Did I type that right? A nude awakening? Isn’t the old saying supposed to be a “rude” awakening? Read on, and you decide. I live in a kind of mid-level neighborhood. Oh, it’s probably slightly upscale by Philippine standards, probably a little downscale by US standards. Most of the people who live in my neighborhood […]
Banking at the ATM
How to get your hands on your money is always a topic that draws a lot of discussion on this site and other Philippine related websites. If you are keeping your bank in the USA, or whatever your country of origin is (something that I recommend as a good idea), then you need to figure […]
A bad habit to get into
In anybody’s life they go through good times and bad times. Good things happen to them, and bad things happen too. It’s just human nature. No life is perfect. Probably, if everything were perfect, we might be bored with life. One thing about it, though, if you have the right outlook, you will take all […]
Communication better then or now?
I am really so amazed now at how easy it is to communicate somebody from the other side of the world. Can you believe it, just 2 decades ago it was hard for me just to make a phone call to Bob in the States. I had to go to the phone service office and […]
Have you taken advantage?
As I have mentioned many, many times on this site and other places where I write, the Philippines, culturally, is a very different place compared to our homelands. I mean, if you are a westerner – American, European, Australian, etc., the Philippines is not the same as where you come from. So many things are […]
Criticism, justified or not?
It’s been in the entertainment news here in the Philippines lately that a veteran and an activist singer/song writer, Freddie Aguilar, made a comment that Charice Pempengco and Arnel Pineda were just like a monkey that they’re imitating the singers abroad when they perform. He further stated that it was Mariah Carey who said that […]