anyone from the philippines?

[heartswarm]

From manila philippines same as the girl up there > but idont know if shes still in the forum

 

 

If you're referring to me, I'm from Cavite by the way. I just travel to and from Manila daily to work. :)

[sp★rkle]

Hello!!!

 

hahaha... finally, of the same brood!!!

 

I must agree with that. Most of the Filipinos don't buy albums anymore... they'd rather be techie, buy cheap imitation mp3 players and pirate stuff. cos most of the good finds are not available here like the Coldplay merchandise (as to what extrasupervery is telling you a few posts back) or the books. Even the B-sides and other Coldplay special editions are not available here.

[sp★rkle]

BUMP BUMP!!!

 

Looking for Filipino Coldplayers!!!

 

Add me up :D

[heartswarm]

I don't visit here on a regular basis. but i do check coldplaying from time to time. I hope many Filipinos join here. Lalo na't sikat na ang Coldplay sa Pinas!

[sp★rkle]

I don't visit here on a regular basis. but i do check coldplaying from time to time. I hope many Filipinos join here. Lalo na't sikat na ang Coldplay sa Pinas!

 

Yeah but sadly not relative to Chris Brown and Rihanna :(

 

Actually nalulungkot ako na imbis na mga kantang may sense gaya ng sa Coldplay yung sumisikat, madalas yung mga kantang tungkol sa wala lang yung mas mabenta...

 

But since nung nag announce sila ng concert... haha medyo may mga nababalitaan akong mga fans ng coldplay dito sa pinas...

[heartswarm]

^yup tama ka talaga.

 

nakakainis talaga ang music taste ng karamihan sa atin.

[poisonskittles]

Hello sa lahat ng Pinoy!

xD

[salvagedstars]

Hi, I'm new here, and I'm Filipino too! :) I'm glad I've found some fellow Filipino Coldplay fans on this site.;)

[sp★rkle]

sino pang pinoy dyan??? magsilabasan kayo :D

[Guest Grace]

my tagalog is rather poor.

 

so i've got a question.

 

could anybody please translate "faith" in tagalog? is it tiwala?

plus, what whould "blind faith" be translated into tagalog?

or what would "no lies, just love" be in tagalog?

:smiley:

[sp★rkle]

my tagalog is rather poor.

 

so i've got a question.

 

could anybody please translate "faith" in tagalog? is it tiwala?

plus, what whould "blind faith" be translated into tagalog?

or what would "no lies, just love" be in tagalog?

:smiley:

 

tiwala in english could be translated in many ways depending on the context.

it can be trust or faith like what you said.

 

if you say blind faith it could mean half-heartedly trusting/believing right?

 

no lies, just love is... "walang kasinungalingan, pulos pagmamahal"

 

not quite sure. its hard to translate if your ask to translate fragments. :P

 

BTW.... HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY SA MGA PINOY!!!!

 

 

wala akong coldplaying bukas, so ngayon na ako babati hehe

 

MABUHAY ANG MGA PINOY AT PINAY SA BANSA MAN o SA IBANG BANSA!!!

[Guest Grace]

^ so is there any more appropriate word for faith?

[Guest Grace]

hey everyone!

 

sorry to bother again but i thougt about getting a tattoo in tagalog and i need some help translating the following sentence:

 

• The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
  

other than that...

"pag-ibig, pag-asa at pananampalataya" means love, hope and belief, right? (not too sure about pag-asa, though...)

 

"habang may buhay, may pag-asa" is if there's life, there's hope?

 

really appreciate your help!

 

[sp★rkle]

I hope everyone has heard the news about the typhoon that struck the Philippines. We need your prayers. A lot of people are still missing and plenty of families has lost their homes. If you guys could also send help, please do... Thank you x

 

Friends in the US and Canada who wish to help in the rescue/relief operations,you may donate through the American Red Cross. Call 1-800-435-7669.

 

Bayanihan Filipino Community Center (for people in NY): send your donations at Bayanihan Filipino Community Center, 40-21 69th St, Woodside NY 11377

[Electric.Candy]

hey everyone!

 

sorry to bother again but i thougt about getting a tattoo in tagalog and i need some help translating the following sentence:

 

• The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
  

other than that...

"pag-ibig, pag-asa at pananampalataya" means love, hope and belief, right? (not too sure about pag-asa, though...)

 

"habang may buhay, may pag-asa" is if there's life, there's hope?

 

really appreciate your help!

 

 

 

hi there! :dance:

 

'the essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.' well I could translate it, but its awful. so l'm not sure 'bout it.

