Posts Tagged ‘ Frustration ’

Donating To The Recent Typhoons Does It Help?

January 2, 2012
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As i watched TV tonight while over dinner the local department of health decided to do a survey to see if fireworks should be banned, it pretty much says it all as New Year is over many kids have lost their lives, fingers, hands and scarred for life and a dumb question is asked....

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Top 10 Christmas Gifts For 2011

December 24, 2011
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10. New iPhone/iPAD. An odd consumerist thing you may think except I am going back to the UK in April, maybe a few months maybe a year depending if the kids and April can come with me. Fact is I need to keep in touch with my family and my laptop being the Chinese...

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Frustration Of Meeting A Good Foreign Husband From The Philippines

November 24, 2011
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Frustration Of Meeting A Good Foreign Husband From The Philippines

The frustration of meeting a good husband. Odd thing is I am not trying to link people up but often I am asked “Matt do you have a friend looking for a husband?” or “Matt can you introduce me to your friends?”. Issue is I am avoiding getting into this scenario because of the...

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Our combined business – Internet cafe / Sari-Sari / Phone load / Clothing and handbags

September 25, 2011
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One of the most common things you will here is how many businesses are simply not worth the time to setup and run. Simply a money pit and to a degree many are as a singular opportunity. The key to success is combinations of businesses that can work together. Having the Net-cafe encourages people...

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Wanting to give up on the Philippines

August 30, 2011
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Sometimes in the Philippines you just want to jack it all in and head back to your home country. I for one mess around with less than a quarter of my UK income in the Philippines and wonder sometimes why I bother. What is it that keeps us here? If I head back to...

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The downside of being happy..

August 24, 2010
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Things have been a bit odd lately as things are falling into place and pretty much going well. Then you will suddenly get emails or twitter messages regarding people not liking something on the blog or just the fact I am a foreigner in the Philippines. What is people’s problems? to be honest it...

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The frustration of doing business in the Philippines

June 12, 2010
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The last few months i have been busy trying to tie up loose ends to get projects moving. What i have found is things never move like they should and often people expect it not to. If you question things being slow or not being done generally the reply is “this is the Philippines...

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Old photos in new times

April 12, 2010
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Old photos in new times

Im sat here with April sleeping behind me as she is always busy as usual when she should be resting in the morning before I get up. Searching through my Facebook for something to do I came across this photo. It may not seem that important to other people but it pretty much shows...

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your not pinoy you dont understand

April 9, 2010
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Your not Pinoy you don’t understand is something I hear time and time again and not just people directing at me but from other foreigners. It varies in different degrees of the reason its used and at the same time I have heard from other foreigners if your marrying a Filipina don’t expect to...

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Sometimes your alone in the Philippines even when your not

March 11, 2010
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One of my biggest problems I have in the Philippines is meeting people face to face with an interest on the same topics as most of the country is very inwards in information etc. you hear very little of outside news. For example I was surprised about the rail crash on the Eurostar. But...

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