On Tuesday, February 19, 2007, I got my first driving ticket in The Philippines for going the wrong way down a one-way street. While in American, this would seem pretty stupid as one-way streets are pretty clearly marked with large ONE-WAY arrow signs, the same is not true here and you see cars, scooters and [...]
…and on just about everything else. More than a year ago Cagayan de Oro Mayor Tinnex Jaraula, then a congressman, sought and got approval for a refurbishment/resurfacing of Velez Street, which is the main North-South Street going through town. The Street actually belongs to the national government so repairs to this street cannot be authorized [...]
Last February 17th, I, along with countless other Kuyas of The Fraternal Order of Eagles, Philippine Eagles, participated in the 13th anniversary celebration of the Club in Cagayan de Oro by planting mangrove shoots in the Tay-Tay area of El Salvador. We planted 5000 mangrove shoots to replenish the and are they had been planted [...]
On the Eve of February 12, 2008, we inducted 9 new members into the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Philippine Eagles. I didn’t get all their names, but I will try to get their names, in order, and post them here.
There is one thing in life I never thought I could get enough of, and that’s vagina. However, people change, and apparently I’m one of those people, and I think I have had just about enough vagina. The Vagina Monologues are apparently some feminist inspired readings about some self-centered and gold-plated-pussy impressions that some local [...]
The “Anti-electricity and Electric Transmission Lines/Materials Pilferage Act of 1994″ I and my wife have been charged with violating this Act. Cepalco claims the electric meter at our house had been tampered with. In August 2007, representatives from Cepalco, accompanied by PNP officers, swapped out our “tampered” meter with a new digital meter. I am [...]
I’ll post more photos of it later but you can see at a previous post, 2007 Honda Wave 125. It has just over 6000 km on it. Has had all Honda servicing. It has been garage kept and only ridden in the rain, but never left out in the rain. It has never been dropped [...]
This will be a post in progress. I will add more as I think of them. 1. The middle name of a child born in The Philippines must be the maiden name of the mother.  As a result of this law I was not allowed to name my recently born son “Horace O’Donal Turner, [...]
Emotion electric scooters are on their way to Cagayan de Oro. I rode one of these the other day and it drove just like a regular scooter, except that it was almost totally silent. See that small chrome cylinder on the rear wheel with the red end? That’s the electric motor that powers these bikes. [...]
This is a nice 5-bedroom house. Two bedrooms downstairs and three upstairs. The bathrooms have enclosed showers, American-style. See the Cagayan de Oro House For Sale Photo Gallery. See the Video Walk-thru of the house. 3.5 MB This house was built by British immigrant, with fixtures to 1st World Standards. This house is 5 minutes [...]