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Once upon a time I was taking Tagalog classes and one of my classmates during an exercise says, “Gusto ako mag gumawa ng Filipino food sa trak.”

I said, “Talaga? Sigi, gumawa that shiet. I’d love to see that one day”.

Who knew that day would come so fast? (That’s what she said.)

The Irish-Filipino chef, William, is now on Facebook and Twitter, and… somewhere in the Bay Area.

“What’s the proper name for one of those?”

“Easy! Balisong. Its Filipino.”

NO, its pronounced “Boang-ka-Nicolas-Cage-mo-buslot-imong-anak-diha-leche.”

(Photo 2005 Gregory C. Tyler)

“U.S. Marines from Okinawa-based 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and Philippines Marines celebrate the completion of Amphibious Landing Exercise 2006 at Marine Base Ternate, Philippines, Oct. 29, 2005, with a traditional Philippine military lunch called a “boodle fight.”

In a boodle fight, Filipino foods are served on top of leaves laid out on a series of long tables. The participants line both sides of the table and grab the food with bare hands, enjoying the friendship established during the exercise.

The annual bilateral Philippines and United States exercise is designed to improve interoperability, increase readiness and continue professional relationships between the U.S. and Philippines armed forces. Approximately 5,000 U.S. and Philippines military personnel participated in the exercises.”

(Via Webshots.com)

What is a boodle fight? Its a food fight during peacetime.

Adobo Magazine is holding a screening of some of the best Filipino indie films of 2009 but I won’t be able to make it because the commute is A FEW THOUSAND MILES.

What adds to my pain is that they just announced they’ll be showing Brillante Mendoza’s “Kinatay” instead of Brillante Mendoza’s “Lola”. Just keep replacing movies made by him with more movies made by him and i’ll swim over there myself.

So on April 23rd, instead of watching a movie about extra-judicial killings, a lonely accountant, and one of Quentin Tarantino’s favorites during last year’s Cannes, i’ll be hitting myself with a banana.

Engkwentro

The Arrival

Kinatay

It looks K-pop but it doesn’t look OPM (original Pilipino music).

Maybe its because I hate boy bands?

(via Celebrity Pulp)