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Mahirap maging OFW, baka kala nyo!

by reynz on March 12, 2011

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Pag hindi ka tinutugis nang mga impaktong pirata sa Somalia Nanakawin naman mga food supplies nyo nang mga lecheng tiga Libya. Nakalibre ka nga sa mga sira-ulong employers sa Saudi na itutulak ka sa tuktuk nang gusali Karipas ka naman nang takbo sa nang-re-rape mong boss sa Hongkong na hindi tuli Maligaya ka na sana [...]

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Protected: How I ended up in Charleston

by reynz on January 19, 2011

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The disappearing balikbayan box?

by reynz on June 20, 2010

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We have some out-of-town visitors today. I decided to run to the nearest Filipino store to buy some stuff. Outside of the store, I noticed several boxes of balikbayan boxes for shipment. Back when my parents were still around, they would always remind us to spare a few dollars and fill a few balikbayan boxes [...]

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Photo Credits: Here Think about this. Dati, there’s about 10% of the Philippine population outside of the country nag-ta-trabaho. Ngayon? Mas marami pa! Wala kasing lecheng trabaho saten noh? As usual, the ritual goes na we all send money back home, konting ipon and hope na makabili tayo nang palasyo. But, let’s admit it. Mahirap. [...]

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Da TRUE and nothing butt da true: Where OFW remittances are coming from: In 2006, Overseas Filipino Workers remitted a total of $12 billion glittering US Dollars to the Philippines. Eto po sya shown by top ten sources by country. If you look, almost 60% of which comes from the US and only 10% is [...]

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What are the implications of the emerging middle class from OFW families?

August 21, 2007

The Interview continues: This is the continuation of the Inquirer Interview. Click these links for the: 1st part: Are OFW’s the emerging middle class in the Philippines? 2nd part: OFW migration is natural. Is it? 3rd part: What do you think is the reason for this difference in common observation and official figures? QUESTION: To [...]

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What do you think is the reason for this difference in common observation and official figures?

August 20, 2007

This is the continuation of the Inquirer Interview. Click these links for the: 1st part: Are OFW’s the emerging middle class in the Philippines? 2nd part: OFW migration is natural. Is it? QUESTION: People I talk to easily accept the observation that OFW’s are the new middle class. They can feel it happening, and there [...]

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OFW migration is natural. Is it?

August 18, 2007

This is the continuation of the Philippine Daily Inquirer Interview. Click this article to read the 1st part: “Are OFW’s the emerging middle class in the Philippines?“ Question: Do you believe the government’s explanation that this is because more OFW deployments are now professionals and skilled workers? (I have attached the latest figures from the [...]

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Are OFW’s the emerging middle class in the Philippines?

August 16, 2007

This is the unedited version of the interview by MA. SALVE DUPLITO, Editor of Money Smarts, INQUIRER.net with me. I got a permission from her to post it here. Of course, once this gets edited, isang sentence na lang ang matitira. hehehe. Question: Former Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas has said that OFWs are the emerging [...]

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What’s with the bling-blings?!

July 3, 2007

Ok, what is this anomaly? How come overseas filipino workers tend to buy a lot of bling-blings? He! He! He! Sori, napapag-initan ko ang bisita nang bayaw ko. He works in Dubai with his wife. They went to New York to visit and decided to stop by in Philadelphia. There’s four of them. Sila ang aking [...]

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3 Pinays trapped in toilet (or things you should never do in Italy)

June 22, 2007

Sun.Star: When in Rome, do as the Romans do or end up getting cheated, humiliated, penniless or maybe even stranded. A trip to Italy’s tourist traps with my sister and cousin led us to misadventures we can never forget. 1. Never cheat on automated toilets In Italy, the public toilets on the subways are automated. [...]

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Are you in favor of the DLSU study that OFW remittances be taxed?

May 28, 2007

SO, TELL ME! ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF THE DLSU STUDY THAT OFW REMITTANCES BE TAXED? Yeap! You read it right! There’s a study out there – somewhere in the halls of the De La Salle University that OFW remittances will be taxed.  That’s right! tha’s an interesting piece of news imbedded in this article that [...]

