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Thank you Diana & Lualhati! 2025 November 27: Northern, California. Our matriarchs. 💛 Explore Filipino American heritage, culture, and stories! Join our Fil-Am community to connect, comment, celebrate, and share experiences. Mabuhay! 📌 Follow PinoyBuilt Instagram 👍 Like PinoyBuilt Facebook ✍️ Follow PinoyBuilt Blog 📺 Follow PinoyBuilt YouTube 🎓 Interested in helping us create content? Apply as a college intern and join our team! #PinoyPride #PinoyCommunity #FilAm #FilipinoAmerican #PilipinoAmerican #kaibigan

Salamat ate Nica! 2025 November 27: Northern California. 💛 Explore Filipino American heritage, culture, and stories! Join our Fil-Am community to connect, comment, celebrate, and share experiences. Mabuhay! 📌 Follow PinoyBuilt Instagram 👍 Like PinoyBuilt Facebook ✍️ Follow PinoyBuilt Blog 📺 Follow PinoyBuilt YouTube 🎓 Interested in helping us create content? Apply as a college intern and join our team! #PinoyPride #PinoyCommunity #FilAm #FilipinoAmerican #PilipinoAmerican #kaibigan

Thank you Joy for all you do! 2025 November 27: Benicia, California. Joy, which version do you like? 💛 Explore Filipino American heritage, culture, and stories! Join our Fil-Am community to connect, comment, celebrate, and share experiences. Mabuhay! 📌 Follow PinoyBuilt Instagram 👍 Like PinoyBuilt Facebook ✍️ Follow PinoyBuilt Blog 📺 Follow PinoyBuilt YouTube 🎓 Interested in helping us create content? Apply as a college intern and join our team! #PinoyPride #PinoyCommunity #FilAm #FilipinoAmerican #PilipinoAmerican #kapatid #BeniciaPhotography #VallejoPhotography #BeniciaPhotographer #VallejoPhotographer #Photoshop

Some are goofier than others! So thankful for my family. 2025 November 27: Benicia, California. Missing some peeps. Maraming salamat Joy & Vince for hosting. Thank you Tita Nene and everyone for the food. Thanks Glenn & Chanylle for more Bingo fun. We hope to see you at our Christmas gathering. Thanks Bino! To those "missing in action" you were all in our thoughts. Perseveranda & Putong families 💛 Explore Filipino American heritage, culture, and stories! Join our Fil-Am community to connect, comment, celebrate, and share experiences. Mabuhay! 📌 Follow PinoyBuilt Instagram 👍 Like PinoyBuilt Facebook ✍️ Follow PinoyBuilt Blog 📺 Follow PinoyBuilt YouTube 🎓 Interested in helping us create content? Apply as a college intern and join our team! #PinoyPride #PinoyCommunity #FilAm #FilipinoAmerican #PilipinoAmerican #kaibigan

Family Time on Turkey Day 2025 November 27: California. Photo from the second group of shots with my two Godox flashes. Does it look it was shot outdoors, or in a photo studio? Thank you everyone! Perseveranda & Putong families 💛 Explore Filipino American heritage, culture, and stories! Join our Fil-Am community to connect, comment, celebrate, and share experiences. Mabuhay! 📌 Follow PinoyBuilt Instagram 👍 Like PinoyBuilt Facebook ✍️ Follow PinoyBuilt Blog 📺 Follow PinoyBuilt YouTube 🎓 Interested in helping us create content? Apply as a college intern and join our team! #PinoyPride #PinoyCommunity #FilAm #FilipinoAmerican #PilipinoAmerican #kaibigan

Happy Birthday again, Missy! Flashback to January 18, 2005 when I hung out with you and met Maricruz. I had not posted these photos since they were taken before we all joined Facebook (me in 2007). Great meeting you Maricruz! Tess and the kids had flown to the Philippines in early December so thanks you two for letting me hang out. I'm pretty sure we finished at least a couple bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon. Peace my friend! November is the month of Thanksgiving  Missy, thank you for being part of my story, for the good energy you’ve always shared, and your friendship. You deserve a birthday filled with love, peace, blessings, and the kind of laughter that echoes like it did back in 2005. I would have posted our Seattle vacation pix, but I still have to scan phtos prior to December 2000 (when I got my first digital camera). Stay tuned; I'll be scanning those. Happy Birthday, Missy. Here’s to more years of connection, friendship, and moments worth remembering. ...