 

pag-asa = hope. so yeah you're right. you might as well be familiar with the phrase 'Faith, Hope, Love' :)

 

and youre also right on the last quote :)

[heartswarm]

 

"habang may buhay, may pag-asa" is if there's life, there's hope?

 

really appreciate your help!

 

 

you're correct...to be more accurate though "habang" means "as long as" (or while). so it is actually as long as there is life, there is hope. :)

[Electric.Candy]

bumpy :mean:

[Tonsu]

I hope everyone has heard the news about the typhoon that struck the Philippines. We need your prayers. A lot of people are still missing and plenty of families has lost their homes. If you guys could also send help, please do... Thank you x

 

Friends in the US and Canada who wish to help in the rescue/relief operations,you may donate through the American Red Cross. Call 1-800-435-7669.

 

Bayanihan Filipino Community Center (for people in NY): send your donations at Bayanihan Filipino Community Center, 40-21 69th St, Woodside NY 11377

 

Hope you're OK my friend, and all good peoples of the Philippines, all our thoughts are with you. Let's hope and pray the sun will come out soon, and that with enough international support damage will be minimised as far as it can be.

 

bumpy :mean:

 

A very welcome bump Candy, thank you :)

[nancyk58]

UPDATE OF THE SITUATION IN THE PHILIPPINES (source = GMANews.TV)

 

The death toll caused by killer typhoon “Pepeng" (Parma) has risen to more than 300 - about 307 - in the various regions of Luzon, most of it in the Cordillera and Ilocos regions, as more bodies were retrieved from landslide-hit areas in Baguio City, the rest of Benguet province and Mountain Province.

 

As of Sunday 5:30 p.m., the Office of Civil Defense - Cordillera Administrative Region (OCD-CAR) said they have already accounted for 231 deaths in the region due to at least 39 landslides.

 

Of the 231 fatalities, OCD regional director Olive Luces said 152 were from Benguet, 50 were from Baguio City and 29 were from the Mt. Province.

The figure excludes the casualties from the series of landslides in Oct. 3, which Luces said resulted in the death of 19 people, 12 of them were from Benguet.

 

The rest of the casualty count, based on the latest available report of the National Disaster Coordinating Council, include 49 deaths in the Ilocos region, three in Central Luzon, one in Southern Tagalog, and four in the Bicol region.

 

Benguet Governor Nestor Fongwan said that as of Sunday morning around 175 bodies were recovered from landslide areas in Benguet, the bulk of which were recovered from sitio Little Kibungan in Barangay Puguis in La Trinidad town, while the rest came from the areas in the municipalities of Mankayan, Itogon, Atok, and Tublay.

 

Little Kibungan tragedy

At least 50 bodies were retrieved from Little Kibungan alone, where 100 residents were reported missing after loose soil slipped down the slopes covering 36 houses on the hillsides on Thursday evening

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/174355/deaths-in-luzon-due-to-pepeng-now-307-still-rising

 

NOW THE VICTIMS REALLY NEED HELP - HAVING LOST THEIR HOMES AND EVERYTHING. THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE HOUSES HAVE BEEN SEVERELY DAMAGED. - MUCH RECONSTRUCTION IS NEEDED. SO DONATE WHATEVER YOU CAN - THAT CAN BE MONEY OR GOODS. ALL KIND OF HELP IS NEEDED!

[nancyk58]

UNICEF NEWS seen on website Sunday 11/10-09:

 

UNICEF seeks $3 million for children affected by Indonesian earthquake

 

UN Flash Appeal of nearly $75 million for assistance to victims of Ketsana/Ondoy

 

UNICEF: Without a protective environment, it’s a harsh life for children

 

Nearly 70,000 children return to classes following Indonesia earthquake

 

UNICEF rapid response team on the ground in Samoa

 

Joint press release

UN Flash Appeal of nearly $75 million for assistance to victims of Ketsana/Ondoy

MANILA, 7 October 2009 - The United Nations and the Government of the Philippines presented today in Manila a joint appeal seeking $74,021,809 to meet the urgent needs of one million of those affected by Tropical Storm Ondoy (international codename Ketsana). The appeal is for six months.

 

The sudden storm dropped a month’s rainfall on Metro Manila and surrounding areas in around six hours, affecting almost four million people. More than a week after, around 335,000 people still remain in temporary evacuation centers, while many more continue to depend on humanitarian assistance from the government, and the national and international humanitarian community.

