Christmas is a season of joy. It’s a season of pleasure and rejoicing. It’s a time of year when we put our troubles behind and focus on goodwill and spreading the joy with our fellow men. Christmas, for us, is in a large part all about the LiP Christmas Giveaway. What is the LiP Giveaway? […]
The Twelve Days of Philippine Christmas
A couple of years ago, I wrote a new Philippine interpretation of the classic Christmas Poem, The Night Before Christmas. As much as I wanted to run it for Christmas again this year, I have run it two years in a row now, and I decided it was time for something new. If you have […]
Is It Necessary for Me to Go Back to My Country of Origin?
Today we got a comment and question from Marv. Here is what Marv had to say: hey bob, was wonderin if i still have to go back home to australia if my dual citizenship has already been approved? i’m a natural born filipino and both my parents are of filipino citizenship at the time when […]
Another day in Manila
Last week, I received an e-mail from a fellow named Rommel. Rommel is a Filipino and a very nice fellow. Here is the e-mail he sent to me: Hi Bob, Totally enjoying your site! I’ve worked in MNC’s over the past years and had a lot of expat bosses and ALL of them enjoyed the […]
Fruit trippin’ in Tupi
You’ve heard of a “food trip,” right? Usually that is like a road trip that somebody takes to go partake in food. Like, maybe you would take a trip to Memphis to eat BBQ at a lot of Memphis BBQ places. Well, not long ago, Aaron and I went “Fruit Trippin’.” Yep, we went on […]
I feel humbled
This will be just a short post, but I want to acknowledge an award which I was given last night. Last night, December 3, 2011, was the Luzon award session, and National awards of the 2011 Philippine Blog awards. A few months ago, during the nomination process of the Philippine Blog awards, I was nominated […]