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Commercial

• myAyala.com. "The largest online shopping mall in the Philippines, myAyala.com offers the most choices in fashion, gadgets, gifts, leisure and entertainment."
• Encyclopedia Britannica Philippines [britannica.com.ph]. "Britannica offers over 26,000 article summaries online free."
• MyBarong.com. I ordered a very nice barong tagalog for my son's baptism from these folks.
• PhilBooks.com
• PilipinoSuperstore.com. California based site sells Filipino movies, magazines, etc.
• Sampaguita.com. The scent of the national flower available as perfume.

Food

• American-Friendly Filipino Recipes [chilemasters.tripod.com/filipino-recipes.html]
• Cuisine of Philippines [W]
• Filipino Food [filipinofoods.info]
• FilipinoRecipesLink.com
• Filipino Recipe [FilipinoRecipe.com]
• Market Manila [marketmanila.com]. A blog by "Marketman" about food shopping in Manila.
• Philippines Recipes [elook.org/recipes/asian/phillipines1.html]
• Pinoy Cook [PinoyCook.net]. Recipes with fabulous pictures and text. Very professional.
• Welcome To Famous Filipino Recipes [rholand.ourfamily.com/pinoyrecipe.html]

Local

• Consulate General of the Philippines-Chicago [ChicagoPCG.com]
• Filipino American Network [FAN-Chicago.org]. 'The Filipino American Network (FAN) recognizes that our generation has greatly differing needs, challenges and experiences. FAN also recognizes that we have many gifts and resources to offer to both our Filipino and American communities. We seek to call, challenge and serve fellow young Filipino American adults by providing resources and connections that will enrich their lives, support their growth and deepen their self-awareness of our Filipino heritage. FAN is a not-for-profit organization based in Chicago.'
• Pintig.org
  • A Chicago Filipino culture group, esp. theater.
  • 'Pintig, meaning pulse in Pilipino, was founded in April 1991, with a mission to serve as a voice of the Filipino American community by engaging in active cultural work - using art as a means to celebrate the community's rich history and culture.'

Mandaluyong City

The heart of the "Golden Triangle" (Manila, Quezon City, and Makati).

• Mandaluyong.gov.ph
• Tourism.gov.ph/explore_phil/place_details.asp?content=description&province=86
• emporis.com/en/bu/sk/st/sr/. 2005: Mandaluyong City ranked as one of the top 100 most impressive skylines in the world.

Money

So far I've only sent money to the Philippines by going in person or by FedEx (around $50 USD). Here's the start of researching easier and cheaper ways to do it. See also Money Links, esp. regarding exchange rates for PHP (pesos).

• Google Answers: "sending money to the Philippines" [answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=33262]
• Philippine National Bank (PNB) [pnb.com.ph]
  • PNB Los Angeles [pnb.com.ph/losangeles]
  • PNB Remittance Centers, Inc. [pnbrci.com]
• "Sending money to the Philippines" [filipinawives.com/sendmoneyPhilippines.html]
• "Send Money to the Philippines" [paystone.com/remittance/philippines.php]
• "Xoom: Send Money to the Philippines" [xoom.com/send-money-philippines]

Official

• Library of Congress: Country Studies: Philippines
• National Statistical Coordination Board [NSCB.gov.ph/panguna.asp]
• PhilippineEmbassy-usa.org. Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines.
• travel.state.gov. The Bureau of Consular Affairs for the U.S. Department of State.
  • Consular Information Sheet: Philippines
  • Register with the Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines and to obtain updated information on travel and security within the Philippines
  • Embassy of the U.S. in Manila. 'The U.S. Embassy is located at: 1201 Roxas Boulevard; Manila, Philippines tel. (63)(2) 528-6300. The Consular American Citizen Services (ACS) section's fax number is (63)(2) 522-3242.'
• WowPhilippines.com.ph. Same as Tourism.gov.ph.
  • Sorsogon

Philippine-American War (1895-1902)

