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Quote from: Ginger on September 10, 2009, 03:27:18 PM
rabbit in potatoes?

YES!

LOL do you eat this there? or you looked the name in the link of the pic

I thought people do not eat Rabbit in philippines

Anybody wanna try with this? 

Quote from: jamo2x on September 10, 2009, 12:44:42 AM
Keko,

u should not worry too much about being stared at. in cebu, it's now a common sight to see foreigners with their lovely gf/wives. just be urself and dress down like a simple poor man, a shirt and jeans or shorts will do, it's hot in Pinas. simple and poor to avoid being a robbery victim, and simple so other girls will offer you a free drink 

Do not worry I do not have to go in disguise cause I am poor hahahaha.

Yeah I was there with my basic things and worked    no security problems in my 23 days in Bohol, Makati and Cebu. So this time I will do the same.

And if girls offer me drinks I think my gf with have the Tampo mode on for long time hahahaha

"one bad ending will make more noise than 1000 good"

You will hear lot of bad stories but nobody will hear the good ones cause people try to remark the bad things and not good ones.

What sells more bad news or good news? With this is the same

So it´s true what everybody thinks here? he is gay hehehe?

Quote from: beyotch on September 09, 2009, 10:20:29 AM
dili tanan ui.....because as what i've experienced..as far as i know i fall in love with him but sad to say...he doesn't want to believe me...she once ones a victim of a goldigger..he was the one who sends me money for the internet..i didn't asked him for anything...only time to spent with me...and now he's having hardtime believing my real intention of having him as my lover...so whats the use of continuing our connection...but god knows how i care and adore this man.....but now i quit......willing to continue life without him....ngita nalang kog lain kanang mutuo na sincere ko...

beyotch-----

If he was already a victim then maybe he will never beleive any more to any filipina.

Then I do not know why he tried again. And even more if not trust to you why he sent money.

Did you meet him already in Pinas? Only knowing you in person he can realize who you are really.
If you are a good person he will see it quickly. He shouldn´t doubt of you any more.

At least for me you match the rule number 1 for foreigner-filipinas relationship "If she never ask for money is a good signal"

And seems with the gold digger he broke rule number 2 "Never send money to a girl you do not know (if it´s a girl hahahaha)"

I think some foreigners are just blind. They send money to people they do not know and then they think all are the same when it´s their mistake.

First they flash their money and act like buying her with money then they are scammed and blame the filipinas for that.

I am very careful witth my gf, yeah she is poor but she is happy with her life and I am not anybody to try to change that, if I keep giving her huge amount of money I would feel as I am buying her love and I cannot have that idea in my mind

My opinion is that not only foreigners have to be aware of scammers. Filipinas has to be aware as well of foreigners flashing their "richness" to buy a girl. Lot of time the flashy type is just a looser in their respectives countries and the girl will end in some case beeing not a wife, more as a slave.

So there are "scammers" in both sides

Regards

Quote from: juliusarbizo on September 09, 2009, 02:41:29 PM
The two countries, the Philippines and Spain should strive hard to sustain its bilateral relations and to reconcile the past, at the mind of most Filipinos especially what is taught in the academe, Spain contributed so much of our nations misery as if it were the doing of old Spain in feudal 1900's and most Filipinos mindset stopped there like a suspended picture in air. That's why most Filipinos thought of Spain as feudal, conservative and religious. but the modern Spain changed so much after the civil war as what keko said. It was transformed in a modern European country as what other countries in Europe do. If the Philippines can connect this transformation in mother country, may that's the time a Filipinos may attain progress.

Spain-Philippines meeting are not so frequent as with latin america for example but every time lot of agreements are signed. Not as others that come frequent and do not reach to any conclusion so better less and productive than to pay our respectives leaders free vacations to Spain and Philippines hehehe.

Last time I think was agreed the re-introduction of spanish in schools, 7 millions â,¬ to philippines for develop and help the farmers there, Spain allowing more filipinos oversees workers and a exchange of jail inmates between both countries.

I have seen many leaders coming here and just have a chat with the president and the king then go back their countries hehehe.

I am just gonna say that I like Spain as it´s now. Just a democratic country member of the European Union and not like till 1975 a country with a dictatorship and with colonies.

I have born with no dictatorship, with no colonies, with democracy and I just hope to see one day The european union as a federal country. No more wars in europe or caused by us. Nobody won any war everybody lost and only because of the interest of a few people.

But the man always repeat the same mistakes, I just hope at least the spanish leaders have studied our history enough to not go again to any war and keep neutral.

Regards

Quote from: statesville on September 09, 2009, 02:48:24 PM
Keko, what you're saying the same happened to me
  when I told my family my BF is American from
  New York City, all they say well ok

But when I told them that his grandparents
were immigrants from Spain and his mother is
  Puerto-Rican, oh boy all of them were in a shocked,
  asking me how in the world you chose that man,
  "Spaniards are very strict and you know what they
  did to the Filipinos the maltreatment during
   those time when  they discovered and
   occupied the Philippines"

But I'm telling you, my Spanish lover/husband is great!

Yeah now they are ok. She knows I am absolutely harmless hahaha. My friends say I am a walking joke and not a man hahahaha.

hehe yeah I realized the last time the all-foreigners-are-joe thinking hahaha

my gf´s aunt thought I was american then she said I was spanish and suddently she was scared cause "spanish are so stricts" hahahaha

Quote from: kiamoy on September 09, 2009, 12:20:09 AM
Keko, you are Spanish. You won't be stared at that much here in Cebu because locales here are more used to it. What I mean is, there are alot of foreign students in Cebu universities, malls, bars, party places.. so you won't be stared at that much


How tall are you?

I am 1,76 meters I do not know in feets lol

With an online conversor says 5.77 feet

Quote from: kiamoy on September 08, 2009, 11:17:29 PM
Filipinos with Spanish bloods are
Interracial marriage results to gorgeous offsprings

Well I will see when we got married but we are still young for that hahaha.

She is 23 and I am 25

Quote from: hofelina on September 08, 2009, 06:02:29 PM
There are no ugly Filipinas, they are all adorable in all shapes of faces.

Is she the one saying that not me hehehe

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 08, 2009, 05:54:29 PM

hehehe, I highly respect King Juan Carlos' remarks to Hug Chavez.

Do you mean "QUE TE CALLES YA HOMBRE!!!" hahahaha

I do not follow any politic party. I vote the one I feel is better or do not vote when I do not like any of them as last time.

Is just people in Spain is tired of wars. Our history is marked for wars. I think is time to be apart from them. I do not want my country be in any more history books for beeing in wars. I prefer to be in them from now for good things

Our army is not allowed to shoot if they aren´t in danger and I saw a video in Iraq the usa army shooting everybody and the spanish with the arms crossed.

Then a soldier asks "why they are not shooting?"

The Spanish official said "they did not shoot to us never it´s you the one shooting them"
I do not want the people think that Spanish army acts like the usa shooting first asking later.

I prefer Spain beeing apart from any armed conflict. it´s time of the European Union, it´s time to leave wars behind and not create new ones.

@ Lorenzo -> Is the Church the one that gets money from my tax not them paying tax hahahaha

Quote from: hofelina on September 08, 2009, 05:41:06 PM
You will get used to it, and just consider it as a compliment, perhaps you are better looking in person as in your avatar.

In the avatar I have a weird face hahahaha I had the sun in my eyes

My gf says people stares at me cause I am young, foreigner, good loooking and I go with an ugly filipina hahahaha

They Not pay tax. The church gets money from our tax.

Is not a socialism or not way of goberment. is that they have to match the constitution and the says "Spain is Acofessional" and catholic church do not accept that

They want to stay in the middle of the spot in all the political matters in things that maybe affects me. So I want them to do their religious matters and leave the political matter for the politicals.

I voted Zapatero the first time cause I wanted the Spanish troops in Spain.
And our islamic terrorism problem was caused because our last president that did a great job during 8 years messed all going with USA to a war that wasn´t our war and was illegal. We never should have been there. Spain had lot of wars already we do not want to have any more wars. And we were pissed off cause the people said NO to join USA for the war and 1 person decided YES.

Hopefully we are not any more in a empire where only the one that rules decides so Aznar succesor lost with the people votes

I do not want Spain any more in any war. And even less in a USA war.

I never voted any more to Zapatero cause has done some poor management and he lied and he is sending more troops to Afganistan.

Result of that --> We are in the spot for beeing where we shouldn´t be.

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 08, 2009, 05:19:00 PM
I think that Spain should maintain a conservative policy.
It needs to keep to its cultural heart. And religious role.
For centuries, it was Spain that was the guardian of Chrisian Catholicism.
It was the armies of Philipp II that prevented Sicily and southern Italy to fall under the control of the Ottoman Turks, and it was the Spanish Navy that prevented complete Protestant hedgeway into Spain and its territories. It was Spain that prevented the underbelly of Europe and Europe in general from falling into the control of Islamic Jihadism.

Latin American countries, are still quite conservative in policy, and it is a trait that they inherited from the Spaniards. Catholic Trait.

Philippines, is also still a conservative country, a trait we've inherited by the Spaniards.

For me, it would be a travesty to have Spain loose its Catholic Roots.

A travesty, indeed...

Then we are a travesty hahahaha.

Catholic church is loosing power in Spain day by day. Not only power in the society, they loose plenty of people and money cause people do not want to give the church money from our tax.

Spain now is like fighting a battle to get rid off the church in the state.

Separate religion and goberment.

Since the dictatorship ended Spain was declared Laica or Aconfesional. (no religion alligned)

Regards

PD: I felt in Philippines like at home almost hahaha
Same behaviour as the conservatives times

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 08, 2009, 05:12:14 PM
Ricardo, so would you say that Espana has liberalized completely?
I hear that Spain and Italy are still heavily conservative compared to the rest of Europe.

