Frankly, who would like to work and live overseas if they didn’t have to?
Who would like to uproot themselves to feed family if they didn’t have to?
Who would like to be separated from friends and family if they didn’t have to?
Who wouldn’t like to see a free and prosperous Philippines where Filipinos can take liberty with their choices in the pursuit of happiness without government getting in the way?
Yes – it is personal. The Philippine government regulations keep jobs away, take my money away, keep my income low, prompting me to make a choice to uproot myself. Yes, I have a choice to stay – but at the price of my personal integrity – and that’s a price I am not willing to pay.
If I am to keep my children from being educated in decrepit public schools that churn out morons, idiots, and functional illiterates whose only job is to keep voting for thieves – I have to find that income stream from somewhere else – and that’s why I have to go where the money is.
Any Filipino will find out sooner or later, the money is not in the Philippines unless one was born an oligarch. As one born into privilege, it may appear that the scion no longer need be corrupt. Nothing can be further from the truth – the corruption has been embedded into the family. All the privileges of the oligarch are fed by tax money, skewed regulations, and connections – by institutionalized thievery aka systemic corruption. There is no need to steal – the system is already set up to feed the oligarchy. The scion need not be corrupt – all he has to do is to step in into the corrupt role that has been created even before he was born.
To earn the sort of money that allows me to keep the lifestyle I want, and yet still sleep soundly every night – that I earned it without stealing, without bribing, without conspiring against my fellow taxpayers – is a blessing. It’s not the sort of money one earns in the Philippines.
The other thing is about liberty, freedom – to exercise my liberty, to become an individual – and not just a fixture who is expected to work their ass out so that government has its “lifeblood” – or so that the extended Pinoy family can enable and expand mendicancy.
As an individual, I don’t have to fit in and go with what’s “sikat” or what’s “uso” (in vogue) among the Pinoys. I don’t have to behave like a typical Flip under pain of social ostracization. As an individual I don’t have to be “Filipino” or “proud pinoy” – I am just plain ole me.
It would have been more fun in the Philippines if our environs did not have the collective outcomes associated with the aggregated actions of a society bespeckled with impunity and myopia.
No sir – am not a nameless, faceless, dispensable statistic whose job is to remit $$$ so that Aquino’s oligarch pals can leech the money to their stores, tollways, electric utilities, phone companies – that’s not fun.
Having said that am sharing this piece from the forum – Happier Abroad. I caught it after an AP reader by the name of Win, shared the link in the comment threads. I read the link and it’s an honest-to-goodness feedback from a non-Filipino. I couldn’t have said it any better. It’s good that there are more non-Filipinos who are helping with their voices to get the message across. because upright, rational, logical Pinoys need all the help they can get to turn the insanity around.
You guys will LOVE this one! It’s a brutally honest masterpiece of truth about the Philippines posted in my forum by one of my advisors.
This is the beauty of freedom of expression. This is the beauty of a free Internet (not the SOPA or PIPA version being advocated by Hollywood). To hear the contrarian voices who say that all is not well in the Hacienda Republic.
With the recent news that Joma Sison is coming back and being offered a cabinet position for the sake of reconciliation – I say get your passports handy. It’s gonna get worse as the Yellow tards turn into Nokor clones wanting a rerun of Red Star over China – in the Philippines.
So, before the Philippines is overrun by political correctness and happy-clappy, nicey-feelie, feel good, don’t say anything-if you can’t say anything-nice retards – here’s a toast to Philippine reality, by a forum member who calls himself Mr S.
The Philippines is a two tier priced place. On one side you have Filipino prices and the other you have dumb foreigner inflated prices. Basically any touristy place in a major city will be over-priced. Because foreigners will pay these prices and the upper-middle to rich classes of Filipino society will also pay, for the sake of showing off that they can afford to eat or hang out in these kinds of establishments. If you look at the Philippines as a whole, there aren’t many places like this. But, these are where tourists usually wind up or they are in the better parts of town, so you are getting charged more for the “supposed” nicer ambiance and better facilities.
