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‘With NYC as my mistress, there is nothing I shall want’
By Camille Mana Upon entering my temporary New York sublet last September, I had no idea what was in store for me. One never does, perhaps, but based on a single Skype interview with my roommate-to-be via Craigslist (yes, I keep it real), one might say I had boldly leaped (or rather belly-flopped) into new […]
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Um, ‘dinuguan’ for media noche?
I wondered aloud while eyeing the rows of food trays laid out at Phil-Am Restaurant & Grocery for families to feast on while waiting for the ball to drop on Times Square. “It’s for the puto,” chortled owner Gil Aguila, sharing the Filipinos’ belief that round things bring good luck. I remember how my mother […]
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The Pilipina’s infatuation with the White Man
By A. Mabini I shake my head often when I’m walking with my girlfriend at Union Square. After bumping into another Asian woman holding hands with a white man, I turn to her and say, “EC babe.” It is silly to go around the truths about this topic. Jealousy is one of the bases of […]
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Bringing Medicare home in a balikbayan box
By Cristina DC Pastor “Medical portability” is a new term being bandied about in the community. What it means essentially is that FilAms who choose to retire in the Philippines will continue to have access to their U.S. Medicare insurance. I listened to a careful explanation of the concept courtesy of registered lobbyist Eric Lachica, […]
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Rizal Day: Let’s remember his birth not the day he was shot like a dog in a public park
By Daniel de la Rosa I could never understand why we celebrate Rizal Day on December 30. Let’s see, the Spaniards shot him in the back at Bagumbayan that morning in 1896 for inspiring a revolt later launched by Andres Bonifacio. It was a revolution whose leadership was offered to him by Bonifacio, but he […]
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How I met Dr. Jose Rizal at the Brooklyn Bridge
By Nestor Palugod Enriquez The Statue of Liberty in the Hudson River greeted our Navy ship to New York City 50 years ago. My eyes eagerly scanned the New York skyline as I was waiting for the Liberty Call announcement. The panoramic view from the water was incredible, I would swap it to a view […]
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Gitmo meets Fashion Week post-9/11
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant By Alex Gilvarry Penguin Group Out by January 9, 2012 Manhattan and Guantanamo blend nicely, and humorously, in this debut novel by Staten Island-born FilAm writer Alex Gilvarry. “From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant” fuses the themes of fashion and terrorism through the eyes of Filipino designer […]
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‘Enough of adobo, Manny Pacquiao and tinikling…’
By Cristina DC Pastor He was named after Yves Saint Laurent, but the activist in Yves Lawrence Nibungco is amused, as if finding it ironic that his name would command bourgeois attention identified with the couture designer. “Ee-ves,” is how the mild-mannered chair of Anakbayan New Jersey would rather be called. Not “Eve” as the […]
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Vargas, millionairess-in-waiting and the Top 10 stories for 2011
By Cristina DC Pastor The year 2011 has been an exciting one for Filipinos in New York. Although TheFilAm.net came by only in March, we were with you for most of the year and reported on the milestones of our lives as a community. Here is our list of Top 10 stories. Purely from a […]