From Farm Worker to Warrior
/A Fil-Am kid browned and brawned by months of farm labor under the sweltering California sun realized that preparing for war is hardly a dinner party. Read what it's like to be in a boot camp as America enters the Vietnam war theater.
A multi-province introduction to unique and unexpected Filipino dishes can either whet or blunt your appetite, but it will always be fodder for interesting conversations. How can you not talk about chopped pig cheeks, fermented shrimp that emerge days later smelling rotten but delicious with roasted fish, and pork blood cooked with tamarind juice and fish sauce? How about beating a live chicken to death until its blood rises to the skin surface, before roasting the now-dead fowl -- feathers and all -- on an open flame?
Are we hungry yet?
Not exactly palatable but a new book written by a German author about a German development worker who returns to the Philippines to look for his old love, only to be confronted by a nightmare scenario that engulfed a revolutionary movement. The novel is fiction but based on real life. Riveting story, disturbing but important reading.
Are DINKs the solution to the Philippines' rapid population explosion? Find out what they are and how they think.
Our Video of the Week is a timely anthem for unsettled times: “Di Niyo Ba Naririnig?”
[Read It Again]
Ten Lesser-Known Photos from the Martial Law Years That Will Blow You Away by FilipiKnow
What If Magellan Had Survived Mactan? by Penélope V. Flores
In The Know
‘We Haven’t Learned Our Lesson’: Victims Recall Martial Law in the Philippines
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/world/asia/philippines-victims-marcos.html?
What you need to know about the Love Bus, the revived 70s PUV returning to roads
https://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/389025-what-you-need-to-know-love-bus?page=2
Study identifies hardwood used in Juan Luna's 'Spoliarium'
https://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/283118-juan-luna-spoliarium-hardwood-used?
Sean Rhyan's toughness rooted in his Filipino heritage
https://www.packers.com/news/sean-rhyan-s-toughness-rooted-in-his-filipino-heritage-2025
The colonial mindset: A review of 'Magellan'
https://mb.com.ph/2025/09/14/the-colonial-mindset-a-review-of-magellan?
