Hi! Can anyone give me advice or recommend a good agencies that deploy health care provider to canada or any countries. I'm a registered nurse here in the philippines, im currently working at the hospital for almost 2 years still my status is as a contractual. Salamat po!! Godbless!

Yayaman ka sa Canada hehe

^^ Exhibit A. :D

^^ awww.. hinde ako nurse hehe

May tita ako s winnipeg, ngfill-out ako nung application for manitoba nominee, hindi man napursue,,

bka may alam ka, pnghanap mo nman ako ng mga nghahanap ng filo fafa baka may kakilala k dyan.. Hehehe..

May tita ako s winnipeg, ngfill-out ako nung application for manitoba nominee, hindi man napursue,,

bka may alam ka, pnghanap mo nman ako ng mga nghahanap ng filo fafa baka may kakilala k dyan.. Hehehe..

Sa Saudi meron akong alam, superyaman na noon:D yun nga lang Saudi yun hindi Canada:lol:

May tita ako s winnipeg, ngfill-out ako nung application for manitoba nominee, hindi man napursue,,

bka may alam ka, pnghanap mo nman ako ng mga nghahanap ng filo fafa baka may kakilala k dyan.. Hehehe..

Well, I was almost petitioned for Montreal.

Buti na lang hindi. I won't have met you guys (and I wouldn't be eating in spoon and fork these days.)

^^Whaaaaaa?

C'mon that's a bunch of sour duhat!




:horse:

^^ I'm not kidding you folks. Of course that was at the time when one of my uncles (I have two) who is the oldest in my mum's side asked if they get me and be with them. Of course my mother disapproved. So here I am, less francophonique but more sexy. :D :D

May tita ako s winnipeg, ngfill-out ako nung application for manitoba nominee, hindi man napursue,,

bka may alam ka, pnghanap mo nman ako ng mga nghahanap ng filo fafa baka may kakilala k dyan.. Hehehe..

just file another application. Canada needs lots of nurses all over the country. Almost all provinces have nursing programs, which gives nurses bigger chances of immigrating. :D

^^ Yung sa mga tipong Saskatchewan. Di ba walang katao-tao dun- hehe, I am sure madaling makapasok dun. :D


@Ady and @JuanPilgrim - same thing, yung pagraduate na ako, my tita also wanted me to help them run their business sa Alaska. Ayaw ko nga, boring na nga ang Kalibo, ipapadala pa ako sa Alaska! I don't want to waste the best years of my life being stuck living with my relatives in Juneau in a town where you can't lamyerda and you know what :naughty: without everyone knowing about it. :lol:

Well, I was almost petitioned for Montreal.

Buti na lang hindi. I won't have met you guys (and I wouldn't be eating in spoon and fork these days.)

^^ Yung sa mga tipong Saskatchewan. Di ba walang katao-tao dun- hehe, I am sure madaling makapasok dun. :D


@Ady and @JuanPilgrim - same thing, yung pagraduate na ako, my tita also wanted me to help them run their business sa Alaska. Ayaw ko nga, boring na nga ang Kalibo, ipapadala pa ako sa Alaska! I don't want to waste the best years of my life being stuck living with my relatives in Juneau in a town where you can't lamyerda and you know what :naughty: without everyone knowing about it. :lol:

I respect your decisions ...To each his own talaga, but there is nothing worst than not trying at all and regretting later when it is already too late. What if...sigh... what if... sigh... what if...sigh...





:horse:

^^Whaaaaaa?

C'mon that's a bunch of sour duhat!




:horse:

doc, napansin ko pareho na kayo ni mercato magsalita:lol:

^^ Yung sa mga tipong Saskatchewan. Di ba walang katao-tao dun- hehe, I am sure madaling makapasok dun. :D




I actually live in Saskatchewan!! :lol:
In Saskatoon to be exact. (the biggest city in the province with population of less than 250,000 1/4 of Calgary's population :D)
But tbh, i love it here more than any other big cities in Canada. very livable and less stressful with the same standard of living. :cheers:
I specially love the river setting within the city. :)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z5GUu6aAHhU/TidJRL7FB4I/AAAAAAAAAfk/IsyxaFIqyhU/s640/Riverbank%252520park%252520in%252520downtown%252520Saskatoon.jpg





Yup the prarie provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba are the leading provinces which are open for Migrations.

di nman dahil sa walang tao dun.. pero tama ka, maraming towns sa Saskatchewan na napaka liliit ng population, just like any towns in the USA. Marami ding ganun across Canada, hinde lang sa SK. :lol: :lol:

Pero kahit mga big cities open for migration, tulad ng Edmonton, Calagary, Red Deer, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina etc...

These 3 provinces are leading the country to economic growth. Actually BOOMING - mas maraming job opportunities - which is the reason for open migration. Yung ibang provinces affected maciado ng US recession lalo na ang Ontario.

^^ and Here's Regina, the second largest in Saskatchewan.
Also the provincial Capital.

Saskatchewan cities are not really known around the world. :lol:

http://www.reginarcmpvets.ca/images/REGINA_SASK1.jpg

I actually live in Saskatchewan!! :lol:
In Saskatoon to be exact. (the biggest city in the province with population of less than 250,000 1/4 of Calgary's population :D)
But tbh, i love it here more than any other big cities in Canada. very livable and less stressful with the same standard of living. :cheers:
I specially love the river setting within the city. :)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z5GUu6aAHhU/TidJRL7FB4I/AAAAAAAAAfk/IsyxaFIqyhU/s640/Riverbank%252520park%252520in%252520downtown%252520Saskatoon.jpg

Yup the prarie provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba are the leading provinces which are open for Migrations.

di nman dahil sa walang tao dun.. pero tama ka, maraming towns sa Saskatchewan na napaka liliit ng population, just like any towns in the USA. Marami ding ganun across Canada, hinde lang sa SK. :lol: :lol:

Pero kahit mga big cities open for migration, tulad ng Edmonton, Calagary, Red Deer, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina etc...

These 3 provinces are leading the country to economic growth. Actually BOOMING - mas maraming job opportunities - which is the reason for open migration. Yung ibang provinces affected maciado ng US recession lalo na ang Ontario.

My uncle is now in Alberta. Sa una patuloy2x pa lang sa mga kakilala niya sa Ananda Marga (since he's a yogi.) Then ayun, tuloy2x na. That was 5 years ago.

I think you're from Uranium City siguro Wino :D :D :D

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:ohno: :ohno: :ohno:


@Wino - kala ko kasi, puro damo lang o yelo lang dyan sa Saskatchewan. :D

^^ haha hinde nman laging damo.. very utilized ang lupa dito.. fields of Canola ang makikita mo pag summer.. and of course snow pag winter haha

Northern Saskatchewan as a matter of fact is heavily forested. :D
The province also has 100,000 lakes!! more than the number of Philippine islands. (but of course, our Philippine beaches are more superior) :D

My uncle is now in Alberta. Sa una patuloy2x pa lang sa mga kakilala niya sa Ananda Marga (since he's a yogi.) Then ayun, tuloy2x na. That was 5 years ago.

I think you're from Uranium City siguro Wino :D :D :D

haha sinabi ko na nga kung taga san ako ehh.. di ka nagbabasa hehe

^^ i already know you're from Saskatoon pero I think you're really from Uranium City :D :D :D

^^ why would you think that? :D

I've never been there...

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@Wino - kala ko kasi, puro damo lang o yelo lang dyan sa Saskatchewan. :D

Sweden closed their Manila embassy years back so we should close ours as well.

And while at it, the closed embassies will be handled by another of our embassies in these particular regions.

The Philippine embassy in The US or Mexico for example will handle the affairs of Cuba while that in Norway will handle Sweden, Finland etc.

I actually live in Saskatchewan!! :lol:
In Saskatoon to be exact. (the biggest city in the province with population of less than 250,000 1/4 of Calgary's population :D)
But tbh, i love it here more than any other big cities in Canada. very livable and less stressful with the same standard of living. :cheers:
I specially love the river setting within the city. :)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z5GUu6aAHhU/TidJRL7FB4I/AAAAAAAAAfk/IsyxaFIqyhU/s640/Riverbank%252520park%252520in%252520downtown%252520Saskatoon.jpg


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Nice, serene...isn't it boring? how's the night life?

From Australia....

Migrant workers take risks to secure a future
Irena Ceranic

Updated March 05, 2012 12:40:38
http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/1345502-3x2-340x227.jpg
Workers in an abattoir (file) Photo: Migrant workers will work longer hours when asked but at a risk. (file) (ABC TV)
Map: Perth 6000

Zandro Sta Maria left his wife and two children in the Philippines and embarked on a journey to Western Australia on a temporary work visa in 2006.

He was one of several men brought over to work at an abattoir in the South West and says at times he felt safety was compromised to increase productivity.

"It's normal for management to say 'hurry up, hurry up', because they have their own targets," he said.

"Towards the end of the production day everybody feels tired.

"They push you to the limit, not considering that we are just human."

It's stories like Mr Sta Maria's, and those of other migrant workers, which has prompted a study of workplace safety among Australia's migrant workforce by WA's Institute for Medical Research.

It follows international research which shows migrant workers are more prone to accidents and injuries in the workplace because they undertake high-risk jobs that native-born people are not inclined to do.

As a migrant whose right to remain in Australia depended on his ability to keep working, Mr Sta Maria says he never considered speaking to the company about working conditions.

"I worked myself really hard," he said.

"Considering that I'm from a different country, we tend to work as hard as we can and as long as the body allows us."

Despite working 10-hour shifts, he says he never complained of fatigue in fear of being dismissed and sent back to his own country.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-05/migrant-worker-risk-study-feature/3869018?section=wa

^^ Work in Australia is much safer compared to working in the Middle East.

^^ Work in Australia is much safer compared to working in the Middle East.

With that kind of working condition as described in the article, i don't think one can assume is safer than the other. For me it is the same...

Nice, serene...isn't it boring? how's the night life?

Very serene indeed!! Nope, it's not boring here. The city might be smaller compared to other big cities. But amenities are the same.
I totally love it here. I would call it a "CITY-TOWN" living.. you get to enjoy both worlds. A perfect balance, I would say - just my type. :D

on the other side of the river... is the University.
Saskatoon is host to Saskatchewan University.
So basically, it is also a "University city". There's a place called Broadway Avenue at the east side of the river, that is pretty much comparable to our Malate. Here is where the "young universitarians" party out. :D

aside from that.. lots of bars are also located within the city. You'd see lots of the ladies going out in short short skirts and high heels during weekends, even during WINTER!!

Up to now I'm still fascinated with women bearing the cold just to impress.. :lol:

Miss niyo? LOL
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/375432_320956527917091_121212684558144_1344098_959232113_n.jpg

^^ OO nman!!! :lol:

My uncle is now in Alberta. Sa una patuloy2x pa lang sa mga kakilala niya sa Ananda Marga (since he's a yogi.) Then ayun, tuloy2x na. That was 5 years ago.

Where in Alberta? Several relatives of mine have ended up settling in Edmonton.


You'd see lots of the ladies going out in short short skirts and high heels during weekends, even during WINTER!!

Up to now I'm still fascinated with women bearing the cold just to impress.. :lol:

I thought this was a phenomenon that can only be found in Edmonton (maybe Vancouver as well?) within Canada. Guess not...

^^ :lol: aren't they amusing to watch? :D

Laguardia Airport here. Had an awesome Cali stint. I walked in the street in Pretty Woman and said to the people crossing .. "This is Hollywood! Hey, what's yo' dream?" :lol:

Didn't care for Lakers game live. I did stay tuned though to Knicks-Celtics on TV. Too bad Knicks lost in OT. But man, the last 5 points in regulation by Linsane In The Membrane!

Sa Saudi meron akong alam, superyaman na noon:D yun nga lang Saudi yun hindi Canada:lol:ngayon ko lang napansin to a.

Aah, oo kilala ko rin yan. :D secret millionaire soon to live in the next Forbes Park development by Ayala Land Premiere. Si Bossing. :bow: :bow:

^^ Work in Australia is much safer compared to working in the Middle East.

Also, most Pinoys can relate with Australian customs and culture unlike in The Middle East.

Where in Alberta? Several relatives of mine have ended up settling in Edmonton.



Edmonton ata din sila sir...Di ko na natinag sa aking radar... :lol::lol:

^^ and Here's Regina, the second largest in Saskatchewan.
Also the provincial Capital.

