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‘Friendly Fire’ Video
A video of a ‘friendly fire’ incident that happened in Iraq has surfaced recently. In the March 2003 attack, American pilots mistakenly fired upon a British convoy on the ground. This CNN transcript shows that of the three U.S. Marine Air Controllers involved in the incident, one is called MANILA HOTEL and and the other, [...]
Posted in Current Events, Filipiniana Also tagged friendly-fire, Iraq, transcript, video Leave a comment
Manila, Manila
Check this gem out: Nostalgia Manila. As you dear readers know, I like to wax nostalgic once in a while so discovering this site was an absolute delight for me. It covers Manila in the 1970s and 1980s, the time I grew up in the Philippines (I left for the US in the early ’80s). [...]
Posted in Art & Design, Filipiniana Also tagged 1970s, 1980s, art, museum, nostalgia, philippines 2 Comments
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 caroling). That, however, didn’t stop us from dressing up in costumes and it wasn’t just [...]
Posted in Family/Personal, Filipiniana, Matters of Faith Also tagged 1970s, cosplay, costume, halloween, harvest, nostalgia, philippines Comments closed
Manila LRT
Wikipedia’s featured article today is on the Manila Light Rail Transit System. Check it out. Do you know the scene in The Great Raid where they show cable cars in Manila streets? I thought it was an inaccurate historical detail included by the filmmakers. Well, it turns out they were right. These “cable cars” were [...]
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