The year 2022 is almost over.The Year of the Tiger in the Five Yellow Tigers is said to be a rough year. The last Tiger Year of the Five Yellow Tigers was 36 ye...

As is typical of the Philippines, where Catholics make up 80% of the population, the front pages of the Manila Times and the Sun-Star this morning featured prom...

Christmas is from sundown yesterday, the 24th, to sundown today, the 25th.Last night we celebrated Christmas with roast pork that my wife had prepared. I buy a ...

On Thursday the 22nd, the President announced that Monday, December 26 will be a special non-working day.In the Philippines, it is quite common for additional n...

About half of Filipinos thought life would be better next year than it is now, according to a Manila Times. The survey, conducted in October by OSTA Research, f...

I wrote in my blog that I went to Cebu and saw a house under construction.The floor plan was not as my wife had instructed her brothers to send the drawings. Th...

My wife said to me at dinner the other night, "Let's move to Cebu Island when you turn 70.I have not decided whether I will move to Cebu Island completely or no...

In late November, the Philippine military found the wreckage of a Chinese rocket at sea and was towing it by boat when a Chinese maritime police vessel cut the ...

My wife returned from Cebu with a cough that won't quite stop. On the day he returned home, he said he had a sore throat, so I asked him to take Kuzune-to, then...

My wife wanted to get a car license, so we went to the Ibaraki Prefecture Car License Center.I left home at 6:40 a.m. and took the train to Mito. From Mito Stat...