Lazy Sunday afternoon, 71°F , New York City Even when I was still full from lunch, I couldn’t help but salivate when I saw the...
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PAG-IBIG Overseas
Our home country has not forgotten us and sends its PAG-IBIG to Filipinos all over the world! Home Development Mutual Fund, otherwise known as PAG-IBIG (PAGtutulungan sa kinabukasan: Ikaw, Bangko, Industriya at Gobyerno) FUND is a Philippine government program that was created by virtue of Presidential Decree...
PAG-IBIG Housing Loan Program
Sa tulong programa ng pamahalaang Pilipinas, posible at madali ng pagawan ng bahay ang mga naiwang minamahal sa PILIPINAS! Ang PAG-IBIG Housing Loan Program o pondo para sa pabahay ay bukas para sa mga miyembro ng PAG-IBIG FUND na naninirahan o nagtratrabaho sa loob...
Ag-Abroadak Kuma, Asawak
Our Ilocana contributor is a serious blogger, educator, and a graduate of the UP-Diliman’s Department of English and Comparative Literature (DECL), a Center of Excellence in Literature and in the English Language in the Philippines. She writes in Tagalog, Ilocano and English. The poem is a...
Iloko ‘Bourne Legacy’
Inspired by the movie ‘Bourne Legacy ’ (2012) that has major scenes shot in Manila and Palawan, this amateur group creates a parody using Ilocano and English. It’s funny how twigs and stones become high-powered machine guns and grenades.
Originally shared by Robert Dalimara on Ilocano York’s Facebook wall.
“It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.” ― Ambeth Ocampo, Rizal Without the Overcoat
Superbowl Night in New York
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‘Senti’
Earlier, in a rain-drenched and chilly New York, I got lost in the creative strumming of a Japanese guitarist at West 4th station. I don’t know why I easily fall victim to wonderful and romantic tunes. I was enraptured…I was in a standstill. People...
Luck by Langston Hughes
Luck Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven. Langston Hughes (1902-1967) So what does the poem Luck has to do with an expatriate in New York? Apparently,...
