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Who cares about turkey?! Happy Thanksgiving! November 24, 2011. Vallejo, California. FIL-AM. FILIPINO/FILIPINA-AMERICAN.  Click on any photo above to enlarge, Use left/right arrows to navigate. Please drop us a comment below. 🙏🏽 Help us grow Pinoybuilt to be the number one  Filipino-American  online community in California, if not the USA. 🇺🇸  Please click  this to follow www.pinoybuilt.com . 🤙🏽 Thank you! 👊🏽 Maraming salamat po kabayan. 🇵🇭 ✌🏽 Pinoybuilt uses Disqus as the commenting system because it prevents spam, but also because it connects our various sub-sites like LA.pinoybuilt.com , HI.pinoybuilt.com , AU.pinoybuilt.com & PH.pinoybuilt.com . Comments help a website go viral (and make $$$) so we hope to hear from you. 🙏🏽 Know anyone who'd be interested in blogging for Pinoybuilt. Please share this site with them. Btw, blogging is what you do on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc. Just add a 'pinoy' flavor to your soci...

Thanksgiving 2011 November 24, 2011. The Masters at Hiddenbrooke. Vallejo, CA. FIL-AM. FILIPINO/FILIPINA-AMERICAN.  Please drop us a comment below. 🤙🏽 Help us grow Pinoybuilt to be the number one  Filipino-American  online community in California, if not the USA. 🇺🇸  Please click  this to follow www.pinoybuilt.com . Thank you! 👊🏽 Maraming salamat po kabayan. 🇵🇭 ✌🏽 

Niners Nation celebration! 

Pop Warner Football Jian is #61.  Flashback September 2010.

Go Jian! Flashback: September 2010

Family is everything!  

I'm going into 2nd grade.

Get to know Venus Raj Maria Venus Raj was born in Doha, Qatar to an Indian father and a Filipino mother, the youngest of five children. As an infant, Raj was taken by her mother to Bato, Camarines Sur in the Bicolandia, and was registered under perjury by her aunt as a Philippine-born child. Raj grew up with her mother, a former tenant farmer and dressmaker. For the first two decades of her life, Raj lived in a nipa hut made of wood, bamboo and anahaw leaves, with no electricity, in the middle of a sprawling rice field. She allegedly used rice paddy dikes for her early training, where she eventually developed her distinctive walk. Raj started out by joining local beauty pageants, as well as oratorical contests at San Vicente High School, where her English teacher served as her coach. Using the prize money won in major contests, she then bought land on an installment basis for her mother as a means of improving their livelihood. -- Wikipedia [post_ads] #Yspiking in PH Sear...

My girls and me August 6, 2011. San Ramon, CA. My girls Join us & help build a Fil-Am online community. Please leave a comment, and  click to follow our website  www.pinoybuilt.com. Join one of our sites in California: Los Angeles , Sacramento ,  San Diego , San Francisco ,  San Jose  or Vallejo . Click on a tag below to browse.

 

Tennis anyone? Let's play!   Novak Djokovic defeated the defending champion Rafael Nadal in the final, 6–4, 6–1, 1–6, 6–3, to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. It was his first Wimbledon and third Grand Slam title, having previously won the 2008 and 2011 Australian Open.

Mabuhay and welcome to Pinoybuilt.com ! 🇵🇭 I was born in Makati City and grew up in Marikina , a city known for its world-class shoes and strong sense of community. As a kid, I attended Marist School , while my sister went to St. Scholastica's Academy . On weekends, we often visited Malate, Manila to spend time with my mom’s side of the family—those memories of old Manila, bay walks, and bustling streets still live in my heart. When I was 9 years old , my family and I immigrated to the United States. We landed in Chicago, Illinois , where I went to Catholic school and experienced snow for the first time. Then just before I turned 13 , we moved to Vallejo, California . That’s when I transitioned to the public school system and started 7th grade, learning how to navigate life between two cultures. Later, I attended the University of California at Davis , where I continued to explore what it means to be both Filipino and American. At UC Davis, I was a member of  Mga Kapatid...

St. Catherine of Siena June 26, 2011. Zio Fraedos. Vallejo, CA. SCS 8AM Mass with Nica & Jian Join us & help build a Fil-Am online community. Please leave a comment, and  click to follow our website  www.pinoybuilt.com. Join one of our sites in California: Los Angeles , Sacramento ,  San Diego , San Francisco ,  San Jose  or Vallejo . Click on a tag below to browse.

Flashback: May 5, 2010 Thanks for getting this together Larry. Cinco De Mayo with Russell, Larry, Nica & Jian .

Hey kids, grab our sled! There was snow on the ground when I left the office in Fairfield.  It's not much, but it brings me back to snow-heavy days of my childhood in Chicago. [post_ads]

Maui, Hawaii • 2011-03-29. There are no 'Filipino Strength' t-shirts in Maui: How a family vacation and a search for local threads birthed the PinoyBuilt brand. Filipino-American, Pinoy Built, Maui, Lapu-Lapu, Filipino Strength MAUI, HAWAII • MARCH 29, 2011 There are no 'Filipino Strength' t-shirts in Maui Who wants a Pinoy Built t-shirt? Bridging the gap between island inspiration and cultural identity. My family and I are vacationing in Maui for the first time, and like any good traveler, I went in with a mission: to find the perfect shirt. I planned on getting 'FILIPINO STRENGTH' t-shirts, just as I had done when I had vacationed in Oahu. But I quickly found out that those specific tees are only available in Honolulu. Lapulapu, first Filipino hero. A potential PinoyBuilt logo? • Photo © J.F.R. Perseveranda. 🇵🇭 Tagalog WOD Lakas: Strength. In the diaspora, our...

  The Karate Kid Part II - Live or Die? Scene

The Road To Hana - From Lahaina The  Hana Highway  (colloquially referred to as  The Road to Hana ) is a 64.4-mile-long (103.6 km) stretch of  Hawaii Routes 36 and 360  which connects  Kahului  to the town of  Hana  in east  Maui . To the east of Kalepa Bridge, the highway continues to  Kipahulu  as  Hawaii Route 31  (the Piilani Highway). Although Hana is only about 52 miles (84 km) from Kahului, an uninterrupted car-trip takes about 2.5 hours to drive, since the highway is very windy, narrow, and passes over 59 bridges, of which 46 are only one lane wide. [5]  There are approximately 620 curves along Route 360 from just east of Kahului to Hana, almost all of it through lush,  tropical rainforest . Many of the concrete and steel bridges date back to 1910 and all but one are still in use. That one bridge, badly damaged by erosion, has been replaced by a portable steel ACROW bridge erected by the...

Jian loves luau!

The Westin Maui Resort & Spa’s Wailele Luau  

 

 

PinoyBuilt Morning Feature • BSN Playbook 2026. Filipino American guide to nursing school pathways — elite BSN programs, California nursing competition, Dominican University of California, ADN pathway strategy, high-paying RN careers. filipino, nursing, california, education, careers, healthcare, diaspora, students. The BSN Playbook (2026): Elite Nursing Schools vs. Smart Paths — A Filipino American Guide Kumusta! Welcome. If you are a Filipino American student — or a parent guiding one — there is one career path that has quietly become one of the most powerful in the United States: Nursing. It offers stability, six-figure earning potential in California, global mobility, and a deep cultural connection to the Filipino diaspora. But here’s the truth most people don’t realize: Not all paths to becoming a Registered Nurse (RN) are the same — but many lead to the exact same destination. This guide breaks down the real strategy behind choosing the right BSN program in 2026. ...