MERI KRISMAS EBRIWAN, That’s what I read on a shop window in Ali Mall in Cubao today. Of course this text was made this way intentionally because Filipinos know how to write Merry Christmas Everyone properly. I find it funny, that’s why I took a picture to show you this. Near by Ali Mall...
If you like to become an expat in the Philippines or you like to move here for other reasons you will have many questions, for sure. Searching the internet to get those answers is one possibility, ask around on forums is an other way to get your answers. For this reason this website has...
Today I went to see my new doctor in the Philippines. He is a Chinese but he is very good. I went to visit him today and asked him a few questions about my health and staying healthy in general. Because I heard before from some friends who recommended him, that the doctor speaks...
A few cities in the Philippines have implemented a city ordinance that forbids shop owners to pack their merchandise in plastic bags. It is a known fact that many of those plastic bags end up in the garbage dumps and it will take many years to be broken down by nature (if ever). The...
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...
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...
HO HO HO, a Santa yelled at Glorietta in Makati last Sunday November 13 while on TV Manny Pacquiao was fighting against Marquez. Flor and I, but also our British friend Peter and his wife Rebecca didn’t want to watch the boxing so we went out and ended in Glorietta Mall in Makati. I...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
More than a week ago two typhoons hit the Philippines again and only a few days was in between them. First it wat Pedring followed by Quiel. The names are the Filipino names given to typhoons entering the Philippine Area of Responsability. Pedring’s international name is Nesat and hit september 27 2011, exactly 2...
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