Comments on: Philippines Questions — Round 8

By: Philly

Philly — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:44:34 +0000

@Ellen and John: There’s a lot of different names for pharmacies. world-wide. In America we tend to call them ‘drug stores’ but the formal name for the person who is licensed to sell the medicines is a pharmacist or in “older speak” an apothecary … clearly the Austrian, Norse, etc. all come from the Latin. I snooped around in Google and they seem to really focus on the most colloquial terms … so that’s an important lesson. If you don’t like the results you see, try a different word. In the UK and many UK-related countries, it’s always a ‘chemist’. Vive le difference

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:21:31 +0000

Apotheke sounds like in Norwegian – Apotek.

By: John in Austria

John in Austria — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:00:51 +0000

Hi Dave,

I use the Internet a lot too, Unfortunately, when searching for something in a foreign land one doesn’t always know what site is good and what is bad. Your comments about the two Philippine drug store sites makes me want to look at them as you are living in the area. Up here a drug store is an “Apotheke” so looking for “drug stores” wouldn’t help.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:05:12 +0000

Hi Dave ~ If not for the Internet, how it makes researching and the world smaller I would not be writing my own blog about moving moving to the Philippines. Well the blog writing is obvious but moving to the Philippines would not even be considered if not today’s technology. For the last couple of weeks I have been drafting an article about this very thing. It sits in the draft folder waiting to be finished and the publish button to be pressed.

By: Philly

Philly — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:51:54 +0000

@Mike: indeed, it has certianly moved along very nicely in the past 10 or 12 years. I never thought we would be able to attain the levels of success we already do, and in terms of search engibe relevancy I think we are only in the very beginning days. Makes me feel young, that’s for sure. many years ago, before there were any personal computers I read an article by this fellow, Vannevar Bush. It was written in 1945, a few months before I was born, and to me much of it was wilder in concept that Buck Rogers (Showing my age there, srten’t I … there’s people reading this who likely don’t know Buck Rogers ). Today, little of Buck’s fantastic interplanetary galatic “gimmicks” have come to pass, but many of Bush’s certainly have.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:08:15 +0000

Hi Dave ~ You know, using google to buy the type of drugs I am looking for is not really a good idea.

Seriously, research on everything in this day in age (of age) is pretty easy. Like you I hated researching because it was very boring based on the difficulty of finding what is needed. I think we both like it now because almost anything we want to know is just a few clicks away, aside from understanding women that is.