Ah, I still want to visit Andalucia, Spain.

Three spots I want to visit:

1. Valencia
2. Madrid
3. Andalucia

Spain not any more conservative.

Remember Spain is one of the few countries where gay people can get married.
During last 30 years Spain has changed drastically. (after lot of years of disctatorship and restrictions the people were free) so the effect was like when you shake a champagne bottle, sooner or later because of the presure all that was locked inside the bottle will go out sudden.

That is what happened here. We passed from the old spain to the new in very "short" range of time.

But if you come you will see what we call the two Spains. The conservative and the liberated

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 08, 2009, 04:29:20 PM
lol!!!

Well i still hope your stay in Badjiang falls was 'fun' despite the people showing interest in you, hahahahaha!

Don't worry, amigo. Am sure it was a positive interest.

You know it makes Filipinos in the Philippines happy to see foreigners appreciating the local customs and embracing the customs.

I know that my Uncle Steve goes to the derbies with my uncles and maninoys whenever they go home. And he goes to the bars, or eats ginamos with them and just do what the Filipino do. hehehe!

Be safe and have fun pood!

Remember the age-old saying, "When in Rome...do what the Romans do."


Ciao!

I do exactly as anybody else, but maybe that attracted even more attention hahahah

Do not worry I enjoyed. I am going 4th of October again but this time I rented a flat so we will have more privacy and Cebu is bigger.

But my gf´s family told her to bring me to Ormoc. That place is not very touristic so maybe they are not too common with 25 yo foreigners so she is worried cause we will be the talk of the town hahahaha.

Quote from: Michael Ligalig on September 08, 2009, 04:10:40 PM
Keko,

You will certainly be noticed because the color of your skin, the color of your hair, the color of your eyes may be different from most of the Filipinos'.

They may stare at you and smile at you but this would mean no harm to you.

In the Philippines, all whites are Americans. So, if you are in a village, people would be waving their hands and saying to you "Hey Joe, Hi Joe, Hello Joe." No surprise. But this won't happen if you live in one of our cities.

Yeah I never felt unsafe because beeing stared it´s just I get nervous cause I do not like to be the center of attention

Then I got too nervous, stop to think, I got dissoriented, and I reach a panic attack hahahaha, but not cause I am afraid is a panic attack of "omg all the people is staring at me" lol

Regards

hahaha I interact beleive me and I know some tagalog and Visayan but I get really nervous if I get stared.

Guess where was one of my panic attacks? hahahaha in Valencia in your place.

All the people were staring at us all the time in the springs, I went to the sea and then a line of people staring from the edge of the beach hahahaha. After all we decided to leave cause started to not be able to speak english any more hahahah. And worst I got burn by the sun hahahaha



I did all kind of filipino things, took ALL the public transports, eat the same as my gf and friends and I melt with them, even karaoke in tagalog!!! lol. I did not go to any place with foreigners only stardard filipino places but well I still have lot of phobia to be stared for lot of people hahahaha.

Hello!!

I need local´s advice

What I should do for go around Cebu for example and nobody realizes my existence? hahaha

I am very shy if I am observed, and get nervous till I reach a point that my mind is blocked, cannot think anything properly, stop to be able to use english and then I reach a panic point and have to leave the place asap in a taxy or something and be in my room  some time apart from people´s views.

I know I am weird but I get nervous when I am stared hahahaha. I hate beeing in the spot or beeing the center of attention.

My gf says for me will be impossible to pass unnoticed but if anybody has any tip to do it or to make people stop staring at us or to me I would appreciate it a lot

thank you

I am not lol hahahaha

We have no life sentence in spain. He will be free in a few years for good behavior.

Regards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmQeYIppWeg

One of the videos we were hitted in the tv.

"Hello my name is Paco Larrañaga.

I am a spanish, I´ve been here 8 years in Philippines´s jail.
I am innocent, I´ve been condemned to death for a crime I haven´t done.
In my trial I wasn´t allowed to testify.
I was in Manila 300 km away from Cebu which is the island where the crime were commited.
I have 35 schoolmates and professors that witnessed I was with them in Manila doing exams that day were not allowed to testify neither.
They did not want to hear me.
Please listen to me. I sorry what happened to the Chon´s family but I am not involved in what happened with her two daughters, I am innocent.
I claim the spanish goberment as a member of the european union, please help me, listen to me.

Please do not leave me alone."

omg i forgot about this

I think was 2 years ago when a free newspaper made echo in the news that a "spanish" was in the dead corridor in Philippines and was condemned without any proofs.

Paco´s father came to Spain claiming his son was innocent and required the spanish goverment and the spanish society to press the Philippines.

We were hitted lot of time with claims of Paco and his father in the tv and newspaper.

Then a sign requirement was sent to the population to free Paco in a newspaper.

Had a massive response with the result of a huge number of signs from the people claiming free Paco.

The spanish goberment with the massive social response then attended Paco´s family and pressed the filipino goberment with the result of taking him out of the death corridor.

