Posted in Panama Journal on Jan 31st, 2007
I took a trip up to the Frontera this afternoon; I had some jeans I needed to exchange at Almacen Wong Chang. If you go to the Frontera, this is one of the stores you want to visit. While I was in the Frontera I took a few photos. This is just a small portion [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Jan 31st, 2007
Norm wrote another post on the Gringos of David Yahoo group and rather than re-post it here, I think I will just give you the URL so you can go there and read it. I think you will find this post of his on Bugaba as interesting as the one he did on the current [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Jan 31st, 2007
Well, Natalie and I have had two days getting organized and starting some of the exercises that are intended to prepare her for the TOEFL exam. It has caused me to do research into TOEFL and better understand why it is needed. I also am getting a better appreciation of the difficulty of the exam [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Jan 30th, 2007
Sometimes I receive communications that just incites me to be a better person. It makes me want to go out and help everyone. This morning I received such a message. One of my local readers was kind enough to take the time to drop me a note. It follows:
What happened to Chatter?
Iy appears to me, [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Jan 30th, 2007
Yesterday I received this email from Yvette which is related to a previous post.
Hello everyone:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but unfortunately I had to cancel the Boquete “Sparrow” Event… After speaking to Anayansi over the weekend it was the best thing to do for various reasons.
1) Anayansi and her husband thought [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Jan 29th, 2007
Thanks to Tony Singh for sending me the email the other day, which I published on the 28th about tonight’s showing of An Inconvenient truth.I went to the showing tonight. It is a film that can’t help but scare the living daylights out of you. Now I could have waited and rented the DVD when [...]
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Posted in Dentists, Healthcare on Jan 29th, 2007
This morning I noticed a new Dental clinic. It is called Dental Esthetic and is located in Plaza Mallorca of the one way street that intersects with the Interamerican highway. If you got on the one way street close to the David Municipal building, you would go about 2 blocks.
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Posted in Panama Journal on Jan 28th, 2007
Today my post about some of Jimmy Buffett’s lyrics received a comment from a reader about some lyric’s of Toby Keith. While searching for the Toby Keith lyrics I came across a site with a large number of songs, Country & Western as well as others, and spent a lot of time playing them.
Some of [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Jan 28th, 2007
There was a post on the Gringos in David Yahoo Group that I thought deserved a second post here. I would like to get a little time and go up and see it. Maybe you would too.
Here is Norm’s post:
Feria de la Candelaria Bugaba
Enero 26 al Febrero 4
Bugaba, aka La Concepción, is hosting the annual [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Jan 28th, 2007
I was just sitting here with Pandora playing music when a song of Jimmy Buffett’s came on that I have not heard before. One of the phrases that is in the song is as follows:
I’m growing older, but not up. … I would rather die while I am living, than live while I’m dead.
Catchy [...]
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