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Filipino Word of the Day!
* asawa (genderless): spouse, husband, wife
* kabiyak (genderless): other half, significant other; deeper and more romantic version of “asawa”
If you want to literally translate “husband”, it is “asawang lalaki”; or “wife”, it's “asawang babae”; although it's rarely used/formed that way unless the context demands this level clarity.
Also, be careful pronouncing “asawang lalaki/babae", otherwise it might sound “aswang” which means “monster”, “ugly”, “scary”.
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Use in a sentence!
Roberto: Ito nga pala ang aking pinakamamahal na kabiyak, si Lala. (This my lovely significant half, Lala.)
Lala (using higher level of speech politeness and formality): Kumusta sa inyo. Ako si Lala, ang butihing asawa ni Roberto. (How do you do. I am Lala, the good wife of Roberto.)
#Philippines #Pilipinas #Wika #Language #Filipino #BuwanNgWika #NationalLanguageMonth #Culture
In the Philippines, a wife can choose between 4 name formats:
First, the full names of the couple:
* Husband's First Name: John Francisco
* Husband's Middle Name (mother's maiden family name): Balagtas
* Husband's Family Name (father's family name): Cohen
And…
* Wife's First Name: Maria Jessica Jane
* Wife's Middle Name (mother's maiden family name): Kurios
* Wife's Family Name (father's family name): Makiling
The 4 options:
1. Retain their maiden name: Maria Jessica Jane Kurios Makiling
2. Hyphenate her husband's family name: Maria Jessica Jane Kurios Makiling-Cohen
3. Adopt her husband's family name: Maria Jessica Jane Makiling Cohen
- note: “Makiling” becomes her “Middle Name”, and ”Cohen” her family name”
4. Adopt her husband's full name but should be prefixed with Mrs., like so: Mrs. John Francisco Balagtas Cohen
Notes:
* The No. 3 option is the most common because of “traditions”.
* The No. 1 and No. 2 options are gaining popularity.
* The No. 4 option is rarely used. -- I remember reading that there were incidents wherein it became an issue in some countries, the immigration officer assumed they're holding a fake passport. In one case, the immigration officer understood it as they're brother and sister, not husband and wife, and their country requires that a wife should be accompanied by their husband.
Last, but not the least, I want to bring attention to the “Middle Name”.
a. A “Middle Name” in the Philippines is generally the family name of their mother before their mother was married.
b. In the No. 3 option, if a wife chooses it, her “married Middle Name” is her “maiden family name”, she drops her “mother's maiden family name”.
This is important to know because this usage of “Middle Name” is unique in the Philippines.
In other countries, a middle name can be:
* Whatever is in the middle of their full name.
Example: Maria Jessica Jane Kurios Makiling, the middle name is “Jane” not “Kurios”.
* It can also be the middle or second “first name”. In “John Francisco”, the middle name is “Francisco”.
* Or, the family name of the father because the father's family name is written first, like so: John Francisco Cohen Balagtas.
* And, in most other countries, it is either the father's or mother's surname only.
Example: Maria Jessica Jane Kurios; or Maria Jessica Jane Makiling
The Philippine naming convention is the only one of its kind today.
* “First Name” - can be one to 100 if you like.
* “Middle Name” - mother's maiden family name.
* “Family Name” - father's family name / surname.
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Are you a foreigner visiting the #Philippines this week, or already here?
Starting tomorrow, Thursday and up to Sunday, it is a holiday in the entire country. It is what #Christians and #Catholics call “Holy Week”.
* Maundy Thursday
* Good Friday
* Black Saturday
* Easter Sunday
What to expect:
1. Thursday to Saturday: malls, and most restaurants and fast foods, and other establishments, will be closed.
Some establishments in and around tourist spots may choose to operate, but in a limited capacity, so please be patient.
If you need to buy something, your best bet are convenient stores, as some branches remain open. But more likely with limited hours (and supply).
2. Train operations will be closed for 3 (sometimes 4) days.
3. Regular public transportation will be limited.
4. Buses are fully-booked because of Filipinos travelling back to their provinces.
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Don't be surprised if you find a lot of establishments closed and the towns are like ghost towns.
Enjoy your stay!
To everyone in the #Philippines, especially foreigners and those planning to visit our beautiful country, make it a habit to:
___Bring a liter of water at all times.___
The heat index (or feels like) is now at 38°C (I don't know what it is in °F we don't use that). This is still, actually, cool for us locals.
In the coming weeks, and months, it might go up as high as 45°C, like it did in the last few years (even without #ElNiño). 42°C – 45°C is what we locals consider very hot, and there are locals who collapses, or die, because of heat exhaustion. (Watch out for announcements of heat waves too.)
Now, if you're a foreigner who came from colder countries, you definitely are not accustomed to this weather. So, don't even dare assume "you can do it". Bring water with you at all times, especially if you have existing conditions.
Mineral water is highly recommended, preferably between pH8 and pH10 (alkaline levels). Distilled/purified water are below pH6 (acidic levels). Of course, if your doctor said you can not drink alkaline/mineral water, then don't. Especially people who can't process minerals.
#BeSafe #BeCool If you do it right, you'll discover that #ItsMoreFunInThePhilippines @pilipinas
The #AsiaArtistAwards2023 is happening tomorrow evening at the Philippine Arena, #Bulacan, #Philippines.
The #AsiaArtistAwards (아시아 아티스트 어워즈) is mostly #Kpop and #Kdrama artists.
All the foreign attendees, especially the celebrities, started arriving early morning today. Most will more likely leave Friday evening, the 15th after taking some rest.
I hope we can give them a very good experience and memory.
#Asia #Awards #AwardsNight #Pilipinas #ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜉᜒᜈᜐ᜔ #필리핀 #AAA #아시아아티스트어워즈 #Asian
Local #Fandoms behave!
