Care to share where you bought the prawns and where you get it cooked?
Looks delicious, salivating already
Wet market of Angeles City is beside Pure Gold Mall. Located at the heart of Angeles at where you can sit the horse carts. Look for the seafood section and there are a few stalls selling different type of prawns and crab.
Beside the seafood section is the fruits section and behind the fruit stalls you will find a canderina with a videoke. The lady owner, Heide, has been told that i will announce that she will be willing to cook for us. I asked for simple cooking and she volunteered to do special filipino recipe for me.
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I m here in Xiamen arrived from Guangzhou 2 days ago, have to settle some matters here, changed to fly from here to Sillypore coming 13th.
Difficulty encountered, the internet cafe here needs a China IC to scan-register for use. Finally managed to persuade one in a ulu location to let me use payin higher rates during midnight.
Will contact u all for meet up when i return.
Visa extension – Angeles City – Dau Immigration Office
Make a left just past the Mabalacat arch on Mac Arthur Ave onto 7th street. Down the street you will see a Philippine flag flying in front of the beige colored immigration building.
The immigration office there can issue your visa extension in less than a half hour. This office is easy to find and walk to but all the trike drivers will know where it is.
It’s near the Dau bus terminal so if you happen to be heading north to Baguio by bus and want to get your extension it would be a quick detour.
Bro, your info is outdated. The BI branch on 7th street Dau has closed down more than 1 year ago. Please dun cut n paste blindly.
Here are some fascinating observations of the Philippines based on my experiences as well as those of other intellectual expats and foreigners here.
- It’s a culture of denial. When lies or dark secrets are discovered, they simply act as though it doesn’t exist. For instance, when you catch a Filipino or Filipina in a lie, they don’t try to explain it, acknowledge it, or even apologize for it. They simply act like it doesn’t exist and refuse to discuss it. Likewise, when you ask them to reconcile a contradiction or discrepancy in their story, they often don’t bother and if you insist on it, demanding “Just tell me the truth!” it usually falls on deaf ears. Or when you catch them in an embarrassing blunder, such as when a store clerk tells you “We don’t have that, sir” and then two seconds later you see it behind them and point to it saying “Well isn’t that it?” (which happens very often here), they don’t apologize or acknowledge their error. And if you then ask “Why did you tell me you didn’t have it when you did?” to try to force them to acknowledge their mistake, it will certainly fall on deaf ears, no matter how many times you repeat the question. It’s their way of “saving face”.
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- One refreshing thing I’ve noticed is that they do not generally judge, analyze, criticize, compare, or complain. It’s not in their nature to do so. And that’s nice in the sense that they aren’t usually going to judge or criticize you. But on the flip side, this also means that they also lack the ability to analyze, think and reason as we understand it, so communication with them can often be frustrating. And giving them lectures in logic or on being fair and considerate by Western standards, often feels futile. They aren’t as exacting as we are. In fact, asking them for explanations often results in silence as if they don’t hear you or their brain stalls. It’s as if asking for explanations “freezes up” their mind. They simply don’t like to think of “explanations” or “reasons” or even to question things. It’s definitely not an “intellectual culture” or even an organized one. Since they do not generally complain here (at least the way Americans do), services and processes don’t usually improve. It’s a non-confrontational culture.
Whereas Western countries are advanced economically, the Philippines is much more advanced socially. Although its economic infrastructure is weak in comparison, socially it is far more evolved, advanced and more integrated than in the West. No one is perpetually lonely, friendless or dateless here.
Thus, as in all things, there are pros and cons to the Filipino ways, culture, mentality, and behaviors. But as for me of course, the bottom line is that my love life here and the women here, are a TRILLION times better than in the States. Here I have a CHOICE among beautiful women, thus giving me a sense of WORTH and VALUE. To men like me, that’s what matters the most. And that’s why we put up with all the annoyances here.
- “One more local trait- they do not like to apologize, you are supposed to sulk at them for a few hours to a few weeks depending on the offence and then you are supposed to forget it as if nothing has happened. They will do the same to you. You will be amazed at what offences they forgive and forget. When you start mentioning some past misdemeanors, they will shrug and say- ‘but it is all in the past’. These past offenses only resurface when they are drunk.”
