I am not sure how to call this: daredevilry, recklessness, foolhardiness, or temerity, but one thing is for sure: it is STUPID. As an Expat in the Philippines I notice many strange things, and many times I am reporting about it. A colleague blogger: “The Travelling Fool” currently spends some time in Manila and...
For lovers of nice and calm music there is the 37th INTERNATIONAL BAMBOO ORGAN FESTIVAL to be held at ST. JOSEPH CHURCH, in LAS PIÑAS CITY, February 23 to 29, 2011 at 8:00PM St Joseph Church has one of the finest organs in the world and almost all parts of the organ are made...
When you are a lover of beautiful firework displays (like me), and you live in the Manila area, now there’s a chance to see The 3rd Philippine International PyroMusical Competition. It will be held at the Bayside, behind the Mall of Asia Complex at Pasay City in 12 shows spread over 6 Saturday nights...
Sometimes Filipinos are strange people. They are proud to be a Filipino, but like to live abroad. They do not like their country called a Third World Country, but keep on throwing garbage in the streets and pee everywhere. They love their country a lot, but hate products manufactured in the Philippines. If they...
The use of abbreviations in the Philippines is very common. They are used for practicaly everything with a little longer name or sentence, just like everywhere in the world. I have the impression that Filipinos are using abbreviations more than elsewhere in the world, but that’s just my opinion. Official offices have such abbreviations...
Recently I was visiting a subdivision to see if there was a nice house to buy when I spotted a remarkable fence around an open lot. The metal structure on top of the wall was formed in musical script with many notes and musical symbols. The owner of the lot must love music a...
January 23, 2012 is Chinese New Year. Many countries with Chinese communities celebrate this festivity. One of the TV channels is broadcasting a live event from Querino Grandstand and takes whole evening with a countdown to midnight. The Philippines has a large Chinese Community, and several large stores and chains are owned by Chinese....
Did you read my post More fun in the Philippines ? This story is not part of that, but in a way it has to do with it. The following story I found on the Internet. By Patrick Camara Ropeta, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau, Posted at 02/26/2011 Toughest Place to be a… Bus Driver?,...
It doesn’t happen every day that I am proud to tell you something about myself. But today I am happy to announce that I am nominated, together with a few million others, to be the next “Best Husband in the World“. Do not ask me how I know this, but a special friend of...
In my effort to understand the Filipino language and the Filipinos in particular, I still have lots of problems with the expression: hainakuh ! It is also written on other ways, but this is the most common way. There are many t-shirts available in shops with this expressive text, but no one can give...
When I first saw the name of this store in the Philippines I started to laugh at the ingenuity of Filipinos to find a name for their business. I wrote already a few times about this name giving thing in the Philippines. Remember Mang Donald for newly opened fast food restaurant? See the Mang...
French is a difficult language, especially proper writing, even sometimes for native French people. When I was in high school, a loooooooong time ago, French was one of the foreign languages we had to learn. It became very handy when a few years later I moved to the French-speaking part of Belgium to work...
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