Yesterday I got a phone call while cooking breakfast for Bob. It was really early in the morning. It was just me and Bob who were up. I thought it was an inquiry from the email about some land. I thought it was an overseas call because it was too early for people from here. […]
Trouble in Paradise!
I think a lot of you saw the video of the American guy, Jimmy posted on YouTube? Been hearing and seeing him on TV and on the internet. So I checked out his video “The 20 things he hated about the Philippines”. To be totally honest he was partly right on the subject he was […]
Our Family Night Out
It’s Thursday 15 March and I’m one day back from my trip to Manila. My friend Tommy who is home from his ship and on vacation, That morning I receive an e-mail from him requesting we all meet Friday Night at the “By The Sea Resort” in the Barrio on Subic Bay. When Tommy invites […]
Please Wait, But Stop To Smell the Roses
Second trip to Mega Manila to finish off the re-stamping of my passport (see last week story) While there last week,I had no time to enjoy the trip as the bureaucracy at the Bureau of Immigration had me dancing to their drummer and not mine. Owing to the fact that I still held my “Double […]
Another day in paradise
One of the words you hear associated with the Philippines is “paradise.” Mostly you hear that word from people who “want” to move here. Want to retire here. Have a long distance love affair with the country. You rarely hear that word from people who have lived here, though. Is the Philippines a paradise? Personally, […]
Do we all think alike?
Sometimes I wonder, do expats think alike? Do we all think of similar topics at the same time, or relatively close tot he same time? Sometimes I think it is true. Here on LiP we have a variety of writers. One of the key things we have in common is that we are all expats. […]