End of last year was really pretty bad on both side of my family. My first degree cousin at the Rodriguez clan (my mom’s side) died third week of December, I was informed by my niece that she’s sick just middle of last year. I just thought that it wasn’t so serious. So shocked finding that […]
Healthcare & Supplies – EAM
Nothing is sure but death and taxes. A number of people have been credited for that quote. For us Americans, we have mostly been told that it was from Benjamin Franklin. However, the truth is that the first person who said that was Daniel Defoe in the book, The Political History of the Devil in 1726. […]
What Did You Say?
My sweet and wonderful wife Mayang seems to get angry with me lately and increasingly more as the years go by. Her complaint is; “Honey Ko, you don’t listen to what I say?” That is not true, for how busy do you think my day can get that I would ignore her on purpose? The […]
The Deductible
The catch 22 is that as a Retired American Military man I must pay for Medicare every month albeit I can not avail of Medicare Coverage here in the Philippines. But I can use my (FREE; that so cracks me up) Tri-care Military health benefits here instead. But I can’t have Tri-Care (The free one […]
Would you buy medicines at Generics Pharmacy?
I was really pondering over this very topic for a long time now. I noticed that a lot of Pinoys will not really buy their meds at Generics drugstore. Reason being they said that they don’t trust the place, Generics pharmacy selling good medicine. They really think that those medicine that were being sold there […]
Elder care in the Philippines
Specially since I am well into my “Golden Years” (I’ll be 69 in September of this year, Good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise), many people ask me about growing old and the provisions for elder care here in the Philippines. Some of their questions seem to be general concerns about my plans, and […]