I know many of you have given up on me. I have heard from Elena there are many of the expats from Davao reading my site, even though they never let me know by comments or telling me.
In addition, many would like to hear I have failed. Well life is not easy but I [...]
Here is another article from Rob, also known as m60man. He is very good at expressing his views and I thank him for assisting me in keeping this site with writings about Davao. Thank you Jon.
I just read Tom Martin’s post and his last comment rang true to me as well. Bruce met my [...]
To be able to post my articles on the scheduled day and time I am writing this on Thursday morning. Today I plan to venture out and see how the beginning of the shutdown of the city is progressing. The malls will probably be crowded since there will be no shopping tomorrow on Good Friday. [...]
A while back, I posted a similar request. The reason for this is the following:
I have written on this site for over two years now. At first, it was about my family and my adjusting to life here. I would fill the article with photos. When you first move here, everything is new and [...]
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You might be wondering is this an advertisement, and maybe it is. As you can see, I have had this site for about 2 years. Originally, it was a free site on Google BlogSpot. After a year, with some encouragement I purchased a server service and registered my own domain.
Now this is not the [...]
Friday morning I was at the computer and watching CNN and its reporting on the earthquake and discussions about the destruction in Haiti when all of a sudden the room started swaying. Elena looked at me and said, “we are having an earthquake, what should we do? “ I just sat for a moment and [...]
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There are many charities here in Davao as there are all over the Philippines. Most of the charities are for the small children or the people of an older age. In the past, I have writing about the Field of Dreams boy’s home that is doing wonderful work for young children.
Well, through the Expat [...]
Continue reading about A Home for Those with Ambition – Panacan, Davao City
Saturday Elena and I joined her group of expat wives, a few of their kids and two other of us husbands and went to use the pool at the Marco Polo Hotel. At one point there was a commotion and I asked what was going on. They all mentioned Noynoy Aquino was there on [...]
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A friend of mine here in Davao went to both days of parades for this years Kadawayan and was kind enough to send me some to share with my readers. There were so many, I decided to put in a slide show for your enjoyment.
Thanks Ken, I appreciate your gift.
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This year as the same last year, I did not have the energy to battle the heat and the crowds and go downtown for the Kadayawan Parades. On Saturday is the parade for the dance teams. These are teams that dress in native outfits and do native folk type dancing. On Sunday is the Parade [...]
There are many festivals and fiestas in Davao. From the neighborhood or barangay to the larger citywide festivals. The biggest festival is the Kadayawan (Ka-da-ya-wan) Festival. This is the 24th year of this celebration. Officially it is runs from August 18 through the 24th but there are activities all week.
Kadayawan history:
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Last week, for my anniversary, Elena told me we would go to the Marco Polo Hotel for our celebration dinner. Since we have the privilege membership at the hotel, we get one free meal at their restaurants.
Elena checked her email to see if they were having one of the cuisine specials this month and [...]
I guess my timing was bad. I started researching and working on an article about Saftety in Mindanao. You see, even though the Embassys have there warnings, there has not been much terrorist news lately in Mindanao for a while until recently.
When I started writing I could only remember the 3 Red Cross workers [...]
How life has changed. When I was young and for many years a “Coffee Shop” was a small restaurant with linoleum covered tables and basic food menu. Then with Starbucks and other named branding emerged. They sold high end coffees, lattes, cappuccinos, teas and other similar beverages. They would have cakes, cookies, scones and other [...]
I made it.Tuesday morning my mom picked me up at home at 630Am in Florida to take me to the airport. We went out for my final goodbye dinner the evening before and after dinner we loaded most of the luggage.My flight itinerary showed my first part of the trip was from West Palm Beach [...]
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