Happy Birthday Melissa! 🎉 Flashback to 2019 November 23 in Benicia, California. Tony, Rudy, Arnel and I met you in Rellik Tavern to celebrate. Cheers. Hi Maricruz! 💛 Explore Filipino American heritage, culture, and stories! Join our Fil-Am community to connect, comment, celebrate, and share experiences. Mabuhay! 📌 Follow PinoyBuilt Instagram 👍 Like PinoyBuilt Facebook ✍️ Follow PinoyBuilt Blog 📺 Follow PinoyBuilt YouTube 🎓 Interested in helping us create content? Apply as a college intern and join our team! #PinoyPride #PinoyCommunity #FilAm #FilipinoAmerican #PilipinoAmerican #kaibigan

Flashback to November 1999 when Tess and I stayed in Malate, Manila with my mom's family I'm not sure if this were before or after Tess and I got married in Bukidnon on November 16. But I know I asked Lola Amparo to walk me down the aisle at our church wedding in Vallejo, California that coming April. Rest in peace, Auntie Baby. Happy Hearts Day everyone.

Northern California sees snowfall as bomb cyclone hits Pacific Northwest Whiteout conditions affected the roads along I-80 near Donner Pass, Soda Springs, and Truckee in Northern California on Monday. ⁣ pic.twitter.com/1nJIuh1Kyj — AccuWeather (@accuweather) November 12, 2024

Remembering my uncle, Tito Maning. Photo credit to Tita Lila Tita Lila: I need to teach you and Jian to scan photos. You and I have the same HP printer/scanner. We can have Jian scan old family photos for better quality (which I can further edit and enhace for our archives/website). This Veterans Day, remember those who gave everything for this country. Not those who sold this country for cheap eggs. pic.twitter.com/at1do1BwSh — 💙🌊 Zero Dark Twenty-Nine 🌊🌊🖋️🧫 (@herotimeszero) November 11, 2024

Who thinks there should be a recount of all the 2024 presidential ballots? Kamala's campaign says They can Overturn Trump's Election Victory with a Recount pic.twitter.com/lNZybRm2K4 — BAY AREA STATE OF MIND (@YayAreaNews) November 10, 2024 DANA BASH: It seems to me that Republicans claim voting fraud when you lose and not when you win. JIM JORDAN: No. This election was the greatest political comeback we've ever seen. BASH: Why was 2024 different from 2020 when Trump lost? JORDAN: There were concerns about 2020… pic.twitter.com/9UFZZwRdp5 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2024 Who thinks there should be a recount of all the 2024 presidential ballots? — 🗳4fuxake!🗳 (@blueheartedly) November 10, 2024 To Kamala Harris, Walz & all the Democrats that sent me hundreds of texts / emails asking me to Favor them by Contributing to their Campaigns. Now Do Me a Favor: demand an investigation into Musks, Russian Operative's & Republican Election Interf...

All the major news outlets have projected Donald Trump has won the presidential election. SMH. ABC News is projecting former President Donald Trump will win the presidential race, staging a historic comeback to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris. Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States. Of the counties with nearly complete results, more than 90% shifted in favor of Trump, according to a New York Times analysis of election results reported as of early Wednesday. Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States. Of the counties with nearly complete results, more than 90% shifted in favor of Trump, according to a New York Times analysis of election results reported as of early Wednesday. https://t.co/gaZBnT7dk1 pic.twitter.com/GHXVc7oBl7 — The New York Times (@nytimes) November 6, 2024 Breaking news: Donald Trump has been elected the nation’s 47th president, and will return to the White House after a criminal conviction and two impeach...

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 .

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 .

Turkey Day 2003 Vallejo, CA. November 27, 2003. At our old house on Overlook. Jian is still the baby. Left to right: Tito Maning, Tita Lila on her cell phone, Tita Gigi, Tita Puring, Dad, Tita Nene, Dad, Tito Ed, Joy, Keo, Nica, Rosanne, Tess, Jian, and Melvin. Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT .

Turkey Day 2003 Vallejo, CA. November 27, 2003. At our old house on Overlook. Jian is still the baby. Left to right: Tito Maning, Tita Gigi, Tita Puring, Tita Nene, Dad (Tito Boy), Tess, Jian, Rosanne.

Turkey Day 2003 Vallejo, CA. November 27, 2003. At our old house on Overlook. 

Cenon Audencial was a guerilla with the Philippine Resistance Movement turned second lieutenant in the U.S. Armed Forces in the Far East in the early 1940s. Like many of the 260,000 Filipinos who fought and served under and alongside the U.S. military during World War II, Audencial may never be recognized for his war efforts because of lost documentation. Veterans Day (originally known as Armistice Day) is a federal holiday in the United States observed annually on November 11, for honoring military veterans of the United States Armed Forces (who were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable). In 1946 after World War II concluded, President Harry S. Truman signed the Rescission Act, which provided Filipino soldiers would be stripped of their statuses as U.S veterans, effectively denying them their rightful benefits. It was one of the greatest injustices in U.S history. In 1946 after World War II concluded, President Harry S. Truman signed the Rescission Act, which pr...