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Baryo OFW

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I would like to thank all of you who supported our small little project: The Pens & Pencils Project for Kids. Alvin Grajo, Susan Joaquin and the rest of Caresma Group headed by Steve, has been doing all the work in terms of collection, handling and eventual distribution of these items. I can’t thank these [...]

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I noticed this huge or big… ok, i think it’s big… ahh… you know, picture of Fafa Fiolo whenever I check the Inquirer’s online edition. It’s an advertisement for a condominium. It says, “Urban resort residences”. Excellent choices of words. Appealing com’on buy me lines. And then you put Fafa Fiolo with perfect photo-shopped abs, [...]

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O, Monique! Basahin! Namnamin para ok ang pamudmud mo nang regalo sa Davao! Here’s an Advice for Vacationing OFW’s this Christmas: As the Christmas season is when overseas Filipino workers usually come home for a vacation, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has issued an advisory on the issuance of POEA travel exit clearances. In the [...]

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Did you hear the latest buzz? Well, it’s about a trilogy. Ok, maybe not. Allegedly, it’s about Manny Pacquiao, Krista Ranillo, Jinkee Pacquiao and a blogger called Coconuter. Gosh he’s cute! I wanna buy him a sellphone! Grrr! Ok. Sumesemplang ako sa topic. Well, according to the grapevine, si Manny daw and Krista… ahh… Honestly?! [...]

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With my usual coffee + keyboard combination on a dreary Saturday Philly morning, I was reading this article about a 35-year-old Filipino who tried to smuggle in 6.145 kilos of cocaine alkaloid but was caught in Cusco, Peru on September 30. Now, in my mind, why would Filipinos do that? Highly unlikely right? Then again, [...]

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U.S. jobless rate passed 10% mark

November 7, 2009

Another truly sad day in America. True, recession might be ending because the last quarter of this year will probably show another growth. If that happens, that would be 2 successive quarters of positive growth officially ending the recession. The bad news? Employers are just reluctant to hire. And the meager recovery for the last [...]

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What would motivate you to go home to the Philippines?

October 22, 2009

Image via Wikipedia “Filipino scholars’ abroad urged to return to the Philippines and share what they have learned to help improve the country’s academic and industrial sectors. Helpless Filipino politicians??? Sounds charity for the love of country.” Seriously, if any local or multinational company or university in the Philippines hires me, I’ll go home. I [...]

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Soldiers are Mothers, too

October 19, 2009

War is not like a hollywood blockbuster. A soldier is not an action hero. Outside the statistics and the news-worthy portrayals, there are deeply personal issues that most of us don’t see.

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Ely’s Philippine Imports: New Orleans Filipino Store, meeting place of Pinoys

October 14, 2009

In New Orleans, I was on a hunt. Hunting for a Filipino store. That hunt would bring me to Slidell, Louisiana. Across the bridge, across the lake, on a very rainy day. I’m sorry, I lost my camera so I don’t have a picture of this Filipino store in Slidell. She told me that there [...]

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Help Make a Filipino Become This Year’s CNN Hero

October 4, 2009

By: iRonnie Filipino Efren Peñaflorida of the Dynamic Teen Company earns a coveted spot in this year’s CNN Top Ten Heroes list. They will be honored at the Kodak theater on November 26th (Thanksgiving Night) when the winner will be announced. The winner will be chosen by the public via online voting starting Oct. 1, [...]

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Magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes Indonesia

September 30, 2009

This just in from the CNN: Magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes Indonesia. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck Indonesia on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was recorded about 33 miles from Padang, the capital city of West Sumatra, which is home to more than 800,000 people. Several buildings were damaged, [...]

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Eight years ago…

September 11, 2009

Today is a very important day lalo na sa mga taga-Barrio Siete para alalahanin ang isang worldwide event na nangyari eight years ago. This is my tribute. I was busy preparing dinner when my phone rang. Siyempre, dahil lafang ang nasa harapan ko dinedma ko muna ang phone call. I wasn’t expecting any calls naman [...]

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Mike

July 24, 2009

This is a true story of how I ran across the best boss in the world. Haddonfield, New Jersey I used to work in Haddonfield, New Jersey. My boss? Nasty bitch, foul mouthed and hated white people. Working as Controller, I had a staff. Napakatamad, bastos at maldita. I can’t do much. Ka-chika nang impaktita [...]

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Jenny, Filipina OFW: tortured by a Kuwaiti Family

July 20, 2009

Ugali ko nang mag-basa nang Ellen Tordesillas pag-gizing ko. And as is usual, nag-kakape sa Barrio Siete, nag-babasa. Pero this time, na-tapon pati pagka-babae ko at na-ngilabot ako nung nabasa ko ang isang link na iniwan nang isang reader. It’s about an OFW. Another malreatment. Another heart-wrenching story. Na inaabot nang ating mga kapwa Pinoy. [...]

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Have we just experienced discrimination?!

July 12, 2009

I know, I sound like one bloody broken record, but it’s unbelievable kung gano ako ka-busy sa pabrika and its almost unimaginable na walang sumasabog na problema dun dahil, it’s crazy, it’s almost daily. I tell you, pwede akong magsulat nang komiks sa mga nangyayari sa loob. One afternoon, after fixing one disaster – binalandra [...]

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The Devil Wears Prada!

June 30, 2009

I was talking to one of my boylets in Tiwi, Albay the other day. He gave me the news. My other boylet na binilhan ko nang pridyidir is now an OFW in Dubai. Huh?! Eh dahil kilala ko yong nangutong saken… “Tatagal ba yun dun?!” sabi ko. Eh kasi nga, first it was Kotsengkuba who [...]

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Sisterettes faces lashing in KSA

June 21, 2009

In every country, state, province, city, county, there are  laws, rules and regulations  that need to be followed. Laws that are similar in some ways, but there are some that are uniquely their own. Laws that if we violate, we pay the consequences. Even here in Barrio Siete, La Kapitana has some rules to be [...]

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A day in the life at work: "F.U."

June 19, 2009

I am one of those who appreciates coded languages err abbrevs. In my emails, especially to my boss, I am always used to signing… “FYI” which means, “for your information”. If we plan out for a dinner, I’d say… “BYOB” for “bring your own bottle” because the resto is not selling alcohol. So, I’m kind [...]

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A Taste of Greek Culture

June 16, 2009

I love to travel, meet people and feel their culture. My next big travel plan wish, would be a week in France or Italy, in a village where people don’t speak English. I wonder how I’d fare. But this time around, the only travel I did was go home to Philadelphia. My niece got married [...]

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America is going digital today

June 12, 2009

A different kind of Independence Day Today, Friday in America, is a big day. This is the day that the switch to digital TV, or DTV is going to happen. It will start at 12:01 a.m. Friday. Around that time, 974 full-power stations that cover major markets such as New York and Los Angeles will [...]

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Wag po koya! Wag po!

June 12, 2009

All housemaids were not born equal. There are those that semplangs to the left, sometimes way to the right, pati yong driver sa kabilang apartment eh kinalantare na. Our maid at the condo? Nawawala sya nang alas-dose nang tanghali. Ang leche at andun sa Wowowee. My sister fired her. The next maid? She goes home [...]

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