Filipinos in Dubai: It’s What I Do

Filipinos are known to be always happy, and I am proud to be one. I am also very lucky that I am part of a very diverse company. I make sure that I pay it forward to the Filipino community in Dubai.

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My Pinoy Life in Xiamen, China

I have been staying here in Xiamen since 2011. I was a pioneer employee of Saint Gabriel International School in Pasig City, Philippines that it began its operations in 2000, and I have been working there as a preschool teacher when it decided to open another location here in China in 2011.


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Out of the Barrio, Into the World

Out of the Barrio, Into the World from Illustrado

by Nicholo Jallores

To Juan and Maria,

You’re not in the barrio anymore.

Welcome to the world.

Photo credit: New Line Cinema (Screen Shot 2015-01-29 at 10.58.28 AM)

A whirlwind swept you off your lovely days in the village and plonked you here in the middle of the bizarre landscape that is the life of the struggling expatriate. Yours was a life of comfort and predictability in the barrio, but this gnarly province offers no such niceties. You are Frodo from the Shire and this, little sweetling, is Mordor. You will have to shed some of your innocence here, lest you be mistaken as a half-wit and thrown into the pit to be devoured alive by hungry orcs. You are in the land of giants, where everyone walks straighter and taller than you. Brace thyself, lest you be trampled underfoot.

Now mind you, it’s not all fire and brimstone. You did not come here as lamb waddles to the slaughter. You are here to push yourself beyond your limits, to test the mettle of your fortitude and find the immensity that eluded you in your days as just another wily character in your barangay. Greatness awaits, but to get to it you will have to endure a thousand pains and pass through a gauntlet of immense toil and turmoil. You will rise to greater heights, but first, you will be humbled. In your limited and insular vision, you may have thought of yourself a king in your homestead, but here you will have to play the pauper, the court jester, the warrior, or the general. You will have to rebuild your nobility from the ground up, because no one is likely to just hand you your crown.

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