September this year will mark 100 years since the execution of Makaryo Sakay and the beginning of the end for what the Americans called "the Philippine Insurrection" but is more properly remembered as the Filipino-American Bloody Date-Rape. An ugly example of bullying, it has been conveniently forgetten by both sides, which is seen in the relatively few books and fewer movies about this non-event. Even its eerie reproduction in today's Mesopotamia fails to jog what has been thoroughly repressed: they keep referring to Iraq as a second Vietnam and fail to note that Vietnam was a second Philippines. The Empire was born on our soil and in return we made them bleed for a decade. And so we were punished with forgetfulness so thorough that both the New Yorker and her caregiver don't even know the reasons why, once upon a time, their ancestors were shooting each other in the jungle. But why care for history, dead and dry, when our countries are such good buddies now. They take our smart young people and we get their coffee and trans-fat. Hating kapatid?
Thursday, January 25, 2007
nasarapan ba tayo sa hotdog ni sam?
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waw naman mehn haneps ang timing ng post nato, just when I've totally sold out! it hurts, you know! kelangan pa bang i-memorize yan?!?
a basta lumaki ako sa Sesame Street sa tulong ng Fisher-Price at ni manong Walt Disney pero di ako FOB material at pinalagpas ng tatay ko na sumanib sa USAF nung may pagkakataon pa sya dahil tapat daw ang paglilingkod at panunumpa nya sa Inang Bayan shems.
Nope, doesn't even ring a bell, this date. I had no idea there was so much tied to it. @.@
~Alex
Makes no sense to be loyal to a country when we barely even know or care about its story. Warming oceans will rise making RP real estate worth shit anyway. Invest in Canada, a temperate, non-nuclear, above sea-level white wilderness. If enough of us go we can take over Saskatchewan. Take that, mounties!
or quebec! a good rallying point for our troops, being adjacent to choke points. now all we need is a land commander
sakto may kras akong taga-canada, kaso baka di rin naman sya magtagal don. ahahahahaha. pwede ba natin mapatunayan ang existence ng bigfoot don? basta magkaron lang ako ng pet moose at grizzly, solb nako. oh, & feast on maple syrupy bacon, YUM.
wala na talaga akong pakelam sa kasaysayan ng ating Inang Bayan... nakakapanlumo lang eh. haaaaaayyy. papatiwakal na lang ako yahuuu punta kayo dala kayo kape't biskwit.
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