It’s Sunday the 26th as I crawl from my bed, and sit at the computer to pen (or type) about the phenomenon known as Christmas in The Philippines. I thought I’d experienced all that was different here, or different than my Native New England Christmas’s of long ago, or during my ten years in Puerto […]
2010 LiP Christmas Giveaway – Part 1
2010 is really a banner year for the LiP Christmas Giveaway! For those who are new to the site and don’t know about the LiP Christmas Giveaway, I will start out by giving a bit of history. For 8 years now, Feyma and I have been spreading the Christmas Cheer around Mindanao by giving out […]
Christmas time again!
Another year passed, again to celebrate the Christmas season. I just do not feel the season yet. I guess, I was too busy with our move that I didn’t think about Christmas time again. If not that I saw the Christmas tree that is lighting Victoria Plaza Mall and some other areas here in Davao […]
No More Shopping Days ‘Till Christmas
I just don’t care how many shopping days are left; the TV can count it down until the kalabow (carabao) comes home, or when pigs fly, or ducks sing. I’m done! Malls, night markets, or the guy with the overloaded kalesa, parked in front of my house with his kabayo dropping piles of free fertilizers […]
It’s that time of year again
Yes, as the title says, it’s that time of year again, holiday time. Today, US time, is Thanksgiving in the USA. It’s the day after Thanksgiving here in the Philippines, although actually Thanksgiving is not celebrated here in the Philippines, obviously. Thanksgiving is an American holiday, commemorating the arrival of the first Pilgrims in the […]
Early Bah Humbug!
Normally at Christmas my mood which is always good, is now even better. But the SM Mall has beaten me down this year. The 24th of September we drove over to San Fernando Pampanga as I needed new eyeglasses. While there we discovered that my wife and her twin sister also needed new glasses. So […]