KENNETH PORIO | the blog

This is Part One of a series of  posts on how Filipinos do not prefer British-style news presentation. The BBC News brand so recognized all over the world. Since CNN International was busted out from our TV subscription, I didn't have any time to watch live international news on TV. I've long since resorted to podcasting through my music player or watching video clips from my laptop. After a few months after I was unable to watch CNN, I then resorted to the next accessible international news channel we have in our area, BBC World News . Since those days, I've had to endure hearing newsreaders present the news in an accent many Filipinos aren't conformed with, that is, the standard British accent, specifically Received Pronunciation variant. George Alagiah presents BBC News at Six Amercianized as we are, not many Filipinos are well-versed to the English language that is spoken throughout the European continent, and in many parts of the world where...

Gong Xi Fa Cai (Mandarin) Kiong Hee Huat Chay (Hokkien) Kung Hei Fat Choi (Cantonese) In whatever dialect our fellow Filipino-Chinese pronounce these four Chinese characters, these words automatically brings us to our minds that it's the Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival . For those who don't know much about the meaning of these four-charactered greeting, it literally means: "Congratulations and Be Prosperous" Others greet us in another Chinese greeting: Xin Nian Kuai Le (Mandarin) Sin Ni'n Khuai Lok (Hokkien) San Niin Faai Lok (Cantonese) in which it means "Happy New Year" . For the Pinoys, we join them in celebrating the Chinese New Year by joining in their Lion and Dragon Dances, eating "Tikoy" ( "sweet cake" ) or "Nian Gao" ( "year cake" ), the white, sticky and sweet pastry made from glutinous rice that symbolizes " strong and sweet bonds with the family " or " every year higher and hig...

Dear friends, It's another two days here in UP Mindanao . It's back to school again last January 3, in line with the public elementary and high schools in the country. (UP is also a public school... kuno ...) I wonder why this "hang-over" during the long Christmas season got unto us Filipinos every after the end. (And Epiphany or the so-called "Three Kings", the official end of the long Christmas season here, is yet to be this Sunday, January 6!) Most of the kids didn't attend school that day, maybe not of this case in UPMin... (*sigh*) Anyway, this is what happened during the first 3-1/2 days of the New Year: We went to Panabo and Carmen , our parents' home towns to pay a visit to our relatives - our grandparents, our uncles and aunts and our cousins. (I missed them so much.) We had a salu-salo , talked to our cousins and had fun making a home video of us in with my paternal grandparents. :-) My paternal uncle , his wife and one of my cousins (...

Dear friends, More Comments at pYzam.com May you have a blessed time with your family and friends this Holiday season. Had fun with making mag covers through MagMyPic: Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com Subscribe to Time Magazine at an 86% discount! UP Mindanao Oblation... Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com Subscribe to Seventeen Magazine at a 67% discount! LOVE...by Komsai... that's all for now... more when I'm back in school, perhaps. It has been a great Christmas this year. I had completed the Simbang Gabi (what a blessing), I had a visit to the newly-opened "People's Park" here in Davao City (the site formerly known as the PTA Grounds), had a great time during the KASADYA, UP Min's Lantern Parade, and had a visit back in CdSI for their Christmas party (the free ice cream that the school prexy, Mrs. Virginia Lui, was offering was truly rewarding to the studes! (I just remembered those...

Dear friends, especially the Iskolars ng Bayan, I am deeply moved by the wonderful, happy, but short life of our ka-Isko , Cris Anthony Garcia Mendez, a 4th Year Public Administration student in the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG) of the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Quoted from his Friendster account, and a blog: Picking up a line from a Tagalog movie, he would describe himself as “ Parang karinderia na bukas sa lahat ng gustong kumain. ” - Touched by An Angel A friend of Cris shares the story of him described as " Ang lalaking mukhang bao ang buhok " Quoted from " The Warrior Lawyer ": ... This is not the first time a U.P. student has died while undergoing frat initiations and, I fear, it won’t be the last ... ... A frat (and sorority) culture is deeply woven into the fabric of the political and social life of U.P. There are dozens of recognized fraternities and sororities in Diliman and other campuses within the U.P....

Mga nagmamahal na kaibigan sa aking blog , Salamat sa inyong walang-sawang suporta sa aking blog . Nakita ko sa mga statistiko na halos limampu (50) ang mga nagbabasa sa blog entry ko tungkol sa mga sawikain. Nakita kong nanggaling pa sila (o kayo man) sa Google o kung saan mang search engine para lamang makita ang mga sawikain at ang mga kahulugan nito na naipamahagi ko. If you don't understand Tagalog or Filipino well, I would like to thank you for your support for my blog. I saw in my statistics that there are almost 50 views who read my entry about Filipino idiomatic expressions. I saw that they (or maybe you) came from Google or any search engine just to look at these idioms and their meanings. Nais ko ulit ipamahagi ang pangalawang yugto sa mga sawikain na nakuha ko mula sa website na ito : http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Tagalog_Default_files/tagalog_idioms.htm Mayroon itong kahulugan sa Tagalog at sa Ingles (English) A agaw-buhay -- nag...