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Gusto na mo tug--when he pulls his blanket--that is a signal for everyone to leave him alone--hahahaha. Ka cute pood si titoy uy.


"seriously, im sleepy. no more flash photography, brod Bran!" hahahahaha kalooy pood ni kai-kai


Mo obey jud na sija ni Dad


hahahahaha. The two of them are inseparable. Master and his loyal companion.

Baby pa sila....hahaha..top center...mao na sija.


Na tug pa si gamay-titoy


hmm this was when Kaiser boy was still 5 months old..na daku jud na sija kai i-pa kan-un man gud na siya ug pork ug cooked meat. Ug i pa hand fed man gud na sija. My dad fed him personally---ahahaha---and na dako jud si Kaiser!
Here he's chewing on a bone. LOL. He was still teething :PP


Baby pa lagi...hahaha. Ahong little German Sheppard puppy.


Ka tug-on na lagi, hahaha.


Dako dako na jud...he still tried to sleep in his little bed. When he was still 7 weeks old--he could fit into that bed--b/c furball pa man to siya..hahaha


Dad teaching him. He is like a son to my dad. Actually--he knows when my dad comes back from work. Mo bark jud na sija--but a 'longing' bark--gusto man na siya mo duwa with my dad--hahaha.


Sus. Cute ra kaayo..hahahahahaha. People are usually amazed how docile Kaiser is--for a 100 lb full breed German Sheppard---he's pretty friendly (most of the time  )

that is such a lovely picture, 'te Belle! So cute!

Salamat

Mike, what is an OJT?

Much salute to Ate Ethyl because she is a Pharmacist, and is part of a noble profession that provides much needed prescription drugs to patients who are diabetic, immunosuppressed etc. The lives of many are in your hands

Much salute to Ate Belle because she is a Registered Nurse, like my parents, and are the work horse of the medical care industry. It is the nurse who nurtures the patient, absolute and total care--from the state of death--to the state of life. I know Ate Belle and other nurses here in TB have saved countless of lives, many young, many old etc, and I give so much respect to all of you guys. Either you are an Intensive Care, Critical Care, Medical Surgical, Operating Room, Emergency Room, Pediatric nurse etc..patients recover because of you guys. 10% of the American health industry rests in the hands of the Filipino nurse/physician.

Thank you so much. For all your contribution and for all the things you do. More power to you all!

That is so adorable! Aww...

ayyyy..luuy pood no?
Yea thats one thing that I find very alien towards Filipino culture at times is the superstition that still permeates in the rural community. I'm way too Americanized in the manner of thinking and for me to try to comprehend it is nearly impossible. All these talks of diwatas, inkantas, wakwaks etc...
I told my mom that before and she told me but she still believes in spirits in the Philippines. The 'old' country. Who knows--maybe there might be some truth to it..maybe there isn't, but I sure do not believe in it.

It is interesting to listen to the stories tho because I can't help but smile as I bear witness to the cultural  beauty of Filipino oral folklore. Clearly tho these stories show the old pagan and animistic belief sytems of our people of pre-Pax Hispanica. I appreciate its cultural integrity, but do not recognize it as a truth.

Do your kids understand a little bisaya? speak a little bisaya?

haha ka cute pood uy. So mo pur-pur pood na si Louie sa rabbit?
I know my friend's cat purs all the time. Its actually pretty freaky looking...

With distrust? With trust?
With fear? With respect?

I'd like to know..

Very Filipiniana beauty, Julai.
Filipina jud imong beauty.

Hahaha that what I was thinking. Because even my aunt, my mom's sister, doesnt really hold on to the kind of superstitions that my parents hold on to. Its very interesting tho because they're medical professionals and its not like they can explain their superstitions scientifically--but they hold on to it anyways.