Saskatchewan cities are not really known around the world. :lol:

http://www.reginarcmpvets.ca/images/REGINA_SASK1.jpg

It looks really beautiful "wino" almost like a European city, (river traversing the city) with modern buildings, except of course foreground of the pix, which is really beautiful:)

May not be well known around the world like Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal, but it is where people are migrating, for better available good paying jobs, specially in mining. Saskatchewan of course is booming because of its resource base economy (potash) like B.C.with its LNG/Lumber, and Alberta with its tarsand . :cheers:

Nice, serene...isn't it boring? how's the night life?

Boring...? not at all. We've been to Saskatoon & Regina few times, and I thought it is a beautiful city to live. I guess its up to the person. For me, I love the unhurried life, I am not too keen about big and crowded cities either. Vancouver with its 650 thousand pop. I thought is already crowded . We live in the North Shore and no night life at all. Considered a "Bed Room" community.

With that kind of working condition as described in the article, i don't think one can assume is safer than the other. For me it is the same...

You don't just get raped in Australia as regularly in the Middle East. Saudi is a very backwards country with no regard to human rights.

You don't just get raped in Australia as regularly in the Middle East. Saudi is a very backwards country with no regard to human rights.

pero puede magpa rape sa Australia?:D:lol::lol::lol:

:|

pero puede magpa rape sa Australia?:D:lol::lol::lol:

Hahahaha! What a question!:nuts:

Boring...? not at all. We've been to Saskatoon & Regina few times, and I thought it is a beautiful city to live. I guess its up to the person. For me, I love the unhurried life, I am not too keen about big and crowded cities either. Vancouver with its 650 thousand pop. I thought is already crowded . We live in the North Shore and no night life at all. Considered a "Bed Room" community.

I agree with you there.. I definitely love the "Unhurried life" as you mentioned.

You from Kamloops? Isn't that a resort town? I've heard that it's a beautiful and scenic place :)

You don't just get raped in Australia as regularly in the Middle East. Saudi is a very backwards country with no regard to human rights.

There you go, you just tarred the whole middle east countries as if they function just like Saudi Arabia.
:bash:

How would you like it if somebody says the whole ASEAN countries are basically the same just like Myanmar, will you agree with that statement?

It looks really beautiful "wino" almost like a European city, (river traversing the city) with modern buildings, except of course foreground of the pix, which is really beautiful:)


Actually that is Regina in the picture above, and that's a lake.

here is Saskatoon, "the city of bridges". :)
We have a river traversing the city center
(I hope people wouldn't mind me sharing pictures here - this will be the LAST time if someone does. :D )
http://www.digitalapoptosis.com/archives/canada/saskatoon2.jpg

here is Saskatoon's most iconic landmark. (the Delta Bessborough Hotel)
http://gallery.scottprokop.com/Stock/Creative-HDR/i-hZ3cZtX/0/L/SJP2010060240D028SaskatoonHDRP-L.jpg

^^ :lol: aren't they amusing to watch? :D

I think I was more amazed than amused. I don't know how they are able to withstand the cold.


Edmonton ata din sila sir...Di ko na natinag sa aking radar... :lol::lol:

Edmonton is the capital of Alberta. One of the biggest (literally!) attractions there is the West Edmonton Mall.


here is Saskatoon's most iconic landmark. (the Delta Bessborough Hotel)
http://gallery.scottprokop.com/Stock/Creative-HDR/i-hZ3cZtX/0/L/SJP2010060240D028SaskatoonHDRP-L.jpg

Looks like one of those Fairmont hotels.

Also, most Pinoys can relate with Australian customs and culture unlike in The Middle East.^^ Work in Australia is much safer compared to working in the Middle East.I totally agree, the difference between heaven and earth, or hell during the roasting summer months. Believe me, it's def NO FUN yonder. :lol: :lol: 40degrees Centigrade anyone? The maximum official level is 45degrees because by law, any degree beyond that and all the workers are mandated to stop. Which is why they stop the thermometers instead. :lol:

There you go, you just tarred the whole middle east countries as if they function just like Saudi Arabia.
:bash:

How would you like it if somebody says the whole ASEAN countries are basically the same just like Myanmar, will you agree with that statement?

Let me see, how does Middle East countries fare in the protection of human rights: migrant workers, women, suffrage, religion, etc.? Please answer. No amount of polishing can make that turd shine. Everyone knows the human rights abuses being committed in the Middle East.

Btw, pro-democracy movement calls it Burma. And for the record, ASEAN don't have great human rights record either and that includes every country including the Philippines. But I'd rather live in ASEAN than in the Middle East.

4 Filipinos killed in Canada road accident

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

MANILA -- Four overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) died in a road accident in Central Alberta, Canada Sunday night.

A CBC News report said the accident happened when a drunk man driving the Range Rover was travelling on the wrong side of the road. The vehicle collided head-on with the Dodge Journey carrying the workers.

The names of the Filipino workers -- two men, 35, and two women, aged 39 and 52 -- have not been released pending notification of next of kin.

The report said the workers were all employed at the Coast Edmonton Plaza Hotel.

The 29-year-old man who was driving the Range Rover SUV was arrested and was treated for injuries at the hospital in Red Deer, the report added. (Sunnex)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/breaking-news/2012/03/07/4-filipinos-killed-canada-road-accident-209942

Maids' day off fuels Singapore foreigners debate

Singapore's plan to mandate one day off a week for foreign maids after years of outcry by human rights groups is adding fuel to a raging debate about decent jobs and the soaring cost of living on the high-cost island.

From well-paid bankers to laborers toiling in the searing sun, foreigners make up a third of the 5.2 million people in a small city-state with few resources that has become a first-world hub for trade, high-end manufacturing and financial services.

At least 200,000 are women from Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar and elsewhere in the region who work as family maids, nannies and caregivers to the old and ill. Wages are low, hours are long and accidents, violence and suicides are not uncommon.

Human Rights Watch said the new plan, which was proposed by the ruling People's Action Party, complemented stronger regulation of employment agencies and more prosecutions of abusive employers in recent years but did not go far enough.

"Singapore's reforms are only a fraction of the change needed to protect women workers, who are too often undervalued and overworked," the New-York based group said on Tuesday.

Unlike Hong Kong and Taiwan, which require a weekly rest day for maids, Singapore has had no such rule. That will change in January 2013, Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin said.

"A weekly rest day is regarded internationally as a basic labor right," Tan told parliament on Monday, noting that a "significant majority" of foreign maids who are hurt on the job or commit suicide had not been given time off.

Employers who truly need full-time help will be allowed to offer extra pay instead of days off by mutual consent.

Full story here (http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/03/06/12/maids-day-fuels-singapore-foreigners-debate)

Let me see, how does Middle East countries fare in the protection of human rights: migrant workers, women, suffrage, religion, etc.? Please answer. No amount of polishing can make that turd shine. Everyone knows the human rights abuses being committed in the Middle East.

Btw, pro-democracy movement calls it Burma. And for the record, ASEAN don't have great human rights record either and that includes every country including the Philippines. But I'd rather live in ASEAN than in the Middle East.

I'm really disappointed with you man, to think you're in the foreign service...:ohno:
Check again your geography what countries comprises the middle east.

4 Filipinos killed in Canada road accident

| More |
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

MANILA -- Four overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) died in a road accident in Central Alberta, Canada Sunday night.

A CBC News report said the accident happened when a drunk man driving the Range Rover was travelling on the wrong side of the road. The vehicle collided head-on with the Dodge Journey carrying the workers.

The names of the Filipino workers -- two men, 35, and two women, aged 39 and 52 -- have not been released pending notification of next of kin.

The report said the workers were all employed at the Coast Edmonton Plaza Hotel.

The 29-year-old man who was driving the Range Rover SUV was arrested and was treated for injuries at the hospital in Red Deer, the report added. (Sunnex)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/breaking-news/2012/03/07/4-filipinos-killed-canada-road-accident-209942

By reading just the posts of our kababayans who made Canada their second home, I was made to believe life there is very much "unhurried"!

Now, this very sad accident killing 4 OFW from Edmonton last Sunday. Life really is not the way one sees it, IMO. The lesson is: Surprises can be hard to handle, sometimes. We sympathize with the families of those who perished.

4 Filipinos killed in Canada road accident


This was all over the news yesterday... it's very sad...
Everyone sympathizes for the victims, including the government.


You can watch a local Edmonton news video here; where the Philippine consulate was interviewed.
http://edmonton.ctv.ca/

(click on the video "Man faces 14 charges.... ")



Four Filipino workers killed in Alberta crash

http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20120305/470_innisfail_fatal_crash2_120305_430241.jpg?2


Updated: Mon Mar. 05 2012 18:04:47

CTVNews.ca Staff

Four migrant workers from the Philippines are dead after a head-on collision in southern Alberta late Sunday night that police believe was the result of drunk driving.

RCMP in Innisfail say paramedics and fire crews responded to the crash scene on the QEII Highway shortly after 11 p.m. local time.

According to eyewitnesses, an SUV was travelling north in the southbound lanes of the highway when it collided with a southbound car carrying the workers.

Two men, both aged 35, and two women, aged 52 and 39, all believed to be temporary workers from the Philippines, were killed. Another victim, a 28-year-old female, was transported to hospital in Edmonton suffering from critical injuries.

Three of the dead had worked at the Coast Edmonton Plaza Hotel. The hotel's manager, Kelly McCauley, said colleagues have been "saddened beyond words" by the deaths.

"They were like family to us," he told CTV Edmonton. "We've got a large community, a large family at the hotel, and they were like brothers and sisters to us."

McCauley said the hotel is offering grief counselling.

read more... (http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120305/innisfail-crash-120305/20120305/?hub=WinnipegHome)

:ohno: not so good news.




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I agree with you there.. I definitely love the "Unhurried life" as you mentioned.

You from Kamloops? Isn't that a resort town? I've heard that it's a beautiful and scenic place :)

Oh absolutely....

I am actually from the District of North Vancouver. Close to the three mountain resorts of Grouse, Seymore and Cypress, for skiing in the winter hiking and moutain bicycling in the summer and fall.

I love the interior B.C. because of its lakes, mountain and trees.

Driving in the prairies is absolutely wonderful. Makes you feel so free. While going through cities and communities, the changing landscape, color and textures of all kinds of vegetation, is a great experience.:cheers:

By reading just the posts of our kababayans who made Canada their second home, I was made to believe life there is very much "unhurried"!

Now, this very sad accident killing 4 OFW from Edmonton last Sunday. Life really is not the way one sees it, IMO. The lesson is: Surprises can be hard to handle, sometimes. We sympathize with the families of those who perished.

It is just a matter of choice. Don't paint it with the same brush, it doesn't work that way.

Driving while under the influence of alcohol is a dangerous, specially during the winter when all roads are treacherous. It is sad, but those accident happens.

Let me see, how does Middle East countries fare in the protection of human rights: migrant workers, women, suffrage, religion, etc.? Please answer. No amount of polishing can make that turd shine. Everyone knows the human rights abuses being committed in the Middle East.

Btw, pro-democracy movement calls it Burma. And for the record, ASEAN don't have great human rights record either and that includes every country including the Philippines. But I'd rather live in ASEAN than in the Middle East.I concur. Some always wanna have the last say to make themselves appear smarter than they really are. Let's see. :lol: :lol: Basic protection? Syria? :lol: Well, ya gotta forgive some who're stuck there for the long term. Seems like they got no choice but to polish just that. :rofl:

I'd rather live in ASEAN yea, it's a no brainer. Too bad for those who got no choice but some actually do opt to live there.

Ah yes, the roasting summer months are rolling in. It can fry people's brains out, if it hasn't already by now ... Tsk, tsk, tsk ... :lol:

It is just a matter of choice.Don't paint it with the same brush, it doesn't work that way.

Driving while under the influence of alcohol is a dangerous, specially during the winter when all roads are treacherous. It is sad, but those accident happens.

We're watching while you people "painted", so to speak! We watched at the nice scenery posted and we also were made to believe by those captions as you people described. It should be directed the other way, i.e. back to those "painters". I don't have the paint brush in my hand, FYI.

It's wrong to keep ideas as written in stone. Things change, and surprises are very hard to handle. BE AWARE!

