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Filipino is the “language of the streets” – “how you spoke to the tindera when you went to the tindahan, what you used to tell your katulong that you had an utos, and how you texted manong when you needed sundo na.”

These lines, found in a “Manila Bulletin” column now circulating on social media, aroused sentiments that champion the Filipino language Thursday as the nation winds down its commemoration of August as the National Language Month.

James Soriano, who wrote the column titled “Language, Learning, Identity, Privilege,” contextualized his piece in his experience of learning English as his “mother language.” Soriano said he was required to speak English at home, had all his books in English, and even prayed in English.

“Filipino, on the other hand, was always the ‘other’ subject — almost a special subject like PE or Home Economics, except that it was graded the same way as Science, Math, Religion, and English,” he said in his column originally posted Wednesday.

“My classmates and I used to complain about Filipino all the time. Filipino was a chore, like washing the dishes; it was not the language of learning. It was the language we used to speak to the people who washed our dishes,” Soriano added. - GMANews.TV

Read Language, learning, identity, privilege by James Soriano here.

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I once chatted up with a cab driver on my way home, two years ago.

He asked me if I wanted to listen to his life story, and I thought why not, right? He told me he married young, separated after 10 years of unhappiness, and got left behind in the Philippines as his wife and his three children…

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by Sol Palakol, Lala Torres, Mots and Raffy Parcon, this is their version of Ben Heine’s Pencil vs Camera.

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• Let’s grow old together… beginning with today. 
• Let’s work slowly with each other and build a relationship that we can both enjoy being a part of. 
• Let’s share love and understand that neither of us is perfect; we are both subject to human frailties. 
• Let’s hold each other close and whisper though the night—pledging our love, honoring our commitment. 
• Let’s encourage each other to pursue our dreams, even when we’re weary from trying. 
• Let’s expect the best that we both have to give and still love when we fall short of our expectations. 
• Let’s be friends and respect each other’s individual personality and give one another room to grow. 
• Let’s be candid with each other and point out strengths and weaknesses. 
• Let’s understand each other’s personal philosophy, even if we don’t agree. 
• Let’s lie awake long into the night sharing our innermost secrets. 
• Let’s be friends as well as lovers. 
• Let’s laugh at time and plan with each other and wonder how we ever got along without this love we’ve found. 
• Let’s never take for granted these moments that we’ve shared, but always be reminded of how intensely we have learned to live, how completely we have learned to love. 
• Let’s grow old together… and look back on life and smile.

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Country’s 1st Plant Billboard Launched

Ever heard of a billboard that helps protect the environment?

The plant billboard, the first in the country, was made possible through the partnership of beverage giant Coca-Cola Philippines and environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

The 60x60-foot billboard located along EDSA-Forbes area, will use thriving species of Fukien tea plant , which is known to absorb air pollutants.

The plants are spread across the billboard with a space in the center in the shape of a Coca-Cola bottle.

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Prince Harry laughing at his own joke as William tries his best to remain focused 

Still wondering what he was saying. :)

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