One other example was this summer we went to central Pennsylvania to sight see the Amish region, and visit the historic train stations. We stayed at an Indian-owned hotel and my parents were angry at me because I recommended we stay at the hotel (note that most of the other hotels were already booked or occupied)--and when my mom and I went to the register to pay for the two rooms--my mom immediately noticed that the Indian lady who was servicing us had a black dot on her tongue. I dont know why, but when we went back to the car--my mom told my dad this and they both were angry. Something about people with black dots on their tongue--I dont know. All I know was that I was really annoyed at how they were treating me--as if it was my fault that we were staying in a hotel that was owned by a woman who had a black dot on her tongue. What is the importance of that black dot anyway?
All I know is that the next day when we drove off, my mom and my dad told all of us to brush our arms, our heads, our faces, and our shoulders. It was ridiculous. As a scientist and as a realist---I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Maybe you guys can explain to me about the meaning of brushing one's arms, torso, face and shoulders after leaving an area that was owned by a person who had a black dot? Please. I'd appreciate it.

Quote from: C2H4 on December 06, 2007, 09:02:36 AM
Ms BeLLe,

H2O2 is Hydrogen peroxide (agua oxigenada)...

that's what I think, I'm not sure though...



let's ask dodong...

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My day was good. I saw one of my favorite customers from my previous job, Mr. White...he's such a sweet old man. He always asks me if I pray my rosary, I see him with his wife at church when I hear Sunday Mass, but I don't get to talk to them much.

Yup. Hydrogen Peroxide.
HNO3 is Nitric acid.

I'm finally done. Now the easy part. I get to use the photo-electric spectrophotometer.

Hows everyone doing btw?

Ate Ging, im so sorry for the death of Kristy...kaluuy pood

'te Belle, so mo duwa diay na si Louie with the rabbit? haha ka cute pood. Dili mo attack si Louie sa rabbit?

Quote from: John on December 06, 2007, 07:59:04 AM
but do you believe about the punsoy.
Just like if you construct a new house before you will start for everything kailangan ipa- punsoy ang lugar.

Thats one thing that I observe that my parents carry. When our house was still under construction back in 1995, my father would take us to the developmental site and I can remember being a 11  year old walking with him as he inspected the base and the construction (note that my father was very concerned about the structural integrity and would interfere to input his views---as he was a veteran Civil Engineer--and for years was a Supervisor for a civil engineering firm in Riyadh--so he carried that mannerism). But despite this, my father was very superstitious about things--same with my mother. They both placed about 5 dollars worth of quarters in each corner of the base of the house as it was still being built. And even to this day--in each of our 6 bedrooms in our house--there are quarters in every corner. I don't know if this is a Filipino tradition, but that is one thing that does stand out.
My mom also practices Feng Shui--and arranges everything according to that philosophy.

I personally respect my parent's views, but one thing that I don't share is their superstitious nature. There is no biological and scientific explanation for it. But being my parents, I respect their actions no matter what, it is mandatory by the right of parenthood.

those are some beautiful pictures, 'te.

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My day has merely begun, to believe it. I'm currently in the lab right now--working in titration steps. That and grading student's lab quizzes (yay! lol). Im somewhat happy because at least I know that my students are finally mastering lab, graphing everything appropriately, for the most part. Above par work.

Right now im waiting--currently refluxing chemicals.
Just finished in quantitative transfer of sediment strata (.2 grams to the 10^-4) in a 125 mL flask and added approrpiate distilled H2O as well as concentrated HNO3 and ~30% H2O2. Its actually prectty cool because you can actually see predicated sample effervescence. I just finished doing 8 samples (it takes 3 hours per sample--but luckily our lab stall allows the preparation of acid digestion for about 5 samples). I'm planning to do another 4 or 5 more samples. Will be here for another--say...4 or 5 hours probably.

So yea. Pretty bored so far. Thank god TB is here )
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I'll look into it, 'te. Sounds really interesting.

@ the bar--last night was karaoke night. So draws the end of our 1st semester of senior year. One more semester guys!

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Lisa. Smile for me, babe. 


Lisa and Nicole.


Such a pre-law! lol


Bryan. Sing it, Piano man!...


All of us singing "Don't stop believing". Great time!!


hahahaha!

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and then we came back home and found Edwina building a table...hahahaha!






Such a hard working Filipina! LOL!!
"Edwina the Filipina" roflmao!

