Features Buhay Pinoy Expat files
It was 6 a.m. in Germany when I heard the news about the flash floods in Mindanao. The radio announcer was talking about the catastrophe which resulted in more than a thousand dead, countless injured, and tens of thousands homeless.
I shook off sleep and concentrated on the news. My husband looked at me and nodded, letting me know that he heard.
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Now, as as the last days of autumn fade in America and Canada, summer approaches in Australia and New Zealand and Christmas is in the air in both hemispheres. Daylight saving time begins in one and has ended in the other and the backyard barbecue season follows suit. The Pinoy expats have made the bac...
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In my previous apparition (before I migrated), I worked for a big government bank in Makati. Big bank, 26 branches nationwide at the time, with more than 5,000 officers and employees. I worked in the Head Office, originally at the Escolta, then moved to Buendia, Makati when the Bel Air side was stil...
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It is what all expats dread: the phone call from the Philippines that brings instant grief, sometimes unbelieving shock – a death in the family. Far away from the homes of our childhood and the siblings we left behind when we migrated, we go through a visceral and almost instant decision process – we’r...
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Kapag nasa ibang bansa ka, kakaibang tradisyon siyempre ang makikita at mararanasan. Kasama na dito ang kakaibang pagkain.
Kaya naman kapag handaan na ang usapan, kakaiba din ang lahat. Pero pwede din namang yung tradisyong naranasan sa bansang Pilipinas ang gawin kapag may bisita, di ba?
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