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Subject: ENJOY,BE PINOY! by Gilda Cordero Fernando

 

ENJOY,  Be  Pinoy
G.C. Fernando>

  MANILA , Philippines --  Pinoy is what Filipinos call each other, a term of endearment. 

You're Pinoy from Pilipino just like you're tisoy from mestizo or chinoy from chino.
It's a nickname just as Minoy is from Maximo, Ninoy from Benigno, Tinay from Florentina and 

Kikay from Francisca. (But now they're Maxi and Ben and Tintin and Cheska.)

  You've been called indio , goo-goo, Negro, flip, noypits.  Or Filipino, a biscuit that is brown outside
and white inside, or a word stricken from the dictionary which means "domestic". Ay,lintik!
  You're Juan de la Cruz or Mang Pandoy. You're common tao, masa, urban poor but also Cecile Licad 

and Don Jaime, Jose Rizal and Tony Meloto, Shawie and Pacquiao and Nick Joaquin -- galing-galing!
 
 Born June 12, 1896, the Republic of the RP , good at connecting, 

good at loving-loving, good at texting  and interpersonal skills. Filipinos like to yakap, akbay, hawak, kalong, kalabit. We sleep side-by-side, siping-siping, we go out kabit-kabit.
 
 There's lots of us to go around. Someone always to listen to a sob story, even in a jeepney, 

to share-a load or to share a TV.
 
 Everyone's tito, tita
  Who has a hipag, a bayaw, a bilas, a balae, a kinakapatid? Who has an ate, dete, diche, kuya, diko?
The maids call her ate, the driver calls him kuya and everybody is tito or tita.
  Who has a Lola Baby, a Tito Totoy, a bosing called Sir Peewee, his wife Ma'am Lovely 

and their kids Cla Cla and Cring Cring?

  The Pinoy lives in a "condo", a mansion, an apartment, a bahay na bato, ilalim ng tulay, Luneta, 

Forbes Park , --and Paris , too!
  He's a citizen of the world, he's in all the villages and capitals, colonizing the West, 

bringing his guitar and his bagoong, his walis na tingting, his tabo, his lolo and lola.
  Where there's a beat, there's a Pinoy. You'll find her singing in a nightclub in any Asian city, 

a musical in London , the Opera House in Sydney . Sure, they've got the infrastructure, the theaters 

and architecture. Who but Pinoys direct their plays, or trains their company managers, and imports 

our teachers, by the way?
  Look at that baggage-all pasalubong, none for herself. From bedsheet to hair color, Toblerone to carpet
 
 Hey, Joe, don't envy me 'cause I'm brown, you'll get  ultra violet from that sun and turn red 

not brown. Just lucky, I guess. GOD put us all in the oven, but some were uncooked and some were 

burned, but me, I came out golden brown!
 
 Hey, Kristoff! Hoy David and Ann! Your Pinoy yaya makes your kids gentler, more obedient, 

he teaches them how to pray. Hey Big Brother! Hey Grandma Moses! Who but Pinoy  nurses make 

your sick days easier all the way?
  We made the jeepney, the karaoke, the fluorescent bulb, the moon buggy. We invented 

People Power and crispy pata; popularized virgin coconut oil, scaled the Everest and 

made it with Cebu furniture abroad among the best. Ever trying for the Guinness World Record -

with the longest swim of a child, the longest kiss, the longest longanisa.

 
 Linguist
 The Pinoy is a linguist.  "As in".  "As if".   "For a while".   "Open the light".   "Close the light".       "Paki ganyan naman ang kuwan sa ano?"
 Hayop; Hanep! Bongga ka 'day, kilig to the bones ako. Don't make wala, 

don't make tampo. Taralets na, babes, let's go, nababato na ang syota  mo.
 
 I'm inviting you to my party, please RSVP. Oo means 'yes' or 'maybe,' or 'yes if you insist,' 

or 'maybe if it doesn't rain.' 'Yes' is also a nice way of saying 'no.' Yes, hindi kita sisiputin.  

No,' eto na ako at ang barkada ko. Please don't ask a Pinoy a question like that!
 
 Just flows
 She's not so exact, not so chop-chop, she just flows and flows. 

Filipino time? Naku, huli din naman ang Kano !
 The Pinoy finds time to be nice, to be kind, to apologize, to be there when you're depressed, 

to help you with your utang and your wedding dress.
The Filipino is a giver, never mind what it does to his liver, never mind what it takes. 

Hardships of the  Third World don't dry up his blood, they just make him more compassionate, 

more  feeling, of the other guy's lot.
 Note that the maid sends all her wages home to ailing daddy. She is the OFW whose labor of loneliness
created the original katas ng Saudi.

'Bahala na'

The Filipino is fearless, bahala na si Batman, which actually means Bathala na or 'leave all to God.' Okay lang if I die by bitay, okay lang if I live, okay lang if I survive by the skin of my teeth.
 
Saway ni Inay: Di ka naman Bill Gates, di ka naman French, 

mahirap nang magbuhat ng sarili mong bench.
 
 Be Pinoy! Enjoy!

 Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive 

and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, Diet Coke in the other,
body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming: 'WOO HOO what a ride!'

 

 

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[Manny Bade]

HEY, I LOVE THIS!!!! 

 

Manny Bade, KCR

From: Rodel Ramos <ramo...@rogers.com>
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Subject: [KOR World] Fw: ENJOY,BE PINOY! by Gilda Cordero Fernando