A week or two ago, I wrote a column of miscellaneous items, one of which was about a visit from my niece, Sweet, and her fiancee, Heart. They were to be married soon, and I was one of their Primary Sponsors (Ninong). This past weekend was the wedding, and Feyma and I, along with all […]
Mayor Rody
Here in Davao, our Mayor is Rodrigo Duterte, commonly known as “Rody”. Mayor Duterte is a law and order man, sort of a Dirty Harry (which is a nickname that he does have) for Davao City. Let me just say that no matter who you are, you would never want to do anything to end […]
Philippine Beef
Whenever I have guests visit from abroad, which is quite often, and I take them around Davao, or outside the City, one reaction is almost always certain. When they see a cow, they are surprised. “I thought they didn’t have cows in the Philippines, where did that come from?” I can assure you, there are […]
Hard times?
You know, for a year or more now, financial times have been really bad worldwide. The mortgage crisis has thousands of families in America losing their housing. Banks are failing all over the world. Food prices are soaring. Oil prices have skyrocketed, although in the past couple of weeks, they are falling back down to […]
I’m a criminal!
A lot of people who read this site are foreigners who are married to Filipinas (or Filipinos). Did you know that if you belong to that group, you might be a criminal? That’s right, and it’s something I’ve known about for some time, but learned more about today. You see, back in the early 1990’s […]
Exchange rate update
It has been over three months since I’ve written about the exchange rates between the Dollar and the Peso, and there have been significant movements since that article. Because of this, it’s time that we take another look at the topic, I think. In these days of financial crisis, it can be hard to figure […]