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Marcos and our Ilocos
My Mom was going through a pile of documents she found during her general cleaning spree. Here are some interesting ones:
Our family’s from Ilocos Norte, the northern part of the Philippines. It’s the birthplace of Ferdinand Marcos. This 1956 issue of “The Weaver” featured Marcos, who was a congressman then. The paper was (perhaps still [...]
(my brother’s) Trip to Vietnam
He just came home tonight from Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) after an overnight stay (more pictures here).
Fortunately, he met some Filipinos there who told him to bring home Vietnamese coffee; apparently, the coffee industry is developing rapidly there. Here’s the G7 Coffee – it’s a gourmet coffee brand that I suggest you try as it [...]
How well do you know your neighbors?
We Filipinos strongly identify ourselves with the West, particularly, the United States as we’ve patterned many of our systems after theirs (form of government, judicial, education, etc.). But now that a lot of countries are consolidating forces such as Europe through the European Union, South East Asia (SEA) is looking to follow suit.
The Association of [...]








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