Are the American politicians smoking something that they should not be smoking? Sometimes, it seems so. In the last day or two, the United States Government issued another travel warning to American Citizens, warning against travel to Mindanao. What else is new. Fact is, the USA has been issuing travel warnings against visiting Mindanao for […]
Feeling like you are in outer space!
Sometimes, we all have bad days. Monday just was not my day. Actually, being honest, I am not sure I would say it was a bad day, but it was interesting, and in some ways, I felt like I was on a different planet. As I mentioned in my article on Monday, My brownout strategy, […]
Nearly powerless
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 […]
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 […]
Good seaweed in the Philippines!
Yesterday for our lunch we made some seaweed salad. It was really good. Here in our household we mostly make the Guso (not sure what the English word for it) kind of seaweed. The looks its like young branches of the tree without the leaves and colored green. Blanch it or boil water and put […]
Lightning strikes twice!
You know, you hear that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Maybe it’s usually the truth, but in this case, I am here to tell you that lightning has indeed struck twice right here in Davao City! Remember, a few weeks ago I wrote an article about a new burger joint here in […]