I once shared in this blog how I encouraged my three children to speak in Tagalog, our native language. I do not have anything against those fellow Filipinos who cannot speak our language, in fact, I have friends who live in other countries and have children who cannot understand or speak Tagalog. I also know …
As I have mentioned, it is one of my intentions for 2016 to feature inspiring stories of people who (like me) immigrated to Canada from their home country. If you have been following my blog, you guys all know my immigration story by now. I thought, it will be also interesting to share stories other …
Season 3 of MasterChef Canada featuring the new batch of home cook hopefuls will premier in 6 days. Last week, I featured one of the lucky home cooks who made it to the top 40. This week, I again had the privilege to meet one of the top 40 finalists, Matthew Astorga of Pitt Meadows, …
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For 2016 I thought that there is no greater way to inspire my blog readers but to share inspiring stories, that’s why, I will try to often come up with inspiring stories of people I know, I worked with and even people I just met. On February 14, the all-new season MasterChef Canada will be launched …
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I am participating in #MoreThanALabel: Immigrant Stories, Simmons College’s online MSW Program’s campaign to promote transcending labels. By participating in this campaign, I will be sharing my story and how I believe we can shatter the stigmas often attributed to immigrant communities. In most of my blogs, I proudly mentioned that I am one of …
According to 2011 Canadian census there are around 61,270 Filipinos in Manitoba, in fact, the Filipino community is the largest visible minority group in Winnipeg. We Filipinos are also known for our festivities, here in Winnipeg, the members of the Filipino communities shared the fun of having a community celebration with Canadians and other nations through the Manitoba …
Philippines has about 120 to 175 languages, including Filipino and English which are considered to be the country’s official languages, but aside from these 2 languages, it is very common now to a lot of Filipinos everyday conversations to use the “beki” lingo, beki is a colloquial word for gay. Beki lingo, gay-cabulary, bekinese, bekimon …
There are a lot of videos uploaded in different social media sites, most specifically in youtube.com about OFWs (Overseas Filipino Workers). There are some that even left me teary-eyed after watching them. One of the most touching videos that I watched is the video entitled Google PH – Miss Nothing. I’ve never loved the song You (which …
The town of Angono may not be one of the well-known towns in the Philippines, I bet, there are some Filipinos who may not even know where it is exactly located. Angono is a municipality of Rizal and is located 30 kilometers east of Manila and is known as “Arts Capital of the Philippines” as it is the hometown of …
“All my bags are packed I’m ready to go…” Now that you have prepared the stuff that you are bringing with you on your big move, preparing to bring along your funds with you should also be on top of your priorities. In your MPNP application, you are required to demonstrate that you have enough …