hanep sa title no? ang aking mga advocacy. english! ok, i will write this in english so that the people i would like to wake up with my first advocacy to tackle in here would understand me better. i had been an advocate of championing the spoken Filipino and based from my very unscientific survey, Filipinos are the largest group of people in the world speaking the Tagalog language. I want to petition for the Tagalog language to be included in the Rosetta Stone as one of the major languages spoken in the world! why is it so? have i gone mad? the hell no! in every corner of the world, you can hear a Filipino looking for a bottle of soy sauce in groceries so that he could cook his favorite adobo! you can hear the distinct accent, p's in place of f's and b's in place of v's! Pinoy na Pinoy truly! i still can't get the notion that a person who speaks fluent English is highly intellectual. do you think so? why is there a big number of illiterate Americans and yet they can speak fluent English? oh, you mean to say, here in the Philippines? oh,my bad. OK, case in point is that Filipinos who speak fluent English is highly intellectual, is that it? call center agents and those damned conyos in the center of the intellectual universe? are we that stupid to admit that? that the English language is our basis of intellectual reasoning? what happened to math? to the other sciences? to history? still trapped in the colonial mentality that have enslaved us for the past generations? still not proud to say "hoy! Pinoy ako! may agimat ang dugo ko?" can't we just compare ourselves to the Japanese people whom are very patriotic and loves their native language? that that language is the emulsifier for the immense cauldron of diverse cultural differences they have and yet made them prosperous? aren't we aware that language plays a vital role in critical thinking for us to improve ourselves and our fellow countrymen? and that language would be the Filipino language? think again. instead of uttering OMG! OMG! repeatedly just to make sure people hear you when you see a cockroach crossing your way. isn't that pathetic? this is a very tiring matter and yet i won't stop till i get my point raised. believe in the limitless power the Filipino language could give us. our ancestors thrived so hard to develop it so that they could have their own set of ideals embodied on a language they could call they own because they were all so sick and tired of speaking their conquerors' tongue. and yet, we take their labor of love for granted. let's all have the audacity not to speak much of the foreign tongue and communicate with our fellow countrymen in our native tongue. that's a first step. the next steps are yours to take. before i end this, i would like to say something in Filipino which you are all so familiar with...... NASA PILIPINAS KAYO MGA PUTANGINA NINYO! MAGSALITA KAYO NG TAGALOG! have i got your attention yet Juan Dela Cruz?