Yearly Archive: 2008

Dec
31

Happy New Year To All

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Goodbye 2008 I thank God for all the blessings my family received this year. I consider every living day a blessing we must cherish and appreciate it. Sometimes things don’t go the way we wanted it to be but maybe for a reason. Don’t let hatred reign your heart forget and live on don’t waste …

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Dec
25

Maligayang Pasko

Merry Christmas Maligayang Pasko Glaedelig Jul Feliz Navidad My warm greetings to my friends and family, kababaylanes, aupairs, and my blogging friends and all our kababayans. I`m so happy and thankful that I´m able to join the rest of my family after 28 years we are spending the christmas together.  Happy Birthday  to our Lord …

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Dec
20

Request for help in repatriation of a Filipina

Carina David, Sept 15, 1976–Dec 17, 2008

November last year the Filipino community in Denmark were shock when Dulce, an au pair was killed in a vehicular accident. There is a on going ban of aupair in the Philippines European countries like Denmark who still approves au pair visas to thousand of Filipinas.  But when something terrible happens no one will take …

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Dec
18

In the Absence of “The Light of the Home “

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A long distance relationship… What kind of relationship is that? “Ask a Danish man who is married to a Filipina “I said when I was told about my brother who was leaving his wife and 2 children at home, in search for greener pastures in Spain. Two months later my sister-in-law found out that she …

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Dec
12

How honest are we?

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Sometime you can not believe that honesty still lies in the heart of many people especially among the danish people. Today I lost my wallet in a small shopping center I was about to pay for my cafe latte when I discovered that it was lost. I went back right away to the bakery inside …

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Dec
09

Filipinamom’s Christmas Countdown #3- Unique Gift wrapping Technique

Have you bought all your Christmas gifts and have you not gonna wrap it. Wait.  I was stumbling the other night I find out about this fun and creative Japanese style gift wrapping system called Furoshiki.  If you read my profile or my very first post you will know that I’m concerned about our environment. …

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Dec
02

Filipinamom’s Christmas Countdown #2- 24 Days of Christmas

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December month in Denmark is not only about Christmas but also the time of Christmas Calender or the Advent calendar. The Tv stations (DR & TV2) usually make a special advent calendar tv series starting from the 1st of December to the 24th. Denmark’s Radio started to air Stories from around The World in 1962 …

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Dec
01

Filipinamom’s Christmas Countdown #1- Family

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December for me is the most stressful month of the year both here in Denmark and the Philippines. But To counter act the stress I will start to post mostly about christmas traditions or what ever connected to Christmas or Yuletide (jul in danish). In the Philippines Christmas is the most important of all holidays …

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Nov
26

Filipino Au Pair’s In Denmark Story

Almay Aguirre, The Filipino Au pair

I’ve been really bothered when you hear about the sad plight of Au pairs here in Denmark I always thought that it’s sole Filipina problem but I found out that there’s also a handful of male filipino au pair and I contacted this former au pair here in Denmark his name Almay Aguirre. He had …

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Nov
22

Filipina Au Pair in Distress-

Cathy  a sweet Filipina Au pair

This is Catherine when she was in Holland, her picture reflects sweetness and contentment of her experience with her host family in Holland. But she asked me not to published her present picture because she lost weight because she don’t want her family to worry when they see her now. Catherine story is one of …

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