And I hope those who will visit the Philippines for the first time will also agree that #ItsMoreFunInThePhilippines!
@kpop@chirp.social @kpop@a.gup.pe @kdrama@chirp.social @kdrama@a.gup.pe @philippines@lemmy.world @Philippines@chirp.social @pilipinas@readit.buzz @pilipinas@lemmy.ml @pinoy@chirp.social @pinoy@a.gup.pe
Equally important GOLD #Philippines Medalists in the 19th #AsianGames
* 1st G: Pole vault by EJ Uy Obiena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTbc4jxDrzI
* 2nd G: #JuJitsu by Meggie Ochoa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DII2mDdz-bU
* 3rd G: Jujitsu by Annie Ramirez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CijUFC0R5g
Rare moments when the Philippine flag, and the National Anthem “Lupang Hinirang” (#ChosenLand) was raised and played over at #China.
Watch as the #Philippines National Anthem entitled “Lupang Hinirang” (#ChosenLand) is played and the Philippine flag raised over at #China in the 19th #AsianGames #basketball championship!
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Watch the highlights of the #Philippines vs #Jordan GOLD medal match for the 19th #AsianGames #basketball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-r-gVo_m3w
Congratulations! Mabuhay #Pilipinas!
It's a rainy #ManicMonday here in the #Philippines. I hope everyone gets to their school and work safe and dry.
Happy 125th Independence from Spain my beloved Nation, the Philippines!
(Which ironically, we're still using the name they gave us.)
For today's independence post, let's talk a bit about General Pío del Pilar.
The attached image is the KKK (Katipunan) flag used by General Pío del Pilar, the namesake of barangay Pio del Pilar, #Makati City.
His flag was called “Bandila ng Matagumpay” (en: “Flag of the Triumphants”) and was first used on July 11, 1895. (And his KKK faction was called “Matagumpay” (en: “Triumphants”)
Pío del Pilar was a force to reckoned with. He liberated , defended, and participated in many battles against the Spaniards. Some of these places we know today as Mandaluyong City, Las Piñas City, the Municipality of Pateros, Taguig, the province of Nueva Ecija, parts of Cavite province, and Calamba City (in the province of Laguna), to mention a few. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%ADo_del_Pilar )
Fun facts:
* General Pío del Pilar was born in Barrio Culi-culi, San Pedro de Macati.
* Barrio Culi-culi is today's barangays Pio del Pilar and Bangkal.
* While San Pedro de Macati is now Makati City.
* His father was a farmer from Pasay City (one of the oldest cities in the country, and itself was a “kingdom” in pre-colonial times, named after Dayang-dayang (princess) Pasay, daughter of Rajah Sulayman of the “kingdom” of Maynila).
* And his mother was an embroider from Mandaluyong City.
#KKK #Katipunan #Philippines #Independence from #Spain #IndependenceDay #June12 #FilipinoMonth #Pilipinas #Ppop #Pdrama #PHdrama #IndependencePH #IndependenceDayPH #ArawNgKasarinlan #ArawNgKasarinlán #ArawNgKalayaan #History #Freedom from our oppressors!
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Now, let's put some personal perspective to this.
It's one thing to do research, or hear it from a “celebrity”, and it is totally another to learn it from an ordinary citizen (like me, who is a nobody).
From Kinder to Grade 8, I studied at a Catholic church managed school. This was from the 1980s to early 1990s. Guess what? I had gay classmates, schoolmates, and friends.
We often hear in the Philippines that the Catholic church is tolerating gays, but Protestant and Pentecostal churches will not.
That is a lie.
I studied in a Protestant church managed school in Grades 9 and 10 (mid-to-late 1990s), and we had gay classmates and schoolmates. I was close with them too.
You see, here in the Philippines, **or at least within my immediate environment**, what matters is the individual. What matters is respect.
If you are gay, bi, lesbian, so what? That doesn't make you any less than straight people. If you are white, brown, black, or you are a Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, Agnostic, Atheist, Anglican, Adventist, Jewish, Muslim, we don't care either.
(Did I mention that we had classmates and schoolmates who were black, Buddhists, Muslims, in a church-run school?)
Yes, there were discrimination, I am not saying there weren't any. But usually it comes from within the family, and some kids bring what they learn from their homes to outside. And when they do, they get reprimanded.
As I've mentioned earlier, “within my immediate environment” (like home and schools), there has always been acceptance regardless of your skin colour, origin, sexual orientation, and religion. Again, this was in the 1980s to 1990s, when supposedly fairness, equality, and human rights, weren't big a thing.
This is why I agree with Jessica when she said, “Overall, the acceptance of LGBTQAI+ individuals in the Philippines is still a complex issue **that cannot be reduced to a single factor, such as religion**.” (Emphasis mine.)
If it was simply because of religion, then the schools I attended to wouldn't even tolerate gays, but none of them did anything to (let me borrow a word) “correct” them. None. They treated all students as… well… students, period.
There are gays in our (my) family-clans. I have many gay friends too. (Just don't get offended if I'm not hugging or touching… I'm #Autistic, I don't like hugging, regardless if you are straight or a goddess.)
Is it the same in most places here in the Philippines? Is it the same with many Filipinos? I sure hope so, especially today in 2023.
With that said, I think our tourism slogan fits well: #ItsMoreFunInThePhilippines. ^_^
Have a great day. Shalom!
“Becoming Filipino” Canadian vlogger Kyle 'Kulas' Jennermann interview with CNN Philippines. (2023-06-05)
Trivia: He visited/toured/vlogged every single province in the Philippines.
(The interview was in mixed Filipino and English.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZWVB2avmQ0
He more likely knows more about the Philippines than majority of the Filipino people!