Life in the Philippines – “I Sorry” Ay Sorry, joke lang!
Well, the ‘ber months are here so it is full-on Christmas. More on that later. Today I wanted to cover one commonly used English expression and one Taglish* expression generally used by all Filipinos,...
View ArticleDamn, another wargame project – Illyrians and the Great Revolt!
I’m sitting here, suffering with that most horrible of diseases, man ‘flu, looking out over a hazy, smoggy Manila Bay with a coffee and listening to the wireless playing Christmas Carols (it is the...
View ArticleInclusiveness in Wargaming and Tastelessness
My favourite wargames magazine is Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy. For those more Facebook savvy it can be found in Facebook at @WSSMagazine. It is a magazine that I will unreservedly recommend to...
View ArticleLife in the Philippines – O-o!
That’s got you confused I bet! Uh-oh in English is an interjection for “oops, something just happened” and is generally a negative. It is used to indicate a sudden awareness of a problem or error and...
View ArticleArmies of the Hellenistic States 323 BC to AD 30 by Gabriele Esposito – Review
I have had an interest in the successor states since I first read Alfred Duggan’s historical fiction, “He Died Old”, which was set in the life and times of Mithradates of Pontus, who fought Rome for...
View ArticleLife in the Philippines – Aray!
Ouch! No, really, “ouch”. In the Philippines, stub your toe or be pinched by someone and you would say “aray”. Close as I can make it, you would pronounce it like “a-rye”. So, be bumped by someone and...
View ArticleLife in the Philippines – and we wonder about the traffic
When is a one way street not one way? Why on a Sunday of course. These signs are seen all over Makati City. Mind you, I can’t help but think, if the one way streets work so well keeping the… Continue...
View ArticleI’ve got a spare Pikeman … or two!
I have been re-purposing some 6mm figures recently and had re-based and am in the process of decorating the bases of some Early Imperial Romans. I purchased them a few years ago to base for Polemos’...
View ArticleLife in the Philippines – Ano!
“Ano”! The universal Tagalog word, often heard in Taglish sentences as well, sentences such as, “You are so ano!” This means, “you are so ‘what is the word I am looking for?'” So ano could mean “cute”,...
View ArticleSuccess or two!
So, I had only just posted that I’ve got a spare Pikeman … or two! and what should turn up at Makati Central Post Office but a book! And what a book. This is Volume 1, covering all our favourite...
View ArticleLife in the Philippines – Ingat!
Leave the office to go home or from having dinner with local friends and you will almost always hear “ingat” or “ingat ikaw”. It is pronounced, as near as I can hear, as “ing-at”. Often your friends...
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Irsk Festuke – 1997 or 1998
It was St Patrick’s Day, many years ago. A pub in Trondheim, Dirty Nelly’s (since gone) was advertising their Irsk festuke (or Irish party week). I had been to Dirty Nelly’s St Patrick’s party the...
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Microsoft … why do you think I am Chinese
Whenever my Office 365 subscription is due for renewal, I get the following: Ian 您好： 感謝您訂閱 Office 365 Home。 歡迎您加入。我們即將針對您的訂閱收取下一期的定期款項。 在 2019年11月12日，我們會向您的 MasterCard **XXXX 收取 ₱4,699.00 的費用。 除非您在...
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Thomo gets Dumped
This happened in Maui a few years ago. We were there attending a friend’s wedding and decided to head to the beach … where I learnt a new respect for the Hawaiian shorebreak. Interestingly, this video...
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Armies of the Late Roman Empire AD 284 to 476 by Gabriele Esposito – Review
The other recent addition to the bookcase at home (memo to self, when moving next year, build bigger book shelves), is Gabriele Esposito’s Armies of the Late Roman Empire AD 284 to 476. As with the...
View ArticleInclusiveness in Wargaming – Women
Back in September this year I wrote a post about Inclusiveness in Wargaming and Tastelessness. This week the guys at Little Wars TV along with Jasper from Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy looked at one...
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The Great Illyrian Revolt by Jason R. Abdale – Review
Jason R Abade’s previous work was Four Days in September: the Battle of Teutoburg (published by Pen and Sword). While researching and writing that, Abade came across references to the Illyrians and the...
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The Stringbags – New Release
Dead Reckoning have released The Stringbags a graphic novel written by Garth Ennis; drawn by PJ Holden; colored by Kelly Fitzpatrick and; lettered by Rob Steen. Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and...
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Labels on 1/3000 scale ship models
Japanese vessels – ready for Modern Naval Wargames With a large collection of 1/3000 sale ships (more unpainted than painted I will admit), remembering the name of all the vessels can be a memory...
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Currently Reading — December 6, 2019 — Battle of Manila
Current reading is from the series, History of Terror. This covers the period of the Allies liberation of the Philippines, and Manila in Particular. When the Japanese invaded, the then colonial...
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