I recently received on the email trail a photo of a billboard of a Filipino business offering “Paki” services – or running errands at a price.  It highlighted the Filipino ingenuity. It amused me no end and it definitely tickled …

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It feels like almost a zillion years ago that I bought my first car. As expected, I was bursting with excitement and played little Miss Independent, until reality set in.  My car conked out somewhere but I thought luck was …

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Witnessing community happenings recently made me remember a word my friends and I coined in our younger days.  I thought age and time would have eliminated the ‘art of papelation’ but it seems not, for there are those who …

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The Philippine Community Council (pee-cee-cee) has been haunted with paranormal activities for years. Such activities were heightened around election time as ghost whisperers go through their rituals of breathing life onto dead clubs. It’s been a supernatural phenomenon that has …

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Around this time of the year, people in the Philippine Community Council (pee-cee-cee) become extra nice and slip on their best behaviour.  It’s say hello time and they’re there at every event and function.  After being ignored all year, you’ll …

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I’ve been swept off my feet a few times before.  And the last time I got a piggy-back was from my Dad many moons ago to avoid the rising flood waters.  But then, I was a child.

So when television …

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