Filipino Cuisine: Filipino’s Pride!

Filipino Cuisine is one of the several things that we, Filipinos can be proud of. Aside from the fact that Filipino food is deliciously different compared to other cuisines, Filipino food is one of the best cuisines in the world’s culinary delights. So feed that appetite and allow yourself to discover the tastes of the Filipino’s pride featuring the finest dishes of our country’s best foods.

Adobo is no doubt the national dish of the Philippines. The savory tastes of either chicken or pork adobo would definitely make you crave for more. This kind of dish became famous to the Americans because it suits their inquisitive tastes. Another famous dish from our country is Sinigang. A dish made typically sour that fits that tastes of every Filipinos. It is best cooked with pork, shrimp or fish, with some ingredients like gabi, labanus, sitaw or kangkong, etc., and then it would already be a perfect dish good for a meal. Pinakbet (Ilocano’s best) is an outstanding vegetarian main dish in the Philippines. It is one of the healthiest food; a mixture of different kinds of vegetables that is good for the body. Menudo and Lumpiang Shanghai are the all time favorites of the Filipinos. Those dishes are always present whenever there is an occasion such as fiestas and birthday parties. Aside from those dishes that ere mentioned, there are still lots of kinds of dishes, Filipino cuisine has to offer. We still have Afritada, Caldereta, Tinola, Dinuguan, Paksiw na isda, and a lot more. But wait! I haven’t mentioned yet my favorite! Who would not love to see a whole roast pig, Lechon, which is always the center of attention in any Filipino celebration? Unless you’re a high-blooded person or someone with heart disease! Huh! That would definitely end your life! (Oh God! My appetite starts to claim!).

Filipino cuisine has been constantly evolving to unite regional or even international influences on food. It is an interesting mix of foods from several different cultures all over the world including Spanish, Malay, Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, Arab, Mexican and American cuisines.

Over the centuries, foreign traders and invaders introduced new ingredients, new cooking styles and new food combinations to indigenous Filipino food staples and methods of food preparation. But despite these outside influences on Filipino culture and diet, modern Filipino cuisine has developed its own distinct characteristics, which made it stand out among other cuisines.

U + Ur hand

Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh oh
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh oh

Check it outGoing out
On the late night
Looking tight
Feeling nice
It's a **** fight
I can tellI just know
That it's going down
Tonight

At the door we don't wait cause we know them
At the bar six shots just beginning
That's when ? put his hands on me
But you see
I'm not here for your entertainment
You don't really want to mess with me tonight

Just stop and take a second
I was fine before you walked into my life
Cause you know it's over
Before it began

Keep your drink just give me the money
It's just you and your hand tonight

Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh oh
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh oh

Midnight
I'm drunk
I don't give a ***k
Wanna dance
By myself
Guess you're outta luck
Don't touch
Back up
I'm not the one
Alright
Listen up it's just not happening
You can say what you want to your boyfriends
Just let me have my fun tonight

I'm not here for your entertainment
You don't really want to mess with me tonight
Just stop and take a second
I was fine before you walked into my life
Cause you know it's over
Before it began
Keep your drink just give me the money
It's just you and your hand tonight

Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh oh
Break break
Break it down
In the corner with your boys you bet up five bucks
To get at the girl that just walked in but she thinks you suck
We didn't get all dressed up just for you to see
So quit spilling your drinks on me yeah
You know who you are
High fivin, talkin ****, but you're going home alone arentcha?
Cause I'm not here for your entertainment
No
You don't really want to mess with me tonight
Just stop and take a second
Just stop and take a second
I was fine before you walked into my life
Cause you know it's over
Know it's over
Before it began
Keep your drink just give me the money
It's just you and your hand tonight
It's just you and your hand
I'm not here for your entertainment
No no no
You don't really want to mess with me tonight
Just stop and take a second
Just take a second
I was fine before you walked into my life
Cause you know it's over
Before it began
Keep your drink just give me the money
It's just you and your hand tonight
Yeah oh

Welcome to the Black Parade by: My Chemical Romance

When I was a young boy,

My father took me into the city

To see a marching band.

He said, "Son when you grow up,

would you be the savior of the broken,

the beaten and the damned?"

He said "Will you defeat them,

your demons, and all the non-believers,

the plans that they have made?"

"Because one day I'll leave you,

A phantom to lead you in the summer,

To join The Black Parade.

"When I was a young boy,

My father took me into the city

To see a marching band.

He said, "Son when you grow up,

would you be the savior of the broken,

the beaten and the damned?

"Sometimes I get the feeling she's watching over me.

And other times I feel like I should go.

And through it all, the rise and fall,

the bodies in the streets.

And when you're gone we want you all to know.

We'll carry on,We'll carry on

And though you're dead and gone believe me

Your memory will carry onWe'll carry on

And in my heart I can't contain it

The anthem won't explain it.

A world that sends you reeling from decimated dreams

Your misery and hate will kill us all.

