i'm echoing this post from mitch
i tried to translate it in english for my non-tagalog speaking friends unfortunately it's not as powerful as when it's in tagalog but the thought is there.......... but somehow, you'll get entertained..... my favorite ones are those with *s
enjoy!
Ayon kay Bob Ong:
Translation: According to Bob Ong
(bob ong is one of those funny filipino authors that i also like)
1. "Kung hindi mo mahal ang isang tao, wag ka nang magpakita ng motibo para mahalin ka nya.."
Translation: if you don't love that person, don't show any motives to make that person love you
2. "Huwag mong bitawan ang bagay na hindi mo kayang makitang hawak ng iba."
Translation: Don't let go of someone you can't stand being held by someone else.
3. "Huwag mong hawakan kung alam mong bibitawan mo lang."
Translation: Don't hold (that someone) if you know you would just drop (that someone)
4. "Huwag na huwag ka hahawak kapag alam mong may hawak ka na."
Translation: Don't you ever held someone when you already are holding someone else
5. "Parang elevator lang yan eh, bakit mo pagsisiksikan ung sarili mo kung walang pwesto para sayo. Eh meron naman hagdan, ayaw mo lang pansinin."
Translation: It's just like an elevator, why would you force yourself in if there's no room for you. There's the stairs, you just keep ignoring it.
*** 6. "Kung maghihintay ka nang lalandi sayo, walang mangyayari sa buhay mo.. Dapat lumandi ka din."
Translation: If you would just wait for someone to flirt with you, nothing will happen. You should flirt too (hmm..tempting, lol)
7. "Pag may mahal ka at ayaw sayo, hayaan mo. Malay mo sa mga susunod na araw ayaw mo na din sa kanya, naunahan ka lang."
Translation: If you love someone and he/she doesn't love you back, let go. Who knows, after some time you might realize you don't like him/her anymore, he/she just beats you to it.
*** 8. "Hiwalayan na kung di ka na masaya. Walang gamot sa tanga kundi pagkukusa."
Translation: Break up if you are no longer happy. There's no antidote for stupidy but initiative.
9. "Pag hindi ka mahal ng mahal mo wag ka magreklamo. Kasi may mga tao rin na di mo mahal pero mahal ka.. Kaya quits lang."
Translation: If the one you love doesn't love back don't compalin. Because there are also people who loves you but you don't love back. That's it, quits.
10. "Kung dalawa ang mahal mo, piliin mo yung pangalawa. Kasi hindi ka naman magmamahal ng iba kung mahal mo talaga yung una."
Translation: If you love 2 people, choose the second one. Because you wouldn't love another one if you really love the first one.
*** 11. "Hindi porke't madalas mong ka-chat, kausap sa telepono, kasama sa mga lakad o ka-text ng wantusawa eh may gusto sayo at magkakatuluyan kayo. Meron lang talagang mga taong sadyang friendly, sweet, flirt, malandi, pa-fall o paasa."
Translation: Not because you frequently chat on the internet, phone or you both always hang out or exchange text messages 24/7 that would mean that person is meant for you. There are just people who by nature are friendly, sweet, flirt or ego-tripping (ouch...)
12. "Huwag magmadali sa babae o lalaki. Tatlo, lima, sampung taon, mag-iiba ang pamantayan mo at maiisip mong hindi pala tamang pumili ng kapareha dahil lang maganda o nakakalibog ito. Totong mas mahalaga ang kalooban ng tao higit sa anuman. Sa paglipas ng panahon, maging ang mga crush ng bayan nagmumukha ding pandesal, maniwala ka."
Translation: Don't be in a hurry for a guy or a girl. Three, five, ten years, you'll change your personal criteria and you'll realize it's not right to choose a partner because she's pretty or she's making you horny. It's right that what's inside that person is more important. Time passes by and the girl everyone wants to have would someday look like a pandesal (filipino bread), believe me.
13. "Minsan kahit ikaw ang nakaschedule, kailangan mo pa rin maghintay, kasi hindi ikaw ang priority."
Translation: Sometimes even if it's your schedule you still need to wait, because you're not the priority (true..*sigh*)
14. "Mahirap pumapel sa buhay ng tao. Lalo na kung hindi ikaw yung bida sa script na pinili nya."
Translation: It's difficult to intrude on someone's life. Specially if you are not the leading man on the script she choses.
15. "Alam mo ba kung gaano kalayo ang pagitan ng dalawang tao pag nagtalikuran na sila? Kailangan mong libutin ang buong mundo para lang makaharap ulit ang taong tinalikuran mo."
Translation: Do you know how far the distance between two people who has their back to each other? You have to travel around the world for you to get face to face with that person you turned your back to again.
16. "Mas mabuting mabigo sa paggawa ng isang bagay kesa magtagumpay sa paggawa ng wala"
Translation: It's better to fail for doing something than to succeed on doing nothing
*** 17. "Hindi lahat ng kaya mong intindihin ay katotohan, at hindi lahat ng hindi mo kayang intindihin ay kasinungalingan"
Translation: Not everything that you can understand is the truth and not all the things that you can't make yourself understand are lies.
18. "Kung nagmahal ka ng taong di dapat at nasaktan ka, wag mong sisihin ang puso mo. Tumitibok lng yan para mag-supply ng dugo sa katawan mo. Ngayon, kung magaling ka sa anatomy at ang sisisihin mo naman ay ang hypothalamus mo na kumokontrol ng emotions mo, mali ka pa rin! Bakit? Utang na loob! Wag mong isisi sa body organs mo ang mga sama ng loob mo sa buhay! Tandaan mo: magiging masaya ka lang kung matututo kang tanggapin na hindi ang puso, utak, atay o bituka mo ang may kasalanan sa lahat ng nangyari sayo, kundi IKAW mismo!"
Translation: If you have loved someone that you shouldn't and you got hurt don't blame your heart. Your heart beats to supply blood in your body. Now, if you're good at anatomy and you'll blame your hypothalamus instead for controlling your emotions, you're still wrong! Why? For crying out loud, don't blame your body organs for all your angst in life! Remember this: you can only be happy if you will learn to accept that it's not your heart, your brain, liver or intestines who are at fault for all the things that happened to you but YOURSELF!
****** 19. "Pakawalan mo yung mga bagay na nakakasakit sa iyo kahit na pinasasaya ka nito. Wag mong hintayin ang araw na sakit na lang ang nararamdaman mo at iniwan ka na ng kasiyahan mo."
Translation: Let go of the person who causes you pain even if he/she makes you happy. Don't wait for the day that all you feel is pain and that the one who makes you happy already left.
20. "Gamitin ang puso para alagaan ang mga taong malalapit sa iyo. Gamitin ang utak para alagaan ang sarili mo."
Translation: Use your heart to take care of people close to you. Use your brain to take care of yourself. (*sigh* hard hard hard)
***21. "Ang pag-ibig parang imburnal...nakakatakot mahulog...at kapag nahulog ka, it's either by accident or talagang tanga ka.."
Translation: Love is like the sewer hole... it's scary to fall... and if you fell, it's either by accident or you're really stupid.. (haha, i like this!)
