Out of stock is a catch phrase for just about anything you need and can’t find. It’s a term I use a lot (jokingly) since I first arrived here. I caught on to how it works back in the early 1990’s. You could be in a large grocery store see the young employee stocking spam. […]
No More Shopping Days ‘Till Christmas
I just don’t care how many shopping days are left; the TV can count it down until the kalabow (carabao) comes home, or when pigs fly, or ducks sing. I’m done! Malls, night markets, or the guy with the overloaded kalesa, parked in front of my house with his kabayo dropping piles of free fertilizers […]
Hey, where’s my change?
Back when we lived in the States, often times Feyma and I would go grocery shopping together. I have, pretty much ever since we have been married, been self employed and worked from our house, so my schedule is flexible. With having a very flexible work schedule, we just enjoyed doing the shopping together. Naturally, […]
The Nuclear Option
Over my years of living in the Philippines I have adjusted to many new and different things. Almost everything in life is a bit different here, but on almost everything, even when it’s been difficult, I have made the adjustment. I’ve adjusted to different types of foods. I’ve adjusted to a totally different style of […]
Shaving in the Philippines
One of the nice things about living in the Philippines, combined with working from my house is that I sometimes go a couple of days between shaving. Just yesterday, John Miele wrote an article about body hair, and this article was not planned to be in competition with that, nor in conjunction with it. I […]
How can it be?
I have a nice little Canon digital camera that I got for my birthday in 2009. It is an Ixus I camera, which is a tiny camera with a form factor similar to a cellular phone. In fact, when they first see the camera, many people think it is a cellular phone rather than a […]