Ooops…HE did it again!

First, the French Open, this time the Wimbledon, two consecutive finals win, my idol Rafael Nadal is 2008 Wimbledon champion.  He beats Roger Federer in a five thrilling sets in the finals.  Accordingly, this is the best final ever in the Wimbledon history.  What can you say about that?  In fairness to Federer, he remains [...]

‘Havemos de Voltar’

‘Havemos de Voltar’ – I guess most of you never heard this phrase, not if you are in Angola or in a Portuguese speaking country.  I encountered this phrase 4 years ago when I enrolled in a formal Portuguese class lessons, my teacher introduced me these famous lines, she told me these are perhaps the [...]

Untangling Weekends

Life on weekends in the “mina” is predictable.  This is the only time where everybody can loosen up a bit from a whole week’s activity.  Miners here become less tense, less formal or less restrained but for others who have its work shift bumped on weekends, well they have to exert themselves by doing mental [...]

Labor day in Mina..

May 1 is a special day for workers in some parts of the world .  I have browse one of the online newspapers in the Philippines, it surprises me because ironically there is not much talk about LABOR DAY.  Does this means people are fed up with same bombardment of writeups complaining about how the Philippine government runs [...]

Alone but not lonely…

Seems almost everybody here in Mina in the key positions has left the boondocks for their month’s break except “malembe” and the rest of those with small roles in the Mina “play”.  To name a few, my finance director has just started his 21 day break in Brazil, just today my kumpare who is in [...]

Life in the boondocks of Camissombo

I have left the perquisites of my Luanda life and stir the boondocks of Camissombo in Angola Africa right after my 31st birthday in February 8, 2008 all for a better dollar yield.  After all, this is the reason why we OFWs are here for.  Work for a more beneficial gain.
I will post my day [...]