indo, Malay etc. 5. Half Anything Else 6. Half Filo The same guy also exclaimed (this time high, and upon hearing that I was half filo): "Phillipina! I could trade you in for my play station!" What do you guys think?! Do Filos really have such a low standing amongst the other asian nations or is this as bullsh*t as my friend is? Some guy at my school told me that The Philippines was the Mexico of Asia, unaware that I am part Filipina and that he came off as a turd. Way to categorize two races at the same time. I hate idiots. |
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Post by shugi on Aug 27, 2008 11:48:43 GMT -5
^Well now you've introduced them to the thread! Ok, looks like we need a role call of the mixed filos then: Rob Jak Emily VirusLabRat Shugi SecretAsianMan Ethel (?) Juan Carlos Manilena I know I've forgotten some people... Although i'm 1/4. I am not 100% proud to back filipino culture up aslong as theres a mindset that has filipino or spanish together, because for me its assif there is seperate culture trying to sponsor a notion of a foreign administration that frankly didn't give a damn. however away from that particular culture issue im quite good with filipinos, my thoughts have a bit of depth on the mestizo issue but thats all I really want to touch on it, thats about as poltical as I'll get. |
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Post by juancarlos on Sept 4, 2008 1:24:43 GMT -5
Hello Flips,
Just wondering what region of the Philippines your Philippine heritage is from?
My family is originally from Bicol, but I grew up in Los Banos, Laguna before moving to l'Etats-Unis d'Amerique.
JC
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Post by LaFace on Sept 4, 2008 2:15:36 GMT -5
^Quezon City, Metro Manila.
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Post by Emily on Sept 4, 2008 9:52:39 GMT -5
^^ Santa Cruz, Zambales I spent a week in Los Baños this summer. Beautiful place. Was your youth spent telling and hearing legends of Maria Makiling?  |
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Post by buff on Sept 4, 2008 10:17:20 GMT -5
My family is from IloIlo and Quezon City and my relatives are all over Manila, Western & Central Visayas, and Zamboanga.
I had gone to a lot of field trips in Los Banos especially during summer to bathe in hot springs pool. It was always an awesome trip to the country side. I miss Buko pie, Espasol, and Pastillas and all other sweet treats. I hope Los Banos will not be developed into an urban concrete jungle as what I've heard has been slowly happening now.
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Post by Emily on Sept 4, 2008 11:24:35 GMT -5
Mmmm... buko pie.
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Post by toyomansi on Sept 20, 2008 4:50:58 GMT -5
The Philippine Army doing the Papaya Dance!
Must be the wackiest nation in the world... lol ;D
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Post by SecretAsianMan on Oct 29, 2008 2:54:29 GMT -5
I was at Dolce's in Quezon City last night (the "latest club") and like a bat outta nowhere, in the middle of the club-mix, they busted this out (DJ-ified) and everyone lapped it up Earth Wind & Fire - September www.youtube.com/watch?v=iknEJf9cPeY<snip> Yeah, Earth, Wind & Fire was in Manila earlier in the year. They've been playing this stuff all year long. Same with Duran Duran (their Red Carpet Massacre tour also came to Manila) and Air Supply. I happened to be traveling around the country in the following months (Cebu City, Iloilo, and Bora) and couldn't get away from that music -- everyone's playing that stuff everywhere for months thereafter. Thank God that I left ahead of Rick Astley's stop in Manila. I'm actually serious: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz1lTx_UyiI. FWIW, I was at Dolce's in July (it happens to be across the street from one of my favorite bookstores in Timog, Popular Bookstore):  Circle Café, which is across the street, had a great band that night as well (it's a couple of floors above the Gloria Jean's Coffee shop). |
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Post by jpeezy on Nov 20, 2008 11:03:23 GMT -5
Hello Flips, Just wondering what region of the Philippines your Philippine heritage is from? JC My mom was born and grew up in Roxas City, Capiz, but most of my relatives currently live in Iloilo. |
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Post by dolcedolce on Nov 20, 2008 12:02:36 GMT -5
jpeezy, you look more white than your father! lol I also think has has an EA look to him!
I'm also half filipino! So glad to find this thread I was acutally trying to search for an old half filipino one but for some reason the search feature on this site never works for me.. it only brings up recent, irrelevant posts =S Weird
My ex bf's mom was from Capiz... he went there this summer and despised it.. He said it was "ghetto as s***"... especially Roxas City.. Apparently it was impossible for him to call me from there, which may have been bulls*** on his part, but he kept going on about how" I don't understand how ghetto it is there"
My daddy is Ilocano from Pangasinan. His family actually spoke Ilokano at home instead of Pangasinan (the province is bilingual but people always expect that he speaks Pangalotok) (I don't think he knows it fluently) I think my aunt traced our roots from La Union. Any other ilokanos?
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Post by quiapo on Dec 4, 2008 14:18:03 GMT -5
Notice that he is an EX-boyfriend.
I was born in Quiapo, where my family is from, but grew up mainly in Cubao, Quezon City, with periods in San Francisco, California, and the UK.
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Post by LaFace on Feb 7, 2009 8:01:10 GMT -5
'Rin on the Rox' is an American female duo who became famous via youtube, doing covers of popular r&b songs. Ellen DeGeneres noticed them and had them on her show earlier this week, allowed them to perform, and then gave them tickets to go to the Grammy's as a gift.
Their youtube username is, 'hiphoprox'.
Rin (left) is Filipina, Rox (right) is Filipina/White.
Here are some of their clips:
Mariah Carey - We belong together
NeYo - Sexy love
+ 68 other clips as of this moment.
Unedited vocals, no mic, no visual effect haha.
Just all in good fun for youtube.
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