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I dislike Alec Baldwin and his politics.

If you were head of Philippine Immigration, do you ban someone for cracking a stupid joke halfway around the world? Petty actions like that makes the Philippine government the laughingstock of Asia and shows how its people have an serious inferiority complex. If the Philippines is to be taken seriously, it needs to act professionally and in accordance with rule of law.

The kinds of mongering things we say on this forum (said in serious manner, I might add) is far more offensive and illegal.

[QUOTE=Sammon;1225223]Cambodia and vietnam take full pages. I wish they would make electronic recording and get rid of all these stamping business. .[/QUOTE]Ha ha, having been to all these places myself I know what you mean about all those visas taking up full pages, lets not forget the Indonesia and China visa taking up full space. Although I know what you mean about going stampless, I still kinda like to look at my passport from time to time and see all those colorful stamps and entry visas. Guess its just the kid in me.

[QUOTE=Macho Dik; 1224946]Dear All,

I would like to thank all brothers here that have responses to my earlier posting about DIA girls working as waitress in a club there.

Pardon me for not able to have it answer one by one of your responses but your comments are very informative to me, specially a first timer to this place.

Initially, due to my immigration papers that I have been working for the past several days from the day I landed this country, I though I will not be able to have time visiting AC but now that I finally have it done. So in this case, I will only have 1 night available to stay in AC as I need to be back for my departure from the Philippines. So,

1) is it advisable to spend one night in AC or I better try next time with more enough time to feel the place?

2) Should I bring my passport there? Is there any border checkpoint? I will be travelling by Victory line (bus)? If possible, for security reason, I don't want to bring so much valuables thing with me to AC.

3) I understand throught my reading in the forum, the Barfine you pay is before you take the girls out? Will this prompted the girls to be not fullfilling the deeds instead of overnighter, they only do short time? Although some have mentioned can be refunded, is this usually happend?

Cheers,

MD[/QUOTE]Just a quick response as this is strickly.IMO.

My gut feeling is NO. Going thru all the extra time and travel just for 1 nite in AC will not get you a true feel of the place. It will seem like, get there, check into hotel go out for a quick bite to eat, sit at a bar, order a drink, make a rush decision to pick any gal available as time feels short and then it will be time to leave. (depending on when you arrive and depart).

Like I said this is strickly IMO.

[QUOTE=Ekspat; 1225146]Another thing is paragraph 1.

[b]1) Idiots or insane persons and persons who have been insane; [/b]

The immigration officers are the only ones to decide who's an idiot and even if I have a PhD in Engineering, if they don't like my nose and consider me an idiot, they can send me back. I guess there is nothing much I can do. Best thing is to be humble and polite and get through as quickly as possible.

Cheers![/QUOTE]The immigration desk is the one-place in ANY country where one must keep a low profile, be polite and play the game. Consider the difference between US immigration and Philippine Immigration.

Immigration officers in the USA see real tourists and business people, and lots of others.

Philippine Immigration officers see thousands of entry cards with Angeles City, Subic and Manila addresses, presented by middle.aged mongers. Some of them may be a little pissed and take personal pleasure in inconveniencing you. Just roll with it and remember that while you are drinking a San Miguel and getting blown, he is there in his cage, stamping passport, after passport, after passport.

[QUOTE=Mahaba;1225391]Philippine Immigration officers .Just roll with it and remember that while you are drinking a San Miguel and getting blown, he is there in his cage, stamping passport, after passport, after passport.[/QUOTE]I think that is part of the problem, they are locked in to the airport and to the country. We are free to go hither and thither. Envy would be part of it, but then there is arrogance too, LOL.

Since we are adding to the pages, lets not forget Liberia, Uganda, and Fucking Afghan is stinking Stan.

Thanks Ekspat and Phantomtiger2 for your response.

As I feel time will not be good enough to me and hotel are fully booked, so I scrap this trip to AC and stay in Manila with a good time to a grils name cherry.

I hope on my next trip, I will definitely give AC a try and report back the same way you guys is doing.

Cheers,

MD

[QUOTE=Edward M; 1225202]Give the PI immigration credit where credit is due. They were dead on balls accurate about this douchebag.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J0-ZatDHug[/url]

[url]http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/12/08/alec_baldwin_kicked_off_flight_apologizes_to_fellow_travelers_.html[/url][/QUOTE]I think everyone overreacted to Alec Baldwin's "statement." He was on a talk show, and simply cracked a joke. Okay, it was perhaps a bad joke, but it doesn't make him a racist or anti-Philippines.

Just think, if the press were following you around all the time writing down every word you say, don't you think you might occasionally say something taken out of context that makes you out to be terribly insensitive or a moron? I think we all do, but public figures make the news when they are just human.

