my father´s father a japanese,but my father´s mother is a spanish,while my mother´s mother is a chinese and my mother´s father is a one of Admiral Douglas McArthur´s army which decided to stay in Philippines and raised a family.

My mother though her mother was a chinese never learned a single word of chinese languages probably because she was only three years old when her mother died while delivering her sister who happened to be dead due of difficult labor.

I grew-up having only one grandma(my father´s mother) because both of my lolo´s from my mom and dad passed-away before i was even born.My lola´s still good in speaking spanish but because none of my neighbors could speak spanish to her,she only had to speak to herself and sometimes to me which makes me confused as well,the only thing i learned from her that i never forgot is counting in spanish words because every sack of pilinut we had to sell to merchants had to be counted,during my years kilogram wasn´t popular,even rice sold in ganta(1 ganta of rice= approximately 2kl. of rice)now in kilo many complained about being cheated,no wonder it is so easy to manipulate such device.

While in elementary i had to learn Social Studies(using both english/pilipino as medium,because most of our local and international agencies are both in english/pilipino)KKK;KBL;DECS;NEDA;UNICEF;WHO;etc.while on pilipino subject it was really all in pilipino,but all the rest of my school subject used english.

Natuto akong magbasa,magbilang at gamit ang tagalog o pilipinong salita dahil iyon ang itinuturo sa iskul namin at liban dyan nabihasa rin ang kaalaman ko sa tagalog ng maging isa ako sa masugid na tagasubaybay ng mga komiks na nakakakilig at kapupulutan ng aral at maging ang musikang pilipino ay palagi akong bumibili ng mga songhits na may mga kantang pilipino at syimpre pa ang sarap sabayan sa pag-awit ang mga batikang mang-aawit gaya ni Imelda Papin,Nora Aunor,Vilma Santos,Sharon Cuneta,Freddie Aguilar.Napag-alaman ko rin ang kasaysayan ng ating bansa sa pamamagitan ng mga librong salin sa tagalog ng ating dakilang bayaning si Gat.Jose Rizal.

Masarap ang may kaunting kaalaman sa mga lengguwaheng alam mong makakatulong sa iyong sariling pag-unlad dahil kung nakakatulong sayo ay nakakatulong na rin ito sa bansang mahal mo.Dahil ang tagumpay mo ay tagumpay ng bansang mahal mo.Gaya ng Panatang Makabayan:

Iniibig ko ang Pilipinas,
Ito ang tahanan ng aking lahi.
Ako´y kanyang kinukupkop at tinutulungan upang maging malusog,maligaya at kapaki-pakinabang.

Bilang ganti diringgin ko ang payo ng aking mga magulang,
Susundin ko ang mga alituntunin ng aming paaralan.
Paglilingkuran ko ang aking bayan ng walang pag-iimbot at ng buong katapatan.Sisikapin kung maging isang tunay na pilipina sa isip,sa puso,sa salita at sa gawa.

In English:

I love the Philippines,
It is the home of my people.
It protect and helped me to becomes strong happy and useful.

In retrospect,i´d listen to my parents,
Obey my school rules and regulations,
Serve my country,without greed and with sincerity.
I´d tried to be a true filipina,in mind,in heart,in words and deeds.

Masarap pakinggan ang tagalog at english kung itoý iyong naintindihan,alinman wika ang ating natutuhan sa bansang kinamulatan itoý isang ilaw sa ating buhay.

I was glad having to speak my native tongue(bicol)while growing-up in bicol region,but i do appreciates i´d learned tagalog and successfully had a bit knowledge of english,if not thru english,i don´t think i will be lucky enough to see otherside of the globe.

Howie,as for me it is BET(Bicol,English,Tagalog) that helped me becomes strong enough to travel around,if it is only local languages i´d learned,i´d would never understand other nationalities,Do you know thru english,we could communicate with educated people around the world,with english i could cummunicate with any nationalities as long as they too went to school to learned english as their second language in their home country.

Oo mahal ko ang sariling wika pero iyan ay nagagamit lang natin sa kapwa natin pilipino na marunong ng sariling wika.Kaya kung pinoy/pinay ang kausap ko tagalog ang gamit ko at kung dayuhan inglis dahil doon ko lang sila maiintindihan iyan ay kung marunong din sila ng wikang inglis pero kung kahit inglis ay wala silang alam ay sign-languages na lang.

