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From: rick@gamma.bellcore.com (Rick Martija)
Subject: Re: know any filipino stereotypes?
Organization: Bell Communications Research
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:24:57 GMT

In article <1e691qINNk8a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, vxv4@po.CWRU.Edu (Virgilio Velasco) writes:
|> 
|> In a previous article, c164-ad@po.berkeley.edu (Martin Guerrero) says:
|> 
|> >In article <1992Nov14.005246.2169@engage.pko.dec.com> garces_ro@uswrsl.enet.dec.com (JRG) writes:
|> >>
|> >>	Here's another good one that my girlfriend mentioned to me.
|> >>	Being from a different racial background she's wondering about
|> >>	it. Here it goes:
|> >>
|> >>	Filipinos always have a "tabo" in their bathroom. We all know
|> >>	that we don't need them to take a bath right. So, Iknowyouknow
|> >>	whatImean. 
|> >>
|> >
|> >Considering the drought situation and such in some areas of the U.S., I 
|> >think 'tabos' might actually be practical.  
|> >
|> >What do you all think?
|> 
|> They would.  Unfortunately, based on some conversations I've had with
|> Americans, it seems that many of them value their showers and tub baths
|> too much to resort to the good old 'tabo'.  Not surprising--they also
|> express surprise at the way I refuse to throw out my used (but intact)
|> Ziploc bags, or the way I always turn the lights off when leaving my
|> room.
|> 
|> What can I say?  It's a wasteful country.  (No flames please!  I mean
|> this as a mere observation, not an insult.)
|> 
|> -- 
|>     Virgilio "Dean" Velasco Jr., CWRU grad student & roboticist wannabee
|> 
|>    "Bullwinkle, that man's intimidating a referee!"    |    My boss is a 
|>    "Not very well.  He doesn't look like one at all."  |  Jewish carpenter.

I think you missed the real purpose of the tabo in the bathroom.  Ito'y
ginagamit natin panghugas ng... alam ninyo na.  Mahal ang toilet paper :-)

Rick
From: v128rsza@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Kage)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Original Pilipino Music?
Date: 17 Nov 92 20:57:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

First of all, Thanks to everybody who gave me advice on the tagalog songs.  

I went down to the local Pilipino store and bought an OPM album there.  I also
bought Sharon Cuneta's album and Manilyn Reynes'.  

I was curious, how many volumes of OPM are there and is it made originally for 
the sing along machine?  I have volume 2.  I also saw volume 4 but it wasn't 
by various artists.  Was volume 4 good anyway?

One thing about the OPM album, the way the songs are made, how come it sounds
so much different from top 40 songs from here.  I am talking, instrument wise.
When I was listening to the album, it sounded like an orchestra was accompanying
the singers.  Do they use electronic instruments there?  Like keyboards and 
electronic drums and such?  I hear them play the organ a lot.  Even Sharon 
Cuneta's old album "high school" sounded better.  

The songs on the OPM album, a lot of them sound the same.  I mean it isn't the 
type of songs that after listening to will run through your head.  It's not
catchy.  Now, I keep humming Sharon's "high school life..." and "Mr. D.J."

One last thing, the song SAIGO NO IWAKE?  The song is very good except which
version of the song?  I hear so many versions sung by so many different 
singers.  Who wrote it?  Ted Ito?  Does any of you remember the song "DA DA DA"
do you remember that though the words stayed the same, there were so many 
different groups that was singing the song?  Is Saigo no Iwake the same case?

All in all, I liked Sharon's album and Rey Valera's  "Kung kailangan mo ako" .
I've listened to that song for so many times and I'm not sick of it yet.  He
has a very nice voice.  I don't mind buying another OPM album though, sabik na 
sabik lang kasi ako sa mga kantang tagalog.

Thanks again...
From: 4dejesus_de@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: <None>
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:22:48 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

Dudes, I was making kuwento to my friends about
flip ghost stories and such...
y'know...mga dwende, white ladies and barrio myths.