What a colorful life, Mari. Beautiful friends

Couple of summers ago, 'te, I went with my group of friends to South Street in Philadelphia and we went to this one kiosk that was some kind of psychic reader. As we entered the boutique, I immediately had a gut feeling to get out of there. I didn't go in. Though my friends went in to hear the psychic's words (she used tarrot cards, apparently)--i felt so sick to even consider going there. That psychic charged my friends 20 dollars each per reading. And from what my friends told me, the readings and 'prophesies' were absolutely vague. She told my one friend that a 'big change' will occur in her life, no duh, changes occur in every people's lives. I seriously cannot believe that people actually fall for these kinds of scams and lies.

Things happen because you let them happen. Specially these kinds of disgusting lies. Psychics, fortune tellers are mere professional liars.

There is no honesty in that profession.   

i agree, 'te.
Anyone who claims to have the ability to commune with the dead like John Edwards etc are liars and deceivers. People who go to those choose to believe and choose to swallow their lies. A desperate mind will make itself believe anything--they need some kind of rectification--and the devil's demons revels in the spreading of false truths for those who are in need. He is afterall the King of Lies, the Most Unholy, the great Protester--who so protested the hosts of heaven even unto God, day and night until he was cast down. And these fortune tellers and psychic readers take advantage of that psychological and spiritual weakness.

These are the worst kinds of people, in my opinion. Making money of other people's loss and mourning. May God rebuke them--may they be anathematized..

My message to everyone is that there is a Devil in the world that lurks and tempts men's souls to play with them in their time of despair. Be strong. Pain is part of life. Despair not, for time everlasting awaits us in our physical end.

Beware of false prophets and the heresies in their 'prophecies'.

2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Brother Mike Ligalig.

I learned alot from you, sir. You are a model for many Filipino youth.
Intelligent, religious, christian, family oriented, paternalistic, humble beyond compare, reticent, noble.

Quote from: grazie7y on October 28, 2007, 01:09:54 PM
That would be:  God, could you please erase the pain my family is feeling right now and please tell them I am safe with you?

By the way, has anyone of you read The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold? 

Tell me more about this book, 'te.
Im interested.

Just watched a great movie this weekend.

"Awake"

Its amazing. Medical conspiracy.

Quote from: ms da binsi on December 05, 2007, 06:13:22 AM
My dear Louie is having colds right now and making too much acheeow!!!

he is resting a lot... ang animals kabalo gyud nga ang best remedy sa illness is only REST...

so kita fefol take note...Rest usahay ha para dili mag sakit...

How old is Louie?

haha. di ko pre, di man ko ing ana. amigo-amigo lang ta ha'?
Sige pre, ajo-ajo ka diha. Happy Holidays~

Little Drummer Boy

by Boney M.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rx2g2Crjm8


Lyrics...
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Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum
A new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pum
Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum
To lay before the King, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

So to honor Him, pa rum pum pum pum,
When we come.

Little Baby, pa rum pum pum pum
I am a poor boy too, pa rum pum pum pum
I have no gift to bring, pa rum pum pum pum
That's fit to give the King, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

Shall I play for you, pa rum pum pum pum,
On my drum?

Mary nodded, pa rum pum pum pum
The ox and lamb kept time, pa rum pum pum pum
I played my drum for Him, pa rum pum pum pum
I played my best for Him, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

Then He smiled at me, pa rum pum pum pum
Me and my drum.

Luckily no one was killed in the car. The horse, unfortunately, died on impact.

LOL!! Pare, you know im going to be going to Florida sa Spring Break

I love this thread! Teach us more Japanese, Ms. Orchids.

hahahahaha! i like that one, Mr. Barb

Quote from: grazie7y on December 05, 2007, 07:29:18 AM
hahahha ug naay magpalayas nato dong, bisan di ko waray, ma ahat ko'g ka waray hahahahah!  joke lang.  good girl bya ko - usahay hehehehe

Adtin, ajaw na pag bad boy diha.  peace na tanan!  Migo bya ta gahapon so migo pod ta karon!

hahaha! hahahaha! katawa ko sa imong jokes, 'te uy!
Thanks for brightening my day, yo!

Psalm 40:10
I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and salvation. I do not conceal your love and your truth from the great assembly.

As I enter House of God, the sky smiles down at me 

Going out for a snow expedition


Oh Fair Allegheny...Yonder above the Hill...
Gloria Beatissima, O My Fair Alma Mater..


