I got a little surprise on this past Saturday evening. Feyma and I were watching a movie on TV with the kids. While watching, Feyma was also playing with her laptop, surfing the Internet a bit. Suddenly, she told me… “you won an award!” “What,” I said… “what kind of award?” She went on to […]
The girl of my dreams
Some years back I met a girl. She was special, and has never left my heart in those many years. Even today, I cannot get her out of my mind. She changed my life, and certainly changed it for the better. Of course, I’m talking about my wife of 19+ years. Today’s a special day […]
Coming to grips with Philippine languages
This is my weekly column that appears in SunStar Davao every Friday. I am publishing a copy of it here for LiP readers to enjoy too. Much of this information has been covered in my many previous LiP articles on the subject of Language, but perhaps this has a bit of a different angle that […]
Reminiscing about something I never did
I had an interesting day yesterday. I spent much of the day working on different projects that I have going right now. Pretty much every one of those projects is work related – things that will earn me money. Every one of the projects involves the Internet too. Oh, I didn’t work all day long, […]
Big Trouble for Tourists?
Lately, I have been watching a TV show that I downloaded from the Internet. The name of the show is “Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand,” and it is a show from the Sky Network in the UK. The show is about British tourists visiting Thailand, and some of the troubles they run into. “But Bob,” […]
Constant Change
Almost everything in life is changing constantly, that shouldn’t be a big surprise. Very few things remain the same over the long term. One place where we American expats are seeing a lot of change lately is in the value of the US Dollar. The US Dollar, in the past few weeks, has been losing […]