Live in the Philippines - The Web Magazine for Expats in the Philippines And those who want to join them!
Thursday, May 1, 2008
First time, 1982, when I visited Mindanao I really got amused watching the very few cars i.e. in Davao City. It was also more or less a “ride to hell” using one of the taxis, the “PU’s”… Several times I have been asked by the driver to keep the door myself closed while driving… [...]
Sunday, April 13, 2008
It’s amazing, how many people browse in the Internet. I received an email from Inneke, a member of a Canadian Missionary congregation, who stayed in Davao until last year. If I am not mistaken, we met before in the Bureau of Immigration here in Davao City.
Anyway, Inneke emailed me, that she will be back in [...]
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
A couple of incidents as well as co-incidents didn’t allow me being so busy on this site, as I was on the past. Anyway, I am back with this short post to show my deepest gratitude to all readers of my blog. I got a lot of e-mails during the last ten days by contacting [...]
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Yesterday tears - today smile. After rain follows the sunshine. I experienced Filipinos as people, who could laugh and smile, could joke even while being in a worst situation.
How comes? Is is this gallows humour? I guess, Filipinos a great masters with a quality of imagination quick to perceive the ludicrous or to express itself [...]
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Sie koennen aber auch Ihr originales Ehefaehigkeitszeugnis der Deutschen Botschaft in Manila zusenden. Dabei ist widerum Folgendes zu beachten:
Wird Ruecksendung nach Deutschland gewuenscht, muessen Sie sich in einem Anschreiben zur Kostenuebernahme verpflichten (also die Gebuehren der Botschaft und die Portoauslagen). Fuegen Sie unbedingt eine Kopie Ihres Ausweises oder Ihres Passes bei.
Sie koennen das “Consular Legal [...]
Thursday, November 15, 2007
“Drop me a line while you’re away”, has been one of the most listened to phrases in my life. Yes, I confess, I’ve been always a restless contemporary, who needed to go “somewhere out there” after a couple of days “spending with my computer” (and family of course!). Living hidden away - but just to [...]
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Mostly “bloggers”,like me in this section, publish a write up and get some, or even a lot of comments - opinions, critics or appreciations from the readers. From time to time I would like to try it this way: Allow me to ask a question, and then I am really curious about the incoming comments. [...]
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Auf den Philippinen sind bei entsprechender Ermaechtigung (das ist oft das Problem) Geistlicher aller Konfessionen, Amtsinhaber des Gerichtswesen innerhalb ihres Amtsbezirkes oder Buergermeister innerhalb ihres Amtsbezirkes. Bitte klaeren Sie im Hinblick auf die Rechtsgueltigkeit der Eheschliessung ab, ob die fuer die Trauung vorgesehene Person ueber die notwendige Ermaechtigung verfuegt. Wir haben Anfang des Jahres einen [...]
Friday, November 2, 2007
When I made a goodwill visit a couple of days ago to visit one of my hospitalized friends here in Davao City, I met four other guys in animated happy conversation. I asked them, “What did you do here the whole day?” They responded, “Nothing, we have just talked…!” Immediately I found that they have [...]
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Hans Lopez-Vito, VP-strategic planning director of McCann Worldgroup Philippines stressed, that the consumer insight and strategic planning experts have discovered that the most important concerns facing today’s Filipinos encompass a whole slew of topics. They disclosed these findings in a new McCann Intergeneration Study, a comprehensive survey which tracked 2,000 urban Filipinos, aged 12-60, and [...]
