As you all know, no doubt, in taxis worldwide they have meters which keep track of how far you go and the length of time that you are using the cab. This information is used by the meter to calculate how much you owe for the fare of taking you where you went in the […]
Family trouble!
I got an email from somebody. I won’t mention his name. He is a foreigner married to a Filipina from the North of the Philippines. Here’s part of the email he sent me. I am married to a Filipina. We have a 6 month old baby. Here is my question: My wife has a 17 […]
Change, sir!
Yesterday, John Grant published an article telling about his experience riding in a Taxi, and not being able to get P47 change at the end of the ride. Really, as it turned out, the driver had the change, but he was trying to play a game with John to get an enlarged tip. Really, though, […]
Why Not Eat the Seed Corn?
Seed Corn: Seed that is saved from one year’s harvest for the subsequent year’s planting, rather than being used to make flour etc. Doesn’t make any sense for me to actually define “seed corn”? After all, most readers of this Philippine Living magazine will be familiar with the term, won’t they? Such was the thought […]
Expensive Money!
You know, with the world’s central banks slashing interest rates to try to get world economies moving again, prime interest rates in many countries are moving close to 0%. I believe that the US Prime rate now is only slightly over 1%, and other countries are moving in that direction. Of course, consumers like you […]
The Money Tree
Last week, Feyma wrote an interesting article about family demands for money and such. Feyma and I got married nearly 18 years ago now, and in that time, I have seen so many examples of Filipino families thinking that the money supply was endless now that their daughter had married a foreigner, or now that […]