ang ganda! beautiful! powerful! healing
Mabuhay! pronounced mah-boo-high, a Filipino verb in the form of a command:
It also wish: “May you Live!”
Whoever says it wishes upon you the great gift of a long and full life.
It is both a blessing and a hearty cheer.
Mabuhay also means:
Welcome
Congratulations
Thanks
God-speed
Hello
Good Luck
Cheers
and many other expressions of goodwill.
Mabuhay, in other words, is an invocation and a celebration of life.
Daghang = many (bisayan)
maganda on left and malakas on right :). we were island hopping on a bangka with motor, off of Palawan sailing the West Philippine Sea, formerly known as the South China Sea in 1992 SFSU / UP Diliman summer travel exchange program with tony de castro, dr ver enriquez, the 2 dans – professors dan gonzales and dan begonia, professor beth marcelino protacio and 9 other amazing fil-ams, many that i am honored to know as friends, mga kababayan ko, although we were tagged as ‘ufo’s’ – unidentified filipino objects by a non-filipino visiting student. decolonize in action. we shared with pilipinos and others about fil-am experience including racism and such.
an amazing experience that was. at the end of that summer i found out i got accepted in sfsu’s nursing program.
photo taken by shirley asuncion
