Here in Davao City, it is Festival Time! It’s Kadayawan Festival right now. Kadayawan is one of two major Festivals in Davao City, the other being Araw ng Dabaw, which is held in March. Festivals are a very important part of Filipino life. Every town, city, even every Barangay has it’s own festival, and people […]
The Philippines: More than the Usual
The Department of Tourism here has a campaign where they advertise that the Philippines is “More than the Usual.” For me, I really believe that! The Philippines is not the normal place. Things are different here! Some are good, some are not as good, but certainly different. That’s what I love about the Philippines, there’s […]
A quick “Thank You”
I wanted to take a moment to post a quick “Thank You” to Rico, of the Bayanihan Blog Network. Rico posted a nice review of this website today on their blog. I really enjoyed reading what they had to say, and it was such a positive review of the site, it really humbled me! Also, […]
What should people call us?
I hear from a lot of different “non-Filipino residents of the Philippines” about being called one thing or another, and in most cases they don’t like it. Let’s look at a few of the things we might be called: Foreigner: To me, I don’t mind being called a foreigner. As a matter of fact, I […]
Credit, Communications and keeping your options open
I got an e-mail today from a reader of this blog, and I could tell from his tone that he was bothered by the issue that he wrote about. He was asking about financial issues, credit reporting and other such issues and how he would handle these kinds of things if he decided to move […]
Another take on Filipino Time
There is a big discussion going on in regards to another post on this blog regarding tardiness, time keeping and such. It’s a subject that we all know as “Filipino Time.” Generally speaking (very general, OK?) Filipinos living in the Philippines tend to “ignore” things like punctuality and such. At least that is what is […]