Chika nga lang…

Language                Translation
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afrikaans               Ek het jou liefe
afrikaans               Ek is lief vir jou
alsacien                Ich hoan dich gear
amharic                 Afekrishalehou
arabic                  Ana Behibak (to a male)
arabic                  Ana Behibek (to a female)
arabic                  Ib'n hebbak.
arabic                  Ana Ba-heb-bak
arabic                  nhebuk
arabic                  OHIBOKE    male to female
arabic                  OHIBOKA    female to male
arabic                  OHIBOKOMA  male or female to two males or two
                                     females
arabic                  NOHIBOKE   more than one male or female to female
arabic                  NOHIBOKA   m.t.o.m. or f. to male
arabic                  NOHIBOKOMA m.t.o.m. or f. to two males or two
                                     females
arabic                  NOHIBOKOM  m.t.o.m. or f. to more than two males
arabic                  NOHIBOKON  m.t.o.m. or f. to more than two
                                     females
arabic                  (not standard)
arabic                  BAHIBAK    female to male
arabic                  BAHIBIK    male to female
arabic                  BENHIBAK   more than one male or female to male
arabic                  BENHIBIK   m.t.o.m. or f. to female
arabic                  BENHIBKOM  m.t.o.m. or f. to more than one male
assamese                Moi tomak bhal pau
basc                    Nere Maitea
batak                   Holong rohangku di ho
bavarian                I mog di narrisch gern
bengali                 Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi
bengali                 Ami tomake bhalobashi.
berber                  Lakh tirikh
bicol                   Namumutan ta ka
bolivian Quechua        qanta munani
bulgarian               Obicham te
burmese                 chit pa de
cambodian               Bon sro lanh oon
cambodian               kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah
canadian French         Sh'teme  (spoken, sounds like this)
cantonese               Ngo oi ney
catalan                 T'estim   (mallorcan)
catalan                 T'estim molt (I love you a lot)
catalan                 T'estime  (valencian)
catalan                 T'estimo  (catalonian)
cebuano                 Gihigugma ko ikaw.
chickasaw               chiholloli   (first "i" nasalized)
chinese                 Wo ie ni
corsican                Ti tengu cara (to female)
corsican                Ti tengu caru (to male)
croatian                LJUBim te
czech                   miluji te
czech                   MILUJU TE! (colloquial form)
danish                  Jeg elsker dig
dutch                   Ik hou van jou
dutch                   Ik ben verliefd op je
ecuador Quechua         canda munani
esperanto               Mi amas vin
estonian                Mina armastan sind
estonian                Ma armastan sind
farsi                   Tora dust midaram
farsi                   Asheghetam
farsi (Persian)         doostat dAram
filipino                Mahal kita
filipino                Iniibig Kita
finnish                 Mina" rakastan sinua
flemish                 Ik zie oe geerne
french                  Je t'aime
friesian                Ik hald fan dei
gaelic                  Ta gra agam ort
galego (galicia)        querote (or) amote
german                  Ich liebe Dich
greek                   s' agapo
greek (old)             (Ego) philo su (ego is only needed for emphasis)
gujrati                 Hoon tane pyar karoochhoon.
hausa                   Ina sonki
hebrew                  Ani ohev otach       (male to female)
hebrew                  Ani ohev otcha       (male to male)
hebrew                  Ani ohevet otach     (female to female)
hebrew                  Ani ohevet otcha     (female to male)
hindi                   Mai tumse pyar karta hoo
hokkien                 Wa ai lu
hopi                    Nu' umi unangwa'ta
hungarian               Szeretlek
hungarian               Szeretlek te'ged
icelandic               Eg elska thig
indonesian              Saja kasih saudari
indonesian              Saya Cinta Kamu
indonesian              Saya cinta padamu
indonesian              Aku cinta padamu
irish                   taim i' ngra leat
italian                 ti amo (if it's a relationship/lover/spouse)
