Philippines
Driving around Metro Manila these days, one can’t help noticing the proliferation of election campaign materials. They are everywhere – hanging from trees, lamp posts, fences, vehicles, gates of houses, business establishments, even on people’s caps, wrists and shirts. And I thought the Fair Elections Act only allowed campaign materials to be placed on designated poster areas and with only a prescribed size and maximum total expenditure per candidate.
Mention the words household help to any wife, mother, homemaker, homeowner here in the Philippines and I guarantee that you an endless discussion. Life just isn’t the same without a nanny (yaya), laundrywoman, housemaid, cleaning lady and driver, for some. It is not that the Philippines is a country of spoiled brats.
continue reading Household Help – You need them. You love them. You hate them.
Some peoples lives are so intertwined… Really…Read this story…When I was in high school back in the 80′s, I attended a national encampment as a girl scout. There, I met Melissa who was to be my pen friend for the rest of high school. She was a girl scout from Nueva Vizcaya, a northern Philippine province. In the 80′s, keeping in touch meant writing letters. No, not e-mails, but handwritten letters that took about a week to send by mail.
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