I concur. Some always wanna have the last say to make themselves appear smarter than they really are. Let's see. :lol: :lol: Basic protection? Syria? :lol: Well, ya gotta forgive some who're stuck there for the long term. Seems like they got no choice but to polish just that. :rofl:

I'd rather live in ASEAN yea, it's a no brainer. Too bad for those who got no choice but some actually do opt to live there.

Ah yes, the roasting summer months are rolling in. It can fry people's brains out, if it hasn't already by now ... Tsk, tsk, tsk ... :lol:

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Damn, the idiocy of some people here...smh...

:|

I do know a lot of Filipinos in the Middle East who goes to ME for 'experience' and use it to migrate to Canada, Australia and NZ. There must be some Filipinos who really enjoy living in the Middle East - but in general, most of the people I asked would never consider moving to Middle East. I know one non-Filipino who received an offer to teach in Saudi Arabia for 4,500-5000 USD a month and he turned it down and chose Korea instead where he got paid for only 3000USD a month. Reason? Living in the Middle East is too risky. I could list down harassment and attempted rapes (both males/females) which occurred to friends and acquaintances there and the picture aint pretty.

I do know a lot of Filipinos in the Middle East who goes to ME for 'experience' and use it to migrate to Canada, Australia and NZ. There must be some Filipinos who really enjoy living in the Middle East - but in general, most of the people I asked would never consider moving to Middle East. I know one non-Filipino who received an offer to teach in Saudi Arabia for 4,500-5000 USD a month and he turned it down and chose Korea instead where he got paid for only 3000USD a month. Reason? Living in the Middle East is too risky. I could list down harassment and attempted rapes (both males/females) which occurred to friends and acquaintances there and the picture aint pretty.

Dude please stop.
Why do you keep referring to Saudi Arabia as if it is the entirety of the middle east? Don't you know other middle east countries like Israel, Lebanon, Bahrain or should i go on?????:bash:
I'm not defending anything with regards to what happens in Saudi or the whole ME, i'm only pointing out your bigotry.

Dude please stop.
Why do you keep referring to Saudi Arabia as if it is the entirety of the middle east? Don't you know other middle east countries like Israel, Lebanon, Bahrain or should i go on?????:bash:
I'm not defending anything with regards to what happens in Saudi or the whole ME, i'm only pointing out your bigotry.

BIGOTRY? GET REAL.

Bahrain - Self-explanatory. Arab Spring? Unrest there wasn't really addressed, another problematic area for OFWs, worker rights not guaranteed

Lebanon - I am not sure if it's still ongoing but, I remembered that sending workers to Lebanon was stopped due to the high number of OFW 'suicides' in that country

Yemen - Self-explanatory - very oppressive laws, known for human rights abuses

Iraq - Dangerous, pretty much a failed state

UAE - (Multiple rapes happen in this Emirate, one was a high profile rape of a French minor who was gang raped, detained by the police and eventually contracted HIV)

Oman -Tried opening a Church there, but is it safe? -
There are 30 plus distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), all women, in Oman temporarily seeking refuge at the Philippine Embassy’s Filipino Workers Resource Center (FWRC)... most of them women were trafficked.

Qatar -while it vows to protect worker rights in that country, cases of wrongful imprisonment, trafficking, the country along with others in the region scores poorly with women, LGBT, human rights.

Jordan - similar problems with other countries, worker rights are routinely violated without ample protection from local laws. You can ask Amman PHEMB how bad it can get.

Israel - probably considered as one of the saner places in the Middle East where workers have better treatment. But more as an exception than a rule.

Middle East as a whole is one cesspool of abuse.

Anyway, mukhang masaya ka naman dyan sa Middle East, eh di 'Congratulations!'. :lol:

Anyway, mukhang masaya ka naman dyan sa Middle East, eh di 'Congratulations!'. :lol:

I wish you the best of luck on your foreign service career..:)

group hug na kayo:D

I wish you the best of luck on your foreign service career..:)

I think FSO will be one of my life's greatest regrets. Despite encouragement from other diplos, I do not have a single ounce of courage to take the exams. I think I will have to serve the country in another way.

We're watching while you people "painted", so to speak! We watched at the nice scenery posted and we also were made to believe by those captions as you people described. It should be directed the other way, i.e. back to those "painters". I don't have the paint brush in my hand, FYI.

It's wrong to keep ideas as written in stone. Things change, and surprises are very hard to handle. BE AWARE!

well it's up to you if you want believe me or not.
I can only describe it as how I experience it..

It's amusing how a single accident changed your entire perception.. :)


and just to be clear to what this discussion is all about.. what exactly did we "MADE YOU TO BELIEVE"? that you think is a baloney?

^^ Maybe somebody can post traffic accidents per capita.

BIGOTRY? GET REAL.

Bahrain - Self-explanatory. Arab Spring? Unrest there wasn't really addressed, another problematic area for OFWs, worker rights not guaranteed



Actually what we listen in news and reality of Middle East is totally different. Maybe Saudi is the only exception.

Also, Middle East and Western countries import totally different segment of workers. Workers who head to Middle East are mostly the lesser-privileged group with more lenient entry requirement. Whereas Western countries, especially North America and Australia, impose much stricter requirement in absorbing workers from abroad .

I found Arabs very hospitable and very pleasant people to get along with ( I've been to UAE, Oman, Yemen, Egypt for many times )

^^ Maybe somebody can post traffic accidents per capita.

I'm not sure what's the relevance of that with the pictures that was posted.. as us being accused of painting images/lifestyles that is "untrue/fabricated".

but here you go..

(disclaimer on accuracy of information :lol:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

** I was terribly shocked of the figures for the Philippines... I know the current situation is bad.. but I didn't expect it to be this bad compared to other countries.... :ohno: :ohno: :ohno:

Actually what we listen in news and reality of Middle East is totally different. Maybe Saudi is the only exception.

Also, Middle East and Western countries import totally different segment of workers. Workers who head to Middle East are mostly the lesser-privileged group with more lenient entry requirement. Whereas Western countries, especially North America and Australia, impose much stricter requirement in absorbing workers from abroad .

I found Arabs very hospitable and very pleasant people to get along with ( I've been to UAE, Oman, Yemen, Egypt for many times )

The reason is that there's not a lot of Malaysians working in the Middle East. Even my Vietnamese student who've been there hated it. Constant human rights violations occur it's mind boggling.


I'm not sure what's the relevance of that with the pictures that was posted.. as us being accused of painting images/lifestyles that is "untrue/fabricated".

but here you go..

(disclaimer on accuracy of information :lol:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

** I was terribly shocked of the figures for the Philippines... I know the current situation is bad.. but I didn't expect it to be this bad compared to other countries.... :ohno: :ohno: :ohno:


Yea, but that list is not updated and not uniform when it comes to dates.

Actually what we listen in news and reality of Middle East is totally different. Maybe Saudi is the only exception.

Also, Middle East and Western countries import totally different segment of workers. Workers who head to Middle East are mostly the lesser-privileged group with more lenient entry requirement. Whereas Western countries, especially North America and Australia, impose much stricter requirement in absorbing workers from abroad .

I found Arabs very hospitable and very pleasant people to get along with ( I've been to UAE, Oman, Yemen, Egypt for many times )

I agree, it's totally different when you've been there and had first hand experience and not just getting it from another guy's perspective.

Living/Working and travelling to that place are totally different things. Skyprince is also Muslim so obviously he is more at home there.

parang di ko rin gusto pumunta sa ME, ang dami kong kapatid andun sabi pumunta raw ako doon.:D


I refused:D

^^ Madedevirginise ka daw dun. Yung lalaking estudyante ko dito, inoferan ng arabo na taxi driver 4-5,000 Riyals para makasiping sya. Ewan ko lang kung pinatos- sabi hindi raw eh. Isip ko pa- owwwwsss... :lol:

^^ Madedevirginise ka daw dun. Yung lalaking estudyante ko dito, inoferan ng arabo na taxi driver 4-5,000 Riyals para makasiping sya. Ewan ko lang kung pinatos- sabi hindi raw eh. Isip ko pa- owwwwsss... :lol:

aww, like ko ma devirginised:D toinks

pero ayoko doon:lol:

^^ Bigot ka ha! :D

By reading just the posts of our kababayans who made Canada their second home, I was made to believe life there is very much "unhurried"!

Now, this very sad accident killing 4 OFW from Edmonton last Sunday. Life really is not the way one sees it, IMO. The lesson is: Surprises can be hard to handle, sometimes. We sympathize with the families of those who perished.

Not to sound insensitive, but that's just a reminder that accidents can happen anywhere and traffic accidents are one of the leading causes of death worldwide.

^^ Madedevirginise ka daw dun. Yung lalaking estudyante ko dito, inoferan ng arabo na taxi driver 4-5,000 Riyals para makasiping sya. Ewan ko lang kung pinatos- sabi hindi raw eh. Isip ko pa- owwwwsss... :lol:

magbabayad ka na lang ng kasiping... sa lalake pa.. :nuts: :nuts: :nuts:
hano ba yan?! baklang arabo???? :lol:


(pero in fairness, ubod ng laki ng offer.. :lol:)

I agree, it's totally different when you've been there and had first hand experience and not just getting it from another guy's perspective.

Living/Working and travelling to that place are totally different things. Skyprince is also Muslim so obviously he is more at home there.

I lived in Yemen for 2 months ( in total ) and mingled solely with local Yemenis. Even slept in their house. In Oman and Egypt I stayed with local families for 1 week each .

And seriously this has nothing to do with being Muslims- Arabs are generally very expressive people , they tend to speak their mind directly unlike most Asians. In Middle East, professionals/ people earning higher salary are of course tend to feel happier than those with lower income levels, just like anywhere else in the world.

Also, throw Sweden or Norway into the exact location of UAE, surrounded by huge populous nations with high poverty and jobless rates, and see if they could afford paying minimum USD 2000/month to each construction worker.

Coming from Asia many people including myself always think Middle Easterners are rude and harsh people but once I visited there it proved my perception was totally wrong ! Arabs in general are very very very veryyyy friendly, hospitable , accommodating people they are very curious about foreigners and you can talk openly about any issue very directly with most Arabs :)

I had an impression that Arab people are VERY VERY-FRIENDLY and HOSPITABLE.. (but most of them are with fellow Arabs only..)

I've heard one co-worker talking to another Arab in the parking lot(he was waiting to pick up someone).. the stranger directly told him.. "Allah wants us to be friends" and instantly offered him a strong handshake and some snacks he had with..
my impression was.. wow.. that was a very strong message of friendship!!

But I've never heard any Arab tell me that.. I guess they only want to make friends with their fellow Arabs...

Actually what we listen in news and reality of Middle East is totally different.

I found Arabs very hospitable and very pleasant people to get along with ( I've been to UAE, Oman, Yemen, Egypt for many times )

I think in general I found the older generation there very friendly, the younger generation not so much.


I agree, it's totally different when you've been there and had first hand experience and not just getting it from another guy's perspective.

I agree also. Even if you've only visited there, at least you've gotten a feel for the place and a sense of the general atmosphere. You find out for yourself what's true and what's not. Way better than simply relying on other people's stories.

We're watching while you people "painted", so to speak! We watched at the nice scenery posted and we also were made to believe by those captions as you people described. It should be directed the other way, i.e. back to those "painters". I don't have the paint brush in my hand, FYI.

It's wrong to keep ideas as written in stone. Things change, and surprises are very hard to handle. BE AWARE!

I absolutely agree with you. No one is saying that ideas are all curve in stone. You made that assumption yourself. But did someone made that claim so "absolute" that nothing could have happen to tarnish that kind of ideas? Was just an idea, that someone like me or any transplanted cannucks could have in any given city of municipality to live. It is a choice. No one is saying that Canadians live "unhurried" life but you can if you wanted to.

Last statement; I am used to surprises mind you, don't know about you. Good or bad, take it like a man, deal with it and move on:cheers:

BTW

Road accidents here in Canada specially in the winter season is expected. No surprises there at all, only until it hit your own family or anyone you know.
When snow fall earlier that what has been expected, which happens all the time, if you are not prepared, might as well stay home or take the public transportation, live your car behind. Plus driving when you are impaired, your next stop would be, slammer, hospital or cemetery. :cheers:

I had an impression that Arab people are VERY VERY-FRIENDLY and HOSPITABLE.. (but most of them are with fellow Arabs only..)

