Word: tagalogs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...maximize profit." Pacquiao knows he wants more than he has, more than boxing can give. At the stadium, he retails anecdotes from his life to a couple of Filipinos and repeats what seems to be both an assertion and a lesson learned. "'Di ako bobo," he says in Tagalog. "'Di ako bobo." "I'm not stupid...
...fighter appears anxious as the evening wears on. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out sheets of paper - his acceptance speech, in English. While Pacquiao has no problem understanding English, which is widely used in the Philippines, he is much more comfortable speaking Tagalog, the national language, and Cebuano, the dialect he grew up with. But he is a hit with the New York City audience. All he really has to do is grin, and they are in his hands. A Filipino listening to the speech, however, senses the trouble Pacquiao will face if he decides...
Soft-core porn has rarely been as wonderfully unsexy as in Filipino director Brillante Mendoza’s thoroughly engaging drama “Serbis.” Rather than exposing the unseen underworld of the sex-for-sale industry, the film—shot in Tagalog with English subtitles—explores the complex moral conflicts that all-too-guilty pleasures cause in a country like the Philippines, itself conflicted by the secular influences left by decades as a Western territory on its actively religious tradition. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film...
...does much more than dream. Lucky enough to have supportive employers who gave her the freedom to pursue her interests, Unite not only released a studio-produced album of her own feel-good and catchy ballads in Tagalog and English last year; she even managed to establish a charity that has donated thousands of books and used computers to rural schools around her home town of Ballesteros. Starting from scratch, on her days off, she mustered funds and volunteers from across Hong Kong's social strata. "At first," she remembers, "people would ask me, 'What are you doing, thinking...
...Back in Hong Kong, the amahs are known by the Tagalog nickname bayani. As we walked toward the Philippines consulate, they explained to me that it translates as heroine, which is what most of these women are to the family and friends they've left behind. Plagued by poverty and unemployment, the Philippines has exported about 8 million workers, the vast majority of whom are women. In the first half of last year, these mothers, sisters and daughters sent home more than $8 billion in remittances, roughly 10% of the country's GDP. That dollar figure is expected to double...