and it is one which i share with my whole heart. >> the king went on to explain that both he and the queen believe all people have the ability to express goodness and compassion to others. the king's christmas message coming as the royal family spends christmas at sandringham house for the first time since 2019. today they greeted well wishers after attending christmas day church service. i'm paula reed in the cnn "newsroom." thanks so much for joining me today. have a very merry christmas. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> 'twas the week before christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. actually that's not true at all. metro manila. bustling, sprawling south east asian capital of the philippines. home to somewhere between 12 to 20 million people. the world's most densely populated city.

♪ but it is christmas. a twinkly, festive wonderland where the mostly catholic population take their holiday season very seriously. >> hello! merry christmas. >> because filipinos are, for reasons i have yet to figure out, probably the most giving of all people on the planet. >> hello. >> think i'm talking shit? keep watching. ♪ >> good afternoon, everyone. we're the band called keystone.

♪ >> "ofw" stands for "overseas filipino worker," and they are one of the philippines' largest and most important exports. people. go abroad, make money, improve the quality of life for the whole family. all over the world, the philippines send architects, doctors, construction workers, nurses, housekeepers, nannies. the entire filipino economy relies heavily on the money sent back by more than ten million ofws. roughly 30 billion u.s. dollars a year or about 10% of the nation's gdp. ♪ until recently, after domestic

workers, the largest category of ofws were musicians. like filipino cover bands. they're everywhere. on cruise ships, in hotel lobbies, bars, and of course, in manila. where the competition is fierce and the penalties for not getting a beloved biker favorite like i don't know, billy idol, can be severe. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey, little sister, what have you ♪ ♪ hey, little stir, who's the

only one ♪ ♪ hey, little sister, who's your superman ♪ ♪ hey, little sister, who's the one you want ♪ ♪ hey, little sister, shotgun ♪ ♪ it's a nice day to start again ♪ ♪ come on, it's a nice day for a white wedding ♪ ♪ it's a nice day to start again ♪ ♪ come on, it's a nice day for a white wedding ♪ ♪ it's a nice day to start again ♪ >> know this, pampered rock 'n' roll stars, at any given moment somewhere in the philippines, there is at least one person, and probably many more, who can step in and do your act better than you and after only a couple

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there are over 900 of these things all over the 7,000-plus philippine islands and a whole lot more internationally wherever there are homesick filipinos. there's a jollibee in new jersey, by the way. ♪ ♪ >> i hate mos cots. you know they fart in those suits. oh, yeah, chicken and spaghetti. and not just any spaghetti. i think it's like sweet banana

ketchup-y stuff with hot dogs. that spaghetti's deranged, yet strangely alluring. oh, it's not a burger. it's rice! wait eat it in a piece like pork. sinister brown sauce. i don't know what it's for. that's awesome. that's what you do with the brown stuff. ugh, i hate myself. >> hi, ma'am! jolly afternoon! >> did i mention it's christmas? the 7,000-plus islands that make up the philippines rank number one according to internet scientitions when it comes to celebrating the jolliest time of year. holiday cheer begins a full hundred days before the 25th of december, which means there's a lot to do in this town. especially if you like crashing

other people's parties. all right. the party start! welcome to the seven continents travel and tours corporate christmas party, held in the fabulous banquet room of the downtown pearl garden hotel. outstanding. ♪ ♪ deck the halls with balls ♪ ♪ tis the season all be jolly ♪ >> so, cheers! >> cheers! merry christmas! >> merry christmas. >> very catholic country? >> very catholic country, about 80-something percent. christmas starts in september. >> really? in september? >> in september, you go to the mall, you start hearing the carols, and then it ends after -- >> i would lose my mind! >> yeah. so, at 12:00 midnight of september 1, everyone greets merry christmas on facebook. >> yeah. >> uh, it's a lechon on the menu, i believe? >> yeah.

>> i have very fond memories of the last time i had lechon in the philippines. in fact, not to kiss your ass, but it is the finest -- >> pig. >> -- pig i've ever had. amazing. providing these babies to holiday parties is big business. and standards here where pork is king and the lechon the best in the world -- very, very high. today our little friend is prepared the old school way. turned slowly, slowly on a spit over coals for hours. oh delicious, delicious lechon. >> you know, during this time of the year, there's a lot of christmas parties, and the lechon is always the star of the party. >> you can gauge how grand the party is by the presence of the lechon. >> right. >> so, if you have two lechons, you must be a big shot! >> man, that is good pig.

