This is my weekly column that appears in SunStar Davao every Friday. I am publishing a copy of it here for LiP readers to enjoy too. Much of this information has been covered in my many previous LiP articles on the subject of Language, but perhaps this has a bit of a different angle that […]
Dear Feyma…
“Then she told me of her problem with a person she cared about, her foreigner friend. It’s not her boyfriend because she’s a happily married. She just knew this friend for quite sometime now.” – Feyma “Sounds like a Dear Abby problem to me”. —- From a guy that commented. Well somebody’s comment about the […]
Reminiscing about something I never did
I had an interesting day yesterday. I spent much of the day working on different projects that I have going right now. Pretty much every one of those projects is work related – things that will earn me money. Every one of the projects involves the Internet too. Oh, I didn’t work all day long, […]
The Water Tester
Knock, Knock, the gate I hear one day, as I had ripped out the doorbell the first week in my new house, after discovering school children liked it more than me. At the gate was a well dressed young man with a clipboard and a cardboard box. He explained that he was from the municipality […]
A friend’s problem
A week or so ago I bumped into a friend. We were chatting for a few minutes. Then she told me of her problem with a person she cared about, her foreigner friend. It’s not her boyfriend because she’s a happily married. She just knew this friend for quite sometime now. She was telling me […]
Big Trouble for Tourists?
Lately, I have been watching a TV show that I downloaded from the Internet. The name of the show is “Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand,” and it is a show from the Sky Network in the UK. The show is about British tourists visiting Thailand, and some of the troubles they run into. “But Bob,” […]