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Fullerton, CA • October 2022. FG37 Ends Early at 4PM: Organizers Address the Crowd at Friendship Games 2022. friendship games 37, FG37, CSUF Friendship Games 2022, PASA Kaibigan, Cal State Fullerton, Pilipino-American Student Association, Fil-Am college students, Filipino American history month, FAHM, 10/22. FG37 • Fullerton, CA • October 2022 FG37 Ends Early at 4PM: Organizers Address the Crowd at Friendship Games 2022 At the 37th Annual Friendship Games at Cal State Fullerton, PASA Kaibigan organizers addressed the crowd from the stage and closed the field activities early, citing health and safety concerns. I was there to document it, and to see my bunso's first one. PASA Kaibigan members onstage at 3:53 PM on October 22, 2022, waiting for students to gather at the stage area. Photo: J.F.R. Perseveranda. Around 4:00 PM on October 22, 2022, the 37th Annual Friendship Games stopped. Organizers from PASA Kaibigan, the Pilipino-Americ...

Fullerton, CA • October 2026. Friendship Games Roll Call: Kapamilya DUC Dances Into FG 37. friendship games 37, friendship games roll call, kapamilya duc, dominican university of california, pasa kaibigan csuf, filipino american student organizations, fg37, fahm 2026, filipino american history month, fullerton ca, orange county, socal, 10/22. FRIENDSHIP GAMES 37 • FULLERTON, CA • OCTOBER 2026 Friendship Games Roll Call: Kapamilya DUC Dances Into FG 37 Four years ago yesterday, Chesca danced in the third row of Kapamilya DUC's roll call at Friendship Games 37 in Fullerton. The video is on YouTube now. Kapamilya DUC's first two rows hold their spots at Friendship Games 37, waiting for everyone else to get onstage. Chesca is in the third row. I uploaded this video to YouTube yesterday, 10/22, four years to the day after Friendship Games 37 in Fullerton. Chesca is in it. She is in the third row of Kapamilya DUC'...

San Francisco, California • October 2026. Where Pinoy Came From: The Paper Trail Starts in San Francisco, 1917. where did pinoy come from, origin of pinoy, origin of pinay, pinoy meaning, earliest use of pinoy, pinoy 1917 san francisco, Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, Filipino American History Month 2026, FAHM 2026, manong generation, Pinay history, 10/12. FAHM 2026 • LANGUAGE & HISTORY • OCTOBER 2026 Where Pinoy Came From: The Paper Trail Starts in San Francisco, 1917 Nobody has found the person who first said it. What survives is a 1917 San Francisco playlet, a 1926 headline that carries Pinay too, and a weekly in Capiz named Pinoy. PinoyBuilt illustration: workers and a student ring a blank newspaper column with a single gap, and the word itself stands in gold beside her. The word was in circulation before the record caught it. The word is in the name of this site, and it is in every Filipino American family group...

Bay Area, California • October 2026. Ruby Ibarra: From Tacloban to Tiny Desk to Forgotten Island. ruby ibarra, filipino american rapper, salbahe ako, carl angelo, forgotten island soundtrack, tiny desk contest winner, bakunawa, waray rap, tagalog hip-hop, circa91, apache sample, filipino american history month, fahm 2026, 10/9. PROFILE • FAHM 2026 • OCTOBER 2026 Ruby Ibarra: From Tacloban to Tiny Desk to Forgotten Island Ruby Ibarra raps in English, Tagalog, and Waray, won NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest with a song about a mythic serpent, and now shares “Salbahe Ako” with Carl Angelo on the Forgotten Island soundtrack. Here is the record, and why it matters this October. A PinoyBuilt illustration of the cassette that started it: Francis Magalona’s 1990 album Yo! , the one piece of music Ruby Ibarra’s family carried from Tacloban to California and the first album she grew to love, unspooling...