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THE EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES IS TRANSMITTING THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION THROUGH THE EMBASSY WARDEN SYSTEM AS A PUBLIC SERVICE TO AMERICAN CITIZENS IN THE PHILIPPINES.  PLEASE DISSEMINATE THIS MESSAGE TO ALL U.S. CITIZENS IN YOUR ORGANIZATION OR NEIGHBORHOOD.  THANK YOU.
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U.S. FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER TEST

The 2010 Foreign Service Officer Test will be held on [...]

A Philippine Business Resouce You Didn’t Know You Had

I had a lot of great responses from yesterday’s post on learning how to work for yourself.  I haven’t shared my New Year’s resolutions for 2010, and I guess I am glad … because I am breaking one or two of them already.  I was resolved to write less, actually, and focus more on non-blog [...]

Get A Job

A significant group of readers who I have been in contact with are still of working age (who said retirement had to be age based, anyway?) and are conflicted with the seemingly conflicting goals of earning a living and a deep desire to live in the Philippines.
A large percentage of the folks who find their [...]

Blessed Are the Meek — Or Are They?

First of all, let me throw in a little disclaimer here.  This post isn’t really all that much about religion, but I do throw in some Bible teaching and no matter what your personal feelings about religion, you can’t learn much about the Philippines without recognizing the fact that it is one of the most [...]

All OK, Thanks, But Help Is Certainly Needed

I have had a number of messages of concern .. thanks to everyone from me and Mita. We are all ok, likewise Gia and Ina our two ’surrogate daughters’ who spent the night alone Saturday wehen the flooding was at it’s peak. Mita and I were stranded in Zambales. Much of Metro [...]

San Gabriel Market — Photo Essay — Part 1

Today I have another treat for us, those interested in sightseeing, learning the countryside and (my kinda folk) those who like to eat. Thomas Glenn, one of our PhilFAQS guest writers gave me another great post with especially wonderful pictures. It’s most kind of Tom to share and the pictures are big, so [...]

More on Seat Choices

Here’s another site with some good information on airline seat selection
I like this one becuase it clearly shows the “Deluxe” seat space on Eva Air.  Notice that info is available from many other Asian-based airlines.  Recommended.

U.S. FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER TEST

The 2009 Foreign Service Officer Test will be held on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at the U.S. Embassy in Manila
Deadline to register is September 28th
Eligibility:

U.S. citizen on the date of registration
Between 20-59 years old on the date of registration (over 21 and under 60 on the day of appointment [...]

Not Getting Scammed in the Philippines — Update 1

Here’s a little news item I my dear wife pointed out to me this afternoon:
The biggest law firm in the country allegedly fell victim to a multi-million-peso scam.
Sources in other law firms told abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak that Sycip Salazar Hernandez Gatmaitan, one of the leading local law firms, was duped by a foreign client into advancing P50 [...]

Philippine Business Must Be Doing Very Well

Well for those of you who hate posts about making a living in the Philippines, especially making a living in the Philippines on line, or supplemented by the online world, this will likely be another post you don’t enjoy.  Sorry about that, I write when I’m “in the mood” and this is what I’m “Moody”  [...]

Philippines Questions — Round 10

I’ve been more or less regularly publishing a Questions and Answers post every Thursday here at PhilFAQS, the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS) about the Philippines blog. Took Thanksgiving Thursday off, so it’s certainly time to get back into the swing of things.
I saw a good one from “queeniebee”, a regular reader here and on [...]

Outsourcing Blogs in the Philippines

Of course, as I have mentioned before here living in the Philippines the issue of income always seems to come up.  Also literallythousands of searches per year wind up here as people look for the answer to “How to earn a liivng in the Philippines” or, very often in my case here, “How can an [...]

Shoutout to Philippine “Livers” and Soon to be Philippine “Livers”

Just a quick post to give a big shoutout and a thank you to you, the faithful reader.  It really means alot to me that so many people have stuck with me here through thick and thin.  I jst did some statistics chacking and came across a pretty amazing (to me, anyway) “factoid”.
Readership here at [...]

Gomen Nasai Gomen

Don’t bother digging out your Tagalog or Bisayan dictionaries, those word are in Japanese .. or precisely, Nihongi Nihongo (thanks, Paul) , the official language of Japan … Japan, like the Philippines actually has an abundance of languages, Nihongo is the one foreigners are most likely to learn.
During the years I worked in Japan I [...]