italian                 ti voglio bene (if it's a friend, or relative)
japanese                Kimi o ai shiteru
japanese                Watakushi-wa anata-wo ai shimasu
javanese                Kulo tresno
kannada                 Naanu Ninnanu Preethisuthene
kannada                 Naanu Ninnanu Mohisuthene
kiswahili               Nakupenda
klingon                 qabang
klingon                 qaparHa' (depends where in the galaxy you are)
korean                  Tangsinul sarang ha yo
korean                  Nanun tangshinul sarang hamnida
korean                  No-rul sarang hae (man to woman in casual
                          relation)
korean                  Tangshin-ul sarang hae-yo
korean                  Tangshin-i cho-a-yo (i like you, in a romantic
                          way)
kurdish                 Ez te hezdikhem (?)
lao                     Koi muk jao
latin                   Te amo
latin                   Vos amo
latin (old)             (Ego) amo te (ego, for emphasis)
latvian                 Es milu tevi (Pronounced "Ess tevy meeloo")
lingala                 Nalingi yo
lisbon lingo            gramo-te bue', chavalinha
lithuanian              TAVE MYLIU (ta-ve mee-lyu)
lojban                  mi do prami
luo                     Aheri
macedonian              SAKAM TE!
madrid lingo            Me molas, tronca
malay                   Saya cintamu
malay                   Saya sayangmu
malay/Indonesian        Aku sayang enkow
malay/Indonesian        Sayah Chantikan Awah
malayalam               Njyaan Ninne' Preetikyunnu
malayalam               Njyaan Ninne' Mohikyunnu.
mandarin                Wo ai ni
marathi                 me tujhashi prem karto (male to female)
marathi                 me tujhashi prem karte (female to male)
mohawk                  Konoronhkwa
navaho                  Ayor anosh'ni
ndebele                 Niyakutanda
norwegian               Eg elskar deg  (Nynorsk)
norwegian               Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal) (pronouncedyai elske
                          dai)
osetian                 Aez dae warzyn
persian                 Tora dost daram
polish                  Kocham Cie
polish                  Ja cie kocham
portuguese              Amo-te
portuguese (brazilian)  Eu te amo
punjabi                 Mai taunu pyar karda.
romanian                Te iu besc
russian                 Ya vas liubliu
russian                 ya liubliu tebia
russian                 ya tebia liubliu
russian                 Ya polyubeel tebya.
scot Gaelic             Tha gra\dh agam ort
serbian                 LUBim te.
serbocroatian           volim te
shona                   Ndinokuda
sinhalese               Mama oyata adarei
sioux                   Techihhila
slovak                  lubim ta
slovene                 ljubim te
spanish                 Te quiero
spanish                 Te amo
srilankan               Mama Oyata Arderyi
swahili                 Naku penda (followed by the person's name)
swedish                 Jag a"lskar dig
swiss-German            Ch'ha di ga"rn
syrian/Lebanes          BHEBBEK (to a female)
syrian/Lebanes          BHEBBAK (to a male)
tagalog                 Mahal kita
tamil                   Ni yaanai kaadli karen     (You love me)
tamil                   n^An unnaik kAthalikkinREn (I love you)
tcheque                 MILUJI TE^
telugu                  Neenu ninnu pra'mistu'nnanu
telugu/india            Nenu Ninnu Premistunnanu
thai                    Ch'an Rak Khun
thai                    Phom Rak Khun
tunisian                Ha eh bak                     *
turkish                 Seni seviyo*rum     (o* means o)
ukrainian               ja tebe koKHAju  (real true love)
ukrainian               ja vas koKHAju
ukrainian               ja pokoKHAv tebe
ukrainian               ja pokoKHAv vas
urdu                    Mujhe tumse mohabbat hai
vietnamese              Em ye^u anh   (woman to man)
vietnamese              Toi yeu em
vietnamese              Anh ye^u em   (man to woman)
vlaams                  Ik hue van ye
vulcan                  Wani ra yana ro aisha
welsh                   'Rwy'n dy garu di.
welsh                   Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi)
yiddish                 Ich libe dich
yiddish                 Ich han dich lib
yugoslavian             Ya te volim
zazi                    Ezhele hezdege (sp?)
zuni                    Tom ho' ichema
zulu                    Ngiyakuthanda!