I've heard one co-worker talking to another Arab in the parking lot(he was waiting to pick up someone).. the stranger directly told him.. "Allah wants us to be friends" and instantly offered him a strong handshake and some snacks he had with..
my impression was.. wow.. that was a very strong message of friendship!!

But I've never heard any Arab tell me that.. I guess they only want to make friends with their fellow Arabs...

Hmm but I felt that they are even friendlier and nicer when dealing with foreigners. Also, the Arabs , Latinos and South Asians in the West, particularly in North America are generally the richer / the more Westernized/ more educated segment of the society so they maybe are not as friendly or as hospitable as those actually living in Middle East, Latin America or in Indian subcontinent itself.

But there are, of course, Arabs who are bad in attitude , but most Arabs I met so far are extremely generous, accommodating & being so nice to me.

Back from NY/NJ trip. :banana:

No Knicks game in NY the past week, boo hoo.

It's ok though because I already overspent by $250 on my budget for my West and East coast trips.

Will just catch the Knicks on TV. :cheers:

Action-packed week for me again this coming week. Will apply for Social Security and DL. I'm currently reviewing for DL exam. If I pass the exam which seems easy, I'm sure I will pass the drive test, especially as I get to practice driving around with my dad's car. Yep, I'm getting the hang of an automatic. Will also apply for pre-approval of loan on car. Will just get a $3500 car and negotiate it down to $3000 and pay it in 1.5 years.

Got a potential client today for my gigoloic services :lol: -- a Lao-Am. Saw her at a restau and thought she was Pinay. She was by herself, I was by myself, found out we were both having a Bento, introduced myself. She's my target market . . . mid-30s, looking for business to get some action, not bad-looking, in fact, I find her attractive. I packaged myself up as early 20s which many seem to mistake me for. :banana:

On another note, I finally get to check my credit card balance online. . . $1300. Must nibble this down to under $500 by July with my, ehem, salary. :cheers:

Hmm but I felt that they are even friendlier and nicer when dealing with foreigners. Also, the Arabs , Latinos and South Asians in the West, particularly in North America are generally the richer / the more Westernized/ more educated segment of the society so they maybe are not as friendly or as hospitable as those actually living in Middle East, Latin America or in Indian subcontinent itself.

But there are, of course, Arabs who are bad in attitude , but most Arabs I met so far are extremely generous, accommodating & being so nice to me.


You are very lucky then.

As for Private Messages sent to me here, your's is more of an exception. Christians cant even go to Church there without fear. My uncle was jailed because he attended a Christian meeting. :ohno::ohno::ohno:

I've met a lot of Westerners who have done business in the Middle East (in fact met a Brit 2 weeks ago, who used to go around the region for business and he absolutely hated it). It's a creepy region high with illiterates with money and bombs.

Arab Spring - Arabs to West - "Help us!!"; NATO, West helps, Arabs complains- "Western imperialists get out!" :lol::lol::lol::lol:

That's why US and the West is reluctant to go into Syria because there's no consensus. :ohno::ohno::ohno:

Israel might be a different story, but that's a very small area compared to majority in the Middle East.

Sunday NBA game tomorrow : Lakers vs Celtics

Also, does anyone know of a similar forum for House and Lots? I'm sure we came here in skyscrapercity due to interest in investing in condos but why stop there when one of our dreams also is to own a house and lot.

Filipinos in Saudi warned on sexy FB posts
Philippine Daily Inquirer 12:05 am | Sunday, March 11th, 2012
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/27827/filipinos-in-saudi-warned-on-sexy-fb-posts

The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh recently warned Filipinos in Saudi Arabia not to post revealing pictures on online social media sites.

The Embassy said it had received e-mail commenting on contents of social media sites, particularly photos uploaded by a Filipino community organization of a female “model” based in the Kingdom wearing a transparent night gown.

“The photo drew negative reactions from locals, who requested the Embassy to remind those concerned to refrain from uploading such material online, as these photos are inconsistent with local customs and cultural sensitivities,” the Embassy statement said.

“The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh urges all Filipinos in the Kingdom to be prudent and careful on the nature of photos and videos that they upload on social media sites. The Embassy is issuing this advisory to avoid unnecessary actions that might be taken against any group or individual by local authorities.”

^^ Ingat ka dyan ha... wag kang magpost ng nakahubad... :D

^^tinanggal ko nga agad yung mga sexy pictures ko at ang itinira ko na lang ay yung mga naka abaya ako. :D :lol:

^^ Ingat ka dyan ha... wag kang magpost ng nakahubad... :D

Grabe ba talaga dyan? Kahit ba kabayo dadamitan bago mag picture-picture? HAhahahahaha

Backwards kasi, dapat dyan sa Middle East itapon yung mga kagaya ni Cristy Ramos.

Money money money (sing to the tune of The Apprentice).

Pending my SSN, will start Wednesday working a contract of 1 month as Tax Filing marketer. All I have to do is don this Liberty robe, go to the corner of a street, put on my Bose headset, play this song :

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

And let the body move itself to the song. Then, return to the office. Check please. :cheers:

Why we love Alberta--REMARKABLE
E N J O Y!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ThFCg0tBDck

You are very lucky then.

As for Private Messages sent to me here, your's is more of an exception. Christians cant even go to Church there without fear. My uncle was jailed because he attended a Christian meeting. :ohno::ohno::ohno:

I've met a lot of Westerners who have done business in the Middle East (in fact met a Brit 2 weeks ago, who used to go around the region for business and he absolutely hated it). It's a creepy region high with illiterates with money and bombs.

Arab Spring - Arabs to West - "Help us!!"; NATO, West helps, Arabs complains- "Western imperialists get out!" :lol::lol::lol::lol:

That's why US and the West is reluctant to go into Syria because there's no consensus. :ohno::ohno::ohno:

Israel might be a different story, but that's a very small area compared to majority in the Middle East.

Can you please separate SAUDI and Middle East on your post?
Each time you say Middle east, you seem to be referring only and only to Saudi Arabia. Afaik, what you're describing seems to happen only in Saudi yet you refer to whole middle east.

Here in the UAE, i see lots of people going to church, without any fear, all ethnicity even the Arabs, and one particular church is even a stone's throw away from a mosque so please, stop talking about something you don't know about. You're better off ranting about Vietnam than bashing a whole region you've never set foot.

Why we love Alberta--REMARKABLE
E N J O Y!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ThFCg0tBDck

Aweeee... beautiful. Even more beautiful when you're actually there.

Why we love Alberta--REMARKABLE
E N J O Y!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ThFCg0tBDck

Marvelous! :cheers: It has some shades of Utah and Colorado.

Filipinos in Saudi warned on sexy FB posts
Philippine Daily Inquirer 12:05 am | Sunday, March 11th, 2012
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/27827/filipinos-in-saudi-warned-on-sexy-fb-posts

The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh recently warned Filipinos in Saudi Arabia not to post revealing pictures on online social media sites.

The Embassy said it had received e-mail commenting on contents of social media sites, particularly photos uploaded by a Filipino community organization of a female “model” based in the Kingdom wearing a transparent night gown.

“The photo drew negative reactions from locals, who requested the Embassy to remind those concerned to refrain from uploading such material online, as these photos are inconsistent with local customs and cultural sensitivities,” the Embassy statement said.

“The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh urges all Filipinos in the Kingdom to be prudent and careful on the nature of photos and videos that they upload on social media sites. The Embassy is issuing this advisory to avoid unnecessary actions that might be taken against any group or individual by local authorities.”

http://www.thegreenhead.com/imgs/lifesized-wrapped-mummy-statues-1.jpg

Baka ganito daw dapat :lol:

^^ :lol:

I think sa UAE mas open sila, kase may mga cousins ako na na contact sa akin sa FB nasa UAE as nurses, may mga pictures sila naka shorts lang publicly but I guess pag ramadan they would have to wrap up a bit more out of respect to the muslims.

^^ I think it's because there are more foreigners in the UAE than its native population

In 2010, the UAE's population was estimated at 8,264,070,[4] of whom fewer than 20% were UAE nationals or Emiratis,[85] while the majority of the population were expatriates.[86] The country's net migration rate stands at 21.71, the world's highest.[87]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates

I wonder what do the native population even do...?

Dubai Dreams:

"The thing you have to understand about Dubai is – nothing is what it seems," Karen says at last. "Nothing. This isn't a city, it's a con-job. They lure you in telling you it's one thing – a modern kind of place – but beneath the surface it's a medieval dictatorship."


If you take the Big Bus Tour of Dubai – the passport to a pre-processed experience of every major city on earth – you are fed the propaganda-vision of how this happened. "Dubai's motto is 'Open doors, open minds'," the tour guide tells you in clipped tones, before depositing you at the souks to buy camel tea-cosies. "Here you are free. To purchase fabrics," he adds. As you pass each new monumental building, he tells you: "The World Trade Centre was built by His Highness..."

But this is a lie. The sheikh did not build this city. It was built by slaves. They are building it now.



Sahinal Monir, a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh. "To get you here, they tell you Dubai is heaven. Then you get here and realise it is hell," he says.

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport, his passport was taken from him by his construction company. He has not seen it since. He was told brusquely that from now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat – where western tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer, when it hits 55 degrees – for 500 dirhams a month (£90), less than a quarter of the wage he was promised. If you don't like it, the company told him, go home. "But how can I go home? You have my passport, and I have no money for the ticket," he said. "Well, then you'd better get to work," they replied.



Sure, the flooding-in of expats can sometimes be "an eyesore", Ahmed says.


The most disturbing conversation

People here are turning into lazy, overweight babies!" he exclaims. "The nanny state has gone too far. We don't do anything for ourselves! Why don't any of us work for the private sector? Why can't a mother and father look after their own child?" And yet, when I try to bring up the system of slavery that built Dubai, he looks angry. "People should give us credit," he insists. "We are the most tolerant people in the world. Dubai is the only truly international city in the world. Everyone who comes here is treated with respect."

I pause, and think of the vast camps in Sonapur, just a few miles away. Does he even know they exist? He looks irritated. "You know, if there are 30 or 40 cases [of worker abuse] a year, that sounds like a lot but when you think about how many people are here..." Thirty or 40? This abuse is endemic to the system, I say. We're talking about hundreds of thousands.


" So what should the workers do when they are cheated and lied to? "Quit. Leave the country."


I meet the Dubai dictatorship's Public Enemy Number One. By way of introduction, Mohammed al-Mansoori says from within his white robes and sinewy face: "Westerners come her and see the malls and the tall buildings and they think that means we are free. But these businesses, these buildings – who are they for? This is a dictatorship. The royal family think they own the country, and the people are their servants. There is no freedom here."


Why is the state so keen to defend this system of slavery? He offers a prosaic explanation. "Most companies are owned by the government, so they oppose human rights laws because it will reduce their profit margins. It's in their interests that the workers are slaves."

It is illegal to be gay in Dubai, and punishable by 10 years in prison. But the locations of the latest unofficial gay clubs circulate online, and men flock there, seemingly unafraid of the police. "They might bust the club, but they will just disperse us," one of them says. "The police have other things to do."

"You've got a hierarchy, haven't you?" Ann says. "It's the Emiratis at the top, then I'd say the British and other Westerners. Then I suppose it's the Filipinos, because they've got a bit more brains than the Indians. Then at the bottom you've got the Indians and all them lot."

"All the people who couldn't succeed in their own countries end up here, and suddenly they're rich and promoted way above their abilities and bragging about how great they are. I've never met so many incompetent people in such senior positions anywhere in the world." She adds: "It's absolutely racist. I had Filipino girls working for me doing the same job as a European girl, and she's paid a quarter of the wages. The people who do the real work are paid next to nothing, while these incompetent managers pay themselves £40,000 a month."


In a Burger King, a Filipino girl tells me it is "terrifying" for her to wander the malls in Dubai because Filipino maids or nannies always sneak away from the family they are with and beg her for help. "They say – 'Please, I am being held prisoner, they don't let me call home, they make me work every waking hour seven days a week.'


I ask the Filipino girl behind the counter if she likes it here. "It's OK," she says cautiously. Really? I say. I can't stand it. She sighs with relief and says: "This is the most terrible place! I hate it! I was here for months before I realised – everything in Dubai is fake. Everything you see. The trees are fake, the workers' contracts are fake, the islands are fake, the smiles are fake – even the water is fake!" But she is trapped, she says.