Now that majority of Philippines residents are chinese,soon Philippines might be a mandarin or fukien speaking country.I was once saw Dr.Jose Rizal in person(ghostly appearance)but in a wink of eye he was gone,but onething i remember He was holding his books"Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo" on his left hand but on his right hand he was holding the flag of RP but its red color was above the blue.Does it indicate that there could be a war going to happen again or it is a reminder for his countrymen to remember all his sacrifices just to free his people from being slave of spanish colonizer and be brave enough to fight for Philippines sovereignity?

Sa totoo lang kaya magulo ng husto ang ating bansa dahil sa maraming bansa ang gusto sakupin muli ang bansa pero nasa pilipino naman ang kapangyarihan mahadlangan yan kung ayaw nilang sakupin ng ibang bansa.Sa ngayon Tsina,Japan,SK ang pinakamalakas na nagpapatakbo ng alinman sangay maging sa gobyerno,ekonomiya,medya at kalakalan.Gayunman hindi ko naman masasabing kalaban natin ang Tsina dahil ang ina natin ay galing Tsina(Ts Ina) at hindi rin natin pwedeng kalabanin ang mga hapon dahil 70% of filipino populace ay may lahing hapon.Hindi rin natin pwedeng kalabanin ang mga espanyol dahil may dugo rin tayong espanyol,hindi rin natin pwedeng kalabanin ang mga puti dahil may dugo rin tayo ng mga puti,ang mga koreano naman silang nagbibigay ng trabaho sa mga jobless filipinos,yon nga lang unti-unti rin silang pinapatay,siguro para mabawasan ang sobrang dami ng pilipino para kung kaunti na ang pinoy ay madali na lang masakop ng Korea ang Pilipinas.Ano sa palagay nyo?

Panahon na siguro para gamitin ng buong pilipino ang wikang tagalog bilang pinakamahalagang wika na mag-uugnay sa ating lahat bilang isang bansa,isang diwa,isang salita.Iyan ang pangarap ni Gat Jose Rizal ang maging ganap na isang bansa sa pamamagitan ng paggamit ng isang wika,pero hindi umobra dahil sa pagiging makulit ng mga pilipino.

Panahon ng WW2 ang kwento ng lola ko ang hindi raw noon magsalita ng kastila,tagalog o english ay pinapatay ng mga kano dahil ibig sabihin sila ay mga hapon,dahil gusto ng mga puti lipulin lahat ng natitirang hapon sa bansa,pero may mga mapalad na nakaligtas gaya ng ama ng aking ama at iba pang mga masuwerteng nakaligtas sa kalaban nilang mga puti.

Pero ang nakakagulat paglipas ng ilang dekada ang dati magkaaway na mga mananakop ay magkumpare at magbalae na dahil ang mga anak nila ay pinagtagpo ng tadhana.

Sa aking obserbasyon ang magkaaway kung marunong magpatawad sa isa´t isa ay nagbubunga ng matamis na pag-ibig.Sana ganon na lang ang gawin ng israelitas at palestinyo mag-asawahan sila para ang mga anak nila ang magsilbing pundasyon ng kanilang pagkakaunawaan at pagkakaisa.

At kung mga muslim at kristiyano sa Mindanao ay magmamahalan wala na sanang dadanak na dugo,at kung marunong din sana magmahal ang mga muslim sa hindi nila kapanalig sa relihiyon o paniniwala ay wala sanang giyerang magaganap.

Malaysian,Indonesians MILF are the main supporter of arms and money of those muslim extremist in Mindanao,up to now they want Mindanao so badly for them to used as their breeding ground and soon they will occupied the rest of Visaya´s and Luzon if not by the pressence of chinese,i think the whole PI is already a muslim world.

I have nothing against a muslim faith,i find them more holy than those people who pretend to be christian but all the time they do evilism,but what i don´t like from muslim belief is their practice of having many wives,it is for them legal but on christian belief it is adultery.Many so called christian committed adultery and few muslim thought it was indeed hypocrisy,it wasn´t hypocrisy but a knowingly wrong committed by christian easily tempted and they have to accept the wages of it which is death not in gas chamber or in any human justice but in Divine justice.It is written anyone sinned on the Holy Spirit is unforgiven.

Kaya mga nagkasala ng kasalanan alam naman nilang mali ay wala ng kapatawaran sa Diyos,kahit ilan beses pa silang humingi ng tawad at magsisi.

By the way is adultery authorized in bhuddist countries?

Kasi karamihan rin sa mga lalaking hapon at intsik ay maraming asawa.