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JANUARY NEWSLETTER HOLIDAYS UNITED STATES January 1: New Year's Day January 20: Martin Luther King Jr.
PHILIPPINES January 1: New Year's Day
NEW YEAR HEALTHY CHALLENGE Less screen time and more family and friends time. Be more present and engage in mindful conversations.
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FILIPINO SUPERSTITIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR 1. Make noise as much as you can to scare away evil spirits. 2. Turn on all lights for a brighter new year. 3. Open all doors, windows, cabinets and drawers to let good fortune in. 4. Debts must be paid off. Fill your wallet with fresh bills. (Filipinos believe that whatever your financial state is in at the stroke of midnight, so it will be in the new year.) 5. Wear polka-dots. Anything round signifies prosperity. 6. Scatter coins around the house (e.g., on tabletops, inside drawers) 7. Jump twelve times at midnight to increase your height. (Observed by Filipino children.) 8. Prepare 12 round fruits for more blessings each month. 9. Eat a native delicacy made from sticky rice to make good fortune stick in the new year. 10. Don’t clean anything on New Year's Day! You might sweep away the good fortune that came in. Article Reference: https://www.tagaloglang.com/filipino-superstitions-newyears-eve/
TRIVIA Back in Ancient Rome, New Year starts on March 1. https://business.inquirer.net/204915/interesting-facts-about-the-newyear#ixzz68czMZHcf
PROUD TO BE PINOY MOMENTS IN 2019 1. Hosting the 30th SEA Games 2019 and being the overall champion with 149 gold medals with 2. Carlos Yulo - Philippines’ first world champion for gymnastics 3. Float - the first Disney-Pixar work to feature Filipino-American animated characters. 4. Yellow Rose - a film written and directed by a Filipino-American received worldwide recognitions and awards. The film is about an undocumented Filipina immigrant pursuing her American dream. 5. CNN cites Vigan as part of the top 13 Asia’s most picturesque towns
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6. Bailey Munoz, a Filipino American breakdancer, was the first b-boy to win So You Think You Can Dance
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7. Pacquiao became the oldest welterweight to win a major world title in boxing history during his fight against Thurman.
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