Reach the poor

I lost most of your addresses and phone numbers and birthdays when my iMac’s hard drive was reformatted by the techs in Tiong San Harrison department store. (I should have gone to Unicom) I wish that I had every name, address and birthday written in a notebook! Before buying personal computers, we used paper address books!

Please e-mail your addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, birthdays and news from home to Brian(at)Reachthepoor(dot)org! I have Skype now, so tell me your Skype name if you have one.

While silver is selling for $10.50, and gold’s selling for $800-$830, this is a prime time to buy precious metals. Dominic assures us that the prices will skyrocket in the next few years. You could get a ten-fold return on an investment in silver. We recommend GoldMoney.com. Check it today. Precious metals are a safe haven and a wise investment.

I couldn’t be happier to hear the cacophony of a dozen dogs angrily barking at each other nearby. Sounds as if I’m in a kennel. People don’t discipline their dogs here; they only feed the noisemakers. If you get e-mail from me at 3 a.m., I’m surfing the internet while dogs bark enough to prohibit sleep.

For months, Dominic and I have heard crawling, scratching and gnawing sounds above our ceiling which suggest that large rodents are in the crawl space between our ceiling and the floor of the unoccupied apartment above us. When moving across the ceiling or scratching in place above my desk, they sound like large claws - not bear claws, but not tiny field mouse claws, either. more →

This morning I took Toni Rose and two of her neighbors to Baguio City to eat lunch in a Jollibee restaurant and ride rental tricycles and boats in Burnham Park. I have wondered in previous outings if a pedaled boat would be preferable to a rowed boat, so today we went to the concessionaire who had royal blue-and-yellow pedal boats and row boats. I picked an open-top boat. more →

When we arrived in Manila in March, we got 40.25 pesos per dollar over the counter. Since then, the United States dollar has been grossly devalued by the wanton printing of funny money by the Treasury Department. Nonetheless, I have observed weekly in the newspapers an increasingly favorable (for me) dollar-to-peso exchange rate. The past several days we have seen an interbank exchange rate of 49.7 -49.9 pesos per dollar. Today a dollar buys 50 pesos. more →