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Who needs a travel agent anymore?

With the power of our fingers who needs a travel agent to help you find a great deal? Nowadays all you need is a computer, net access, and a great cheap airline ticket website(s). Here are some great travel sites i check whenever i look for great airfare deals: Travel Zoo Expedia.ca for Canada Expedi.com for other countries Allegiant Air - dont forget to click on thier Deals and Destination link for really cheap ...

Tara na Biyahe Tayo sa Camiguin!

I first heard about Camiguin from Manang Miggy. She told us stories about how beautiful Camiguin is, how she climbed the tall coconut trees and how much she loves swimming and making sandcastles in the amazing Great White Island. All along all these are stories until i visited Camiguin Island last summer for my Biyaheng Mindanao, Summer Road Trip 2008. Camiguin can be reached from Manila , you ...

Kadawayan 2008: “Musanay sa Lumadnong Kagikan, Yutang Kabilin Panalipdan”

That is the Kadayawan 2008 theme for this year which means “Flourishing Indigenous Heritage, Protecting Ancestral Nations” The Kadayawan celebration this years is from August 17, 24, 2008. Aside from the annual Floral parade and Indak indak sa dalan, other events are the : Agro-Industrial Trade Fair & Floral Exhibit August 8-31, 2008, SM City Grounds Ka-an Dawet Food Festival of the Food & Beverage Industry of Davao City ...

Port of Seattle is wifi free!

Seattle can be reached two hours driving from Vancouver going through the Peace Arch Border. By plane, its only a 45minutes flight and 2 hours and half commuting using travel bus or tour buses. Seattle Airport or SEATAC which is also know as the Port of Seattle. There are many shuttle buses that can take you to Seattle and elsewhere in the region, or you can rent a car, ...

A Sneak peek for Kadayawan 2008

This years Kadayawan Festival falls on August 14-17, 2008. Better make yourself available on this dates as this years Kadayawan organizers and Davao Tourism Office promises this year will be the best Kadayawan ever. Below is a rough television ad courtesy of Bong Aportadera and his bro Mikee for the 2008 Kadayawan Festivities in Davao City, Philippines. What's unique about this is that the main cast are all ...

Young Filipino man murdered in Richmond, B.C. Canada

Geno was giving Charle Dalde directions to get to the Mall of Asia, a massive mall that has become an icon in the Philippines. Dalde and his family were planning to leave yesterday (Friday) for a vacation in the Philippines where the Dalde family is originally from. Those plans have since been cancelled. Charle Dalde had been doing what any responsible, respectful and caring young man would do ...

6 pieces chicken joy and two order of rice to go

Ok payn its ober aym bak to the bangkober! Hay naku, my short bakayson in the byutipol islands of my native land the Philippines and some other parts of the  world was short lived but sweet. Imaginin mo yan i was able to be in three countries in three weeks hahaha! Bonggacious diba? Since walang Jollibee ditech sa Vancouver, may i take home talaga ang byuti ko ng 6 pieces chicken ...

Dahil gusto kung makatipid ng $325.00…

Imbers ang byuti ketch ditech sa LAX. Infairmess kahit walang wifi access sa PAL Centennial Airport mas naappreciate at mas maganda yun kesa dito sa LAX. Dito me wifi nga pero meron silang tinatawag na Pay As You GO where you have to pay $9.99 for 24hrs access sa T-Mobile or $6.00 for 6hrs then 10cents per minute thereafter. Namalikmata ako di ko ma gets kanina yung thereafter na ...

No FREE Wifi access at Vancouver International Airport

SELL OUT!!! Nakakainis naman! I was just here last January 2008 on my way to the Philippines and wifi was free then. Grabe naman barely 3 months after me charge na? So i ahve to use the credits from my mobile phone to go online. Buti na lang they only charge me $8.00 for 24hrs compared to the $15 from the airport's internet company. What a ripoff! Hmmm, San Francisco Airport ...

The difference between a journalist and a blogger…

The difference between a journalist and a blogger is that journalists have to adhere to certain guidelines that govern the freedom of speech. ................. However, I simply detest people who place vicious comments and slanderous statements in blogs yet sign their messages as ‘anonymous.’ If you have something to say, don’t hide behind a false name. I would rather take it from them than the cowards that hide ...

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BALIK means to come back.

BAYAN means hometown or homeland.

So if you put the words together,

BALIKBAYAN means someone who is coming back home.

Balikbayan Box is filled with various gifts and goodies that range from cds, shoes, lotions, canned goods etc sent or brought by Filipinos leaving abroad to be given to relatives and friends back in their homeland, the Philippines