Following the trail


Ford Chapel in the distance, as the snow falls..


No! No picture of ME!    


Caught red handed! lol. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsK8TK9dtFc

Mr. Jun Ayag,

How are you, sir? I missed you

Hope all is well over there.

Because the Lord God is pure Love, he graces us with friends we meet in our life. Though they may leave us, they never truly are gone. For the Lord gives and takes. All return to Him.

O Lord, thank you so much for the gifts and the graces that you gave me---my friends----and my family. Lord, who so formed me in my mother's womb---and knew my name before I was even named, salamaat kaayo for the amigos you sent my way---to brighten my day. To keep me on the straight and blessed path.

How Great Thou Art, Lord....

Ah pero thats the thing, Pare. Sometimes--i get too sensitive. Di man jud ko mo show sa ahong sensitivity--pero naa man jud na. Only thing we can do---is to grow thick skin. No?

hahaha..interesting..

Quote from: grazie7y on December 05, 2007, 05:09:26 AM
hahahahha Kujaw diay pod imong Mom masuko Dong ba?  Si Mommy, karon lang namo ma realize na unimaginable iyang life.  At age 30, she already had 12 children tapos another one when she was 34.  Nah hala, makasuk-an na ta ani Dong coz we are so OT.  basin naay mo singgit, Layassss!!! hahahahahaha

hahahaha! ug mo singit sila, mo layas na lang ta, 'te.
Hahahaha OT na jud...hahaha

Sweet.

Quote from: grazie7y on December 05, 2007, 04:41:07 AM
Maayo pa mo Dong kay pangutan-on mo kon gusto ba mo "hapakan" kami dretso Dong hampak!  Ang kasakit pa kay kami nag bagos (clean) sa tukog (coconut mid ribs) unya kami pod ka una magamitan! hahahahha  But if our fights are grabeh na which only happens when Dad wasn't arround, my Mom would each give us sundang and would tell us, hala pagpatay mo kon gusto man diay mo mag sige'g away!  sus, tiaw, mahadlok mi sa sundang oi so mang hunong nami'g away dayon - sticking of tongue na lang dayon until friends ulit!

hahaha, your mom is very direct, Ate. Hadlok pood na uy. My mom rarely ever gets angry, thank God for that, but when she does----she will scream in such a high pitched voice. One time gani sa una--na suko si mom nako ning ingoon siya nako "Layas!! Ug di ka gusto dinhi Layassss!!". That would sting my heart 100 times more than my father's bakos because it came from my own mother. That is why, I listen to my mom--because she is very passive. But when she gets angry---she will get angry. Valenciana jud iyang personality--very looy looy--and open. Pero ug ma suko na---ma SUKU jud. lol

A question to Ms. Orchids.

What kind of sakes are out there? Is there a sweet? sour? dry (almost like amontillado)?

Hmm....the fact that I enjoy drinking classic Hennessey Cognac or Courvoisier Cognac with friends while enjoying a cigar. Socializing over time--and enjoying company--and talking about the market trends and politics. lol. That and I've been told that I have a very 'dry' sense of humor.

I act way too mature for my age. Is it good or bad? 

Love is truly arbitrary.

tennis rackets? lol

mao ba? na buhi diay ang rackets nimo, pre?

Aramis Musk.
I love it..

hahaha mao ba, pare?

sleeping on your side helps.

Right now. Golf.
Pricey, but very dark casual. It sets a professional feel.

Hahaha this thread is hilarious!

My appetite for life. I always like to try something once.

We only live once. Diba?

LoL! You know me, Ate, I'm very direct and blunt.
To the point jud

Love is arbitrary, in my opinion.
I can live without 'love', so long as I have a caring wife, and many many children to keep me happy.
I'm a simple man in that regard.

hahahahaha! ah kai sexy man shya in her panties
Silk red jud to iyahang favorite.

Oh another thing!!!!!!

My x-gf was a clear example of this. Yea, I dont like it when women have to bring their boyfriends to the lingerie store (in my case, Victoria's Secret). Yea..i dont see a purpose for it. What I didnt like was when she would take my hand and make me hold her hand when she went into Victoria's Secret store to look for thongs or panties etc etc. Yea...it was really embarassing--for me that is--because other guys would look at me going into that store..........ngek!!! So very emasculating....

