Legendary Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) import and Hall-of-Famer Billy Ray Bates, known fondly as the “Black Superman,” is “seriously considering” applying for a Filipino citizenship. Bates, who won championships while playing for Crispa and Ginebra in the 1980s, returned to the Philippines last October to be inducted to the PBA Hall of Fame. He was […]
Squash pancake everyone!
Well, Thanksgiving is over and yet we are dreading on what to do with the leftover pumpkin puree. Luckily Bob was so resourceful in finding new recipe for me to cook. One of the recipes he got was about was a pumpkin pancake recipe. Since we don’t have pumpkin here in the Philippines, we just […]
High Tech Christmas
That Saturday (17 Dec.) was Christmas shopping at the mall day for the Thompson Family. I swear I was not the one to pick a Saturday morning to go to a mall here in the Republic of the Philippines; my first choice would have been to receive a beating from a few large men, than […]
A somber Christmas in Mindanao
Christmas is a season of joy. It’s a season of pleasure and rejoicing. It’s a time of year when we put our troubles behind and focus on goodwill and spreading the joy with our fellow men. Christmas, for us, is in a large part all about the LiP Christmas Giveaway. What is the LiP Giveaway? […]
The Twelve Days of Philippine Christmas
A couple of years ago, I wrote a new Philippine interpretation of the classic Christmas Poem, The Night Before Christmas. As much as I wanted to run it for Christmas again this year, I have run it two years in a row now, and I decided it was time for something new. If you have […]
Sad ending of the year!
It really is sad to end the year right now. I am talking about what happened in Northern Mindanao just a few days ago. I was really shocked. The Cagayan de Oro & Iligan were caught off guard in the early dawn a few days ago when Typhoon Sendong hit Mindanao. The storm passed right […]