What the hell are dusters?  I have never heard of a Duster before until I went home to the Philippines.  In writing this post, I think it is a bit more common than I had thought.  Essentially, in the Philippines, the “duster” is a house dress…what you WOULDN’T be caught dead in out on the [...]

Wow.  Blogs are high maintenance.  Worse than being in a relationship!  All the attention needed, time and resources.  Whew.
I am sorry I’ve been away.  But will be writing much more, I promise.  So much to catch up on!!
xo.   Filipino Fields

I’m a total geek. The other day I was searching on Yelp.com for restaurants.  And low and behold, “Filipino” made it to the search category!  I rarely see that and I was uber-excited. 
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I was quickly disappointed when there were no Filipino restaurants in Boston, but am not surprised.   I’m just happy to [...]

I got the most incredible gift from a dear relative in the Philippines this year. A clock bearing the face of Jose Rizal, the hero of the Philippines. It has a cool graphic behind it and the company logo is “Make It In the Philippines.” HOW COOL.
This is a Philippines-based company, [...]

As you probably have read, we have weird quirky superstitions associated with our culture. I mean, who doesn’t, right? Well New Years eve is no exception to that weird rule. My sister made reference to this New Years thing in one of her comments, so I thought it would be best to reiterate [...]

This Christmas, our best friends bought us a beautiful mah-Jong set. This game is commonly played by Filipinos, Jewish folks and the Chinese. I grew up to this game. It’s a common Friday and Saturday night activity with my Titas and Titos.
In the most basic form, I like to call [...]

Are all Filipinos bad drivers? It could just be me. I hate that I live up to the Asian sterotype, but I will be the first to admit I’m not the greatest behind the wheel. My parking skills could be much better too. I drive alot now and im not the [...]

It’s not a Filipino thing to run a 5k. But it is a Filipino thing to stay home and bet on the winner
- Kuya Paul

We are all related. That’s what we say, right. In one form or another, Filipinos figure out how we are related. Usually it’s a cousin thing. Even if we aren’t cousins by blood, our parents tell us we are cousins. Makes it sometimes weird to date Filipinos.
The weird thing is [...]

Does this happen to you? Random people talking to you as if you’re Spanish? Like for long periods of time in really fast sentences. I don’t speak Spanish? Do I look Spanish?
Well, I guess I sorta do. I mean the Spanish did conquer the Philippines.