So, you might have noticed the nearly all-Filipino entry I wrote in there. Well...let me just say I had a realization.
I do come from the country's premiere state university, and though speaking in English is highly considered academical,
among many other things, it's just hypocritical if I don't speak in Tagalog as well. It just dawned on me as I
was reading UP Diliman's banner paper, The Philippine Collegian (or Kule to us). Everything written spoke volumes
of the sweeping activist sentiment of UP students, or at least the Collegian staffers, and though there were things in
that paper that I don't really agree with, I guess that some of the other things I am one with is loyalty to one's origins.
For example, it does look bad when you rally against globalization clad in a Tommy Hilfiger shirt and Girbaud pants.

I guess it's the same for national sentiment. Being a UP student, I take pride in being honed in decades-old bastion of
academic freedom that is UP. I believe that UP represents some of the best that the Philippines has to offer, and naturally,
as part of UP I am part of that best...but it does look bad when you can't even think of those good qualities in straight
Filipino.

But then again, to deny Pinoy pop culture - which is basically an invasion of the west - is an exercise in futility.

Anyway, what I'm trying my hand at is, at least in thought, be able to express myself in Filipino. Or at the very least,
contemporary Pinoy speak.

I'll have to cross my fingers.