FIL AM · FILIPINO

Happy Birthday Tita Gigi!  Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 27, 2023. #december27   #diana   #filam   #norcal   #perseveranda Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Merry Christmas JianCarlo & Diana! 🎅 Maligayang Pasko! Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. #december25   #bayarea   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Merry Christmas Yuki! 🐶 Maligayang Pasko! Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. #december25   #california   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Happy New Year from California! Manigong Bagong Taon! "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." Ralph Waldo Emerson Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. #december25   #california   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

From our family to yours, Manigong Bagong Taon! HNY 🎉🥳 Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. #december25   #bayarea   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Merry Christmas from the cousins! 🎅 Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023.  #december25   #california   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Merry Christmas Putong family! Maligayang pasko! Thanks for hosting. Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. #december25   #california   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Merry Christmas Joy & Vince! Maligayang Pasko! Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. #december25   #california   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Merry Christmas Joy & Angel! Maligayang pasko! Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. #december25   #california   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Merry Christmas🎄 Luz, Diana & Grace! Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. The titas, my dad's sisters. #december25   #california   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Merry Christmas Tita Gigi, Tita Nene, Tita Lila! Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. Christmas🎄 Titas & kids. #december25   #california   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Merry Christmas titas! Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. Christmas🎄 My titas & my kids. #december25   #california   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Merry Christmas Mom! Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. Christmas🎄 Mama and her grandsons #december25   #california   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Merry Christmas! Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. Mama and her granddaughters. 🎄 #december25   #california   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican   #perseveranda Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Merry Christmas Mom & Dad! Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. #december25   #california   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

San Francisco Ferry Building December 30, 2023: 1-6 PM #ThankfulGratefulBlessed FIL-AM Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com .

Melvin & family came by to visit Benicia, CA. December 28, 2023 #FaithfulToTheBay #FTTB #DoItForTheBay Join me & blog with Pinoybuilt. Sorry for the late post. If taken on my Sony full frame camera, I have to convert the raw photos, then edit in Adobe Lightroom. I joined Facebook in September 2007, so I have tons of digital photos prior to 2007 that I haven't posted yet as well. I will be posting to this blog/website going forward (rather than Facebook). I'd rather make money for Pinoybuilt instead of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. 😉 The site aims to promote any and all Fil-Am (Filipino-American) in NorCal. Please visit the site often, and leave a comment (so I can keep my three kids in college). 😉 For the SoCal site, please visit  la.pinoybuilt.com . Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com Click on a tag below to browse.

Maligayang Kaarawan Tita Gigi! Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 27, 2023.   Join me & blog with Pinoybuilt. Sorry for the late post. If taken on my Sony full frame camera, I have to convert the raw photos, then edit in Adobe Lightroom. I joined Facebook in September 2007, so I have tons of digital photos prior to 2007 that I haven't posted yet as well. I will be posting to this blog/website going forward (rather than Facebook). I'd rather make money for Pinoybuilt instead of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. 😉 The site aims to promote any and all Fil-Am (Filipino-American) in NorCal. Please visit the site often, and leave a comment (so I can keep my three kids in college). 😉 For the SoCal site, please visit  la.pinoybuilt.com . Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com Click on a tag below to browse.

Happy Birthday Tita Gigi!  Thankful. Grateful. Blessed. Benicia, CA. December 27, 2023. #december27   #diana   #filam   #norcal   #perseveranda Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Merry Christmas Mom & Dad! Benicia, CA. December 25, 2023. Thank you for everything. Maraming salamat po. #ThankfulGratefulBlessed #california   #filam   #filipinoamerican   #filipinaamerican Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

Climate Change is a topic close to my heart. The world's largest climate summit begins Thursday in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with 2023 set to be the hottest year ever recorded on Earth. Valerie Volcovici, a U.S. climate and energy policy correspondent for the Reuters news agency, joined CBS News to discuss the conference.   

Regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle. But it will never break. -- Ancient Chinese Proverb Google Photos brought these up from 9 years ago on my phone. I thought I'd post these since I need to clear space on my regular Google drive. It's only limited to 15 GB. These look like they're from an art exhibit at the Benicia Library. If you know me, I'm always hanging out there. I took photos of the art, because of the "Red thread" theory interested me. From Wikipedia: The Red Thread of Fate (Chinese: 姻緣紅線; pinyin: Yīnyuán hóngxiàn), also referred to as the Red Thread of Marriage , and other variants, is an East Asian belief originating from Chinese mythology. It is commonly thought of as an invisible red cord around the finger of those that are destined to meet one another in a certain situation as they are "their one true love." Folklore One story featuring the red thread of fate involves a young boy. Walking...

