I no longer find it weird that I wash my dishes from a pail of water, from a pail that I have to walk outside to fill up from a hand-crank water pump.

But if it's any consolation, I have to ride 2 hours for a proper cappuccino. It's a trade-off

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion ( Read more... )

Random scenes from over the weekend. So we were invited to an island for a fiesta, onlt the pumpboat couldn't get to the shore because of low tide. So the vice governor, two of his guys and me all waded through 1km of mud to get to the shore ( Read more... )

Hit three more islands over the weekend, bringing the total number if islands I've visited in the Philippines to 7. oOnly 7,102 to go....

1) Remember your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself ( Read more... )

Walked along the Banate beach with Julie29 yesterday, getting back into my goal oof a beach a month. Missed January.

Also, after I was done eating lunch today, my tatay casually informed me that i had just eaten stingray. I aveng you, Steve Irwin!

I am still having trouble living a quiet existence.

Thought I knew how. Nope.

Perhaps this is what I was sent here to do.

1 "Boys for Pele" Tori Amos ( Read more... )

"I think the country needs more tax cuts ( Read more... )

And suddenly I'm warm again. No more sleeping in multiple pairs of underwear. Hopefully the weather willl stay this way a while.