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Change is Upon Us! (One)
This is going to be a three-part series, but I’m not going to submit them in a row, I’m going to stagger them, the reason is that even I get bored with the same thing for three weeks in a row so why...
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Hoping for competition to improve internet service?
I don’t remember when it was, maybe a year or two back, there were rumors of an Australian telco planning on entering the Philippine market. Nothing really happened and we all forgot about it. Today, I...
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Araw ng mga Patay
This article was written some years back, but since today is Araw ng mga Patay, I thought I would re-publish it today, since the information is still very relevant and today is the day for this year....
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Steve compares: USA vs Philippines (Part 1)
Which is better, the Philippines or the USA? I’m not talking about the usual points of comparison like weather or cost of living. Today I’m discussing the slightly less obvious differences. Let’s start...
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How can a (Filipino) person live a happy life on $200 a month in the...
“This is my house.” stated proudly my wife’s older sister as she showed my wife and I where she now lived. I was shocked at the site of her house. It was a beautiful freshly painted two-story house...
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Electronics, Are Really Messing Up Their Lives
My knowledge on the subject of Electronics, I would like to say is vast. Yes, I would like to say, but that would be a bald-faced lie. Sir Bob would reject this article as “Fake News” and I’d be run...
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Cashless Payment in the Philippines?
I was watching a video on YouTube recently about a guy who made his own iPhone by buying the parts in China and building it himself. It was really cool and showed me a lot about how China’s...
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Can you live on P10,000 per month?
Jay Stainback has been writing a series of articles about living in the Philippines on $200 per month. I remembered that I had written an article a number of years ago (2008) about living on P10,000...
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Goals Before Country
If you search/google the internet for ‘Philippines Cost of living’, you will eventually see ads or articles with the topic resembling ‘Live Like A King In The Philippines for 1,500 U.S Dollars a...
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Do you miss it yet?
Let me start this article by making it clear that I do not intend this to be a Conservative vs Liberal battle. Not political. With the topic that I will write about there is a likelihood that a...
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Change is Crashing Upon Us! (TWO)
A nice trip to Tarlac then two weeks later they did send me to a Manila clinic in Alabang City, a six-hour drive from Bataan. For some strange reason my daughter and her husband wanted to come along...
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Daylight Savings
About a week ago, daylight savings time ended in the USA. Before this wasn’t really a problem for me, I didn’t even know or care what it was. Because I play a computer game with a lot of people in the...
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Mission Accomplished
Hoping this article will be my first of many. I’m fresh off the jet… 10 days into my tropical retirement! I hope by sharing my experiences, you will gain a fresh perspective on making the expat...
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If I (Steve) was President of the Philippines
Today, I’m announcing my candidacy for Philippine president. Never mind that I’m not Filipino. If anyone questions my background, I will simply label them a racist. (This strategy works well in...
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The Eyes Have It
OH my GOSH Paul, you have a *cataract in the back of your right eye but your left eye is fine with no debilitating cloudy crud growing on that one! OH joy, I shouted, “I’m blind in one eye, and can’t...
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Traffic Problems here
Traffic has been getting a lot worse here lately with the number of cars on the streets now. It seems like just walking places is gonna be faster, but then the heat here kinda makes that the...
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Have gun will travel… just not to the Philippines
“Grandpa, can we shoot your guns today?”, pleaded my bored 9-year old son as we visited my father. Dad is a lifelong sportsman, who grew up on a farm hunting and fishing for recreation. I grew up in a...
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A Slow Week and Random Thoughts
Let’s see. What shall I write about today? Do I want a quiet week with only a few comments, or do I want to say something controversial and laugh as the comments come rolling in? I suppose Bob Martin...
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Want gun? Why travel?
Earlier this week, Jay Stainback submitted an article for publication here on LiP, entitles “Have gun will travel… just not in the Philippines“. It is a good article and generated lots of response....
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Change is Still Upon Us! (THREE)
Friday 13 October (My Navy’s Birthday) I was off to Taft Avenue in “MANILA” and the reason was omitted but I called to get the information, and spoke to Ester and asked if the nice folks in Houston TX....
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