Author Topic: Philippines here i come (Read 6417 times)

evoltnvii · « **on:** January 22, 2009, 08:01:30 AM »

Well just got my ticket yesterday so I'm officially going to meet my girl. I'm flying out of LA on Korean Air (hopefully won't get shot down by russia) and will spend 3 weeks trolling around luzon.

xcited · « **Reply #1 on:** January 22, 2009, 09:52:30 AM »

Enjoy your trip. Is this the first time you are meeting her? What are you planning to do while you are there?

Xcited

Jeff S · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2009, 02:20:12 PM »

Have fun and keep us posted on your trip.

- Jeff

Planet-Love.com · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2009, 02:20:12 PM »

Bear · « **Reply #3 on:** January 22, 2009, 03:14:47 PM »

Awesome! I look forward to a good trip report. I always like to hear what the guys see and observe. Just reading has given me some new points of views on what I have and am doing as well as a few places I'd like to visit. Enjoy yourself.

The Bear Family

stevjulietb · « **Reply #4 on:** January 22, 2009, 04:17:41 PM »

Right back where i started from.....Good luck

stevb

evoltnvii · « **Reply #5 on:** January 22, 2009, 04:34:13 PM »

well its my first trip there and i want to just spend time with her and relaxing as this is the first trip in 5 years for me. we are going to meet in manila stay for the night then actually take a bus to northerns samar to visit the folks. after that im booking us into a nice resort there for a week. and we plan to visit some of her friends after that . then we are going back to her house in bulacan for the rest of the trip. we are going to put around there and visit her sisters and lola. then i fly back. there will be a lot more i am sure but that is the basic outline for my trip. anyone have any suggestions? i am all ears.

Bear · « **Reply #6 on:** January 22, 2009, 05:17:13 PM »

Honestly I made a few suggestions on what I enjoyed, assured my wife I could afford it and then let her show me her country. I was able to watch how she spent money and handled herself and see the country she enjoyed too.

The Bear Family

evoltnvii · « **Reply #7 on:** January 22, 2009, 08:21:13 PM »

i was thinking about her taking control on the trip anyway except for the beach resort that one is all me.

joemc58 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 22, 2009, 09:48:03 PM »

Welcome Evoltnil,
The three places that I enjoy seeing in Luzon. Baguio City. summer capital of the Philippines,
the city of Taygaytay, the taal volcano. and traveling to Subic Bay.

Dave H · « **Reply #9 on:** February 01, 2009, 09:13:58 PM »

Congratulations evoltnvii!

I'm sure you will have a great trip!

Dave

evoltnvii · « **Reply #10 on:** March 01, 2009, 10:47:37 PM »

1 month to go!!! and turns out right before my trip my company is closing the location i work at YAY! so if i get another position ill keep trip as planned if i dont im taking severance pay and living over there for a few months LOL. either way im gonna have a blast.

Swisskid · « **Reply #11 on:** March 02, 2009, 02:29:03 AM »

Just got back myself last week. Trip report forthcoming...

Dude, you are going to have a great time! You are doing the right thing getting out of Manila right away. I was stuck there for a week. Very crowded and polluted. Yuck.

Subic is awesome and quite inexpensive.

Enjoy your trip! I am already planning my next one....

evoltnvii · « **Reply #12 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:22:01 AM »

Quote from: Swisskid on March 02, 2009, 02:29:03 AM

Just got back myself last week. Trip report forthcoming...

Dude, you are going to have a great time! You are doing the right thing getting out of Manila right away. I was stuck there for a week. Very crowded and polluted. Yuck.

Subic is awesome and quite inexpensive.

Enjoy your trip! I am already planning my next one....

maybe net time we can hit subic but this time its all about samar. nice pic btw

Planet-Love.com · « **Reply #12 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:22:01 AM »

Dave H · « **Reply #13 on:** March 03, 2009, 11:13:43 PM »

Quote from: evoltnvii on March 01, 2009, 10:47:37 PM

1 month to go!!! and turns out right before my trip my company is closing the location i work at YAY! so if i get another position ill keep trip as planned if i dont im taking severance pay and living over there for a few months LOL. either way im gonna have a blast.

Hey evoltnvii,

Sounds good!

