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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So, you’re Filipino?

OF COURSE, you are called a Filipino if you are born in the Philippines. But what if you are living already in a foreign land? Or, if one of your parents is not a Filipino and you reside in the United States or Australia or Europe? The question is: How will you know if you are really a Filipino -- or still having some traits of a Filipino? This ...

Crossroads

How many times in your have you face a *crossroad?Too many to count you may say, right now i am in the middle of a crossroad. The first time i was in one was when my mother told us we are migrating here in Canada. Of course, i was so excited but that night i started to asked questions. Will migrating to another country solve our problem? Is Canada the ...

Sobra na, tama na!

Nakakasawa nang manood ng balita sa Tv Patrol ngayon. Pareho pareho ang laman ng mga balita. Ang mga pangunahing balita ay umiikot pa rin sa mga balita tungkol sa: ZTE NBN Deal Patalsikin si Gloria Arroyo ZTE Witness Jun Lozada FG Arroyo Unity walk for photo op? Dante Mariaga Kabit ni Jun Lozada at ang pinakawagi ay ang "“Yes,” Gretchen said with a wide smile, “I am a mistress. It’s ...

Capturing Christmas

Palapit at palapit na talaga ang araw ng Pasko. Unti unting nagiging makulay ang ating mga paligid. Ang walang katapusang kantang pamasko naririnig sa radyo o maging ang mga kumukutikutitap na ilaw at iba pang sensyales ng Pasko. Hapit na gayud ang adlaw sa Kapaskuhan. Naglain lain na ang mga kolor sa tanang dapit maabot sa imong mata. Ang walay kahumanang kanta bahin sa Pasko madungog nimo sa radyo, ...

Oh no not again Trillanes!

"We want change," Mr Trillanes told the Associated Press on Thursday Nagulantang ang buong sambayanan maging ang mga Filipinong nasa ibang bansa sa balitang nasa loob ng Manila Peninsula Hotel si Senador Antonio Trillanes kasama ng mahigit talumpong sundalong nanawagan sa pagbitaw sa pagkapangulo ni Gloria M. Arroyo.Sa kasalukuyang di tinanggap ni Trillanes ang sinasabing 3pm deadline mula sa gobyerno."Q:How long are you going to stay in the hotel for? ...

Coming home again

Its been six years the last time i saw you The smell of the fumes during traffic The honks of the jeepneys and buses The dancing traffic policemen Even the street vendors and beggars Are sights i have long to see again. The noisy wet market The rapping dispatsadora Im too excited and cant wait To be in the Philippines again. Now im called a Balikbayan As im coming home with a big brown carton called Balikbayan Box These ...

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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