Apr 27 2008
One moment he’s in the Tuscan countryside taste-testing olive oils for airplane first class passengers. The next, he’s in Turkey buying exotic expensive carpets. Then, he’s at Beverly Hills buying designer suits and ties in Rodeo Drive. Then, he’s seen watching the first Rolling Stones concert in mainland China. Then, he’s in [...]
Apr 25 2008
There are plenty of things to do in Sihanoukville. You can go to the zoo, you can go to the Ream National Park, you can do water sports like scuba diving and snorkeling, you can go island-hopping, you can party all night in one of the frequent beach parties, you can visit Buddhist temples, [...]
Apr 21 2008
We, bloggers just don’t live our lives. We live our lives with blogging in mind. All the time, we’re observing, looking for things to photograph for our blogs, thinking of things to write, imagining if our readers would want to read about what we are currently experiencing. Ever since I’ve started blogging, [...]
Apr 21 2008
For all those who dream to be FSOs…
Amazing is the number of those who dream to be FSOs that Do You Want to be an FSO remains to be my most popular post closely followed by FAQs on the FSE. Many aspiring FSOs who have been reading this blog have been asking me in [...]
Apr 13 2008
It’s another long weekend for us (five days, to be exact) with the entire country celebrating Khmer New Year (see this post for more about the Khmer New Year). We left scorching hot Phnom Penh yesterday, for Sihanoukville, Cambodia’s beach town which is about 220 km. away, driving on National Road No. 4. [...]
Apr 10 2008
It was December 1941. Eight-year old Romy was in the two-story house where he and his family lived in the US military compound in Fort McKinley (now known as the Fort Bonifacio Global City). He couldn’t go out and play with his four brothers as was natural for little boys. Outside, bombs and [...]
Apr 08 2008
The people who have designed uniforms of girls in private Catholic schools must have been descended from the inquisitors of the Middle Ages because of their penchant to torture young ladies by imposing on them clothes with outrageous colors and atrocious styles. Boys have it easy. They just have to put on a [...]
Apr 04 2008
I got another email from a reader. Yey!
Hi Toe,
Good Day. I stumbled on your blog a few days ago as I was searching the net for Filipinos in Cambodia. Your blog is a nice read and very informative.
I’m [...]
"We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn't matter."
Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones
