Over the years I’ve written about how things you buy last forever here in the Philippines. I have no idea if products lasting that long is normal, or was it because I was single most of my life and moved before anything ever wore out. When I moved from San Diego CA. to Luquillo Beach […]
Higher pricing for foreigners
I hear a lot of people on various blogs, including this one, complaining about being “over charged”. They go on and on because they get charged higher prices than the local people pay. It comes up all of the time. In fact, I have heard dozens of times from people that Filipinos are “racists” because […]
An energy independent Philippines?
Could the Philippines be energy independent? Could it even go further and become an energy exporting country? Although I doubt that could happen, it would seem that the country could make a stride in that direction with an invention that is being put to the test here in the Philippines. This invention makes it possible […]
Wow, it’s deja vu all over again!
Just a couple of days ago, I had an article entitled “It’s Coming! I can’t wait!” Now, today, I wanted to use the exact same title for this article, but I refrained! What’s coming this time? Well, I’ll get to that in a minute. About 6 months to a year ago, somebody started preparing an […]
Holy Week?
It’s Holy Week here in the Philippines. Well, I suppose it is Holy Week everywhere in the world, actually, or at least every country that is Christian. Most countries don’t really celebrate the whole week, though, most countries celebrate Easter, but not Maundy Thursday, Holy Friday, Black Saturday, etc. Because I was raised Catholic, I […]
You don’t see much change in the Philippines
Recently, my friend Randy visited the Philippines. He was in Davao. I hope he had a good time while he was here. After returning to the States, Randy wrote an article on his site about Change in the Philippines. Randy made a point that is very true, change is not very common in the Philippines. […]