In celebration of Ninoy Aquino’s 77th birthday, Ako Si Ninoy Musicale will be in Cebu at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel Pacific Grand Ballroom on November 27, 2009. For more information please refer to the following. From I AM NINOY: NOVEMBER 27AKO SI NINOY IN CEBU Watch “AKO SI NINOY”, 2009 Aliw Awardee as Best [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Filipinos celebrate Thanksgiving?
It’s that time of year where Americans stuff their faces with complex carbohydrates followed by a series of resolutions to loose weight for the New Year. This is what Thanksgiving may look like to those unfamiliar with this American tradition. For me, this time of year always brings back memories of my youth when my [...]
Chicago ‘Sham Marriage’ Immigration Scam
This story recently occurred in Chicago and reading about it is quite embarrassing with the number of Pinoys involved in the immigration scam. Ten people with Chicago connections have been indicted on federal charges of running a marriage fraud scheme that paid American citizens thousands of dollars to marry immigrants in an effort to skirt [...]
Loyola Kapwa presents Kevin Nadal Dec. 2
Loyola University Chicago’s Filipino organization, Kapwa will be inviting Dr. Kevin Nadal who is the author of Filipino American Psychology on Wednesday, December 2nd. Kevin Nadal is a professor, psychologist, performer, activist, and author, who received his doctorate in counseling psychology from Columbia University. As an assistant professor of psychology and mental health counseling at [...]
Asian Art Museum’s Pasko! Dec. 6
December is approaching and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco will be hosting Pasko! This special family program will be held on Sunday, December 6. For those interested in the event, there will be lessons in parol, the illuminated star and a workshop on making your own parol. There is also a Baybayin Demonstration [...]
Fight 4 Relief
For all of you Mixed Martial Arts fans, this update from BakitWhy.com is on the upcoming Fight For Relief: A Fundraising Fight Night for Philippines Typhoon Relief on Saturday December 12th from 5:30 to 10pm. The event will showcase up and coming Filipino mixed martial artists fight to raise funds for Philippine communities affected by [...]
Behind the scenes of I Come with the Rain
This update features more coverage on the neo-noir psychological thriller, I Come with the Rain that was shot in the Philippines. Thanks to a reader who goes by Terminator, I was able to share this behind the scenes footage of Josh Hartnett in Mindanao, Philippines at a town that was established in the past 25 [...]
Annoying Tunes: Rosalinda theme song
This damn song has been stuck in my head for the past month after tuning into GMA Kapuso for my Philippine news updates from 24 Oras. Rosalinda is another Philippine remake but this time it’s from a Mexican telenovela of the same name. While watching this same exact music video on GMA, I felt that [...]
Book Launching and Exhibit at Museo Pambata
Just got this update from Lorely Trinidad about this new exhibit INVISIBLE CHILDREN at Museo Pambata on Thursday, November 26 at 4pm. Poems, letters, photographs, and art from Museo Pambata’s recent Convention on the Rights of a Child Summit for Children. The exhibit runs through January 5, 2010. So if you’re in the Manila area, [...]
Gruesome massacre of at least 30 civilians
Reading this story was not how I wanted to start off my Monday morning. Authorities discovered the bodies of at least 30 people who had been kidnapped early today in the southern Philippines and called the incident politically motivated slaughter. The victims, at least 13 of them women which included a dozen journalists as well [...]













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