Source (http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html)

ME is nothing but a step stone, live here isn't great but it does a hell of a favor to your bank account. So use it to either build your future in your home country or to migrate to a place of your liking.

Calling it liberal, might go too far.

Aunque la mona se vista la seda, mona se queda.

ME is nothing but a step stone, live here isn't great but it does a hell of a favor to your bank account. So use it to either build your future in your home country or to migrate to a place of your liking.

Calling it liberal, might go too far.

It's a stepping stone for some, and a trap for countless. And thank you for being honest.

:cheers:

Dubai Dreams:











The most disturbing conversation
























Source (http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html)

horrible:ohno:

Aunque la mona se vista la seda, mona se queda.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::rofl::rofl::troll::hahaha:

applies nicely to the Philippines...

^^ Which part @pi_malejana ? Can you specify? Is being gay in the Philippines punishable by imprisonment for example?

I'm dying to know.

People are getting trapped here because they are "living the dream". Credit Cards and loans for everyone, along with the pressure of supporting the extended families at home are usually the reason behind it.

The weak legal framework here seals the fate of those getting into this vicious circle. I mean just imagine that a bounced cheque will put you into jail, or at least have a case filed against you, which then makes it impossible to find a new job, as you can't get a working visa. How are you supposed to pay your dues, if you aren't even able to get a new job?

Of course this doesn't apply only to filipinos. We westerners were often enough blinded by the bling here.

@riain
after you're bored to death, you're dying to know:lol:

People are getting trapped here because they are "living the dream". Credit Cards and loans for everyone, along with the pressure of supporting the extended families at home are usually the reason behind it.

The weak legal framework here seals the fate of those getting into this vicious circle. I mean just imagine that a bounced cheque will put you into jail, or at least have a case filed against you, which then makes it impossible to find a new job, as you can't get a working visa. How are you supposed to pay your dues, if you aren't even able to get a new job?

Of course this doesn't apply only to filipinos. We westerners were often enough blinded by the bling here.



I think we have a law in PHL regarding bouncing checks (I think it's under Estafa).

But yeah, our friend Yre who is currently in Dubai seems to think that living in the Middle East is a great thing. (Lucky for her, maybe hers was an exception). I guess it's part of individual process, people start to accept the kind of lifestyle they have because for those who were trapped (not saying that Yre is one of them), the only way is acceptance.


*cricket*

'We need slaves to build monuments' (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/08/middleeast.construction?intcmp=239)


Down at the base of the pyramid are the labourers, waiters, hotel employees and unskilled workers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, the Philippines and beyond. They move deferentially around the huge malls, cafes, bars and restaurants, bowing down and calling people sir and madam. In the middle of the day, during the hottest hours, you can see them sleeping in public gardens under trees, or on the marble floors of the Dubai Mosque, on benches or pieces of cardboard on side streets. These are the victims of the racism that is not only flourishing in the UAE but is increasingly being exported to the rest of the Middle East. Sometimes it reminds you of the American south in the 1930s.

^^ Which part @pi_malejana ? Can you specify? Is being gay in the Philippines punishable by imprisonment for example?

now that you've asked, i should've said Filipinos...


The weak legal framework here seals the fate of those getting into this vicious circle. I mean just imagine that a bounced cheque will put you into jail, or at least have a case filed against you, which then makes it impossible to find a new job, as you can't get a working visa. How are you supposed to pay your dues, if you aren't even able to get a new job?


but that happens everywhere... a bounced cheque here could also put you into jail, credit rating will plunge and you'll have trouble securing loans, finding job, etc...

^^ I still dont get what you meant.


Anyway,

Nobody told her there is no concept of bankruptcy. If you get into debt and you can't pay, you go to prison.

"When we realised that, I sat Daniel down and told him: listen, we need to get out of here. He knew he was guaranteed a pay-off when he resigned, so we said – right, let's take the pay-off, clear the debt, and go." So Daniel resigned – but he was given a lower pay-off than his contract suggested. The debt remained. As soon as you quit your job in Dubai, your employer has to inform your bank. If you have any outstanding debts that aren't covered by your savings, then all your accounts are frozen, and you are forbidden to leave the country.

"Suddenly our cards stopped working. We had nothing. We were thrown out of our apartment." Karen can't speak about what happened next for a long time; she is shaking.

Daniel was arrested and taken away on the day of their eviction. It was six days before she could talk to him. "He told me he was put in a cell with another debtor, a Sri Lankan guy who was only 27, who said he couldn't face the shame to his family. Daniel woke up and the boy had swallowed razor-blades. He banged for help, but nobody came, and the boy died in front of him."

Karen managed to beg from her friends for a few weeks, "but it was so humiliating. I've never lived like this. I worked in the fashion industry. I had my own shops. I've never..." She peters out.

Daniel was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at a trial he couldn't understand. It was in Arabic, and there was no translation. "Now I'm here illegally, too," Karen says I've got no money, nothing. I have to last nine months until he's out, somehow." Looking away, almost paralysed with embarrassment, she asks if I could buy her a meal.

She is not alone. All over the city, there are maxed-out expats sleeping secretly in the sand-dunes or the airport or in their cars.


Source (http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html)

Welcome to Thread 8! :cheers:

Keep posting forumers :okay:

PhilHealth defers plan to hike premium contribution of OFWs
MANILA, Philippines - Bowing to public pressure, the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) has deferred the plan to increase the premium contribution of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

PhilHealth president and chief executive officer Eduardo Banzon said under Circular No. 07, series of 2012, they have amended an earlier issuance that prescribed the new contribution rates for different paying sectors for 2012 and 2013.

“With the deferment of the new premium rate, OFWs need only to pay P1,200 as annual payment for 2012. The new rate of P2,400 per year will take effect Jan. 1, 2013,” Banzon noted.http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=785897&publicationSubCategoryId=63

where is the link to the former thread?

where is the link to the former thread?

Just visit our archives here (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=539352&page=305). :)

Got my US Social!

Question : How do I retain my eligibility for Philippine Social? I've completed 10 year requirement of contributions. Will I lose it if I don't apply for Dual Citizenship?

Exam day on DL tomorrow.

Got my US Social!

Question : How do I retain my eligibility for Philippine Social? I've completed 10 year requirement of contributions. Will I lose it if I don't apply for Dual Citizenship?

Exam day on DL tomorrow.

Good luck on DL exam!

Got my US Social!

Question : How do I retain my eligibility for Philippine Social? I've completed 10 year requirement of contributions. Will I lose it if I don't apply for Dual Citizenship?

Exam day on DL tomorrow.

Hmmm.... Good question..

I can only guess, that you'd still be able to get your sss benefits. Coz if not, It's really unfair. IMO

some of our kababayans sharing our culture to mainstream Canediens. :)

EOqk8AB6CAw

^^That was really somethng to watch!!!

Mabuhay Kayumangin!!!




:horse:

WOW!!!!!!!!


I love it!!! Great job Pinoys!!! :)

Got my US Social!

Question : How do I retain my eligibility for Philippine Social? I've completed 10 year requirement of contributions. Will I lose it if I don't apply for Dual Citizenship?

Exam day on DL tomorrow.

Now you work with ease with your Social aecurity card and your photo I.D. temporary driver's license.

Driving test is very easy about 5 minutes. Just do not forget to switch on your turn signal light at least 100 feet from the corner or more in a highway on driving test. Do not hit the curside of the street when parking. :nuts: :)

Good luck on DL exam!

Now you work with ease with your Social aecurity card and your photo I.D. temporary driver's license.

Driving test is very easy about 5 minutes. Just do not forget to switch on your turn signal light at least 100 feet from the corner or more in a highway on driving test. Do not hit the curside of the street when parking. :nuts: :)

Thanks guys. Just returned.

Took total of 2 hours, mostly waiting. Barely passed the multiple choice exam. I got 20/25 which is the minimum score to pass. Whew!

Yup, madali lang drive test. The reason is I drive my dad's car of which I'm familiar already. Sa atin, karamihan gaya ko, no car when applying for DL. Then they ask you to drive a dilapidated jeep back and forth sa parking lot na maraming tao at sasakyan na tumatawid. :lol:

Will scout for car this Saturday. :)

First day of work tomorrow! :cheers:

Did not receive any follow-up second interview call dun sa interview ko last month. I guess me nakita na silang iba. Oh well, just look for another! :banana2:

some of our kababayans sharing our culture to mainstream Canediens. :)

EOqk8AB6CAw

Yeah!! was a beautiful performance. :cheers: Measha, Stephan and Martin were so happy to have representation from the Filipino community. Another milestone for Pinoy eh!:cheers:

pero parang ang iksi:D

bitin:D

^^ may time limit kasi.. mas mahaba performance pag finals na hehe

^^ I thought the video was edited kaya short yun presentation.

Anyway, are these Fil-Can high-school students ? or just visiting from PH?



:horse:

^^ immigrants/Fil-Can most likely.

Awesome first day of work !!! :pepper:

Destroy all churches in Gulf, says Saudi Grand Mufti
ARTICLEREADER COMMENTS (15)
By Elizabeth Broomhall
Thursday, 15 March 2012 10:20 AM

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Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah made the comment in view of an age-old rule that only Islam can be practiced in the region. (AFP/Getty Images)

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has said it is “necessary to destroy all the churches of the region,” following Kuwait’s moves to ban their construction.
Speaking to a delegation in Kuwait, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, stressed that since the tiny Gulf state was a part of the Arabian Peninsula, it was necessary to destroy all of the churches in the country, Arabic media have reported.

Saudi Arabia’s top cleric made the comment in view of an age-old rule that only Islam can be practiced in the region.

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia is the highest official of religious law in the Sunni Muslim kingdom. He is also the head of the Supreme Council of Ulema (Islamic scholars) and of the Standing Committee for Scientific Research and Issuing of Fatwas.

A Kuwaiti parliamentarian said last month he wanted to ban the construction of churches and non-Islamic places of worship in the Gulf state.

MP Osama Al-Munawer announced on Twitter he planned to submit a draft law calling for the removal of all churches in the country. He later clarified that existing churches should remain but the construction of new non-Islamic places of worship should be banned.


Source (http://www.arabianbusiness.com/destroy-all-churches-in-gulf-says-saudi-grand-mufti-450002.html#.T2HYjjwuqh0.twitter)

The convenience store close to where I live has its manager gave me a tip that a branch is immediately looking for a quick replacement of a fired employee. I asked if she could recommend me to the branch's manager. Given the traffic, it's a 1 hour drive.

OFW remittances up 5.4% to $1.56 B in Jan

MANILA, Philippines - Remittances from Filipinos abroad grew at a slower pace of 5.4 percent in January on the back of economic growth concerns in advanced economies led by the US as well as the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported yesterday.

BSP Governor Amando Tetangco Jr. said that total remittances from overseas Filipinos amounted to $1.557 billion in January or $81 million higher than the $1.476 billion booked in January last year.

“Sustained demand for professional and skilled Filipino workers underpinned the steady flow of remittances,” Tetangco stressed.

However, this is the slowest year-on-year growth since November 2009 when overseas Filipino workers’ (OFW) remittances went up by 5.1 percent.

The BSP sees the growth of OFW remittances slowing down to five percent this year. Higher remittances result in stronger external payments position, boosting the country’s buffer fund to fend off the impact of global shocks.

OFW remittances went up by 7.2 percent to a new record high of $20.117 billion last year from $18.763 billion in 2010, exceeding the revised growth target of seven percent.

Tetangco said remittances from sea-based Filipino workers jumped 19.8 percent to $369 million while that of land-based workers inched up by 1.6 percent to $1.2 billion in January.

Data showed that about 60.2 percent of land-based workers’ remittances in January came from the US with 24.4 percent, Canada with 13.1 percent, Saudi Arabia with 8.4 percent, the United Arab Emirates with 3.9 percent, Italy with 3.5 percent, Japan with 3.5 percent, and the United Kingdom with 3.4 percent.

On the other hand, remittances from sea-based workers originated mostly from the US with 14.6 percent.

Recent data from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) showed that total processed job orders stood at 22,688 for the first two months of 2012. Job orders were intended for manpower requirements in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Taiwan, and Kuwait.

“For 2012, enhancements in the recruitment systems of host countries, as reported by the POEA, are expected to support the resilience of remittance flows,” he said.

