It's been a while since the last time I heard those sweet words coming out softly from your lips.. For so long, I've been longing for those immortal words..
How ironic I get my strength from my weakness. You're just simply the best I ever had. (though you're not officially, technically mine.hehe)
Ang tsokolate pag nainitan, nalulusaw. At pag nalusaw, mahirap ng ibalik pa ito sa dati nitong porma at hugis.
Ang salamin, pag nabasag, nagkakalamat. hindi na maitatago ang lamat. At pag nabasag ito ng tuluyan, di na ito mabubuo pang muli.
Parang tiwala lang. haha.
I was doing a research on the competitors of T-shirt Project for our marketing plan, and found Francis Magalona Clothing Co. (FMCC). Their designs are mostly about the "3 stars and a sun", from our national flag's design. The shirts are nice and they actually promote nationalism in a way that would click to the youth nowadays. They promote that we should be proud to be "Pinoy" or "Filipino". I have nothing against their advocacy promoting nationalism. In fact, I myself is nationalistic in my own way and proud to be born in this race. But, to be called Filipino, is it really something to be proud of?
Let me justify my argument. Filipino, nowadays, means the one living in the Philippines (take note of the word nowadays). Well, based on my history subjects since elementary, our country's name, was named after the Spaniard's king then, king philip (or haring felipe? whatsoever basta ganun tunog). If it's that the case, we were named after our colonizers' king. And if we're proud to be called after our colonizer's king, it's like saying we accept being under them. For me, in my opinion, I think, in my own view, if we call ourselves after our colonizers' king's name, then we are not still an independent nation. We're still a colony of the spaniards, indirectly.
On his book Bonifacio's bolo, Ambeth Ocampo talked about what he learned about Andres Bonifacio's view about the nation. Bonifacio then was faulted for his nationalistic view. He was thought of as a narrow-minded chauvinist who just promote regionalism because of his call to the Tagalogs, as in "Dapat kumilos na ang mga Tagalog." In one of Bonifacio's pamphlets, he said "Pagkaisahin ang mga Tagalog." But also in his pamphlet, the word Tagalog is foot noted: anyone born and raised in the archipelago such that even if you are a Visayan, Ilocano, or Kapampangan, you are also Tagalog. So Bonifacio was not just referring to the Tagalog region. Katagalugan actually refers to the nation.
So where the heck "Filipino" came from? of course, from Filipinas, after the spaniards' king's name then. But there's more to it: Filipino, most of the time of the spaniards, was actually reserve for the insulares, the full-blooded spaniards born in the Philippines. Peninsulares, on the other hand, are the full-blooded spaniards born in spain. Pinoy we know today was then the indio. Later on, Tagalog was synonymous with indio because foreigners then confined to Manila and usually tour to Batangas and Laguna, which are still Tagalog regions.
So what am I really trying to say? Well, I'm proud to be born in this race, raised in the land of the 3 stars and a sun (true-blooded Pilipino nga kaya nakaisip ng konsepto ng bandila?), rrow to be an Archipelagoan (my own term for anyone born in the Archipelago.haha). But to be called Filipino, I'm uncertain.
I wish they came up with a different name that really suited our nation back when they declare our independence. (Or were we really freed?)
Nangangati na talaga ang kamay ko. Hindi ako nakapagpost last weekend kaya heto ako atat magpost. kung bakit hindi ako nakapagpost last weekend eh, ay dahil "nagdeclare ako ng sarili kong break" ika nga ni Duran. Yes, hindi ako pumasok sa kanya last weekend. So what kung umabsent ako ke Duran? Di naman niya ako mapapaligaya.hehe. Hindi rin ako nakapagpaalam ng matino sa nanay ko kung san nga ba talga ako pumunta. January 30-February 1, 2009, san nga ba ako pumunta? Anawangin cove sa Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales. Oha, kumpletong address. Anu ginawa ko dun? Nagtrekking ako ng almost 6hours para lang mkarating sa Anawangin beach (na pede naman 30-minute boat ride) organized by UP Mountaineers (sobrang friendly nila pramis!). bakit wala pa akong pictures? Kasi hinihintay ko pa magpost yung mga nakasama ko nun. Baka kasi hindi kapani-paniwala mga pics ko kasi wala ako halos sa mga pics. Syempre, wala naman talga ako kilala dun. Napasama lang ako. Tska sympre, yung lugar dapat kuhanan ng pics di ba, hindi ako kasi nga remembrance sa pinuntahan ko. Siguro mas masaya yung trip na yun kung me kasama talga akong barkada ko. Natutunan ko sa trip na yun: sumali sa grupo ng mga singles at wag sa grupo ng mga couples.
All in all masaya yung trip. Hindi ko lang napaghandaan mabuti--wala akong pagkain at toiletries--sorry na love (GL mike)! Sana makasama pa ulit ako sa mga open clim ng UPM (yun kung gusto pa nila ako makasama.haha)
Sayang wala ako masyadong pictures.=(
Ganu kaganda Anawangin? heto sample pic:
Sa nakalalamang babalik pa ko dun. Ganda eh.
Di ba ang ganda? Lalo pag sunset oh:
heto pa pic ng sunset para mapatunayang maganda
o tama na muna yan. tska na pag nakarami na ako naggrab na pics.
