Gossip. Tsismis (the Tagalog and Bisaya word for Gossip). It’s rampant in the Philippines! Filipinos love to make tsismis. There are even lots of TV shows devoted to tsismis. Gossip shows. Mostly, that’s showbiz stuff, which I really don’t care about and don’t watch, but from time to time I find myself stuck in a […]
It occurred again!
Last week it was tires, this week it was a fender bender. It happened like this: I’m at the house, the Twins (Mayang and Clara) are in Olongapo with the car paying bills and shopping. They were at Globe paying the monthly cell phone bill. Upon finishing that Mayang was pulling into traffic to turn […]
Pizza everyone?
We’ve been living in the Philippines for a long time now, and we’ve been longing for a good pizza for that long too. I have been trying to make pizza since learning how to cook. I made some that it tasted good and some just okay. We like our pizza to be super thin crust. […]
OMG! I’ve been hijacked!
Over this past weekend, Feyma and I were watching a TV show about street food in the USA. They showed street foods from different locations all over the USA on this show, and believe me, most of it looked extremely delicious. As we started to watch the show, in the introduction they were showing quick […]
How’d it happen?
Mayang and Clara return from spending the day in town with my new old 1996 Honda. I notice that they were both very upset, and both are trying to tell me what happened at the very same time, or to put it mildly, the same story in stereo. After settling them down, I asked; “What […]
Pasalubong
What is “pasalubong?” It is a travel gift. In other words, if you travel from a far away place, you are kind of expected to bring your close friends and family a gift of some kind. I am talking about Filipino friends and family, of course. For example, if you come from the USA to […]