Last Tuesday (2/17/09), President Obama signed the much-debated economic stimulus bill into law, which indeed contained the provision that contained the $198 million to go to the Filipino WWII vets on a lump-sum basis. Here is a link to the entire stimulus bill, but due to its enormous length I’ll put the text of the [...]
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FilVet update 3: The provision text and the reactions
Posted in Fil-Am Culture, RP Culture on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Assertionism
Posted in RP Culture on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was moving around some paintings with my parents at home today in an attempt to liven up our living room. Over the years we’ve ended up with a bunch of paintings from some random unknown Filipino artists and supposedly some well-known ones as well. We have two paintings (not including the one above) from [...]
Just because I’m in the process of buying these things
Posted in RP Culture on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pasalubong, in general, is a “gift for a relation or friend brought by” a “traveler returning from a trip,” and could also refer to “anything given as a gift to someone on the way home to a certain place.”[2] These returning travelers are known as balikbayan.[3] The term balikbayan, however, has in current times, been [...]
Looks simple enough….
Posted in RP Culture on October 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Stumbled upon this in Youtube. I myself haven’t tried this version, but I’m sure it’s pretty good. Very educational, I think.
Anyone care to share their own version?
Chefs – the new nurses? (3)
Posted in RP Culture on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Interesting ABS-CBN news article regarding the most recent “hot” overseas occupation for Filipinos….
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Chefs join nurses, seafarers in RP ‘hot’ jobs list
by ROSEMARIE FRANCISCO, Reuters | 09/30/2008 11:41 AM
MANILA – The Philippines, which for decades has supplied the world with a steady stream of seafarers, nurses, caregivers and domestic helpers, is now exporting practitioners of a [...]
