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Nica graduates from Samuel Merritt University, Accelerated BS Nursing. Congratulations!

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Congratulations to my firstborn Veronica on graduating with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Samuel Merritt University (SMU). This is her second degree. I'm so so proud of you ate! That's an understatement. Oakland, CA
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Location: Oakland, CA, USA
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Ocampo-Esta Christmas Party: Party of 4

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Christmas Party Flashback Tess, Jian, Nica and me. The kids had fun. Thank you Ninong Oscar! December 20, 2002. Dan Foley Cultural Center. Vallejo, CA.
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Location: 1499 N Camino Alto, Vallejo, CA 94589, USA
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Ocampo-Esta Christmas Party: Tess & Nica

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Christmas Party Flashback Tess and 2-year old Nica watch the clown make an animal balloon. December 20, 2002. Dan Foley Cultural Center. Vallejo, CA.
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Ocampo-Esta Christmas Party: Ronnie & Jian

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Christmas Party Flashback Baby Jian with my dad. Jian was eleven months & 6 days old. December 20, 2002. Dan Foley Cultural Center. Vallejo, CA.
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Location: 1499 N Camino Alto, Vallejo, CA 94589, USA
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Ocampo-Esta Christmas Party: Lualhati

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Christmas Party Flashback My mom with my nephew Ronick and my Nica, my eldest. December 20, 2002. Dan Foley Cultural Center. Vallejo, CA. My mom had just turned 65 years old two days prior to this photo. These two kids are now college graduates. Time flies.
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Location: 1499 N Camino Alto, Vallejo, CA 94589, USA
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Love The Philippines in San Francisco

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

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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.
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Location: Benicia, CA, USA
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Baliwag-Reyes Siblings Reunion

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My mom, Lualhati Reyes Baliwag Perseveranda, her mom Amparo Baliwag Reyes & mom's siblings. December 29, 2000. This was a get-together at Dennis' house in Glencove in Vallejo, CA. Tourists from Malate, Manila were Carmelita and Constante. Seated: Rebecca Reyes Dayan, cousin Darwin Dayan, Lola Amparo Baliwag Reyes. Standing: siblings Marinella, Carmelita, Lualhati, Adora, & Constante. Lola Amparo with six of her eight children.  Amparo Enriquez Baliwag Reyes 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 variou...
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Location: Vallejo, CA, USA
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Joy, when did Angel go to Chicago?

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Flashback to our last Christmas in Chicago I just scanned this throwback from December 1978, our last winter in Chicago. Apartment 1202 in Warren Barr Tower. This was the living room, which was also my bedroom. I'll edit later and re-post. 🇵🇭 Please drop us a comment below in the comment box at the bottom. Login automatically into the Disqus box with your Facebook, Twitter or Google account. Follow Pinoybuilt . 🇺🇸 Let's create the #1 Fil-Am / Filipino-American website in California , if not the USA . Worldwide ? Please follow our social media accounts: www.instagram.com/pinoy.built www.facebook.com/pinoybuilt www.facebook.com/jonjo You have an open invitation to blog with me here. Posts here are auto-tweeted to my Twitter account (15,000+ followers) & auto-posted to the Pinoybuilt Facebook Page. So if you'd like assistance in marketing an event, yourself or your business, join me. Just send me your Gmail. Cheers. Please click to subscribe: my YouTube channel ww...
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Location: Chicago, IL, USA
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Starbucks with Dr. Allison in San Marino ☕

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Starbucks coffee with Allison. The last time we met up was April 2017 at another Starbucks . So it was great to catch up.  This time, we have kids in college, with Allison's youngest going through college applications.  Allison and I were dorm mates in J building at Tercero in UC Davis. Go Aggies! Went to the Starbucks near Wells Fargo that had closed. Walked a block down to the Starbucks by corner of Fair Oaks and Mission.
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Foggy Road Trip

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Lualhati Baliwag Reyes Perseveranda: Aka Nati, Mom, Superwoman! ❤️🫶

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Flashback with this beautiful lady, my mom. I remember when we still lived in our first house. I was 13 so it was our first year in Vallejo. Mom was doing somthing in the kitchen. I was watching TV in the family room. Mom wasn't the "sit-down, let's talk" type of person like my dad.  As I sat on the couch in the family room, watching either sports or cartoons, she walked through the family room.  Right when she walked in front of the TV, she said:  "Go as far as you can in your education... and don't be promiscuous!" I got the first part; I totally agreed.  But the second part made me nervous. It was the first time I'd heard the word 'promiscuous.' When she had left the room, I jumped out of the couch to grab the dictionary. I quickly found 'promiscuous' in the dictionary. I thought to myself: "AWWW MOM!" That's my mom!  That's my superwoman!  Nati. Vallejo, CA. Edited with Photoscape.    Edited with Adobe Ligh...
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Late 70s: Snow in Illinois Masonic Medical Center Parking Lot

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Throwback to when parking was free at the Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center We left the car for the week (even two or three weeks) and would have to shovel the snow around our cars to get out. Tita Myrna is on the left. My mom is in the middle with my sister Joy on the right.  
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Chicago Christmas: Mom at the tree when we lived in Warren N. Barr Tower.

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Mom looks warm & cozy in our apartment in Barr Tower. You can bet it was freezing outside in Chicagoland.
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Glenn & Chanylle greet Tito Boy HBD

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Happy Birthday Tito Boy!
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Location: Benicia, CA, USA
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Happy Birthday Marciano Perseveranda!

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Christmas Day 1990 I think this is Lolo Marciano's second to last Christmas with us.  He looks healthy. I'm scanning the photos that my sister put together for display at Lolo's wake. Maligayang Pasko!
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Happy Rizal Day! 🇵🇭

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Rizal Day Rizal Day  is a  Philippine national holiday  commemorating life and works of  José Rizal , a  national hero of the Philippines . It is celebrated every December 30, the anniversary of Rizal's 1896 execution at Bagumbayan (present-day  Rizal Park ) in  Manila .   Filipino diplomats pay tribute to national hero Dr. Jose Rizal in Fujian, China – home of the hero’s ancestors.
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Location: Rizal Park, Ermita, Manila, 1000 Metro Manila, Philippines
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Maligayang Pasko🎄Merry Christmas

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Maligayang Pasko!

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Location: Benicia, CA, USA
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Dad's birthday lunch at Amore Bistrot in Benicia

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Happy 81st Birthday Dad! I love the ambience at Amore Bistrot. Our orders. The grandsons.
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