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		<title>3rd anniversary Expat in the Philippines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 in the Philippines celebrates the 3rd anniversary of its existence this month and it is good to see what I have done in these three years. So a few statistics: 284 active posts (it was more but I removed several which were not accurate or not relevant anymore) 1289 comments (plus a number which are lost after a crash in the first year). Many comments are also done but are removed by me because of the spam nature or people who try to add their commercial links this way; I check every comment on this and do not allow it. 135 newsletter subscribers, visitors who like to be informed from time to time about updates and new posts on this website I am proud to say that I have 2 guest bloggers who made a valuable contribution to write an article about a part of the [...]<hr /><h2>Comments</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/3rd-anniversary-expat-in-the-philippines/">November 22, 2011</a>, <a href='http://www.philippinesplus.com/' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Dave DeWall</a> writes: Congratulations on the third year anniversary, Jan! Hope to see you around for many more years to come.</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/3rd-anniversary-expat-in-the-philippines/">November 22, 2011</a>, Jan writes: Thanks Dave,
btw your site also is around this age?? (your first Rooster site)</li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/being-an-expat-in-the-philippines-and-having-questions-about-it/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: being an expat in the Philippines and having questions about it">being an expat in the Philippines and having questions about it</a><br />[caption id="attachment_3928" align="alignleft" width="315" caption="click the logo to go to the forum"][/caption]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</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/ask-forum/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: ASK forum">ASK forum</a><br />From now on a forum is available on this website.
There are many forums already about this subject, but this forum tries to give extra information for the Metro Manila Area aside from general issues.

All questions about being an Expat in</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/ask-expat-in-the-philippines/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: ask expat in the philippines">ask expat in the philippines</a><br />

The new forum "ASK EXPAT in the PHILIPPINES" is available for everybody now.

Just click on the ASK Forum button in the menu bar, click on the logo at the right, or follow the link: ASK EXPAT in the PHILIPPINES forum</li></ul><hr /><small>Copyright &#169; ExpatInThePhilippines.com 2010<br /> <font color=#000000>&#171;PLEASE&#160;NOTE:&#160;&#160;You&#160;may&#160;be&#160;reading&#160;stolen&#160;content.&#160;Please&#160;visit&#160;the&#160;<a href="http://expatinthephilippines.com">author&#39;s site</a>&#160;to&#160;read&#160;the&#160;original,&#160;copyrighted&#160;material,&#160;and&#160;find&#160;even&#160;more&#160;great&#160;related&#160;content.&#187;</font><br />
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		<title>my birthday celebration</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, 60 years ago, I decided to leave my mothers womb and started to explore this world. Looking back at those 60 years, I regret the fact that I didn&#8217;t move to the Philippines earlier. I will celebrate my birthday in Pioduran, Albay. The hometown of my wife Flor and her family. I will drink a few beers on my health and on yours, my readers. I hope you do the same. Share and Enjoy<hr /><h2>Comments</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/my-birthday-celebration/">January 12, 2010</a>, Dexter writes: Hi Jan,

Cheers to you and to great health!

