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I know the man and the tree so do many other members that grow veggies, their is two sides to every story then their is the truth the sight is the mans house and his business . Way back when the Air Bus started landing here he had damage to the roof of his house and sheds from wind sheer, no money was forth coming for repairs so the trees were let grow to to give some protection from it happening again. (i think that is fair enough). maybe the stale mate came when some one was asked to sign on the line to except the costs of repairs to any further damage.

 

Unfortunately I believe the Philippines will have to learn the hard way - like most teenagers during their puberty years with "independence" and "stubborn" and "what do others know" attitudes.

Look at US Base issues - 1st we kick them out - now let us give them 8 bases (I know - logistic support only - yeah right ).

Look at Army, Navy, Airforce, PNP, etc equipment. If somebody comes a knocking, we can not even throw rocks - only sticks.

Look at foreign investment issues - they restrict with both hands and legs tight together - then wonder why the foreign companies pull out.

Overseas Foreign Workers - as much as 10% of GDP is directly linked to the support given by OFW to family in Philippines. If they did not go overseas they would be an unemployment burden.
And they are an easy mark for corruption (customs, employment agency, etc). And then have the president state that they should have stayed in Philippines - they decided to go overseas ().

Anyways we'll see how the election will go. Hopefully there will be a government that is forward thinking and planning with some positive strategies.

My rant for the day .

 

When i was in Bayawan the dog catchers came around every week a guy on a bike to find and shoot the dog and 3 men in a truck to collect the body. Sounds cruel but every kid could ride a bike or people could walk there dog with out the worry of stray dogs being a problem . But why not here?

 

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