Michael
A culture of avoidance
From: Alfredo Roces <alfredo.roces@gmail.com>
Sent: Tue, June 21, 2011 4:28:04 AM
Subject: Fwd: Sagot ng Pinoy
SAGOT NG PINOY
Ang Pinoy hindi tumama-tama ang sagot kahit maayos ang tanong… 🙁
Q: Kumain ka na ba?
A: Busog pa ako.
Q: Saan kayo galing?
A: Lumabas lang kami sandali.
Q: Paano mo ginawa ‘yan?
A: Madali lang.
Q: Bakit wala ka kahapon?
A: Absent ako.
Q: Anong oras na?
A: […]
Re-editing the teaching of Philippine History and Society
After teaching this course since 2007 in various colleges and more recently in 2013 at City College SF, the instructional administrator requested that courses taught after six years are mandated to be revised otherwise, they will be delisted from the catalog. I believe this to be a requirement by some arcane school district statute. Nevertheless […]
Luna’s Railroad
El Ferrocaril Manila a Dagupan
Watching the movie Heneral Luna, in the film of the same title, recalled my labors at the Philippine National Railroad archives in Tutuban, Manila. Before it became a shopping mall, the old station in the 70’s was still the train depot for the North (Dagupan) and South (Bikol) lines. Sectioned off […]
Filipino cinema: Defining character in Marilou Diaz Abaya films
(Screenshot from “Karnal” )
The passing of director Marilou Diaz-Abaya at the young age of 57 is a loss for Philippine cinema. Just as she was evolving a more complex visualization of the Filipino/a character in her later movies in their struggle for dignity amidst suffering and violence, and the eternal hope for peace, she herself […]
What’s In A Name? P.I. (Philippine Islands.) is Politically Incorrect
I teach Phillippine history in a American community college and I flinch everytime a bright-eyed student would refer about his/her or recent trip to P.I. with their parents. P.I., of course means Philippine Islands and to most Filipinos familiar with U.S. colonialism of the Philippines, it is a politically incorrect term. That much I learned […]
Thriving, nay, Exultant Filipino/American Art in the Bay Area
Asian Art Museum, Thursday Talks May 21 2015 7:00-8:30 P.M.
After a decade of not following the Filipino-American “art scene” (I was busy completing a doctorate), I was treated along with some 200 people, to a visual feast of works by five Filipino/American artists presented by the Asian Art Museum Thursday Series. It […]
The Jeepney Pope Mobile
Pope Francis is visiting Manila on January 15. His fans and supporters saw it fit that he travels on a jeepney, that quintessential vehicle Filipino makers fashioned out of US WWII reparations junk into a Filipino version of a stretch limo. Only this time, according to writer, Jason Ang, the Pope mobile is fully custom-built for His […]
Rizal’s Tango
Proudly, my guitar teacher, Jose Ma. Pellicer, revealed that the guitar piece I was about to learn was taught by Fernando Canon. The name did not register anything to me at that time- I was not into Rizaliana then. Mr. Pellicer, added further, that this was Jose Rizal’s favorite guitar piece and, according to Fernando […]
Influential books, Part I
There are a few books about the Philippine colonial experienc that I consider influential in changing how I view Filipino history for that period. For a historian, these books are a milestone because they cause a shift in one’s thinking, if not a paradigm shift at how a history is to be interpreted. Of course […]
Review: Music, performance and the archive of memories: Harana, the search for the lost art of the serenade (film by Florante Aguilar and Benito Bautista)
Harana: The Movie is the kind of film that brings up a host of memories. It is also a film of missed opportunities. As viewers of film, we tend to check the visual (and aural) scenes with our personal experiences, albeit at times, distanced from time and place. As a Filipino in diaspora, who I believe […]
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