For those of you who don’t know, Miss Philippines scored a big result last week when she placed 5th place in the Miss Universe pageant. I don’t normally follow beauty pageants, but I am very happy for Miss Maria Venus Raj, the 4th Runner Up in the Miss Universe contest last week in Las Vegas, […]
It’s on the Coconut Telegraph
I admit it. I’m a Parrothead. Big time. Oh wait… some of you are asking… what the heck is a “parrothead?” Well, a Parrothead is a fan of Jimmy Buffett. For the uninitiated, Jimmy Buffet is an American Singer. His music is hard to categorize. It is not quite rock. It’s not quite country. It’s […]
Follow-up on Martin Household Bayanihan
As I told you earlier, we planned a Bayanihan, or a work party at our maid, Pat’s house. A few weekend ago my kids, my nieces and nephew and of course Jun & Jun Jun, and I went to Pat’s house to start working on her house. It was really something for the my kids […]
Round Two
I had a situation last week, and particularly on Friday which absolutely infuriated me. I kept my mouth shut for the most part, though, and simply avoided the confrontation. That situation, though, caused both Feyma and I to make some re-evaluations about our future. I will explain how this will affect our future in a […]
Good rage!
I just did something, which ordinarily I would not consider a good thing, but this time, well, I think that what I did, and the way I did it was just right. What did I do? I got mad at our maid. I did it in a sort of different way, though. Lately, we have […]
The Martin household goes Bayanihan
You guys are probably wondering what’s Bayanihan? It is the term used here in the Philippines if a lot of people will do some good thing (physical labor) together for a benefit of a family or a member of a family. In Wikipedia Bayanihan describes as is a Filipino term taken from the word bayan, […]