I hear those words regularly from people… “I just sent her money for the airfare, she is coming soon.” Hmm… Let me fill you in with a little more. Because I write in a number of places, and most of my writing is related to the Philippines in some way, a lot of people contact […]
Dear Feyma: Chatmate asking money
Dear Feyma, I am chatting to a lady from the Philippines. We’ve been chatting not for a long time. She’s been asking money. Well, I was writing about this same topic before but I will rewrite again. Somehow some people still get suck in with the beautiful picture of the young girl they’re chatting with […]
Is there opportunity in the Philippines?
Again, today I am sharing with LiP readers my weekly column from SunStar Davao, the biggest local Davao newspaper, where I write every week. I hope you enjoy the article. One thing that I really see a lot of here in the Philippines, which makes me feel bad, is the huge rush of Filipinos who […]
Credit where credit is due
Credit. The word can mean a number of things. It can mean that you are acknowledging what somebody else did. It can be associated with the lending or borrowing of money. Lots of things. In today’s article, I’m going to talk about credit in terms of borrowing money, and also the tracking of your borrowing […]
Constant Change
Almost everything in life is changing constantly, that shouldn’t be a big surprise. Very few things remain the same over the long term. One place where we American expats are seeing a lot of change lately is in the value of the US Dollar. The US Dollar, in the past few weeks, has been losing […]
Ready for an eye-opener?
Over the last year or more, I have written a lot of times on this site how prices in the Philippines have been going up quickly, how the Philippines is so much less affordable than it used to be. Feyma has said it too. Other writers on this site have echoed the thought that the […]