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Filipino-isms dat’s por me
by Jojo Santo Tomas from guampdn.com
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That’s what I don’t understand with some Filipinos. Why are they ashamed of being a Filipino? Click this and read examples of ridiculous Filipinos that will make you do back-flips. What is it with the Philippines that you suddenly get allergic to your own skin? If you are one of them, this are what you need to know: first, people don’t care where you are from, second, where in CNN or BBC …
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This is one of the entries that make me stick my head inside a pail and start shouting until I go deaf so I can hear my inner self answer brain-pounding questions about Filipino Cuisine. Maybe that’s the reason why I find myself rewriting and rewriting this post for the past 2 weeks. So I grab myself at the back of my head, squeeze whatever juice that comes out of it, and smudge them on these webpages. This is as difficult as poetry.
Maybe I’ll start with asking questions:
1. If you …
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Filipino Food Truck Rolls Out Manila Machine introduces Filipino cuisine via truck
Wednesday, 14 July 2010 08:44 Joseph Pimentel | AJPress
Image from Wikimedia Commons
I am really going to crack now. If you read the whole article, I know you will too. Let me enumerate the ways a list of big-shot Filipino chefs really blew it like a home-made scandal. I want you to picture me, having a tantrum, and if you see any phrases in bold, imagine me saying it in a very nyee nyee nyee nyee nyee manner.
1. …
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IT was one of those days that a day shouldn’t be… dark, gloomy and wet. The city’s filth flowed through the gutter as if a chopper squad sprayed metal to everything in sight.
I didn’t even know where I was. All I know was that the stench of butchered flesh was choked by the thick dense of the rain, you can easily identify that something got their belly ripped open and left their guts to spill. Everyone has knives with them here, even the babes. Huge knives that …
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From Wikimedia Commons, this is a picture of Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla, one of the best Filipino Painters of all time. He is of Chinese descent.
Let’s have fun learning some Chinese words that are mostly used in the Filipino language:
mami – a cougar, and by that I mean Demi Moore
toyo – a crazy person
petsay – a politican who spends a lot of money on his campaign but will never win
toge – a graduation gown
miki – a famous mouse
bakya – hmmm… a jejemon?
And here are a few chinese sentences for …