Let me know, I am moving over in a few weeks. I may stay 6 months or maybe forever. Sure it's the third world...but I'm currently living in the third world inside los Estados Unidos de AmÃ©rika (en inglÃ©s United States of Amerika) and paying though the nose for everything! Â¿Se Habla EspaÃ±ol? Not any more!

I will no longer have to say "Yo quero un Doble Guaper con queso, papitas fritas, y una Coca Cola" at 'Rey de Hamburguesas'...I mean 'Burger King.'

Dave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpIL-Gz2zVk&feature=related

michaelb · « **Reply #14 on:** March 04, 2009, 06:31:32 AM »

I suspect the ad agency is laughing at at their client, Burger King of Spain. Listen closely to the tune and see if you can catch the irony.

Bear · « **Reply #15 on:** March 04, 2009, 06:55:02 AM »

I've seen the exact same commercial here in Houston but in English and some (not all) different actors.

The Bear Family

michaelb · « **Reply #16 on:** March 04, 2009, 07:23:18 PM »

Guess I don't watch enough TV, I've never seen it before, in Spanish nor English. But I recognize a melody when I hear one.

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

Now tell me the BK commercial isn't an almost note for note cover. Hope they paid her some royalties, 'cause that's the irony I was alluding to.

Swisskid · « **Reply #17 on:** March 04, 2009, 11:01:31 PM »

Helen must be choking on her vegemite.....

evoltnvii · « **Reply #18 on:** March 11, 2009, 10:35:36 PM »

well got good news/bad news today... turns out i am still employed. so yay i still have a job and damm because i cant spend a few months with my little filipina before returning home. also got all of my ducks in a row as it were before the trip except moving out of my apartment. i have 4 weeks still so it shouldnt be too much of a chore. well hopefully ill be able to do regular updates from there but i dont have a guaranteed connection that i know of untill i take her home but i will update as connection allows.

Honey · « **Reply #19 on:** March 12, 2009, 07:32:45 AM »

sorry to interrupt ur discussions here. i just thought i'd post the english version of the BK commercial that Dave posted in the previous page, hehe!
http://www.youtube.com/v/vGLHlvb8skQ&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0

Dave H · « **Reply #20 on:** March 16, 2009, 04:04:19 PM »

Hi Honey,

I am surprised they don't do it in Spanish in Texas like they do in South Florida.

Anyway, Helen Reddy must be very happy as Michael noted! Even if they changed it to 'I am man!' She cowrote the original song, so she is probably getting a nice royalty check.

Dave

evoltnvii · « **Reply #21 on:** April 30, 2009, 02:03:38 AM »

well i never made it to manila..... didnt even make it on the plane.
im a big guy i admit it and turns out korean air managers decided i was little to big for one seat so they said i need to buy another seat at the counter or not leave. second ticket was only $1300.00 so i told them let me just pull that out of my ass hold on. they did not think it was funny but F them so i walked out and made some calls.

Well later that afternoon i called my Madel and as expected she did not take it well. After crying for about 2 hours i finally got her to calm down. So now i have 2 tickets that cost me the same price as my original one ticket due to price changes and i leave on may 10th. Well wish me luck hoping nothing goes wrong this time. if they give me trouble at the airport this time tsa is gonna have to break out the taser cause a little asian mad is gonna go flying across the terminal.

TurboSS · « **Reply #22 on:** April 30, 2009, 11:23:31 AM »

Sorry to hear that. Have you ever had to buy two plane tickets before? At least you still get to see her soon though.

Planet-Love.com · « **Reply #22 on:** April 30, 2009, 11:23:31 AM »

Capstone · « **Reply #23 on:** April 30, 2009, 12:19:24 PM »

Wow - that is horrible to hear. But at least it sounds like you have gotten things all straightened out and hopefully things will work out much better the 2nd time around.

evoltnvii · « **Reply #24 on:** May 03, 2009, 06:48:54 PM »

well it may have been for the best that i didnt make it the first time. The day i was leaving her aunt died then her neighbor died a week later and now yesterday her other neighbors 14yo daughter died......

its like bad mojo working there this month. but it looks like things are better now so maybe its all for the best. just now i hear the island we are going to visit is being hit by a storm YAY!!!

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