We knew nothing about this for months till the father came again to the mass media claiming his son (that for him is absolutely innocent and nobody had proofs that he did it), was still on the jail and again claimed help. When Gloria came to Spain they agreed to take Paco to Spain and end the rest of the jail time here.

After this I knew nothing else.

Her father moved the social mass and the mass media of spain to press. He did all the effort to put this idea to the people. "In Philippines you are judged and condemned with no proofs, help us to bring our son out of that hell to Spain"

I do not know if he is innocent or not but I can assure you if he is not innocent they did a great acting effort (all the family the spanish father, the filipina wife and the son)

Best regards

Quote from: rosamia5 on September 04, 2009, 04:34:20 PM
Hi everyone! You should know that the essential elements of a fine hotel Barcelona can also be found in hostels Barcelona. The only things that hotels and hostels vary from each other are the decorative aspects, either it’s more modern or more traditional.

I always recomend to the people to go to a nice hostel instead to a nice hotel here in Spain or other countries in Europe. You will find it cheaper and you have usually as well your room (that sometimes are better than in hotels) and breakfast (that lot of hotel do not offer anything else apart from the room if you do not pay more)

If you are gonna travel around use www.hostelbookers.com

You will find hostels and can book in a lot of countries.

Just remember to go to one that have private rooms cause some have only shared

Regards from Madrid and enjoy in Barcelona

Quote from: Lorenzo on March 27, 2009, 01:05:22 AM
Share your experiences. Expound.

My experience is nice. You are always discovering new things because of the difference of culture.

But as well from the beggining both have to be open minded cause maybe what is right in here is not there so I just followed what I saw in the pinoy people I met and I lived like them there and worked.

Anyway I share more things in common with the filipinos than other nationalities so wasn´t specially difficult to adapt to the customs and traditions there, maybe what I am not still adapted is to the stares and to the thinking that I am "rich" when I meet somebody so I cannot pass unnoticed there as I do here

Regards

In Madrid now is very hot. But in winter it´s very cold lol.

We have no medium point.

Regards

Quote from: fdaray on September 01, 2009, 04:09:44 PM
This is an old controversial issue that has never been resolved.
Please give your opinions. This will make a good debate.

My humble point of view . I am a person that beleives in proofs for beleive a fact, so I see the science gave me more proofs than the religions.

In our history plenty of times religions tried to stop progress and science has showed with proofs lot of things religions claimed to be act of a divine power.

This is just my opinion, but doesn´t mean I do not understand and respect other´s.

Salamat po

Regards

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 01, 2009, 05:05:57 AM
Hmm, worst dating experience was like a year and a half ago. We went to an Italian restaurant. I took her back to her apartment and stole a kiss. To my surprise, her mouth tasted like fresh garlic. I had to go to a bar to get gum afterwards, my mouth tasted like garlic.

lol.

lol. I love garlic I wouldn´t mind that from my part hahahaha

Quote from: jamo2x on September 01, 2009, 05:16:04 AM
welcome keko...very soon you'll find yourself more boholano than the rest of us 

Lol I do not know maybe when I am able to speak Visayan hahaha.

But my gf is having head aches cause I learned some tagalog before and now I am getting confused with the visayan

PD.My gf is not from there but speaks Visayan as well lol.

Regards

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 01, 2009, 05:16:58 AM
Keko, what is your name btw?

Lorenzo sorry for my ignorance. btw? If you mean my real name is Ricardo but people calls me Ricky

I do not know, we have lot of south americans here in Spain, but never been in America.

I lived in England, and I´ve been in Italy as well some times but my only travel out of Europe was last May to Philippines lol

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 01, 2009, 04:11:45 AM
amigo, c'mon man, you need to introduce me to the chica de chicas hehe. you like filipina girls eh? hehehe

I have a filipina gf lol

I am going again to pinas this october

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 01, 2009, 01:19:38 AM
hahaha well then, Keks, maybe you can introduce me to the more conservative Spanish girls?

he he or we can go to Venezuela....lol!

ok ok I´ll try but I cannot promise.

but seriously...betten stay with a pinay if you want a long relationship than a Spanish beleive me! lol

Quote from: Koddi Prudente on August 31, 2009, 11:16:57 PM
They should have used Binisaya instead of Tagalog because the town of Madrid in Mindanao is in Surigao del Sur. The advertisement wouldn't have mattered if it was in Binisaya because it was intended for Spanish viewers.

Yeah I know, this happens often when you try to do something abroad. That is not perfect done.

I remember in Mission Impossible 2 when Cruise is in Spain they mixed "holy week" with Fallas.

Result-> After going with the Jesus cristh in procession on street the people burned it. Cruise Comment was in the movie "OMG this people is crazy!" hahahaha

People faces watching the movie here was WTF!!!.

PD. Fallas is a fiesta where people do huge sculptures and the last day all are burned at night except the winner. (Celebrated in Valencia)

Regards

I like the funny way they found to think how would be to build that in a little Mindanao´s village.

