As Canadian dude does Biclish…

(Biclish is an unofficial language extracted from both Bikol dialect and English language.)

One of the trends that Filipinos usually observe is to find greener pastures even at the cost of leaving their families and friends behind. Everything from their homeland will be dearly missed including the frequency of speaking their language or dialects like Bikol, Pangasinan, Waray, Kapampangan, Kinaray-a, Maranao, Maguindanao, Tausug, Ilocano, and Tagalog.

A Bicolano, born in his native land - Tabaco, Albay, is now working in Canada after he left Philippines almost 5 years ago. He always use the French and the English language as his communication media for his work.

Last week, he heard again a familiar dialect he used to have when he was in Philippines. He contacted his kababayan (fellowman) via phone. He gladly and excitedly requested, “Padi (Bro), can we speak Bikol? Na-miss ko na daw magtaram ka an. (I really miss speaking it).” Listening to his voice, he has French accent that is similar to Bikol dialect of Naga but it differs from Albayano accent.

Odd to his kababayan but the call made him feel he’s home again. A glimpse on his past life set in such as listening to local radio stations, celebrating festivals, eating street food, and jamming with his folks. There was a surge feeling of wanting to come home soon.

Probably next summer, he would visit Philippines. His hopes are set up high to look forward for irinuman, and urulukan (liquor drinking and laughing) with his folks.

 Even though reaching home again seems to last forever, an encouragement would be a bigger motivation for Filipinos working abroad such as this - ” Ma-jaraming kita pag-uli mo digdi.” (Let us hang out when you got home.)