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Well, the above r very trival matters to me n i m all too happy to deal w them.
Pinays have less expectations, less scheming n so much easier to handle than Meimeis.
After Gong Xi Fatt Choy will be Angeles Adventure in Feb n judging from the forum it's gonna be quite a big group of bros arriving.
Machiam 武林大会 Martial Art Gathering.
If your spouse is Filipino you can get a Balikbayan visa for free that I believe is good for 12 months.
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Yah, but the marriage must be registered in Philippines Or a circuit to NSO / NBI and all are needed to ensure the person is really married.
Welcome to Pinas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many get caught out here. The Balikbayan visa is only applicable when your pinay wife travel together with you and both of you MUST be on the same flight arriving into the PI.
After bro Ninjas comments below i must follow bro etsys and say "truly welcome to the pinas"
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Yah, but the marriage must be registered in Philippines Or a circuit to NSO / NBI and all are needed to ensure the person is really married :
Welcome to Pinas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Many get caught out here. The Balikbayan visa is only applicable when your pinay wife travel together with you and both of you MUST be on the same flight arriving into the PI.
Found out that there you can do a visa run at CLARKE AIR BASE
No need to go all the way to CAB. It can be done at Margarita Station on Fields ave. Just hand your docs to them 1 day before your visa expires and collect the next day.
It's an excellent write up thanks for the post bro the lord.
It's good & bad in some ways but I should say their character are like fish in a pond.Happy,less materialistic and contended much more easily compare to fish from the ocean.thus making it a pleasure to visit the country and experience the warmness even thou there are other cons which are Forgotten easily as soon as they show thier vulnerable side.
Living a simple life with less stress even if poor.
Rich may earn one statues and power but they often sacrify & forget many other important things in life.
Bro
The highlighted portion reflects my opinion n feelings towards them.
Of course there r good n bad ones among them n I really wish the good ones all the best.
I always like to meet up with fellow martial art practitioners as I grew up in a martial environment.
Me definitely not one.
When young in the 70s, I was so influenced by KungFu movies that my dad hanged a sandbag n got my legstraps w weights to practise.
So maybe the 有姿势无实在 Got pose no power type.
Wow , so this gathering u must be the 武林盟主. Leader
[QUOTE=The Lord;6764376]Lovely article.. Different writers have different perspectives..... Im not supporting any point of view..... But no harm in knowing different view points
I hv highlighted some parts in red..... Btw bros being management trained, i am a firm believer in MASLOWS MODEL.
Makes for good reading
Filipina, Love and Trust – How Do I Know My Girl Really Cares For Me?
If in this situation, I will tell her I m not very rich n could only support her partially so that she needs to do some work to get enough for her expenditure.
This way she occupies herself n won't think too much of "other needs".
N if she can accepts this arrangement, then i can say she cares for me too.
After Gong Xi Fatt Choy will be Angeles Adventure in Feb n judging from the forum it's gonna be quite a big group of bros arriving.
Machiam 武林大会 Martial Art Gathering.
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Me definitely not one.
Wow , so this gathering u must be the 武林盟主. Leader
And its time to give out 英雄帖.but thru emails and sbf.lol
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Love Or Lust?
The struggle within Conscience
Lust come over love as love i met betrays.
Im now a International Fucker
The highlighted portion reflects my opinion n feelings towards them.
Of course there r good n bad ones among them n I really wish the good ones all the best.
Bro Rub&Buah.... Thank you.... But not written by me.... Found it interesting....
So posted...
Brings a different perspective based on the author..
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It's an excellent write up thanks for the post bro the lord.
It's good & bad in some ways but I should say their character are like fish in a pond.Happy,less materialistic and contended much more easily compare to fish from the ocean.thus making it a pleasure to visit the country and experience the warmness even thou there are other cons which are Forgotten easily as soon as they show thier vulnerable side.
Living a simple life with less stress even if poor.
Rich may earn one statues and power but they often sacrify & forget many other important things in life.
11-01-2012, 12:26 AM
Just hand your docs to them 1 day before your visa expires and collect the next day.
