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11-15-16 01:34 #4646What is Fireball? Food. Drink. Pulutan. A type / species / race of person. An object from outer space?
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11-14-16 22:21 #46451. Every hotel is GF unless there is a sign posted otherwise. Originally Posted by JasonD73
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2. Cialis is sold by exclusive street pharmacy reps.
3. Don't go to NGO's.
4. Rates are "up to you".
5. Bring your own.
6. Warm, cooler on some days, sunny on some when it is not cloudy.
7. In any nice chill bars with normal girls.
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11-13-16 21:47 #4644
Manning up on USA Social Security
Fatherhood might not cost you anything out of pocket. I did some research lately for a Filipina with a child fathered by an American. Turns out there is a Social Security monthly benefit payments for the minor child and or children fathered by the retiree. Nothing is deducted from the retiree's benefits.
First the child's birth has to be reported to the Manila USA Embassy, DNA maybe required and an interview will be required. After that the child will be issued a USA passport and Social Security number to collect the benefits.
There is a 5 year USA residency requirements for the father prior to the child's birth. Otherwise support payments are paid from your benefits package.
As always consult legal counsel.
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11-13-16 21:08 #4643
Bats
Be careful with bats. Many of them are infected with rabies and you don't want to catch that. If you're not vaccinated and you're too far from a hospital with the correct serum in stock, it's a very unpleasant way to die. Originally Posted by SergeantRay
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Regards,
Ko.
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11-13-16 19:59 #4642
1st Manila vist for me
I'm trying to make plans to visit the greater manila area. I have a lot of questions. Can someone give me some sound advice.
What are the girl-friendly hotels?
Can you buy Cialis like you can in Tijuana?
Where would you strongly encourage me not to go?
Whats the going rates for 'company'?
Do they serve Fireball there?
What's the weather like in December?
Where are the 'chill places,? You know like where I can go to a nice bar and meet a normal looking woman that I can take back to my room?
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11-13-16 19:12 #4641
Procedural Notes
Indeed. In the most thorough cases, a distinct separate account for everything. Or just stay / get single and tell anyone snooping into your private affairs to...nevermind. Juggling too many dates surely prompts a lot of creative storytelling, too. Originally Posted by Vitaplex
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I have noticed lately that the quality of girls available via referrals is on average so much better than any faster methods, right up there with the high end P4P but without having to constantly haggle. The total expense is less if done right, just spent in other ways. As always, it's a time vs. money tradeoff. It pays off big time to make lots of good "normal" friends of either or any gender.
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11-12-16 12:49 #4640Near Germany, right? Originally Posted by XMan
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11-12-16 07:50 #4639
I think this a great report, also SergeantRay's other ones same topic, and they really give a feeling of what it's like here. I would add just one thing, which is getting Hep A and yellow fever inoculations before staying in the deep provinces is probably a smart move. The experience is totally worth it, in any event.
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11-12-16 04:58 #4638
SergeantRay:
"or you value the experience of seeing genuine Filipino life" exactly, its this part which making me interested to try this experience, which you covered so well in your post, I guess I will give it a try and surly it will be something memorable either way. Thank you.
Mr Enternational:
I was in Davao (Mindanao) before so I was very cautious in any step outside of Davao, but now I will be in Cebu (Visayas) so I am looking forward to adventures outside of Cebu as well.
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11-12-16 04:50 #4637
Visit Family in the Province?
If you're just looking to get laid, there are better, easier ways than going into the province. But if you're really into the girl, and / or you value the experience of seeing genuine Filipino life, the trip into the province is worth it. Originally Posted by DarkNight9
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I met a girl in Cebu and followed her to Samboan, a remote town on the other side of Cebu island. Once we got to Samboan, we still had to take a habal-habal which went up narrow goat trails way up into the mountains. I remember walking through corn fields with a spectacular view across the Taņon Strait to Negros. When we got to her house I sat in the brutal humidity, exhausted from the climb, sweating like a pig, and desperate for someone to offer me a glass of water. It never came. While I was near heatstroke, they were all cool as cucumbers, and totally oblivious to my agony.
I gave every kid--and the place was crawling with them--a five peso coin, which thrilled them. They babbled in Cebuano all day and listened to the Cebuano radio by kerosene lamps at night. Eventually the two of us shared a bed, which shocked me, because we were staying with her mom. I was too nervous to do anything other than kiss her. Plus there was a cute little kid sleeping on the floor beside us. At some point in the night while we were asleep, crammed into a tiny bamboo bed, she rolled off the bed in her sleep!
The next morning I got up and showered in the outhouse, scooping water out of a 50-gallon drum.
If you go into the province stock up on your coins and small change--the provincial economy runs on nickels and dimes. Be ready to rough it. Bring a bottle of liquor, and be prepared to buy food and drinks for the family--it's not only appreciated, it's fun.
A friend of mine, dead now, God rest his soul, told me of staying with his girlfriend out in the province and watching the bats at night swoop in to snatch mosquitoes off his arm hanging on the window ledge. It's memories like these that make it all worth it.
