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...
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...
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...
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...
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?,...
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...
Recently the DOT (Department of Tourism) launched its new campaign to attract more tourists to the Philippines. Just like two years ago they have brainstormed about a suitable slogan. Two years ago they have copied the colorful logo from an earlier and similar campaign in Poland. Much was said about this copying during that...
Every year in the weeks before Christmas a parade is organised around the Araneta Center in Cubao, Quezon-City. Two years ago we happened to see this parade by accident because we were just visiting Cubao to do some shopping. See something about it HERE. Last year we didn’t have time but this year we...
Already more than 10 years ago while I was visiting the Philippines, I bought a remarkable small and funny item to put on my desk at home. It is a small statue of about 5 inches high of a phallus with a funny face and wings. It is a little angel. This small item...
You must be thinking: “what is jan writing about this time”. All my regular readers know I like to show funny pictures and remarkable things on these pages. My last post I showed you about the Alcutraz hair salon. This time it is a small sticker I spotted on the back of a car....
Recently I spotted this hair salon in the Ortigas area. As you can see the owner used a well-known former prison name but made a small change in the name. Alcutraz looks like Alcatraz but is just a hair salon. Filipinos are known to imitate a lot; I wrote already several times about this...
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