Continue reading here... (http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ofw-remittances-5-4-1-56-b-jan-175038475.html;_ylt=Ak.T5H6ydF0pA1vmASdh9BfmV8d_;_ylu=X3oDMTQwdjA3ZHU4BG1pdANUb3BTdG9yeSBQaGlsaXBwaW5lc1NGBHBrZwMxOTI2Y2E4Yi1lOTIwLTM0OTYtYjgzYS0wNmQ2YzMyMWZlMzYEcG9zAzIEc2VjA3RvcF9zdG9yeQR2ZXIDNWZhYWVjOTAtNmVjNy0xMWUxLWIzZTktNDJiZWI5ZmQ2Y2Jj;_ylg=X3oDMTF2M3NpaDUyBGludGwDcGgEbGFuZwNlbi1waARwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANwaGlsaXBwaW5lcwRwdANzZWN0aW9ucwR0ZXN0Aw--;_ylv=3)

Taiwan, anyone? :)

Taiwan needs more OFWs

March 16, 2012 02:36 PM 0 comment to this post

MALOLOS CITY, Philippines — Good news for overseas Filipino workers (OFW); the Taiwanese government announced on Thursday that they are hoping that more Filipinos will work in Taiwan.

This came as Raymond Wang, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) Representative to the Philippines, said they are eyeing for closer bilateral relations with the country.

“We are hoping to import more workers and hire OFWs to Taiwan,” said Wang in an interview with the STAR on Thursday night after the ceremonial turnover of 800 tons of rice donated to flood victims in Bulacan.

Wang said there are at least 90,000 OFWs working in Taiwan, adding that Taiwan-based OFWs has contributed a total of $650 million for the Philippine foreign reserves last year.

http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationsubcategoryid=200&articleid=787797

The convenience store close to where I live has its manager gave me a tip that a branch is immediately looking for a quick replacement of a fired employee. I asked if she could recommend me to the branch's manager. Given the traffic, it's a 1 hour drive.

If they give you the opportunity, take it and work your way up.

Or..perhaps it would be a great start up. Good Luck:cheers:

convenience store is like a sari-sari :Dstore, or a 7-11 like store?

convenience store is like a sari-sari :Dstore, or a 7-11 like store?

walang sari-sari store type dito, 7-11 o grocery store type lang. hindi ka nakakabili ng isang stick na sigarilyo dito o isang pirasong chewing gum :lol::lol: Siguro ang puede mong tawagang sari sari store dito, mga gas station kase may mga mini groceries sa loob. Pero wala pa ring isang stick na sigarilyo...:lol:

eww, pangit pala dyan:D

eww, pangit pala dyan:D

depende sa nagsasabi at nakakakita, pag walang urbanidad at ignorante, malamang nga pangit ....

depende sa nagsasabi at nakakakita, pag walang urbanidad at ignorante, malamang nga pangit ....

pangit lalo na bumbay na bading ang tindera:lol:

pangit lalo na bumbay na bading ang tindera:lol:
Hahahaha. Hanggang dun ba meron din? Ibig sabihin bro, annnggg sangsang!

eww, pangit pala dyan:D

pangit talaga pader dahil ang sari-sari store nila ay nasa kariton tulad nito. :D :lol:

http://www.jazzhostels.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/hot-dog-stand_cc.jpg

http://www.123rf.com/photo_11336685_new-york-city--nov-13-5th-avenue-new-york-state-lawmakers-are-proposing-a-letter-grading-system-for-.html

If they give you the opportunity, take it and work your way up.

Or..perhaps it would be a great start up. Good Luck:cheers:

Thanks. That's exactly my thought . . . a great start up. They have shifts that start at 2:30pm. I have interview with the Manager tomorrow.

Just came back from car hunting. The ones I like are in the $25-$30K range. :lol: Eniweys, one of the requirements is a full-time job pay slip. So that means must get job first and use bus (only 1 bus per hour here) until I get my first payslip (my 1 month contract with tax company was not honored).

pangit talaga pader dahil ang sari-sari store nila ay nasa kariton tulad nito. :D :lol:



There are portions in NYC that are slums. That's what happens with congestion. Pero I enjoyed my tour there, especially the street foods there (mostly hot dogs). Parang Pinas, nasa kalye lang.

I prefer living here. Picturesque. Nice quiet friendly neighborhood. Everybody helping each other out. People greeting each other. Suburbs at its best. The scenery, wow, it's like living in "the Bachelor". Oh, and you jog along with the deers. :)

Btw, go Vanderbilt Commodores!

There are portions in NYC that are slums. That's what happens with congestion. Pero I enjoyed my tour there, especially the street foods there (mostly hot dogs). Parang Pinas, nasa kalye lang.

I prefer living here. Picturesque. Nice quiet friendly neighborhood. Everybody helping each other out. People greeting each other. Suburbs at its best. The scenery, wow, it's like living in "the Bachelor". Oh, and you jog along with the deers. :)

nasa NY ka pala. Welcome po :cheers:

nasa NY ka pala. Welcome po :cheers:
Thanks. I visited po. I liked very much the tour in Empire State. Sadly did not catch MSG as Knicks didn't have a game during that week. Still a Linsane In The Membrane fan :banana:. I'm back in Kentucky. :cheers:

Thanks. That's exactly my thought . . . a great start up. They have shifts that start at 2:30pm. I have interview with the Manager tomorrow.

Just came back from car hunting. The ones I like are in the $25-$30K range. :lol: Eniweys, one of the requirements is a full-time job pay slip. So that means must get job first and use bus (only 1 bus per hour here) until I get my first payslip (my 1 month contract with tax company was not honored).

Oh yes, if you have no credit history yet, they would require you to show atleast a record of your last 3 or so pay slip, (i believe it's actually 6 pay slip atleast). Most likely, they would ask you for a hefty down payment as well or else you would have to find someone to cosign you. Co guarantor i think is what they call it in the Philippines before. Why don't you start with a used car that you can afford to pay in cash for a starter or perhaps, get a scooter.

pangit lalo na bumbay na bading ang tindera:lol:

Wala talaga, pag third world mentality, ganyan talaga ang trend o takbo ng utak....:lol:

pagkakaalam ko walang bumbay na galing sa first world:rofl:
dibidi dibidi:D

pagkakaalam ko walang bumbay na galing sa first world:rofl:
dibidi dibidi:D

Ganyan talaga pag walang nararating. The rest, I would keep it to myself. As far as I know. Talent and skills wise, there are alot of things indian people has proven themselves if you want to compare pinoys from them. Heck, they even build their own automobiles for export. Not only that, Mahatma Ghandi up to this day, is very well known that he is being quoted even in the western world, pinoys are even copying it. Does that tell us something already?:dunno:

oo nga, sobrang yabang pa nila, tomato engineer daw sila, bwahahahaha:rofl:

oo nga, sobrang yabang pa nila, tomato engineer daw sila, bwahahahaha:rofl:

Bago po ba yang engineering discipline na yan? Anu-ano po ba ang ginagawa ng mga tomato engineers?:nuts::nuts::nuts:

mga bossing, what is the best and safest way to build a credit line sa US?
just got my salary offer to work in our Austin site.

Bago po ba yang engineering discipline na yan? Anu-ano po ba ang ginagawa ng mga tomato engineers?:nuts::nuts::nuts:

:lol:forget it.

sa isang bumbay na bading lang namn ako may isyu:lol:

:lol:forget it.

sa isang bumbay na bading lang namn ako may isyu:lol:

At bakit ka naman may issue sa isang yan? Dati naman good terms at magkasundo kayo. Bakit mo binabastos? Dahil lang hindi pinipintasan si Pnoy? O dahil pinuna ka sa mga kalaswaan mo?

bading kasi yun:rofl:

Oh yes, if you have no credit history yet, they would require you to show atleast a record of your last 3 or so pay slip, (i believe it's actually 6 pay slip atleast). Most likely, they would ask you for a hefty down payment as well or else you would have to find someone to cosign you. Co guarantor i think is what they call it in the Philippines before. Why don't you start with a used car that you can afford to pay in cash for a starter or perhaps, get a scooter.



Salamat. Actually I was only looking to buy a $4K car but they said since I have no job and no downpayment, they can't do it. I thought it would be the same with credit card wherein they give you one here in US even without work.

mga bossing, what is the best and safest way to build a credit line sa US?
just got my salary offer to work in our Austin site.

First congrats! Austin is beautiful from what I've heard. College town and Southern hospitality and beautiful sceneries. Could be similar to what I saw in Nashville.

Second, re credit line. You'll have no problem getting a credit card. You'll be asked to start with a savings or checking deposit with a minimum $100 initial deposit. Then you can apply for a credit card. My credit line is maxed at $1400 which I used for enjoyment on my first month. Pang-welc:lol:me to America ko!

Don't be surprised if there's few Pinoys in Austin; most are concentrated in California; New York and Virginia. Where I'm at, 2 pa lang Pinoy nakita ko - my parents. :lol: I approached some Pinoy-looking pips but one turned out to be Laosian and the other a Vietnamese. Also being Confederate States in the past, konti lang Beyonces sa lugar natin, karamihan Taylor Swifts. :cheers:

thanks paps. been to Austin last 2010. daming mexicano lalo na sa mga hotel.
dami ding Indians (katulad din dito sa Singapore) doon kasi puro mga tech companies.

relaks muna, insomnia music for tonite. new bollywood hit 2012.
paano ang tawag sa mixed Hindi-English = Inglish? :D

dhkRsIKlK8U

:cheers2:

Salamat. Actually I was only looking to buy a $4K car but they said since I have no job and no downpayment, they can't do it. I thought it would be the same with credit card wherein they give you one here in US even without work.



YW and yes, same with credit cards, unless you already have a job over a period of time, you most likely would not get approved. If you want, there are credit companies that you can deposit certain amount of money which is also your credit limit. I think Citibank do these still. You can build your credit from it over a period of time. Some store credit cards would also help build your credit. I must warn you though, there are many companies hiring employees who would check your credit rating and use it as their basis for employing you. It's unfair IMO because there are those who went through divorced whose credit rating got damaged. This is where you have a bit of an advantage, because you do not have credit history yet, they would consider your credit rating as "in good standing" so that would be good for your background check.

YW and yes, same with credit cards, unless you already have a job over a period of time, you most likely would not get approved. If you want, there are credit companies that you can deposit certain amount of money which is also your credit limit. I think Citibank do these still. You can build your credit from it over a period of time. Some store credit cards would also help build your credit. I must warn you though, there are many companies hiring employees who would check your credit rating and use it as their basis for employing you. It's unfair IMO because there are those who went through divorced whose credit rating got damaged. This is where you have a bit of an advantage, because you do not have credit history yet, they would consider your credit rating as "in good standing" so that would be good for your background check.

You're right. In the US and even here in PH, people should be cautious on the "credit card trap": vicious cycle of debts, continuous cash advances, minimum payments, multiple credit cards must be avoided at all cost. :)

Germany needs Filipino engineers, scientists: Binay
ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 03/19/2012 3:32 PM | Updated as of 03/19/2012 3:32 PM

MANILA, Philippines - Germany is experiencing a shortage of engineers and computer scientists, a delegation of German businessmen and diplomats told Vice President Jejomar Binay.

In a statement, Binay said members of Team Philippines-Germany requested the deployment of Filipino experts, particularly engineers and computer scientists, to Germany.

"This is an excellent opportunity to address many issues at once--besides helping Germany, a long-time friend of the Philippines, fill the need for experts in their emerging and middle industries, we are also able to provide gainful employment to qualified Filipinos," Binay said.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=89594012

Germany needs Filipino engineers, scientists: Binay
ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 03/19/2012 3:32 PM | Updated as of 03/19/2012 3:32 PM

MANILA, Philippines - Germany is experiencing a shortage of engineers and computer scientists, a delegation of German businessmen and diplomats told Vice President Jejomar Binay.

In a statement, Binay said members of Team Philippines-Germany requested the deployment of Filipino experts, particularly engineers and computer scientists, to Germany.

"This is an excellent opportunity to address many issues at once--besides helping Germany, a long-time friend of the Philippines, fill the need for experts in their emerging and middle industries, we are also able to provide gainful employment to qualified Filipinos," Binay said.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=89594012

It is true, almost half of our engineers will retire within the next 10 - 15 years. There is an immense shortfall of qualified people.

We used to be a country relying on expats helping us to build the nation, however this was after WWII and policies have changed. It is rather difficult to employ foreigners nowadays.

