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Dubai, UAE • September 2021. Bhing's Birthday Party in an OFW Apartment in Dubai — Isagani, Bhing, Dennis, and a Hogan Reunion Moment. dubai birthday party ofw, filipino ofw apartment dubai, khristine salazar dubai, glenn victa hogan spartans dubai, bhing birthday dubai 2021. Dubai • September 2021 Bhing's Birthday in Dubai: A Night Inside an OFW Home Lunch with my fellow Hogan Spartan Glenn Victa turned into an evening at Isagani and Bhing's family home — shared with just one other adult, not the crowded bedspaces many OFWs bunk with in Dubai — celebrating Bhing's birthday with friends old and new. L to R: Dennis, J.F., Glenn & Isagani. Bhing's birthday, Dubai, September 9, 2021. By September 9, 2021, I was more than two weeks into a 39-day stay in Dubai — long enough that the city had stopped feeling like a layover and started feeling like a second address. The day began with lunch and ended in a stranger's ...

Dubai, UAE • Sept 10, 2021. J.F.R. Perseveranda reconnects with Hogan Spartan Glenn Victa in Dubai. A reflection on Fil-Am brotherhood and our kababayan (OFW) friends during the 2026 Middle East crisis. Dubai, UAE • Sept 10, 2021 Hogan Spartans in Dubai: A Fil-Am Reunion in the Desert Looking back at 2021 with Glenn Victa, Dennis, and Isagani — and praying for the safety of our kababayan today. ⚠️ LIVE CRISIS UPDATE: MARCH 12, 2026 Our thoughts are with the millions of kabayan in the Middle East. With regional instability rising, the Philippine government is preparing chartered repatriation flights starting tomorrow, March 13 , from Fujairah. Stay vigilant. The Hogan High School Class of 1985 legacy isn't confined to Vallejo. In 2021, I visited Dubai and reconnected with fellow Spartan Glenn Victa . Sharing the evening were Dennis and Isagani , two kababayan whose hospitality offered me a real look at the "global Pinoy...

Flashback to Dino's party in September a few years ago. Advanced 'Happy Birthday' to the other Virgos in the photo: me, then Tony M! Cheers Virgos Photo taken 2001 September 23. Vallejo, CA. 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, blo...

Made by Nancy Ocampo De Leon June 27, 2015. Zio Fraedos. Vallejo, CA. Happy birthday Dennis Ocampo! 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.