 

“The Flash Appeal seeks to generate funds in key sectors including food, shelter, water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency telecommunications and logistics, child protection, coordination and camp management,” said UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman who participated in the announcement. “It also provides for time-critical agricultural and early recovery programs.”

 

The UN has delivered food and non-food items and is committed in supporting the relief and recovery efforts of the government as long as it is needed.

 

“Families have lost their loved ones as well as their homes and livelihoods,” said Veneman. “Children have also been severely traumatized by the effects of the storms and getting them back into their daily routines is critical.”

 

The United Nations Resident Coordinator in the Philippines, Ms. Jacqui Badcock, noted that “While normalcy may have returned to many parts of the capital, over a million people in affected areas continue to be in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. A major response from the international donor community is now absolutely essential if the current operation is to be scaled up to meet the needs on the ground.”

 

Notes: A Flash Appeal is a request for funds by UN agencies responding to a sudden humanitarian crisis coordinate their response. It presents a unified set of funding needs to donors. It provides a concise overview of urgent life-saving needs and a plan to address acute needs for up to six months based on the best available information at the time of writing.

 

The partnership between the UN and the Philippines began in 1945 when the Philippines joined 49 other nations in signing the United Nations Charter in San Francisco, USA. This partnership has progressed since then into a number of development initiatives, activities and programmes. Technical, financial and other forms of assistance to the Philippines began in the late 1940s, as the country recovered from the ravages of World War II.

 

For more information, please contact:

 

Ms. Marge Francia, Communication Officer, UNICEF,

Tel + 632 901.0173, ++632 917.858.9447,

E-mail: [email protected]

 

Mr. Danton Remoto, Communication Officer, UNDP ,

Tel + 632 901.0239, ++632 918.979.3665,

E-mail: [email protected]

 

Patrick McCormick, UNICEF NY,

Tel + 1 212 326 7426,

E-mail: [email protected]

http://www.unicef.org/media/media_51364.html

[nancyk58]

GMANews.TV updates / Philippines Sunday 11 October 2009:

 

Rescuers rush to save Cordillera landslide victims

 

» Classes suspended in storm-hit NLuzon towns

 

» DA chief: 16K hectares crops in Cagayan lost to ‘Pepeng’

Some 16,000 hectares of crops in Cagayan province were lost to typhoon “Pepeng" (Parma) after it swept through Northern Luzon last weekend, but Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap insisted that the crop damage will not affect food security.

 

40 landslides in the Cordillera claim over 250 lives

10/11/2009 | 04:20 PM (Update 2 - 9:20 p.m.)

 

BAGUIO CITY - Over 40 landslides have decimated communities across the western half of the rugged Cordillera mountain range, claiming at least 250 lives with many more missing, after relentless rains brought by Typhoon Pepeng, according to the Office of Civil Defense-Cordillera Administrative Region (OCD-CAR).

 

Provincial governors, however, are claiming even higher numbers, as rescue and recovery teams are finding more bodies in mud and debris.

 

While much of the current media coverage has been on the catastrophes in Puguis, La Trinidad in Benguet and Tadian, Mt. Province, most of the other landslides have escaped public attention, occurring in areas without power and communication, and isolated by sections of roads that have given way.

 

Of the 250 officially recorded fatalities, OCD regional director Olive Luces said 164 were in Benguet, 50 in Baguio City and 29 in Mt. Province.

 

However, Mt. Province Governor Maximo Dalog, interviewed today on GMA News, said his province has already recorded 40 dead with 10 missing. He was appealing for dogs that could sniff out bodies buried in the mud and choppers for evacuating the wounded, including one survivor who needed a foot amputation to save his life.

 

"The magnitude of these landslides is the first time in recent memory," said Dalog. Hampering emergency operations in his province was the loss of electricity.

 

Benguet Governor Nestor Fongwan said that as of Sunday morning around 175 bodies were recovered from landslide areas in Benguet, most of which were recovered from Sitio Little Kibungan in Barangay Puguis in La Trinidad town, while the rest came from the municipalities of Mankayan, Itogon, Atok, and Tublay.

 

KILLER SLIDE IN MT. PROVINCE

In Mountain Province, 38 bodies were recovered on Sunday in Sitio Bulala, Barangay Kayan East in Tadian town, as an entire mountain slope gave way. Ten more are reportedly missing while the three injured were brought to the Luis Hora General Hospital in the nearby town of Bauko.