• SpanAmWar.com. Site commemorating the Phlippine-American War.
• BoondocksNet.com. "This site was placed online January 12, 1995. Chuck Gardner, then based in Manila and running the historic (in web terms) Soc.Culture.Filipino site, helped me to learn the basics of creating a web site during Christmas break in December 1994 and early January 1995. Mark Twain on the Philippines and a one-page directory of Mark Twain Resources on the World Wide Web were the first pages placed online."
  • Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
    • Secretary Root's Record: "Marked Severities" in Philippine Warfare
  • http://www.boondocksnet.com/centennial/contents.html
• Philippine-American War [W]
• The Balangiga Massacre: Getting Even [Bibingka.com/phg/balangiga/default.htm]
  • 'The American soldier was used to the classic battle mode of standing your ground and shooting, or charging the enemy and fighting hand-to-hand. His frustration and anger intensified when the Filipinos shifted to guerrilla warfare. Hearing a correspondent remark that "Filipinos are brave," General Wheaton thumped his table and roared: "Brave! Brave! Damn 'em, they won't stand up to be shot!" On December 20, 1900, General Arthur MacArthur declared in an official proclamation that since guerrilla warfare was contrary to "the customs and usages of war," those engaged in it "divest themselves of the character of soldiers, and if captured are not entitled to the privileges of prisoners of war." Less self-disciplined men found in the proclamation authorization for identifying Filipino fighters as outlaws and dealing with them accordingly. '
  • 'The most damning evidence that the enemy wounded were being killed, or murdered, came from the official reports of Otis and his successor, General Arthur MacArthur, which claimed fifteen Filipinos killed for every one wounded. In the American Civil War, the ratio had been five wounded for every soldier killed, which is close to historical norm. Otis attempted to explain this anomaly by the superior marksmanship of rural southerners and westerners who had hunted all their lives. MacArthur added a racial twist, asserting that Anglo-Saxons do not succumb to wounds as easily as do men of "inferior races." '
• The Philippine American War

Wikipedia

• Cuisine of Philippines
• Culture of the Philippines
• Demographics of the Philippines
• Economy of the Philippines
• Filipino American
  • Saint_Malo, Louisiana. The first permanent settlement (1763) of Filipinos in the US and possibly of any Asians in the US.
  • List of Filipino Americans
• Flag of the Philippines
• History of the Philippines
• Languages of the Philippines
  • Bikol language. Bikol or Bicolano = bik.
  • Tagalog language. Filipino = fil. Philippine = phi. Tagalog = tl = tgl.
• Military history of the Philippines
  • Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays. Apparently the areas where U.S. bases used to be are investment hotspots.
• Philippines.
  • Geography of the Philippines. 'The islands are commonly divided into three major groups: Luzon (Regions I to V + NCR & CAR), Visayas (VI to VIII), and Mindanao (IX to XIII + ARMM).'
    • Mount Pinatubo
  • Regions of the Philippines. My parents came from the Bicol Region (Region V) on the southern tip of the Luzon Island itself.
    • Provinces of the Philippines. My parents came from the Sorsogon province in the Bicol Region. Provinces are composed of cities and municipalities.
      • Cities of the Philippines. lungsoo or siyudad in Filipino.
        • There is one city in the Sorsogon province: Sorsogon City.
        • The three largest cities in the Philippines:
          1. The Metro Manila area, aka National Capital Region (NCR), is on Luzon Island and is actually region itself and has no provinces. Metro Manila is one of the 20 most populous metro areas in the world with a 2000 census of 9,932,560. Metro Manila is composed of 14 cities (of which the three most populous cities are Quezon City, Manila, and Caloocan City) and 3 bayans. Mandaluyong City is known as the "Tiger City of the Philippines", "Metro Manila's Heart", and the "Shopping Mall Capital of the Philippines"; In 2005 the Mandaluyong City skyline was ranked as one of the top 100 most impressive in the world. Makati City is known as the "Financial Capital of the Philippines".
             
          2. Metro Cebu is the other metropolitan area in the Philippines and it is composed of Cebu City, Mandaue, and (across the water) Lapu-Lapu.
          3. Davao City is on the southeast coast of Mindinao and is one of the largest cities in the world as far as land area.
      • Philippine municipality. bayan in Filipino and is actually better translated as "town". Oddly enough bayans are classified by average annual income with the wealthiest as 1st class and the poorest as 6th class.
        • There are 14 bayans in the Sorsogon province: Barcelona (5th class), Bulan (1), Bulusan (5), Casiguran (4), Castilla (4), Donsol (4), Gubat (3), Irosin (3), Juban (4), Magallanes (4), Matnog (4), Pilar (3), Prieto Diaz (5), and Santa Magdalena (5).
          (I modified the map for Sorsogon City on Wikipedia so it shows all the bayans as well and added it to the Sorsogon article.)
        • Barangay. Aka baranggay or barrio. Filipino cities and bayans are composed of barangays, 'the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a district, ward, or neighborhood.
          • My dad is from the town/bayan of Bacon and my mom is from the city of Sorsogon (both of which were merged as Sorsogon City in 2000 with a population of 134,678). Sorsogon City consist of 64 barangay:
            • 36 barangays from old Sorsogon: Abuyog, Almendras-Cogon (Pob.), Balogo, Barayong, Basud, Bibincahan, Bitan-o/Dalipay (Pob.), Bucalbucalan, Buenavista, Buhatan, Bulabog, Burabod (Pob.), Cabid-An, Cambulaga, Capuy, Gimaloto, Guinlajon, Macabog, Marinas, Pamurayan, Pangpang, Panlayaan, Peñafrancia, Piot (Pob.), Polvorista (Pob.), Rizal, Salog (Pob.), Salvacion, Sampaloc (Pob.), San Isidro, San Juan (Roro), Sirangan (Pob.), Sulucan (Pob.), Talisay (Pob.), Ticol, Tugos .
            • 28 barangays from old Bacon: Balete, Balogo, Bato, Bon-Ot, Bogña, Buenavista, Cabarbuhan, Caricaran, Del Rosario, Gatbo, Jamislagan, Maricrum, Osiao, Poblacion, Rawis, Salvacion, San Isidro, San Juan, San Pascual, San Ramon, San Roque, San Vicente, Santa Cruz, Santa Lucia, Santo Domingo, Santo Niño, Sawanga, Sugod.