I agree that halfway decent hotels are overpriced here, but when every decent place gets away with it, there is no incentive to lower prices.
Lack of quality is a big issue in the Philippines, this is mainly due to Filipinos generally not being complainers so nothing improves much over time. I think the way things improve here is when something just breaks and the only option to fix or replace it with is a newer model item that didn’t exist previously. There is no concept of preemptive maintenance, things just get fixed when they break.
Food prices vary depending on quality and if they are local or imported. Anything imported from Asia is generally more a little more expensive, like from China or local SE Asian countries. Anything imported from Europe or N or S America is greatly inflated, but the food is much higher quality usually than what you can find locally in the Philippines so people with money here are willing to pay the inflated prices.
Filipinos have no concept of price competition, they just raise prices, almost never lower them to attract business. For example, if business is slow in a bar the logical thing a foreigner might do is lower his prices to attract business or create special discount days to draw in customers. Here in PI, they think,” well, business is slow and I’m losing money. So I’ll just raise prices a bit and that will make up for less customers”… I have to agree though that prices have been going up considerably in the last few years. When I first came here 8 years ago it was A LOT cheaper than it is now. Even though the Government says that inflation isn’t that high here and thus they can lower interest rates so banks will lend more money, I think they are just spinning a story to get people into debt and spend money just like what happened in Europe and America. So there will be a bubble burst probably second half of this decade in Philippines, will be a good time to buy real estate then…
You can stay here cheaply as a tourist, if you are willing to settle for less and know a bit of the tricks to being here. Mostly you have to have a bit of experience being here first before one learns how to navigate things here, or be guided by someone who already lives here. You can easily have a great life here on 50,000 Pesos or more a month if your single and don’t go crazy spending money on nightlife all the time or Western foods and dining. If you want to settle down with a GF and have a family, you probably need to bump it up a bit. With a wife/GF and one kid, your living expenses will probably go up at least 20,000 Pesos a month is you live in the Metro Manila area. This is if you to choose to live a middle class life style or above.
Beauty is subjective to the person. Filipinos are not as ugly as you project them to be, but yes, there is only a small minority which would really stand out for their looks or physical appearance. Most of these women never make it into the dating scene. By their 20′s they are usually scooped up by local guys while they are in high school or early college. The ones that do get onto the dating market usually have something going against them, whether it’s family, single mother, mentally/emotionally unstable, gold digger/player, a P4P girl, etc. Also, one has to be aware that most families will try to send their kids overseas to study or work so a lot of the better looking girls are being sent off to Uni overseas. The better looking are usually girls from a family that could provide decent nutrition for them as they grew up. The good looking girls with decent social standing are readily snatched up by local guys and the good looking whore girls that many foreign guys run into are also being taken out of the bar market, so there are only left overs usually of average or below average girls. Almost all Filipinos with half a brain want to get the hell out of the Philippines for the most part cause they don’t feel they can have a successful life here. So there has been a mass exodus of quality ladies over the last decade or more. So as more leave and more guys are trying to find foreign wives, there are going to be less decent 20 something women to hook up with.
Filipinos have all kinds of looks and you can find ones that don’t have the monkey face, scarred legs/face, pig nose or Alfred E Neuman ears, but like I said you gotta take your time and wade though the masses and be patient. I’ve seen a lot of knock-outs and I could go to any large mall in Metro Manila and find them. But if you look at the millions of people in say Metro Manila, maybe when you go to the mall there are only a few dozen that one might find attractive enough for their tastes. However, most guys over 45 don’t care as much about facial looks, they just want a young girl with a half way decent body that doesn’t look like the fat older Western girls they are used to having to look at from where they come from (even though most of them are considered fat as well). I personally like a nice body and will overlook facial imperfections to be able to hit it. So maybe a girl has a 8,9,10 body for my tastes, but she only has a 7,6, or 5 for facial looks. Average face and killer body is okay with me, but I think most guys want a killer face and will work with an average body. However if I wanted to get serious with a girl then a nice face is a must, the body can be improved with proper diet and exercise. But with one-night stands or casual humping, I prefer nice body than face. As long as I don’t have to put a bag over it.