The carabao with the mechanical stairs is priceless



The slogan of the commercial is "Madrid Metro the underground every city want when gets bigger"

Quote from: Lorenzo on November 29, 2008, 11:03:43 PM
The Spaniard Woman is~

Catholic
Religious
Fervent
Sharp
Controlling (very similar to the Filipina, lol)
Family oriented
Economical
Motherly
Conservative.


I find very strong parallels amongst Filipinas and Spaniards.

Hope you don´t get dissapointed when you come here lol.

I think I can delete some of those properties of them

We have lot of things in common, when I am there I feel the way of thinking of spain before, but, now is different I just hope you do not leave Spain running back to the airport cause girls are not anymore that

Just joking

Regards Lorenzo

Creo que todavía queda gente que lo habla pero sin persona en los verbos.

(Chabacano)

Quote from: fdaray on November 24, 2008, 04:21:53 PM
Warning for single , be sure to have a circumcised husband for happiness .

Sorry po, but I am not agreed with this statement.

Regards

Quote from: glacier_71 on August 29, 2009, 07:51:35 AM
i know it's crazy. but our being lax about traffic regulation has caused an "envy" to some of my co-workers here.

in the philippines, i said, you can drink and you can drive. it's all about personal responsibility.  just don't hit anyone and you'll be fine. should you hit someone, you have to pay. should you hit yourself against a bus or bridge, and you die, our cops would be more then willing to cover you with newspaper or a sack.

they want to try. hahahaha

Is it true? You can drive beeing drunk there?
No jail or fine or any warning?

Since we use the licence by points and that drive drunk is a cause of beeing in jail mortal crashes dropped in a huge amount year by year.

I just remember when I was in Bohol, I missed a bus and we waited to the next. After 5 km we saw the bus destroyed in the back cause was hit by a truck. My gf told me that people said the truck driver was drunk, but I am not really sure, cause is a rumour.

I was lucky but maybe others not. I just hope even if no laws people get common sense and this won´t happen any more.

Regards

A TV commercial of the Public Metro Underground System in Madrid.

Is the original version. Was on the tv in Tagalog with Spanish subtitles.

A filipino guy goes back home from Madrid (Spain) to Madrid (Philippines)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlqRMhU_xgQ

Regards

Quote from: Lorenzo on August 29, 2009, 09:03:30 AM
Keko, it is the the sad reality of history. Only the ones that are well versed in history will know these historical figures, Rizal for example.

Spaniards are not the only ones; there are even Americans that do not even know the Louisianna Purchase , or the complete list of American Presidents.

In defense to Chicogon, though, I have worked closely with Spanish professors in Mexico as well as in Spain in my research and publication on Filipino National Evolution, which was part of my History Major Dissertation.

Jose Rizal is quite well known in Spanish higher education. The professors, the history students, the political scientists etc know him, but the average everday Spaniards that have no backing or understanding in colonial history will not known him.

I think it is important to expound on their importance, for individuals like these were pivotal in national consciousness.

Rizal's popularity in Spain began in the late 1880s when he published works in La Solidaridad, even making passionate followers of his works. Rizal was so well known in the intellectual community in his day that he had followers and readers from Brussels, Netherlands, Germany (Heidelburg), France, Britain, Portugal and of course in Spain.

It was only after Rizal's death and after the loss of the Philippines to the United States that Spain really did awaken. The defeat of the Spanish Empire to the United States in the Spanish-American War in 1898 was the motivating factor that led to the political awakening in Spain, the development of a parliamentary democracy and a move from the aristocratc parliamentary form that was set in place by Bourbon Kings.

I believe it was His Majesty King Alfonso XIII that said after Madrid defeat to America, "Dios Mio..el imperio español ha terminado. ha terminado."
(My God, the Spanish Empire is dead. It is over)

It was only after Spain's defeat that it followed the course of governmental remodeling. Since the loss of Her American colonies in the early 19th century, Spain was in a spiral downward and was incapable of preventing further revolutions in its last remaining colonies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, y Las Filipinas because Spain's communication channel was weak. That and the reign of the previous king, His Majesty King Alfonso XII was quite the conservative King. By the time the progressive King Alfonso XIII took the throne, it was already too late. Revolution in Cuba erupted, and even the Loyal Philippines rose up in dissension. The Philippines' eruption into revolution signaled the end for Spain's once mighty Global Empire.


History. Things happen for a reason. For a greater good.

I am impressed you know a lot about the history of Spain.
when the dictatorship Francisco Franco dead in 1975 was when the model that Rizal thought was applied.

As well was the year when Spain left the rest of colonies that still had to join in the future in the EU.

Regards

Quote from: glacier_71 on August 29, 2009, 12:05:04 AM
if there are people in my previous work who even didn't know that Philippines has MacDonald stores,  I am not surprised if some souls have no knowledge about Rizal and the Philippines or other stuffs from eons ago.

Funny cause in my work a filipino friend and me were in a coffee shop and a girl from work came and saw we were smoking Marlboro.