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11-12-16 04:22 #4636Why wouldn't you go before? Why are you having a change of heart now? I don't know about you, but my camping days are over! Originally Posted by DarkNight9
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11-12-16 04:21 #4635
Leverage and Options
In looking back at my post, I realize it sounds like the parents were manipulating me. Actually, they were great people trying to doing the best for their daughter, who was totally smitten (unbeknownst to me) with a drug-using POS. Originally Posted by XMan
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This was in the old days before the internet. The parents were encouraging their daughter to meet and marry a foreigner. At that point I was lonely, desperate, and would have married her because I found it hard to believe that any Filipina might be interested in me. She had a number of foreigners writing to her via old-fashioned letters, but I was the only one who included a coupon (available at your local post office) which was good for free international postage. The parents said that this was a factor in them choosing me over other men writing to her. International postage of a buck or two was a financial burden for the family.
I gather that many of the men corresponding with her were armchair masturbators who sent her vulgar messages, and one who sent her a pair of panties in the mail. For the losers who think that this is a game-winning move, she told me when she recounted the incident, "What am I supposed to do with these?" She had no use for them.
I'll always remember that trip because it was my first taste of province life--drinking bahalina with Coke, seeing a gecko fall onto someone's hand, attending a barrio fiesta (I paid for our table.), hearing neighbors sing every song in the Tom Jones repertoire--which surprised me--listening to the story of a fisherman who saw his brother get a cramp underwater and slowly slide down into the depths, never to return. In time I realized the house had no running water, that there was no garbage service (so it was burn and bury), and that the parents had given up their bedroom for me. It was the first time I saw Filipinos eat with their hands: I was the only person at the table with a spoon and fork.
If you follow the news, the mayor of Albuera was just killed in a jail raid, and his son Kerwin was the Visayas' number one drug dealer. I know Albuera because this is where I stayed with my penpal's family and attended the town fiesta.
I remember that trip for a million reasons, all of them good, except romantically and sexually it was a total loss. She just wasn't into me, and I didn't know why. It was only later that I put the pieces together.
I didn't know then that I had options. If I had known that I would have had leverage, or I could have simply moved on. I should have arrived at Ormoc (near Albuera) on my own. If she was distant and cold, as turned out to be the case, I could have delivered the ultimatum, as I've learned to do. It's not a threat, it's not coercion--it's a simple statement of the facts: if you're not into me sexually, fine; I will go elsewhere. This very quickly eliminates the bullshit.
So I stayed the whole two or three weeks, and it was a wonderful trip, with the exception that she and I went nowhere.
I went back to the US, and later received an odd letter. She had borrowed her mom's wedding ring, but had lost it or it had fallen down the sink--I forget which. She needed me to send her money so she could buy a replacement so she wouldn't get into trouble. As dumb as I was then, something sounded wrong. I told her honesty was the best policy.
How ironic, because her story was a lie. She had become pregnant by the POS boyfriend and had moved in with him. The guy came to the father to ask permission to marry her, but dad said no. When you turn down a guy who offers to marry your pregnant daughter, things are bad indeed.
The parents wrote me eventually, asking if there was ever anything between the two of us, and explaining the situation. I had to answer no.
Believe it or not--and it's painful for me to admit it--I was so desperate and naive that I was still going to meet her and be her "savior. " Thank God at the last minute I realized just how stupid that was, and I wrote to tell them that, no, I wasn't going back to Albuera.
The moral of this long story (and there's even more to it) was that you may show up in the Philippines and there are hidden agendas. Everybody will know what's going on except you. You DO have options, if you are smart enough to play them. You can't put all your eggs in one basket, especially because you've stumbled into the middle of a situation as one clueless bastard. Everyone will talk about your "girlfriend's" boyfriend or husband right in front of your face in Cebuano, and you will sit there like a grinning idiot.
You have to be independent and make it clear that you will move on to multiple other options if it's not working out. If she meets you at the airport you are controlled from moment one and effectively surrender your leverage and options.
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11-12-16 02:19 #4634
Going with a girl to her farm.
I have a question to the experienced mongers which is kinda similar to what Lloydd72 asked:
When I was living in Philippines many girls offered me to go with to their farms or their villages which are usually located 1-4 hours from the city, I always declined as I was in Davao and roaming around Mindanao is a big no-no for me, soon I will go and live in Cebu and when I get these offers in Cebu I might say yes, though before I say that yes which I might regret so I want to take your opinion guys regarding what the girls are expecting / aiming for with these offers?
And how about me if I went with a girl lets say to her farm so what type of experience / atmosphere should I expect?
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11-11-16 23:45 #4633
Thank you for confirming my guts feeling to not get into this warm welcoming procedure. Setting up base is probably the best thing to do before getting out there. I was pleasantly surprised about the amount of feedback you guys came with. Nice to see this community alive.
Then another question; I will be staying in Manila way to short but those 5 nights, even though during weekdays, I would like to take some girl dancing in a club and have some nice time before getting back home. Any suggestions what club is worth visiting these days in Makati? I am from Holland and I really appreciate good electronic dance music!
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11-11-16 15:06 #4632You have some good advice from from seasoned veterans Lloydd72. Originally Posted by Lloydd72
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They put it eloquently but me? In one word "never".
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