This morning at around 11:49am local-time, a 6.8 earthquake hit Cebu, creating a local tsunami with a max wave height of around 0.5 meters. Earthquake details: Location: 9.964°N, 123.246°E Depth: 20 km (12.4 miles) Distances: 72 km (44 miles) N of Dumaguete, Negros, Philippines 74 km (45 miles) WNW of Tagbilaran, Bohol, Philippines 80 km [...]
A new shop opened in the mall, it is a Korean Pastry shop. The cakes look amazing. We went into the shop the day that it opened and I found it was more like an art exhibition than food. A few days later, we bought a strawberry cake and here are some of the photos [...]
So here I am doing what I never thought I would do, spending Christmas somewhere so far removed from everything I have ever known. It’s Christmas eve and 29C outside, with large grey clouds in the sky and a heavy cold that gripped me yesterday. If it wasn’t for the temperature outside, it would be [...]
One of my wisdom teeth shattered a few years ago and I could not bring myself to go to a dentist and have it pulled out. I have a black fear of dentist work and believe me, I have tried. The only solution was to be put under for the operation, but for that I [...]
I am in the process of downloading, burning and installing Open Suse 11.4 onto my Sony Laptop to make it a dual XP / Lunux Boot. Cleared one drive for it. Should be a breeze. Will post photos once it’s complete. So you will either see a lovely Open Suse desktop on my laptop, or [...]
This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Sagan’s suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet. Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion [...]
I was at the beer festival in Bremen, Germany with other friends from school. Although I was only 16, I was old enough to drink alcohol in Germany, so I made the most of it and drank tanker after tanker in tent after tent. My memory blanks for a period of a few hours. My [...]
Edward, the youngest of the two scavengers has been back every day. Yesterday he arrived with his younger sister. She has bigger eyes than him and is very friendly. Edward had no shoes again. When asked where his flip flops were, he explained that he had given them to his older sister who had cut [...]
My new house is unlike the others I have lived in here in the Philippines in that it is an open street meaning more traffic and passing pedestrians. One of the first days that I was here, I got up in the morning and saw some children opening my rubbish bin. I was about to [...]
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, [...]
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