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Cloning the Congen: We know ‘why’ but not ‘who’
By Cristina DC Pastor Why would anyone want to duplicate the Facebook page of Consul General Mario Lopez de Leon Jr.? Tech hacks will tell you that these so-called scammers’ nefarious intention is to reach out to the person’s network of friends and ask them for cash. It may not be as simple as that. […]
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Human Rights Commissioner Carmelyn Malalis on family, Faith and a passion to fight vs discrimination
By Cristina DC Pastor “There’s another Pinay!” Carmelyn Malalis got this welcome shoutout from two Filipinas who were earlier appointed to the De Blasio Administration: President of Economic Development Corporation Maria Torres-Springer and Chief Technology Officer Minerva Tantoco. “After I was appointed, I received an email basically welcoming me to the fold. Let’s do a […]
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The FilAms of Silicon Valley: Where are they in high-tech? (Part 3)
By Harvey I. Barkin Jing Torralba observed that Filipinos in her line of work didn’t socialize at work. That they tend to socialize outside of work. When she worked tech pubs at a security company, she worked with a young Filipino engineer. She told him to call her by her first name. She was intending […]
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The FilAms of Silicon Valley: Surviving the layoffs; the rise of Dado Banatao (Part 2)
By Harvey I. Barkin Edwin’s wife, Josefina or Jing, was also a tech writer but followed the path into software. She has a Psychology degree and is no more an engineer than Edwin. She started as a recruitment receptionist for Xerox when she joined Edwin from Washington DC in 1984. That meant, “All I did […]
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The FilAms of Silicon Valley: They are not all techies (Part 1)
By Harvey I. Barkin SAN JOSE – “The story goes,” Edwin Torralba related, “when it was time to choose, the Philippines chose to have an Asian Institute of Management while India chose an Asian Institute of Technology.” Edwin was a technical writer but when the permanent job became contractual and then dried out, he re-invented […]
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9/11 survivor Frank Cruz comes home, creates jobs through his dirty ice cream business
By Cristina DC Pastor September 11, 2001 would be a turning point in the life of businessman-banker Frank Cruz, 67. Frank narrowly escaped his workplace at One World Trade Center. Eight minutes after he got out, the World Trade Center came crashing down. “My co-workers and I were going down the stairs of the World […]
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Will Filipino staff return when Pommes Frites reopens in the Fall?
A bigger Pommes Frites will reopen in Greenwich Village in the Fall after the old store in the East Village was gutted in a fire resulting from a gas explosion, according to a crowdfunding campaign. While the store needs a total of $367,500 to get back on its feet, the Indiegogo campaign ‘Rebuild Pommes Frites’ […]
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Philippine gold exhibit part of Asia Society’s 60th anniversary celebration
By Cristina DC Pastor The exhibit, “Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms,” will be part of Asia Society’s programming leading up to its 60th anniversary in 2016. Asia Society President Josette Sheeran made the remark during a July 21 briefing, stressing the importance of the exhibit to the museum’s programming for the year. The gold […]
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Lawyer Dulce Valdes-Barangan is the new president of Ilocano association of N.Y.
By Cristina DC Pastor In the Barangan household in Long Island, the children of Caesar and Dulce Valdes-Barangan speak English as well as the Ilocano language of the northern Philippines. Somewhere in New York State’s multicultural quilt of young Americans, there’s Zack Barangan, who works in an advertising agency in Manhattan who speaks Ilocano, and […]