As I told you in my Monday article this week, Feyma and I found a new house to move to here in Davao.  As I also stated in a previous article about personal security, with this new house, I will not be too specific about where I will be living.  I had also said that I would not post any pictures of our new house, due to security concerns.  However, as this house cannot really be seen from the street, we decided to go ahead and show pictures of it after all.  We do not believe that showing the picture will have any negative repercussions on security, so we decided to show it. Our New House Our new home is in an area of Davao that we have … [Read more...]

It’s been a tough couple of months for Feyma.  Part of the “tough” part was because of me, I admit. But, now, things will start improving for her. You see, I am talking about our pending move to another house here in Davao.  As I started telling you about 3 to 4 months ago, when I began telling you that we had decided that we would be moving to a new location in Davao. A number of factors contributed to the decision, but the biggest part of the decision was because we have some downright crazy lunatics for neighbors.  They have caused a lot of trouble for us over the past 9 or 10 months.  We never experienced a problem … [Read more...]

A funny thing happened as I sat in my office in Davao City, Philippines a few years back.  It is something I think about from time to time, but I don’t believe I have ever written about it before. I was reminded of this incident the other day after I wrote an article about outsourcing in the Philippines. There were a lot of comments about call centers, phone calls received during the night and such. My friend, Macky, left a comment that kind of rang true to me: However, Service/tech calls aside, I have a problem with the random phone solicitation. It bugs me when a telemarketer calls me. I am on the NO CALL LIST and yet a few get … [Read more...]