08 May, 2011
Every so often, I get emails from nitwits that haven’t bothered to really read through my blog or figure out if I would be receptive to their frankly outrageous and offensive offers. But maybe I am just an anomaly, a dissenting voice in a sea of folks who think there is nothing ethically…
27 Mar, 2011
Definitely the best restaurant meal(s) Mrs. MM and I have had in Cebu City recently. Between the two of us, Mrs. MM and I have eaten at this small restaurant five times in the past 2 months and have tried almost 70% of all the dishes on the menu! I reviewed my…
23 Mar, 2011
On the bright side, a real testament to making the best of meager resources. Inventive, practical extremely consumer oriented. For weeks last year I had been hearing side comments at the office about the new “ATM’s” while on trips to Cebu. I assumed everyone was now opening new banking accounts… duhh….
04 Mar, 2011
Last week one of the crew traveled to Cebu for the day to deliver some important documents, that could not be sent by commercial courier, and run some errands. On his way home, he brought some precious cargo… 4 kilos of freshly made and packed daing na danggit, 10 kilos of pomelos and…
25 Feb, 2011
My passport is expiring in 6 months so I figured it was finally time to get a new one. Excited that we finally have these new “e-passports” that are machine readable and which bring us up to “world standard” and shall facilitate processing when visiting foreign lands, I started the process some 3+…
23 Jan, 2011
Integrity and credibility are priceless. It’s a critical life lesson and certainly worth contemplating on a cool and quiet Sunday morning. I got up well before sunrise today, and by 7am I was famished. I pulled out some leftover “loose” uncooked longganisa meat from the fridge, put a non-stick pan on the…
15 Nov, 2010
At breakfast this morning, I read the front page story in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (on-line version here) about Manny Pacquiao’s superb victory over Antonio Margarito in Dallas yesterday. A friend texted to alert me to read both the Inquirer story and The International Herald Tribune, and I immediately had a hunch why…
25 Aug, 2010
Okay, so this isn’t “major, major” like losing the Ms. Universe pageant, a possible reality the other day, what with Ms. Philippines’ idiotic answer that the vast majority of Filipinos may think was simply cute rather than a condemnation of the deteriorating state of education in the archipelago. Gosh, are beauty and brains…