A couple of weeks have passed since my first post about our house build, and the big news is that our land purchase has now been finalised.
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Friday, August 18, 2017
We are building a house!
So here we are. After a bit of prompting from my wife, Liz, I've gone and revived this long forgotten blog, dusted off the keyboard, and cleaned off some cobwebs (in my head) to share this journey with you. Perhaps you have some tips to share, or your own build story, or maybe you too will learn something along the way.
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Travel Blogs Directory
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Hello and welcome to my Travel Blog Log! This page contains a links list to all my Travel Posts. Please do share your own travel experiences here, it would be awesome to share travel stories with you all.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Zero deaths from typhoons in the Philippines
As the Philippines prepares for another typhoon, can we really say we've done everything we can to prevent another catastrophe?
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It is the way of life in the Philippines - news of typhoons and flooding hardly bother Filipinos any more what with 8 or 9 tropical cyclones making landfall annually on average. But it seems to me we are like the boiling frog. Every year another typhoon, another massive flooding, another few thousand men, women and children will die, and a few billion dollars worth of damage our economy will suffer through. It has become our new normal, only we think it has always been our normal...
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It is the way of life in the Philippines - news of typhoons and flooding hardly bother Filipinos any more what with 8 or 9 tropical cyclones making landfall annually on average. But it seems to me we are like the boiling frog. Every year another typhoon, another massive flooding, another few thousand men, women and children will die, and a few billion dollars worth of damage our economy will suffer through. It has become our new normal, only we think it has always been our normal...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
5 simple ways overseas Pinoys can help Philippine Tourism
Are you an overseas Pinoy or an OFW? I am too. Whether you have moved abroad temporarily or permanently, I think we all have a very important role to play in promoting Philippine Tourism.
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The Philippines is a Tourism gold mine
I have always believed that the Philippines is a Tourism gold mine, but somehow our 4.7 Million tourists in 2013 pales in comparison to Indonesia's 8 Million and Malaysia's 25 Million.
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El Nido Miniloc Island Resort, Palawan, Philippines |
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Earthquake Baroque Paoay Church (18th Century) Ilocos Norte, Philippines |
I encourage you to be a Philippine Tourism Ambassador. Here are 5 simple ways we can all help the Philippines become the Tourism darling it deserves to be...
Monday, February 03, 2014
Filipino Invention - Jeepney Coin Sorter
You know how there are lists floating around of these awesome inventions by Filipinos and some of them turn out to be hoaxes? This invention, a jeepney coin sorter, I wish was real. Unfortunately it doesn't exist. Challenge accepted... anyone?
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One of my machine design projects when I was still taking up my Mechanical Engineering was a coin sorter and wrapper, made even more challenging by the professor's requirement that it should have a single input action, say a rotating motion. We never finished it and had to change projects halfway through. But remembering it got me thinking... I wonder how much interest there would there be for a jeepney coin sorter?
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