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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

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 .

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. 

Flashback to Thanksgiving 2014 Left to right: Vince, Garry, Melvin, J.F., Glenn & Paul. Cousins photo plus Vince. Tito Nelson was in town in November 2014. Here's a photo with Tito Ed . 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. 🇵🇭 

Happy birthday to one of my heroes ever since my Dad took me to the theater to watch 'Enter The Dragon.' Watching 'Enter The Dragon' was the first father-son outing that we had, at least in my memory.  They say "all good things come in threes."  My three heroes were all born in 1940: John Lennon - October 9 Bruce Lee - November 27 my Dad - December 2