blacklisted but...

Some books to bring to the next work assignment. Some of the items are my housemates'. But it's good to have bookends and bookmiddle...

the road less travelled

this is at the end of the cooktown-cairns coastal road in cairns international airport, and i had to stop and smell the roses. but before th...

listless reading

i am listless. meaning i lost my list he he. lucky i still have my wits. am wistful too. and wishful. brings to mind "The Remember Song...

the innkeepers

To close off this chapter on cooktown, i have to relate the story of the innkeepers. when we checked in at the inn where we were staying, at...

the dozer driver

Deliveries in an area the size of Baguio (this site is about 6km long by 4km wide), can be quite taxing after a while. Hence we called in th...

sights around cooktown

each picture paints its thousand words, so i'll just add some captions. cooktown is the closest town to the great barrier reef. with m...

fishing in robin hood's point

Archer Point about 20kms south of cooktown is famed for fishing. So on a sunday (a day-off to keep the sabat day uli, as you do), we drove d...

trails of trouble

This week involved a lot of walking and hiking up mountains, hills and gullies to do special deliveries. And this was no picnic! Our client ...

Goin’ troppo (november 08)

If you were wondering... m polichay's gone troppo this past month. Cooktown in far north queensland, is the northernmost town on the aus...

plodding along

the slow one now will later be fast the site is taking a while to take shape but please bear with me my house is getting too heavy

now showing

at a cinema near you. this was a while back but there might be reruns somewhere. i wonder what's showing in the other seven.

good car to drive

after a war. it's a late 1920s dodge, not a cadillac i know but was good after ww1 and ww111 maybe i actually hired this car for a girl...

what will you have?

whiskey, bourbon or brandy? not much choice but it's all i've got. in case anyone's wondering, i keep the black and blue labels ...

play it again sam!

The last two lines of Sam Cooke's song 'a change is gonna come' goes: It's been a long time coming But I know a change is go...

sunday mornin' come undone

on a sunday morning leisure drive i got sideswiped on the way here to my favorite net cafe. a little shaken is all but could've been wor...

Barracking for Mccain

bar·rack Australian To shout support for a player or team. A few days out from the us presidential elections and thoughts are swirling arou...

Lechon de locha

I was feeling peckish one time. Could not find a sagada lunch in Oz. So I visited a friend in Tamworth. I says hey Joe! mate I come a-fair-w...

When is a mountain a mountain?

Today I delivered to Mt. Cotton in Redlands Shire near Brisbane. Mount Cotton has many diverse attractions including a winery and breathtaki...

i've been everywhere man, not

I work for a delivery company. This suits me well because i'm one of those that Hag sings about: I'm on the run, the highway is my h...

more reading, listening and other leisure ideas

This set was my checkouts a couple of months ago. Again i have to disclaim completely reading any of the books. I did enjoy listening to Van...

reading ideas

Below is photo of my checkout items from a local library. I have not read them all from cover to cover. This is more like a 'to read...

musings 1

Somewhere in these rugged mountains is Mainit. And from this mountain village and its surrounds is the humble roots of the author. His ances...

an igorot odyssey

This blog chronicles part of the journey that is the ongoing life of the author. From his humble beginnings in the mountains of the Cordille...