If you think Filipinos are ugly, don’t go to Indonesia! They are way worse looking than Filipinas. I was just there a few months ago and basically you can go days without seeing a good looking girl. But I prefer curvier woman, so girls in Indonesia don’t have those characteristics. If you like short girls who are either super thin with no tits or ass, or slightly plump girls who think stuffing their face gives them curves, but they still have no decent tits or ass, then go to Jakarta Indonesia.
You can go to the local nightlife hangouts and spend minimally, but do you want to hang out in a drab place with dirty plastic furniture with roaches crawling around and the bathrooms look like they haven’t been cleaned since the building was built? yeah you can still get 20-40 Peso beer prices if you are willing to lower your standards to the local Filipinos male one, but most foreigners can’t and the locals know this so they will usually charge higher alcohol and food prices cause they know they can get away with it.
What Winston said about current prices is basically correct except Taxis now are 40 Pesos start of meter and go up 3.5P so often depending on KM and time. So Taxis are a bit more expensive now than they were in the first half of 2011. I would say they went up by a third. I never tip girls from bars in the provincial cities, only give them taxi money like 50-100 pesos. In Manila they expect a tip because there is a larger influx of business tourists that go to the foreigner bars and they often just put their expenditures on their business account. This is why Burgos and EDSA Complex have expensive bar fines and lady drinks. The girls expect a tip also cause they have been spoiled by these guys throwing money at them. So I wouldn’t bar fine a girl from those places unless you don’t need to watch your expenses and are willing to spend well over 5000 pesos just for the barfine and tip. Pick up girls at the bars in Malate are cheaper but the quality and attitude varies so if you are a tourist with a limited time frame then you may or may not have the best experience there. It’s luck of the draw.
I used to be a regular whore monger at the bars but I don’t really go to them anymore due to my own life schedule, higher prices and lower quality of girls nowadays. I’m not kidding when I say that the good looking girls are being pilfered away through different mechanisms at an increasing rate of speed than just a few years ago. If I didn’t have personal commitments here I would much prefer to go to Thailand or Vietnam and date the girls there. Cambodia, I didn’t really see too many good looking girls there so it wouldn’t be on my list unless things have changed in the past 5 years from last I was there. The only thing PI has going for it nowadays is English being spoken and used here, but even that is slipping away every year because of the atrocious education system here and Tagalog TV being preferred than English channels. I interview Filipinos regularly and test their English skills and every year their overall abilities have been going down on average. In another 10-20 years the average publicly educated Filipino will be on the same level English wise with all the other Asian countries, basically minimal or none. I’m already seeing it when I travel to provincial cities. I’m also seeing it in metro Manila when I’m not in the larger commercial areas.
The Philippines is self-destructing upon itself, it’s just that the population living here that hasn’t already immigrated from the country can’t really see what’s coming around the corner for them, with the increasing population and everything that comes with that problem…The average Filipino really has no clue how shitty their county is getting every year unless they have worked or traveled overseas. And basically every overseas worker I’ve talked to is trying to get back overseas as fast as they can. It’s pretty sad actually. Having just a Filipino passport is a really shitty prospect. I’ll live temporarily here or visit but I’m glad I wasn’t born here and forced to be a Filipino… That would suck!
Mr S – wherever you are, touche!
Lastly, I overheard on TV (while in the oriental store) that during the recent visit of the Thai Prime Prime Minister, Kris Aquino said, the Thai PM and Noynoy make a nice couple. Maybe if Aquino were a shitzu or a pug with a leash on his neck – he and the Thai PM would look nice.
