Pin@y o Pin@y

Mga kandidato sa links

http://delisyusness.blogspot.com/
http://ilogennipeas.e-writings.com/
http://bulagtasan.blogspot.com/
http://tagaymopre.blogspot.com/

2006-04-02T12:34:00.000-07:00

The irony of a Kano Telling US bonr Pin@ys what constitutes Pin@y

Clueless Joe is an example of how Americans approach a problem.

1. State the nature of the problem.
2. Let me solve it according to my experience.
3. You can now rest.
4. There is no further need of dialogue.
5. I am correct and everyone else is wrong.
6. Critiques are not accepted.

Bwahhahahha. Yes, I, Joe Kano, by virtue of walking around in Visayas with my Visayan girlfriend can now tell a US born Pilipino what it means to be Pin@y.

Heheheheh.

2006-04-02T12:18:00.000-07:00

The Best Philippine Short Stories

http://www.sushidog.com/bpss/main.htm

2006-04-02T12:14:00.000-07:00

How Should a Filipino Speak?

In my quest to bring together writings by Pin@ys to attention to a wide audience, I'm going to use this blog to update my search from the internet of noteworthy writings.

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How should a Filipino speak?

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LETTERS FROM THE OUTLANDS By LAKAMBINI A. SITOY

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The Danes always need a little help in placing me within their social
framework. They want to know what I am, and why I am like this. They
ask me, "Where are you from?" and I tell them the truth, "The
Philippines." The question that inevitably follows is, "You speak
with an American accent; have you lived in the States?" A few people
actually assumed I was from the States.

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The Danes always need a little help in placing me within their social
framework. They want to know what I am, and why I am like this. They
ask me, "Where are you from?" and I tell them the truth, "The
Philippines." The question that inevitably follows is, "You speak with
an American accent; have you lived in the States?" A few people
actually assumed I was from the States.

So the strapping young people at Roskilde University (RUC) inquire, as
do the body-builder behind the counter at the gym, and librarians and
other professionals meeting me for the first time, and even one of my
teachers, whom I happily managed to have lunch with at the university
canteen after class.

I could shrug and say, "This is a Filipino accent. All my friends in
Manila speak like this," and leave them to wonder.

But I don't-not anymore-because the truth is, I have lived in the
States, as a child; and I do speak more fluently and with a slightly
more American inflection than most Filipinos, and after years and years
of worrying about it, I no longer feel I have to apologize for this
fluency, or be magnanimous about its obvious advantages, or be
embarrassed because I don't sound like a "true" Filipino, whatever
that is.

So I tell them the facts-the year in New Jersey when I was nine, and
the Americanized subculture of Silliman University in Dumaguete, where
I grew up. The school was founded in 1901 by missionaries; within its
boundaries American culture has always been something to aspire for and
acquire, even during the nationalist seventies and eighties.

The MA students at the RUC are taking a course in postcolonial
literature-a required course, not an elective-so they can
immediately contextualize American missionary education and understand
its impact on the Third World.

At first I found having to explain myself all the time quite unpleasant
feelings no doubt shared by many university-educated Filipinos who have
lived or traveled abroad. I have a choice, I suppose: I could say-"I
am from Måløv town, in København county," where I live at present.
But my politics doesn't run in that direction-wherever country I
choose to settle and, however long I stay, I will always define myself
as "from the Philippines," originally and at the present time.

Furthermore, I have come to the conclusion that their curiosity has
little to do with the novelty of a brown-skinned woman equipped with
good language skills, than with the global phenomenon of
Americanization and the ascendancy of English as a world language.
Danes are often remarked to be extremely proficient in English next to
other Europeans. They learn it in school at age 9 or thereabouts; my
classmates (most of whom are in their 20s) would probably have received
instruction in the language a bit later, at age 11 or 12.

For English, in Denmark, is both a second language to the populace and
a foreign language in schools-and as such, it is taught with the
strictest adherence to pronunciation and grammar. Only two kinds of
English pronunciation are accepted in schools-"British" and
"American." What constitutes proper British or American pronunciation
is material for an entirely separate discussion, but it has slowly
dawned on me that when youngish Danes compliment a foreigner for her
articulacy, they are doing so in the context of a strict school-based
system that grades their oral proficiency on a standard scale of 1 to
13, a framework in which they, too, are foreigners.