>> so, my name is jimmy belleza, and i'm the hr director, and i'm also the happiness guru of the philippines. and we happen to have a season to be jolly! ♪ note dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh ♪ >> as we all know, one must, at a holiday party, drink, then get drunk and tell off the boss. this, i expected and was prepared to do, but the games i was a little surprised by. ladies! ♪ >> musical chairs! >> then, if i remember correctly, i totally kicked

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♪ ♪ this looks really good. night in metro manila, and i'm ready for my single favorite filipino street food. possibly the best thing you could ever eat with a cold beer. i'm talking, of course, about sisig. hot sizzling pig face with a runny egg on top, and [bleep], you better ask somebody because nothing is getting in between me and this spicy, chewy, fatty goodness.

you mix it up and go? >> yes. >> yes. there's a lot of sisig restaurants here, but here's one is the best. >> this is really, really good. this evening's dining companions, cover band regatta. ♪ jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way ♪ you may remember them from such epic office christmas parties as last night's. this is the christmas season. a lot of christmas parties? >> yeah! >> there's a lot. >> a lot of work? >> yeah. >> it's a big season. >> all over southeast asia, any hotel lobby, any hotel bar, there's a filipino band. >> exactly. >> i've sat there drunk and challenged band after band. shirley bassey -- no problem! all of dark side of the moon -- no problem. all of guns n' roses -- no problem. >> that is true. >> music and singing are a huge part of life in the philippines,

so making it as a cover band, being sent abroad to perform is a big deal. but one thing remains the same always. to succeed, you better be able to pick up new material, fast. >> whitney houston, celine dion, tony braxton, beatles, and elvis presley. >> how many songs in your repertoire? around how many? >> thousands already. >> and if you don't know it, you pretty much can fake it real quick? >> yeah. >> yeah. ♪ >> five years from now, where would you like to be? where would you like to be playing? >> that's a good question. like my biggest dream is to play in las vegas in the u.s. this is my dream. >> when we get to the dream, you know, playing at las vegas, we want to play first when we get

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>> ho, ho, ho! merry christmas, everyone! ho, ho, ho! merry christmas! merry christmas, everyone! ho, ho, ho! merry christmas! happy new year too! >> despite initial appearances, the philippines is not all holiday cheer, warm hellos, and dancing bugs.

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although the philippines has remained a democracy since then, it can seem, at times, fragile. ♪ cheers, everyone. now you're both photojournalists. >> yup. >> based out of manila? >> yeah, uh, me. mark lives in mindanao. >> in mindanao. >> yeah. >> now, does a journalist need to carry a firearm in this country? >> for me, yes. >> in the philippines, a press badge is no defense, particularly in the south of the country where mark navales lives and works. >> mindanao has been war-torn

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♪ ♪ thank you. ♪ ♪ cause it's the heat of the

moment ♪ ♪ heat of the moment ♪ name of the band is? >> keystone. >> keystone? >> yes. >> how long you've been playing together? >> around five years. five years. >> five years? >> all right, guys, here we go. adobo is in the house. >> yes. >> looking pretty. >> thank you, thank you! >> as one does, i dragooned the band keystone into lunch assuming, correctly, as it turned out, that one of these young punks would know how to make a good adobo. is there a single authentic adobo recipe or does everybody do it differently? >> everyone would stake claim to having the best adobo, but the basic ingredients i think will remain the same. so, it's garlic, pork. we can now add the chicken, vinegar, peppercorns, bay leaf,

soy sauce. >> this adobo is amazing. i mean it's really, really good. >> oh, man, thank you, thank you. >> ah, delicious. and where did you learn to cook adobo? >> i learned this from my mom. >> so, the answer, as always, to who makes the best adobo is mom makes the best adobo! >> that would be the safest answer. >> mom. >> filipinos like feeding people? >> yes, yes. >> what else do filipinos like? >> filipinos are hospitable. everybody knows how to sing. they don't necessarily have to be in tune, but they want to sing. they like to sing. >> we've been listening to music from like a very young age. >> i'm the drummer for the band, but i'm not actually formally trained. up to this day, i don't even read notes, but i could memorize a song if you gave it to me like in a day, i could play that thing, yeah. >> well, that's pretty much the -- you have to! right? >> yeah. >> now, you guys have played abroad? >> no. >> no?

>> so, it's one of the goals actually. >> five years from now, where would you like to be? >> well, hopefully, we get to play for a bigger crowd, you know, because i think the fulfillment for me is actually, uh, getting more people to enjoy the music. ♪ heat of the moment ♪ ♪ heat of the moment ♪ ♪ heat of the moment ♪ ♪ heat of the moment ♪ >> thank you so much! we are keystone.

