Live in the Philippines - The Web Magazine for Expats in the Philippines And those who want to join them!
Friday, August 29, 2008
Over the years, I have noticed time and time again that the Philippines seems to be a lingering stage for washed up performers. Time and again, bands that were popular 25, 30, even 50 years ago tour in the Philippines, and often to sold out audiences! I mean, we are talking about people who were [...]
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Would you consider marrying somebody from the Philippines controversial? I never thought it was, but some years back I got an awakening.
My first foray into doing things online came in 1992. I joined Compuserve. This was before the Internet was really available to the masses, that didn’t come for another year or two, and didn’t [...]
Friday, August 1, 2008
Do you know what a DVD9 is? Have you ever seen a DVD before that was labelled “DVD9″?
If you’ve seen that before, it’s a pirated DVD! DVD9 is a “brand” made in Malaysia. The name came from the fact that a dual layer DVD can hold approximately 9 Gigabytes of data.
DVD9 is available all over [...]
Monday, July 14, 2008
I had an interesting evening last weekend. I was invited to attend an evening event for bloggers, which was held at Kangaroo Coffee, a relatively new coffee shop here in Davao. The event consisted of several hours of enjoying great coffee, and great food from the people at Kangaroo Coffee. But, the highlight of the [...]
Thursday, July 3, 2008
I got an e-mail today from a reader of this blog. He had several questions about living here in the Philippines. One question kind of got me thinking, though. He asked - “Do you get bored?” Hmm…
Have you ever talked to a person who retired after years of work? A [...]
