May isang lugar sa Dubai na aakalain mong nasa Pilipinas ka! Ito ang Al Satwa na matatagpuan halos 30 kilometro lang mula sa sentro ng Dubai.
Ang isa sa mga pinupuntahan rito, ang bentahan ng tinapay na pagmamay-ari ng isang Pilipina!
Kumusta nga ba ang buhay ng mga Pinoy rito?
Sa Dubai, may nakilala rin si Jessica Soho na isang Pakistani driver na nakakapag-Tagalog!
Sino nga ba itong binansagang Taxi Pabebe ng Dubai?
Panoorin ang video. #KMJSHelloLoveDubai
Ang isa sa mga pinupuntahan rito, ang bentahan ng tinapay na pagmamay-ari ng isang Pilipina!
Kumusta nga ba ang buhay ng mga Pinoy rito?
Sa Dubai, may nakilala rin si Jessica Soho na isang Pakistani driver na nakakapag-Tagalog!
Sino nga ba itong binansagang Taxi Pabebe ng Dubai?
Panoorin ang video. #KMJSHelloLoveDubai
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00:00This is really unusual, there is a Pakistani who is fluent in Tagalog and he drives a taxi.
00:12He calls himself Taxi Pabebe.
00:17He is Biradar, Pakistani National who has been a working driver here for more than two decades.
00:24Good morning!
00:26Good morning to you!
00:28First of all, I am happy to be here in Dubai.
00:32You are really good at speaking Tagalog.
00:34Come on, let's drive.
00:36I am very happy because I have a lot of friends here.
00:42So that Biradar's face will not get tired, he will vlog while driving.
00:48Where are you from? Philippines? Mindanao? Cebu? Iloilo? Laguna? Pandusinas?
00:52I am from Manila.
00:54I am from Palawan.
00:56I am from Visayas.
00:58You are really good at speaking Tagalog.
01:02Make a video, make a filter.
01:06How old are you? Why do you know how to make filters?
01:10How old are you?
01:11Filter?
01:12Yes.
01:13How old are you?
01:1440, 50.
01:1650, but I am happy everyday.
01:18Happy.
01:19How did you learn Tagalog?
01:21Because there are a lot of passengers here.
01:24Are you Tagalog or Visayas?
01:25Ilocano.
01:26Yes, Ilocano.
01:27We report.
01:28Yes, yes.
01:29Do you have a passenger in Ilocano?
01:31After one minute, I know.
01:33Because I am always calling.
01:35It's cheap, it's cheap, it's cheap.
01:37Manila, Ediwau, Visayas, Matapang.
01:40Ilocano, I report.
01:42Just kidding.
01:43Why do you like Filipinos?
01:45Because the people are very friendly.
01:48And friendly.
01:50Everything is friendly.
01:54That's why I like Filipinos.
01:56How are you? How is life?
01:58Good, good.
02:00Until he made the content of our language.
02:07Why do they call you baby?
02:09Before, one of my passengers gave me a funny word.
02:13Then he told me, when you have a female passenger,
02:17you tell her, you are a baby.
02:19She got angry, then you tell her, just kidding.
02:23So, after that, I like this word, baby.
02:27Put my name, taxi baby.
02:29All the passengers talking about you, you are nice, you are nice.
02:34I saw you.
02:35Now, I am very happy, very happy.
02:38You are not fooling me?
02:39Oh no, I am very nice.
02:41I did not lie.
02:43Only one person who lives here in Dubai is Biradar.
02:46How many children do you have?
02:47Six.
02:48But how much do you earn?
02:49Here, we don't have a salary.
02:52It's okay, you can live.
02:54It's okay, it's okay.
02:55Your family?
02:56Thank God, because I have a job.
02:58Biradar doesn't want to be forgiven.
03:01Before he dropped me off, he gave a sample of taxi baby.
03:05He knows a Filipino song.
03:07There are three babies I have seen.
03:13Thin, fat.
03:15But I want a back.
03:20Oh no, I am very fast.
03:22There are passengers.
03:23From here in Dubai, I am with taxi baby.
03:27KMJS9.
03:33Here in UAE, guys, I am just Biradar.
03:36The life of our countrymen abroad.
03:39Now, we can easily see through their vlogs.
