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                    [ArticleID] => 512814
                    [Title] => Sight-Seeing In Sydney
                    [Summary] => 

Australia is so near yet so far a destination to most Filipinos because it is as expensive to go there, as it is to go to the U.S. mainland.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500520 [AuthorName] => Marlinda Angbetic Tan [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 273520 [Title] => The trouble with ‘the’ [Summary] => I got an interesting message a couple of weeks ago from a reader we’ll call Hannah, who wrote to bring up the trouble with "the," as you’ll see from her slightly edited letter below:

Dear Mr. Dalisay,


I’m writing this letter hoping that you could shed light on something I never thought was a problem with a vast majority of people, especially our new graduates and foreign nationals who have English as their second language.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 148045 [Title] => A delicious treat of a film [Summary] => American Adobo, a movie as tasty as the dish, centers on the lives of five Filipino-Americans over the course of an eventful year. American Adobo is truly a film that will appeal not only to Filipinos but to other cultural groups as well who try to preserve their customs but at the same time adapt to their new homeland. Set in the Big Apple, it deals with the daily struggles of Americanized Pinoys who try to assimilate western culture into their Filipino heritage.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134006 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804782 [AuthorName] => Boy Abunda [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 86160 [Title] => Canaries in the coalmine [Summary] => I touched down in Manila the other day – NAIA on a cool, post-typhoon evening – and as I filed back among the balikbayans and (surprisingly many) Americans waiting for luggage, I thought about the ritual of returning: how it’s always a bittersweet thing.

I’ve just spent a month traveling in the States, and the most persistent question I heard – "Why are you going back to Manila?" – usually came, not from Americans, as you might expect, but from Filipino-Americans. [DatePublished] => 2001-07-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [ArticleID] => 512814
                    [Title] => Sight-Seeing In Sydney
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Australia is so near yet so far a destination to most Filipinos because it is as expensive to go there, as it is to go to the U.S. mainland.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500520 [AuthorName] => Marlinda Angbetic Tan [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 273520 [Title] => The trouble with ‘the’ [Summary] => I got an interesting message a couple of weeks ago from a reader we’ll call Hannah, who wrote to bring up the trouble with "the," as you’ll see from her slightly edited letter below:

Dear Mr. Dalisay,


I’m writing this letter hoping that you could shed light on something I never thought was a problem with a vast majority of people, especially our new graduates and foreign nationals who have English as their second language.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 148045 [Title] => A delicious treat of a film [Summary] => American Adobo, a movie as tasty as the dish, centers on the lives of five Filipino-Americans over the course of an eventful year. American Adobo is truly a film that will appeal not only to Filipinos but to other cultural groups as well who try to preserve their customs but at the same time adapt to their new homeland. Set in the Big Apple, it deals with the daily struggles of Americanized Pinoys who try to assimilate western culture into their Filipino heritage.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134006 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804782 [AuthorName] => Boy Abunda [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 86160 [Title] => Canaries in the coalmine [Summary] => I touched down in Manila the other day – NAIA on a cool, post-typhoon evening – and as I filed back among the balikbayans and (surprisingly many) Americans waiting for luggage, I thought about the ritual of returning: how it’s always a bittersweet thing.

I’ve just spent a month traveling in the States, and the most persistent question I heard – "Why are you going back to Manila?" – usually came, not from Americans, as you might expect, but from Filipino-Americans. [DatePublished] => 2001-07-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) ) )
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