She said "Hey Jaime do you have this in Philippines? And he looked to me as "is this girl stupid or what?"
His answer was "Yes we have Marlboro, we have mac Donnalds and we do not live in trees"

But well  some americans asked me if there are roads in Spain or if I went to the school in donkey lol so I think ignorance is global hahaha.

Regards from Spain.

PD: AND would you beleive that people in Spain and Europe almost All think that San Miguel origin is spanish and not filipino? LOL I love the faces of the people in Spain when they order  San Miguel and I say "oh philippines beer" hahahaha

Of course the spanish branch is not pinoy any more but the origin is not spanish

Good, a huge amount of money wasted from our tax for look for green aliens when we are in the middle of a global crisis, people are loosing their jobs and houses and no unemployed wage left.

They should leave this for other moment. Before look for other planets they should fix the problems here in the earth first.

Clever...really clever.  

Quote from: chicogon on August 28, 2009, 10:39:39 PM
Not totally true. I believe Rizal has been recognized in Spain, even a town in Germany does, although people nowadays are indifferent toward heroes or history in general. Of course, we don't talk much about them anymore after all these years but that doesn't mean they never knew him. Maybe it's us who don't know much what people in that particular place/country know or what their history book has been saying all along. Maybe we need to read more or do some more research... but that's out of the question. A little more immersion maybe....

Don´t get me wrong.

Sorry if I did not explain properly.

Here, there are as Lorenzo showed a monument close to the subway station called "Islas Filipinas" in Madrid, but if you ask who is Rizal nobody knows him. I am speaking of normal people as you and me walking around Madrid if you ask almost nobody know him apart for the ones that have ties in Philippines.

Of course Philippines and Rizal is tied forever to the history of Spain and all that happened changed in the long run the model of Spain but as you said each place study different ways of the history.

Sorry if I get you think other way.

Regards from Madrid

PD: Would you beleive me if I tell you some people in Spain doesn´t know that Philippines,Guam or Taiwan(La formosa) were colonies of Spain?

Bad thing in Spain nobody knows Rizal or his writtings or his demandings to the kingdom while he was in Spain.

Is not funny that the way to rule Spain that he was claiming in those times and that was quickly denied is how Spain is ruled nowdays?

In that time when only a few people ruled Spain "by birth" and the rest were just people without voice, any proposal attempting to share power was hardly rejected.

So yes, maybe he was ahead of his time

Regards fom Spain

Here in Spain not in the school but a reported showed by a hidden cam that some employers are asking the women if they are gonna have kids soon to not contract them.

It´s illegal but still some employers do it.

Regards

Quote from: Lorenzo on August 27, 2009, 05:38:16 AM
Can one rent  boat for the day? I was told by family members that if one goes on the boat cruise, to make sure one takes prophylaxis for malaria and insect repellant. The waters of Loboc are ridden with Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falcifarum ~ the causatives of malarial infection.


In any river basin.

I saw people in privates small boats, not the ones with the buffet so I think must be somebody there hiring a boat.

I do not know if the water is ok or not but I saw some kids jumping and swimming to the river so I am not sure if is really dangerous, maybe a local there can know it better than me

Quote from: benelynne on August 27, 2009, 07:07:25 AM
It would seem from the Youtube postings that the tourists enjoy the ride. But unless we increase the number of tourists substantially, the Loboc river cruise needs newer concepts and better service to sustain the interest of tourists. Loboc's best advantage is still that it is the midpoint of the well-beaten tourism route.

The ride was ok. the sightseeing is great for somebody coming from Europe with such a tropical view. The problem is that now the boats seems to rush to do as many rides as possible even overtaking others and not stopping in some spots in the middle, so when you are beggining to eat you are almost coming back.

Regards from Spain

My opinion as a foreign tourist there is exactly what some people said.

I went to loboc river as a part of 12 or 14 spots day tour that we designed for a day renting a car and hiring a driver.

I wouldn´t have gone there unless is a link to the next stop
Even going there in my case I was a little dissapointed cause the ship we were in rushed thought the river and didn´t stop in any of the other places that other boats I saw they did so was really fast and we even were overtaken other boats.

Regards

Really I do not have a lot of pictures. some in Sagbayan peak. Some in Panglao. Some in Chocolate hills, some in Loboc and some random. I am not good with pics I do not like them a lot. I am not the kind of tourist that goes with a cam in the hand all the time -

Regards

Quote from: Lorenzo on August 25, 2009, 03:40:23 PM
Keko am happy you visited my beloved Valencia!



Hopefully I can meet you in Spain.

I wish to visit Mother Spain someday.

Viva!

hahaha. In the springs ALL the people were staring at me and my gf and I like to pass unnoticed, so I went down to the sea, but well after 15 minutes there were lot of people in the edge of the springs staring again so we just ate and went to walk around before going back to tagbilaran lol.

The funniest thing is I had lot of crazy and funny experiences all around the island. And I did something the filipinos in spain told me not to do lol. I went in all the public trasports lol.

