Is there anyone out there that actually looks forward to going to the dentist? The ‘Fang Farrier’ as we used to call him in the army. Anyone? No, I didn’t think so. So what if you need a dentist while …
Category: In the Philippines
Driving in Holy Week
One of my favourite times in the Philippines has to be Holy Week, Easter to us. It is a very special time for the locals because nearly everyone is a Christian of one denomination or another with just 5-10% Muslim …
Holy Week’s Not A Holiday
The Philippines is a very Christian country, for the most part. At least 80% of the population are of one Christian denomination or another, with the majority Catholic. It should come as no surprise then that Easter, or Holy Week …
Yes, They Really Do Call Him A Quack Doctor
While to native-English speakers ‘quack doctor’, or the term, ‘quack’, signifies a fraud or charlatan practising, usually medicine, but it can be some other profession, this is not the case in the Philippines. The term ‘quack doctor’ is used by …
You Can’t Own the Land, But You Can Own The Improvements!
When I wrote ‘Philippines Property Primer’ some years ago, I started the text by stating very clearly that a foreigner can’t own land in the Philippines. Throughout the numerous updates the book has enjoyed, that point has never once changed. …
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It’s Time To Go home When…
Last century I was reading a post on one of the many yahoo groups that used to cater to expats living in the Philippines, or those married to Filipinas but living back in Oz, the UK or USA, Canada etc. …
Buy Yourself A Banka
“there is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats” The Mole, ‘The Wind In The Willows’, Kenneth Grahame 1908 One of the wonderful things about living in the Philippines, an archipelago of over 7,000 islands, …
The Jealous Filipino
A dictionary definition of the word “jealousy” is the “mental uneasiness from suspicion or fear of rivalry, unfaithfulness, etc., as in love or aims.” In the American Heritage Dictionary, jealousy means “close vigilance”; in Webster’s Revised Unabridged, it is an …