NOTE: This is the free online version of my book Chasing Your Philippine Dream: An Expat’s Guide to the Philippines. This voluminous tome has
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Category: Relationships
Do Filipinas Really Love Foreigners??
This content was inspired by a snippet sent to me from another vlogger’s Livestream. You can see the actual excerpt here: Aside from the
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How I Met Chichay II: Friend Zones and Facepalms are More Fun in the Philippines!
The previous installment of this two-part series covered the veritable shitshow that was my dating experiences over the course of six months in the Philippines
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How I Met Chichay: A Fortuitious Evening at Bogart’s Dive Bar….
OK, so the story of how I met Chichay is actually pretty interesting, drawing as it does on traditional Philippines courting: Asking the parents
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Living the Philippine Dream – Not All is How it Seems…….
“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down….” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities When
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My Philippines Dating Experience: Goodboys, Badboys and Fuckboys
Yesterday I published an article on Filipinas and Facebook relative to my short-lived Philippines dating experience. And as I noted, although I personally abhor Facebook,
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My Philippines Dating Experience: Filipinas and Facebook
So, as some of you know, I recently when through an illuminating – if short lived – period of dating. For those who personally know
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Foreigner Gossip in the Expat Community – Give it a Frikken Rest…..
Some of you who have been following the channel for a while know that a friend of ours was tragically (and brutally) stabbed to death
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Traditional Courtship in the Philippines – What is Old is New Again!!!
Every wondered why ‘chaperones’ usually accompany a Filipina maiden on a first date? Or why Filipinos are obsessed with love songs? Or why you usually
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Life, Death and Loneliness in the Philippines (And My New Girlfriend?)
Note: Photos in this article were taken last week along the Dumaguete waterfront. Open Mouth, Insert Flip-Flop So, I’ve admitted it before and I’ve
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