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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Halo-halo-ween
Growing up in the Philippines, we didn’t really “celebrate” Halloween.* Yes, come October, establishments would be decked with Halloween decorations but kids didn’t go Trick-or-Treating (door-to-door roaming of the neighborhood was done during Christmas instead – in the form of… Read more
Posted in Family/Personal, Filipiniana, Matters of Faith
Tagged 1970s, cosplay, costume, halloween, harvest, Manila, nostalgia, philippines
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Philippine History at Wikipedia
Today’s featured article on Wikipedia is the History of the Philippines.
On this day, October 20, sixty-two years ago, General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines as promised. In 1955 on this day, The Return of the… Read more
Sesquicentennial Celebration
Last Saturday was Sesquicentennial Day at my high school alma mater, Lowell High School in San Francisco. Yup, that’s one hundred fifty big years, making it the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi.
I got the invitation… Read more
Posted in Family/Personal, Filipiniana
Tagged Adrian-Lamo, Alex-Tse, alumni, fil-am, filipino, gap, high-school, hp, lemony-snicket, margaret-cho, Naomi-Wolf, nobel-prize, rube-goldberg, san-francisco, Star-Wars
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