Filipinas - Opinions and Advice

[QUOTE=GoodEnough]I don't know if any of the rest of you have experienced this, but I find that having chosen this lifestyle, and having lived outside of the US for years, you really cannot go home again and fit in. For one thing, the only women available to you are (gasp!) your own age! For another, your old friends or even new friends are basically clueless about how you have lived your life and know nothing except their own rather narrow slice of regimented reality. To over simplify, you've changed but they basically haven't and there's no common ground on which you can meet any longer.

GE[/QUOTE]
Its very true what you say GE.
They say 'travel broadens the mind'. A lot my family & friends seem very narrow minded to me these day's. My 'stay at home' family & friends just can't understand me & I no longer feel the need to explain to them.
I think it comes down to personality types. If you have an adventurous & adaptable personality it makes a difference how you see things.
Returning home to live? Oh my god! I'd hate the thought of having to go back to living in Australia. Too many rules! FWC's with bad attitudes! high prices!.. Yuck!

AV
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The foregoing post remains my personal opinion.
It is not intended to offend any person either living or dead.
It is not a statement of fact and is for discussion purposes only.
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[QUOTE=LaserNut]I've met an attractive girl online and suggested a romantic getaway vacation, but she says:
"yah sure i can be your tour guide here..maybe you can stay at the fancy hotel like parklane hotel, waterfront hotel, marriot hotel and shangrila hotel,...maybe when we get vacations can my friends come with us????...im so excited to see you!!..take care always."
I'm not inclined to stay in these expensive hotels or drag along her friends while I'm trying to romance her.
How would you handle a situation like this?[/QUOTE]
Hey Laser!
Firstly if you have never met her you can't really go making plans like this but you can leave the door open. She may turn out to be great!

Philippinas have exuberant vivacious personalities. Even the poorest will come out with outrageous requests initially. Its all part of their nature & their perception of Foreigner = Disneyland. Dont be offeneded by it at first. Make it fun & yuk it up with them. They love to laugh!

Keep in mind that you are in a position of strength. You are the man, you make the rules. There are few of you & many of her. Its a buyers market. If the thought of taking her off to a resort & shagging yourselves legless appeals think about what you can afford/like & then tell her your plan. Most pinay's you deal with on line are from humble circumstances (internet cafes FULL of chicks abound) so anything is a big treat to them & you should see that in her reaction to your suggestion.
If not make a counter proposal of what you would like/afford to do. Remember its second nature to haggle here. A little to & fro discussion about this would be normal but ultimately she will probably agree to whatever you propose.

If she baulks at a cheaper proposal then it may mean she is either from the upper class & expects to you to part from a lot of money for her entertainment or she is high mileage unit looking for big spenders.

I'll give you an example, a BG GF from Makati asks me to take her to Boracy for her Birthday together with her BG cousin for a week. I tell them no but I'll take you both to Subic for a shag^^^ err vacation, for a couple of days. Result : ecstatically happy girls. (Must remember to stock up on Cialis)

Hope my humble opinion helps
AV
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It is not intended to offend any person either living or dead.
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[QUOTE=Amavida]Hey GH!

Xandros [a Linux distribution with a very Windows like GUI] as far as I know has a simple GUI software installer. I dunno why you needed to use the command line..?
Cheers!

AV[/QUOTE]Hey back AV, Why do technical bods such as you obviously are, think us non tecky bozos have a fucking clue when you talk about GUI's and the like? I took one look at the Xandros procedure for software installation which went something like.

"It's all done through a software interface, called Synaptic, that downloads and installs directly from online databases of programs called Repositories. You don't find, download or open installation files yourself, blah, blah"

And had to use that darkened room again. So its back to the good old, slow workhorse that you rightly call windoze. XP for me like that old bargirl who you know has seen much better days, is a bit raddled and physically suspect, but you know where you are with her and she give relatively good service. Better the devil you know.

[QUOTE=Skip Kost] I still experience a longing for petite, brown young women as sex partners, I think that is not the same as what GE describes, nor is it the main point of my experiences. What is at the center of the cultural conflict I experience has to do with the pace of life and the American preoccupation in what I will call “instrumentality.” That is, it’s the “hurry, hurry” mentality and the expectation that we ought always to be creating change around us (always referred to as “progress,” even when in some regards the changes may be a step backward) – and being able to prove that it was in fact our actions that caused the change.
Skip[/QUOTE]
Hi Skip!
Great Post!
Im making a list here :

- Access to practically limitless resource of attractive sex partners.
- Slower Pace of life.
- Low living costs.
- Little regulation & rules.

anything else we can torture our non expat friends with?
:)

AV
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The foregoing post remains my personal opinion.
It is not intended to offend any person either living or dead.
It is not a statement of fact and is for discussion purposes only.
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[QUOTE=Amavida]Hi Skip!
Great Post!
Im making a list here :

- Access to practically limitless resource of attractive sex partners.
- Slower Pace of life.
- Low living costs.
- Little regulation & rules.

anything else we can torture our non expat friends with?
:)

AV[/QUOTE]

Yep, lets add :

Abundant, Effective and Inexpensive Public Transport (including Taxis ;) )

Good Weather (Warm Rain etc...????)

Cheers, F/Fifty

[QUOTE=Fifty Fifty]Yep, lets add :

Abundant, Effective and Inexpensive Public Transport (including Taxis ;) )

Good Weather (Warm Rain etc...????)