So paint it black and take it back

Let's shout it loud and clear

Defiant to the end we hear the call

To carry on

We'll carry on

And though you're dead and gone believe me

Your memory will carry on

We'll carry on

And though you're broken and defeated

Your weary widow marches

On and on we carry through the fears

Ooh oh ohhhh

Disappointed faces of your peers

Ooh oh ohhhh

Take a look at me cause I could not care at all

Do or die, you'll never make me

Because the world will never take my heart

Go and try, you'll never break me

We want it all, we wanna play this part

I won't explain or say I'm sorry

I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scar

Give a cheer for all the broken

Listen here, because it's who we are

I'm just a man, I'm not a hero

Just a boy, who had to sing this song

I'm just a man, I'm not a heroI! don't! care!

We'll carry on

We'll carry on

And though you're dead and gone believe me

Your memory will carry on

We'll carry on

And though you're broken and defeated

Your weary widow marches on

Do or die, you'll never make me

Because the world will never take my heart

Go and try, you'll never break me

We want it all, we wanna play this part

(We'll carry on)

Do or die, you'll never make me

(We'll carry on)

Because the world will never take my heart

(We'll carry on)

Go and try, you'll never break me

(We'll carry)

We want it all, we wanna play this part (We'll carry on)

I can't wait

I'm crossing the road all alone

Looking for someone to be my own:

Someone that will be forever mine:

Who will cross the road with me,

at all timeWaiting,

searching,

even praying:

Wishing God to heed my calling.

Oh, please tell me,

when will it be?

Can't wait for the person that is destined for me.

At last, I found you

Hope you like me too

Can't understand this new feeling

Wherever I look, you're the one I'm seeing

Oh, God, guide me, is this love that I'm in

Or a mere infatuation, or just nothing it seems

But if it is love then I can't wait to tell

That I love him and he's my everything

Very glad I have met you

You fill the empty space in my heart-that's what you do

But still, I don't know how you really feel,

If it is love or friendship still.

Time passes and days run so fast

Even the happiness that I felt

thought it would last

Discovered that in your life and in your heart

There's no place for me to be a part.

Here I am again walking alone

No place to stay where I could call home

I thought he would join me,

In this endless journey

But instead, he broke this heart of mine

And said,

"you can forget me in time."

How can I forget if he's my life?

It's as if he tells me to take my life!

So, until now, I'm still walking

In this road I've been journeying

Still no one to call my own

Still fresh in my memory

that you left me alone

Oh, when can I forget?

These feelings for you that I regret

I really can't wait for this heart to mend

Can't wait for this endless journey to end!

What a beautiful SUNSET!!

"Wow! How beautiful it is!" shouted by a child at my back.

I ask myself that how God created this things... can you imagine how powerful He is? Look at those beautiful rays of the sun. It emphasizes the shine and the strength of God.

And those pretty clouds, it shapes like a ship which is going to north!

Ah! Wonderful! But why people don't appreciate such things... the mountains where the people lived... See, without it people will die! We can't live in waters but seawater can be a source of life...

Yes of course! There are lots of fishes and sea creatures under there! But still why people destroys the wonderful ocean? They throw garbage and even dynamite! Whaa! You almost kill the small creatures and destroy their homes such as coral reefs...

But you know, if only everyone can see like a child sees maybe people will take care of it and develop the things that can help improve our environment. I bet you! Our world will be a very beautiful place in the whole universe!

Donna Babadilla: Inspires from words of our Director.

Searching in the conference room of KABATAANG LIBERAL NG PILIPINAS, I met Ms. Donna Babadilla, an Administrator Officer of Liberal Party. And I asked her “what is the hardest part of being an Admin Officer?”

And she answered me “To collect funds – And you know, this heavy part becomes lighter one because of the lines from Director General Ely Quinto, ‘Magiging madali lang ang collection kung magiging maayos lang ang ating serbisyo.’ Challenge and sparks come on my mind when those words had passed in my ears.”

Wow! I was amazed on her but later on I’m disappointed. Disappointed for myself and for my own countrymen. If only Filipino People hear those words, maybe it will become a big mark or a big change in life!

Those words helped me to realize that all of us have eyes, tongue and ears but still we are blind, mute and deaf. Blind because we cannot see our problems even though we already saw it. Mute because we can’t speak even we can. Deaf because we can’t hear even we already heard the yell and the cry from people out there.

Shamed on me, you and us! And you know what! The very difficult part for me is to accept the fact that we can do those services but we didn’t do it because no one wants to do it! Right?

But the question is, why?

Why? Because we expected anybody will do it! And Everybody must do it but no one did it!

And now, it is time! And KABATAANG LIBERAL NG PILIPINAS wants to changed it! Because maybe it is time, time to realized that we Filipino must do our own jobs and responsibilities. Maybe it is time to know that we can do those things if only we know how to use it properly.

Let us prove that we are not BLIND, MUTE and DEAF! We are capable in everything! And that what’s KALIPI is looking for!