And I'm kinda running out!

Know any good ones?

(Spare me the Candyman story, please?)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: pacs@leland.Stanford.EDU (Francisco Sandejas)
Subject: Talk of Dado Banatao Dec 4, 1992
Summary:  RSVP to pacs@leland.stanford.edu
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:21:10 GMT

Folks,

We are trying to get a feel for the number of people coming to the
talk of Dado Banatao on Friday Dec 4, 1992, 6:30-8:30 pm at
Stanford (exact room to be announced).  He will
speak on his experiences as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and 
discuss with us ideas on contributing to the Sci and Tech in the
Philippines, particularly directed to the well-trained people 
who can't seem to see a use for their talents back in the Philippines
as of now.

So please try to come. We'll try provide food (help is appreciated here)
you provide the brains.  Hopefully this will be the start of the 
Bay area's POGI (Pil Organization for Greater Industrialization).
Let's start the networking!  

Please tell me soon if you're interested in coming,
since we have to finalize the location of the talk.

paco

PS "POGI" is the name-idea of Marc Loinaz.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: mbernar@erenj.com (Marcelino Bernardo)
Subject: Re: Filipino proverbs
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering, Co.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:16:39 GMT

Here are 2 that I just remembered:

"Ang taong nagigipit
 kahit sa patalim kumakapit."

I interpret this to mean that one who is in trouble is likely to do
anything
regardless of the consequences.

"Huli man at magaling,
 Humahabol rin."

I guess this is equivalent to "better late than never".  

Marcelino Bernardo
mbernar@erenj.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: calima@clone.mcs.anl.gov (Odilio J. Calima)
Subject: nanawagan
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:38:14 GMT

  Kamusta sa inyong lahat! :-)

  I'm just looking for Caloy (?) our very own vocalnologist at UIC.
  I lost your email address.  Can you send me an email at
  	calima@earth.eecs.uic.edu.  

  I apologize to everyone.