LOL!

Shoot i remember one time when my gf at the time tried out the panties that she wanted to buy---so she went to the fitting room in Victoria's Secret and left me alone! BY MYSELF in that store! Yea..it wasn't good because i was standing in the panty hose section and there were older women looking at me...hahaha they probably thought i was shopping there or something
But yea..i was happy when i got to go in the fitting room tho ....

haha i wish i had the guts to ask a woman that in our first date. But in all reality, i would probably get a good 'kneeing' to the groin.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Cute.

Hahaha!

Unfortunately for me, when I was being stubborn or detracted myself from what I was supposed to do, I felt the cold lash of my dad's belt. Firm jud na si dad. That is why we evade trying to get him angry, hahaha, even to this day, I still fear my father's temper because I know that he is a very powerful man. He made me, and he can take me out.

Opposite diay ta, 'te. It was my Boholana mom that I ran to for protection from my dad's 'bakos' hahahaha!

haha reading this thread brings memory of what my dad used to say to me and my sister when we were still very small children (note* that when I was about 6 or 7 years old, my sister and I would always fight or quarrel because she would like to follow me and do what I do--and I--being an individualist, never liked being followed or copied-copied...hahaha)
But yes, I distinctly remember it being Christmas Eve and my sister and I were in our usual fights..then my dad came over and with his thunderous and powerful voice said to us, "Ug mo away-away pa mo duha dinha, I-hapak-on jud mo nako 'ron. Gusto ba mo i-hapakan??" We answered in total fear, "Dili, daddy".

And he would widen his eyes and show a glimpse of his Waray-Waray blood and say, "Tug Namo. DALI!"

Hahahaha...

Well said, Ate Ging.

But after reading that I can't help but ask this question:
"What is Love, really?"
For me, Love is arbitrary..

Wow. Most of them are Chinese or part Chinese.

 Sige Sige. Tama na. Amigo ug Amiga bitaw ta tanan dinhi, diba?
Pa ajo ajo na lang ta uy, kai hapit na raba pasko hahaha! Gamay ra man ni uy, ayaw na ta pa awayaway, ha?

Smile Smile!! Laugh Laugh!!


Pa ajo ajo lang ta tanan..

A number of factors explain how the Filipinos managed to survive those decades of strain and stress of the Hispanic-Dutch war. Underlying all these factors, however, is the comparative mildness and the gradualness of the ecological and demographic changes issuing from the conquest. In this fundamental respect the post conquest situation in the Philippines differs markedly from that in sixteenth century Mexico. The initial Spanish impact on the Philippines was unquestionably less painful than on Mexico. The conquest of the islands was relatively pacific. Few belligerents were killed in military and post military operations, a fact which contrasts with the massive loss of life in the conquest of Mexico. In addition, the Spaniards were never attracted to the Philippines in such numbers as they were to Mexico. There was a recourse the obstacle of distance, but there was also the absence of mining and hence the prospect of quick and spectacular wealth.

No mining industry ever developed in the islands. The mining of precious metals on a massive scale would have caused an intensive economic revolution, as it did in Mexico. There were precious metals in the Philippines, but they were not discovered and systematically exploited until the twentieth century. Had these mines developed in the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries, Spanish colonization might have assumed a fundamentally different character. As it happened, the small Spanish colony largely consisted of merchants, civil bureaucrats, soldiers and the clergy, for these activities corresponded to the only vested interests of Spain in the islands. Metallic wealth, on the other hand, would have attracted thousands of Spanish colonists. Vast numbers of Filipinos would have been conscripted to operate the mines, which in Mexico was one of the most grueling forms of exploitation the Indians had to endure. Thus the absence of mining in the Philippines intensified the evolutionary character of the transition from preconquest to the Hispanic periods.

An increased Spanish population in the islands as the result of a mining industry might have also caused miscegenation on a large scale, and the Philippines might have become a mestizo nation, as did Mexico.
Mestizaje was ordinarily confined to the Manila area, for few Spaniards except the clergy and a handful of bureaucrats settled in the provinces. Even in the capital Filipino women were more often the mistresses than the wives of Spaniards. In those days, mestizo and illegitimate were synonymous terms. In addition to informal unions between Spaniards and Filipinos, there were also various mixtures resulting from miscegenation with the Chinese community as well.

