So, some people are asking my why I haven’t posted a new blog post in two months now.
Good question, and not one easily answered.
I would recommend Jungle Jil’s Blog for updates about ex-pat life in the CdO area and Northern Mindanao. I found a great link on his blog to a [...]
Michael Turner: It has been months since I have seen you. I understand that you just got back from the United States where you and several other senior officers attended a special course. What kind of the course was that?
Colonel Montalba : Actually it was a continuation of our Public Safety Officer Senior Executive Course. [...]
I was interviewing an Xavier University 4th-year male nursing student who is keenly interested in SEO (Search Enginee Optimization), to do some work for me, and in the process he also “interviewed” me, asking a lot about what I thought about life in The Philippines.
(Normally, I take no part in hiring and firing for my [...]
Date.com is expanding into The Philippines with the intention of offering free access for Filipinos, at some time in the not too distant future.. No trip to Cagayan de Oro would be complete without taking on the many rapids of the Cagayan de Oro River. We went on May 14, 2008, and [...]
The Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro sponsored about 85 children the past couple of weeks for surgeries that were donated by Australian Interplast. The vast majority of surgeries were performed for cleft palate and cleft lip, often combinations of the two, but some were burn patients also.
I would like to personally thank Doctors [...]
It’s a long story and I won’t go into it all here. Criminal and Civil lawuits abound, both in USA Federal Court, and in Philippine Court. If you want to read more about the underlying circumstances check our the Marisyl “Sly” Castillon page on my site.
The below photo was taken on November 22, [...]
We moved into new office space on October 1, 2006, but it took two and a half months to do our official office opening, ribbon-cutting and office blessing ceremony.
To cut the ribbon we had City Councilor Benjo Benaldo and Barangay Eight Chairman Neri.
There are some superstitions I also participated in. For instance, you are [...]
One of my favorite discussion topics these days is globalization and how the Internet is allowing all manner of knowledge work to be outsourced to 3rd World countries, and the wealth being created in both countries that become involved in these type of commerical win-win transactions.
A common response from 1st World conversants is that the [...]
Globalization is an historical event in the making. In it’s ancient form it was the imperialist expansion of Western Europe throughout the rest of The World. It tapered off with the Industrial Revolution, but began again with The Information Age. I would mark that date as Thomas Friedman does, as November 9, 1989, with the [...]