28 Jul, 2007
“I want to learn to play a cello in my middle age. I want to learn how to make tinapa from scratch. I want to open a training center to improve local service levels. I want to invent a device that virtually slaps silly bus drivers who cross the yellow line…
27 Jul, 2007
With practically a whole basket worth of malunggay, green papaya, tanglad, etc., the natural next step is almost certainly to look for a chicken… and preferably a nice tasty native chicken. Back at the office, Mhai-Mhai and Victor, two of the office staff, cooked up one of the finest tinolas I have had…
27 Jul, 2007
On the way down from a cebu mountaintop, we passed two ladies carrying large baskets on their heads, heading down steep foothpaths on their way to the city markets with their recently harvested vegetables. We stopped the van and got out to find out what they were carrying… Turns out they had…
26 Jul, 2007
Despite the heavy downpour this morning, we had an appointment at the top of a mountain on the outskirts of Cebu City, just 12 minutes drive from the Capitol. I had climbed this mountain before, about 3 months ago, climbing about 1.5-2.0 kilometers in distance and up to roughly 350 meters (1,000 feet)…
26 Jul, 2007
Don’t get me totally wrong, I am a capitalist at heart. But when you draw open the curtains in your hotel room early one morning in Cebu, stare out at a passing rainstorm, and suddenly, a stunning, nearly solid and very vivid rainbow appears, you inevitably smile, and suddenly life seems a little…
25 Jul, 2007
I am in Cebu at the moment, and very busy, hence the relative quiet on the blog, and thus the need to do posts where you can all amuse each other with your fantastic answers to the question of “what you do for a living? I am utterly amazed by the variety of…
25 Jul, 2007
Anyone who has read my “About Page” knows that I was previously a commercial and corporate banker and a strategic management consultant. I retired from consulting work at 38 and currently help manage a small family owned real-estate business on behalf of all my siblings. I probably worked more hours in my…
24 Jul, 2007
Gosh that is a long name for a dish. I got so much grief for publishing a photo of hanging frogs, I wonder if fish head soup falls into the same “ewww factor†category. Somehow, I don’t think so, or at least I hope it doesn’t. The taste of this Green…