PHIGSA is now open!
Thursday, June 15th, 2006Attention! Howdy!
For all Filipino graduate students here in the US, I am very pleased to announce the grand opening of the most awaited, most extravagant, most mouth-watering, most ravishing, most entertaining and most exaggerated graduate students association ever created in the history of civilization. The Philippine Graduate Students Association or "PHIGSA" is now here and ready to serve you! Yeah you! Oo ikaw nga! With our motto: "Masakit-sakit, makirot-kirot, makati-kati, masarap kamutin pero hindi pwede!"
Let us first scrutinize the meaning of our motto.
"Masakit-sakit" stands for all the hardships (and softdrinks) that all Filipino graduate students are undergoing, most specially in the academics. "Hindi biro ang mag-aral sa States!" says Annie Stonemetal, who is a working student in the Univerity of Pennyslvania. In the morning, she’s a despatcher, in the evening "bonggang-bongga." It’s true! when I came here, my nose is bleeding! says Ka Puroy from kiTAMO (short for Kilabot ng Texas A&M Oniversidad). But the good thing is, their ears are bleeding too!
"Makirot-kirot" signifies the love life of every Filipino graduate student. Graduate students are also human, that’s why they also have this sense of love and affection with other forms of human being. They also fall in love but most of the time they just fall. "Not all the time you’re lucky, that’s why I was used to sharing" says Peter Dapa from the University of Poorida. For Pinays, it is easy for them to hook-up with white guys ‘coz they are really exotic, but for pinoys height does matter. That is where the "kirot" factor comes in.
"Makati-kati" hmmm…don’t tell me you don’t have any idea of what "makati" stands for? There are a bunch of "hunk-aliscious" and "booty-liscious" men and women here specially by the beach. I’ll just leave this one for your wildest imaginations.
"Masarap…pero ‘di pwede!" It’s really fun to stay here in the US, but all good things should come to an end. Specially now that the immigration law is becomming tougher. TNT could be an option (as many people are doing that, not only pinoys). You cannot be a legal citizen unless "kamutin mo!"
Next time we’ll going to talk about the constitutions of PHIGSA for this is a very important matter. Anywho, you can start filing your membership online at http://www.friendster.com/group/tabmain.php?gid=152727. Hope to see you on our next convention to be held outside the US! Cheers!
Sincerely,
Ka Puroy
