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...
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...
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...
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...
Many Filipinos speak some English and a few know to express themselves very well in this second official language of the Philippines. Writing English is another thing. I have posted already several times about the way Filipinos are advertizing their shops or write in English. This time I found a Cell Phone repair shop...
Many websites like to have a high page rank in Google. Only few are getting a high page rank. Top websites like Microsoft, Google, facebook and the like most of the time have a page rank of 10 out of 10. For smaller websites like blogs and similar websites a page rank of 3...
Sometimes I think that factories all over the world are dumping their extra stock or faulty (bad quality goods) in the Philippines. When you look at furniture or other household goods you can clearly see that the quality is not always that good. OK, prices for such stuff is also low, but when you...
How to change someone’s life with a plastic bottle is easy. Just check out the YouTube file below. Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light), is a sustainable lighting project which aims to bring the eco-friendly Solar Bottle Bulb to disprivileged communities nationwide. Designed and developed by students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
June 19, 2011 is Fathers day in many countries in the world. Also in the Philippines. But the Filipinos also remember the 150th birthday of one of their greatest hero’s: Jose Rizal. JOSE RIZAL, the national hero of the Philippines and pride of the Malayan race, was born on June 19, 1861, in the...
One of the most used search terms on the internet is ‘sex’ or ‘girls’ or even ‘teen sex’ and lots of times in combination with ‘philippines’. In my statistics I can see that, check the pictures on this page. Last february I wrote a post about the sexual moral in the Philippines and I...
There are many hotels in the Philippines. Some have even 5 stars and are very luxurious. All these hotels are for tourists or business people visting the Philippines. Nothing wrong with that, but: Now we have a new best hotel in the Philippines and only very few can afford to pay the costs of...
I have always thought that schools were supposed to be friendly to children. Especially because children spend a lot of time in school and are getting educated, I think that they need to be treated like children. If, from a distance you see an announcement on a school building in the Philippines that they...
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