As I said, I just applied online to upgrade my PLDT to 50 Mbps with a 300Gb cap per month. They have a special on this weekend only, (at least they do if you have a myPLDT account), to get free install which will save me 3500 pesos. The monthly price is 1899.

I have already been in touch with a techie who says it IS available in my subdivision. I have received an email and text message to say "application pending" and they will get back to me within 24 hours.

More than that I cannot say, but I thought the deal looked good enough to give it a try and a 300 GB cap is more than I am going to use so no big deal. The unlimited 50 Mbps plan is an additional 1,000 pesos a month and I don't see the value in it for a normal household.

But I will have a better idea when and if it gets installed and working.

 

I just got back now.
The road was good with a few minor construction areas. My car rides low and it did not scrap on anything. There are a few potholes big enough to cook a chicken in but they are easily avoided.

There is a pay parking lot with security at the ferry terminal. As soon as you enter the main gate of the port and pay the 10 or 20 pesos fee, turn right and the security shack is about 30 meters along on the right.
If the lot is full just wait for a while. Hopefully when the next ferry arrives a parking spot might become available. If you have to wait for a spot just block the gate and follow whoever is retrieving their car to their parking spot. If you don't block the gate you could end up second in line.
COST about 30 pesos per day.

 

We have a 1500 litre storage tank, which is good for 3 - 4 days (3.5 people) and a pressure tank holding about 50 litres. It's the size of the pressure tank which affects the pump cycle time. The system operates at about 40 psi. You will also need a non return valve between the storage tank and the pump and a float switch in the storage tank which will turn the pump off when the water level in the tank is too low.
Noel at Citi Hardware can advise and fit the system. Excellent guy.

 

We had the same situation when buying a car from a main dealer in April ... but they informed us of this RIDICULOUS situation in advance and we cancelled the order. Instead we bought a one year old warranted car (privately but via the same main dealer) already registered and in use from day one (it was an exact copy, even in colour, of the one we had ordered new, so we were very lucky). Not only is this a major problem for new vehicle purchasers (with the vehicle depreciating as it sits on the drive) but is a huge problem for businesses selling the vehicles and should not be allowed to continue. There are solutions if only someone at the top is willing to make the orders.

 

Pretty sure he wasn't in the 'life savings into property' category. The guy was a drunk, moved out with his Filipina GF a month ago then moved back in 2 days later without her. Would get drunk and walk around the apartment yelling even when he was alone. I am sure you have seen him, he was the guy between my apartment and the apartment you helped move a few months ago.

Was doing his 'normal' nightly drunken yelling crap but took it outside the couple nights before, the night before starting about 2am he started terrorizing my wife (I am in the US for 10 days), banging on our door, yelling through the bedroom window, blocking our door with his bicycle and sticks of bamboo. She called the landlady who came out about 4:30am with her husband and told him to go inside and quiet down. Was generally quiet after that. Sometime mid morning my wife heard a ruckus and looked to find the landlady in the parking area looking at the guy on the ground. He had climbed the water tank and jumped. Was alive when the ambulance got him.

 

Who ever said "life is cheap in the Philippines", and "money can move mountains", must have been confused.

The linked article proves the locals have great imaginations, or sense of humor, or only care about the tourist spending habits. Nothing to worry about. What did Alfred E Newman always say “What me worry?”

“Tourists in Bohol are encouraged to stay and continue their vacations because security forces are addressing the incursion, Col. Edgard Arevalo, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Public Affairs chief, added.”

“At least 4 government forces and five suspected terrorists were killed in the firefight that started at 5 a.m., Tuesday, in Barangay Napo, military officials said.”

However 700 locals do not live in fear, they just move out to evacuation centers. However it is recommended by the Military for the tourist to just stay and continue their vacations… spend their money… lol. “The 700 people in three separate evacuation centers voluntarily evacuated out of fear, Inabanga Mayor Josephine Socorro Jumamoy said.” Now remember it was just voluntary, not fear of death that the locals decided to voluntary evacuated to save their own lives, but tourist... please please have no fear...just continue on and spend you money here... lol. It is good the Tourist spending is being encouraged and appreciated by the government/military now.

PLEASE READ THIS ENCOURAGING MILITARY ADVISORY AGAIN SO YOU DO NOT EVACUATE FROM YOUR TOURIST AGENDA TO SAVE YOUR LIFE.... LOL... remember only 9 have been killed since the fighting started... lol

“Tourists in Bohol are encouraged to stay and continue their vacations because security forces are addressing the incursion, Col. Edgard Arevalo, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Public Affairs chief, added.”

PS: Although Holy Week is usually quite chaotic and busy, there is still plenty of seats available for tourist wanting to go to Bohol currently.

Hundreds of Boholanos leave homes due to Abu Sayyaf-AFP clash

 

Many people have an entitlement mentality, often taught by our educational system and even cartoons are teaching this. They think they are entitled to the wealth that you have, no matter how small it may be. Words have meaning and when the meaning of words is changed to reflect a different set of ethics for those using those words. For example, Im in the states right now taking care of some business and saw on the news a university protest over something and in the video there was a guy, a student I presumed, that had a sign that read, Quote: Hoarding wealth is murder. Unquote. I began thinking about this sign and its real meaning and the intended meaning from this sign holder. What he is calling hoarding wealth used to be called savings. I recall when I was his age having come back from Vietnam and getting married and saving money to buy our first washing machine. That would be considered hoarding wealth I suppose. To equate that savings is the same as hoarding is absurd but so are many other meanings of words being used today. Then to make the leap that a hoarder/saver is the same as murder? Im sure that in his mind anyone that saves money is a murderer and he is entitled to their money because they are worthy of death, being a murderer.
If this is an example of the values that are being taught today then we are all in trouble. Those that ask for money believe those that are giving the money to be FOOLS and they are simply getting what is theirs that the hoarders/savers have taken from them.
The other problem is that these same people vote and they vote for the candidate that says they will give them the most money and the evil rich people will pay for it.