Ilonggo Ako Noon-OFW Ako Ngayon

1980: ika-5 araw ng Oktubre ng dumating kami sa daungan ng Maynila Port galing sa probinsya ng Negros Occidental. Ang pangalan ko ay si Marco Fernando at ang aking asawa ay si Ayah Isabel. Nang bumaba kami ng barko, ang aking damdamin ng pagiging nasa Maynila ay nagbigay ng pag-asa na mabuhay at matupad ang aking mga panaginip. Ngunit habang lumalakad kami sa karamihan ng iba't ibang tao, iba't ibang mga mukha, kami ay nagtataka kung saan pupunta at kung saan manatili. Sa aking puso, maaari akong mabuhay at ang kapalaran ay mananatili sa aking panaginip. Ang pag-asa ay bigla itong dumating ...hindi inaasahan…. "Kaibigan, ikaw ba ang ... Ibig kong sabihin…sa barko na nagmumula sa Bacolod City?" Tanong ng lalaking hindi ko kilala. Pero sinagot ko siya, "Oo, kumusta?" "Nasaan ang iyong mga bagahe, naglalakbay ka nang walang dala ... Ibig kong sabihin bag, supot o anumang bagay?" Tanong niya. "Bakit ka nagtatanong?" Galit kong sina...

Dumaguete: The City of Gentle People #IlonggoOFW Dumaguete is the capital city of the Province of Negros Oriental. It is located within the Negros Island in the Central Visayas Region. Dumaguete is also known as "The City of Gentle People" because of the friendliness of the people and the warm welcome you will get every time you visit the place. Dumaguete has a land area of about 3,551 hectares. On November 24, 1948, Dumaguete became a chartered city of the Philippines. Dumaguete is rich with historical sites as well as tourist attractions, both man-made and natural. Dumaguete is the home of the Cathedral Bell Tower that was built in 1811. The Silliman University and its Luce Auditorium and Anthropological Museum as well as the Rizal Boulevard are among the man-made tourist attractions of Dumaguete. Structures like centuries-old churches and historical shrines are abundant in the city. Rizal Boulevard in Dumaguete is named after the Philippine national hero Jose P. ...

A weak young man…A first true love…A beautiful-rich woman obsessed with love…A kind-loving wife…A circle of friends…Chasing their dreams abroad as OFWs…All brought together with their destiny to love aflame with conflicts, lies, lusts, ambition, hatred, revenge and the struggle for life in a faraway place. Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW): The Game of Life is a story of young man from a small island of Negros Occidental, the Philippines, who finds his life to a city and found his true love. He never thought that life in Manila (The City of Hopes) is a rugged terrain of heartaches, lies, hatred and revenge. He found his true-self when destiny engulfed him working in a faraway place called Dubai (The City of Dreams) as an OFW. Lied and played his game so well to reach his dreams; used his charms to build corporations and became a Billionaire. Marco Fernando’s new status in life was confronted by a series of discoveries he never imagined. Poverty consumed him to continue his journey u...

Unang Blog Sa Wikang Pilipino Ginawa ko itong blog para sa mga bagay-bagay na aking naranasan while I was growing up at mga bagay na dapat natin bigyan pansin sa ating buhay sa makabagong panahon. Kung nanaisin ko man na makapagbigay ng makabuluhang topics para sa inyong lahat, 'yan ay aking ibibigay sa inyo, sa king makakaya. Sa mga susunod na posting ko dito, ito ay nasa ating wika - Pilipino para na madaling maiintidihan ninyo ang gusto kong ipaabot sa madla. Bago ko sisimulan ang aking blog sa wikang Pilipino, ito ay inaalay ko sa mga batang na nasa larawan at ito ang una kong blog na nasa wika natin. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A freelance writer who meticulously structured and maintained blogs just for you: A LIFE SO FAR AWAY and my other blog: OFW: THIS IS MY LIFE AND STORY Thank you for your valuable time. Follow my business & writings and you'll find what life's meant to be.

Photo Source: "Caruaje by junrebayla, on Flickr"> Through this news and despatch from Camboja we learned in Manila of the good result attained by the stay of Diego Belloso and Blas Ruys in that land. Don Luys Dasmarinas gaining encouragement in the enterprise that he had proposed, discussed it with greater warmth. But since difficulties were still raised as to the justification with which an entrance could be made into Camboja with armed forces for more than the protection of, and completion of establishing, Prauncar in his kingdom, and to leave preachers with him—it was said on Don Luys's behalf that after accomplishing the above, he would, with the necessary favor of the same king of Camboja, proceed to the neighboring kingdom of Champan and take possession of it for his Majesty. He would drive thence a usurper, the common enemy of all those kingdoms, who lorded over it, and who, from his fortress near the sea, sallied out against all navigators, plundering and...

Photo Source: "Sari-sari store, Unknown location in the Philippines, early 20th Century...The word sari-sari is Tagalog meaning "variety". by John T Pilot, on Flickr"> A few days after the Chancilleria of the Filipinas had been established in Manila, news arrived of events in the kingdom of Camboja after the arrival of Prauncar—son and successor of Prauncar Langara, who died in Laos—together with Diego Belloso and Blas Ruyz de Hernan Gonzalez, and of his victories and restoration to the throne, as has already been related. [The news came] in letters from King Prauncar to Governor Don Francisco Tello and Doctor Antonio de Morga. They were signed by the king's hand and seal in red ink. The letters were written in Castilian so that they might be better understood. Since they were alike in essence, I thought it proper to reproduce here the letter written by King Prauncar to Doctor Antonio de Morga, which reads word for word as follows. Prauncar, King of C...

Photo Source: "Title page of "De Molucis Insulis" by cgc0202, on Flickr"> "The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803", Vol. I "explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century." Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. Published in 1903. Notes: Ferdinand Magellan never set out to "discover" what we now know as the Philippines. Like other human beings with great ambitions, he was driven by the potential of wealth and fame. At the time, the spices (we now buy for a few dollars in supermarkets) were worth many times ...