Volume 5, Issue No. 3
OPINION/COMMENTARY
/ News That Fears None, Views That Favor Nobody /
Our latest as of Monday, July 17, 2023
~ The spectacle of former friends throwing garbage at each other is relegated to the background, and hopefully banish forever, as the real and genuine Filipino fiesta takes over Little Manila this coming weekend. FUN Philippines is not only marketing a feast; it's promoting the best in Filipino culture, heritage, cuisine, and age-old traditions like hospitality Filipinos are known the world over. This fiesta is not to be missed if only for its promise to make us Filipinos again without the bad-mouthing, back-stabbing and infighting.
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SATURDAY, JULY 22 AND SUNDAY, JULY 23
A Delightful Weekend FUN Awaits Us
An Old-Fashioned Fiesta Without the Hassle
By ROMEO P. MARQUEZ
Editor, The Filipino Web Channel
"It's all about having fun and smiling and shaking hands". - Tone Loc
TORONTO - The weekend of July 22-23 promises to be a delightful family holiday treat without the hassle, infighting, back-stabbing, and bad-mouthing common in community events with questionable motives.
"Your summer to remember" it's going to be, as FUN Philippines takes center stage and unreels an authentic Filipino fiesta where people of goodwill reign with traditional Filipino hospitality, and friendliness.
In many ways, it's a throwback to what most Filipinos know of a real fiesta, and how it looks like - a marching band, parlor games for kids and adults, comedy, sports like basketball, and entertainment everyone awaits.
I remember those days growing up in Manila. The weekend before the Feast of the Immaculate Conception which is on December 8, the family would head back to our town in Cavite to join the festivities.
I had never experienced being welcomed like a long-lost relative to every house we went to just to partake of any food laid on the table. Relatives, friends, strangers, it did not matter who you were, the spirit of the fiesta is in its celebration.
Yes, it is in the celebration of a genuine fiesta that FUN Philippines tries to capture in the two-day feast in Little Manila. (More info at: https://www.funphilippinestoronto.com/).
If you're tired of the bickering, the one-upmanship, the endless chatter, the gossiping, the childishness of grown-ups, the fake concern for the community, the self-conceit of organizers who steal and conceal it, well, now is the time to get real. (Related video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4ap92btLM8).
Discard the feigned friendship. Do away with false loyalties to one or the other organization. Stop being a victim of sweet-talking individuals who leverage your trust and then take advantage of it to loosen your purse. (Related story at: https://filwebchannelmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/05/fake-congen-triggers-dispute-over-taste.html).
There's so much in a Filipino fiesta than a taste of some food ram down our throats. The taste that leaves a bitter taste in the mouth maybe in Manila, but it's not the Philippines.
So if you're craving for a taste of Manila food, look further out. Manila is just a part of the Philippines, its political capital no less. On the other hand, the culinary capitals are in the regions, in provinces and cities outside Manila.
That is the unifying effect of FUN Philippines. It endeavors to unite us through our cuisine, our culture, and our rich heritage minus the denigration and verbal abuse by the egomaniacs who put themselves up as leaders.
Get up and get ready to immerse yourselves in one clean fun. That's on Saturday, July 22, and Sunday, July 23 starting from the Bathurst St.-Wilson Ave. junction in Little Manila.
By the way, the copycats are out again in Little Manila. And these are the same people who had a hand in stealing video footage from my past coverage of Taste of Manila (ToM) festival.
I find it appalling that they would resort to this cheap gimmick to promote ToM whose fate hangs in the balance.
The envy is obvious. Once they saw a picture of events organizer Teresa Torralba pointing to a FUN Philippines poster in Union Station, two ToM functionaries replicate it with the ToM banner somewhere in Little Manila. (Related story at: https://filwebchannelmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/05/taste-of-manila-fight-for-cash-cow.html)
I thought it was laughable to see the two men raising their arms ala-sumuko ka na! and looking up. I wish they would join FUN Philippines as stand-up comedians. It'll be a lot of fun. (Copyright 2023. All Rights Reserved).
😆 the punch line at the end is so funny! You did another Manny Pacquiao knockdown punch. Truly, this bunch of "Joannas" and "2nd rate, trying-hard copycats" are so laughable. Again and again...your article is so entertaining.
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