Salt and Sugar

                                                

Why a title like Salt and Sugar ? Because life in general is made up of salt and sugar experiences and that certainly has been my take on living in the Philippines as an expat . No matter how you label it , positive and negative , good and bad , sweet and sour , the yin and the yang , it is always the same , whether here or there , wherever here and there might be .   :-)

A couple of things i would like to point out in regards to my  approach about blogging in general and blogging about expat living in the Philippines in particular . I happen to be an American or " yank " as my Brit Buddies say and one from the southern part of the US as well . The southern thing or " thang " will come into play in my writing style as well as some of my descriptive phrases .   :-)

There will also be seen a whole lot of those little guys called Emoticons . According to Wikipedia  - An emoticon (/ɨˈmoʊtɨkɒn/) is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks, numbers and letters, usually written to express a person's feelings or mood. I just call them these little guys :    :-) ;    :-(  ;    I use them a lot , and especially this one -   :-) because i tend to see humour in much of life's experience . 

Now , if someone wants to theorize about the use of such symbols as a coping mechanism reflective of deep seated psychological issues i am ok with that too but truth is i just think they are cute little guys and they allow me to laugh at myself . If you can't laugh at yourself from time to time then this blog may not be what you are looking for but if you can intuit the Universe as having a sense of humour then i think we can have some fun together while on this journey called life .

Feel free to comment at  any time , ask questions , make suggestions or even have a piece of your own published on this site should you have a " hankering " ( Warning: Southern Expression but you will get used to them )  :-)  However , due to strict policies of the site provider ( Mr. Google ) i have chosen for all comments to be moderated or  seen by me first before becoming visible on the blog . ( Has anyone actually ever met Mr. Google ? )   :-)

That has unfortunately , become necessary these days due to the trolling instincts of certain sub - species of critter most have encountered by now . With that proviso and a dose of patience we can go " West ", young man , or is it " East " this time ? Whichever direction , it's a long way from there to here for most of us .

                                                    Geography 101