As we hit the New Year 2015 I was reflecting back while enjoying a cold refreshing SMB as to how I’d gotten to the Philippines. I know a lot of LiP readers planned and planned some more about their decision but I really didn’t. A lot of my life I left up to Karma or […]
A Really Bad Idea
When opening a business in the Philippines or anywhere for that matter, the key to success is to find the need and satisfy it. Find what is missing, that people need and you can try and provide it A Sari-sari store where there is one every 50 meters and they all sell the same thing […]
A Ho, Ho, Whole lot of Christmas fun!
December has been a great month for me. One of the most enjoyable months that I can remember. As I told you earlier, I got a gig playing Santa Claus at a bunch of malls around Southern Mindanao. This is not something I have ever really done before, but I am glad that I did […]
Going around different places in Mindanao with Santa!
I think everyone knows here already that Bob took a job from a cellphone company here to be a Santa for a few days from late November until mid December. That’s the reason why we celebrated our Thanksgiving earlier than it should be. The day that we usually celebrates, Bob was already on his first […]
When Wiser Heads Prevail
It was a Tuesday morning the second of December 2014 when our Mitsubishi G-4 Mirage finely reached 5000 kilometers, that is a milestone in our cars life or would that be a kilometerstone? Metric still confuses me. But it did take me 10 months to reach it just the same. I had been in to […]
Do you need a car in the Philippines? EAM
Americans love our cars. That is probably true more for Americans that for any other people in the world. Most likely it is because the United States is so large, and in parts of the USA it is quite a long distance from one place to another, requiring a long commute. So, when we moved […]