Dexter</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/my-birthday-celebration/">January 13, 2010</a>, Jan writes: Thanks Dexter, for the wishes and for stopping by!</li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/birthday-celebration-in-pioduran/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: birthday celebration in Pioduran">birthday celebration in Pioduran</a><br />Last January 6, my father-in-law and myself were celebrating our birthday. Pay (as my father in law is called by us) was born in 1915 so he became 95. Myself I was born in 1950 and celebrated my 60th birthday</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/comelec-pnp-checkpoints/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Comelec PNP checkpoints">Comelec PNP checkpoints</a><br />We came back from Pioduran Albay on Sunday, January 10. We have been visiting family and celebrated the 95th birthday of my father-in-law and my own 60th birthday.
Check for a report from this celebration HERE
While travelling back to Manila in</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/birthday-celebration-in-pioduran-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: birthday celebration in Pioduran #2">birthday celebration in Pioduran #2</a><br />During the afternoon and evening we had contact with some nieces who are living in Holland through Yahoo Messenger. In this way they had the feeling that they were included in the party too.
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After dinner for all</li></ul><hr /><small>Copyright &#169; ExpatInThePhilippines.com 2010<br /> <font color=#000000>&#171;PLEASE&#160;NOTE:&#160;&#160;You&#160;may&#160;be&#160;reading&#160;stolen&#160;content.&#160;Please&#160;visit&#160;the&#160;<a href="http://expatinthephilippines.com">author&#39;s site</a>&#160;to&#160;read&#160;the&#160;original,&#160;copyrighted&#160;material,&#160;and&#160;find&#160;even&#160;more&#160;great&#160;related&#160;content.&#187;</font><br />
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		<title>one year celebration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today it is exactly one year that we arrived in the Philippines to live here. When we decided to move to the Philippines we have made a lot of plans what to do once we were there. We decided to travel a lot and to see the whole country and to find a definite place to build our own house. Looking back at this year I have to admit that from all the plans, we didn&#8217;t complete much. There are several reasons for it. The most important reason was my wife&#8217;s sister, suffering from cancer in the 4th stage. She was staying in our house the last months before she passed away a month ago. Because of her staying in our place, we were not going out much to look for places. We also didn&#8217;t like to travel anywhere because we didn&#8217;t like to leave the house as long she was staying in our place. An other reason is that we didn&#8217;t have someone to take care for our house all the time. We don&#8217;t like to leave the house alone overnight because it might be spread around that the house is empty and burglars might get everything in it. [...]<hr /><h2>Comments</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/one-year-celebration/">October 7, 2009</a>, <a href='http://lifeinus1960present.blogspot.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>David B Katague</a> writes: Jan, have you considered settling down in the provinces, where life is peaceful, quite and standard of living is cheaper compared to the big cities? I will recommend Marinduque- My Island Paradise and Heaven on Earth.
Have a good Day!</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/one-year-celebration/">October 7, 2009</a>, <a href='http://retire.heyjoe.ph' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Tom</a> writes: Happy Anniversary. Sorry to hear about your wife's sister. 

You might want to consider another area entirely. There are plenty of other nice places to live in the Philippines. Just a thought from me. 8-)</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/one-year-celebration/">October 7, 2009</a>, Jan writes: David,
Yes we have been thinking of going to Bicol, Albay, the home province of my wife. We still haven't decided yet. Thanks anyway.</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/one-year-celebration/">October 11, 2009</a>, <a href='http://kikosmitten.blogspot.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>kiko</a> writes: happy anniversary. ondoy has been rough on us all and i am sorry about your sister-in-law's passing. i hope that by this time, you shall be able to travel more.

enjoy your stay and regards t the wife and cat.</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/one-year-celebration/">October 13, 2009</a>, Jan writes: Hi Kiko,
Thanks for those nice words.</li></ul><hr /><h2>Related posts:</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/preparing-for-new-years-evening/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Preparing for New Years evening">Preparing for New Years evening</a><br />Already several days a few youngsters in our neighbourhood are firing firecrackers. They start early morning and continue to do so untill in the evening. If they do it for the coming new year celebration or a belated Christmas celebration</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/mayon-volcano-update-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Mayon Volcano update">Mayon Volcano update</a><br />The whole world is celebrating Christmas and preparing for the New Year Celebration.
Some 40,000 people in Albay province, Philippines, are not. They are staying in evacuation centers because their houses are situated in the 8 km danger zone around Mayon</li><li><a href="http://www.expatinthephilippines.com/my-birthday-celebration/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: my birthday celebration">my birthday celebration</a><br />Today, 60 years ago, I decided to leave my mothers womb and started to explore this world.
Looking back at those 60 years, I regret the fact that I didn't move to the Philippines earlier.

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