Filipino’s Diaspora in America Two days after jubilant celebration of Philippine Independence Day last June 12, we bid farewell to our family, friends and native land. We packed our lives in boxes weighting not more than 50 kg each, and crossed the seas to a neighboring land in Taiwan, Taipei airport via Eva Air for a connecting flight. We saw Taipei airport was really advanced, organized, clean and modernized. We had fun at their duty free shops, got fascinated with the toy shops where Mazinger Z originated. I suddenly reminisced my “Made in Taiwan” toys, Voltron and Voltes V(ah). Made in Taiwan though was not the favored place of production due to its fragility. Before we go on dreaming of toyland and airport terminals leading to Hello kitty world we were called to our plane to
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