Last week on Friday Mayang asked me to take her to town to take care of some errands and have lunch with her, just the two of us, no friends or family and no beer. I could see that this was a request for something she really wanted and being the kind of man that […]
Jose Vargas
Hi Friends! Today’s post here on LiP could easily turn into a big heated discussion about US politics. But, I am not here to talk about US politics, and I hope you are not either. Why could today’s topic get heated? Two reasons. Firstly, today is a heated political day in the USA. At the […]
Taxi in the Philippines!
We’ve been living back here for 12 years now. Have been traveling before all over Mindanao and other parts of the country. We noticed before that Davao has the worst taxis that I knew. If you guys travel here in Davao City, you will remember some of the old and junkie looking taxis we have […]
What a deal!
I got an interesting e-mail on Saturday evening. Basically, the e-mail was from an American who had been living in Davao City for a couple of years or so, and he said that he was ready to return to the States. I didn’t really know why he wanted to return, but he did mention that […]
The Devil Incarnate
In 1996 while still living in Olongapo City in a rental house, we would go to my wife’s parents house in Roosevelt Bataan (Where we live now, but down the road) every Sunday when I was home between ship assignments. One such Sunday our girls YoHanna and Ymir Thea asked me if they could bring […]
So, what are your plans?
We all have plans in life. Sometimes our plans all work out, most of the time, though, things don’t necessarily work out as we planned. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, in fact, many times things out better than we had expected or even hoped for. My first time to visit the Philippines was in […]