  Odie
From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Farewell Festivities to US Navy Underway
Date: 20 Nov 92 16:22:37 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	OLONGAPO, Philippines (UPI) -- Thousands jammed the streets of this
former liberty city Friday as residents kicked off five days of
festivities to bid farewell to the U.S. Navy, which is leaving adjacent
Subic Bay Naval Base next week.
	``So long, Joe, We Will Miss You,'' read a placard carried during the
parade participated in by more than 10,000 people, including U.S.
servicemen at the base 50 miles west of Manila.
	``R.P. (Republic of the Philippines)-U.S. Friendship Forever,'' one
banner read.
	``Protect the base lands,'' said another sign hoisted by an Aeta
tribesman, referring to the massive looting at the former U.S. Clark Air
Base after it was turned over last year because of damage from a
volcanic eruption.
	The last 1,347 U.S. troops depart Cubi Point Naval Air Station inside
the Subic complex Tuesday, ending nearly a century of U.S. military
presence in its former colony.
	The troops retreated to Cubi in September after the United States
handed over most of the Subic base to Manila, which plans to convert the
facility into an international port and industrial zone.
	Washington's pullout from what was once its largest overseas military
base followed Manila's rejection last year of a treaty that would have
extended Subic's tenure for 10 more years.
	Olongapo Mayor Richard Gordon said the parade was part of a five-day
farewell program for the U.S. Navy, which had occupied the base, a
repair yard and logistics center for the Seventh Fleet, since 1901.
	Brass bands played as businessmen, bar girls, schoolchildren, office
employees, street vendors, local officials and former base workers
marched from a park to an open space in front of the base main gate
where a makeshift stage was constructed.
	At nightfall, the Seventh Fleet's 15-member brass band entertained a
crowd with Hello Dolly and other popular songs in its last performance
in the Philippines. At the backdrop was written in bold letters: 
``Farewell Subic.''
	``This is very sad on my part because I will be leaving behind my
girlfriend Ruby,'' said Carl Macpride, 24, of Sacramento, California,
who is among the last batch of soldiers to leave Subic on Tuesday
morning aboard the helicopter carrier USS Belleau Wood.
	``This is not a mourning on the part of the city of Olongapo,'' said
Gordon, who also heads a government agency tasked to turn Manila's
ambitious plans into reality. ``This is a challenge for us.''
	Rear Adm. Thomas Mercer, commander of U.S. naval forces in the
Philippines, said his two-year tenure in Subic was ``a fruitful and
cooperative one'' and described Filipino base workers as ``outstanding.''
From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Gov Proposes 5 Day Truce
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:21:39 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- An agency sert up to broker peace with
the country's three rebel groups recommended to President Fidel Ramos
Thursday a five-day cease-fire during the Christmas holidays.
	Haydee Yorac, head of the National Unification Commission, said the
unilateral suspension of military operations would last for two days
during Christmas and three days during the New Year.
	``We are hopeful that the silence of the guns this Christmas season
shall allow all of us to reflect on our personal contribution to
achieving a just and lasting peace in our country,'' Yorac said in a
statement.
	She added the truce would start at 12:01 a.m. on Dec. 24 and ends at
12 midnight Dec. 25. The New Year cease-fire would start at 12:01 a.m.
on Dec. 31 and end at 12 midnight Jan. 2.
	Ramos, who has sought to bolster his peace initiatives, has given the
green light for a unilateral suspension of military operations but left
it to the NUC to formulate the details.
	The NUC is trying to draw up a sweeping amnesty package for the
nation's three insurgencies -- communist guerrillas, right-wing military
rebels and Muslim separatists in the southern Philippines.
	Meanwhile, Yorac said the NUC was studying a request by U.S.
Ambassador Richard Solomon to exclude from the amnesty package communist
rebels involved in the killing of U.S. servicemen in the Philippines.
	``The NUC wishes to assure our people that the amnesty package that
shall be recommended...shall be consistent with Philippine law, public
international law and, above all, with the national interest,'' Yorac
said.
	A ranking army field commander, who spoke on condition of anonymity
Thursday, also slammed the U.S. request.
	``The Americans are not the main victims of this insurgency war,'' he
said.
	``We have lost our comrades in arms, others have lost their sons and
daughters and yet most of us will not protest if amnesty is granted to
the communist rebels.''
	At least 10 U.S. nationals have been murdered in the Philippines
since 1987, including U.S. Army Col. James Rowe, a decorated hero of the
Vietnam War.
	The killings were blamed on the 13,500-member communist New People's
Army, which has accused Washington of helping Manila in the anti-
insurgency campaign.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: flip@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Kenneth Ilio)
Subject: Re: The White Lady of Diliman (in response to ghost story request)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:56:53 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.132248.4490@spcvxb.spc.edu> 4dejesus_de@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
>Dudes, I was making kuwento to my friends about
>flip ghost stories and such...
>y'know...mga dwende, white ladies and barrio myths.
>
>And I'm kinda running out!
>
>Know any good ones?
>
>(Spare me the Candyman story, please?)

Well, I am sure you guys have heard about the White Lady roaming the
University of the Philippines campus in Diliman every once so often ...
I've lived in UP Campus a greater part of my life and the White Lady has been
a part of our folklore, something that we cherish to tell ...

I knew about the White Lady when I was still in high school (UP High batch
'73).  The janitor was always telling us about her appearing sometime in the
corridors of the high school.  But she almost always appeared in the College
of Education, College of Law (where someone reportedly suffered a heart attack
upon seeing the lady dragging chains across the hallway), Ilang-ilang
residence hall and Sampaguita residence hall, and also along the Beta way
(that concrete path that used to connect Arts and Sciences building with the
Engineering building).  In the College of Education, the lady was seen
floating in the air just near the entrance.  In the residence halls, she was
actually seen in the reading room.  The story goes like this - a bunch of
women were in the reading room preparing to go back to their rooms.  One woman
was adamant in staying because she said she had to finish homework.  Well, 
everybody left her except for one woman across the table who was reading a
newspaper at eye level.  So the first woman told this second woman to go
ahead.The second
second woman didn't mind her though, and continued to appear to read the 
newspaper. 
Well, the first woman told her off again, but again the second woman didn't
respond.  The first woman actually got ticked off because she wanted to be
alone - so she grabbed the paper from the second woman *recall that she was 
reading at eye
level* so the first woman didn't see or know who this second woman was*  So
when she grabbed the paper, she then realized that the woman was ... 
headless!!! Pugot ang ulo!  This headless woman was supposedly also seen in
Sampaguita in the bathroom no less!

