⌛ Filipino Artists in Dubai

Yes, Lea is one of the best pinoy artists, but I missed watching her in Broadway in New York. Yep, they (pinoy celebrities) are still proud of our native tongue. I missed Nora Aunor's performance when she was in Northern CA, It's true, there's always a huge crowd of pinoys wherever they perform, but that's their purpose, to entertain pinoys abroad.

On the same subject Sar, have you been to Drury Lane in Westminster or is this the place where you saw Lea perform? Why I ask, because when we were in London years ago, we saw Cats the musical play in Drury Lane, I forgot the name of the theater. We also saw Evita on another occasion.

 

SOmtin to proud of

I got a friend right now in Dubai who do carlift as partime job, he says 80% of live band entertainers in DUbai right now pinoys, they are preferred by bar and hotels.

 

When we were there @ Le Meridien Dubai, husband and wife were entertaining ballad songs at the lobby, and the night club, two Pinoy bands were playing. If I am not mistaken, one of the bands was the LIGHTER SIDE. And they were fab. Another night, we went to Hilton Hotel and it's amazing, another group of Pinoy bands were playing. It's like in the Philippines outside the Philippines, as there are more Pinoys working in Dubai, comprising I guess a third of the total population.

 

I really can't remember Swan as it was years ago. But what I can remember that Lea Salonga played the lead role so well in Miss Saigon. She was brilliant and there were two more Pinoys in the show who had minor roles. I was humbled when the audience acknowledge her talent and her voice and her acting. It was outstanding... Proud to be Pinoy.

 

langaw sa kalabaw



i did read the 'first' comment of the info that i posted "filipino artists in dubai". gusto kong mag reply to have some reaction but i just realized that its not worth the comment then.

but, as a responsible member of the dumaguete forum and having found out that there are other members who has the same reaction as what i have felt, i just wanted to post my opinion...

"we are free to express our opinion"
just wanted to sight a very specific idea to the statements below.

(1) i've met some filipino expats in the middle east who were very successful. not only in ME but other countries as well as per television and paper reviews. but they remained humble and proud to be a - FILIPINO.

(2) filipino artists who will make and did shows abroad are highly professional on their chosen field.

(3) expats of different countries are respecting each nationality and culture where it may differ from clothing to color.

(4) movies and television shows are competing internationaly - where in fact "FILIPINO or TAGALOG movies" won some international awards

(5) TAGALOG/LOVE STORY movies bridge the good relationship that resulted to marriage with our parents and other filipino elders

i would rather say like this, if its really applicable

"" ang langaw sa kalabaw" --- bow

at may mga kabababayan tayo na nakapunta lang ng "STATES" - kinalimutan na ang pinagmulan. indi lamang sa TATE kundi maging ibang bansa.

just what happened in ME last 3 months ago,

"may isang reporter sa pahayagan base sa manila, pumunta ng ibang bansa para sa isang bakasyon. sa flight niya, may mga kabayan siyang nakasama. at ano ang sinulat niya sa kanyang artikulo?

** ang amoy (mabango daw) ng imported perfume nya ay nasapawan daw ng mga mumurahing pabango na gamit ng kanyang kababayan. at iba na ang amoy na nasisinghot niya. hindi na ang jo malone perfume niya. **

marami na sa ating mga kababayan ang palabas at balik ng PILIPINAS pero hindi nila nalimutan na - PINOY - sila.

its not being as patriotic as other filipinos but EVERY FILIPINO DESERVES A RESPECT in all terms.


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PS. Just an opinion! Reality with factual events.

 

preferred performer in Dubai are FILIPINOS!!

 

Well said Lostinterpreter. And thank you for sharing what are the Pinoys up to now in Dubai. Love the place and might be going back in the near future.

 

I have just gone away for few days and haven’t had the chance checking this forum which I eagerly look forward to ,and jeeeeeeeeeezzzz just as I log on ,it all unleashed before my eyes the very interesting comments against ,calm down guys ,read my post better and don’t accused me off too much and so mean.

With so much expression of strong nationalism and never ending love and pride of the Filipino nation ,I wish many of you could have expressed their views /opinion in the other thread ‘coup in Manila’ ,I observed many of you never even bother to comment.

I am not at any rate putting down Filipino people @ lostionterpreter .
I haven’t got that line, I haven’t criticized any OFW’s who are fond of these Filipino (tagalog ) entertainment ,or the Filipino artist themselves .And each to their own taste . I’m only stating my taste as well ,as you have stated for what it seem you're inclined of I just happened to disagree and also not so fond of the Tagalog language entertainment , that’s all... just my personal taste, so what's the problem?

I am surprised you are by far so condescending and personally attacking me nastily for my taste “ang langaw sa kalabaw , bow (as your gesture) ” .Now you think you must be cool, doing your bow, eh .:p

As a translation , i am “ the fly on the carabao “ , wow , now I'm the smelly fly,lol. some sort of promotion?

