Interracial Marriage among Filipinos

Daughter of mom’s friend is currently working as a nurse in Germany. And she said that there is a German doctor who likes her but she wants to marry her Filipino boyfriend only. Looking at Philippine Statistics Authority in 2022, there are only 3.3% or 14,704 marriages that were registered between Filipinos and foreign nationals. …

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Harana

In philippines, there is a traditional way of courting the girl you like by playing a guitar at night outside their house. We call it harana. Mann said I need to listen because he is doing a harana here. Then he plays the first song he learned by finger picking the strings called Twinkle Twinkle…

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Work Life Balance

Called the salesman at the office and demanded to give me more work. 😱 I have projects running of course but its chinese new year and everyone seems to be on longgggg holiday. So currently, no work, therefore I play. 🤨 Meanwhile, Mann is out there hopefully working and earning money for our bills and…

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Secondary School in Germany

School System in Germany is confusing for someone like me who came from the carabao island. Primary school from grade 1 to 4 is the same for all. Afterwhich, depending on their grades, kids are segragated between hauptschule (lowest) realschule (middle) and gymnasium (highest). But what is this oberschule and mittelschule about and where do…

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