Patis, 20, Philippines
I love books and I like reading them at midnight.
I like sushi.
The PokeRap is playing as I write this description.
This is quite personal.
PHOTOBLOG! users onlineHUHU THEN THANK YOU AGAIN, KIND SIR/MA’AM.
shmank you :)
(i’m so sorry i don’t know how to deal with compliments!!!!!)
You mean, what I think of myself? Hahaha
Perhaps I do get mataray when I’m really stressed and I feel like the world’s just spinning way too fast. I have this idea in my head that if I move or talk less, time would feel slower. This has been happening a lot recently bleh
But to be honest, maybe I’m more peculiar. I don’t have the guts to be in-your-face-mataray to people. I think that’s why I get really weird.
ALSO PAG KINIKILIG AKO SHET. WEIRDNESS INCREASES BY 100x!!!
Probably invite him over to be a production assistant for one of our shoots. Also, I would talk to him about stuff he likes and recommend a few movies. Oh, and make him watch Adventure Time with Finn and Jake!! HEHE
i know it’s you, black man
Woaah. That’s BIG. Do we know each other in real life? If we don’t, then you probably just have a version of me in your head that you like. I’m probably very different from how I am on the internet than in real life. I don’t know if it makes any sense, but I really can’t tell if I am/am not! I’m quite flattered though. Hahaha
Haha, thank you. That’s very nice of you to say! :)
I guess I do. I guess someone does?
Haha, sorry. I’m a very confused bug right now. I try not to think much about that stuff considering that there’s a lot of (university-related) shit lined-up before this semester ends.
For the record, whatever I answer is not because James Soriano is my brother. But because regardless of whether or not I am related to him, I would still defend him for the main reason that many people misunderstand and misread his article.
OBVIOUSLY, he wasn’t trying to degrade the Filipino language. He wasn’t trying to degrade anything at all! He was simply making a commentary regarding the educational system and what it has done to him as a Filipino.
What he wrote in the latter part of his article was obviously satirical. He was making fun of himself and the fact that he IS the manifestation of the split-level Filipino. It was obvious right after he devoted two whole paragraphs to praising the Filipino language and said that he is not better than a “malansang isda”. (turning point right there)
He says it in such a charged way because that is the reality of how our language is perceived. It is a tragic fact, but it is how most of us perceive our own language. That although it is our identity, we are still brought up in a foreign language and in turn, we begin to identify ourselves with that language. Suddenly, the context in which we live in is different from who we naturally should be.
He mentions that Filipino is not the language of the learned. Maybe it is true. In school, you are not primarily taught in Filipino. Rather, to be learned and to be educated means to be educated in English and everything else that is taught with it. That is why I believe he wrote “So I have my education to thank for making English my mother language.” He is thanking his education for putting him in this situation. If you guys don’t get sarcasm, then I feel very sorry for you.
And when he said, “I may be disconnected from my being Filipino, but with a tongue of privilege I will always have my connections.” it shows what we have given up in exchange for “connections” and “privilege”—our identity.
I could go on and on analysing his article, but I am starting to believe that it might be a fruitless cause. Like most of the internet-dwellers out there, people will read what they want to read. They will interpret anything however they want to interpret it.
Now, I cannot stop those who don’t agree with my brother’s article. However, if there is one thing that I can’t tolerate are the personal remarks that are made about him. No one has a right to call him uneducated or stupid for the simple reason that 99.9% of the people who hate on him don’t even know him at all. I don’t mind reading about people disagreeing with his point, but I DO mind reading about people making remarks about his appearance, upbringing, and humanity.
A lot of you demand intellectual discourse, but majority of you can’t even keep yourselves from making cheap attacks.
I have no problem with other people having casual sex. I have no problem with the prospect of it either, except that I don’t think I can ever engage in it. It’s sort of like a “hm, okay” but it’s also a “oh god i can never push through with something like that in real life”
I guess I still believe that it’s more meaningful/enjoyable/worth it if it’s with someone you care about.
Someone who likes to think and sees beauty in a lot of things. I could go on and on, but I like to talk (among many other things. gigiddy) and if I can talk to someone without feeling pressured to say the right things or how to end the conversation as quickly and polite as possible, that’s a good thing. I try not to show it, but most of the time I get uncomfortable when talking to people. I guess only I can tell if I’m comfortable with someone.
Do something different. When you’re in a relationship, you share a lot of things with that person. So do something different for yourself that won’t remind you of that someone.
Oh god, I’ve done so many dumb things that I am too overwhelmed to even answer this question properly. I don’t regret a single one, though! hohoho
But to give you an instance, I slept over my friend’s house and ran around the Katipunan area in our matching pyjamas at 4am. We almost got run over by a speeding truck and (probably)almost got kidnapped(a white van was following us)!
:)
