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5uperman.com I am Dave, owner of an online software and web development business. I was born in the UK and lived most of my life there. Recently, I moved to the Philippines to be with my girlfriend where I continue to run my business as well as managing to have time for mini adventures!

01 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

I could never understand

I could never understand

I could never understand why in times of old, kings would send their armies to invade other lands in the name of their wife or another women. Most of the seven wonders of the world were built for or inspired by women. Makes a dinner and date look pathetic in comparison. I could never understand [...]

28 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Days out

Days out

When we have to do something and travel into the city, it takes a while. My god, everything takes a while here. The Las Pinas traffic is terrible. When it gets bad, the traffic wardens will stop traffic in one direction while they allow the opposite direction to take up three lanes. But this causes [...]

25 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

How I spent my birthday

How I spent my birthday

Ian had asked me “what do you want to do for your birthday. You name it and I will arrange it”. Apart from the obvious perverted suggestions, i thought and thought and could only think of one thing I really wanted to do. Take Ian shopping. Call be fucked up, I dont care. I know [...]

24 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

100 years from now

100 years from now

100 years from now, it will not matter how much money I made, what kind of car I drove or what type of house I lived in, but the world may be a different place because I was important in the lives and eyes of a few children. Constructing and shaping their views and beliefs [...]

24 August 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Goodbye Twentysomething

Goodbye Twentysomething

The past 10 years have not been the best, it has been bitter sweet. A lot of disapointments, but also a lot of great experiences. Just a year ago, I was concerned as I did not have everything I expected to have by the time I was 30, all I had was my businesses. Now, [...]

24 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Zip Line – Zoom, Lubis, Quezon City, Philippines

Zip Line – Zoom, Lubis, Quezon City, Philippines

Ian and myself have been working on a new website, DiscoverPH.com. The website has now been running for a few months and is doing very well. The main focus of DiscoverPH.com is to review and reveal all of the little known places in the Philippines. One of the areas we have been wanting to expand [...]

22 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

A song for Ian

A song for Ian

As Ian is getting ready to come over to my house, a song keeps ringing through my head. This is for you ian. “I.O.U. One Galaxy” by The Ataris The stars are out tonight and you’re the brightest one shining in my sky it’s like every wish I ever made came true, the day I [...]

21 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Day at the Ice Rink

Day at the Ice Rink

We went to the ice rink at SM South Mall here in Las Pinas, Manila. Its only a few minutes from my house. We had a great time, Tom and Bea were anxious to get on the ice, but Zac changed his mind and decided to watch instead. Within minutes he had changed his mind [...]

19 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

How to get fired – one finger salute on live tv

How to get fired – one finger salute on live tv

Few BBC weather forecasters generate as many headlines as Tomasz Schafernaker, who has become something of a web sensation after his unfortunate one-finger salute was caught on camera on the BBC News Channel (see-below). It was Schafernaker, you may recall, who dissolved into giggles on BBC Radio 4 last year after telling listeners it would [...]

18 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

‘Zombie ants’ controlled by parasitic fungus for 48m years

‘Zombie ants’ controlled by parasitic fungus for 48m years

The truth is stranger than fiction! Story taken from http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/aug/18/zombie-carpenter-ant-fungus The oldest evidence of a fungus that turns ants into zombies and makes them stagger to their death has been uncovered by scientists. The gruesome hallmark of the fungus’s handiwork was found on the leaves of plants that grew in Messel, near Darmstadt in Germany, [...]