Explanation of Languages

Afrikaans       -> People of Dutch heritage in south Africa.
Alsacien        -> french/german dialect (live in france, but speak like
                     german)
Assamese        -> language spoken in the state of Assam, India
Batak           -> North Sumatra province of indonesia
Bavarian        -> Southern state of Germany (actually a German dialect)
Bengali         -> language spoken in the state of West Bengal, India,
                     as well as almost all people of BANGLADESH
Bicol           -> Philipin dialect
Cebuano         -> language spoken in philipino near the town of Cebu
Chickasaw       -> Native American spoken in southeastern Oklahoma.
Friesian        -> they speak the language in Northern Holland
                     in Northern Germany and in some parts of Denmark
                     mainly west coast
Gaelic          -> Irish
Gujrati         -> language spoken in the state of Gujrat, India
Hindi           -> language spoken in the nothern states of India
Hopi            -> North American Indian Tribe (Southwest maybe?)
Kannada         -> Language of Karnataka a state in south India.
Klingon         -> Spoken in Star Trek
Luo             -> Kenya
Malayalam       -> language of Kerala State, India,
Marathi         -> This language is also from India from the state of
                     Maharashtra of which Bombay is the capital.
Mohawk          -> North american Indian tribe (New England, maybe one of
                     the Sven Nations/Iriquois)
Navaho          -> North american Indian tribe (southwest)
Ndebele         -> Zimbabwe
Punjabi         -> Northern India
Quechua         -> Quecha is a Mayan language
Shona           -> Zimbabwe
Sinhalese       -> Language of the non-Tamil (majority) people of Sri Lanka
Sioux           -> North American Indian tribe from the upper Midwest.
Tagalog         -> Filipino language
Tamil           -> language spoken in the state of Tamil Nadu, India
                   and in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritus ....
Telugu          -> southeastern state of India.
                   (eleventh most spoken language in the world.)
Urdu            -> the language spoken in pakistan
Vlaams          -> Belgian Dutch
Vulcan          -> Spoken in Star Trek
Zazi            -> Kurdic dialect

House (Hausu) Color / 1977 / 88 min. / 16mm

Directed by: Obayashi Nobuhiko

Cast: Ikegami Kimiko (Oshare & her mother), Oba Kimiko (Fantasy), Matsubara Ai (Gari), Jimbo Miki (Kung fu), Sato Mieko (Mac), Miyako Masayo (Sweet), Tanaka Eriko (Melody), Minamida Yoko (Oshare’s aunt)

Synopsis: Summer vacation is coming. A junior high school student OSHARE is keeping company with a dreamer, FANTA, a grind, GARI, a karate expert, KUNFU, ever hungry, MAC, cute but chicken hearted, SWEET, and a music lover, MELODY.

One day, Oshare is told her father is remarrying and is introduced to his fiance Ryoko. Shocked Oshare, remembers her aunt who is living in the country. She writes her aunt a letter asking the permission to visit, with her friends, during the summer vacation. Seven girls arrive at the Hausu Mansion, feeling uneasily but free from the chaperone Togo, their teacher, who was supposed to go with them.

The fresh air in the country makes the seven girls happy. Oshare’s aunt although confined to a wheelchair is kind and takes care of them. After a short time, some mysterious phenomenon begins to occur. First, Mac, who goes to get a cool watermelon in the well, does not return, so the other girls go to search for her. To their surprise, Mac is in the well! After this, many attacks on the girls happen in rapid succession. One girl is eaten by a piano; one is chopped by a clock, etc. Later it is learned that Oshare’s aunt had died several years earlier, and became the spirit in the wheelchair. This "Hausu Mansion" is her remaining ghost! Why does the house attack the girls?

The reason is revealed later that the aunt who still loves her fiance who died in a war many years earlier will become younger and able to wear the wedding dress that she was supposed to wear only by eating the flesh of young girls. The girls are vanishing one by one in the Hausu Mansion. Finally, Ryoko is leaving to go to the mansion. Oshare is waiting for her, but is she really Oshare or her spirit?

I should have been warned that the movie was a complete bore after reading that synopsis. I mean, do they have to reveal the plot if it is as interesting as it should be?

