One thing that I hear a lot of confusion about from people that visit the Philippines is about the “Caribou.” Actually, there are no Caribou in the Philippines! What is a Caribou? Well, it is also called a Reindeer. Caribou are very prevalent in Alaska and other cold weather environments. I am sure that there […]
Metric System
Most readers of this site are Americans, and for this column, I am primarily talking to Americans. Of course, everybody is welcome to read and enjoy it, but Americans will have the most to think about. I am wondering, as Americans, why aren’t we using the metric system for our measurements and such? I remember […]
Terrorism can happen anywhere
Yesterday was a sad day for the Philippines. At around 1:30pm, Philippine Time, a bomb went of in an upscale mall in Makati, Metro Manila. The powerful bomb exploded at Glorietta 2, a mall that Feyma and I have been to a number of times. Glorietta is probably our favorite mall to visit when we […]
Sausage making!
There are lots of kinds of sausages available in the Philippines, and I enjoy many of them. A few examples – longanissa, chorizo, and others. One thing that is different, though, is that they are almost all sweet to some extent. Over the years, I have gotten used to eating these sweet sausages, and even […]
Duty Free shopping
Recently, a new Duty Free Shop was opened in Davao. While it is at the airport, as you would expect, it is located about as far away from the terminal building as you can get while still being on the airport grounds. In the past, when there was a Duty Free Shop in Davao, it […]
Conducting business on the net
The Internet has changed our world a lot since it became widely available to the public about 15 years ago. In today’s world, we can go online and buy things or get information from anywhere in the world! Twenty years ago or more, if we wanted to buy something from a shop in Paris, we […]