While eating al fresco style on a balmy Friday night overlooking the star kissed Subic Bay; three tables joined together at the By-The-Sea Resort, with a few friends in attendance I with one ice cold San Miguel beer and a full plate of Mongolian BBQ on the table in front of me. These are the […]
Seed Corn and Utang – Will They Sink Your Boat?
Sometimes I get the urge to write about something and I get right into cranking out words without knowing exactly where I’m going to use them. The post then sits in my “draft” folder, sometimes for a long time. Recently my friend and fellow author here on LIP wrote a great article full of advice […]
It’s almost Valentines Day!
Valentines Day is just around the corner. Some of our readers here might be single and writing/chatting to a Filipina here in the Philippines. You might want to give an impression to the lady here (they called it pogi points). It might be a good idea for you to give something to the lady you […]
Tax Time, 2014 Style
Well, it’s definitely a new year, this thing called 2014, and the cycle of life makes another revolution. It’s one month completed all ready, too. Time is starting to zip by again and has brought us to another episode of “Tell the Government how much money you received last year and how much of it […]
The Oh So Smart Phone
Here is all I know about cell phones in the Philippines, because where I live in Roosevelt Bataan there are no land lines and we must use the cell. For two years I’ve had the Cherry Mobile phone at the outrageous cost new of PNP 1,200.00 with it I can receive and make phone calls, […]
Birding In The Philippines
Birding? What the heck is that Dave? You mean those folks who go out with boots an binoculars trying to see how many different bids they can see in a day? Well yes, sure, that’s birding … and a very popular hobby it is with some folks. There’s plenty of “real” birding to be done […]