The Filipinos celebrate many fiestas throughout the year. Every city, town, barangay and subdivision has its own fiesta. Filipinos are happy people and they like to celebrate something. For that reason they celebrate every occasion with smaller or bigger fiestas. Many of these fiestas are worth seeing because of the beautiful costumes, nice decorated...
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....
Being an Expat in the Philippines sometimes is difficult. Especially when you like to eat some food which normally only is available in your home country. And I like to cook from time to time my own Dutch food. Some specific Dutch dishes cannot be made in the Philippines because the right ingredients are...
This post is about my observations about noise, sounds and music in the Philippines. Have you ever wondered why Filipinos in general speak in loud voices? And why they all speak at the same time? Have you ever attended a real Filipino party where many Filipinos are? Did you notice that TV and radio...
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Last week, when we visited the Christmas World Food Exhibition in the World trade Center in Pasay, I was approached to fill in a small form to be able to win something in a raffle. That would be nice, we never win anything so … and it is for free …. While I was...
When I first started this website I decided that the main language would be English for a number of reasons. English is world-wide spoken and understood by many people English is the second official language in the Philippines English can easily be translated into other languages (automatically by Google or any web browser) Expat...
Sometimes I like to eat a simple burger for my lunch when we are somewhere in a mall or so. It happened already a few times that when I visited such restaurant that the food will be served because it has to be prepared first. Something like this happens from time to time and...
Many Filipinos are very good in copying names and change them a little to use for their businesses. Even artists do it to get more attention. One very well-known example is a fast food restaurant in Naga city (Camarines Sur) in the 80′s of last century. They named their restaurant MangDonalds (Uncle Donalds). That...
When you are an Expat in the Philippines, just like me, and have a small budget, you are not able to do the things you maybe like to do. Going out for dinner, buy a new computer, or other things you don’t have the budget for. You might think: I can find a job...
Starting September,the Philippines is already thinking of the Christmas holidays and the coming Christmas season. Slowly you see malls getting decorated, playing Christmas songs and even on TV every news channel is announcing ‘how many days it still is until Christmas’. hardware stores in malls and department stores are displaying all their latest Christmas...
Just like in some other countries, the Philippines offers customized license plates to those drivers who want it and have the money for it. If it can be done for an existing car, I do not know. You have to check it on the LTO website. They offer ‘vanity’ plates and ‘special’ plates Vanity...
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