Evolutionary Character of Ecological Changes

The Spaniards invariably accused the Filipinos of indolence. A frequent complaint was that they would not voluntarily grow a surplus. Such an argument was, in part, a Spanish rationalization for coercion. Actually compulsion in the form of the polo and the vandala become necessary not because the Filipinos lacked industry but because the Spaniards would not adequately reward them for the toils of their labor. Although the preconquest Filipinos never were surplus farmers, they might easily have been induced to become so if the Spanish had paid them fair prices for their products. Since the Spaniards would not do so, they had to force the Filipinos to grow a surplus. The vandala was an ill-camouflaged form of confiscatory taxation. That it produced results may be partly attributed to the bureaucratic system of enforcement extending down tot he village level. Every cabeza de barangay, for example had his annual quota. There were yearly allotments for rice, fowl, coconut palms, and the abaca plants. When these quotas were not met, fines were imposed on both native chieftains and the Spanish officials by the Royal Crown. The pivotal regions that produced such crops were in the central heartland of Luzon as it was known as the 'rice basket' region by the Spaniards. In the Visayas, it was panay with its dense population that produced rice crop second only to that of central Luzon. Panay's surplus was apt to move southward rather than northward. Panay served as the base of operations for supplying the fleets and garrisons for Mindanao and the Moluccas farther to the south. Cebu with its mountainous terrain was plentifully supplied with game, but it had to import rice from the neighboring islands of Leyte, Samar and Bohol.

Although the Spanish regime sponsored a significant transformation of the Philippine agriculture, the basic pattern of preconquest food production, based on the cultivation of rice and root crops, fishing and the raising of fowl and swine, was not overthrown. The agricultural innovations of the Spaniards were more of a quantitative than of a qualitative nature. Notable changes occurred as the result of the introduction of new crops and weeds, many of which were first brought to the Philippines from Mexico on the Manila Galleon.

((more to come))

Enjoy the read, guys. 

My view:

Marry for the woman's intellectual beauty, her physical beauty, and her god-given motherly abilities (fertility) hahaha! Marry her for her conservativeness and her love of family.

If she doesn't meet this basic criteria, then toss her.

Taste, but do not swallow.

From me to you, Hazel.

Happy Birthday, big sis!


hahahaha! ayaw pa suko ha! joke ra ba..

lol i cant sing for anything. really im always off tune.
Hahaha sigoro ma matay ahong kumpadres when i start singing that song the next time we go out.
Ngek..lol!

LoL! Yes, but of course, yours truly is a very proud Pinoy
I bought it at our local Pinoy store in New Jersey, 'te. I got that thing for about 5 bucks.
Im sure maka palit ka ana sa local store dinha? diba?

haha i never heard of that song, but im trying to sing that right now, Ms. Orchids.
I wonder how the tune goes..

My heart aches. It brings the realities of war, and more of the reason why these terrorists must be sifted and brought to justice.

Another form of the Jota, this one is of Bisayan version (cebuano, if I'm correct).

The dance and movements are clearly an exact copy of the Spanish Boleros during the late 19th century. Beautiful. Regal. Filipino.







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Spain's lasting regal influence..




Exceptionally beautiful.

Good thread

East meets West.

The gentle carabao..


The ancient friend.

Something about winter--brightens my day.

Driving.

Aguy....i feel like a dried pancake. I'm done with my paper 24 pages done and at least 9 cups of coffee.
Good night guys! time to sleep.

Well said. Amen!

