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Safehouse Shifting Tips During Coronavirus

Relocation is complicated and now the pandemic has made things even worse. Hiring packers and movers can relieve your stress of shifting. Currently, most professionals are following safety measures and taking necessary precautions for a safe and smooth relocation.

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Published at 2022-01-16 by Prajwal21

Categories : Lifestyle

Tags: Safehouse Shifting Tips, house Shifting Tips, safe moving

LGBTQ Filipino Immigrant on Life in the US

When marriage equality became the law of the land in 2015, Ira Briones, a non-binary Filipino immigrant, rushed with their partner to the historic Stonewall Inn to get married. Years later, it still pains them to know their marriage is not officially recognized in their home country.

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Published at 2021-06-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Lifestyle, Opinion, People

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Filipina Up for Female Chef of the Year at World Gourmet Awards

ohanne Siy is the head chef of Lolla in Singapore and a Female Chef of the Year nominee of World Gourmet Awards, Singapore.

Siy’s cuisine is eclectic, a reflection of herself as a Filipina who was educated in culinary school in New York, then wandered and cooked around Scandinavia. Now based in Singapore, Siy shines bright.

We wish you all the best!

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Published at 2021-03-11 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Arts, Culture, Lifestyle, People

Tags: Chef, flavors

This All Grows in Baguio...

…that you must definitely buy and try next time you’re there. Yes, please! My husband and I were recently in Baguio City and it was the first time we went deep into its public market – the Baguio City Market (near Session Road).

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Published at 2020-09-17 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Food and Dining, Leisure, Lifestyle

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A Sojourner's View: Mindanao Histories and Studies

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 September) — A recent initiative to aggressively push for the inclusion of Mindanao’s identities, cultures, politics, languages, folkways, tales, as well as traditional conflict resolution systems, trading practices, family relations and, finally the concept of peace and development into the Philippines’ formal and non-formal educational engagements has just taken off with a proposed roadmap.

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Published at 2019-09-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, History, Lifestyle, People

Tags: American, Davao, History, History, Lumad, Manila, Mindanao, Power, colonial, indigenous, story, story

From Bahao to Breakfast

Spanish and American colonial eras influenced the earlier Philippine breakfast. During those centuries, innovations in kitchen stoves and ovens occurred globally. Lighting the day’s first cooking fire in the predawn light was demanding. With wood or coconut husk as fuel, the kalan (woodfire stove) system was surely more time consuming than turning the knob on a recently invented gas or electric stove that even had an oven for baking built into it.

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Published at 2019-08-01 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Lifestyle, Society

Tags: American, Breakfast, Spanish, colonial

5 Fish Breeds for Beginning Fishkeepers

If you are a beginner to the aquarium hobby this article might help you to find the best fish for you. From freshwater to saltwater fish, here are the best species for beginners, based on how hardy they are, the tank size and how easy they are to care for.

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Published at 2019-08-01 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Leisure, Lifestyle

Tags: aquarium, fishing

Pieces of the (Midnight) Sun: Sketches of an Alaskero

They were the summers of my youth, the summers of life. I started working in Alaska in 1966 when I was just finishing my twenty-first year. When I came home to San Francisco just before the Fall to start school again, I was a father. That was my first year in Alaska. It would be fourteen more consecutive summers before I would see what would become my final trip to South Naknek in Bristol Bay, the salmon goldmine of the world.

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Published at 2019-02-28 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Lifestyle, Stories

Tags: Salmon

Meet the 16 Candidates of Mr World Philippines 2018

MR WORLD PHILIPPINES 2018. The 16 men vying for Mr World Philippines poses with Miss World Philippines general manager Bessie Besana and national director Arnold Vegafria during the press presentation at Resorts World Manila

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Published at 2018-09-07 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Entertainment, Lifestyle, News and Events

Tags: Beautiful

This Limited Edition Rum May Be the Perfect Gift for Your Drinking Buddies

MANILA, Philippines – The -ber months have begun, and in the Philippines, we all know what this means: the longest Christmas season in the world is now underway.

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Published at 2018-09-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Lifestyle

Tags: Christmas, gift

Modernizing Baybayin

Are we ready for the enormous changes Baybayin may bring in our culture and daily living? Will Baybayin be suitable for the modernized lifestyle of the Filipinos?

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Published at 2018-08-27 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Lifestyle, Opinion, Society

Tags: Baybayin, System

A Kid's World Depicted with Humor and Grace

The best way to read Hello, Universe is with no expectations. Forget that it was recently awarded the prestigious Newbery Medal by the American Library Association and joined the exalted realm of much loved and well-respected writers such as Madeleine L’Engle (A Wrinkle in Time), Katherine Paterson (Jacob Have I Loved), and Lois Lowry (The Giver).

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Published at 2018-05-24 by Puerto Parrot

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How Social Tourism is Redefining Millennial Wanderlust

We've heard it all before. How we, in general, prioritize the here-and-now instead of planting seeds for the future. How we look far off into the distance, dreaming of adventure, because of our discontent for the responsibilities we can’t wait to get away from.

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Published at 2018-05-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Lifestyle, Travel

Tags: Tourism, Wanderlust

Hometown: Overstaying in Cebu

Why Cebu? Friends asked when I told them I was finally leaving Hongkong after almost 40 years not just because of advancing decrepitude, claustrophobia over cramped living, and mental and financial meltdowns. I also cited nostalgia for the old place where my siblings and I grew up in a large house on a hill overlooking the cement plant my father managed, and saying "pastilan!" and "buang-buang!"

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Published at 2018-03-13 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Lifestyle, Stories

Tags: Cebu City

Life with the Tarot

A strange sight greeted me in the middle of rice fields in Jaen, Nueva Ecija sometime in the late ‘80s. The Agrarian Reform program had just begun. My clan, heirs of my farmer grandma, was waiting for a dialogue with her tenants. I noticed a group of them waiting around a small table with … was I seeing right? Tarot cards?

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Published at 2018-03-12 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Documentary, Lifestyle, Mythology & folklore

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