Last year, I made a visit to the KevTech Store, which is also known as the WalMart of Digos City. Digos is about an hour south of Davao. Last year, my friend, Kevin Smith was visiting Davao, and the Digos area, and Feyma and I took a trip down south to visit Kevin and his […]
Is the Philippines becoming more attractive?
Hmm… what is going on with the Philippines? For some reason, I believe that the Philippines is becoming a more desireable destination for people to live or retire in. Why do I say this? Well, as you can imagine, because of this website, I get a lot of e-mails from people who are interested in […]
Language Update
It has been a while now since I wrote about my language studies, but that doesn’t mean that I have not been staying busy with it! Now that my teacher, Bebe is also teaching here on the LiP site, I hope that some of you are also doing a little language study of your own! […]
What currency do you think in?
If you have lived in a foreign country like the Philippines for an extended time, it is likely that after some time, in financial terms, you will begin to think in the currency of the country you are living in, instead of the country where you came from. When you first come to live in […]
Filipino Crabbiness
Filipino crabbiness Schadenfreude. That is, one Filipino cannot stand to see another Filipino more successful than they. This expression or observation of human behavior got its start. it is said, with someone watching a low-sided basket of live crabs. Each crab doesn’t really want to be in the basket … perhaps the sense their impending […]
Happy Days (NOT)
The last few days have been tough days for me. I am not going to go into detail about it, but I’ll tell you a little bit. It all has to do with problems with plumbing in our house. The landlord has people working on this for us, trying to get it fixed, but it […]