The American President Given Flying Lessons by the Philippine Air Force
Image credit: Filipinas Heritage Library . Eisenhower with PACC pilot trainees. Or more accurately, by its predecessor, the Philippin...Read More
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Showing posts with label PhilHis. Show all posts
Bagito and the Sexuality of the Filipino Youth
Image credit: Wikipedia . Question: How do you call a teenage male who has already fathered a son? Answer: a Younghusband. That w...Read More
Maragtas Story, Code of Kalantiaw et al. – ‘History’ That Never Was
Image Credit: The News Today If you are anywhere near my age, then you will have none-too-fond memories of having to memorise for an ex...Read More
Ilonggo, Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a from a Batangueño’s Point of View
Graphic saved from Google Earth. Due to my continuing fascination with the Batangueño dialect, I have been doing some readings on Philipp...Read More
The Mystery of the Filipino Ailment Called ‘Pasma’
A man suspects his wife of having an affair; so he hires a private detective to follow her. In no time at all, the detective confirms that...Read More
The Fishbone and the Magical Hand of the Suhî
Enjoying your breakfast of fried eggs, fried rice and hawot when, all of a sudden, you feel something stuck down your throat? Chances are...Read More
Pagpag and Other Superstitions Surrounding Death
I spoke to a cousin before Christmas; and the pancit lomi that we were served was from a neighbourhood lomi house, she told me. They had ju...Read More
The Sibat Jeepney Phenomenon
Sibat: in the strictest sense, a spear; a long, slim and hand-held projectile made of wood or metal that is hurled through the air in comba...Read More
The Ikî and the Tiyanak
I am amused now when I think about the things that we as kids were told to make us go to sleep; or stories we told to scare each other becau...Read More
Flip-Flops: Tsinelas with Glamor
A couple of years back, a friend wanted to know what size my feet are because he wanted to buy me a pair of Havaianas as an expression of gr...Read More
Filipino Time: Personality or Cultural Trait?
Who, in this country, has not experienced having to sit on a bus station bench playing a game on the cellular phone because there is still n...Read More
Tabi-tabi Pô and the Nunô sa Punsô
Because I am Filipino, I cannot – to this day – take a pee beside a mound of earth, a thick old tree trunk, some leftover grub or even just...Read More
Mindanao Sex Strike
Are we not the nation, after all, which invented People Power? Is there any nation in the whole wide world that is better than ours when i...Read More
Bucking the Stereotype of Filipinos as Chameleons, These Batangueños in Vienna
The common stereotype of the Filipino immigrant is, like chameleons, to blend right into the background in their adopted countries. In t...Read More
Nestor’s Engkanto
His name is Nestor. That was what the news reporter saw fit to call him in her offbeat item in yesterday’s late afternoon regional news sh...Read More
Get Up! Get Up!
The following story may strike you as something that I made up completely just to drive home a point. It is not. I swear this incident rea...Read More
Filipinos and Our Superstitions
I was walking towards the side gate early this evening after training when I caught sight of one of two stray black cats that for some reaso...Read More
Kuya, Ate and Different Ways to Stop a Jeepney
“Sa harap pô ng owner,” the young man in front of me in the jeepney just this evening said to the driver. “Para pô kuya…” Am I missing so...Read More
Burn the Bra in the Filipino Context
I was on my way home just after having dinner at Rob when my attention was caught at the jeepney station by a conductor calling out to pass...Read More
Sorry???!!!
For the second straight evening, Henry, Michael, Bierhoff and I went for a cheap fast food meal at Pangga’s inside Rob after training. I ki...Read More
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