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  1. Glendazumba

    Glendazumba DI Forum Adept

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    A handshake would be the best way to show friendship to someone you meet for the first time. It should go with the "hi" and "hello" greetings and the rule says it should be the woman who extends her hand first. However, as women in the Philippines are a bit modest (in general), you may need to extend your hand first. Between gentlemen, any of the two can both show the willingness for friendship with a handshake.

    Go ahead. Shake hands with everyone. It is a gesture of friendship.
     
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    Glendazumba, Jun 16, 2019
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  2. furriner

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    WTF is wrong with that poster? Those little ones are earning a living for their families! My gosh, they are selling things we can use like mangos, bananas and peanuts. They take the money they EARN and buy rice with it fir their families. They get the products from legal sources and sell at a profit. This is what we call HONEST WORK. There are other kids that hang around places line McDonalds near Robinson’s and they actually beg but even there I have seen some selling things. I usually give the one’s that beg 10 pesos and I know some of them have handlers who take most of the money. I don’t like that but if they have handlers I don’t see them. Those kids are the beggars. The one’s selling mangos and fruit are not and I buy from them when I have small money with me.I’m thankful to God that my kids never had to do those things and not be able to go to school.


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  3. LENNY

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    Been here 8 years now...Only thing I have seen lately is the traffic has been very heavy at times especially around 4-5-6-pm But other wise I am happy here and the people are still very friendly and nice...
     
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    My wife's father was recently treated at Silliman for a mild stroke and Dr. Denura was brought in for a cardiac consultation. I felt she was okay as a cardiac doc, but I did not like her personally at all. She walks into the room like a queen and expects everyone to stop what they are doing, get out of her way and be quiet when she enters. When she ordered that a colonoscopy be done, I was in the room and asked very politely and respectfully if she could explain her thinking about why she saw a need for that test ... she brusquely replied to me, "and where did you get your medical degree from sir".
     
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  5. furriner

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    Agree, there is nothing a foreigner can do. You can marry a Filipina or ex-Filipina and use your marital resources to put the land TCT in her name. Then you can live there and do so legally as long as your wife “permits” you to live there. Well, after 33 years of marriage I have no problem with that. We will never get divorced or separated at this stage of our lives but I do realize that IF for some reason, that did occur, I would be basically screwed. Also, not that there is a big age difference between us (5 years), I still expect to meet my maker well before she does but in the event the reverse were to be true, then there would exist this piece of property that I am living on that I did not own. What to do? It might be possible to simply do nothing, as I note many TCTs here and mother titles are in the name of deceased people. But in my case there are these greedy relatives who might play some inheritance shenanigans and get me kicked off. A saving factor is that they probably could never afford the legal fees or the resultant capital gains tax. But then again, there are a few lawyers in the family who might go pro-bono. We had our will made out but I don’t really have a clear explanation of this situation except that I would be “beneficial owner”, not a titled owner, but I could choose who would get the title. I am not so sure I believe that, plus we have kids in a foreign land who they say “could” inherit the land but I cannot really believe that because they are not Philippine citizens though they have a Filipina mother. Anyway, I would never let the Greedy just take the house and land as-is. They have things like bulldozers to correct such injustices but an even better option might be to donate it to the Catholic Church under the condition that I can complete my final days here. Some of the relatives are so fake-religious! This would be the ultimate justice, letting all that property go, and become the property of the Church.


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  6. PatO

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    I concede. I do have 3 favorites here.
    My house Friday dinner with wine
    My house Saturday dinner with wine
    My house Sunday dinner with wine
    (The king of all were the rib eye dinners Shawn brought me from Korea. Thank you again Shawn)
     
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  7. PatO

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    3 1/2 yrs ago today I had that stroke. It was a surreal feeling when it happened. Fortunately. SMC had the equipment, medication, and knowledge to pull me through.
    Today, my improvement (trying to get back to normal) seems to be leveling off. Maybe overall I am 2/3 back. This week I shaved myself for the first time since the stroke (using my left hand - I am right handed but that hand has about 75% paralysis still), 2 weeks ago I walked to the CR by myself for the first time. Normally, I need someone on my right side when walking. Small victories but you take what you can get. My voice is about 80% normal so I am lucky about that. I walk the boulevard walkway and go to the gym 5 times a week. My B-I-L is my driver and helps navigate me around the gym. The problem I have is sitting down and getting up by myself.
    My stroke was caused by a hereditary high cholesterol problem and I foolishly stopped taking Lipitor (expensive here) and my blood pressure went high during a stressful period. Plus no doctor checkup got 8 years (thinking I exercise, don't smoke, not overweight so must be healthy - WRONG),
    So maybe others here can learn from my mistake and get a blood test.
     
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    PatO, Mar 31, 2017
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  8. Liverpool fan

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    Happy to see you write, if he is guilty. No matter what, I'm pretty sure the court will find him guilty. I agree it's totally stupid fight with a local. I do my best to show all people respect, but if someone attack me, I punch back, just my nature. I live here more than 6 years now, but will never agree with the lack of justice to foreigners, and the racism a part of the native exercise. Several years in jail for a punch, come on, out of proportions
     
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  9. AlwaysRt

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    Hmmmm, sounds like Robert's (Bob's) parents made a mistake, should have named him Richard (Dick)!!!
     
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  10. alex

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    I recently asked my neighbors’ little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, are liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, ‘If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?’
    She replied, ‘I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.’

    ’Wow…what a worthy goal.’ I told her, ‘But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that! You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I’ll pay you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.‘
    She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, ’ Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50? ‘
    Maybe she should be our next president.
     
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