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Try Green Mango – they are funny!
There is a Facebook page that publishes nearly every day funny pictures and funny stories about the Philippines: Green Mango. Today they published this one. How would you call this not so common vehicle?...
Nomen est Omen
The Philippines and Dante – seems to be a love/hate relationship! Not a month ago, Francis Tolentino, chairman of Metro Manila Development Authority, got sick about Dan Browns last novel “Inferno” because Brown linked Manila...
Milky Island – Camiguin
MAMBAJAO, Camiguin, June 7 (PIA) — Farmers as well as children will soon benefit from a new dairy farm, expected to open this month in the province of Camiguin. The first on the island...
Runway Excursion of a Cebu Pacific A-320 in Davao
Yesterday evening an A-320 of Cebu Pacific Air ran out of the runway in Davao in a heavy downpour. Fortunately nobody got injured. Difficult job for the emergency response team in the dark. On the...
Not only in the air
The Philippines have once been a technologically rather advanced country with well trained people. But then education got neglected and funds flowed in the wrong pockets. The results are known: Air Transportation: – FAA...
Boracay: Action needed !
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times published an article titled “Trouble in party paradise: Boracay Island in Philippines“. Read it here We do not copy the article but publish one reader’s post: It sounds like...
Philippine Standard Time – not a joke!
Starting June 1, there will be one less excuse for “Filipino time” – which is synonymous with always being late – as public clocks must be set to Philippine Standard Time following a new...
Boracay and more on Euronews
Euronews, Europe’s 24 hours news channel, broadcasts a series of short documentaries: “Philippine Life”. Each on-line available movie lasts for about 5 minutes. The first video was titled “Manila: the Melting Pot“. The second...
Inferno in Manila
Dan Brown’s description of Manila as “the gates of hell” in his new novel “Inferno” has upset lots of people in the Philippines. Following Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost...
Au revoir Georges
This morning French/Greek composer and singer, Georges Moustaki, passed away at the age of 79. Georges Moustaki composed many many songs for Yves Montand, Henri Salvador, Dalida, Françoise Hardy and Edith Piaf. Georges wrote more than...
Credit card for sari-sari stores
Supermarket chain Puregold Price Club Inc. has teamed up with Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. to launch a credit card which will be available for sari-sari store owners. A sari-sari store is a convenience store found in the Philippines....
Justice on wheels in the Philippines
Saturday morning I went to Balbagon port in Camiguin to fetch friends. There I saw an astonishing kind of bus: The Justice on Wheels is an access to justice programme which was commenced in...
The newest NAIA Gig: Goats as Lawnmowers
After the ridiculous air-condition problem in NAIA-3, we reported some days ago, Manila’s airport makes people laugh again. The newest staff to be hired will be goats! Photo courtesy of www.grit.com Goats to replace mowers...
Bohol’s Buko King gets a competitor
Felipe Tacogdoy or Mang Peping, also known as the Buko King from Sevilla, Bohol got a competitor in Panama, Andres Gardin also known as Mr. T. The Bohol Buko King has the amazing talent of taking...
NAIA-3, hot, hotter, boiling
NAIA is the best symbol of what is incorrigibly wrong about our country. NAIA stands for something no self respecting Filipino can be proud of. Mention NAIA and our heads bow in shame and...
High voltage – too high voltage !
No, I am not writing about the elections in the Philippines. They are not interesting because the results had already been known before the elections. That’s the Philippines – hmm, not much fun. Actors...
The avalanche effect
Reading and learning are dangerous. It needs just a little article on facebook and your curiosity triggers. Today one of my linked “fb friends” called “Hibok-Hibok Rocks” wrote about Hibok-Hibok volcano. In his text he mentioned a book...
Liquor ban in the Philippines – Alcohol Test in Swiss Parliament
The next 5 days parts of the Philippines will be dry. From Thursday, May 9, until Monday, May 13, residents of Metro Manila are prohibited from selling, buying or consuming, particularly in public places,...
Blondes have more fun in Asia
They are beautiful, they are intelligent, they are entrepreneurs – and they are blondes. I met Simone in Boracay. She created the Funboard Center on Bulabog Beach. Simone does surfing and interior design. I winter...
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