My ship was pulling into Singapore in 1995; I was due to rotate off and go on two months vacation back in the Philippines. My tickets were booked and my stateroom was empty, when I received a phone call from the Chief Mate requesting I come and see him. As I entered his office I […]
Holy Week?
It’s Holy Week here in the Philippines. Well, I suppose it is Holy Week everywhere in the world, actually, or at least every country that is Christian. Most countries don’t really celebrate the whole week, though, most countries celebrate Easter, but not Maundy Thursday, Holy Friday, Black Saturday, etc. Because I was raised Catholic, I […]
Strange phone call
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. […]
Being Polite on a Jeepney
Last week on Monday I dropped my New Old Honda at the shop for general maintained. I was informed by Kuya Greg that it would be a few hours. Being that I had no desire to “Please Wait” I decided to just go home and come back in the morning. Being that it was now […]
Emmy Eats the Philippines
The girl in this video is Emmy, she has a series of videos where she eats foods from different countries. In the episode that I am going to share with you today, Emmy is going to eat items from the Philippines! Emmy eats a lot of foods that I have eaten here in the Philippines, […]
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 […]