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[Albert9989]

Hi.

I am coming to Manila and then Cebu by end of this week.

Unfortunately I have a small disease which will need a doctor advice, dermatology I guess, that's really crap when I start a stay there but I will need.

Can you help me giving best places to goein Manila or better in Cebu to be able to get good diagnostics for dermatology speciality?

Thanks for your help.

[DavidR123]

I have spent most of the past 14 years in the Philippines and picked up countless beautiful girls with ease. (Almost exclusively non-pros for the past decade or so.) I guess I am ready for a change of scenery. Where else have you gentlemen been where the picking up of regular girls is as easy as here? Please be as specific as possible.

[Wicked Roger]

Just checking of on / off etc.

[GDreams]

Wasn't there just such an issue a decade ago with an aircraft flying over Indonesia, having to make an emergency landing in Jakarta? Engine intake problems, ash-pitted windows? This from either one or two volcanoes erupting somewhere on the main island, the winds were moving the ash cloud into the flight routes.

1982. https://www.businessinsider.com/capt...-failed-2013-2.

[Kabul Guy]

Wasn't there just such an issue a decade ago with an aircraft flying over Indonesia, having to make an emergency landing in Jakarta? Engine intake problems, ash-pitted windows? This from either one or two volcanoes erupting somewhere on the main island, the winds were moving the ash cloud into the flight routes.

I recall one over Alaska and another over Iceland as well.

As much as I hate the engine noise on a large aircraft, I would think that the silence would be worse, especially over the Atlantic in the vicinity of the Arctic Circle.

[AussieGaigin]

Wasn't there just such an issue a decade ago with an aircraft flying over Indonesia, having to make an emergency landing in Jakarta? Engine intake problems, ash-pitted windows? This from either one or two volcanoes erupting somewhere on the main island, the winds were moving the ash cloud into the flight routes.

That's the British Airways 747 mentioned a few posts down.

[WestCoast1]

For some of the nasty things ash can do to aircraft see.

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanic_..._aircraft.html

The particulate matter can pit the windows so the pilot has zero visibility as well.

Wasn't there just such an issue a decade ago with an aircraft flying over Indonesia, having to make an emergency landing in Jakarta? Engine intake problems, ash-pitted windows? This from either one or two volcanoes erupting somewhere on the main island, the winds were moving the ash cloud into the flight routes.

[Kabul Guy]

Given recent chatter about making all USA citizen get visas in advance imagine this rule being applied. Seems the Chinese wer not asked for a return ticket like other have been (and discussed previously on the board).

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/121212...siting-chinese

You never know what the President will do next but I can see everyone saying they will stay in Manila etc just to avoid lots of BS.

According to that article Chinese will not be able to get SRRVs. You need to enter on tourist visa and convert here which they say will not be allowed.

I just don't see the visa rles for Americans being tightened that much. Americans are just under 20% of tourists to the Philippines annually (about 1 in 7 or so) plus a good number of Americans are also SRRV holders. The economic contribution is simply too much for the rules to make any rational sence.

Of course since a politician wiill make the rules, rationality goes away pretty quickly.

[Kabul Guy]

The most notable was a BA 747 en route to Australia that had 4 engines shut down over Indonesia after passing through an ash cloud.

I not that most flights out of Manila today seem to be running to schedule. If desperate Clark is not affected.

For some of the nasty things ash can do to aircraft see.

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanic_..._aircraft.html

The particulate matter can pit the windows so the pilot has zero visibility as well.

[GDreams]

There were a few cases where aircraft had engine shutdown at altitude due to flying into ash cloud. Alaska and Iceland if memory serves me.

I am in Negros now and was intending on driving back through Iliolo and Puerto Galleria into Batangas. Not sure now if I will make it depending on how the eruption proceeds.

The most notable was a BA 747 en route to Australia that had 4 engines shut down over Indonesia after passing through an ash cloud.

I not that most flights out of Manila today seem to be running to schedule. If desperate Clark is not affected.

[Kabul Guy]

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2...cano-ash-cloud

This will disrupt a few people especially if he monger told the wife he was elsewhere and slipped into the Philippines for a quiet dalliance with a cutie and was leaving today (12th).

Ash is no joking matter so I think this time they got it right.

There were a few cases where aircraft had engine shutdown at altitude due to flying into ash cloud. Alaska and Iceland if memory serves me.

I am in Negros now and was intending on driving back through Iliolo and Puerto Galleria into Batangas. Not sure now if I will make it depending on how the eruption proceeds.

[Wicked Roger]

Given recent chatter about making all USA citizen get visas in advance imagine this rule being applied. Seems the Chinese wer not asked for a return ticket like other have been (and discussed previously on the board).

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/121212...siting-chinese

You never know what the President will do next but I can see everyone saying they will stay in Manila etc just to avoid lots of BS.

[Wicked Roger]

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2...cano-ash-cloud

This will disrupt a few people especially if he monger told the wife he was elsewhere and slipped into the Philippines for a quiet dalliance with a cutie and was leaving today (12th).

Ash is no joking matter so I think this time they got it right.

[Wicked Roger]

Going to Philippines for the first time soon. Will be in Cebu. Other than Smooci and Tinder, what are the best places online to find girls? And I don't mean for relationships. I'm just not the one to spend hours scouring red light districts anymore. Guess I'm getting old. I rather sit at my hotel room browsing profiles / ads and then inviting them to my hotel.

What are your go to sites / apps / methods online?

Lots of info on your questions in this thread if you RTFF as many of us have written all about the better apps and some have differing viewpoints.

So sometime is best to try it as one person's good app is bad for another.

One point to note is you joined in 2015, asked 5 questions, another question in 2017 and now yet another question.

Sometime people respond to those whose FR history shows a contribution or two.

Alternatively you can PM me as I have a few hacks that can hep more so as I am in Cebu a lot during the year.

As you said browse profiles and choose is what many do (me included when I was first in the country) but then some of use friends of friends now also as a kore secure way of scoring. Use contacts from others basically.

Look forward to reading what you decide and how you did.

[Farcondee]

Going to Philippines for the first time soon. Will be in Cebu. Other than Smooci and Tinder, what are the best places online to find girls? And I don't mean for relationships. I'm just not the one to spend hours scouring red light districts anymore. Guess I'm getting old. I rather sit at my hotel room browsing profiles / ads and then inviting them to my hotel.

What are your go to sites / apps / methods online?