Last week or so I had my sister here with us for my oldest son Chris’ birthday. While she’s here we went shopping. This time a lot of the malls here were open until midnight. While we went shopping her husband called her up and told my sister that my brother-in-law’s sister (we will just […]
Bob’s 2009 Predictions
Well, obviously, 2008 is drawing to a close quickly. It seems like just yesterday we were all worried about Y2K issues and such, and here we are almost a decade into the new millennium! How can it be? Well, it’s true, so no need to dwell on how fast time flies. With the end of […]
Spreading Christmas Cheer
OK, OK, I know that a lot of you have been waiting to hear about the give-away of Christmas food, candy and toys that Feyma and I conducted last week! I am sorry that I didn’t post about it immediately after the give-away, but I really wanted to take a little break, and spend more […]
The Philippines Needs a Good Dictionary
One of the reasons many Westerners give for visiting or moving to the Philippines is the common use of the English language. It makes a person feel at home … or lets lazy people like me neglect to spend time learning any of the common Filipino languages such as Tagalog. But one of the things […]
Life in the States for me
As I’ve posted before it was quite an adjustment for me when I got to the States. I didn’t know that it was that hard though. When I first tried eating the meat there I thought of going into vegetarian. 😉 Not really. Any meat tasted gamey to me, no matter how good it looks […]
Distribution of local products
One thing that is really prevalent in the Philippines is that each town or region has it’s own specialty products that it is famous for. Some examples? Well, General Santos City is famous for Tuna. Davao is famous for Durian. Iligan City is famous for a certain brand of peanuts (if I remember correctly they […]