So true, if I will apply the theories of realism and neorealism on state relations to human relations…
Seek power and security in the right way , do not bow down to those oligarchs just like other Filipinos have done, trying to seek power and security in the wrong way…
I may be a leftist, but I agree with most of the statements of AP, because I also agree in the theories mentioned above, and I may be disillusioned with my being Left…
Because man thinks in his egocentrism…(^_^)
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With the oligarchies running this country and appeasing criminals by giving them government position, it is likely that the Philippines will NOT survive the 21st Century: it will balkanized with Luzon being under China, Palawan and Visayas will be divided into island states and Mindanao will either be an independent Muslim state or join Malaysia or Indonesia. By 2200, The Philippines is virtually a dead state… unless the Filipino people start to change and resist the “Yellow plague”.
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Jesus Christ, you take the word of a Undesirable Alien Piece of **** Whoremonger as gospel truth? No wonder why nobody takes this site seriously…
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BongV Reply:
January 22nd, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Seen what he described .. for decades
it’s not like I wasn’t born and raised in PHL – and have not seen what was described.
deal with it.
as to not being taken seriously? you mean the nation of butt of jokes?
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BongV Reply:
January 23rd, 2012 at 8:37 am
Jesus christ have YOU really lived in the Philippines .. baka naman hanggang combento, mall, skwela lang ang circulation mo.. as in.. limited
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Ozneh Reply:
January 24th, 2012 at 11:47 am
I was about to say the same thing… You gave time for an immoral and dirty commenter – Mary Magdalene’s male version. Nag cocomment pa siya na konti lang magaganda saten. Pano sa mga westeners yung pangit saten yun ang maganda sa kanila.. Buti pa ang Japanese, may taste sa pagpili. Buti at nakakapaglibot pa siya sa kung saan-saang bansa eh naghihirap na nga ang mga bansang kagaya ng pinanggalinga niya.. They spend more than what they save..
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BongV Reply:
January 24th, 2012 at 11:55 am
of course he should be given time. his comments are right on target. I’d say he took the words right outta my mouth.
when I see an interracial couple – with a WIDE DISPARITY in age, that sends alarm flags. here in my hood – pag matanda ang puti, bata ang pinay – automatic ang conclusion – mail order bride… glamourized chimay at care-giver
ian martinez Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 5:03 am
It is funny to hear the opinions of men who use bargirls, they are soooooo idiotic , he makes comments about Filipinas being ugly, but you can imagine what he looks like can’t you, huge fat and ugly, spends all day drinking beer with an inflated ego by scores of prostitutes, He is probably American, who thinks he is a sex god. He is probably amongst the bottom 10% attractive men in USA, but of course, in his opinion there are very very few beautiful women in the Filipines, P A T H E T I C, are you sure that your avid readership really thinks this man is great, “antipinoy”, did we REALLY love that article?
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Dark Passenger Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 9:35 pm
I don’t think this man is great at all. In fact, I think he’s disgusting. Say what you will about the guy, but it doesn’t make his statements any less true. If he comes here looking for whores, it’s because there are plenty of those who throw themselves at him, apparently. These women treat him like an ATM, he treats them like consumer goods. They’re both happy. The real loser here is society, especially one that can’t see the truth behind this man’s words. You know, the kind that can’t see past the messenger to get to the message.
And like they say, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” His statements on physical traits don’t even merit serious discussion.
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Filipinos are not the problems..Its the Chinese immigrants who took over PH in the last century…They have done the same to all of south east Asian countries…If it wasn’t for King Bhumigol of Thailand, who knew the cunning ways of Chinese..Thailand would be like PH…
Malaysia was getting ruined by the Chinese businessman, when Mahatir Mohhamad showed up and put a lid on them and look where Malaysia is today.
Almost all of south east Asia’s business is controlled by the Chinese.