2005-11-25T00:29:00.000-08:00

Spanish Music

10:01 Concierto de Aranjuez Joaquin Rodrigo

2005-10-23T01:28:00.000-07:00

And the rest

Tagabukid has had its formatting gone gonzo:

Tagabukid in the City

Boyet has created a new blog:

boyet b

Imo's old blog:

i remember, i remember

backspaced ended her blog:

backspaced

Bopis ran out of things to say:

tekstong bopis

Silentwater got really silent:

silent water

Siqtie has not written since 2004:

sarisaring adbentyurs

2005-10-23T00:42:00.000-07:00

Continuation of Retirement Party

Lagsh's old site:
Visionary

Pinoy Expat:

filipino expatriate

TwentyTwenty: Got older: http://twentytwenty.blogspot.com/

Ligaw na Dagitab is also putting down his pen. http://dagitab.pitas.com/

It's too bad that these writers have ended. But, I should be trying to get others up into the fray.

2005-10-23T00:11:00.000-07:00

Retiring links

I'm going to be retiring some sets of blogs of people who have left their blogs or made it private. But I will post their links here, just in case they pick it up again. The point of karinderia is to gather the Pin@ys who write about their life in the world.

I'm retiring Valkyrie because she has not posted in more than a year. But just in case, here is her blog address:
http://valkyrieflight2.blogspot.com/

Jason is going private with his blog: http://dynatica.blogspot.com//

Prem is changing his priorities:
Prem's Blog

Bundok Queen has not written in a while:
Boondock Queen

Lagsh's old site:
Visionary

2005-07-20T07:30:00.000-07:00

Managed to find the Merman Chronicles. Alas, Sarisaring Adbentyurs seems to have closed up shop.

2005-05-29T18:00:00.000-07:00

http://markned.blogspot.com/

2005-01-25T20:54:00.000-08:00

http://www.pinoyblog.com/

http://lolaskitchen.blogspot.com/

2005-01-25T20:52:00.000-08:00

http://ruth.pinayexpat.com/

2004-10-11T09:03:00.000-07:00

What is Love?

Over the last few years, I have been trying to define and refine what I thought it was. Last night, as part of the couple counseling that we have to attend as Catholics, I saw a parallel of the things that I have concluded.

Love is not a feeling. It is not the feeling you get when you see someone you are attracted to. Instead, love is the commitment of two people to live life as one. It is the commitment to another person.

I like that definition. It does not mean that you will lose yourself in the other person. You can still be the individual that you are. You will have your own opinions and thoughts.

As part of the seminar/counseling, we also got to take a test about our relationship. The rate of divorce is 50% now. In the test, there were many questions about money. More questions than about sex. It kinda tells you that divorce can be traced to the practice of money.

2004-10-04T09:14:00.000-07:00

http://tusilog.blog-city.com/

2004-06-12T10:06:00.000-07:00

baklang manunulat: http://thegreatunwashed.blogspot.com/

2004-06-12T09:43:00.000-07:00

Manunulat ng Tagalog: http://sarikulay.blogspot.com/

2004-05-08T23:01:00.000-07:00

http://mavic.blogspot.com/

2004-05-02T12:52:00.000-07:00

Magaling: http://joey.reelpersona.com/

http://anonymuse.blogspot.com/

http://ayen.blogdrive.com/

http://aaap.blogdrive.com/

http://www.tabulas.com/~twistedxfactor

http://saints-avenue.blogspot.com/

From Sequel to Summons

http://www.tabulas.com/~shawarma/

http://www.tabulas.com/~angelnickie/

http://www.tabulas.com/~revolverroach/

2004-05-02T11:26:00.000-07:00

Hey, nocturnal angel is back!!!

Check her out!

2004-04-02T07:35:00.000-08:00

May tao ba dito?

Marcos: Misis? Mister? May bumibisita ba dito?

2004-03-20T08:17:00.000-08:00

bye bye adrenaline angel

adrenaline angel says goodbye.

2004-03-20T07:41:00.000-08:00

Cheating

I am cheating so that it will not erase this. Hmm, maybe I move the Pin@y Blog of the Day section over to this place? What do you think?

2004-03-20T07:40:00.000-08:00

Made a mistake

I am rechecking the links blog page. The other one got erased because I did not write on it beyond a one day entry.