03:44Hello everybody, this is Michelle.
03:46Just like the vlogger, Rachel, who has been here for two years.
03:50Maybe if I get one like this, then I go back to the Philippines, I will be a millionaire.
03:55Rachel is a native of Bungabong, Oriental Mindoro.
03:58A certified buccaneer.
04:00Read it.
04:01In fact, the wall of their house in Bungabong was covered with hundreds of sashes that she won from beauty pageants.
04:10Every corona, she gave it to her number one supporter, her father, Santo.
04:16He is very proud, so I will never forget him.
04:20But this 2021, Father Santo died of lung cancer.
04:26I went abroad, I worked as a waiter in a restaurant here.
04:30Luckily, they saw the potential that I can be a content creator.
04:34So guys, that's it for today's video. Thank you so much for watching.
04:39But not everyone who speaks here in Dubai has a good experience.
04:44Just like the one we met here that we hid under the name of Charles.
04:49He told me that Dubai is safe.
04:52It's safe, but there are other cases here.
04:55There are people who are also killed here, but it is not reported.
04:59Because some of our fellow countrymen here, like Charles, are hot-tempered in the eyes of other foreigners.
05:07When they see that you are good, you look clean, you don't have a beard, you are chased by other people here.
05:14Not the locals?
05:15No, it's usually a catcalling here.
05:18And some of them become victims of sexual harassment.
05:23I'm going home. Someone is following me.
05:30When the lift closed, she suddenly hugged me.
05:34Then she forced me to kiss her on the neck.
05:37Her hands were getting into some parts of my body.
05:40Charles was forced to fight the man.
05:43She pushed me hard.
05:45My back hit, I was weak.
05:47She still forced me to hug her.
05:49When the lift opened, I kicked her and kicked her on the face.
05:54But because of fear, Charles did not report what happened to him.
05:59Do you know what happened to you here in Dubai? Isolated or common?
06:05Common. I have a lot of friends who experienced this.
06:10Others are just afraid to say.
06:12In case this happens, we also have the Office of Migrant Workers.
06:17And they take care of the cases of Filipinos who will be victims.
06:22I will just be careful for myself.
06:24I will not repeat what happened to me.
06:27Did you know that one of the first Filipinos who experienced this 5 decades ago,
06:35was not only a witness of how a developing country was slowly emerging in the middle of the desert,
06:43but also one of the brains behind this success.
06:49This is the prominent architect and urban planner, June Palafox.
06:56We cannot do a special on Dubai without featuring you.
07:00Because you helped make Dubai what it is today.
07:03Dubai was life-changing.
07:05It's an architectural journey.
07:07The flood relief of Dubai sent me to Dubai.
07:10Look for me.
07:11December 1996, I got a mandate.
07:14In the 1970s, the family of architect Palafox migrated to this part of the Middle East.
07:20Do you remember when you first arrived in Dubai?
07:23The airport of Dubai was a travel need.
07:26She steers via our Manila International Airport.
07:29The instruction of the rulers was to make Dubai a number one city.
07:34She was chosen to be part of a group of urban planners and architects
07:39whose main project was to build a city in the middle of the desert
07:45that would later become famous all over the world.
07:49This is the standard of building in 1970.
07:52This is their master plan.
07:53This is the old town.
07:55Then these are major activity centers like Woods Gullivan and Detour.
07:59Architect Palafox was the youngest in their team.
08:03He was also the only Filipino.
08:06These are the Dubai then and now.
08:09And then we encourage more vertical cities instead of urban school.
08:14And the rest is history.
08:17It is said that architect Palafox has been back in the Philippines for a long time.
08:21And even he can't believe how Dubai did it.
08:26Sir, you were doing very well in Dubai.
08:28How did you come up with this idea?
08:31It's hard to say goodbye.
08:32I asked my family, why are you leaving if there's something wrong?
08:36And they said, maybe it's about time.
08:38I don't think so.
08:39My question is, architect Palafox, if Dubai can do it, can you do it in the Philippines?
08:45We can do it with success.
08:47For me, it's a world-winning idea.
08:50The population of Filipinos here in Dubai is almost half a million.
08:56There is one place here in Dubai that is like the Philippines.