Well, of course when I heard these stories, I sort of was skeptical ... until
I was in first year veterinary school.  One night, late at night, while we
were studying for Anatomy practicals, we heard water splashing in one of the
toilets in vet med (the one near the clinics).  As if someone was taking a
shower (actually, making tabo, since walang shower doon, isang drum lang na
tubig, ok?).  We thought it odd that someone was doing that at about 1 o'clock
in the morning.  So we went to investigate ... we didn't see anything,  but
...
.. footsteps ... wet footsteps leaving the toilet ... nakakapanindig balahibo!


marami pa later ...
From: dalisay@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Reynaldo S Dalisay)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Filipino gangs featured in CBS News
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:48:48 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <5789@sumax.seattleu.edu> grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba) writes:
>In article <1e8c2hINNf7f@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> jxs18@po.CWRU.Edu (Jerry Sy) writes:
>>
>>any comments on the CBS evening news last friday where Dan Rather
>>featured Filipino gangs in San Diego ?  It also mentioned a gang
>>member shooting to death another Filipino in front of his mother.
>>
>>It looks real bad to the Filipino image.
>
>Oh boy, here we go again, another "looks real bad to the Filipino image" 
>thing again.
>


Who cares about the Filipino image?  Forget that stuff--we should
concentrate on reforming these kids who hang around with their
barkadas, acting bad, and shooting their own kababayans.  It's really
sad to hear such stories.  What's bad for the "Filipino image" is that
we don't seem to be doing anything about it.



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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| Electronic mail address: dalisay@eniac.seas.upenn.edu                     |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: humpty@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Daniel Ong)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: ALVIN'S CORNER....On The Lighter Side
Date: 18 Nov 1992 08:30:43 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au

How about reposting the jokes last week eg DEVASTATION et al
From: leon@garnet.berkeley.edu (Leon C. Salcedo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Miss Asia Beauty Contest....
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Date: 18 Nov 1992 23:06:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

In article <fragante.722109772@unixg.ubc.ca> fragante@unixg.ubc.ca (Gv Fragante) writes:
>In <1992Nov17.232555.22597@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> equipt@etch-eshop.Berkeley.EDU (Etcheverry Equipment Inventory) writes:
>
>>4th Runner Up from Ceylon  ...........MISS Bitina Cia
>>3rd Runner Up from India  ........... MISS Indina Liligho
>>2nd Runner Up from China  ........... MISS Sue Su Co Lailai
>>1st Runner Up from Philippines....... MISS Pining Garcia
>>MISS ASIA 1992  from jAPAN.....MISS KIKIKO MAKUTO.....MABUHAY..
>
>
>Well, what happened to Miss Thailand ..... ANA KANAMPUCHA ???
>
>BTW, you left out the emcee's name. I believe it was .... CHINO TEOPACO.
>
>

	Mga sira ang ulo. ha ha ha ha.......

leon















Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: mbernar@erenj.com (Marcelino Bernardo)
Subject: Re: Even more proverbs
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering, Co.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:25:01 GMT

In article <francis.87.0@mpl.ucsd.edu>, francis@mpl.ucsd.edu (Francis C
Felizardo) wrote:
> 
> Here are some I remember:
> 
> 1. Daig ng maagap ang masikap.
>   (Resourcefulness beats industriousness/persistence.)
>    You can get more things done and get them done faster if you think  
>    while you work.