For those who haven’t got any clue of this anology ,this applies to a person who originally poor decrepit and who landed in a place of greener grass and in time when life’s get better acting with so much nastiness and arrogance against his own people.

And even the lovely chrissar for all my respect for her could happily agreed with you ofcourse well to the smelly fly eh ,that’s nice to know , thank you .You people are very predictable. I just wonder how I could be put like a smelly oppurtunistic filthy fly,eh . Some of you here must have a strong underlying issue with me even before this thread arise only to happily agree . Now I see your real colours.

As far as I am concern ,I am not insulting the whole Filipino nation for disagreeing to losinterpreter who said:

“this truly confirms that FILIPINOS are in demand for shows abroad. and competes professionally with the hollywood artists as Justin Timberlake will be in Abu Dhabi also by December 6, 2007 for his show - Futuresex.”

I am only saying facts and from my basic understanding of the entertainment market. I am basically disagreeing from those lines of lostinterpreter .Even how topnotch Filipino artists be there's no way they can be in par neither compete with Justin Timberlake in the popularity market in the west .Filipino artists entertains Filipinos and Filipinos abroad that’s the fact . I never said they're crappy bulls and putting them down .

Just as bollywood appeal mainly to Indians or people of Indian origin ,so as pinoy artists only have the appeal market for Filipinos . What’s wrong with that ? Can’t you understand my line ? Or is it your own tunneled interpretation that triggers all these . I am only telling the truth about hard to get market of the west . Although Filipinos entertainers perform abroad ,what i mean the top notch like Gary Valenciano, Martin nievera and so forth only perform mainly on demand from the filipino immigrants /OFWs for the big stars , not as demand from western market .

True many are hired abroad,just as like in japan ,singapore ,dubai as entertainers,no question of that but it's again cheap labour to entertain the customers for big profits.

Filipino topnotch talents still have a long way to compete with the likes Justin Timberlake in terms of the market. I hardly see this line as a spit of insult .

I am talking here about Filipino entertainers who are originally based in the Ph and that goes abroad to perform, and not of those Filipinos based or born in the US,or UK for instance who have work there way up to popularity,like Mutya Buena in UK charts (she's a second generation filipina in UK) or Black eyed Peas one of them is Filipino.

If i couldn't agree , I am now a castigated being .Ofcourse , i have predicted this though.
Any opposition is loathe upon so badly , typical .With the bunch of virtually the same minds, and Filipino artists demand competing in par with with JT , i must be one of the blind to believe that.

How sad is that.

And now i am the smelly filthy fly on the carabao, because i refuse to agree , and there's the few 'bows'.:p

 

Now when you see bunch of same like minded as you ,you now post comment happily. you lurk waiting whoever reacts against .But perhaps if you've seen people with same opinion as mine,you probably would not be making nasty post, right? you probably spell your tone mildly.

Why are you putting a quotation of your own reaction ? You don't need to copy or quote your own opinion, do you? Ofcourse we are free to express our own opinion, following the guidelines of this forum , who said you can't ,you even started this thread,i am only reacting , and disagreeing isn't a ban ,what's the forum for if it only allows same conforming opinions all the way ,like many of you would have desired it to be.

And so , what are you trying to say ?

Neither one made criticisms against filipino artist here, nor me .

What's this gotta do with my comment. you're now going miles away ,far from focus of the topic .As far as my understanding comes, it's not true .Who did topple the Twin towers and killed more than 3,000 americans ,they were muslim extremist expats .Who did bomb the London underground, still the extremist expats .who did the Madrid Bombings etc . Are you really sure of this subject you are talking about. Try not to generalize .I think you need to top up your global awareness by keeping yourself updated with the world news. I know few did agree with you all the way , without a question. lols [/QUOTE]

Did they win the Oscars? A Philippine film won something somewhere in Venezuela international film awards recently,but that's Venezuela or somewhere in the southern America’s . But again what's this gotta do with my comment you're lamenting againts. Even if they win the Oscars it wouldn't change my aversion for tagalog films. That’s all. Does it make you ill , if I don’t watch tagalog films or tagalog singing stars ? Each to our own taste , if you can leave me in peace with that ,why be so angry ?LOLS C’mon u wake up.

Ouch ,how come “TAGALOG /LOVE STORY movies bridge good relationship that resulted marriage with our parents and other Filipino elders. “

What sort of bridge is it ,is it the long and hard throbbing bridge ? This must be some dodgy line from you ,very 'intelligent explaination' i am so impressed:p , whew . Are you saying with so many pinoys fond of going into Tagalog love movies ,they copied all the love scenes on the spot, as well as the adult hard core scenes and did hanky pankies, bonking inside the cinemas ? Jeeez unbelievable , I'm not suprised and do agree , it must result in marraige (shot gun i suppose ) because blah blah got pregnant being bonk in the cinema, a really bad film indeed ! I am pretty sure my Lola or mother didn’t watch those TAGALOG films for only wanting to get ' bridge ’ , no way. So I must be right avoiding TAGALOG FILMS then. :p

This only shows you have a very mean character. To begin with ,I haven't attacked you personally or others in this thread or people in their own rights , it was only the argument within topic that I couldn’t agree with.

