One thing I hear from a number of expats is about how badly they miss their family and friends back home. To be honest, I have never really had a big problem with this. The way technology is today, I can pick up my cell phone call for free on Skype, Facebook, or many other […]
The Luck of the Irish
Two years ago on 17 March 2016, I check into the hospital for a three-month stay. By the end of May, I was home again and on the mend. I had three operations during my first thirty-six hours there and completely missed Saint Patrick’s Day. BTW I’m fine now. “Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit!” (Happy […]
Tax ID Number 2
YEOW! It’s been a month since the last article – how did that happen? Mea maxima culpa! DOUBLE YEOW! – That last article stirred up a hornets’ nest’s worth of inquiries, discussions, and other voracious animals intent on consuming all of my spare time. It also led to acquiring some new, paying clients. I’ll mimic […]
Should We Sell our House?
Sometimes the reasons for moving sound reasonable. We built our house with four bedrooms 3 baths when our two girls were in school. But both are married now and the house is too large for just Mayang and me. First thing in my head was to sell it and re-build close by, but then I […]
Where the hell am I?
Any subject I write about here on LiP which BTW is located in The Republic of the Philippines (RP) may come from a myriad of sources; one that is very normal for me is to be shooting the breeze over a beer with friends and comparing life and why we like it here. My friends […]
Water, Water from Everywhere
Where to begin my tale of water? On the mountain in 1998, we had a broken dirt road, single phase electricity, no phone (Land Line), no cable TV and of course no water. Yes I wondered why the hell I was buying the land. First I’m informed there must be a wall, a great and […]