In the past, I have written about how I enjoy meeting and talking to Filipinos. As you walk through a mall, many of the sales people will say “Hello Ma’am/Sir.” Most people just walk by, but being an American, when people say hello, I stop to say hello in return. Also at times when I [...]
What do I mean “life is different”; well there are many things that are different. There are some similar things but overall, even the similar things have a different twist to them. The best I can use to describe is things are 180 degrees opposite than life in America.
Family dynamics are so different. In [...]
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What do I mean by the title “Look before you Leap”? If you have thoughts of moving to the Philippines to meet and marry a lady, use the old street crossing motto “Stop, look and Listen”. Do not just meet a lady online, pack up and move here. There is no way to know who [...]
This morning I received an email from someone with Expat Interviews website.
She notified me of someone who left a long negative comment about his views of life in the Philippines. Unfortunately he lives in Angeles City.
While running an errand this morning I was reminded of this story from olden times:
An older man was [...]
Thanks to Macky, one of the readers here, in his comment from the article Escape to Manila led me to this article online in the Inquirer.net “Monument in Israel honors Filipinos”
The article talks about a Monument commemorating President Manuel L. Quezon and the Philippine people helping many German Jews to come to the Philippines [...]
In the past I have mentioned Filipino Friends and Foreigner Friends. Most of my Foreigner friends are from the two Expat Associations here I belong to.
Well about a month ago one close friend introduced me to one of his friends from outside either groups. I had heard of him when my friend spoke of [...]
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As I mentioned in part 1, given the chance to meet and talk with Filipinos, you usually get to know a nice person.
A while back, I wrote an article about a car accident I had where a motorcycle hit the driver’s door of my car. After we got his motorcycle and my car out of [...]
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I have been living in the Philippines now 15 months and I hear comments about and from Foreigners living here. Today at the Palengke I thought about how we are looked at and felt by the local Filipinos.
Every Sunday morning we get up early and go to Agdao Public Market. There as at a [...]
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I personally enjoy a game of Poker. In my life I have played as a kid with my friends, as I older gone to a friend’s house for a poker game. For a while we even had a monthly poker game. In those games it was dealers choice, 5 card draw, 7 card stud, [...]
For many reasons Expats come to the decision to move here to the Philippines. The biggest reason is that their wife/fiancée lives here or wants to return here. Another reason is the cost of living is cheaper than their home country in a lot of areas such as housing.Just like living in your home country [...]
At times I find it difficult to think of things to write about. At first everything was new to me, plus I had all day, every day to write. Now I am getting used to things around me and prefer to stay away from political talk since I did not create the system and do [...]
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