Miscellany

• CountryStudies.us/Philippines
• Crossing East [crossingeast.org]. 'The first public radio series on Asian American history'. Not just about the Philippines but good stuff.
• Economist.com's section on the Philippines.
• FilipinoExpress.com.
• FilipinoLinks.com.
• GenerationRice.com. Online magazine targeted at Asian Americans.
• GlobalPinoy.com. A mostly-English portal for Filipinos.
• Onli in da Pilipins. Respectful and informative from a tourist's perspective.
• PhilStar.com. 'The Filipino Global Community'. Online edition of The Philippine Star newspaper.
• PhilTravelCenter.com.
• Picturesque Old Philippines
• SorsogonTourism.com. Including stuff about the Butanding, i.e. the whale sharks.
• The Philippine History Site [http://opmanong.ssc.hawaii.edu/filipino/]
• Tribo.org. 'Tribung Pinoy is a journal about the Philippines, the Filipino people and the Filipino diaspora. It started as the First Philippine Page of trivia in 1994 virtually during the infancy of the World Wide Web. It was maintained first at Northwestern University.'
• Welcome to the History of the Philippines
• WikiTravel.org/en/article/Philippines

Glossary

• Dictionaries
  • csun.edu/~sm5149/sal/tutorials/tagalog.html. A functional Tagalog dictionary.
  • English-Kapampangan-Pilipino Dictionary [geocities.com/Athens/Academy/4059/dictione.html].
  • English-Tagalog Dictionary by www.jonsay.co.uk [http://www.jonsay.co.uk/dictionary.php?langa=English&langb=Tagalog]. "This Tagalog dictionary was created with the help of my wife who is a Filipina. We have spent a lot of time trying to translate words not commonly found in most dictionaries, and we still have a long way to go before it is finished. I hope it is of great use to many of our users, and I wish you good luck on your studies."
  • Filipino Word Book with Audio CD [http://books.google.com/books?id=qEqtFEvTKecC] By Teresita V Ramos, Josie Clausen, Boboy Betco, Jerri Asuncion
  • English<=>Tagalog Dictionary [ForeignWord.com/Dictionary/Tagalog/].
  • tagalog-dictionary.com
  • Tagalog English Dictionary [bansa.org/?q=dictionaries/cmd&dict_lang=Tagalog]. Includes specific dialect like Bikol as well.
  • Webster's Tagalog-English dictionary [websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Tagalog-english/]
• Language
  • KomFil.gov.ph. "Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino", i.e. "Commission on the Filipino Language".
  • ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/GenX_jt_mtjr/GenXTagalog.html. Tagalog phrases and such.
  • SeaSite's Tagalog section [seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/]. Learn some Tagalog here. A project at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, U.S.A. [niu.edu].
  • TAGALOG: A Brief Look at a National Language [iloko.tripod.com/tagamida.html]
  • Tagalog1.com. 'Filipino (Tagalog) language training for non-native speakers'. Looks so hip.
  • TagalogLang.com
    • Literally "Tagalog only".
    • "Filipino? Pilipino? Tagalog?". Short answer: An attempt had been made to make a national language called "Pilipino" but it was really just Tagalog. The current official language is "Filipino", which is like Tagalog plus.
  • Tagalog Tutor [epinoycentral.com]. 'This site was designed for those both serious and casual learners or Tagalog Language and Philippine Culture.'
• Miscellany
  • DevPinoy.org. "A Filipino Developers Community".
  • Filipino T-Shirts and Gifts [http://www.cafepress.com/buy/filipino]. Especially for Filipino Americans. A lot of funny stuff.
  • gutenberg.org/browse/languages/tl. Free eBooks in Tagalog.
  • History of the Philippines [http://www.delapaz-ewf.org/History.htm]. From an elementary school in the Philippines.
  • kafejo.com/lingvoj/natlangs/misc/pilipino.htm. pilipino, tagalog, ilocano. Linguistically interesting.
  • Learn Tagalog Now [learntagalognow.com]. CDs.
  • mts.net/~pmorrow/. "Sarisari etc. ... Filipino History, Language, Pop Culture, & other completely unrelated stuff"
    • 'Baybayin - The Ancient Script of the Philippines'. In English or Filipino.
  • Omniglot.com/writing/tagalog.htm.
  • Tagalog Word of the Day [tolitx.blogs.friendster.com/tatak_tolitz/tagalog_word_of_the_day]

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