Some pictures of how the Spaniards categorized the people in the Philippines. (based on racial status)
*This may be offensive to some of you, but it is best to understand how history was like, and the contemporary philosophies that were accepted. Clearly, it is obvious that in the Philippines, the Spaniards applied racial darwinism into effect. The same way as how the Americans utilized it as well during the early 20th century after the cessation of the Philippine-American War. Remember that history is brutal, ruthless, and true. The better we understand history, the more likely we will evade in committing the mistakes of the past. *


La familia de Indio Filipino (Native Filipino family)


Hispanole (Spaniard creole, most probably part of the bureaucracy)

In the contemporary times of the 19th century, there was the idea of the Hispanole (Spaniard) innately superior to the Indio (the Filipino) and that it was the Spaniard's moral authority to spread christianity, science, western thought, and romanized alphabetics to the percieved inferior heathen natives. This was the same view that the Spaniards had of the Indios of the New World as well (present day Mexico, central america, columbia, venezuela, peru, argentina, paragay etc). This philosophy of racial thought, this racial darwinism wasn't limited to the Spaniards at all; the same views were regarded as truth in Great Britain (which at the time also ruled over its Indian colony, Africa and parts of Malaya, the French, the Dutch, the Germans etc. It was a phenomenon in European states that were active in Empire building. 

Beautiful! So elegant..

definitely is.

heres another one:

"Just A Friend"

by Biz Markie and Freddie Scott

http://youtube.com/watch?v=doOnk4lxorA&feature=related

Its rather amazing if one looks at the dances in the Philippines, particularly the Jota de Manila, one can observe the indisputable Spanish influences in our dances. The beauty of cultural mixing and cultural borrowing.

Spanish Versions:





The Spanish dance called Ilse Liepa; popular dance in Borgos, Spain and in southern Spain (Cordoba region)


The Bolero Dance; native of Madrid. The heartland region.


Modern day Bolero

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Filipino Versions:


Original Moro Dance (pre-hispanic styles)


Hispanified dance




Jota de Manila; clearly very similar to the Ilse Liepa.

Portrait of Jose P. Rizal as a student in the Universidad Central de Madrid in two courses - Medicine and Philosophy and Letters. On June 21, 1884, Rizal was awarded the degree of Licentiate in Medicine. The next academic year, he passed all subjects leading to the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

Hahaha! I too want to visit the land of Conquistadores. The land of Legaspi and the colonizers. To breath its own air and to be with the people that influenced the Philippines that it is today. Rizal loved Spain, even to his dying breath...

Think about it, our great nationalist loved Spain so much that he wrote his last poem Mi Ultimo Adios in the Spanish vernacular (in castillian) and not in his native Tagalog.
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On that note, I'd love to visit the Spanish Cortes and the Royal Palace.

Salamat kaayo for this information, Ms. Orchids.

Unbenownst to many Filipinos is that Jose P. Rizal, the most celebrated man in the Philippines, remains a notable person in Spain to this day. He is celebrated as a great thinker, a nationalist, an a noble 'son' of the Spanish Empire. Rizal's spirit not only lives in the Philippines and in the minds of the Filipino, but also in Spain. Afterall, Rizal, throughout his entire life, had respect and adored Spain. He referred to Spain as 'Madre de mi patria' or 'Madria Espana' (Mother of my country/ Mother Spain) and befriended Spanish politicians and publishers during the late 19th century in the cause for Filipino empowerment and enlightenment.

Rizal returned to the Philippines, against the wishes and the protests of Spaniards for fear that the Civil government in the Philippines would harm Rizal. Rizal knew full well of the consequences of returning to the Philippines, against the wishes of his Spanish friends and compatriots. (Note that during this time, Spaniards themselves were in a social revolution that wanted to liberalize itself from--inside out--many Spaniards at the time didn't even know of the conditions that the Filipinos were living under, didn't even know that the Filipinos were being persecuted and raped in their own land by the Monastic prelates, and the friarships)

It was Rizal who opened the minds of the Spanish intelligentsia that the Filipino people, who have been united with Spain for almost half a millenia were being treated and ruled against the humanitarian standards that the Spanish Cortes declared throughout its realm, Spain and in its territories abroad. Rizal died for his convictions, and that is why we celebrate him today. Forever. Spain too was not deaf to the news that its beloved son was executed under auspices of the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines. To this day, Spain still celebrates the life, death, and works of Jose P. Rizal. He remains in Spanish text books as a Hijo del imperio de España

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historic street in Madrid, Spain.
One of the areas that Rizal stayed in in his studies


The Monument to the "Hijo del imperio de Espana". Spain's monument to Dr. Jose P. Rizal.

Mao ba? and it is original?

hahaha!

