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Our helper has just given birth to a healthy baby boy at the provincial Hospital. She went in last Sunday evening with the onset of labor, and after an extremely prolonged and problematic labor it was decided that a C-section was necessary to prevent further distress to mother and child. She had the operation at 6am on Tuesday and all went well. She was duly moved to the maternity ward to recover.
I made my first visit to see the new arrival that same afternoon. Previously I had only been outside the maternity block, which was pretty grim,having accessed it through the old part of the hospital, which was also as unpleasant as I had expected.
However, to my surprise, the maternity unit is in the new building, and that amazingly is nicer than Silliman and light years better than Holy Child, where our daughter was born. Our helper was in a very pleasant 2-bed semi-private room with en-suite CR and was as nice as I've seen anywhere. She was also advised by the OB-Gyn to join Phil Health, this being after the birth. This was duly done, at a cost of 2,500 pesos.
Den was finally discharged late last night (Saturday). This involved a lot of running around with paperwork from one place to another by the father but the end result when we finally handed them over to the cashier was that we owed nothing. I still haven't quite figured that out as Den wasn't even a member of PhilHealth when she gave birth but I wasn't about to argue. So the total expenditure during her stay only came to a couple of thousand pesos in prescription meds for her six-day confinement. All in all a very pleasant surprise and both mother and child were well cared for.

 

I found this light at Unitop, it is a 15 Watt LED plastic Bulb made by VGL and has a built-in Battery which when screwed into the socket and turned on, allows it to switch automatically to an Emergency light during a Black-out, it also comes with a screw on cap with a hook that allows you to remove it from the socket and move to another room should you need portable light, or even use like a Torch/Flashlight, obviously it charges when connected to electricity, it throws a very bright light and I plan on buying more to fit outside so during Black-outs we still have the security of external lighting that switches on in a nanosecond!

Cost was 280php which I thought was reasonable.

My thoughts are that others here may find them suitable for external/internal security/emergency/ convenient lighting.

 

Hello to all, newbie here (sort of)
I have been following this site for
a little more than a year now and recently i got a msg i need to register
so, here i am. I post under Dclev, my name is Don. 58 yrs old and very interested in everything philippines !
I feel i have learned and gained a lot from this site and hope to get a chance to know or write to many of you on here. There are so many i follow. There has also been many times i wished i could reply or comment on subjects or maybe even answer some questions that i might have info on. So i owe you all a big thanx for info i have recieved and hope to pass it on.
Mabuhay

 

So it was always going to come one year and although time files it has hit me with a wallop.
our Princess will be 18 next week but so will here School mates within a short time to follow or some already. One of the reasons I embarked on buying the car was that now she is of an age 3 on a Bike is not good when the little one is taller than Mum, So dad's Taxi has been reborn after all these years. Tonight is the Start of about 16 of them in the next 2 months. I guess we all realise when we say Kids do grow up it comes as a shock when the last one will be a Little Proper Young Lady. Having given us some ups and downs over the last few years I was so proud of her Yesterday out doing her bits and pieces buying for her outing Tonight. I am not a lover of Night driving at the best of Times but here in Dumaguete, I just hope the other Road users will give me a break for once
Just wondered if any of you others have a Dad's taxi now or soon
I guess I am only writing this because I am a proud Dad, OH! I know you all will be But... AW you know what I mean

 

I do not see a recent update to this so I am sharing my experience:

U.S. Passport expires in July this year and have travel plans so need new passport to comply with the 6 months remaining requirement the Philippines and other countries have.

I filled out the application using the wizard on the embassy website and printed it out. On the application you can request the larger passport which has twice the pages as 'normal'. The cost of the regular and extra page passport is the same, the State Department no longer issues extra pages to add to your passport so if you think you will need them get them on renewal.

Per the instructions on the website, I went to BPI and got a bank draft for $110, had to put my wife's name and account number on the BPI request but they put my name on the draft. Not sure, but sounded like you need an account to get the draft. The exchange rate they used was better than xe.com (over p50.00 to $1 on a P49.xx to $1 day) and charged p250 (best I can remember) service fee.

Since the Air21 phone number at the Embassy does not work (per the instruction sheet, I believe it is finally working now) I just went to Air21 in Duma. Instead of p240 round trip door-to-door, it was p300 to send from their office and I will have to pay the Air21 return fee COD to the driver.

2 weeks since I was at Air21 I checked the Embassy Passport Status website, it said my new passport has been printed in the US and sent to the Manila Embassy.

Final result, I recieved my old and new Passport (with extra pages) via Air21 COD to my door today. COD fee was p120. That makes it mailed to Embassy via Air21 in Dumaguete on Friday 27 January and received via Air21 in Valencia on Wednesday 1 March, 2 days short of 5 weeks.

 

Well all I can say is fantastic!
Went in late afternoon and ordered fish and chips, out came a feast at 195 pesos , lovely bartered dorado fish in huge chunks along with very large perfectly cooked chips , it was a struggle to finish the meal as so large,
Kudos to This place I am more then impressed with the price , service and quality of food .
Had a full meal, ice cream dessert , and 3 or 4 beers , sat for around 2 hours watching the world go by at a cost of 390 odd pesos!
Great job why not

 

Today my wife and I decided to dress the Christmas Tree. We began by putting the lights on the tree and when we were nearly finished, my wife noticed that one of the push fit bulbs on the floor. It was then that we noticed that all the bulb holders were disintegrating, allowing the two contacts to escape the holder and possibly short out. We took all the lights off the tree and noticed that every holder was now turning into a powder. This then made me realise why there are so many fires here. We purchased these lights 3 years ago in a store very close to Mc Donalds. So please check your lights and discard them if they are not 100%.

Have a safe and Merry Christmas.