Video Blog

Remember my trip to Polillo Island? Here is Part 2 of the Video from the trip:

Accompanying video for my recent post about Childhood Poverty.

Here is video to accompany my Kadayawan post recently.

Do you remember, a while back I posted the lyrics to the Philippine National Anthem, Lupang Hinirang? A number of people thanked me for providing the lyrics (which I found through a website, with the help of a reader here). I recently found a performance of the National Anthem on YouTube, and I thought that some readers here might enjoy hearing it and seeing the performance. This particular version of the National Anthem is played at sign off on ABS-CBN, a local television network.

Here it is:

A few weeks ago, I made a post about learning Philippine languages, and communications here. In the comments, I mentioned that people in Cebu don’t care for Tagalog, and some actually are very anti-Tagalog. A few commenters said that they had never heard that before, and were curious about it. For me, I have heard that since my first trip to Cebu in 1990. Today, I was looking over some videos on YouTube, and came upon one that is entitled “Language Barrier.” It deals with the way that Tagalog is viewed by Cebuanos. I found it quite interesting.

See what you think:

The video below shows so many beautiful scenes from the Philippines.

Can you watch the video without longing to go back to the Philippines?

Here is a video to accompany the post I made about Combating Child Poverty.

The Philippines is more than just the usual!

What do you think?