i forgot to mention, it's getting to be like 'purebloods' and such...
and when something as small like 'lol @ filipino tv' arises, why should we be totally (and aggressively) defensive?
and there's nothing wrong about having mixed parentage, or being outspoken about them...
and the muslims are NOT one of the carriers of asian culture... it's a religion, mind... and the culture they carry is arabic, by the way they dress, the prayers they say, the conduct they carry, etc. only true asians can integrate religion into their culture without impeding the latter, or losing the glamor of it.
i happen to think that philippine TV is crap...the shows just suck ass.... i mean, the MTRCB thinks that the only form of prime time entertainment is cheesy sitcoms and soap operas...which is complete bullshit. even our news is a joke!
as for identity, flips have it. it's just that (a lot of them) once they go and live in another country they forget about their identity. i've seen flips who no longer spoke filipino and have put on fake accents. i've seen flips who'd intentionally avoid you and not look at you while walking (since you might recognize them as "kabayan"), and i've seen flips who deny the fact that they're filipino....sadly these are the filipinos that get a lot of attention since they flaunt themselves to other people (*cough*sa puti*cough*...well mainly) resulting into a rather poor image of our good nation. as for part 2...well...i roffld at it.... the people depicted in the dialogue were rich kids...mainly living in places like alabang, forbes, rockwell, and other "upper crust" places....they try so hard do act black it's no longer funny..."we come from the rough streets of alabang! don't make us call our bodyguards to beat the crap out of you, or our lawyers to make you poorer that you already are!"
i'm proud as hell to be flip, but i don't think i can defend the culture anymore....*raises a bottle* heres to the few of us who are smart enough not to be like the majority!
lastly: THE MTRCB IS A JOKE, THEY SHOULD JUST EAT SHIT AND DIE
@l4pb
hear! hear! have a bottle of virtual (butter)beer, with an autograph of a famous chinese action star *cough*jet li*cough* on its side...
sadly, our culture, as seen on the outside, is different because of those 'outspoken rich kids'.
btw, nakarinig ako ng 'anime convention in-the-making'... not sure of the specifics, though... more likely to be held somewhere in manila.... maybe mall of asia.... kaya lang baka sa latter (insert here)-ber months pa maganap....
i forgot to mention, it's getting to be like 'purebloods' and such...
and when something as small like 'lol @ filipino tv' arises, why should we be totally (and aggressively) defensive?
and there's nothing wrong about having mixed parentage, or being outspoken about them...
and the muslims are NOT one of the carriers of asian culture... it's a religion, mind... and the culture they carry is arabic, by the way they dress, the prayers they say, the conduct they carry, etc. only true asians can integrate religion into their culture without impeding the latter, or losing the glamor of it.
sorry about the term muslim i didnt think of a better term ,so you're right, the arabic culture..and it's different from asian culture from what you're saying..
by the way, i was only reacting at the spoiler post of MD..
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hey anyone of you guys read Lone Wolf and Cub? it is quite good, although it's somewhat repetitive and episodic, and not much plot going on but its very entertaining..and i love the little kid, the best 3-yr old characterization among those that i've read so far..in a way its quite comparable to vagabond..
wow! it tickles your who-the-f*ck-are-you-to-bash-us-like-that personas when confonted with discomforting issues like this. hahaha i just got this to say: whoever made that comment that cant take a joke doesnt speak for everyone and whoever made that article doesnt give a f*ck that the guy his messing with doesnt speak for everyone. so here it is: ,/,
@ hunter71485
- ey dude! good thing you got the anime version of kakashi's ms kewl!
oh that's why! i was wondering why i why international resorts rss feed is only working for the [Hangout] Hakka Thread. here is why:
It really made me indignant when we I was reading the article but who can blame them from writing what they see?
I can agree that we can never be seen as a race that is Asian. Why? The way we talk about especially in the internet, the way we act around in public, our culture. Walang bahid ng pagka Pilipino.
