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Panawagan sa mga OFW vacationing this Christmas in the Philippines

by reynz on December 15, 2009

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 advisory, vacationing Filipinos [...]

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Use of Filipino drug mules in South America, especially alarming

by reynz on November 14, 2009

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 [...]

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Jenny, Filipina OFW: tortured by a Kuwaiti Family

by reynz on 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. It’s [...]

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Meet the writers: Cora Dolorosa

by reynz on July 5, 2009

Ako po yan. Nakasilip sa dyalusi. (Tinanggal ko na po ang dyalusis! ~Reynz!) Shy dahil bigatin ang mga tiga-Barrio Siete. I’ve been reading Reyna’s blog for about 2 5 months now…. sorry kung late… huli man daw at magaling eh huli pa rin .
I got to know about Reynz blog from Dona Victorina. Hindi [...]

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Sisterettes faces lashing in KSA

by Mel on 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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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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That xenophobic and barbaric Chinese remarks

March 29, 2009

Admiration for China

Who would not have an admiration for China? With their ancient civilization that continues to awe everyone of us to their meteoric rise as one global economic power capable of dictating our food on the table. One thing I like from them is how effective their anti-corruption is. They hang them. Sure it’s [...]

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Malas ng OFW, swerte ng pulitiko

February 1, 2009

Pagpupugay sa OFW
Hindi mayaman ang OFW – Akala ng marami sa ating kapag OFW o nasa abroad ay mayaman na. Hindi totoo yun. A regular OFW might earn from P50K-P300K per month depende sa lokasyon. Yung mga taga-Saudi or US siguro ay mas malaki ang sweldo, ngunit para sabihin na mayaman sila ay maling-mali.
Mahirap maging [...]

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Job creation by sending Filipinos out of the nation

January 26, 2009

Job creation is hard, family separations are harder
More family separations. That’s what I see from the current headlines. True, job creation is one truly difficult task, especially when the problem is confidence and trust. You need venture capitalists. You need entrepreneurs. You need liquidity. You need fresh loans pumped into the economy. You need hard [...]

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The formula of success is inside you

October 13, 2008

My entry today is still dedicated to pobreng_obrero and to the rest of Pinoys who look at OFW’s in a very negative way. Ako, is one of the so many Overseas Pinoy’s na gusto nang umuwi sa Pinas. Kaya nga ako buy nang bahay kubo there to get started. Kaso, di pa panahon. Kelangan [...]

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In defense of OFW’s: “Walang ganyan sa States”

October 12, 2008

My entry today is in response to a comment left by a certain ?pobreng_obrero? which irked me, over at Salve?s Money Smarts Blog, incidentally on the very feature of my blog article. Here?s what ?pobreng_obrero? has to say: (please click the thumbnail)

Now, I will highlight the comments to OFW?s which I will clear up [...]

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What made you decide to work abroad and where?

October 8, 2008

Considering that I am now swamped as ever with new Overseas Pinoys, I thought I would bring to top an entry I made last year which will hit you if you are an OFW. Especially now that things seems to be not looking good on the horizon. Sana naman wag sumama nang todo ang ekonomiya [...]

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Money Smarts features an Igorota from Tublay Benguet

October 7, 2008

Last week, Salve Duplito of Money Smarts, interviewed via email Filipinos working all over the world to find out how the US global financial crunch is affecting one of the major sources of the country?s liquidity?the OFWs. She is publishing this week in installments the full version of their emails. Head over to this site [...]

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OFW and the current global financial crisis

September 30, 2008

I received an email from our BFF, Salve Duplito, The Inquirer’s financial whiz, editor of Money Smarts. I am inviting my very, very close Overseas Pinoy friends (yeap, alam nila sekreto ni Victorino) to help her out. They are the following:

) Roni (Sands of Time) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

) Mogli of Sweden
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Sino nga ba ang baliw?

