MABUHAY ANG MGA PINOY!!!

I saw this in my email inbox. I want to share it with everyone because it had such a dramatic and intense impact on me. I have always felt for the children of the Philippines – those poor little angels begging in the streets of Metro Manila, those who play barefooted under the scorching heat [...]

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A Saturday Spent Celebrating my Being Filipino

We all love long weekends, don’t we? I, for one, patiently wait for the next long weekend all year round. There are only a few within a year so you can understand how happy I am when it happens. So, I have been looking forward to this particular weekend because tomorrow is a bank holiday. [...]

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Maritz (Part V)

Part I can be found here (Then you can follow the links to each of the other parts).
That low point in Maritz’ new life in Germany was to be the pivotal event that led her and challenged her to chart a new destiny for her. Yes, she married for love and because of that love, [...]

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Maritz Part IV

If you haven’t read the previous chapters of this story, you can go to the first part and then follow the links for the succeeding ones.
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We have seen how Maritz reached her dream to be a singer and sent her two younger sisters to college in the process. We have also talked about her persistent [...]

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Pinoy Signs That Beckon Me Home

Filipinos indeed have their own unique brand of humour – self-lacerating humour, that’s what it is. The following was sent to me via email by one of my friends here in the UK. Being the homesick expats that we are, anything about home is worth passing around – never mind that it’s self-lacerating by nature.
We [...]

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Maritz (Part III)

You might want to read Part I and Part II first.
Love on the Go and a Forgotten Promise
And so it happened that Maritz was traipsing around the world, wherever her music took her. Following close behind was her German boyfriend whenever he had the chance to go see her – Thailand, Manila, Singapore, Dubai, [...]

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