I am writing this article to have awareness on every foreigner that comes here. A few days ago I was at the mall with my nephew Deo and my niece Glenda. My niece Glenda still had more stuff to buy so I told Deo that we will just wait for Glenda outside in the car […]
Dear Feyma “I need job”
Dear Feyma, I’m a foreigner. I am marrying a Filipina soon. She lives in the Visayas area. I want to live and retire there. I have some retirement money but want to work in the Philippines when I get there to live. What kind of work do you think I can get there? Thank you. […]
Still big adjustments to do!
I’ve been living back here in the Philippines for almost 10 years now. I am thinking I still have lots of adjustments to do. As I said before its not easy to live back here.Really difficult, but its getting better over time. My first few months to 2 years here was really hell for me. […]
Olympic Wars!
Just thinking about the Vancouver 2010 Olympics now made me think my first time ever watching the Olympics live broadcast on TV (see, here in the RP back in the days its broadcast but few days late and not the whole thing too) that was in the year 1992, the Olympic Games were held in […]
Money I sent not enough
“Dear Feyma, I am a nurse who works in the States for a long time. Married to a Filipino that I meet while working here. I’ve been away in the Philippines for a long time now. Been sending money to my family there. They never been satisfied with the money that I was sending them. […]
Good seaweed in the Philippines!
Yesterday for our lunch we made some seaweed salad. It was really good. Here in our household we mostly make the Guso (not sure what the English word for it) kind of seaweed. The looks its like young branches of the tree without the leaves and colored green. Blanch it or boil water and put […]