Why Retire in the Philippines/Marinduque Vacations: Renaming One of My Blogs-Becoming American and 2020 Year in Review

Planning to Retire Soon!

If you are planning to retire in the Philippines soon, I suggest you visit several excellent websites on pro's and cons of retiring in the Philippines. However if you want to retire in the provinces, where life is simple, standard of living cheaper, less traffic congestion and pollution, availability of fresh seafood and vegetables compared to the big cities, my island province is the place for you! If this is your first time in my site, welcome. Some of the photos and videos on this site, I do not own. However, I have no intention on the infringement of your copyrights. The photo above is the front yard of Chateau Du Mer- Our Retirement Home in Boac, Marinduque, Philippines

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Renaming One of My Blogs-Becoming American and 2020 Year in Review

I renamed one of my blogs, Becoming American this year. This was inspired by a vblog named Becoming Filipino by Kyle Jennermann from Canada.

This is one of my widely read blogs with more than 847,900 views as of this writing date. Goals for 2021-To attain more than 1 Million Views:

This week I renamed one of my blogs-Life in the US and in the Philippines:1960 to the Present to: Becoming American. This change of title is inspired by one of the most widely read video blogs (Vlog) about the Philippines by Kyle (Kulas) Jennermann, Becoming Filipino. https://www.facebook.com/becomingfilipino

BecomingFilipino is an adventure. It is the journey of a 26 year old Canadian trying to “Become Filipino” through travel, experience, and sharing happiness. Kyle has travel extensively in almost all parts of the Philippines since 2014.

Three of the several hundreds of videos about his Philippines adventures that Kyle has posted in his vlogs are from his experiences in Marinduque- Our second home.

Kyle had posted five other blogs about Marinduque. Two videos are about the Moriones and Heritage Houses in Boac and the other one is the underground river cave in Santa Cruz.

Here are my six other blogs and total views as of this writing date.

The Intellectual Migrant-A Biography-Total Reader Views as of this Writing Date: 819,073.

Snowbirds in the Philippines-Total Reader Views as of this writing date: 36,966.

Marinduque-My Island Paradise-Total Reader Views as of this Writing Date: 492,458.

I Left My Heart in Marinduque ( not in San Francisco-Total Reader Views: 148,261.

Marinduque Awaits You-Total Reader Views: 633, 981.

Chateau Du Mer Beach House and Conference Hall-Total Reader Views: 329,257

Kyle had also several videos about Iloilo-my province of birth. Here are three of them

The above videos reminds me of my childhood and teenage years- riding an albino carabao, eating raw sugar cane, seafood dishes (oysters), mango shakes and other Ilonggo delicacies.

Meanwhile, enjoy this photo-My PC Monitor of CDM Main House in Marinduque at Christmas.

and playing mahjong at Christmas Day with Family and Grand Children

and here's 2020 year in Review:

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Fruit Trees in the Gardens of Chateau Du Mer

The Mango Tree-I have three varieties in my Garden-The Indian, Guimaras and Carabao Mangoes My caretaker/gardener informed me last month that due to the El Nino drought in Marinduque, two of my Durian trees died in spite of his vigilant watering. One of the tree was attacked by insects that looks like a big fly but yellowish in color that sucks the sap of the seedling. The roots of the other tree was attacked by ants residing in the soil. However, my other fruit trees, the rambutans( 2), the lanzones(2) and the jack fruits ( 2) trees are doing well. The above eight fruit trees were given to me by Retired General Recaredo Sarmiento of Boac and Lucena., about three years ago. General Sarmiento is the “atid” of my wife. “Atid” is the colloquial term for brother. Evidently, Macrine's father, the late Bernardo Jambalos was the Godfather of General Sarmiento during his baptism and comfirmation. Gen Sarmiento's hobby is orchard planting, reforestation and farming. The other fruit trees in my garden are guayabanos, cashew, avocados, starapples, duhats, ates, guavas, mangoes( 3 varieties) and papayas as well as several varieties of bananas . Of the above fruit trees, my favorite is the guayabanos, also known as soursop tree known for its anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties . The following are photos of the fruit trees. The Durian photo is from the web. Note that it almost look like a jack fruit tree, except that the leaves are bigger and shiny. My desire is to have a passion fruit tree in the near future. You are welcome to visit my orchard and flower gardens any time, if perchance you are in the vicinity of The Chateau Du Mer Beach Resort and Conference Center.

The Rambutan Tree and Fruits

The Lanzone Tree and Fruits

The Jack Fruit Tree

The Durian Fruit Tree