99% of all Politics and business is controlled by Chinese in the PH…The problem is Chinese don’t share the same moral values of a Filipino. Filipinos have a different lifestyle than Chinese…but now they are forced to adapt Chinese ways…
All the problem that Bong V mentions would vanish in a week, if the filipinos take over the country…Its not rocket science really…Not trying to be racist …Its just the way Filipinos and Chinese are..different..
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BongV Reply:
January 23rd, 2012 at 6:57 am
if Filipinos take over…. it wouldn’t make any difference… any protectionist economy will be captured
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Jack Reply:
January 23rd, 2012 at 8:55 pm
The protectionist laws were introduced by the Chinese…and their cabal…when they go and Filipinos take over…they will change the laws that suits the moral and ethical values of a Filipino….
Right now Philippines is running on Chinese time
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ahaha Reply:
January 23rd, 2012 at 10:19 pm
Because making the Philippines run on Filipino time will make things better, right? lol@u
BongV Reply:
January 24th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Jack – the protectionist provisions where put in place during the colonial period. The Americans enjoyed equal standing with Filipinos equity-wise to the exclusion of other nationalities. The Chinese economic refugees, assimilated, and competed with the locals. Thus the Chinese magbobote of the 1960s who were ridiculed by the pug-nosed Pinoy malays – already established businesses in auto supplies, construction supplies, grocery supplies, and hospitality services (hotels-restaurants).
the pinoy malays in government – didn’t like the idea that the immigrants were making more money – and coopted the chinese to cough up money or risk having their businesses shut. the chinese then looked at this as the cost of doing business in the philippines and paid up.
the pinoy malays then sensed an opening – and have been milking the chinese. the chinese on the other hand just slap the additional costs onto the cost of goods – the pinoy consumers pay up – the good thing is that pinoys are not cost conscious and thus don’t go through the trouble of computing their costs because they have been used to the lack of competition. if it were in a western country – the consumer will switch goods and services until the market leaders adjusts accordingly – or risk losing market share – that’s what happened to Kodak Eastman.
ian martinez Reply:
January 25th, 2012 at 9:06 am
Thailand is run by the chinese, all the big family plutocrats are chinese, the last PM was from a chinese family
Jay Reply:
January 29th, 2012 at 2:39 am
The protectionist laws were introduced by the Chinese
And who agreed to let them run wild with it? Duh.
when they go and Filipinos take over…they will change the laws that suits the moral and ethical values of a Filipino….
The Filipinos have no interest in technically taking over EVER. Do you think things ‘change’ for the better when they finally think of a way to usurp the Chinese overlords they scowl over and apply their morals in their broken down political system they continue to embrace to this day? C’mon man.
castro Reply:
February 11th, 2012 at 4:22 am
Look at S.Korea. Korea didn’t have even China Town in Korea after Park Chung Hee got rid of China Town by force. Recently they built a tiny china town at the corner of the harbor city,Inchun for tourism by Korean government , not by Chinese. Park Chung Hee eliminated even chinese cemetery to build a university on the land. Korea was only one country in the world without a china town. The Korean know how to handle the Chinese. In Korea, there is no Chinese who succeeded in the business now. The Chinese say that the only Chinese who succeeded in Korea is the singer, Ju Hyun Mi. But even Ju Hyun Mi herself finally naturalized herself to become a Korean and got married with an ordinary Korean man. Korea is the country which has the largest export suplus in the world through trading with the Chinese countries of China, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong. Korea’s export suplus with these Chinese countries reached more than 80 billion dollar last year. Last year Korea exported 560 billion dollar as the 7th biggest exporter in the world.
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Wow, so that means most Filipinos have to get out of the country just for them to know what’s REALLY happening with it? Huh!
Oh, and I guess the next time I ask a foreigner what he/she thinks of the Philippines, I will force them, not to speak of just the good things, but to be REALLY honest about it.
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Joshua Cuyos Reply:
January 23rd, 2012 at 7:56 am
Why dude? What wil they tell me tat I will not like? C’mon, I wanna know! I promise I can handle it!