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♪ ♪ >> filipinos speak about home with immense pride and love, and if you're an overseas filipino worker, longing. >> good looking! >> especially during the holidays. >> oh, come in, come in! hello! merry christmas! god bless you. hi! >> it's always, always about family in the philippines or anywhere you find filipinos.

for christmas of course everybody, those who can anyway, gets together, like family matriarch, aurora, and her daughter, analyn. >> okay, analyn, you're a big help. >> and amy and ruben, her adopted children. >> amy, can you help me? that bay leaf. wow, it smells so good. >> also cousins, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, even some great-grandchildren. ♪ >> la la la la la la. i love cooking! i really love cooking. kare-kare is one of the favorite of the filipino people. and to make a kare-kare, i use tripe, and i put the oxtail on the pressure cooker. >> wow, wow, wow. >> now the peanut butter! >> here are the peanut butter, mother. >> peanut butter, please. no more, no more!

now the banana blossom. >> the eggplant! >> the eggplant, the eggplant! ♪ oh holy night ♪ ♪ the stars are brightly shining ♪ here is the kare-kare. i hope everybody will enjoy this. ♪ ! it is time to eat! ♪ >> have received from your bounty, through christ our lord. amen. >> amen. i'm hungry! although, we always say it's ladies first, i think we'll serve you. >> it's okay this time? just this once. so good! >> yeah.

>> so how long have you been back in the philippines? >> in the philippines, three years. >> yeah. three years, now? >> yeah. >> where have you worked? hong kong for five years. >> for five years, and then i went to america. i stayed there for almost 30 years. >> aurora is recently back in manila after most of her life spent abroad. what kind of work were you doing? >> i did the housekeeping, you know, and babysitting. >> the money she sent home put everybody here and many, many more through school, lifted them up to a more comfortable life. and you would left family behind? >> yeah. >> to go out there and make money? that's never an easy decision, a painful, painful choice. aurora's children, now middle-aged, are finally getting to know their mother. >> okay, okay, okay, bring in the food inside.

♪ >> many, many, many filipino women like you who had to leave their families, go aboard. >> yeah, absolutely yes. >> her three children. >> children -- my eldest is about four years now in qatar, and the other one is two years, and then the other one is in hong kong. >> working conditions, for ofws, particularly in some gulf states, can be punishing at best, abusive, or worse. >> i'm a single mom with my two grandchildren. i really cried a lot especially this holiday season. >> still, due to lack of opportunity at home, many filipinos have little choice but to go, somewhere far away. find a job, money. but hopefully in a few years, you think they come back? >> yeah, i hope so. >> i really asked them to go home because i'm not getting younger anymore. i need them with my side. i tell them, several times they call me up, please get home soon.

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any filipino watching will recognize this immediately. the balikbayan box. a christmas tradition. a way for ofws to show loved ones, though separated by oceans, that you miss them, that you're still out there. what's in these boxes? whatever you can send. little things you'd casually give to a loved one, if you didn't live on the other side of the world. this facility alone sorts thousands of these boxes a day during the christmas season, just one of hundreds of facilities like it. some five to seven million boxes a year. that's a lot of love. so, how many relatives do you think you have in america? >> in america, oh, my gosh. >> florida. >> california -- albert. >> my ate, my other sister, is in california. >> in hong kong, we have at least ten. >> ten.

>> and then dubai, around eight, and qatar. >> qatar. >> i'm at this christmas gathering today because of one of our directors, erik osterholm. it was aurora who raised him. for over twenty years, she cared for and loved erik and his sister, looked after his whole family. erik sent me a letter talking about you. i wanted to read you what he said. "aurora is such an incredible women. she has an infectious and loving energy that is so powerful. i am 100% the man i am today because this women literally raised me from when i was six months old, singing to me, dancing with me, wiping away my tears, cooking for me and making me laugh at every turn. unfortunately like so many filipinos, her story is not all smiles and love. she had to choose a life away from her daughter and thousands of miles from her family. there are literally thousands of people around the world -- thousands of people around the

world, me included, who have been influenced by her endless kindness and love." filipinos give of themselves, of their time, their money, their love to others. they do and continue to do what needs to be done to survive. >> edelweiss, edelweiss. every morning, i greet you . small and white, clean and bright. bless my homeland forever.

blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. edelweiss, edelweiss. bless my homeland forever. oh my gosh. oh, this is from albert! oh my gosh .

i really hope you enjoy the

simple gift i sent, and i know that my heart is with you always. i love you very much, albert . ♪

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