I’ve been going to the market every weekend lately. Really ever since our wash lady quit working due to she has to take care of her grand child. Before she quit she used to go to Bankerohan almost everyday. As you know to get the fresh fish and the veggies. But since she quit we […]
Of Course, When It Rains.
Why is 90% of all roadwork done during the rainy season? The National Highway at the end of my street was being worked on in July, when they removed the asphalt from the road. Then of course they disappeared for August and September as we were inundated with foul weather and no work could be […]
Exploitation
When you come to live in the Philippines, or any other developing country, you have to get used to a lot of things. Beggars nearly everywhere you go, different attitudes, different ways of treating people and such are all things that require adjustment. I have to say that I have been able to adjust to […]
The Domicile
One guy has his reasons for renting a house; the other guy has his reasons for building or buying his. And they both are right but during this heated debate that I’ve heard over the long years I’ve lived here, there is the silent point of view, the one that really matters the most. What […]
The longest earthquake that I experienced!
Wow, we got our big shocking earthquake a few nights back. My God, felt that it would never end. It was really scary. I’ve been experiencing earthquake here and abroad, but never felt like forever until the other night. It’s one of the unforgettable experiences for us here. Just by looking at the faces at the […]
BAD DONGLE
This is but the latest in my tales of my living in the only place on Earth that was affected by the Y2K Bug. Last year I wrote about getting a new broadband WIFI dongle from Globe. It functioned well and I was surfing the World Wide Web with glee. Someone in Globe’s corporate higherarcy […]