Kawit (formerly Cavite El Viejo) is a first class urban municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 78,209 people in a land area of 22.86 square kilometers.
Kawit is the birthplace of Emilio Aguinaldo, the first president of the Republic of the Philippines. It is also the location of his home, the Aguinaldo Shrine, where independence from Spain was declared on June 12, 1898. From 1895 to 1897, he served as the town's chief executive.
The name Kawit is derived from the Tagalog word kawit (hook) which is suggestive of its location at the base of a hookshaped shoreline along Manila Bay extending to the tip of Cavite City.
Legend, however, gives another version on how the town got its name. One day a Spanish visitor asked a native blacksmith about the name of the village. The latter was busy at the time pounding on the anvil a piece of hot metal that looked like a hook. He hesitated to speak, not understanding what the stranger was asking, but when pressed for an answer, and thinking that he wanted to know what he was doing, he merely said kawit (hook). The Spaniards left muttering the word kawit. In the course of the time the word kawit evolved into "cauite," and finally "cavite".
Cavite (Filipino: Lalawigan ng Kabite; Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈkabite]; Chabacano: Provincia de Cavite) is a province in the Philippines located on the southern shores of Manila Bay in the Calabarzon region on Luzon island. It is one of the most industrialized and one of the fastest growing provinces in the country because of its close proximity to Metro Manila, located just 21 kilometers (13 mi) south of the capital.
For over 300 years, the province has been known as the "Historical Capital of the Philippines" and was the cradle of the Philippine Revolution, the renouncement of Spanish colonial control, which culminated in the Philippine Declaration of Independence on June 12, 1898 in Kawit, Cavite.
Cavite is surrounded by Laguna province to the east, Metro Manila to the northeast, and Batangas province to the south. To the west lies the West Philippine Sea. It is located within the Greater Manila Area, not to be confused with adjacent Metro Manila, the defined capital region. The urban influence of the metropolis together with easy accessibility, adequate infrastructure and comparatively fresh natural setting makes the picturesque province an ideal refuge.
Cavite is a Filipino-American thriller film in English and Tagalog, written and directed by Filipino American filmmakers Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon which also stars them as the film's leads.
Flying back to the Philippines to bury his father, an American man is informed by a mysterious phone caller that his mother and sister have been kidnapped and will be killed if he doesn't comply with certain demands. As he follows the phone caller's every wish, he slowly realizes that he is involved in a large conspiracy hatched by the Abu Sayyaf.
Cavite was met with largely positive critical reviews. The film has a score of 73% with a certified "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 40 reviews with the consensus being it is "A gritty, low-budget thriller, Cavite takes us on a heart-pounding ride through the seedy Filipino underworld."
Robert Koehler from Variety in his glowing review of the film said "For a guerrilla-style, no-budget Yank indie to even tackle issues of jihad terror and naive Western thinking is noteworthy in itself, but Gamazon and Dela Llana inflame the issues with a gutsy, athletic filmmaking package."
Cavite may refer to:
You reel me in with your smile
You make me melt with your voice
Now I've been gone now for awhile
Just to find that I'm your seventh choice
And I don't wanna pay the cost
But it'd be best if you get lost
Cause we know you'll never change
Chorus:
Don't say that you need me
And don't play these games with my mind
You better get out of my head
Cause you're wasting your time
And don't say it's forever
And don't play
Cause you had your shot
You better stop messing around
Cause you're gonna Get Caught
You promised me all of your time
I guess I'm not the only one
But see it's my heart on the line
This time
I'm your number one or I'm gone
Chorus:
Don't say that you need me
And don't play these games with my mind
You better get out of my head
Cause you're wasting your time
And don't say it's forever
And don't play
Cause you had your shot
You better stop messing around
Cause you're gonna Get Caught
Go and try to get me back
(You won't get me back)
(You won't get me back)
I won't forget about our past
(I won't forget)
(NO!!)
I never had the guts to leave
Now your making it
(You know you're making it)
Now you're making it
(Now you're making it)
Much easier for me to see
And don't say that your sorry
For breaking every inch of my heart
I should've known from the start
Now its time to get lost
Chorus:
And don't say that you need me
And don't play these games in my mind
You better get out of my head
cause you're wasting your time
And don't say its forever
And don't play cause you had your shot
You better stop messing around
Cause you're gonna Get Caught
You better stop messing around