Available at Oakland Animal Services. I've followed SteveLach 's YouTube channel for the past four years. His YouTube videos are all "videos for shelter dogs."  His video posted on Facebook was how I found 'Sierra' (whom the kids and I adopted; the kids renamed her 'Ciara'). I had followed all the animal shelter Facebook Pages for one whole year, each one a 'favorite' so that the first things I would see on my Facebook feed were all the posts by the animal shelters near me. I instantly fell in love with Ciara when I first watched her online. For available dogs at Oakland Animal Services , please click the link. I had to post this video since it uses one of my favorite songs, " Modern Love " by David Bowie . 🐶 It's not really work It's just the power to charm I'm still standing in the wind But I never wave bye-bye  Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com .  

Hogan High School, Class of 1985 Mini-Reunion Stockton, CA — October 15, 2022 The Crew (L to R): Mike, JF, Ben, Jim, Missy, Rachel, Tony P, Gloria, Joe. Don't lose touch with the Spartans! We're archiving these memories at PINOYBUILT.com to keep our community connected. Follow us for more class updates and reunion photos! ➔ FOLLOW PINOYBUILT.COM

Happy Thanksgiving Benicia, CA. November 23, 2023. #ThankfulGratefulBlessed I edited the shots a little differently in Adobe Lightroom Classic. Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com .

Thanksgiving 2023 Benicia, CA. November 23, 2023. Mga apo ni Ronaldo at Lualhati. Grandkids. Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com .

The retired nurse & the granddaughter following in her footsteps Thanksgiving 2023. Benicia, CA. November 23, 2023. Nati is my mom's nickname. Her first name is Lualhati . Chesca's first name, Francesca, was chosen by her mom (which happened to be on my short list). Since I had given my first two kids three names (since I had three names JFR), Chesca's full name was supposed to be ' Natalia Joy Francesca .' Chesca was supposed to be my JF! 😁 Natalia was for my mom, and Joy was for my sister. But at the last second, I dropped the 'Joy' so it's not on her baptismal certificate. So Chesca, I named you after two nurses. And you're still my JF. That's why you're so awesome. 😂 Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com .

Thankful, Grateful, Blessed! Benicia, CA. November 23, 2023 The Putong & Perseveranda families. My sister's and mine. We have two folks on wheelchairs now (Larry & Vince's dad, and Joy's and my mom) so we're very thankful for this gathering. Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT .

In America’s indigenous communities, the Thanksgiving holiday is a reminder of loss. HuffPost visited Plymouth, Mass., to speak with the United American Indians of New England as the group plans their annual National Day of Mourning.  

Tess, Nica & Jian 2003 November 27. Vallejo, CA. Thanksgiving party at our Overlook house in 2003. We had lived there a little over a year only. This is pre-Chesca, but she's on the way. Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT .

Hello Tito Maning! Left to right: Puri, Manny, Grace & Luz. Benicia, CA. November 28, 2013 Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT .

Tito Ed and Lolo Fred - Thanksgiving 2013 November 28, 2013. Benicia, CA. Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT .

Cousins time Welcome to the family, Melissa! Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT .

Congratulations on your 8th annivesary! More power to the both of you and your family! Love you guys. Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT .

Amazing what a few lessons can accomplish! Stevie, our baby girl, has mastered the art of taking over the food bowl! The two boys, Mugs (the old man) standing tall in the background, and Boots-see, the newest addition to the family, is bowing down to her Highness! 🤣  That is not always the case, though. When we first brought Boots into the family, it was only temporary... he was a new community cat who was starving... he gutturally howled miserably outside but when we tried to approach him, he would cower and run away. Just before we were going on a mini vacation, we discovered he was badly wounded. Our neighbors said they would watch and feed him with the other community cats. Grant, who swore he would NEVER have more than two cats, said that if he was still around and his wound had not healed, we would trap and bring him into the vet. After winning his trust, we trapped and brought him to the vet. We said we will fix, and suture him up, but release him back to the community ...