Cheers, F/Fifty[/QUOTE]
FF

Just stick to abundance of young shaved willing sex partners...weather, warm rain who cares...they like older fat guys am happy :D

[QUOTE=Amavida] FWC's with bad attitudes! [/QUOTE]Hi AV,

Hey man, nothing wrong with FWCS with attitudinal problems. I see them regularly and it makes me very much appreciative of those lovely, slim Filipinas. I would like to remind you, in a most respectful way, that the FWCS aka as BIG BEAUTIFUL WOMEN (BBW) (ROTFLMFAO) reinforces my motivation to go to P. I. If the western countries had women like those wonderful, slender, attractive Filipinas, would you leave home?

In order that you don't get homesick, I have taken the liberty to post some photos for your perusal. Please PM me when the check is in the mail. LOL.

Ingat palagi, Wazza.

[QUOTE=Amavida]Hi Skip!
Great Post!
Im making a list here :

- Access to practically limitless resource of attractive sex partners.
- Slower Pace of life.
- Low living costs.
- Little regulation & rules.

anything else we can torture our non expat friends with?
:)

AV[/QUOTE]I'd pretty much agree with FF and these other guys, although my personal taste goes to unshaven or limitedly shaven. So perhaps there's an irony in that it's necessary to spend a bunch of years in a fast-paced society grabbing up opportunities and money ahead of other guys in order then to qualify for this wonderful set of circumstances in RP. The Jihadist thing, so we hear in the popular press, is supposed to lead the suicide bomber into heaven to be greeted there by 40 or some similar number of virgins. Entering RP, on the other hand, is real, and whether or not these women are virgins is a non-issue. (And for some of us the question of pubic hair is a non-issue.) So this beats the Jihadist dying thing all to hell -- no pun intended. It's more like doing time in the dog-eat-dog rat race is akin to purgatory, and landing in RP is heaven on earth.

And so on the surface it appears that Muslim men have it all wrong, since some of those 9/11 planners actually spent time in RP, and some reports say that Muhammed Atta, one of the pilots, actually took flying lessons at Clark. Boy did they get this heaven and hell thing screwed up.

I'm sure that meant something when you wrote it.

[QUOTE=Gamahucher]WTF

Cryptic ..tick
Impenetable,,tick
Recondite ..tick
Incomprehensible ..tick

Oh I get it - your a froggy or a superannuated hippy. Keep taking the pills, it gets better with time!

GH[/QUOTE]

When I was 25 (a long time ago) and one of the boys from the neighborhood asked how many gals you've fkd....I thought about my military expereinces in Europe and Asia...and modeslty calculated 50. They just laughed at me - full of shit.... One of them claimed to have four or five. I stood there, in my modest way, remembering the three I had in one 24 hr period. I've been laughing at them ever since. I wouldn't trade my lifestyle with any of them.

Yes, their narrow lifesltyle....let's talk endlessly about the local football, baseball team.

X

[QUOTE=GoodEnough]I don't know if any of the rest of you have experienced this, but I find that having chosen this lifestyle, and having lived outside of the US for years, you really cannot go home again and fit in. For one thing, the only women available to you are (gasp!) your own age! For another, your old friends or even new friends are basically clueless about how you have lived your life and know nothing except their own rather narrow slice of regimented reality. To over simplify, you've changed but they basically haven't and there's no common ground on which you can meet any longer.

GE[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Wazza88]Hi AV,

Hey man, nothing wrong with FWCS with attitudinal problems. I see them regularly and it makes me very much appreciative of those lovely, slim Filipinas. I would like to remind you, in a most respectful way, that the FWCS aka as BIG BEAUTIFUL WOMEN (BBW) (ROTFLMFAO) reinforces my motivation to go to P. I. If the western countries had women like those wonderful, slender, attractive Filipinas, would you leave home?

In order that you don't get homesick, I have taken the liberty to post some photos for your perusal. Please PM me when the check is in the mail. LOL.

Ingat palagi, Wazza.[/QUOTE]
ROTFLMFAO Wazza! :)
BTW Im sending you a bill for a new keyboard (I just spewed on mine)

C'Ya!
AV
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The foregoing post remains my personal opinion.
It is not intended to offend any person either living or dead.
It is not a statement of fact and is for discussion purposes only.
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[QUOTE=Wazza88]Hi AV,

Hey man, nothing wrong with FWCS with attitudinal problems. I see them regularly and it makes me very much appreciative of those lovely, slim Filipinas. I would like to remind you, in a most respectful way, that the FWCS aka as BIG BEAUTIFUL WOMEN (BBW) (ROTFLMFAO) reinforces my motivation to go to P. I. If the western countries had women like those wonderful, slender, attractive Filipinas, would you leave home?

Ingat palagi, Wazza.[/QUOTE]

A little warning next time, almost blew my breakfast on the keyboard.

Slim

[QUOTE=Amavida]
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The foregoing post remains my personal opinion.
It is not intended to offend any person either living or dead.
It is not a statement of fact and is for discussion purposes only.
------------------------------------------------------------------------[/QUOTE]Whats with the footer A?

Are you expecting to get sued or something?

Chuckle.

[QUOTE=Wicked Roger]FF

weather, warm rain who cares...[/QUOTE]

Ah well, imagination is the key - Warm Rain + Nice Girls could amount to Wet Tshirts in the odd twisted mind that passes through here !!!

Added to our liking for the odd Big Racked Exhibitionist we have both recently had the pleasure of and the thought of having some Warm Rain whilst out and about with one of them becomes interesting.

Anyway IMHO the weather is good :)

Cheers, F/Fifty

[QUOTE=Gamahucher]Whats with the footer A?
Are you expecting to get sued or something?
Chuckle.[/QUOTE]One guy kept sending me long angst riddance PM's about his perceived deep offense at something i posted allegedly about him. I got so sick of it I started adding disclaimers to every post to shut him up hehehe :)
Maybe I'll give it a rest now.

AV