I have been a fan of Eigai Sai (Japanese Film Fest) ever since we’ve seen Kairo’s "The Cure" last 2003. Hearing that they were featuring horror movies as line-up for this year’s film fest, I immediately asked my friends to go with me and watch it.

Saturday was a free day and we were hoping to catch a good one at Shangri La mall. Sara, Vira and Jen patiently queued for the 2pm film while Millet, Iel and I whiled away our time "travelling" Macau.. hehhehhe..

Anyways, it came our time to watch the film and we were eagerly awaiting to have that scare of our life. Waaa.. the movie could have won the best in musical scoring, sound effects, and filmography… huhuhuhhu… it was brilliantly done i still could not fathom what the meaning was behind all of it.. (hey, i’m trying to be sarcastic in all this..)

Marilyn Monroe-wannabe, Ryoko, was a character on her own, as she is shown complete with a wind-blown effect, her white scarf cascading around her shoulders.

The seven girls who got their own monicker from their passions in life Melody (for her love of music), Fantasy (for being a dreamer and a vain one to boot), Kung Fu (martial artist), Mac (for her unending appetite.. as in Big Mac, I suppose), Sweet, and the rest I forgot their names already.. hhehehh..

The really mind-boggling part was that they were all stripped naked when they’re attacked by the ghost. Don’t know what the reason was behind this but it seems to me they were exploited by showing their boobs onscreen for no reason at all..

It’s supposed to be a scary film but the sound effects, which projected retro music distracted viewers into laughing it all out. Well, at least for me as I was laughing halfway of the film (while other viewers decided to walk out on it..hhehehh..)

It was a disappointment for the rest of us, specially to Ruth who tried to beat the 2pm just to be able to watch the film. But come to think of it.. the movie may have been excruciatingly boring, but it left a lasting impression on me..

(Sweet being attacked by the headless Mac)

(Melody.. her fingers bitten off by the monster piano)

I’ve done business, nation, and IT… but I have never written showbiz. I’ve always thought that journalism was a glamorous job. But covering crime during my police beat days in college made me realize that it was not at all like I’ve imagined.

"May sunog don sa kabilang kanto a.." a police on duty informed us while we were whiling away our time in the press room. "May namatay ba?" asked one of the reporters, as he prepares his camera, ready to cover it. "Wala e." Hearing this, he put down his camera and got back to what he was doing.

Bad news is good news. If nothing bad happened, you won’t be able to report it..nobody will be interested. Haayy.. ano ba namang klaseng buhay yon.. Para bang you’re praying na may masamang mangyari para may ibalita ka..

After college, I worked for a business newspaper covering, (yes you got it right.. hehheh) the business beat .. gross national product, inflation, blue chips, stocks, dow jones index, forex… i have to be familiar with all those business terms.. my life was a see saw of emotions.. it either drove me crazy (trying to comprehend the business lingo) or bored me to death..

On IT, you have to be familiar with the latest in technology. A different set of lingo should be used (server, ip, tcip, network.. chuva chenes) haayyy.. ano ba naman. Naloloka nako sa kakamemorize ng terms mapabusiness, mapa-IT.. so kelan ba magiging glamorous ang job na ito?

A month ago, my friend asked me if I was interested to write for Summit’s Hi magazine. Showbiz ang drama nito and I was a bit hesitant coz I’ve never done it before (naks… hesitant daw o… hhahahha). Parang feel ko yong mag interview ng mga ka-artistahan at ma-star struck. Since, she knew that I was so into Korean showbiz, I was tapped to make a profile story of four dramas (Attic Cat, Oh Pil Seung, Green Rose and Sweet 18).

Last Friday, my friend was texting me.. out na raw yong magazine. I rushed to a nearest magazine stand and there my article was… naks, cover story.. I never expected that.. I thought it was just a small article but it turned out to be three-page spread with front page pictures to boot.. nyahahah.. what a way to start my showbiz career off.. ay showbiz writer career pala.. sabi ko na nga ba, di bagay sakin ang kaseryosohan e. Now, I’m seriously contemplating doing showbiz ba lang.. haayy.. sana next time ma-interview ko na si Piolo.. nyahhahah..

Plugging lang.. bili kayo ng september issue ng Hi! mag ha.. :p