The Blacktown Street Parade at the end of May kicked off a busy period for the community.At the festival, I followed a group of men in suits and found myself sitting up on stage watching the parade go by.

But …

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Ooops, it’s time to dust those barongs and sayas. Yep, it’s that time of the year when the community is agog as to who’s coming and who gets an invite. Some will be jumping from one event to another only …

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We Filipinos have a penchant for copying, imitating, duplicating, replicating to the tee. The ‘photocopy’ syndrome.  The “gaya-gaya, puto maya” mentality.  We are king and queens of imitation!

We’ve always had the Philippine version of an international recording artist.  Hagibis …

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