Writing about taxi’s in the Philippines is not an easy task. There are different taxi’s all with their own specialties. When someone arrives at Manila International Airport there are the completely yellow painted taxi’s. These are the official airport taxi’s, they can bring you to any point in Manila and surroundings. Officially they are...
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Every year lots of people have to think what color they will choose to decorate the TREE. In the Philippines many people do not have a Christmas tree and do not have to think about it, simply because they cannot afford to have one, or they live in such small houses that there is...
According to my statistics program, which I installed in February 2010, this website had already more than 100,000 visitors since that day. I am very pleased with that. And I know that many visitors have become frequent visitors. Every day around 340 visitors is not bad for a personal blog. Many bloggers would like...
When it comes to artists in the Philippines, there are a lot. Painters, musicians sculpturers and many more. When I was surfing the internet I found something strange. At least for Filipinos. The artist: Kiri Dalena expresses herself by creating beautiful sculptures. I found this when I was checking the ABS-CBN website. Here’s the...
Who the hell does Willy Revillame thinks he is? Lately there is a lot of friction between former Wowowee host Willy Revillame and his former employer TV station ABS-CBN. A short history: Several years WR was hosting the popular TV noon show WoWoWee for ABS-CBN and with great success. Viewer’s rates were high...
There are 16 cities and municipalities in the National Capital Region (formerly known as Metro Manila). The MMDA has made rules to lesser the volume of traffic in the streets and these rules are under the UVVRP program of the MMDA but are better known as ‘color coding’. There are many people who do...
Last Friday around 6 PM I had a minor car accident with someone who said he was a police officer. But he didn’t act as one. Here’s the story: Leaving a parking lot at Sta Lucia Mall along Marcos High Way, we wanted to go home. To do that we had to follow a one-way...
Everybody who has been visiting the Philippines, or is living in this beautiful country has seen them. Mostly young men dressed in a uniform from a cleaning company with a mop in his hand to clean the floors and stairs: the JANITOR. A lot of shops but all malls and restaurants have them. Hired...
A lot of funny things are going on in the Philippines at the moment. Frequent readers know that I love to read the Global Balita website. Today I found the following on their website written by Perry Diaz in Balitang Kutsero. All the funny things in one story, a Cinderella story. Have fun. Liz...
ShoeMart, probably the largest employer in the Philippines after the government, has strange rules and obligations for their employees. 1, There are rumors that they have to be a member of a religious group of Christians called “Iglesia ni Christo” before they can be hired in one of their stores. I haven’t gotten a...
Markets in the Philippines are very rich in colour. And many expats living in the Philippines like to go to the local markets to find their food. Some parts of the markets are called ‘wet section’. Those are the areas where fresh meat and fresh fish are sold. The products often are cooled with...
“Sending your money to the Philippines can be a problem for many Expats.” That’s what I am reading on several forums on the internet. Pension companies, SSS and others do not like to send your money to the Philippines directly. For that reason an EXPAT has to find an other way of getting his...
Many people in the Philippines have pets. Most of those animals are dogs and many are used to protect the properties, houses and the like. I have noticed that many of those dogs are not taken care for properly. Their food is often what’s left from the table: bones and some left over rice...
Many plants in the world are called Bandera Española. The reason is that they have the colors of the Spanish flag in it, red and yellow. In our garden we also have them growing. The kind we have is the ‘canna spp’ also known as ‘canna lily’. They have deep green leaves, grow untill...
Go-Overseas, the website who is ranking EXPAT IN THE PHILIPPINES the best website in the Philippines, offers a lot of other interesting stuff for expats on their website. Not only they have a large database of expat related stuff all over the world, but also for people who are seeking for some job ,...
Tory and Jason, two young Americans living in the Philippines decided to do something different. They were young missionaries for some years and now ordinary members of their church. Plenty of time left do something different. They decided to do a ‘job in the PI’ experiment. For that they have decided to work as...
Do we have a slanting tower in the Philippines? It really looks like we have one. You know by now that your own Expat in the Philippines reports every time he sees something strange or remarkable. When visiting Greenhills shopping center some time ago, I spotted the object on the picture at the left....
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