I also agree with the LOL @ Filipino TV. Why? Because just like what l4pb said, it stinks! Tangna naman! kaya di tayo umuunlad e. Puro Cinderella type stories and pinapanood natin. But then, oh well that is business. Kung anong patok yun ang dapat na ipalabas.
One thing I can never agree on is the fact that they only associate Asians to Chinese, Koreans and Japanese people. as garpjr1188 said, di lang mga singkit ang mga nakatira sa Asia. So ang Russians ba di na Asians dahil mukha silang mga Europeans?
Isa pa, anung klaseng statement yung "You're just a Filipino. Think about it." Tangna! it's like they're dehumanizing us!
Ito ang isa sa pinakaayaw ko sa mga KANO. Racists. They feel like they are the only mighty powerful ones in the face of the planet. And if you can get those kinds of discriminations from citizens, imagine what their government is saying to our country.
Problema din kase ang mga Pilipino e. ika nga ng mga bata "gaya-gaya, puto maya". Kung anong cool at kung anong hip, gagayahin. Kaya di mo na makilala ang pinoy kung ano ba talaga ang kultura.
@BSS- /agree di lang ung mga kano, kung di ung mga puti in general....tignan mo ung mga itim, di sila nga gagago ng kalahi natin, ung puti lang talaga...
if i were the head of the MTRCB...all the public access channels would be replaced by national geographic, the discovery channel, discovery travel and living, ESPN, news, animax, axn, star world, and jack tv.....that way all the crappy soap operas would be blocked off...oh and star world would be raplaced by solar sports in the morning....that way we don't get any of that bold and the beautiful crap...
@ level4paperboy
- abah! may programme ka talaga huh!? hehehe oh well, screw them. no matter how hard you want to stand on solid filipino identify ground, there's still lots of soft grounds for others to make you crumble down. that's the truth. i still have my standing question: who is a filipino?
@ level4paperboy
- well, duh! hehehee i mean what the world thinks of us. when i was a kid, i had lots of answers to that question. as realization dawned me, id say i dont have anything solid right now.
@ KTS
- post another apology? don't think so. you noticed how gigantic their egos are. everything to them is a joke. YHBT here, YHBT there. best thing they do right now is ZIP IT until the issue dies down. another thing with us Filipinos, give it a few months or so and the issue is bye bye no more. ne?
@ KTS
- ey dude! is there anyway that we can syndicate threads instead of subforums using firefox live bookmarks? im just starting to put back my comfort zone and its giving me a real hard time
re: firefox
no idea of what ur talking about, haha....
i tried compiling firefox once, enabling a lot of features and getting all the dependencies gave me a headache. better leave it to the experts and get the pre-built binaries/installers....
re: google sky
anybody tried it yet? looks promising but stellarium and celestia are still better....for now.
guys you've got to try celestia!!!
A view of Earth from far out in space. A closeup of the space shuttle Discovery in orbit over Florida; this shot demonstrates Celestia's virtual texture feature for extremely high resolution mapping of planets.
Looking down at Mars's tiny moon Phobos and the giant Valles Marineris rift valley. The 1989 flyby of Neptune by Voyager 2--last stop before leaving the solar system.
Saturn and its rings. Dark shadows cast by the rings are visible in the top hemisphere of Saturn. Jupiter and its large moon Europa. The surface of Europa is mostly water ice and full of cracks created by tidal stresses.
The recently discovered extrasolar planet Rho Cancri e, one of a system of at least four planets. Rho Cancri b is visible just to the right of e. The orbits of a number of main belt asteroids (in brown) plotted togeter with major planet orbits (in blue).
re: video encoder
hey guys remember the SUPER player yonie gave before? well this one's better!!!! http://www.avidemux.org/
it's got the codecs built in and standalone. get the SVN build, a little buggy but it has the latest encode to flash feature. it has features good and easy enough for the budding video editor! a nice way to convert all those scandals grabbed from *tube home videos to suitable format for easy viewing....
re: DB
- well, obviously, most of us are affected by this statements. and that a good justification would be to ask DB for a formal authentic public apology. i am affected too, there's no denying it. i guess you're right. but what will we get once they released what we asked for? imho, its all about pride.