I think maagap means someone who plans ahead.

> And on the lighter side:
> 
> 5. Balang araw, maghihiganti ako.
>   (On bullet day, I will become a giant.) *grin*

Did you mean to put a smiley here?  This is not really so light.  It means 
"someday, I will get even with you".  Maghihiganti means to avenge.

Regards,

Marcelino Bernardo
mbernar@erenj.com
From: jcruz@etch-eshop.Berkeley.EDU (Joey Cruz)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Phil DJ Rene Sta. Cruz Challenges Stern, Hall to Duel
Date: 19 Nov 92 23:37:07 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley


          A M E N ...........
From: bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Yen to Miko
Keywords: Yen to Miko
Date: 20 Nov 92 20:47:29 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway NJ

I lost your email address. Please email.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: mbernar@erenj.com (Marcelino Bernardo)
Subject: Re: know any filipino stereotypes?
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering, Co.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:11:25 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.142457.7956@walter.bellcore.com>,
rick@gamma.bellcore.com (Rick Martija) wrote:
> 
> In article <1e691qINNk8a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, vxv4@po.CWRU.Edu (Virgilio Velasco) writes:
> |> 
> |> In a previous article, c164-ad@po.berkeley.edu (Martin Guerrero) says:
> |> 
> |> >In article <1992Nov14.005246.2169@engage.pko.dec.com> garces_ro@uswrsl.enet.dec.com (JRG) writes:
> |> >>
> |> >>	Here's another good one that my girlfriend mentioned to me.
> |> >>	Being from a different racial background she's wondering about
> |> >>	it. Here it goes:
> |> >>
> |> >>	Filipinos always have a "tabo" in their bathroom. We all know
> |> >>	that we don't need them to take a bath right. So, Iknowyouknow
> |> >>	whatImean. 
> |> >>
> |> >
> |> >Considering the drought situation and such in some areas of the U.S., I 
> |> >think 'tabos' might actually be practical.  
> |> >
> |> >What do you all think?
> |> 
> |> They would.  Unfortunately, based on some conversations I've had with
> |> Americans, it seems that many of them value their showers and tub baths
> |> too much to resort to the good old 'tabo'.  Not surprising--they also
> |> express surprise at the way I refuse to throw out my used (but intact)
> |> Ziploc bags, or the way I always turn the lights off when leaving my
> |> room.
> |> 
> 
> I think you missed the real purpose of the tabo in the bathroom.  Ito'y
> ginagamit natin panghugas ng... alam ninyo na.  Mahal ang toilet paper :-)
> 
> Rick

And also abrasive.  Perhaps one day, we'll discover that use of toilet
paper is linked to prostate cancer or hemorhoid.  Just a thought.


Marcelino Bernardo
mbernar@erenj.com
Disclaimer:  I am not a tabo user and I am certainly not expressing my 
             employers position on the tabo/toilet paper issue.
From: dannya@ESD.3Com.COM (Danny Alvendia)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Survey on Youth in the Bay Area
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:12:17 GMT
Organization: 3Com Corporation



	A friend of mine told me that there was a survey done by
	a local network (KPIX, CH. 5, I believe.) on teens most
	likely to get pregnant. The most likely group of teens
	were Filipinas. Did any of you hear this? The survey was
	done in Vallejo and Daly City (?).            

/Danny
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: aimee@wpd.sgi.com (Aimee Manosa)
Subject: Re: Did you know?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:51:44 GMT

In article <wf11De200WBLQ583Ad@andrew.cmu.edu>, pm3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paolo Vergara Malabuyo) writes:
|> Just thought this was interesting.
|> 
|> My cousin wrote to me that Manila now has a big ice skating rink and
|> that it's a huge hit.  What next, the Filipino ice hockey team in the
|> Olympics?  Gee, who knows...

My dad also mentioned that not only do folks use this ice rink a lot,
but they get dressed for it, too!!!  Sweater, scarf and all... :-)



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