December 1, 2015
Takatuka, Sugar Beach – Heaven on Earth
Takatuka Lodge and Dive Resort
This resort is as close to heaven as you can get on this world. Seriously! I just love Sugar Beach and the Takatuka Lodge and Dive Resort.
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November 26, 2015
Driving in Bacolod, Philippines: Part 3
Driving Filipino Style – No Fun No Joke No Common Sense
I have previously written here and here about my perspective on driving in the Philippines as a foreigner. I really thought it was “out of my system” and had fully acclimatized to the “different” way of driving and lack of traffic discipline here. Hell! No! I may have acclimatized to driving about Bacolod, the City of Smiles but on the laughably described national highways you would have to be brain-dead to get used to it!
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November 21, 2015
Football Philippines
More Filipino Football but a bit Flat …
You will all know I watched the first day’s play in the Philippines Football Federation Regional Under 22 Play-Offs. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Today I returned for the third and final day anticipating quite a ding-dong match between the two best, and physically strongest, teams Cebu and NOFA (Bacolod). It was disappointing.
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November 13, 2015
Bacolod Normal: “Very Traffic” in Manila
We, Zabrina and I, just got home to Bacolod after three days, two nights in Manila. We went there as my sister and friend arrived from England on their first ever visit to the Philippines.
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November 6, 2015
Cinco de Noviembre
I have a penchant for discovering the history and the culture of places in “foreign” lands that I have had the pleasure of living in for any length of time. The Philippines is rich in both history and culture.
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October 28, 2015
Cool Breezes
Some days I am really ready for a change of scenery. The last few days, nay weeks, have been long days writing. Writing my paid assignments, writing for my blog here (unfortunately I don’t pay myself) and writing and planning two books that are at various stages of development. Fortunately I don’t seem to suffer from writers’ block! That’s probably because I spend more time thinking and listening than talking so my real ‘talking’ is through the written word.
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