August 23, 2008

When you think you have done your best na ma-qualify at ma-meet lahat nang requirements nang isang trabaho overseas, hold it muna kabisyo, because meron akong timang na balita. Kausap ko kasi kagabi sa fone ang friend ko sa Ortigas Control Cheezemaks Center.
Meron syang isang update na napa-putang ina ako.
Muntik nang maluslus [...]

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Istorya ng mga OFW sa Saipan, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands

June 8, 2008

Sa araw-araw libo libong Pilipino ang nangingibang bayan upang mabigyan ng magandang kinabukasan ang kanilang mga mahal sa buhay sa Pilipinas. Libo rin ang umaasang isang araw ay makakaalis din sila at matitikman ang buhay ng isang Overseas Filipino Worker. Masarap bang maging OFW? Ano ba ang mga hirap na kadalasang kinakaharap ng isang OFW? [...]

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Can morality be upgraded?

May 4, 2008

Saudi religious police arrest Filipina nurse, male colleague.

That’s what the headline was saying. Of course read ko naman agad. I figured, I wonder if they were caught doing la-di-da eating some enchilada in some positions that you’ll yell purbida!

Saudi Arabia’s religious police have arrested a Filipina nurse for sitting in a restaurant with a male [...]

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Given the chance, would you still go to America?

March 18, 2008

One of the things na napag-usapan namen ni Joy on Usapang Pinoy at Future Radio in UK was the fact nga na most Pinoys are still wanting to escape the ridiculous economic disparity sa aten mga kabisyo. I know for a fact na ilang bloggers na who frequent Reyna has sent me emails on how [...]

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Anyone from Denmark?

March 12, 2008

If you think the internet dragging name that’s burning between Australia and the Philippines is the hottest scandal in town, guess again! Do you know who is CLIENT number 9? Head over HERE and find out more about the hottest! hottest scandal in this part of the globe!
Meanwhile… a letter from a European barrio siete [...]

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Project: Santacruzan of Overseas Pinoy Talents

February 24, 2008

As of 2006 mga kabisyo, official figures have it that around a tenth of the country’s population or 8.23 million work and live overseas. Majority of them, 3.6 million are in the United States and Canada. The Middle East accounts for 1.8 million, 1.2 million in Asia and the rest are in Europe, Australia and [...]

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What is the problem that you’re trying to solve POEA?

February 1, 2008

Annuncio mga kabisyo!
1.) I was nominated for Nobel Fisher Price at kelangan ko yong mga flying voters dyan! Punta kayo dito: Pinoy Blog of the Month! Ang winner gets isang kaban na polvoron!
2.) Yong pink na biik, nagmamakaawa! Bisitahin daw sa babuyan!

Soon, I will be the first woman President of the Philippines. But we [...]

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Rising dependence on OFW remittances alarming

January 19, 2007

Think tank: Rising dependence on OFW remittances alarming Workers’ money accounts for 10% of GDP; By Delfin Mallari Jr., Southern Luzon Bureau, Posted date: January 18, 2007
MANILA, Philippines — The growing dependence of the country’s economy on the money sent home by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) has become alarming, the head researcher of the think [...]

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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 in [...]

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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 USA [...]

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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 OFWs will be [...]

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Bakery Strategy: Partnership

March 30, 2006

[quote]Quote: becoolini posted on 3/25/2006 15:36 hi to everyone! balak ko tumayo ng bakery..may gamit na kame pero la pa pwesto..ung mga gamit kase binili namin s family friend nmin kase aalis na sila ng pinas.ano po ba mgndang tip sa bakery busness?la pa kase kame pwesto eh..binili ko ung makina dahil balak ko nga [...]

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Php50=$1 and its effect sa OFW

March 25, 2006

Ganito yon. Consider this time frame.
January 2005 (Andun ako sa Manila), exchange rate, $1=Php56. So, kakayod ka muna nang Php56 bago ka magkaron nang $1. Sino ang me advantage sa ganitong exchange rate? Yong mga tiga-labas especially tayo sa America, Middle East, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore or Europa. Kasi, sa konting $ na padala natin, [...]

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