International Living, Marriage & Travel

The latest on the quarantine of the visiting foreigners to the Philippines is the quarantine of 7 days only for those with complete vaccine. Take note that you will be quarantined to a hotel at your own choice and expense. That is like being in jail for a week and you have to pay for your jail cell ...

I am a homebody and as much as possible I want to stay in our country. My younger brother is a nomad. He loves to leave home and take a vacation anywhere. When he became an adult he would live alone and when he got a family he settled in a far away rural town. Maybe what he really wanted is independ...

I am still living in my home country but I have plans to move to another country for working and living. I have no plans to live forever in a foreign country, but I might stay in a foreign country for 10-15 years. Instead of staying in one country for a long time, I might be frequently traveling to...

Today a friend in Facebook posted that Duterte is a gift from God. By golly, God sent us someone who is quick in issuing curses and hate words? That is a crazy idea. No worries because I had unfriended that friend from Facebook. I don't want crazy people posting crazy items on my timeline.

If you want to sing then can you not sing without the microphone? That makes me wonder why the singers of karaoke at home would shoot up the volume of their speaker. It is like he wanted his singing to be heard by the community. Now there is a ban on karaoke singing by 9 pm. That is a good ordinance.

The rural areas in the Philippines it is common for a meal to have something that is cooked in coconut milk. It can be vegetables, meat or seafood. My favorite is the crab or prawns that are cooked in coconut milk. Many vegetables are good with coconut milk like the blossom of banana plant, bamboo s...

In Fox movie channel in cable the movies shown have subtitles in English regardless if the movie is in English. I enjoy more watching a movie with subtitle because I can read when I cannot understand the pronunciation or when the dialogue is very soft like a whisper. Some say they are distracted wit...

Duterte is the only president that I know who say bad words and curses very often. He is also the president who has no good manners like he is the king of our country. Pardon me for this comment because that is what we see every time he goes on tv.

If you are going to send a package to the Philippines what you need is the shipping company there in your country. Check out their performance. Usually the shippers in our country are connected to the local shipper in the foreign country. When the items land in the Philippine shores that's the time ...

We have 2 years of Spanish subject in college but my learning did not bring me anywhere simply because I did not use it. In learning a language it is important to be using what you learn. When I was working in a Japanese software house I would be conversing with our Japanese boss from time to time a...