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One stormy day of 2006 where trees were swamped away and power failure caused even MOA to close down at the hour of 6PM, 2 Chinese businessman, 1 Filiponly, and Maxx were fortunate to see a restaurant still open at BlueWave, Macapagal Boulevard.  After dinner, I was pestering Mark (currently  managing a packaging business) how to […]

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“Do you know how to speak Chinese?,” laime asks her friend Kiel at the mobile interface.
He replied in SMS, “Guwa buwe hiaw kong na nang whe.”
[Translation: I don’t know how to speak Chinese]
Just like when we say Mi hablo y Español.

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The number 9, as oppose to the common culture against the number 13, is considered as unlucky to Chinese tradition. For the celebration of post natal days or most commonly known as birthdays, Chinese people adds 1 unit to a celebrant’s age to avoid the first brush of 9 in their age. For example, an […]

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I loved mushrooms. I could eat all kinds without eating the excess vegetables. In my lifetime, I have met five different kinds of tasty mushrooms: the ordinary mushroom found in cans that is either whole or sliced, the button mushroom that hides a smaller mushroom inside called mostly button mushroom, the long legged golden mushroom […]

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Maxx and his acquaintance narrated to me for the third time the reason why there exists discrimination in intermarriage of a Chinese and a Filipino. It is a unique set up than other foreign mix marriages like being married to an Indian or Japanese since Chinese are closely knit together as if a clan that […]

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