Good morning. I have been working on and off on Makati for the last two years and am now back in the UK, London. I miss the PHILIPPINES, family values and culture. I fell in love with some of the food and also your very talented bands at clubs. please feel free to say hi.
Missing it already actually. Managed even to pick up a bit of the lingo which I struggle to use now. You never know, I might go back.
I met a lot of special people over there. I was working with Filipino colleagues whom I respected enormously Spending some time with families and at their homes it was a special time.
It's great really...I.loved it....if the misses didn't want here so bad I'd live there for a while in a heartbeat
Just be careful when in the homes of people there who are not related to you. If there are minors present, you may be arrested and hauled away to jail. All is not as sweet and charming as it may seem, in the Philippines, particularly for foreigners. . A foreigner caught in the company of a minor who is not his relative violates RA 7610, or the Special Protection of Children against Abuse, Exploitation, and Discrimination Act. Section 10 (b) of RA 7610 prohibits any person to be in the company of “a minor, 12 years or under or who is 10 years or more his junior in any public or private place, hotel, motel, beer joint, discotheque, cabaret, pension house, sauna or massage parlor, beach and/or other tourist resort or similar places.
It's an interesting law that one, I bet they have not defined "in the company of" what radius would get you locked up, would they be so extreme as to charge someone sitting in a deck chair on a beach if a minor walked up and sat down on at a table 6 feet away. One can picture a lot of situations where someone might be charged without having a clue that a child was even nearby.
That's very dangerous too, far better to let your partner do any bribe negotiations rather than trying to do it yourself, you might just accidently try to bribe a clean policeman.