This blog is to help my wife and I, itinerant expatriates, stay in touch with family and close friends. We're living in the Pearl of the Orient.
In Rome, April 2006
Vanessa on Ko Samet, Thailand, June 2011
In Kabul, Mar. 2011
In Kabul, Mar. 2011
In Dubai, Oct. 2009
"Only those who risk going too far find out how far they can go---Fringe
"There are few problems that cannot be solved with the proper application of high explosives." — U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Motto
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to the next with no loss of enthusiasm"---Winston Churchill
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" --Thomas Jefferson
"Unless I sample life’s dangers I shall never know its mysteries…”---John LeCarre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." — Thomas Jefferson
“The game is rigged. But you cannot lose if you don't play.” –The Wire
“A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.” ---Yoda
"It seems to me that when you judge a man's worth, his ability to survive should be no small part of it." JV Jones SoS2
Posted in Uncategorized by Administrator on the July 4th, 2006
The US supreme court ruled that Guantanamo Bay is illegal. I could have told you this 4 years ago. Finally somebody with some sense. I have been mortified by what’s going on there for years now. The Economist writes:
IN A painful blow for George Bush, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday June 29th that he did not have the authority to set up special military commissions to try foreign terrorist suspects held at Guantánamo Bay. The court also ruled that the tribunals themselves were illegal under both international and American military-justice law. And, as important, the court held that the Geneva Conventions do apply to the conflict against al-Qaeda and that all detainees must therefore be treated humanely “in all circumstances”.
George Bush obviously has an “end justifies the means” policy. However this was also the policy of the Nazis. It does our society no good to break fundamental American values, such as the right to trial by jury.
Posted in Uncategorized by Administrator on the July 1st, 2006
I have been sick for 3 days now. Nothing too bad bad. I think it may stem from quitting smoking. My dad bought me 7 boxes of Nicorette from the States.
My dad leaves tomorrow. Today we’re going to go to the Chinese gardens and then take him to our special Spaish restaurant, where we had our first date and our wedding dinner.
We were going to go Coreggidor island today but I’m still a tad sick and also Vanessa is a bit too pregnant for hiking around. She gets really tied and needs to nap a lot. I do too since I have a phantom pregnancy.
We went to the hospital yesterday and Little Chris is in good shape for his birth in 3 months, his head is down like it should be, and the placenta is on top, and he’s not too big. The doctor was shocked by the size of his penis. I couldn’t be prouder.
Nanay is going to make my dad pasalubong (travel gifts) tomorrow–coconut macaroons.
