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Travels in the 10/40 window; China, Cambodia, the Philippines. Egypt, Jordan, East Malaysia, Indonesia; travel weblog; photoblog.
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Good News
Do you know what the Good News is?No, it's not about my winning fifty million dollars in a lottery. Er... no, it's not about my going to Hokkaido in a couple of days time for a sweet little holiday, although yes, I am going on another trip (I travel ...
Mass Evangelism
Thousands have heard!© TENFORTY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ...
Campus Evangelism
When our team left for the Philippines last Saturday, they didn't dream the impossible. They only asked God to let them reach 40,000 students with the gospel during the five weeks of evangelism in the campuses and colleges of the Philippines.The camp...
Not Wasted
After the previous post about too much food, someone commented that he hoped the excess was not wasted. Whenever we have company and we went out to eat, we do tend to order too much food. I think it's an Asian thing - umm, don't judge a person by the...
Filipino Dreaming
I've been thinking too much about the Philippines and the goings-on over there lately. Should I go, should I not go, should I go, should I not go... some nights I could almost hear the biggest hunk of lechon calling me all the way from the wedding in...
Friendly Reminder To Dog Owners
At the boulevard, Dumaguete City, Philippines.© TENFORTY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ...
Gebs
We visited bible schools and sometimes even lived in one (the Doane Baptist Seminary guesthouse) whenever we were in the Philippines, but this one which we visited a few years ago was quite an unusual school. Situated high up in the mountains of Pana...
Getting Around: Pedicab In The Philippines
So you thought those six people on the motor-bike in the previous post were too many? Ha.I was in the front passenger seat in our van and we were travelling from one church to another somewhere in Panay (in the central part of the Philippines) when I...
Tomorrow's Leaders
We are used to one or two-child families in Singapore. Then we go to the Philippines, and find the country teeming with young people and children. We go to Cambodia, and meet children with eight, nine or eleven siblings.Our community projects in thes...
Stuffed Milkfish
I was in Batam one Saturday evening for a meeting, but of course before we sat down for the important discussions and decisions, we had dinner. It was my first time at Nelson's apartment, and his wife Nanette (both Filipinos) fed us so well that I th...
The Negritoes
The Negritoes. The 'aborigines' and original natives of the Philippines.We visit them every time we're in Iloilo, Philippines. We don't speak the same language, but it doesn't matter. A smile speaks a thousand words.© TENFORTY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ...
The Mountain House Churches Part 2
After the visit and fellowship at the Negrito church in GLBC Camiros, we prepared to make our way back to the car, for the next visit, to Balunos. The real mountain church.The way there was certainly eroded. Too many holes! No carabao was waiting at ...
The Mountain House Churches
The walk up the slopes to GLBC Camiros, the Negrito church.Preaching in GLBC CamirosSitting with the NegritoesThere was this one house church which was really, reeeeally up on the mountains of Balunos, Anilao, which I last climbed and visited in Febu...
The Multicab
What in the world is a multicab? Here it is, front view and back view...It is rather like a mini-jeepney, to pack as many people in as possible.And we all had the privilege of riding in it cos our car broke down while we were having lunch at GLBC Bar...
Iloilo Flood Stories
One of the reasons why we went to the Philippines two weeks ago was to visit our brethren who were badly affected by Typhoon Frank in June, which caused a massive flood and killed about 200 people in the city alone.We came expecting sob stories, bad ...
Getting Around: Nice Taxi Drivers In Manila
There's no reason to keep on harping about that one crazy cab driver who took me for a ride to the gas station and back when there were really some very decent ones in Manila. So far I have not met any who tried to snatch my bag or take me to some my...
FBC Sunday School Fun
The little kiddie Sunday School at Fundamental Bible Church (FBC) Cebu was such a fun place to be!! While the adults Sunday School class was in session at another room with a movie-showing, I went exploring in other rooms and discovered a whole bunch...
Mango And Sticky Rice
Our Wednesday evening at Doane Baptist Church Iloilo City was very eventful - we had first the evening prayer service where PP took the pulpit to challenge the congregation on missions, Adele also took the pulpit to share a testimony about her experi...
Bulalo
Suffering in missions is very, very real indeed, especially in the Philippines as evidenced by this huge bulalo PP is trying to eat. Ooooh, Filipino food is sooo good! And Filipino hospitality is simply unbeatable! Our friends are quite merciless, a...
Iloilo City Tour
The first time I toured Iloilo City, Philippines, and saw most of the city, was in May 2006. The first time I visited Iloilo City and stayed for about a week, was in Sept 1999. Oh, did I get the dates upside down... no, I didn't. It's true, I show up...
Getting Around: Taxis In Manila
Did you like the story about that muttering cab driver I had to put up with in Iloilo City? This one I met in Manila some years ago was even more fantastic.It was our last day in the Philippines before we flew back home, and I knew I had to get some ...
Greener Pastures
Who says the grass isn't greener on the other side?© TENFORTY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ...
Getting Around: Taxi Drivers In Iloilo
I remembered telling this story before somewhere but probably not in this blog but anyway, here's a story (out of several I have collected!) about a particularly blur taxi driver in Iloilo City. Er... for the non-Singaporeans, blur = clueless, confus...
City Tours
I've discovered that the only way to get to know a city well and begin to feel at home in it is to go out and walk, or take public transport and go shopping. Most of the time, we get ferried around in style and comfort by one of our local friends in ...
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 week of the Campus Evangelistic Campaign here in t...
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 director in Iloilo, about what happened a couple of...
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!) and the houses of people we know and love turned in...
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 afternoon from Iloilo City, devastated by a typhoon over ...
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 heart attack before you have a chance to grow old....
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 shopping malls I had explored... did I write about th...
