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Update From The Evangelistic Team
The following is an e-mail from Eugene, just received. They have one more week in the Philippines.I am writing this e-mail to you from an internet cafe in Cebu, Philippines.We have finished the first ...
Letter From Ranie
Because I'm busy throwing/stuffing things in a suitcase at the moment and have no time to write because I will be flying and offline for the next five days, here's an update from Ranie, our missions d...
The Destruction Left By Typhoon Fengshen Last Weekend
I wasn't expecting any photos from Ranie (our missions director in Iloilo) and so these I received via email from her today were a shock - to see one of my favourite cities in the Philippines (sob!) a...
Heartbreaking
"Scenery so heartbreaking. One house church covered by the mud. All things destroyed. Many members are homeless..."It was heartbreaking, indeed. That was part of a text message I received this afterno...
Crispy Pata
Lunch at Passi, Iloilo Philippines. We were told that eating this crispy Filipino specialty (deep fried pork leg) will keep us young i.e. your arteries will be so clogged that you'll drop dead from a ...
The Friendliness Of Filipinos
I've written and shown pictures of different cities and beautiful places in the Philippines, written and shown many pictures of some of the Filipino food we love, written and shown pictures of the sho...
Cows At The Canal
Dumaguete City Philippines. I took this photograph in January 2004. I miss this place! The SMC Center used to be near a canal, where the cows roamed and grazed, and the neighbours did the laundry alon...
Waiting For That Plane
If I could be paid for sitting in an airport, waiting for That Plane which I was supposed board dun-know-how-many hours ago, I would have made a tidy sum by now. Delayed flights have become more the n...
Kinilaw
There's a Filipino specialty which I eat only by accident. No, I am not referring to the balot. No one ever eats a balot by accident! I'm referring to the Filipino sashimi - kinilaw. Don't get me wron...
The GSS Is Back But...
The start of this year's GSS i.e. the Great Singapore Sale was yesterday, 23rd May, and I didn't bother about it. Singapore's not really my favourite place to shop, unfortunately. I live here, I WORK ...
Disasters And Blessings
Living in a really, really safe country like Singapore, naturally sheltered from disasters, a lot of us can only imagine what it's like to go through, and survive, horrific things such as the recent c...
Chocolate Hills And Me
There had been several new visitors/readers passing by my blog recently, and quite a number of them are Filipinos. And quite a number of them think I'm one of them. I um... don't think I get awarded h...
Big Mak
Dumaguete City Philippines. Anyone for a Big Mac... I mean Mak?© TENFORTY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED....
Naked
Er... all of you who are underaged and not allowed to go to R-rated movies, please switch off and look somewhere else now.We were on the Loboc river cruise in Bohol, Philippines, and I almost fell out...
Lost
My eyes nearly fell out of my head on Friday when I read in My Paper (the English first half of it) that 42 million bags were lost at airports around the world each year and never found, and about how...
Visit To The Negrito Church
Whenever we are in Iloilo, we'll visit GLBC Camiros, which is the Negrito church about an hour away from the city.The Negritos are the natives of Panay - dark-skinned, curly-haired mountain aboriginal...
Mango Shake
I really like the yellow mango shake in the Philippines. It's made from ripe, fresh mangoes and usually cost about 30 pesos (S$1.10), although it can cost up to 50 pesos in Manila. I can have one at e...
Loboc River Cruise
Bohol Philippines. After our morning, three-hour cruise in a narrow boat and after exploring the camp site, we headed for lunch at a floating restaurant. Yes, we went for our second river cruise. This...
Kim
In Dublin's fair city, where girls are so pretty... This is Kim, and yes, she's from Dublin, Ireland.She's a long, long way from home, though, because she has now made the Philippines her home away fr...
Jollibee
In the Philippines, the Number One favourite fast food place is not Macdonalds, or KFC. It's Jollibee. I don't eat there often because it's always crowded, regardless which shopping mall or city I am ...
Island City Mall
Island City Shopping Mall, Tagbilaran City, Bohol Philippines. A 'little' place I fell in love with while in Bohol recently.© TENFORTY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED....
River Cruise
Bohol Philippines. When did a fun river cruise turn out to be not-so-fun after a while?When there were ten of us...…cramped in a small boat...breathing down each other's necks…with very little leg...
Waterfall/Volcano/Hot Spring/River/Steam Geyser Place
Dumaguete City Philippines.I hardly know how to describe this interesting place we visited on our very first afternoon in the Philippines, so I am borrowing inspiration from one of our team members, K...
Wanted
I was reading the newspapers yesterday afternoon when I glanced at my perpetually switched-on computer nearby, and I noticed a new e-mail message which had been downloaded. The subject was 'Message fr...
Meetings
There were a lot of meetings during our trip. Meetings about the camp site, meetings about the SMC ministry, meetings about the house church ministry (HCM), seminars and talks and briefings...There we...
A Different Perspective
Am I getting lazy this weekend. Not. Just taking a break from blogging. Here's a link to Xiuying's blog, where she shared an overview of her nine-day trip to the Philippines with many great photos.Wh...
Exciting Egg Eating Experience
Dumaguete City Philippines.This is a Filipino egg. (imagine our Filipino pastor, Pastor Sinon's deep, solemn voice resonating inside your head)It is called a 'balot'. (Many spelt it 'balut' but my und...
The Spanish Heritage
Upon arriving in Dumaguete City on the first day of our missions trip, we received a warm welcome and partook a sumptuous breakfast at the Cafe Antonio, located at the Spanish Heritage building.Imagin...
Security Issues
Ormoc City, Leyte Philippines.We arrived at this place for lunch on Sunday after the worship service at EFBC, and this young man was standing on guard outside the restaurant. That thing he had was the...
Getting Around: Three Islands In One Day
I mentioned previously that we travelled to Leyte island to kick-start a new SMC ministry in Ormoc City. I'd never been to Leyte before, and getting there was really not that fun.We set off on Saturda...