I remember this moment as if was yesterday. I am in the bus station of tagbilaran with my gf, she says "is that bus" and then I thought "omg I am gonna die XD" then I go inside and the driver says "you to the front, to the front" then he gets inside smiles me and I see how he turns the engine doing a bridge with the wires hahahaha. then I had another experience with the "stops"

SOmebody screams and hit the metal with keys or something and the bus brakes suddently, but after 30 meters another do that. and in 15 meter another one. so for a 3 km ride you need lot of time. then starts to rain but the bus has no windows. Solution have a kind of window made of wood so you do not see anything outside. But we had to go out soon so we say if the guy with the money call tell us when we arrive. He ask where and we do not really know if we do not see outside we said "when you see rice fields" cause is what we remember was after that and before the house so we were in the middle of nowhere with a huge storm and those wasn´t the rice fields we meant cause no houses at all. hahahaha

Was lot of fun.

Sorry for the offtopic.

Regards

Quote from: Lucky09 on May 01, 2009, 08:03:58 PM
Las Filipinas eran hija de España.

Durante los tiempos del imperio fue llamada "La perla de asia".

Pero prefiero españa desde que cambió de imperio a estado en 1975

Saludos desde España

Quote from: Mari on August 25, 2009, 10:27:13 AM
why is it always associated with 'money' when we choose to be with a foreigner. we all deserve to be with someone regardless of race and nationality, someone who will love us, understand and care.

The same reason as lot of people in pinas thing we have a tree in our house that grows lot of money every day and we are all rich when the reality is far from that.

Just topics as always.

I met lot of filipinas married to husbands that were living on the edge all the months so I think they were not chasing money

I hate that just cause I am with a filipina gf all the people have to think she is looking for money. She doesn´t like that neither she is always worried of "what the people could think of her" but well she showed me she is good like the most part of the filipinas.

But as always a little bad people do more noise than a huge amount of good ones, just be careful and select with who you are  

Regards

Quote from: Lorenzo on August 25, 2009, 04:57:18 AM
Como Estas?!

Hope your stay el Las Filipinas was great!


Regards, amigo!

Yeah I had fun. Was better than I expected by far. I will go back again in November another 21 days

I was in your town in the springs

See you 

Regards

The truth is that there are friends and foes in both sides and is the people who has to check who is the real person they are with . If they do not do it then later they shouldn´t say "All filipinas marry for money" or "all foreigners etc etc "

The problem is old men the most part of the times go to easy women or cheap women as my gf says
And if they do not get along in europe or usa with that kind of girls why they do that there or worse with "professionals" and marry them.

Later they will blame all the women there cause they were acting brainless, and we have the topic "all filipinas marry foreigners for money"

If they act stupid they should blame themselfs, not others

Regards

Quote from: thegirlnextdoor on August 24, 2009, 07:44:07 PM
Many foreigner guys are ugly who come here looking for love and some are on fixed income due to being clinically diagnosed as manic depressed. They receive what we call an SSI if they found unable to work do to non curable chemical imbalances in the head.

Some of these ugly old foreigner look for love but others look for a slave or a maid. this is my feeling after I spoke some of them in Philippines.

And as well some behaved so arrogant in philippines. I was really ashamed even if I am not from their country but because the people would think I am like them just cause I am not pinoy

Best regards

Well in my opinion I think I know now how to detect a "bad" filipina or a good one. I think is too obvious when a filipina is just there for money but some foreigners (overall the ones that marry bar girls ¬¬) seem blind.

I think with an easy check they could know if she is clean or not but I do not know why they do not do them. They just say "no she is not like the others"

I am 25 yo. My gf is 23 yo, she is filipina and lives in Cebu. We never were interested in each other, all that happened between us was unnespected for both of us.
She earns the minimum filipino wage right now.

I do not send her money and she never asked me for a peso even beeing there.

I told her I won´t marry soon that I need years before that and she didn´t go for other one.

She expends money from her little wage to call me to my spanish mobile and never told me to payback.

She is not interested in come to europe by the moment. She seems happy with her life and she says me "I am poor but I am happy here"

She refused from me a work I found to her in call center with more money by far than her current wage. Her reason was that in that work she would earn more money but she won´t have a good shift to chat to me cause of the difference of time.

She doesn´t know how much I earn and never asked about it.

Even earning only the minimum wage she has spent quite amount in things for me (unexpected presents overall)

Even borrowing her my old laptop that is not brand new by far (5 years old) she seemed the happiest person in the world and never requested me to buy a brand new one as others do.

She knows I am not looking a future house wife to maintain and that she will have to work as well as me.

When we started to break ice between us she told me what she likes to do when she is on spare time and I found was exactly what I like but I never told her I liked those things.

I think these all signs are good so I think I am safe with her.

Obviously maybe for me is different cause I am young and not and old man. But if people there would think with the brain instead of the ..... hehehe (sorry I did not know other way to explain it) then in some time nobody will hear again "filipinas marry foreigners for money" cause those girls wouldn´t have a chance.