re: firefox
- i mean when you add an rss feed off MH, it just shows you the subforums. how do we get it to show the posts on a certain threads? any idea? im out of it. ive been on it for almost 10 hours now, might as well learn phpBB
@TM: avidemux sounds cool! ill try it out later. also try virtualdub
oh yeah you guys still use vlc? ive thrown it on the trash already, im always using codecs for the media player now, much more stable, flexible, and just way better
darn it just pisses me how things at DB got so edgy. heh. it's a joke. gawd. see, you've made a very bad thing by complaining. it doesnt matter if they're americans or any other race, it's called free speech and you have it too you know... free speech and an open mind must go hand in hand
re: DB
it's more of a correction actually....but they're on Nigeria so they're mostly not north americans, right? which reminds me i have to get in touch with attorney what's his name and wire money to get my share of the diamond inheritance.....
re: virtualdub
use virtualdubmod. it's got better features. but it's so cryptic and unintuitive, i'm switching to avidemux for now mostly. virtualdubmod for the advanced cases...
re: player
never tried vlc player, haha. on windows, its either the regular players with the CCCP codec pack or smplayer (mplayer with a very nice gui all the codecs hard coded into the app). on linux it's mostly mplayer based. just few complaints with it really (like mpeg2 playback issues and softsubs misalignment).
@ yoniekai
- apparently the majority of Filipinos, i think, don't look at it like that. it's mostly ill-blow-your-brains-out-because-you-said-that kind of thing. the Legacy of Erap.
re: DB
- nigeria? so its 3rd world VS 3rd world. ooops! im not gonna go there
haha no MD, it's likely the DB staff are mostly americans since aside from the grammar, they constantly mention stuff like they're going to the otakon event etc
*sigh* yes you're right, majority of the previous generation do think like that. but i believe this generation of ours is much more reasonable than then. well it depends on how well they know
waa?? the RTS threads are down!!!!! oh noes! it's almost raw day!!!
@yonie
it looks like the portal is down....the one that gave us the front page and the other phpBB/SQL modifications.
looks like the smilies are also down....
oh yeah, better get ready for raw day!!! BY MORNING DAPAT MAY SCANS KA NA!!!!
oh speaking of *tube, found another one....it's more "localized" and as usual....streaming.... pm you the link....try to find me there since it is quite new....
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well speaking of kakashi's MS....gotta change my sig to that....and as usual in gif format!
hahaha. okay okay send them. i also found two other tubes aside from the one you gave me.
aaaaah i cant wait for the ES raw. too bad my partner is so busy with school. i want a great typesetter like her.................... i loathe typesetting
kekekekekeke you gotta love irc. so many HQ anime vids, and a lot of fansub groups to choose from! im actually dloading the whole evangelion in HQ mkv
wow. You've all said your pieces. I just went "thesis-mode" for a while and this comes up!
I am in fact, disheartened that you guys agree... -_- Sabagay, walang hiya talaga ang abs for doing that. I mean, they're a big company for godssakes, and they use fansubs? That's like 2-rats-rats-ripping-you-off kinda level. F*ck abs-cbn.
as for DB, to have written LOL@FilipinoTV would have been fine, or to be more specific they could have at least said LOL@abs-cbn. TO BE LESS GENERALIZING AND DISCRIMINATING ABOUT THE WHOLE THING. TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT. I mean, come on, that was so inconclusive to say Filipino TV because I assume they haven't watched enough TV shows from enough Filipino stations to have made that statement. But hey, they were I guess, angry for being ripped off, and could not think wisely as of the moment.
On the reposting issue though, that was just wrong. The article by anonymous coward is indeed an act of cowardice, and I'm not even gonna start criticizing THAT article! But that it was posted 2001, 6 years ago, and for timecop (?) to have dug it up to shove to us FILIPINOS, apparently his version of "taking the matter with his own hands", how old is he anyway? Isn't it like, when you reach 20 or something and get a grasp of the world that you get to UNDERSTAND THAT RACISM IS WRONG?
