How is a wake and the burial handled if someone dies in the family here in the Philippines? Let’s look at what happened during the death of my Dad. I was living in the USA at the time of his death. Six months before my Dad died, Bob, Chris and I came to the Philippines […]
Passing along responsibility
How do Filipino families afford to send their kids to school? I think this is one of the questions thats pops up to the minds of some of the people that come here to visit and not live here and seeing how big many people we have here in every household. We all know that […]
Roaming around Samal
I’m happy with the reactions you guys made upon seeing the looks of the new “web magazine”. I think everybody likes it the way I see it in the comments section. Well, I’m writing this column to tell you guys the story of the picture of mine in the home page. That picture was taken […]
Wow I tried again
Well since you guys are talking about fruits. Yesterday Bob, Mom, Chris and Me went for a ride around Davao. On our way we decided to get lots of fruits. One of the fruit that we got was durian. We want mom to try it. This is her first time to try durian. She likes […]
Mom’s shocking adjustments!
Well a week ago I post about my mother-in-law coming here for a visit. She’s here with us now for over a week. I’m really shocked of some of her adjustments being here in the Philippines. As you recall she was here like 8 months ago. At that time she had a hard time adjusting […]
Now, that’s disrespectful!
We had an incident that happened here in Davao over 4 years ago. Bob and I and our foreigner friend together with his half Filipino brother went to a have coffee just to talked about school and living here, because the half brother just came from the States wanting to study here for college. He […]