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[X Man]

The Filipino communication technique that always amuses me is the way they point with their mouths / lips. If there isn't a word for such a thing, there should be. How about Labium Guidance?

Thanks. Have just taken clues as to where the words are placed in a sentence, and which syllable is accented. And she really did spell it ket cat bor several times. Pinoy spell words how they sound. Is that called phonetic? Example: Trabajo (spanish for 'work') becomes Trabaho. A girl once contacted me in FB saying that her mom was in the hospital and the doctor said that mom needed a 'city scan'. Do you mean a CT scan?

Example of language: Always put the word 'only' at the end of a sentence. Listen to the girl at JolliBee: "Will you like large drink sir? Its 79 pesos ONLY". You might think that she would say: "Its only 79 pesos sir", or "Its only 6 pesos more sir". But no.

And 'would' becomes 'will': "Will you like to go to the store with me?"

[Cons68]

She got mad and broke up with me. She thought that I should have been the one to pay for it, because if I wouldn't have been visiting her, then she wouldn't have been going to the lake so the accident would not have happened.

Sure you can not fight that logic, can you?

[Datiao]

Sigh. It would have been easier to simply run a Google search as always. Note to self. You can't wake up a man who is pretending to sleep.

https://www.ebay.com/bhp/spy-watch

So ebay free shipping from US but I need to pay shipping costs to return if defective.

I would rather pay more to buy at physical shops in manila, test it on site and use immediately to avoid the delivery time and defective possibilities.
And i m just a tourist a week in manila

[WestCoast1]

I want to commend your remarkably accurate recreation of pidgin Taglish.

Thanks. Have just taken clues as to where the words are placed in a sentence, and which syllable is accented. And she really did spell it ket cat bor several times. Pinoy spell words how they sound. Is that called phonetic? Example: Trabajo (spanish for 'work') becomes Trabaho. A girl once contacted me in FB saying that her mom was in the hospital and the doctor said that mom needed a 'city scan'. Do you mean a CT scan?

Example of language: Always put the word 'only' at the end of a sentence. Listen to the girl at JolliBee: "Will you like large drink sir? Its 79 pesos ONLY". You might think that she would say: "Its only 79 pesos sir", or "Its only 6 pesos more sir". But no.

And 'would' becomes 'will': "Will you like to go to the store with me?"

[Mr Enternational]

Pattaya. But wouldn't swim there. Any swim able places close to Patts?

Simple. Just take the boat to Koh Larn (Coral Island) from Pattaya (Bali Hai Pier, end of Walking Street). 45 minutes. 30 baht.

Where is your go to beach & bunny location?

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sosua, Dominican Republic. Cartagena, Colombia.

[NewImage]

Always looking for the combo of good swimming beach and nightlife.

Ok Phuket I have been to. Sabang Phil have been to. Look like unfort Sihanoukville is getting wrecked by Chinese development. Still viable or many reports say forget! Ko Samui & Boracay know of. Pattaya. But wouldn't swim there. Any swim able places close to Patts?

Know of the Nang, Nha Trang, Vung Tau in Viet but mongering in Viet is such a hassle. Didn't like Bali, well it was Kuta / Seminyak really.

So anyone got any new / recently developed places where combo of beach and girls can be found in SEA?

Anywhere in Thai / Phil / Indon to fit the bill. Prefer enough WG to give me choice. Yeah I know I want it all!

Where is your go to beach & bunny location?

Appreciate.

NI.

[NamasteParis]

Chocolate. "Ket cat bor if you can, my son love American chocolate" Party on Ket-cat-bor.

Hahaha Ket Cat Bor: that's a good one! LMAO! Especially when you know that KIT KAT is from Nestle, Switzerland.

[Soapy Smith]

"Ket cat bor if you can, my son love American chocolate".

I want to commend your remarkably accurate recreation of pidgin Taglish. You've always done this well in field reports, especially considering that many of your interactions are in areas where Bisaya is spoken rather than Tagalog. Seems like there are two steps to it. First, you have to recall (or perhaps you record) the words and word order from the native; second, you have to work through the English word construction to capture a reasonably proximal phonetic spelling of the original. Joking aside, your inserted pidgin adds authenticity to the forum. I appreciate it.

[Simmer]

Yes, that has happened to me several times over the past 30 years. But I always got a refund. Twice in Costa Rica, once in Colombia, and a few times in the Philippines.

What happened to me is that the ATM gets the acceptance from your bank to dispense the cash. Then it has an internal error in which it cannot dispense the cash. Citibank ATM in Philippine gave me the refund immediately after the error. The Banco Colombia ATM gave me a refund one day afterwards. The Philippine bank ATMs did nothing until I notified my bank.

My Service Rep (from Schwab) assured me that the Visa/debit payment system has checks and balances to insure system integrity. I always got a refund. It's logical. No smart large company is going to trust corruptible third world people with their money. You have pictures, and internal money counts (that can't be hacked), etc.

Most of my problems were investigated and closed in my favor. But I had one incident with PS Bank ATM on Fields Road in which the PS Bank did not reply to my bank's request for an investigation. Then my Schwab bank notified me that they would refund my money since their time requirement for investigation expired. I wouldn't trust third world Philippines. But the Visa debit payment system (not from the Philippines) is trustworthy.