Only because I don’t like tagalog films or entertainment , it gave you stomach ache ? I am not a Tagalog speaker or descended from Tagalog region myself,so I couldn’t give the heck. I am from negros,grandfather family from Cebu ,that’s where I’ll go back ,understood ?

Now you've insisted it all writing your tagalog , whew , you must be so daring with little respect of non filipinos joining this forum.

Why don’t you translate all these in English for everyone here to understand in fairness for those who haven’t got the hang of your language .This had been an issue months ago and seem everyone agreed .

Don’t compare me with Malou Fernandez . I am not demeaning Filipinos, I just can’t stand spoken Tagalog, do I have to reiterate this all over again? Does it mean if I don’t like any Tagalog ,I ‘m not Filipino or renouncing being a Filipino or demean every Filipino ? I am a Cebuano , that's my heritage , and still a filipino . Tagalog is the language of your imperialist Manila imposed on us for many decades. As far as I am concerned my mother tongue will always be Cebuano, second language are ilonggo and English .I speak better english than tagalog .My personal resentments of the system urged me strongly to boycott anything that relates to Tagalog,even if it will cost me to stay away from all filipino entertainment which is mainly based in Tag' anyway .
Tagalog has done nothing to improve my life, so what the heck.

 

Yes every Filipino deserves respect,I wish your imperialist origin of Manila could have respected us non tagalogs (Ilonggos,karay-as, cebuanos ,Ilocanos etc )with each regions of its own cultural heritage being put in the sidelines .

It’s an official bullying and an insult by not recognizing Cebuano as an official language for our region . They enforced their language for many decades ,deciding their TAGALOG mother tongue be imposed as the official language for all. If many of you Cebuanos ,ilongos etc have remembered you were agonizingly forced to take up Tagalog in schools from day one and on,you can’t even graduate if you don’t have the required units of Pilipino courses in high school , in colleges and universities. How fair is that .I'd been through that ,and i loathe every moment in a Pilipino classroom .
Pilipino as a national official language is actually Tagalog tongue of a minority in the national capital region in disguise of a national unifying name, PILIPINO ,they just change the first letter in the word. It so happened when majority of earlier politicians were Tagalogs, Manila as political administrative centre and as a result they chose their own mother tongue as the official lanaguage for the whole nation to follow ,promoted through print media,televion etc ,ofcourse with strong power backing and laws designed for it, who will oppose . When infact statistics showed the Tagalogs are out numbered by Cebuano speakers and other groups.

Few decades ago there were strong clamour from few Tagalog politicians to reduce English and stronger imposition of Tagalog or Pilipino.There were plans to implement some radical change in the medium of instruction in schools and universities from what had been in English into more of Tagalog based.Even proposals to translate all science,maths,history and all text books used in schools into Tagalog/ Pilipino ,teachers have to use Tagalog in tecahing science ,maths,history etc everything in tagalog . But later they realized such wasn't cost effective and could drain their coppers millions .Ofcourse Cory Aquino , the bobo one succumb to the request by her political cohorts ,and there had been some changes done at least in favour of pushing more of Tagalog in the classrooms. So it happened that hours of teaching English were indeed reduced ,and more emphases in tagalog lessons became a reality.Other regional areas like Cebu were strongly against, and from non tagalog areas that couldn’t stand any of these further bullying.In Cebu they translated the national anthem into Cebuano , I loved that ,and other national emblems in Cebuano etc. This is one of the few reasons why majority of our graduates in the past years really have poor substandard english, spoken and written english are getting terrible . My grandfather speaks more fluent english and better accent than of todays graduates . Now ,the coming of BPO industries ,new law makers realized they really had a set back from past laws.Recently ,under Gloria Arroyo's regime ,there were big ammendments and new laws were created putting strong emphases of the english language in schools back on track, not anymore the Tagalog or Pilipino language had been for many years.They knew what they gonna loose big time if the young generation's english proficiency will deteriorate even further down.

I am never critical to Filipinos ,I never deslike the real tagalong speakers for what they are as people .I just hate the bullying political system that run for many decades making emphases of TAGALOG,while putting our Cebuano heritage in the margins and so of others , emposing that F*** of a language ,this is where my sentiments come from.

And some of you would have agreed happily ,"well said & well put" i'm like a shieete of a fly on carabao's back .I wish to hear from you and your friends supporting posts on this topic actually,not just on the fringes of issues and few little lines !

Sorry for my "french " guys .:p