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Having used the public Tricycles here extensively here in the past, I have come to the conclusion they are very dangerous units, the Drivers are fighting that third wheel constantly, one day when traveling down to the City from Valencia, I got to thinking what if this Driver has to stop quickly going down this steep hill the fully loaded sidecar would spin us around and I guess the whole unit would overturn and tumble down this steep hill?
I bought a car soon after this, we do have a Motorbike but my young child has never been allowed to travel on this and the reason we used the Trikes, thinking they give a little more protection.
One of my pet hates here is to see a Foreigner with children on his Motorbike especially if he has a car and this is even worse when they do not have Helmets on, how could a man live with himself if anything happened to this child because of his own Stupidity? I'm my view they are just Fecking idiot's.

 

Watching this thread. I lived over 30 years in San Francisco and knew every little obscure place that had great food ... melt-in-your-mouth truffle oil steak, or soltani shish kebob to die for, or scampi so good you had to lick the plate. I fully admit to having become a very annoying food snob, when I go out to eat with friends everybody will be ranting about how great the food is, and I will be like are you kidding me. Years ago Pasta King used to make a spaghetti con polpeti that I considered to be really good, with the new ownership the quality is not even close. I've tried just about every place in Dumaguete, "that wasn't too terrible" is about the best I could ever say. I would probably say that good quality restaurants is the thing I miss the most living here.

 

That reaction would vary depending on our experiences - it is not fixed at birth. Our genes will mostly have expressed themselves by older age but, in some circumstances they may not - I think that certain genes may express themselves only according to the experiences we confront (and perhaps how we deal with them) and this can be at any point in a lifetime. So our reaction would not be the same if we had previous experiences XYZ instead of WXY, for example, or even ZYX (the same experiences as XYZ but in a different order). Perhaps at the moment we are experiencing something that is in itself feeding back into a network (including, crucially, the subconscious as @danbandanna stated) that changes the reaction, or outcome. Free Will depends on experiences and so cannot be free unless we can choose every experience - and even then it depends on making the right decisions and experiencing them in the right order (and no one does that). But I don't agree that early life experiences fix everything for us - some people climb from poverty to wealth and some descend from wealth to poverty. Often there are so many factors involved in those processes that it is like unravelling a millions pieces of string to find the real reasons - a wealthy person could lose everything by gambling and so raise the question 'why did he gamble?' and a poor person could launch a business that makes a billion. Which life experiences led to it? Which ones carried more weight? And many other questions.

 

You can live decently on something like P40K a month if you own your property, more like P60K if you're renting. But don't even think about moving here unless you have at least P2M in savings (after you've bought house, car, furniture, etc). If you get sick you'll need it.

 

This is not a good use of words my friend and maybe this is due to your non-English as your main language. The lady also was referring to her late husband and therefore it comes across as very insensitive - but I am sure you were not aware of that and it was not intentional. I am informing you of this politely as I feel you might wish to edit or remove that post (is that possible?)

 

Well that's a good start to a almost the New Year, ( not that it should make any differences but Rye is also the owner of the forum! )
Guys n Gals the world is in chaos and nobody has the answers what the new year will bring, families are falling into two groups
the forgive's and the forget's.
The forgives forgive and move on and forgets forget none of us are perfect, live and let live, ignore what you dont like, or people
you feel a grievence with, there's a whole lot more out there that is worthy of your concerns.

PS, I left the forum a number of years ago, now I read it, contribute were I feel I keep a positive vibe.
I wish all members Old, New, Past or Present, a very sincere Happy and Healthy New Year in 2021

 

i stopped and had a drink yesterday at PJ's restaurant on the northern edge of bacong and visited for an hour or so with owner jerry. he advised that he knows of approximately forty of his former patrons who have left the country stating they will never come back. he told of 13 canadians who all left on the same day vowing never to return. (btw, PJ's has great food and is an area oasis for expats) i am not much into socializing with other expats but i am aware of two who have left/are leaving and do not plan to return. one is already in thailand, the other is going to vietnam by way of the US. i will turn 78 in two days. as i look at this list i cannot imagine trying to travel in this country under the present rules! i am thankful that i do not have to face travel issues for another year or so and will hope by then some common sense has returned here. leave it to the philippines to create a system that is so confusing, difficult and at times internally contradictory.

 

Dodongs Lock Smith, one block north of Lee Plaza, across from the Veterans Bank.
they are located under ''Globe'' sign in this link https://goo.gl/maps/Bw8C5wmWJ6PbaDar8

i've used them for rekeying, making duplicates, coming to my house in sibulan to make a key for a bike.
zoom in on the foto and you can see their key board.