World Expats Blog March Archive

Wow Palau

03/19/10 09:09

The island Republic of Palau is situated in the Pacific Ocean, 800kms away from the Philippines. It is a borderless sovereign and definitely one of the most beautiful tropical destinations in the world. Koror is its capital as well as its biggest city.

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Recession in Ireland

Yesterday, I was able to meet my father for the first time in a couple of weeks because we had a dinner to celebrate his birthday last March 10. As always, everytime we meet we do follow up on each other's lives and ask each other practically everything under the big sun.

Read more: Recession in Ireland [click]

Daft Punk and the French House Scene

I'm the kind of person who gets particularly hooked a certain musical artist for varying amounts of time. And when I get hooked to that artist, I listen to him/her/them for long periods of time until the enthusiasm stops and I move on to another artist. For days now, the artist that I'm hooked to is no less than French house artists Daft Punk.

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Chile, One of the Most Popular Retirement Place In South America

Lots of people most especially retirees from America and the European countries chose to relocate in South America and one of the most popular destination is Chile.

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Visiting the Past Through Egypt

I'm no archaeologist, but I'm certainly interested in finding out more about our history waaaay back before we even knew it. And which else is the poster boy for ancient history but Egypt, whose ancient history and society sparked enough mystery in order to get a specifically named fan group called Egyptologists solely studying Egyptian society and how it helped to shape the contemporary world.

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A New Culinary World Order: Tokyo On Top

If there's one thing aside from the sights that you have to consider before choosing a country to live in, it will be the kind of food served there. I know that, as expats, we should be adventurous with the culinary scene of the country where we will be in. Unfortunately, there are just some food types that cannot match our own taste.

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Inexpensive Living in Santiago de Chile - a consulting firm says

A study from Mercer - a consulting firm, ranked Chile's Capital as one of the inexpensive countries to live on. Out on 143 cities, Santiago de Chile got the 128th spot where the 1st is the most expensive city. The study attributed the cost of living in terms of cost of rents, food, transportation and entertainment.

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The Problem of an Expat

As I was getting interviewed for a job earlier this evening, my interviewer asked me if I do have any plans in the next 5 years of getting myself working abroad, maybe as an expat. Of course that I had no plans of being one someday, because that means the employer won't consider my application anymore. I told my interviewer that I plan to stay in the country for a long time.

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2010 Holland Flowers Festival

Who doesn't love flowers? I'm sure we all do admire these gifts of nature. As we enter spring, so do the flowers, which all start to bloom in what can be seen to be an orchestrated performance. Flowers of different sizes, colors, and kinds dot green fields these days, inviting visitors to go ahead and lie down.

Read more: 2010 Holland Flowers Festival [click]