American in Davao

• Do Not Leave Home without this..

  You might be wondering what the photo is, it is a package of All-purpose tissues.  You might think,” I do not have a cold”, why carry tissues with me. Well if you are in a mall, a store, many offices and even many restaurants and you nee...

• Manny the “Pacman” Pacquiao does it again

  Sunday, for the third time since I have been living in the Philippines, I went to see a live telecast of Manny Pacquiao boxing fight. This time he was fighting Joshua Clottey from Ghana. My first impression seeing Clottey was the same thought as when...

• Do Pedestrians Have the Right of Way?

  As I have written many times, traffic is at times brutal here in the Philippines. With the drivers passing in oncoming lanes and motorcycles waving in and out of traffic and even driving on shoulders and sidewalks it is a dangerous place to be a pede...

• Courting a Filipina

  One of the readers here asked about me writing an article about courting a Filipina. This has given me some thought about how to write this article. In America and I would expect in most Western countries meeting and courting is similar. First, there...

• Tourist Visa Fees Increased

  For anyone who has been here in the Philippines for a while and still on a tourist visa you know about how the fees at Bureau of Immigration are always changing. When I first moved here, if you waited for your visa extension to be processed, you were...

• Angelica – an Interesting Little Girl (revised)

  About a week ago, I needed something welded. With all my contacts, a welder was not on my list. A friend was visiting and when I mentioned my need, he informed me of a welder in his neighborhood. I followed him home and we stopped at this neighbor ar...

• You Have Changed – You are Not the Person I First Met

  How many times have we heard that in our life? In our search for a relationship during our lives, we meet someone we are interested in starting a relationship. In the old days, it could be at school, at a club, a social event or at the office. We sta...

• Brownout Update Info for Mindanao

  With my article and comments, I decided to try to research more about the situation. I also tried to get some information about the power generation plants are on Mindanao. I also found the following report  online: Mindanao hydroelectric power pla...

• Roaming Brownouts

  Last Friday I wrote about the increase of traffic in the city. Well that is not the only problem for Davao. With the increase of construction and population, there is an increase on the public utilities. This is not only for Davao since the island o...

• Financial Freedom Retiring in the Philippines

  As you all know and read here and on other sites, living in the Philippines is cheaper than in the U.S. and other countries but there are things to consider. First is inflation. I have not tracked the price increases in the two years I have lived her...

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