Phillipines

Most people in the Philippines save the few Chinese that remains with their ancestral Chinese surname or a few indigenous that keeps their own too, have Spanish surnames. A close local friend told me it is because at some point in history, a law was …

“Add 30 peso, heavy traffic!” said the taxi man. “What?!?” I feign incredulity, this is not the first time I was asked of this. “Yes ma’am, heavy traffic, taxi cannot make money” he continued. Somehow this line make me relent, at times some taxi man …