RG

[QUOTE=Tanglin;1225162]NAIA immigration has always been a little more full of themselves than other airports in SE Asia. I remember a while back when my passport was nearly full, and they put the stamp into the endorsements page. I was told sternly,"get more pages or don't come back." Fortunately, getting more pages at the US Embassy in Singapore is one of the most painless activities I've ever encountered.[/QUOTE]They have never been anything but very friendly to me, with comments like "welcome back home, maybe you should get a Philippine passport" or "I'll squeeze the stamp here to save some space". I go thru a passport per year mostly due to Indonesian visa stickers which have thankfully gotten smaller.

Indonesia though. When they went thru this full page. Stamp only. Smaller sticker fiasco. Timatic listed Jakarta / Bali as stamp only at the time of travel, I was given the option of paying 5 million or be deported in some shady back room as I had no space for their newly created small sticker. I hope the dickhead at least spent some of it for pussy.

[QUOTE=Sammon; 1225223]When I entered Phi couple of years ago my passport pages were kind of full also. Immigratrion lady just put the stamp somewhere and when returning the guy had trouble locating the stamp. I went to the USA embassy in Manila and they added pages within a day for free. Nowadays adding pages are not free. However if you want more pages when changing passport there is one with more pages you can request.

When I had lived in Shenzhen and frequently travelled to Hong kong the stamps fill up pages not counting some travel Shenzhen-Macau- BKK as well.

Cambodia and vietnam take full pages. I wish they would make electronic recording and get rid of all these stamping business. Long time ago when I returned to US they did not put a stamp.[/QUOTE]When a US citizen enters the US his passport does not get stamped. I just paid I think $140 to get pages added to mine.

[QUOTE=John Gault;1225700]When a US citizen enters the US his passport does not get stamped. I just paid I think $140 to get pages added to mine.[/QUOTE]To John.

No kidding US is now charging to add page wonder they are charging oversea US embassy also, but now day most country is using computer scanning no more stamp only third world country like PI still use them.

Fast Eddie 48

[QUOTE=Radical Guy; 1225625]I think everyone overreacted to Alec Baldwin's "statement." He was on a talk show, and simply cracked a joke. Okay, it was perhaps a bad joke, but it doesn't make him a racist or anti-Philippines.

Just think, if the press were following you around all the time writing down every word you say, don't you think you might occasionally say something taken out of context that makes you out to be terribly insensitive or a moron? I think we all do, but public figures make the news when they are just human.

RG[/QUOTE]It's pretty obvious why the Philippine government does irrational things. It's not because they're incompetent (well, maybe) , but because they get to score points with voters.

90% of Filipinos aren't sophisticated enough to vote. So politicians pander to their basest emotions, like banning an American comedian for insulting Filipino pride. This is one of many reasons why the Philippines isn't ready for liberal democracy.

[QUOTE=FurryFriend; 1225739]It's pretty obvious why the Philippine government does irrational things. It's not because they're incompetent (well, maybe) , but because they get to score points with voters.

90% of Filipinos aren't sophisticated enough to vote. So politicians pander to their basest emotions, like banning an American comedian for insulting Filipino pride. This is one of many reasons why the Philippines isn't ready for liberal democracy.[/QUOTE]Philippinos are all show and no guts or substance.

Guys can you stop the anti Pino posts. It bad enough you fly here just to sex the local girls. I know Pino who read these forums and then you wonder why you get attacked here.

[QUOTE=Frenzy3;1225854]Guys can you stop the anti Pino posts.[/QUOTE]I'm not sure why we would stop speaking our minds on the board. We often discuss the culture (sometimes we are right, sometimes wrong?) , that's kind of the idea of the various parts of the Philippine thread. We also discuss the positives of going there (trim, food, diving, etc.)

[QUOTE=Frenzy3;1225854]It bad enough you fly here just to sex the local girls.[/QUOTE]What is wrong with that? That's one of the purposes of the board?

[QUOTE=Frenzy3;1225854]I know Pino who read these forums and then you wonder why you get attacked here.[/QUOTE]We don't wonder why we get attacked. It's a modestly violent society. They attack their own more often than they attack kano. Reading this board for pina is a good/bad look in the mirror?

[QUOTE=ManonsanBoy;1225831]Philippinos are all show and no guts or substance.[/QUOTE]One thing filipinos have been repeatedly accused of by outsiders on a cultural level is being style over substance. Not only by outsiders, but also by filipinos. A pinay sent me a youtube link last year to a Filipino comedian doing a routine on 'filipine culture in 5 minutes'. He sits at home on cam, and talks to foreigners about the odd things filipinos do, that filipinos find normal yet outsiders must find funny: "We say 'he' when we mean 'she', and we say 'she' when we mean 'he'. We often don't really say what we mean hahaha. Filipinos often understand that their best friend might be lying to our face, because he is not saying what he means. Really I was talking about my female friend just now, but I said 'he'. See how we do that? Haha." The comedian goes on to discuss how its more important for filipinos to not admit being wrong (what we would call saving face) and how its important for filipinos to appear or look good or correct, even when they know what they are saying or portraying is incorrect (style over substance). Given that filipinos themselves have told me this before, and we've seen it many times before, and a comedian is on youtube talking about it: it would be hard to deny Manonsan's comment, even if it's negative.