These days, living in Mindanao is a bit tougher than it was just a few months ago. Frankly, the Island is on the verge of being powerless… in other words, without electricity. I wrote a couple weeks ago how Mindanao was on the verge of having to resort to rotating brownouts, and it came to […]
What do you think this is worth?
In my ten years in the Philippines, I have lived in five different houses. I’ve mostly lived in rather large houses, since I have a large family. We did live in one house that was quite small, but it was only for about 6 months or less, because we could not find a larger house […]
Olympic Wars!
Just thinking about the Vancouver 2010 Olympics now made me think my first time ever watching the Olympics live broadcast on TV (see, here in the RP back in the days its broadcast but few days late and not the whole thing too) that was in the year 1992, the Olympic Games were held in […]
You say you want an American Style house?
A lot of Americans who plan to move to the Philippines and live here for good tell me the same thing – “I want to live in an American style house.” I think it is kind of natural to feel that way, given the fact that mostly have lived in the USA for their entire […]
I Love the LTO
When it was time to renew my auto registration last year in June, I took my car for its “Drug Test” (Smog Test) and it passed. I winced when they inserted the probe. I next went to LTO (Land Transportation Office) and received my new Stickers. The following Sunday I had lunch and some cold […]
Living on the Ring of Fire
As anybody who follows any news at all knows by now, there was a major earthquake in Chile on Saturday. The magnitude was 8.8 on the Richter Scale. Remember the January earthquake in Haiti? It was a 7.0 magnitude. Do you know what the difference between the two is? I knew it was a big […]