Before moving to the Philippines, I was very sure about where I wanted to live. I talked about it with friends and family for a number of years. My heart was set, I was going to live in General Santos City. No way that anybody could convince me otherwise. General Santos was a smaller town […]
It’s "Where I Live" week here on LiP!
One of the things that always seems to generate some interest among readers is when we have a discussion of different cities around the Philippines. We all have our preferences of where we might want to live. Sometimes those preferences are set in stone, sometimes they are not. Sometimes, probably most of the time, we […]
Merienda in the Philippines
Today, I am writing about the different kinds of merienda, kakanin (snacks) here in the Philippines. I think that we can make a lot of different kinds of snacks here in the Philippines that are unheard of elsewhere. The names of our marienda alone are not common. Oh well, the thing is that it tastes […]
Mid-year review
On December 30, 2008, I published a list of Ten Predictions for the Philippines for 2009. Here we are just getting started on July already, so the year is already half way complete! Time flies, don’t you think? I figured it would be a good time to go back and review my Ten Predictions, and […]
Taking the long way home
Have you ever taken the long way home, just for the experience? I’ve done it, no doubt about it. Sometimes when we go outside our normal path we find new things that we didn’t know about before. Sometimes we learn new things, sometimes it’s good, sometimes the experience is not so good, but it is […]
A gentle and quiet people
Filipinos are a very gentle people. They are very quiet and demure. They speak very softly, sometimes so softly that sometimes it is difficult to hear what they say. Of course, you already know these things, because we hear it all the time. STOP! Wait, is it true? If Filipinos are so gentle and quiet, […]