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ian martinez Reply:
January 28th, 2012 at 5:09 am
Maybe they will tell you that for foreigners, it is a great cheap place with very pleasant people and women who make very nice wives. It is a long way behind the west in development, it is badly run and taxes are strangling investment, corruption is all-embracing, but you are happy something that in the west has been lost.
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I am Filipino, and I am getting out of this hellhole as soon as I can. This is so true. I am grateful that my parents went to America and though we were born and raised here, they brought us up more American than Filipino..
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Ponse Reply:
February 2nd, 2012 at 7:05 pm
I have news for you. America is not doing any better. You jumped out of the pan and into the fire. A tip from a friendly stranger, migrate to a country who’s economy is not in the toilet.
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BongV Reply:
February 3rd, 2012 at 6:28 am
when America sneezes the world catches a fever – moreover there are still US citizens who are fighting the welfare state polices of the democrats – and the corporate welfare of the republicans – the man’s name is Ron Paul
in contrast, philippines is just one nation of FREELOADING SOCIALISTS
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i’ve been to abroad to name a few…even i know how worst the country become still im happier here than abroad……..masama talaga ang frustration ng writer nato sa bansa natin……….
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ahaha Reply:
January 23rd, 2012 at 10:22 pm
Ignorance is bliss. hahaha
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wenden Reply:
January 24th, 2012 at 12:59 am
it is not ignorance but it is a matter of acceptance…..reality is there, it is the matter how you accept it and trying to help to correct all that wrong doings to make it better. Atleast in ways some of us are trying help not just a mere person who knows everything but cloaking the identity in this web. however is some point or another some of the trait that i admire abroad, i am wishing that with the government political will it must be implement here also. and what I admire abroad is that there citizen no matter how there is going down economically and even they dont like there leaders but still they support them as long as they can. not like pinoys, they leave and they clamour about everything.
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BongV Reply:
January 24th, 2012 at 10:00 am
Less government interference .. not more
concerned_citizen Reply:
January 24th, 2012 at 10:03 am
You’re a good example of the typical Filipino who accepts his fate and goes about his business living in ignorance. What you call acceptance is the acceptance of the culture of impunity which you hold so dear in your heart. Your beloved Philippines is further going to rot and wither away with all these “sound” economic policies in place by another incompetent Aquino administration.
BongV Reply:
January 24th, 2012 at 10:50 am
you don’t help consumers by putting regulations that entitle one group over another – keep the market free – no subsidies..
for short – the help you are looking for will come in the form of LESS IMPOSITIONS … not more…
now if you don’t know what to do with freedom
- don’t bother us who do.. instead learn how to use it
don’t feel entitled to tax subsidies
Legati Reply:
January 24th, 2012 at 11:32 am
Talagang Happy Ka – Na Nalulunod Sa Imburnal!
wenden Reply:
January 25th, 2012 at 5:05 am
accepted ko fate ko but it doesnt mean na gusto ko ang gawain ng ibang filipino, bakit pwede ka naman mamuhay sa pilipinas na may integridad at disciplina…..bakit lahat ba ng tao dito sa pinas ay basura na sa tingin nyo………
“concerned citizen”: do i need explain to you further about acceptance…..accepted ko ang fate ko but i am not an ignorant on what is happening to our country, and what are the things that needs to improve….and for your info i did not vote aquino because i know how stupid he is……acceptance of things that makes you happy in material things eventhough it is simple, etc indi ako nangarap ng mataas dahil simpling buhay lang gusto ko.dahil ba dyan ignorante ka na?baka kaw ang ignorante pilit mo na inaabot ang bagay na indi bagay syo?
