Please join Mr. Peabody, Sherman and me for another ride in the “Way-Back Machine. Puerto Rico in the 1980’s, they estimated has a Town Festival somewhere out on the Island almost every day of the year. Some are bigger, and some are just better, but no matter, because a good time is to be had […]
Oh brother are you really jealous?
Well, I’ve been meaning to write this article for a long time now. I’ve been hearing lots of expats when they get together all they talk (tsismis) about was the other expats that live here. I felt that if they say that the Pinoys have the crab mentality, so do a lot of the expats. […]
Dear Feyma “Can I get a loan in the Philippines?”
I always get emails inquiring about getting a loan for financing here in the Philippines. Here’s one of the emails I got. I want to buy a house that we really want and can afford the down payment. The monthly payment if there’s a financing we can afford it right now but not the downpayment if […]
My Non Profit Mini-Storage Business
I’m not sure if it’s really a storage business per say, all though two complete bedrooms in my house are used for that purpose, and not by me. It seems that when our oldest girl got married 9 years ago she never really moved out of our house. Her old bedroom is packed to the […]
Insurance in the Philippines
I’ve talked a little about insurance in the past on this site, but mostly those articles have been related to health insurance, and medical issues. The other day, somebody left a comment here on LiP asking about insurance, but instead of health insurance, he was asking about other types of insurance. He specifically mentioned flood […]
A House in Bataan
While renting houses in Olongapo city years ago, I was still working on board merchant ships, when I was home from sea, every Sunday we would come up the Mountain in Bataan to visit my wife’s family there. While sitting under their mango tree I noticed that the temperature was at least 10 degrees cooler […]