Korean firm Hanjin Corp. was just about to break ground on a $2 billion shipbuilding facility and airport on the outskirts of Cagayan (about...

The night Epril and I were supposed to fly to the Philippines, moving from Thailand, we wound up staying in a hotel instead of getting on th...

And they are taking orders now if you want one. ( Popular Mechanics article .)

Macahambus cave is about 200 feet from end to end, and this is the only part (about 2 feet) where there is a low ceiling. The back end of th...

After Hillary's 9.2-point victory (after starting with a 20-point lead 4 weeks earlier) over Obama on Tuesday night, I have to concede t...

An artist's rendition of the operating room at Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu. The big news in The Philippines today is ...

I was up nice and early today, started work at 7:00 a.m., and by noontime had put in what I considered a fair day of work. (I wish all days ...

I didn't do much today... just worked, napped, watched some movies. The Korean international school and Cagayan Convention Center at th...

I haven't written a book report or a movie review in a while, so I thought I would toss this out for you. I recently finished Michael Cr...

The power went out again at the house, and I immediately opted to take another ride around town, hopefully arriving back after the power was...

I miss my Aikido lessons. I need to get my schedule and workday better-organized so that I can start studying again.

Scientists are working on growing meat in test tubes . Obviously, beef sirloin and drumsticks aren't going to come tumbling out of a tes...

Epril has replaced my morning orange juice with pomelo juice. Pomelo juice tastes like grapefruit juice the same way frog tastes like chicke...

I'm so much slower at work now, it's just killing me. It took me 4 hours this morning to do what used to take me a little under 3 ho...

A drive out the road by my house leads to the golf course, the airport, and then quite quickly to the depths of Mindanao's natural beaut...

This is Bob. This is Sally. A few years ago, Bob and Sally went looking for homes. Sally decided to save money by renting, planning to bu...

I've had 4 bad days of work in a row, which sucks. I slept in, surfed the internet when I should have been working, and even took a nap....

Cash needed to lower food prices enough so that every hungry person in the world has enough to eat: $500 million . Cash needed to maintain t...

A different perspective: Here is my house as seen from the other side of the Cagayan River Valley (arrow provided for clarity). The big blu...

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years ...

I slept in again today. The morning after another night at Spooks, and I woke up with yet another throbbing headache. Last time I blamed it ...

How to tell you are the member of a fucked up religion: An explosion in a southern Iranian mosque killed 11 people and wounded 191 after ev...

I got a little extra sleep and had a light morning of work. For lunch, Epril and I went out to Candy's Café at the outdoor plaza in the ...

One thing about the Cagayan that is nicer than Pattaya is the weather: It's about the same temperature, but here there are actual blue s...

I didn't do anything on Tuesday or Wednesday of any interest: Just worked, and watched some TV. Susan has been working her way through t...

DPolitico sums up Hillary's campaign against Obama perfectly. In a move that's sure to be seen as controversial, Hillary has contac...

Several hundred people, working with NBC Sports, pull a prank on some unsuspecting kids (and their coaches and parents) playing a small-town...

It's a hobby of mine, in the information age: Whenever I learn something that I didn't know before, I always go and read more about ...

It was a good day of work, but I didn't do much else. Spaghetti for lunch, fried chicken for dinner... the old fall-back meals. Cock fig...

On Sunday, after a fair morning of work, Epril and I climbed onto the Motorstar Panther 150 and headed out to the swimming resorts of Jasaan...

My morning of work once again was a bit paltry. A 1200 cc BMW touring bike. For lunch, I joined Mike and Marissa Turner out at the Limketkai...

I didn't have a particularly good day of work for the second day in a row. I got a bit of a late start to work, and then quit a bit earl...

A street in the development where I live, Camella Homes. It's not nearly as nice as the housing estates in Pattaya, but that is because ...

I didn't have a very good day of work today. Susan and Epril left for a funeral in Jasaan at about 8:00, and I worked an hour in the mor...

I was up at 6 a.m. as per usual. (Heh: It's weird, 6 a.m. being "usual"... I have never ever been a morning person before; onl...