“legati” oo happy ako dahil malinis dito sa probinsya namin baka kaw naliligo sa imburnal ng manila dahil wala kayong disiplina sa sarili nyo.
my GOD why cant you respect personnal decision if you decide to leave the country then leave. i decided to stay and to fight or help whatever i can to improve the quality of our countrymen. dada lang kayo ng dada na anung dapat gawin o dapat mangyari pero nagtatago naman sa ibang bansa o wala naman sa gawa.sinu ngayon mas ignorante.
BongV Reply:
January 25th, 2012 at 9:16 am
wenden – ang sinasabi mong malinis na probinsya mo – para sa mga nasa ibang bansa… yung kapaligiran mo.. ng probinsya mo .. ay parang ghetto… actually masahol pa rin sa ghetto… kung may natural attractions man – nasisira dahil sa dumi ng mga pilipino…
wenden Reply:
January 25th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
bong….sa isip mo lang yan ang ghetto bakit sa US o sa ibang bansan walang bang ghetto o maruming lugar….buti na lang naging pilipino ka, how much more kung naging indiano, tsino (mainland), o aprikano ka malamang nagpakamatay ka na….mas tuturingan pa ngan masamang ghetto pagnagbakasyon ka sa pinas kasi napakalinis at perpektong mong tao at makibaghalobilo ka sa mga pinsan mo sa mindanao.alam mo naniniwala sana ako sa adhikain nyo, pero indi kayo marunong tumanaw ng respeto ng desisyon ng tao at pilit nyong pinapakita na pilipino nga kayo….
BongV Reply:
January 25th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
wenden:
ganyan ka maghandle ng sales objection?
that’s why it’s happier abroad .. indeed
BongV Reply:
January 24th, 2012 at 10:54 am
go what floats your boat.. just because you are happy and comfortable living in trash – does not mean i too should share your predilection for the stupidity and mediocrity of most Filipinos
if you are happy to smell the stinking trash, the congested traffic, the flooded streets – by all means – that’s you… if you have such LOW standards in order to be happy… that’s you… but that’s not me
now if someone else other than me – notices that you like to sleep amidst the trash – don’t be angry that they noticed that you like to sleep in your own ****.
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wenden Reply:
January 25th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
ganun na ba ka low level ang tingin mo sa mga middle class na pilipino o ganun ka lang ka matapobre…..i do decide to stay in the philippines (as of now) because i chose to but it doesnt mean i leave in trash….excuse me indi ako taga manila…..
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BongV Reply:
January 25th, 2012 at 9:26 pm
kahit pa inde ka taga manila… that only makes you less of a ghetto – but still a ghetto.. jeep.. tricycle.. squatter… sari sari store… congested roads… low-cost housing… a few big houses delineated from the wider poverty – of course you don’t live in trash literally… you are just surrounded by it… in the roads… the sewers.. the side walks.. the road shoulders…
Ozneh Reply:
January 26th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Pano ka naman magiging happier abroad kung may mga mahal ka sa buhay na naiwan dito sa Pilipinas? Alam mo ba, yun ang primary reason namin kung bakit mas pinili namin tumira dito… Isa pa, hindi ba defense mechanism mo lang yan dahil hindi na ganon ka promising ang American dream matapos magrecession diyan at magkaron ng mga layouts? Ang concern nga ng Europe at America kung positive or negative ang GDP growth samantalang yung mga bansa sa Asia ay how high..
BongV Reply:
January 26th, 2012 at 10:17 pm
simple lang yan…. if you don’t want to upgrade your skills to remain relevant and competitive –
go to a third world country – where your skills have not been replaced yet…
or if ugaling freeloader ka, you can live off on welfare,
or you can go into consulting.. with smaller companies
yung “loved ones” – they will eventually join you abroad –
as to those whose skills remain relevant – they will be in demand even during recession
their concern is GDO – they already have a quality of life to maintain
ang tanong – are you even close to achieving the same quality of life?
during times of recession overseas – money flows overseas – and countries with open doors – get the investments
those who send and invitation to invest – but don’t allow foreigners to own more than 40% – they get cheap change