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It’s clear OFWs can’t depend on gov’t

March 31, 2007

I wrote about this earlier: http://reynaelena.com/?p=393 and I really did not understand why the nurses walked out nor did I understand what must be in their mind for doing so. Here’s an email I picked up on the Inquirer to offer us some insights. Whether these are true, who knows. But what we know is the [...]

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It’s the government, not the Balikbayan boxes

March 29, 2007

Here’s an article and a commentary I picked up on the Inquirer that’s worth reading. It’s all about our plight and balikbayan boxes. It’s the government, not the Balikbayan boxes INQUIRER.net Posted date: March 13, 2007 Randy Castro’s cricitism is out of this world. He said, “What’s wrong with going abroad to work?” There is [...]

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What about asking the US Gov’t. to help OFW’s? Wadyatink?

January 1, 2007

TWO SIDES OF THE COIN: Other than the fact that I will nevah evah get a taste of Daniel, honestly, I have nothing against him other than the ungentleman treatment to the whore Nicole, I mean, leave the political discussions aside, but there is a very clear picture of what we are in these two [...]

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What in the world is going on in Kazakhstan?

October 25, 2006

Kaza – – what?! And where in the friggin’ world is Kazakhstan aber!? Teka. Let me find some info. CIA Factbook Wikipedia WOW! I mean, hanggan doon? Abot ang pinoys? Grabe talaga!!! This just really tells you people how third world we are! We just got no friggin jobs in Manila, my kapwa OFWs are even [...]

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Ibalik nyo ko sa Pilipinas!!!

October 18, 2006

Just like what my college classmates, college friends and close friends in Manila would yell at me, ako’y nabubuang because I’ve always wanted to go back to the Philippines. Just like what they would tell me, they’d die to have my place here in the You Es of Ey to be here instead of being [...]

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Si Kanoy: Read about it…

October 17, 2006

Si Kanoy.  This happened a long time ago, it started in late 1995 to be exact, and our friendship lasted for three years, in the sense that three years later I left the island where he was living. I blogged before that I worked for an environmental NGO in the Visayas and I was assigned [...]

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Basic Cash Flow

October 3, 2006

Here’s a very nice article/post made by “Mampubukid” on the gov.ph/forum site that I visit regularly. I thought I would share this to you all since you will learn something from here. I really liked this one. If I think it right, they took this from Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Asset or Liability THE BASICS [...]

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Contractual Services

October 2, 2006

ricardo miranda <bongmiranda@yahoo.com> wrote:Hi Ms. Reyna…Hi Ms. Reyna…lagi ko pong binabasa yung mga advise nyo sa forum at idol ko po kayo at hanag po ako sa mga explanations at pangaral nyo…. ako rin po ay isang OFW dito sa saudi at gusto rin po naming mag tayo ng business sa pinas…sinusundan ko naman po [...]

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Free calls to Lebanon for OFWs, relatives

July 22, 2006

O, senyong mga relatives dyan nang mga OFW in Lebanon, you better read this news in the Inquirer. This is really nice. Kaso mo, libreng tawag nga, meron ba silang connection in Lebanon? I heard on the news na binanatan na most of the telecommunication facilities doon. I’m curious kung pano makaka-connect? Eto pa – you’re only limited to TWO-MINUTE PHONE [...]

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Illegal recruitment in Vietnam

July 22, 2006

Eto na naman po tayo! Ang mga walanghiyang mga illegal recruiters preying on hapless pinoys na naghahanap nang trabaho! Just what in the world can we do dito sa mga impaktong mga illegal recruiters na to? Kung pwede lang bang isubsub ang mga hudas na to sa bunganga nang nagbabagang mayon para matodas na lahat ang mga to! Sobrang [...]

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Si Ateng mabait ang naghahanap nang trabaho sa brother

May 6, 2006

ReynaElena, hi..i read your message here in forum at ang bait mo naman lahat tinutulongan mo pwede mo ba ako bigyan ng email mo kase ang brother ko gusto ko sya pupunta ng USA and i have some question for you maybe you can also help me.. he’s architect and i need more information about [...]

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OFW phenomenon to continue in 2006

April 6, 2006

I read this awhile back on the Philippine Daily Inquirer and I thought I would share this to all you out there. By Tessa R. Salazar Inquirer News Service WILL OVERSEAS Filipino workers’ investments in their home country continue to rise or slacken this year? Optimistic developers and real estate firms believe more money from [...]

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