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05-03-2014, 05:52 AM
Jun N Dell will always be my first. Kind of like your first car, it wasn't great but it got you where you needed to go. Sure its a little dated and clunky and has it faults. But it served its purpose an you were familiar with it and had bonded with it. Its part of you and who you are. Then Linmarr Towers is the dope new car with a faster engine and a sun roof. Way better looking with new bells and whistles.
I guess its time to trade in JND for Linmarr towers.....but JND will always be my first!
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05-05-2014, 08:05 PM
There are 96 million people in the Philippines. US army base is projected to house 10,000 men. It won't even make the tiniest difference.
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05-05-2014, 09:18 PM
Where in the Phils is the US Army base will be? Clark as before or elsewhere?
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05-06-2014, 01:38 AM
Im a bit confused. The first article is an affirmation that the US would not be returning to the Phils to reopen a base. The second is a picture from the Chinese news agency, not exactly a bastion of objective thinking on the Philippino-American alliance and its affect on the balance of power in the South Asia sea.
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05-07-2014, 06:55 AM
Anybody successfully rent a condo through vigorretravelerlease.com ?
Thanks for any input.
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05-10-2014, 09:15 PM
Spent just over a week in Manila, 3 new notches, 2 FC and 1 from night game. Got into a mini-relationship which really killed my potential to pull large numbers.
Online:
FC is all you need, just follow Fistos advice from the swooptheworld post. The amount of 5’s that message you on that site is insane. I spent way too much time deleting messages, next time i will just message the girls i like and ask for their number.
Gym:
Just went to the hotel gym.
Accommodation:
Stayed walking distance from Greenbelt malls.
Food:
Local cuisine is nothing special, but the restaurants around the greenbelt malls were great, the Greek restaurant CYMA was my favourite.
Nightlife:
I was disappointed, 70% guys, a lot of couples or large groups of friends, very hard work here. Only pulled once from Time.
71Gramacy: Nice place, hard to roll solo as everyone is in groups, a lot of rich kids here, make sure to dress well. The gays loved me here, i drank for free one night haha.
Prive: Went here 3 or 4 times, way too many guys, no real dance floor as there are standing tables everywhere. Dance with a few girls but got nowhere.
Time: After hours place, it’s ok, a bit of a hit or miss sort of place, pulled here on a Monday night.
Club Havana: Checked it out on a Sunday night with a mate, it is P4P, i saw a group of normal girls but they were ugly.
Apparently Zzyz is open on Sundays so check that place out and skip Club Havana.
Went to a lot of random places on a Sat night: Amber, UBRN, Haze, and others, nothing good to report back, i think it must have been an off night. I hope my experience was just bad timing. I’ve heard good things about a club called Zzyz but didn’t know where it was and i didn’t check out Republiq which is meant to be good too.
Girls:
Overall I’m not a fan of the Filipinas look, most i would consider 5’s or 6’s, and they are 2-5kg overweight in my opinion. There English skills, personality and bedroom skills are great though.
I’ll come back to give The Phils another go, maybe Cebu is more my style with 7 days a week nightlife at J Ave.
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05-14-2014, 02:29 AM
Emigration Clearance Certificate
If you stay in the Philippines for longer than 6 months without leaving you must apply for an Emigration Clearance Certificate before you can leave the country.
I am going to Hong Kong for a week on Saturday but before I can get on a plane I have to go down to the Immigration office in Intramuros to get an Emigration Clearance Certificate.
Unlike Visa extensions where you can pay some one to take care of all that shit and never leave your condo you must go down to the Immigration office yourself and give finger prints and an assortment of other paper work. Pain in the Ass!
I went today jumping from window to window, filling out paperwork. At the end of all that they said... Ok sir come back Monday and it will be finished. Monday?!?! I leave Saturday! After some begging and offers of money (they did not accept) to speed things up I magically got the guy off his ass to ask a supervisor and was told to come back at the end of the day tomorrow (Thursday) to see if it is done. Fingers crossed it is all sorted out then or I am going to stress the fuck out.
I met another American guy at Immigration doing the same thing who said he went to the airport to catch his flight yesterday but they wouldn't let him board his flight until he took care of all of this shit.
You are allowed to apply for the Emigration Clearance Certificate 1 month before you leave so I would suggest not waiting until the last minute like I did.
Just a heads up for any of you guys staying long term here.
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05-14-2014, 09:48 AM
I'm wondering if you could just essentially do a border run every 5 months and avoid the whole process? I'm not too keen on being fingerprinted.
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05-16-2014, 01:12 AM
Thanks for the heads-up on the emigration clearance certificate, DD.
They can make it hard on Filipinos to leave. I watched some young hottie with a middle-aged French guy get stopped at Clark going out. They sent her to be interviewed, I guess it was a "human trafficking" thing. I don't remember seeing them in the departure lounge later.
They also whack Filipinos with a pretty big departure tax that is separate from the airport fee. Phil Airlines website says it's 1620 pesos. I checked it out, if foreigners stay there longer than a year they have to pay it too.
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05-18-2014, 08:15 AM
I saw few crazy good apartments in Mactan Island(Cebu) and it made me start seriously reconsidering Davao. For just few thousand pesos more I could live near beautiful beach ... Anyone lived there? Any thoughts ?
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05-22-2014, 09:24 AM
Can someone shed some light on the typhoon season for me? Is it something that I should be particularly worried about if I'm in the Visayas in July-ish?
I grew up in a city below sea level on the southeastern coast of the US and I've never really worried about them. You might have a couple named storms come through in a particular year, there'd be some heavy raining and light flooding for a couple days, but it wasn't more than a pain in the ass. Even huge storms like Hugo didn't mean much if you were in a decent house.
Is that the situation here or is it more serious than that?
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05-23-2014, 02:32 AM
@iknowexactly
I will give you my experience. I took my filipina girl to Hong Kong with me.
She is 20. I am in my 30's.
At the airport all Filipinos leaving the country have to pay a 1620 peso tax to leave. There is also a 550 peso tax everyone has to pay.
I was dressed in a button down shirt and jeans, she was wearing a long black classy looking dress. Not sure if it matters at all but went with the idea it is better to look nice.
At passport control I let my girl go in front of me. They asked her where she was going and how long. What did she do for work. How was she going to pay for her trip, that is when she pointed back at me and they asked me to come forward.
They asked how we meet, when, how long we have known each other, what is our relationship. They asked to see some pictures and of course she has about 500 pics of us on her phone so they looked at about 10 of them. After that they let us through.
My guess is that if you are over 50 and trying to leave with a girl under 30 you will get some hassle. I would show up to the airport extra early just in case they feel the need to interview you separately. Make sure you have your story down and have some pics ready to show that you have a long standing relationship.
Leaving from Clark and having a young girl from Angeles city is probably not going to look good and seems to be what I guess happened in the story Sp5 told.