Even tho I am here in the United States--deep inside of me--my natural homeland, my natural habitat are those basaks in the picture I posted. My grandfather, and his father, and his great great great grandfathers before him all worked in the basaks of Valencia, in Anda, in Tagbilaran.

In my father's side, my entire family owned land and rice land and worked their fields. For generations.
That is why sometimes I feel like i am empty inside--i do not feel complete--deep inside of me.

I long to work in the field or at least want to go back and step on those lapok lapok--to touch the rice field with my own hands. To sweat under the sun and work. It is my and our natural habitat.

Beauty of simplicity. The beauty of the Filipino.

You know its very amazing of the mastery of our people in sea travel. Do you know that the people of Hawaii are said to have descended from the Filipino. Actually, the chamorros of Guam, the people of Palau and most Polynesians are related to the people of the Philippines. Our languages are similar. We speak a form of Malayo-Polynesiac language: Tagalog. The Bisaya language is more Malay based (austronesian--in anthropologic terms). The people of Pampanga have very similar words with Polynesian words.

Our ancestors colonized the pacific---populated Guam, Palau, Marianas and Hawaii. Even before we arrived to the Philippines, our ancestors came from what is now southern Thailand in Peninsular Malaysia. And as a people--we colonized the entire Malay Archipelago (all 20,000 islands of indonesia, malaysia and philippines) in 3000 years.

It is true when the Chinese regard the Filipino people of ancient times as "Warriors of the Seas".

Yes. These children posted in these photos are probably our great great great grandfathers.
The woman in the first picture is the wife of the Great Sr. Dr. Jose P. Rizal. The second portrait is of a Mestizo family (the wife is half spanish, half indio) and (the husband is also half spanish, half indio).


What I find very interesting in reading these kinds of relationships are the manner of  their procurement:
1. It was typical for a Spanish man to marry a mestiza Filipina (either half spanish or part spanish)
2. It was rather typical as well for Spanish women to  marry a Mestizo man (half or part spanish)

However, it was very uncommon (but not impossible) to find a pure Spaniard who married a pure Indio (pure Filipina). And the manner of the ethnicities were also racialized and had their own status in society.

The echelon of Filipino society ranked as follows:
1. The Peninsulares (the pure blooded Spaniards who were born in Spain and given land titles, or were appointed to military, bureaucratic positions in the Philippines)
2. The Creoles (pure blooded Spaniards who were born in the Philippines--nonetheless caucasian)
3. The Mestizo Filipino (half spaniard and half indio)
4. Filipino Indio (pure blooded Filipino malay)
5. Filipino Chinito (half filipino indio and half chinese)
6. Chinese (were considered lowly in spanish colonial times; were despised and looked down upon by Filipinos and Mestizos and Spaniards)
7. The Negro. (the aeta or negritos)

One great admirer of 'Las Islas Filipinas de Oriente' was His Majesty King Alfonso VII of Spain.
King Alfonso initiated the legislative orders in the Cortes to allow greater trade with the Philippines and English territories of India, Hong Kong, as well as requested the Governor General in the Philippines to send more Filipino students to Spain---by which to assimilate the Philippine colony. King Alfonso had a view of making the Philippines an 'entrenched' Spanish Province. However, the very taste of liberty that he allowed the Filipinos experience gave fruits to dreams of 'independence' not 'entrenched union' with the Spanish Motherland.

The very means of 'liberalizing' the education that Alfonso VII was a proponent led to the rise of men of Jose P. Rizal and countless hundreds of Filipinos who were educated in European Enlightenment, democracy, socialism, revolution. And brought it back to the Philippines. And spread like a wildfire throughout the entire country.


His Majesty, King Alfonso VII of the Kingdom of Spain.
A lover of the Philippines. And indirect player that led to the culmination of Philippine Independence Movement.

Model of a Philippine-built ship used for trading around the archipelago. MN Before the Spaniards arrived, the Philippines had a trading life of their own, and this was based on a system of bartering. The natives traditionally used the canals and river creeks to communicate with one another within a given area. During the 19th century, indigenous trading continued along much the same lines as it had done from the 16th century. Beyond the immediate area of the archipelago, the greater part of trading operations were carried out with Borneo, China and Japan.

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Greed. One of the seven deadly sins.