Maikling salaysay tungkol sa buhay ng isang Pinoy sa Melbourne-Australia

Ewan kung bakit ayaw pa niyang umuwi ganoong pagod na pagod na siya mula sa maghapong pagtatrabaho. Marahil nililibang niya ang sarili sa pagmamasid ng mga butil ng buhay na nagsasalimbayan sa kanyang paligid. Nagmamadali. Humahangos. Mga walang-pangalang mukhang waring inaanod ng hanging tag-lamig.

September 26 – 28, 2008
Westin Hotel, Seattle, Washington

The conference will bring together Filipino American community leaders, advocates, Filipino program administrators, and innovators of all ages to assess the current status of the Filipino Community and to move forward to the 21^st Century with more vigor and a more solid presence to ensure the growth and improvement of our communities.

A “Gezellig” gathering was held during Norma Manangan’s second stop-over visit to Holland this year after a hectic working meeting with the Kenya Alliance Against Malaria in Nairobi, Kenya.

It was fun. It was wonderful. It was truly Pinoy. That’s the Independence Day Picnic for the over 7,000 people who flocked to Spaarnwoudepark on June 7 to celebrate with their country folks the biggest and most festive annual Filipino community event in the Benelux and Germany.

The organizer of the Picnic, the Coalition - consisting of three community self-organizations: Barangay, Samahan, and UFDA - has received a tremendous amount of congratulatory messages for delivering another successful and memorable Picnic...

When Elton John belted out his rendition of his famous ‘Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,’ at the conclusion of his recent concert in Anchorage, he must have been referring to the midnight sun that was just about to set behind the snowy mountains that embrace this small Alaskan city. It creeps along just below the horizon providing almost constant daylight and will again rise

4 hours laterslightly to the right, not far from where it just set. With about 20 hours of daylight during summer, Anchorage is the place where outdoor activities abound to compensate for the long cold and dark winter months but for some, the long daylight comes with a few inconveniences.

PIKNIK NG KALAYAAN MATAGUMPAY na nairaos ng koalisyon na binubuo ng BARANGAY Sa Holland, SAMAHAN at UFDA. Masaya ang humigit-kumulang na 7000 dumalo. Maayos ang parking ng sasakyan, walang naghimpil ng sasakyan sa loob ng dinadausan ng piknik kaya hindi naging sagabal sa mga nagtayo ng tents, magkakatabi sila. Sa palengke mabiling-mabili ang pagkain at mga produktong Pilipino.

Ang mga propesyonal na manganganta natin dito sa sa Olanda ay nandoroon din, sina Nhelley de la Rosa, Ruth Galura at dumating pa si Alice Andico bilang pamamaalam sa kababayan. Si Alice at ang kanyang asawang si Erwin ay sa Pilipinas na maninirahan. Masaya ang mga nanonood at sinasabayan ng indak ang kanta nila.Marami ring kabataan ang nagpakitang gilas sa entablado.

June 2008

What solution should be made in order not to further alleviate the burden of the citizenry? Many are saying to remove the VAT and other taxes on oil and other prime commodities.

Si Tata Sinto

Ang natatandaan ko kay Tata Sinto, noong panahong ang aming baryo sa bayan ng Malolos ay isa pang liblib, kubli at maalikabok na lugar ay ang mga gabing silang mga ilang katandaan ay nangakaupo sa isang bangkong kawayan sa harap ng tindahan ng Tata Mino, na aming kapitbahay.

Ito ang panahong ang mga kable at alambre ng koryente ay hindi pa naigagapang sa matagal tagal na ring naghihintay na mga tuwid, mataas at payat at hinilamusan ng itim na alkitrang mga posteng kahoy ng Meralco.

Medical Insurance Coverage in the Philippines²

Dear Nene,

How are you?

First, we would like to inform you that together with other kababayans3 I miss your advisory column Ayon kay Nene very much. May I also inform you I have kept past issues of Munting Nayon and have used them several times to answer some questions of our kababayans. I am happy that your column is now available on the Munting Nayon website.

A couple of years ago I read the speech “A Borderless World” given by Patricia Evangelista, who at age 19 won the International Public Speaking Competition in London on May 2004. In it she wrote about the Filipino diaspora- the voluntary and involuntary dispersion and immigration of Filipinos worldwide. To quote some paragraphs from her speech:

I, too, am a part of the Filipino diaspora along with the 11 million Filipinos scattered around the world. There are those in it for the financial and career opportunities, I, on the other hand, started out in the same path but ended up being married to a foreigner. Thus my story is of vying for permanent residency here in the Netherlands where my husband is a native of.

As the world become borderless, relationships too became borderless. Nowadays families with multicultural origins are common. A good example is that of my immediate family now. My husband is born Dutch but his roots come from half Russian and half Serbian ancestry. His older brother is married also to a Dutch lady but of Afghani origin. The youngest sibling is now based in Spain living with a Spanish partner.

These findings are based from Bayanihan’s experience as a self-help women organisation assisting Filipinas who are in problem-situations for 17 yrs. and also from sharing experiences with other Filipino organisations. The ways the Filipinas and their Dutch partners communicate are different. The Filipino way of dealing with one another is characterized by avoiding conflicts or confrontation & doing things in an indirect way in order to maintain a harmonious relationship. This is in contrast with the Dutch way which is direct and sometimes confronting. This leads to misunderstanding. That’s why it is a necessary to follow a course on intercultural communication within a relation. This is also a preventive way of dealing with relation problems.

Nag-umpisa ang pagdiriwang sa isang parada mula Trocadero hanggang Stade La Muette ng mga ipinagmamalaking katutubong kultura na yaman ng bansa.Naging makulay ang parada dahil sa mga arkong pinalamutian ng bawat asosasyon ng mga Pilipino at lalo pang pinatingkad ito ng mga naggagandahang dalagang Pilipina na kumakatawan sa bawat grupo.

Among the films screened were the Caregiver of Sharon Cuneta directed by Chito Rono at MK2 Biblioteque on July 4, while the Dekada ‘70 of Piolo Pascual by director Chito also was screened back-to-back with the movie Ploning of Judy Ann Santos directed by Dante Nico Garcia at Balzac Cinema on July 5.

The three big stars attended the screening of their movies and extended their gratitude to all Filipinos in Paris as they showed their support to them.