My Childhood in England! (Part 1)
This is the first part of my story about my journey which eventually brought me from the mundane existence of Bradford in Northern England a big Industrial City all the way to General Santos City here in the Philippines! There were more than a few diversions on the way! I was born on the 26 th August 1951 in St Luke's Hospital in Bradford to non too wealthy parents, my Dad worked in the Textile Industry as a Cloth Dyer and my mum was a Nurse! I had one older sister Christine and one much older half brother David who was the son of my mum ...
WiFi in the Philippines
WiFi, I have mentioned a few times over the years the frustrations and nervous breakdowns one has to endure to be able to get internet connections, and keep it. I will not bore you with it again, as I have no hair now, but will mention the improvement in WiFi. Most coffee shops in Davao City now have WiFi, and most are free, as long a you order something and they have reasonable to good connections. In some cases its better than my home connection too. I note now that even the SM City in Davao is WiFi, so now ...
Akong kauban ug akong kalaban
It's Friday, and that means it's time for me to share my weekly column from SunStar Davao, Davao City's largest circulation newspaper. Since living in the Philippines, I have a lot of different kinds of friends or companions (kauban), different than I had in the USA. Friends from many nations. Of course, a lot of Filipinos, and also expats from countries all over the world. My list of friends is like a veritable meeting of the United Nations, it seems! I also have a few enemies (kalaban) here too. Today, there is one kauban and one kalaban that I want to ...
Our laundry lady
Well, I am writing today about the lady we have here in the house. She's really our laundry lady. She's been with us for 4 months now. She was brought here by our previous laundry lady who also we were happy to have but had to go home to her province because of family problems. The new one, her name is Pat. She's really a nice lady. When she came for the job, our old laundry lady told me that Pat was beaten up a few days before by her hubby and that she will report in a few days ...
HEY YOU! ‘Bro!
(PREFACE NOTE: To be fair, I will state for the record that SMART does care and generally does listen to its customers. They've established social media services on Twitter @ Smartcares and willingly accept comments regarding customer concerns via e-mail at ISMS@smart.com.ph ) As much as I’d like it to be, this is not an “Open Letter to SMART Bro.” It’s more like venting my frustrations than anything else. I mean, I’ve been pretty doggone patient and understanding over these past four months. Things seem to have arrived at a point, however, where I am starting to feel as though someone is taking advantage ...
And Now For Something Completely Different…
I can't write about cooking all the time, even I get tired of sitting in front of a stove all day especially in the heat over here in the Philippines. What I have really been thinking about lately is a house. My wife and I have our eye on a piece of property, 168sqm at a good price in a very nice subdivision. Not one of those guarded and gated subdivisions mind you, just a normal middle class neighborhood. Once we acquire this property I'm going to have the daunting task of building a house on it. We decided long ago ...
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