It is true, almost half of our engineers will retire within the next 10 - 15 years. There is an immense shortfall of qualified people.

We used to be a country relying on expats helping us to build the nation, however this was after WWII and policies have changed. It is rather difficult to employ foreigners nowadays.

Where did you get your data? FYI, people don't just "retire" until God says so, IMO.

A lot of Germans are unemployed.

My German brother in law is a computer scientist, he lost his job November last year and was lucky enough he got a job in December.

Well our God seems to be a reasonably good social security. That generation is lucky enough to get their pension. Our retirement age is currently at 67, though you can retire earlier with private pension schemes.

This figure was going through the press for a while and is probably a bit exaggerated. Nevertheless, the shortfall of engineers is a known issue for many years. Our politicians considered to offer a "Green Card" of some sort, to tap the indian market. But this was not very popular since working in Germany almost certainly requires you to be fluent in German.

I would be happy to see some more OFWs sharing their knowhow with us.

A lot of Germans are unemployed.

My German brother in law is a computer scientist, he lost his job November last year and was lucky enough he got a job in December.

He found a job within a month, quite reasonable at any measure.

His previous employer, a small IT company warned him he might get terminated if the company could not recover. He started looking for jobs months before he was terminated.

Germany needs Filipino engineers, scientists: Binay
ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 03/19/2012 3:32 PM | Updated as of 03/19/2012 3:32 PM

MANILA, Philippines - Germany is experiencing a shortage of engineers and computer scientists, a delegation of German businessmen and diplomats told Vice President Jejomar Binay.

In a statement, Binay said members of Team Philippines-Germany requested the deployment of Filipino experts, particularly engineers and computer scientists, to Germany.

"This is an excellent opportunity to address many issues at once--besides helping Germany, a long-time friend of the Philippines, fill the need for experts in their emerging and middle industries, we are also able to provide gainful employment to qualified Filipinos," Binay said.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=89594012

Si Binay pala ang Vice President natin!

Nagpatawa ka ba o totoo yang question mo?

di ba si kris or boy abunda, :lol:

di ba si kris or boy abunda, :lol:
Hehehehe. Thanks for the joke!

You're right. In the US and even here in PH, people should be cautious on the "credit card trap": vicious cycle of debts, continuous cash advances, minimum payments, multiple credit cards must be avoided at all cost. :)

may "cash advance" pa sila na mga 25% lang naman ang interes. :bash:

^^ Kung magkakautang ka na lang housing loan na lang.

Parang napaka unsavory ng mga utang. It's like making money to something you never worked on.

Guys, I'm watching Dancing with Stars tapos me sumulpot na Fil-Am American, Roshon. Malamang kamag-anak ni Mike Enriquez. Pero galing sumayaw hehe. Check nyo youtube. :pepper:

Guys, I'm watching Dancing with Stars tapos me sumulpot na Fil-Am American, Roshon. Malamang kamag-anak ni Mike Enriquez. Pero galing sumayaw hehe. Check nyo youtube. :pepper:

wow. that makes 2 Fil-Am on the show. Roshon as a contestant. And Cheryl Burke as a choreographer...one of the finest on the show i might add and a mulit-champion winner. And she's paired a hunky cuban. Both did great tonight.

I'm getting replies back from my job applications pero puro sorry. :ohno:

On good note, I have interview with the convenience store Manager Monday. I know they need this fast :banana: !

Also, met another potential client. You know how this tax filing season is actually giving money back to people? It's crazy because sa atin it's the other way around -- you file and you pay in addition to the tax already withheld. But this is all good here. She's blondie. Type hehe. I may give my service for free. :pepper:

kinda late to post this article but i think this would gonna help those who have plans to work in Taiwan

Service offering help to find Taiwan jobs opens shop in Philippine city

MANILA--An employment service center set up by Taiwanese businessmen in the Philippines opened in Makati City yesterday with the aim of helping Filipinos obtain work in Taiwan without having to go though costly labor brokers.

The center was established as part of the Philippine Cross-Strait Retirees Foundation that was launched the same day by Taiwanese and Chinese retirees in the Philippines.

The two facilities were formally inaugurated by Amadeo Perez Jr., head of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office in Taiwan, and Lee Hsin-min, a division chief at Taiwan's representative office in the Philippines.

Lin Hsiu-kuo, executive director of the new foundation, said the its main tasks include assisting Taiwanese and Chinese retirees in the Philippines, helping Filipinos seek work in Taiwan, and promoting the products made at Taiwanese factories in the Philippines.

Meanwhile, the employment service center will offer direct employment services to Filipinos looking to work in Taiwan, including a start-up loan of US$1,500 for those who find employment in Taiwan, he said.

With these services, Philippine workers would not have to borrow money from labor brokers at high interest rates or fall victim to fraud schemes by such brokers, Lin said.

Philippine workers usually have to come up with NT$69,000 (US$2,336) in cash before they can fly to Taiwan to take up jobs, but most of the money ends up in the pockets of labor brokers, according to Perez.

Many Filipinos are forced to take high interest loans or mortgage their properties in order to raise the money to move to Taiwan for work, he said.

He welcomed the new employment service center as a milestone in Taiwan-Philippines labor affairs.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/intl-community/2012/02/21/332295/Service-offering.htm

^^ Good for OFWs who want to work in Taiwan....


3 Filipino sailors kidnapped in Yemen
Agence France-Presse
Posted at 03/22/2012 7:14 AM | Updated as of 03/22/2012 9:28 AM

Sanaa - Yemeni tribesman have kidnapped three Filipino sailors, demanding that one of their own be freed from jail in exchange for their freedom, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.

The sailors were seized on Tuesday in the central province of Marib as they travelled to a port in the far-eastern Mahrah province from which they were to embark on their ship, a statement said.

The kidnappers belong to the Bani Jabr tribe and are demanding the "release of one of their own, who is in prison in Sanaa for a serious criminal offense," the ministry said.

There was no immediate word on the identities of the sailors, nor on who employs them.

The statement added that the men had been forced to travel overland after a flight from the capital was canceled because of a sand storm.

Security forces have been ordered to "quickly free the hostages and arrest their kidnappers," the ministry said.

Theirs was the second kidnapping of foreigners in the poor and generally lawless Arabian Peninsula country in the past week.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/03/21/12/3-filipino-sailors-kidnapped-yemen

Filipinos are the 2nd largest Asian Americans in the USA, after Chinese Americans.

India, population - more than 1 Billion
China, population - more than 1 Billion
Philippines - 94 Million :)

Desis become third largest Asian community in US

March 22, 2012 10:13 IST

Indian Americans numbering 3.2 million is the third largest Asian American community in United States after Chinese Americans (3.8 million) and Filipinos (3.4 million).

As per the details released by US census bureau for the year 2010, Asian American communities have emerged as the fastest growing ethnic communities in the last one decade.

The total US population grew by 9.7 per cent, from 281.4 million in 2000 to 308.7 million in 2010.

However, the Asian population increased more than four times faster than the total US population, growing by 43 per cent from 10.2 million to 14.7 million, it said.

As a result, the Asian alone-or-in-combination population represented 57 per cent of the total population in Hawaii.

California had the next highest proportion at 15 per cent, followed by New Jersey (nine per cent), Nevada (nine per cent), Washington (nine per cent), and New York (eight per cent).

http://www.rediff.com/news/report/desis-become-third-largest-asian-community-in-us/20120322.htm

From Filipinos in Nigeria:

@xxxriainxxx we have every 1st sunday of the month. They call it family day :) and some cook and sell fil food there.

-@smarie29




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I'm getting replies back from my job applications pero puro sorry. :ohno:

On good note, I have interview with the convenience store Manager Monday. I know they need this fast :banana: !

Also, met another potential client. You know how this tax filing season is actually giving money back to people? It's crazy because sa atin it's the other way around -- you file and you pay in addition to the tax already withheld. But this is all good here. She's blondie. Type hehe. I may give my service for free. :pepper:

You never had tax rebates in the Philippines? :lol: :D I had tax rebates back home.

Wohooo! Earned my first money with a bang (literally!) :banana2: $500! :pepper:

^^ open a checking account and you will get your debt card. some banks will accept $100 minimum balance deposit with no service charge.

They dint want to name one of the room after the PHL at first. So I got really mad, considering there were a lot of Filipinos working for the company. So I ripped the one on my room. They relented and they replaced it with this. I am very happy. :)

http://shareimage.org/images/2fv3eelntae9kedkzxzy.jpg

I just told the other Pinoys... they were very happy too. :)

Wohooo! Earned my first money with a bang (literally!) :banana2: $500! :pepper:

when did you start working? bilis ah.. hehe

first one is the sweetest eh?! :D

Thanks. That's just from my part-time job. :pepper:

This coming Friday, I'll get my first paycheck naman from my contract job. :lock:

But before that, this Monday and Tuesday, I have interviews for full-time job. :banana:

Only in the land of the free and home of the brave! :cucumber:

Thanks. That's just from my part-time job. :pepper:

This coming Friday, I'll get my first paycheck naman from my contract job. :lock:

But before that, this Monday and Tuesday, I have interviews for full-time job. :banana:

Only in the land of the free and home of the brave! :cucumber:

Good luck!! You are getting there! :banana::banana:

I think Coniocondo will be sharing his first "sweets" in the land of the brave :)

Got paid another $500! Money flows due to tax rebates. :pepper: Just making hataw as I want to pay off my credit card balance ASAP plus want to save for visit to my beloved Philippines again around July or August. Homesick :lol: !

I made a discovery here in Kentucky. People are crazy beautifying their lawns and gardens. Heck, they couldn't stand not mowing their lawn in 2 weeks. That lighted a bulb atop my head -- lawn mowing and gardening services! Dami middle-aged single ladies dito like cougars and milfs and I approached some of them (benefit of not having a car, walking around gives me time to stop and chat) and I offered my service to mow their lawn. I said "hey honey, you're so pretty to be doing that" and they appreciate that naman. :banana:

Later today, I will be off looking for a good mower and books how to do gardening, plus studying how contracts go in this line of business. I think the standard contract based on people I talked to is a period of 3 months with a total of 7 visits for a certain amount of money. My sales pitch will be less amount of money for 6 visits. :) The great thing is this opportunity is just starting because winter just ended ushering spring. I'll start by borrowing my dad's Silverado on weekends to haul the gear since he does not use it anyway on weekends. :cheers:

They dint want to name one of the room after the PHL at first. So I got really mad, considering there were a lot of Filipinos working for the company. So I ripped the one on my room. They relented and they replaced it with this. I am very happy. :)

http://shareimage.org/images/2fv3eelntae9kedkzxzy.jpg

I just told the other Pinoys... they were very happy too. :)


That is awesome! :cheers:

Got paid another $500! Money flows due to tax rebates. :pepper: Just making hataw as I want to pay off my credit card balance ASAP plus want to save for visit to my beloved Philippines again around July or August. Homesick :lol: !

I made a discovery here in Kentucky. People are crazy beautifying their lawns and gardens. Heck, they couldn't stand not mowing their lawn in 2 weeks. That lighted a bulb atop my head -- lawn mowing and gardening services! Dami middle-aged single ladies dito like cougars and milfs and I approached some of them (benefit of not having a car, walking around gives me time to stop and chat) and I offered my service to mow their lawn. I said "hey honey, you're so pretty to be doing that" and they appreciate that naman. :banana:

Later today, I will be off looking for a good mower and books how to do gardening, plus studying how contracts go in this line of business. I think the standard contract based on people I talked to is a period of 3 months with a total of 7 visits for a certain amount of money. My sales pitch will be less amount of money for 6 visits. :) The great thing is this opportunity is just starting because winter just ended ushering spring. I'll start by borrowing my dad's Silverado on weekends to haul the gear since he does not use it anyway on weekends. :cheers:

San ka sa Kentucky? May bahay kami dyan sa Union, Kentucky. I met Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson of Hunger Games sa Kentucky din. Isang Soccer Benefit Event yun 2 years ago na hehe.

Got paid another $500! Money flows due to tax rebates. :pepper: Just making hataw as I want to pay off my credit card balance ASAP plus want to save for visit to my beloved Philippines again around July or August. Homesick :lol: !