A scammer or a filipina that is looking for money or leaving the country will hurry in all (soon request money for any reason, when is the visa ready, when will you marry me? etc etc) all this things happen in a short time the most and in a medium time in the rest but they show their real face soon

This is my opinion of this

About why a filipina gf. I wasn´t looking for it. It all happened by surprise.
But I like how she is. How she treat me. And I like her cause she likes the same things I like so we enjoy together always.

Take care all

Regards from Spain

Hi I am spanish and I live in Madrid but I lived in Barcelona.

I do not know the prices of vacational apartments rates in rest of europe.

In Barcelona you can find from about 400-1300 â,¬ per week (26400-85800 php per week) in  safe and nice place. STAY AWAY from the Raval neiborhood cause is not safe at all, it´s old and horrible  

For a long stay maybe you can find cheaper for sure (52000 php /month)

Hope this helps

Quote from: Lorenzo on February 23, 2009, 08:33:57 AM
Three words come out when I think of Mother Spain:

Conservative
Catholic
Gorgeous

Hi Lorenzo, how are you?

Well just one point Spain is not as catholic and so conservative as you think.

Young people is not very religious and we are far from the old conservative way of think.
That spain dead when the dictatorship dead

Anyway I think Andalucia is where religion is lived with more passion but do not expect the old conservative spain of some decades ago

Saludos

Well, every european´s country economy is shrinking
One more abrupt like Germany other less, but it´s just normal. The economy has times of grow and times of shrink. It cannot grow forever without a crisis time.

Just wait to better times and hope everything go back to normal in all the world asap, but seems not till at least 2010.

Regards

I´m gonna stay in Panglao but gonna do a tour around all the island and some island hopping as well.  As well I´ll go to Tagbilaran at day time some times. Let´s see if I meet some nice people the first days so will be better than beeing alone

But after the funny experience in the filipino embassy here in Madrid I think I´ll meet lot of people hahahaha.

Valencia? cool easy to remember hehehehe.

Yes I´m from Madrid and I´m gonna visit your country soon

It´s my first time out of Europe i´m excited!!!! hahahaha

Are you living in Bohol or in other place?

Regards

Quote from: Lorenzo on March 31, 2009, 08:25:12 PM
Yes, Bohol es mi patria, pero yo vivo y estudio aqui en Los Estados Unidos.

Keko, mi amigo, yo tengo muchos amigos Hispanoles y Argintenos. hahaha.

Ah, Dios Mio, La Mujer Hispanola esta muy increible ! y guapa! si, mucho mas.

Por supuesto, eh? hahaha!


Welcome to Tubag Bohol!
Saludos!

Lorenzo

hahahaha take care with the spanish girls

Really I was looking for info about Bohol but I found this forum.

I´ll be there from 2nd May to 12th then I´ll move to other places in Philippines.

I´ve learned a lot with my Pinoy friends about philippines and doing research by my own and I was amazed about your culture so I decided to have a closer look heheheh

Now I´m learning as much tagalog as I can till I go there and try to stay with the locals and have new experiences.

I´m just gonna stay alone 6 days till some filipino friends come with me. How safe is Tagbilaran, Panglao and Bohol generally speaking. (I´m a 24 years old male travelling alone hahaha)

Saludos

Just don´t read all the b*** that the international press says, cause for sure has been written by somebody that never met a filipino or haven´t been there or even doesn´t know where Philippines is in a map.

The people that really know about Philippines and have filipino friends think in other different and positive way.

People that write these stupids articles cannot see their own problems and blame the others so they can feel better.

Just be proud of your beautiful country and the great and friendly people that live there.

The filipino people that I have met here in Spain are more friendly and smart than the chinese by far and they speak spanish, english, tagalog and sometimes other dialects like cebuano, ilocano. AMAZING! 

The chinese people here is a closed community, don´t want to mix with others and speak poor spanish.

So OK they say "nation of servants", but they are living in poor conditions as almost slaves here sleeping up to 20 in a room...I haven´t met a filipino family living in this conditions so they can start to see their own problems and stop writing b*** of others.

Maraming salamat po for reading

Magandang araw Lorenzo. Are you from Bohol?

Bohol is the first place I´m gonna visit in Pinas.

I´ve been checking some posts and you seem to know A LOT!! about Spain 

I´m impressed

 

Hi

I would recomend you to go to other place for learn spanish. hehehe

Cadiz people speaks the worst one and even people from other places of spain have sometimes troubles to understand them.

If you need help about looking for a place ask me, I´m a spanish living in Madrid.

Saludos

This is very common in that place.

The spanish army and others from the EU are in Somalia to try to keep the pirates away.

For sure they´ll go back home safe as many others that happened before, the pirates just want the money.

Hi Lorenzo

Kumusta ka?

Beautiful video! I´m spanish but I´ve seen many places I haven´t visited yet

But before go to see them I´ll go to my first travel out of Europe to Philippines this May.

Have you come to Spain any time?

Saan?