Thanks, GreenBud. I hope that the records do show a failure to give cash. I was only reminded to ask about this as I got a notification from the bank that I'd been temporarily credited (10 days). I believe they have another 20 days to conclude the matter one way or another.

[Blanquiceleste]

Have you been in a situation when you need to proof to validate your claims? Recording the incident is the best evidence. Filipinos are cowards, they won't confront you face to face but good at doing things behind your back without you knowing like in a crowd.

Whats so exciting at the bar that you may want to record?

Sigh. It would have been easier to simply run a Google search as always. Note to self. You can't wake up a man who is pretending to sleep.

https://www.ebay.com/bhp/spy-watch

[Mr Enternational]

Have you been in a situation when you need to proof to validate your claims? Recording the incident is the best evidence.

Sure that holds true in a first world country, but for a foreinger in a 3rd world country that means squat. My buddy in Thailand got into an accident. Luckily he had his trusty dash cam running and was able to show the cops that the other guy was at fault. The cops didn't care about that shit. He wasted his damn money on that cam!

I was in a car accident in Nicaragua when me and my girlfriend were going to a lake. My girl stopped to turn left and an [CodeWord902], unlicensed driver with her father in the car hit us square in the ass. Open and shut case right? WRONG! Because the girl's father paid off the judge first, so my girlfriend was responsible for fixing her own car. She got mad and broke up with me. She thought that I should have been the one to pay for it, because if I wouldn't have been visiting her, then she wouldn't have been going to the lake so the accident would not have happened.

[GreenBud]

Anybody had an ATM refuse to dispense cash but your bank claims it did? I feel I'm in a no-win situation sadly.

So I needed cash in a small city in the Visayas. Each of three ATMs attached to banks said words along the lines of "cannot withdraw from this machine" - not terribly unusual for PI ATMS, though less common these days. The fourth stated "you have exceeded your daily limit". Sure enough, go online to my bank and one of the earlier 3 machines had told my bank it dispensed cash. I was with somebody at the time and he noticed no cash either, nor did I hear any of the clicking you normally hear as it counts the notes before dispensing them.

Yes, that has happened to me several times over the past 30 years. But I always got a refund. Twice in Costa Rica, once in Colombia, and a few times in the Philippines.

What happened to me is that the ATM gets the acceptance from your bank to dispense the cash. Then it has an internal error in which it cannot dispense the cash. Citibank ATM in Philippine gave me the refund immediately after the error. The Banco Colombia ATM gave me a refund one day afterwards. The Philippine bank ATMs did nothing until I notified my bank.

I raised a dispute with the bank. Wells Fargo. But the lady didn't give good vibes about the success of appealing. My word against a foreign ATM.

My Service Rep (from Schwab) assured me that the Visa/debit payment system has checks and balances to insure system integrity. I always got a refund. It's logical. No smart large company is going to trust corruptible third world people with their money. You have pictures, and internal money counts (that can't be hacked), etc.

Most of my problems were investigated and closed in my favor. But I had one incident with PS Bank ATM on Fields Road in which the PS Bank did not reply to my bank's request for an investigation. Then my Schwab bank notified me that they would refund my money since their time requirement for investigation expired. I wouldn't trust third world Philippines. But the Visa debit payment system (not from the Philippines) is trustworthy.

[Kabul Guy]

Been going to the Philippines for 20 years, and for 20 years they always tell me the same thing, "The chocolate from America tastes different". ......

It's a local cultural thing. Anything from afar is better than anything local. Foreign stuff costs more so should naturally be better, right?

They love long noses.

They love blue eyes.

They love white skin.

They love blond or fair hair.

They love foreign chocolate. A hint get the Hersey in brown wrapper, that is what the GI's were issued in the post war times and they associate it with American affluence and see it as a sign of wealth. (or so I have been told.).

Also women everywhere love it when you bring them anything from afar, it is not the value o the gift but the proof that you were thinking of them when you were away from them that matters.

[Simmer]

Anybody had an ATM refuse to dispense cash but your bank claims it did? I feel I'm in a no-win situation sadly.

So I needed cash in a small city in the Visayas. Each of three ATMs attached to banks said words along the lines of "cannot withdraw from this machine" - not terribly unusual for PI ATMS, though less common these days. The fourth stated "you have exceeded your daily limit". Sure enough, go online to my bank and one of the earlier 3 machines had told my bank it dispensed cash. I was with somebody at the time and he noticed no cash either, nor did I hear any of the clicking you normally hear as it counts the notes before dispensing them.

I raised a dispute with the bank. Wells Fargo. But the lady didn't give good vibes about the success of appealing. My word against a foreign ATM.

[Bushes]

Depends on your bag allowance. I usually fill one suitcase with the assorted from the big box stores. The Holloween bags. I stick with the simple chocolate ones and not the mixes that I myself do not like. If you are meeting some city girls, there are the nice Belgium chocolate gift boxes. For on site consumption, I get the plastic containers and bags of Barkthins.

I have gotten several requests from pinays for chocolates when they visit me. WTF. What are they looking for, a handful of hershey kisses or something else? Help me because if I have to get something only available in the states I have to act quickly.