So you’ve decided to take the plunge to make a trip to the Philippines. If this is your first trip, you are probably focusing on all the wonderful things to see and do while there, and then it hits you. How do I get around? Once you clear customs and you walk out the door, […]
Cost Of living In The Philippines
The cost of living in the Philippines is low compared to other major Southeast Asian countries. According to Mercer’s Cost of Living Survey for 2017, Manila was ranked at 95 out of the 209 cities surveyed. This placed Manila as having a cost of living lower than Singapore and Bangkok, but higher than Hanoi. Within […]
How The Philippines Got Asia’s Worst Internet Service
A traveler to the Philippines knows the dance too well. You check into a hotel that advertises Wi-Fi. Turns out it’s only available in the lobby, and only in the daytime. Then you learn of a freak service outage in the lobby. When you do eventually connect, no websites come up. On better days, each […]
The Amazing T-Cell
I ran into a social media post the other day, as I am sure millions of others have run into the same post, stating that Ex Pfizer Vice President Michael Yeadon claimed “There is absolutely no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic.” As you can imagine, this, like almost every single post on social […]
The Once Pacific Theater Is Looking More Like A Modern Day Pacific Circus
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the vast Pacific Ocean theater, the South West Pacific theater, the South-East Asian theater, the Second Sino-Japanese […]