This time of year, right in the middle of the holiday season, there's a beloved, frenzied tradition playing out in Filipino households all around the world, with which reporter Gabrielle Berbey is intimately familiar. A Balikbayan box is a huge cardboard box (often weighing over 100 pounds) that Filipinos living all over the world send to family members who are still living in the Philippines. The word Balikbayan literally means homecoming in Tagalog.
Balikbayan Boxes
538- Train Set: Track Three
537- Paved Paradise
536- Nuts and Bolts
535- Craptions
534- For Amusement Only (Free Replay)
533- Dear John and Roman
532- For a Dollar and a Dream
531- De Fiets Is Niets
530- The Panopticon Effect
529- The Wilderness Tool
Twenty Thousand Hertz- Golden
528- A Whale-Oiled Machine
420- The Lost Cities of Geo Redux
527- RoboUmp
526- Orange Alternative
525- The Chinatown Punk Wars
524- The Day the Music Stopped
523- Six-on-Six Basketball
522- The Comrades
521- A Sea of Yellow
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