 

A hill in Sitio Bulala collapsed at 6 p.m. on Thursday due to continuous and heavy rains brought by typhoon Pepeng. Of the 32 houses, 18 were damaged totally while five damaged partially. Able-bodied residents shown their traditional unity when they took the frontline of the rescue operations, local officials said.

 

Meanwhile, in the nearby village of Bunga in Tadian town, a residential house was also buried in a separate landslide on Thursday afternoon, killing three family members while two survived.

 

EXTENSIVE INFRA AND AGRI DAMAGE

Typhoon Pepeng brought extensive damage to agriculture and infrastructure in the various Cordillera provinces and in Baguio City.

 

The worst damage reported so far is in Apayao, where combined partial damage to agriculture and infrastructure amounted to around P1 billion, Governor Elias Bulut reported to media earlier.

 

Kalinga province incurred partial damage to infrastructure worth P86.9 million, and crops worth P78 million, according to the PDCC.

 

Earlier, Mountain Province reported infrastructure and agricultural damage worth more than P11 million, while Benguet reported infrastructure and agriculture damage worth P1.246 million, reported the CRDCC.

 

Baguio City registered infrastructure damage worth P10.5 million while Abra registered damage to crops worth P1.32 million.

 

The Cordillera remains isolated as the CRDCC reported Saturday morning that all national roads linking to the provinces of Abra, Ifugao, Mountain Province, Benguet, Apayao and Baguio City remain closed due to severe landslides and washouts.

 

The Ileb Bridge which connects Kalinga to Cagayan is reportedly destroyed, forcing travelers to take a longer route.

 

Meanwhile, CRDCC reported a total power blackout in Mountain Province while partial power interruptions were occurring in Benguet, Abra and Mountain Province. CRDCC has no report on the status of power in Apayao, Kalinga, and Ifugao.

[heartswarm]

The damage brought by typhoon Parma was much worse than Ketsana. It just affected so many people from the countryside. According to the news, it has claimed over 200 lives already. :-/

[nancyk58]

I am going to create a thread called "UPDATES OF THE SITUATION IN THE SOUTHEAST ASIA" to make it easy for those interested to have an overview of the situation there including what is going on in that region, the relief efforts of the relief organizations and some articles with reports for instance from the rescuers or someone from the relief organizations being in the area to get an overview of the situation etc. NANCY

[nancyk58]

New Updates from Red Cross 12/10 at 17.15:

 

SUMATRA: Thousands of people were homeless on the Indonesian island of Sumatra last week after two major earthquakes - that is why the Danish Red Cross received four million Danish kroner from DANIDA for the massive reconstruction work.

 

BURMA (aka. Myanmar): The wind continues to be frightening in Myanmar. Theme: A year has passed since Cyclone Nargis smashed into the Myanmar (Burma). Today the reconstruction of houses, schools and farms has started, but the horrors of last year are still haunting the survivors. Thousands are still traumatized by the disaster.

 

COOPERATION WITH ECHO: The EU's humanitarian aid department, ECHO, support Red Cross relief work in several places in the world.

 

Help for 10,000 victims of Typhoon Morakot. Typhoon Marakot, with its more than 160 km / h devastated the coasts of CHINA, PHILIPPINES and TAIWAN. Red Cross helps with everything from the evacuation and shelter to flip-flops and cookware.

 

TAIWAN: Floods isolate typhoon victims: Typhoon Morakot that devastated TAIWAN recently was accompanied by floods and mudslides. Red Cross assists with search and rescue work.

 

What the Danish Red Cross does:

 

SUMATRA: Danish Red Cross has sent the equivalent of one million Danish kroner to SUMATRA. A large part of the mones goes to putting up 50 large tents to serve as temporary schools. 241 schools were so damaged during the earthquakes that they can no longer be used.

In addition, the Danish Red Cross received 300,000 Danish kroner from the Danish embassy in Indonesia. They include the purchase of 2,000 blankets, 2,000 sarongs, 2,000 hygiene kits and 600 tarpaulins.

 

http://drk.dk/nyheder/nyheder/fire+millioner+kroner+til+jordskaelvsofre

 

These news items are also posted at UPDATES OF THE SITUATION IN THE SOUTHEAST ASIA.

 

I am going to create a thread called "UPDATES OF THE SITUATION IN THE SOUTHEAST ASIA" to make it easy for those interested to have an overview of the situation there including what is going on in that region, the relief efforts of the relief organizations and some articles with reports for instance from the rescuers or someone from the relief organizations being in the area to get an overview of the situation etc. NANCY

[Tonsu]

Thank you Nancy for your great efforts. Let us hope and pray for some better news VERY soon...