Why Did You Choose To Stay In The Philippines?

[Lorenzo]

Given the opportunity to leave the country, you denied it and preferred to stay in your precious Yutang Gi Tawhanan. What are the main reasons for it?

[Vistabel]

1st I’m comfortable to live the place where I raised.

2nd I can’t leave the small real properties which I own particular to those properties which I valued more, a properties inherited from our great grandparents. Who care of it if I leave?

3rd I have no chance to work and live abroad because I know my capability is not enough.

4th sa akong nakita sa TV walay tindahan sa abroad nga nag tinda ug Tuba malutas ko didto unya wala pod siguroi buwang/sabong sa abroad.

[Lorenzo]

1st I’m comfortable to live the place where I raised.

2nd I can’t leave the small real properties which I own particular to those properties which I valued more, a properties inherited from our great grandparents. Who care of it if I leave?

3rd I have no chance to work and live abroad because I know my capability is not enough.

4th sa akong nakita sa TV walay tindahan sa abroad nga nag tinda ug Tuba malutas ko didto unya wala pod siguroi buwang/sabong sa abroad.

That is an honorable reason, Vista. I admire and honor that.

~

Though I left the Philippines when i was but 5 years old, I have never lost my Filipino identity and have tried to hold on to my Bisaya manner of speech. I am proud to be Bolanon and my language, unlike some Filipino youth who just left the Philippines and within 3-5 years have already claimed to have forgotten how to speak Filipino.

Alot of Filipino-American youth are so ashamed of their Filpino identity and think it is 'unpopular' to be a FOB or have an accent. I think not. If it where not for our immigrant parents, we would not be blessed with a life abroad, or in the case of Americans, have our American Dream, a piece of the American Pie, so to say.

Luckily for us, my parents were very strongly linked to family in Bohol and tried to reinforce that aspect; the importance of one's ROOTS.

In that regard, I still am in Bohol Island, in spirit and through the web.

[Lorenzo]

1st I’m comfortable to live the place where I raised.

2nd I can’t leave the small real properties which I own particular to those properties which I valued more, a properties inherited from our great grandparents. Who care of it if I leave?

3rd I have no chance to work and live abroad because I know my capability is not enough.

4th sa akong nakita sa TV walay tindahan sa abroad nga nag tinda ug Tuba malutas ko didto unya wala pod siguroi buwang/sabong sa abroad.

You would be surprised how many Filipino restaurants and stores there are abroad. In North Jersey, there are over 60,000 Filipinos and there is a strong Filipino-Community here: Tagalog, Visaya, Illocano, Kristiyano, Muslim, etc.

There is a strong support group for those who recently immigrated.

As for Tuba, ....if there is none, we can just brew our own, ha. Our own little version of Pinoy-style Moonshine. ha ha
Give me a coconut and I will brew it for you. Ug ma bati, we can use it as suka. ha ha

joke.

[hubag bohol]

1st I’m comfortable to live the place where I raised.

2nd I can’t leave the small real properties which I own particular to those properties which I valued more, a properties inherited from our great grandparents. Who care of it if I leave?

3rd I have no chance to work and live abroad because I know my capability is not enough.

4th sa akong nakita sa TV walay tindahan sa abroad nga nag tinda ug Tuba malutas ko didto unya wala pod siguroi buwang/sabong sa abroad.

Naay sabong, Bay Vist, sa kadaghanan sa mga dapit nga naay Pinoy. Kon adto kas Antartica hinuon, aw, pwede tingali tudloan og sabong ang penguins, he he...