09:00From the center of Dubai, our team traveled almost 30 kilometers towards the so-called home away from home of many of our fellow Filipinos here, Al Satwa.
09:23You know?
09:24Manila.
09:26Hello, hello.
09:28Hello, how are you?
09:30It's like we're just in the Philippines.
09:34How are you? Is it day off today?
09:36Yes.
09:37Oh, it's their day off.
09:38We haven't been here for five minutes yet.
09:40Our fellow Filipinos have already gathered.
09:43There are so many of them.
09:45There, they're already trafficking to us.
09:47Even if the owner is not Filipino, they put our words.
09:53Like this, Zain Ukay Ukay.
09:57There's a restaurant called Luneta.
10:02There's a place called Jeepney.
10:05The line in this bakery is always long.
10:09Pantikoko, Spanish bread, cheese bread,
10:13Pantikoko, Spanish bread, cheese bread.
10:17The owner of this is a Filipino, Chayda.
10:21What's your bestseller?
10:23Pandesal.
10:29It's delicious.
10:30It's like the pandesal in our country.
10:32How much is this?
10:34That's 50 pesos.
10:358 pesos is expensive, but it's big.
10:38Chayda's employees, of course, are our fellow Filipinos.
10:42Where are you from?
10:43Batangas.
10:45Batangas, Ilocano.
10:47Jkj, Ilocos.
10:48Isabela.
10:50Bicolana.
10:51Si Kuya?
10:53Pampampangan.
10:54And you, Ate?
10:55Davao.
10:56In the 90s, when the Filipinos started living here in Alsatwa,
11:01their apartments here,
11:04the former homes of the Emirates,
11:06were chosen to live in what they call New Dubai.
11:10Jomar, a Filipino from Pangasinan,
11:13moved here to Alsatwa to save money.
11:19How are you?
11:21You're handsome.
11:23I'm overwhelmed.
11:24It's my privilege.
11:26Jomar took us to their apartment,
11:29which they call partition.
11:31Because it's a one-bedroom unit,
11:33they divided it into two rooms.
11:37And in each room,
11:38they put a divider of fabric and plywood
11:41so that three to four tenants can fit.
11:44So it's like a bed space,
11:47your bed,
11:48while you're just starting.
11:57Okay.
11:59How much is the bed in this space?
12:01Upstairs, it's 600 dirhams.
12:05It can reach 9,000 to 10,000 dirhams.
12:08So each space here has a curtain.
12:11Yes.
12:12That gives them a little privacy.
12:17Their bathroom is neat.
12:20The problem is that their water is always hot.
12:25This is our bathroom.
12:26This is where we bathe.
12:28Where else?
12:29This is where you get fresh air.
12:31Before studying in Dubai,
12:33Jomar studied for 11 years
12:36in a private high school in Pangasinan.
12:38Why did you move to Dubai?
12:40It's hard to make a living
12:42because my parents are getting old.
12:44I have a brother who is studying.
12:46I need to study.
12:48How much is your salary here?
12:51My salary is 2,400 dirhams.
12:55And 600 dirhams here is deducted
12:57to pay for the house.
12:59The remaining 1,800 to 1,600 dirhams
13:03will be sent to the Philippines.
13:05So how much do you have left?
13:07200 dirhams.
13:09In 2017, when Ria worked in Dubai,
13:12all of her hard work
13:14was for her son.
13:16I only left for a year.
13:18Your son grew up without you there.
13:20It's hard.
13:21Are you okay?
13:22Yes, but I need it because I'm all alone.
13:25Thank you to my son.
13:26He's a first owner now.
13:28Wow.
13:29I'm so proud.
13:30Mia has not been with her children
13:33in North Cotabato for 6 years.
13:36It's hard.
13:38So I'm just doing it on a budget.
13:40They don't know how hard it is.
13:43Now they'll see.
13:45This is how my mother teases me.
13:47The word abroad is good.
13:49But in reality, we're here.
13:52It's hard.
13:54It's hard.
13:55It's hard. It's far from home.
13:57The Philippines is truly in our hearts.
14:00The people are so friendly.
14:03So wherever we go,
14:06we'll bring our country with us.
14:10For us who are in the Philippines.
14:15Thank you for watching, Kapuso.
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