Japanese. Chinese. Spanish. SO F*CKING WHAT? I've written about this in my blog a few months ago: (if you care to read, because it's the sum of what i'm saying...)
THIS PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION
The Philippines, then just a mere group of give-take 7,000 islands, inhabited by nomads, migrants, and natives, had extremely fertile lands. It had lush forests, fresh waters, coastal areas, abundant wildlife. It was rich like thick hot chocolate oozing from grandmother's pot. If nature had run its course, what could we have been? How could we have coped with the onslaught of world trade, the world politics, the vast invasion of technology? How would I look like today? My mother's roots are Spanish, my father's are Chinese. If nature had run its course, like a child left alone to play, Philippines would not have had a stunted growth, with a lot of insecurities, psychological, and physical effects. The child that was Philippines could have grown healthy and vibrant like a child reared with a mother's love.
But we were never left alone, were we? We were never set free. Until the scars were too deep and affected our growth, as a people, as a land, as a nation.
It was said that before the Spaniards came, the people of pre-colonial Philippines had no concept of a nation. This, in part, is true. The people didn't even have an idea how many islands there were that formed this peninsula. But it is not true that it was Spain who had made Philippines a nation. In fact, Spain tried with all her might to keep us from being a nation, like a plant deprived of sunlight.
The Spanish conquistadores took advantage of the little communities, controlling them one by one. Using the newly conquered men, they moved to conquer more tribes, native turning against native. Was it amusing? Even when an educational system was established, the so-called schools had poisoned the children to turn against their own country, their home.
Spain had wanted Philippines to herself. Yet to what gain? Keeping the colony was a vaccuum to her treasury. For more than 200 years her government had endured the deficits just to keep the Philippines, that it was a divine mission to bring the people closer to God. Were we sacrifices? The burden on the Spanish treasury had pressured the Spaniards to lash out on the Filipino people.
The Indios. The educated Indios. The rich Indios. The descriminated half-bloods. The lowly pure-bloods. Everyone on the Philippine soil was no longer happy. Other Filipinos, upon seeing the world outside the Philippines, had seen in a different perspective. But the truth was common to everyone, to the Indios, educated or not, rich or poor-- that people were not naturally born to be oppressed, beaten like animals, butchered like pigs. People were born into the world to live, naturally thirsting for knowledge. It was human nature to seek happiness in life.
Yet the Filipinos' revolt against the Spaniards, Rizal's dream of becoming a nation, were all in vain. For more than 300 years, the Filipinos had endured the suffering. In a blink of an eye America beseiged a resisting Philippines. Laborers and farmers against trained soldiers and cannons. The average American soldier killed 50 Filipinos. The U.S troops unleashed close to 130,000. Children grew up full of dreams, all to die in a massacre.
300 years of being in the dark and suffering. 100 more years of deception and treachery. The tribes and minorities that up to now exist, that is what I call giving a fight. How much more can we take? Where did they bring us?
Today, we are still the same. Dog biting dog. Government officials deceiving the masses, plundering hard-earned money from the people. To think that such barbaric practices such as puppeteering still exists by imperialist forces is depressing. Where is the globalization? Where is the technology? Where is the freedom?
It must hurt to be blamed by your own countrymen.
Lazy.
Stupid.
Sells her own people.
Hopeless.
It's been more than 400 years. We're exhausted.
The sad fact here is that we Filipinos are discriminating our own selves. If we accept these "shameful" habits of ours, why not spend time to be more constructive and think of how we contribute to society? Am I not working my ass off studying for the future of architecture in this country? Is my mother not working her ass off for the food business to flourish? Isn't my dad working for continuing livestock business that essentially feeds the large Filipino population that is still largely dependent on agricultural economy?
That's what I'm trying to say. I think what we, as a social group lacks, is the recognition of roles. Each of us has a role for this country to work. On top of that, we need to love ourselves more. It's healthy.
