The Day Was Wednesday, 12 January 2011 here in Dinalupihan, Barangay Roosevelt, in the Republic of the Philippines. It’s a cool early morning, the time is 5: am and I’m sitting at my Puter looking at a blank screen, without a clue as to what will be my subject I’m going to write about this […]
Will you or not?
Hi Everybody! Not much news to share today here on LiP, so I thought I’d make this a short article, and off on a slightly different tangent. Yes, it will be short, but I’ll be asking you a question at the end of the article, and what I am hoping is to turn the discussion […]
How shameful!
Last week, when my language teacher, Bebe Metillo, came to my house for my Cebuano lesson, an interesting discussion ensued between the two of us. In fact, the discussion was so deep and interesting that to be honest, we never did get to the language lesson! One of the things I enjoy about Bebe is […]
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One of the pleasures of operating a site like this is that I get to have a lot of communication with people who read the site. I get to meet many new people both through e-mail and also in person when they are visiting here. On an average day, I can get dozens or even […]
Who Knew?
I went up to the Barangay Plaza one night a couple of weeks ago to watch my brother-in-law’s (Jhun) basketball team play for the senior’s Championship. They won and we were all proud of them. The Barangay Kaptain sat me at a table with him courtside, and we joked and enjoyed the game. I asked […]
What is the proper abbreviation for the Philippines?
I don’t know that I would call this a “big deal” but over the years, I have often bristled when I hear people call the Philippines as “the PI.” Why? Well, “the PI” was what the Philippines was called when it was not yet a country, during it’s colonial days, especially when it was under […]