Take me to the Philippines

Yup, thats the title of a new music video from Apl De Ap of the Black Eyed Peas for the Department of Tourism. Its a tourism campaign to promote the Philippines. Pretty cool video. Filipino pride. Enjoy.

Filipino MMA Fighters on UFC

Just a simple nod and showcasing filipino's who are representing their filipino heritage and pride in their own fields. First off, UFC. One of the top if not the best MMA fight stage in the world. Filipino's have a little space there thanks to Brandon "the Truth" Vera, Mark "the filipino wrecking machine" Munoz and Phillip "the filipino assasin" Nover. Munoz and Nover are fairly new to UFC (correct me if im wrong) but not as fighters. Nover was a lightweight finalist on the reality show, The Ultimate Fighter season 8 by UFC. All of them are proud of their filipino heritage and i believe all of them speaks tagalog and other filipino dialects.

No one is more prouder to show his filipino heritage of the three than Brandon. He wears it proudly on his skin through his alibata/baybayin tattoos on his back and leg. Most of the clothes he wears on his fights has a Philippine flag or symbol in it showing his a filipino. I saw the fight were he entered the octagon while the Black Eyed Peas song "Bebot" is played as his entrance song. You can feel how proud he is to represent specially when the part of the song plays, " filipino, filipino, filipino..."

Brandon Vera

Mark Munoz

Phillipe Nover