I made a discovery here in Kentucky. People are crazy beautifying their lawns and gardens. Heck, they couldn't stand not mowing their lawn in 2 weeks. That lighted a bulb atop my head -- lawn mowing and gardening services! Dami middle-aged single ladies dito like cougars and milfs and I approached some of them (benefit of not having a car, walking around gives me time to stop and chat) and I offered my service to mow their lawn. I said "hey honey, you're so pretty to be doing that" and they appreciate that naman. :banana:

Later today, I will be off looking for a good mower and books how to do gardening, plus studying how contracts go in this line of business. I think the standard contract based on people I talked to is a period of 3 months with a total of 7 visits for a certain amount of money. My sales pitch will be less amount of money for 6 visits. :) The great thing is this opportunity is just starting because winter just ended ushering spring. I'll start by borrowing my dad's Silverado on weekends to haul the gear since he does not use it anyway on weekends. :cheers:

You needed these things.
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http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_07128856000P?prdNo=2&blockNo=2&blockType=G2

or this bigger one
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http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/en_US/products/equipment/riding_mowers/zero_turn_mowers/zero_turn_mowers.page?

To load your equipments.
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^ Ambutlang, wow that Deere is really my goal. Right now, can't afford yet so I went with push type.

I just returned from Lowe's where I bought about $1K worth of capital goods (lawn mower, cordless trimmer, electric trimmer, shovels, 50ft power cord, fertilizer/seed spreader). :cucumber:

@ Narnian King, I'm in Bowling Green. Your house is in northern tip (close to Cincinnati), while I'm in southern tip, maybe about 3hr separation.

I also saw TN and NY in your area. Do you or your family have residences there as well? Jennifer Lawerence, pretty blondie. Hope you got your picture taken.:pepper:

Filipinos' seamen - worlds largest :)

Pinoys Shine In Int'l Cruise Ship
By CRISPINA MARTINEZ-BELEN
March 25, 2012, 11:50am

MANILA, Philippines — We were invited by Star Cruises to join a Singapore-Malaysia cruise on board Superstar Virgo recently, and among those we noticed easily was the presence of Filipinos everywhere who were ready to serve anyone.

Also taking to the microphones during happy hours in the entertainment outlets of the luxury ship are Filipino talents including a “Talentadong Pinoy” winner. The first group we listened to (at the Tavern Bar) was a trio rendering a plaintive “Anak,” Freddie Aguilar’s internationally famous composition.

Also a featured performer on the second night of our trip was Rex Smith, the voice behind “You Take My Breath Away” and “Simply Jessie.” Rex – accompanied by wife Tracy and foreign acts promoter Danee Samonte and wife Maddie – just finished two Valentine concerts in the Philippines, did a show at The Lido where the entertainment fare that night also included “Reflections of Russia,” and “Evening Rhythm with Platinum Duo.”

We learned that Filipinos comprise 60 percent of the more than a thousand crew of Superstar Virgo. Making us real proud too was the fact that the Cruise Director, Ms. Myla Zinampan, was also a Filipino.

http://mb.com.ph/node/355356/pinoy

@ Narnian King, I'm in Bowling Green. Your house is in northern tip (close to Cincinnati), while I'm in southern tip, maybe about 3hr separation.

I also saw TN and NY in your area. Do you or your family have residences there as well? Jennifer Lawerence, pretty blondie. Hope you got your picture taken.:pepper:

para lang ako nasa tagaytay kapag nasa Union, Kentucky kami. Meron po kaming bahay TN. Sa NY po talaga kami nakatira. :D

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Today here in NY.

Jennifer is Hawt talaga tsong. Yun si Josh Hutcherson naman may relatives sa tondo, philippines.

^Great site selections! Congrats !

siguradong maraming OFW dito sa Saudi ang maapektuhan nito.


Authorities step up anti-piracy drive
By RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN, ARAB NEWS STAFF
Published: Mar 27, 2012 01:40 Updated: Mar 27, 2012 01:40

The Ministry of Culture and Information is set to take stringent measures against business entities as well as personal computer users who acquire software illegally............http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article597534.ece

aahhh, akala ko yung nasa dagat na mga pirates:lol:

Started my full-time job yesterday! Entire day was orientation and training. :banana:

Tomorrow, will get my first paycheck from my contract job. Show me the money! :banana2:

My first cousin was duped by a filipina OFW here in ontario, canada. Yung babae merong itsura, di panget di rin sobrang ganda tsaka mukhang matino talaga. They got married last year in pinas around summer. Early December 2011, 2 of my relatives caught her with an italian guy while holding hands early morning inside a chinese grocery store (weird eh?).

Before christmas, they confronted her and she admitted about her affair. Drama follows. Same night they kicked her out from my cousin's house. The next day they found out there were significant amount of missing jewelries from their home, owned by his parents which are my tita and tito's. They only have one or 2 obvious possible suspects, either the girl herself or the italian guy, or BOTH.

Really hard to trust any OFW here who might just use you to get into canadian permanent landed immigrant status, or even for an instant citizenship. I would have understand the girl though if there were no jewelries involved on this matter. She was a big time fraud, with serious theft issue.

hey mambo! mambo italiano!:lol:


pinapulis na dapat

My first cousin was duped by a filipina OFW here in ontario, canada. Yung babae merong itsura, di panget di rin sobrang ganda tsaka mukhang matino talaga. They got married last year in pinas around summer. Early December 2011, 2 of my relatives caught her with an italian guy while holding hands early morning inside a chinese grocery store (weird eh?).

Before christmas, they confronted her and she admitted about her affair. Drama follows. Same night they kicked her out from my cousin's house. The next day they found out there were significant amount of missing jewelries from their home, owned by his parents which are my tita and tito's. They only have one or 2 obvious possible suspects, either the girl herself or the italian guy, or BOTH.

Really hard to trust any OFW here who might just use you to get into canadian permanent landed immigrant status, or even for an instant citizenship. I would have understand the girl though if there were no jewelries involved on this matter. She was a big time fraud, with serious theft issue.

The husband should report to the Canadian immigration that he filled for separation and not supporting her so that her immigration status will be cancelled. if she is not a citizen. He should also give the address where she live to the immigration. If he file for thief in court and she will be found guilty, then she will be deported.

^^ Just recently, i always get advertisements from the net from the government of Canada.

Canadians being warned of WEDDING FRAUDS.. i wonder why...

The husband should report to the Canadian immigration that he filled for separation and not supporting her so that her immigration status will be cancelled. if she is not a citizen. He should also give the address where she live to the immigration. If he file for thief in court and she will be found guilty, then she will be deported.

She may be jailed if found guilty but not deported. I think her current visa is immigrant, not tourist/work.

My first cousin was duped by a filipina OFW here in ontario, canada. Yung babae merong itsura, di panget di rin sobrang ganda tsaka mukhang matino talaga. They got married last year in pinas around summer. Early December 2011, 2 of my relatives caught her with an italian guy while holding hands early morning inside a chinese grocery store (weird eh?).

Before christmas, they confronted her and she admitted about her affair. Drama follows. Same night they kicked her out from my cousin's house. The next day they found out there were significant amount of missing jewelries from their home, owned by his parents which are my tita and tito's. They only have one or 2 obvious possible suspects, either the girl herself or the italian guy, or BOTH.

Really hard to trust any OFW here who might just use you to get into canadian permanent landed immigrant status, or even for an instant citizenship. I would have understand the girl though if there were no jewelries involved on this matter. She was a big time fraud, with serious theft issue.

No offense spear, but he stole his family jewels... the shining ones and his alone... :ohno:

I hate users like that. At least hindi sa US. It'd get ugly.

after causing New Zealand's worst sea pollution disaster, pinoy seamen are once again in the news:


Luxury liner on fire off Tawi-Tawi island, authorities say (http://globalnation.inquirer.net/31113/luxury-liner-on-fire-off-tawi-tawi-island-authorities-say)

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines—A Filipino-manned luxury ship carrying about 600 American and European passengers caught fire off Mapun Island in Tawi-Tawi Saturday, a report from the Philippine Navy said.

Colonel Jose Cenabre, deputy naval commander for Western Mindanao, said the ship was sailing 45 miles northeast of Mapun Island when fire of still unknown origin broke out.

Cenabre said the Philippine Air Force in Western Mindanao has dispatched a plane to the area and a fishing vessel, which was near the ship’s location was also asked to assist in the evacuation of the passengers and the ship’s 121 crew, mostly Filipinos.

“Rescue is underway,” he said.

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another accident involving filipino seamen. baka tuluyan nang ma-ban ang mga pinoy seamen sa EU at sa iba pang countries :bash::bash::bash:

the government must seriously look into the deficiencies of the education and training programs of pinoy seamen.

My first cousin was duped by a filipina OFW here in ontario, canada. Yung babae merong itsura, di panget di rin sobrang ganda tsaka mukhang matino talaga. They got married last year in pinas around summer. Early December 2011, 2 of my relatives caught her with an italian guy while holding hands early morning inside a chinese grocery store (weird eh?).

Before christmas, they confronted her and she admitted about her affair. Drama follows. Same night they kicked her out from my cousin's house. The next day they found out there were significant amount of missing jewelries from their home, owned by his parents which are my tita and tito's. They only have one or 2 obvious possible suspects, either the girl herself or the italian guy, or BOTH.

Really hard to trust any OFW here who might just use you to get into canadian permanent landed immigrant status, or even for an instant citizenship. I would have understand the girl though if there were no jewelries involved on this matter. She was a big time fraud, with serious theft issue.

Way too many stories like these. Tsk.

My best friend says, those stories of fellow Pinoys setting-up their kababayans having trouble with Immigration is very true. He'd rather befriend other nationalities than get too close with Pinoys in his area! Why is this attitude persisting?

She may be jailed if found guilty but not deported. I think her current visa is immigrant, not tourist/work.

http://www.uscis.gov/images/layout/logo.jpg
Remove Conditions on Permanent Residence Based on Marriage

Your permanent residence status is conditional if it is based on a marriage that was less than 2 years old on the day you were given permanent residence. You are given conditional resident status on the day you are lawfully admitted to the United States on an immigrant visa or adjustment of your status to permanent residence.

Your status is conditional, because you must prove that you did not get married to evade the immigration laws of the United States. To remove these conditions you must file Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence.

Eligibility Criteria ...

How to Apply to Remove the Conditions

You and your spouse must apply together to remove the conditions on your residence by filing Form I-751. You should apply during the 90 days before your second anniversary as a conditional resident. The expiration date on your green card is also the date of your second anniversary as a conditional resident. If you do not apply to remove the conditions in time, you could lose your conditional resident status and be removed from the country.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=745218a1f8b73210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=4ca43a4107083210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986

Public Law 99-639 (Act of 11/10/86), which was passed in order to deter immigration-related marriage fraud. Its major provision stipulates that aliens deriving their immigrant status based on a marriage of less than two years are conditional immigrants. To remove their conditional status the immigrants must apply at an U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office during the 90-day period before their second-year anniversary of receiving conditional status. If the aliens cannot show that the marriage through which the status was obtained was and is a valid one, their conditional immigrant status may be terminated and they may become deportable.
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=ec4295c4f635f010VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCRD&vgnextchannel=b328194d3e88d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD

He should get an immigration lawyer. He married in good faith but she cheated and broke the contract of marriage. :ohno:

iba naman storya ng pinsan kong babae na dating TNT sa Tate pero ngayon legal na dahil yung naging asawa nya na Fil-Am ay pinakasalan lang sya dahil isang patakaran ng magulang nung lalaki ay makukuha lang nya yung mana kung sya ay mag-aasawa. pagkatapos makuha yung mana ay nagladlad ang loko dahil bading pala at ayon hiwalay na sila pero yung pinsan ko ay sa Tate pa rin at parang takot ng mag-asawa ulit. :D :lol:

^^ Baka na inlove sa bading na kano...

Sus, baka mangyari yan sa 'yo madam anone... just to cover up your sins, you need a beard.

(di pa naman alam ni pinsan na, ikaw ay kaberde ng dating jowa niya na ka-birdy din?) :D

Posted in it's entirety. A very good lesson to learn. Sorry mga mods:

The MOST Important Lesson Every OFW MUST Learn
By tikboytikas | March 24, 2012 | Filed under: CAREERS, CULTURE, Education,

A few articles came out from different news sources about Suze Orman’s advice to OFWs about not sending too much money to relatives in The Philippines. She reasoned out that they can never be sure that their jobs overseas or their ability to do work would last as long as they need it to. She said that they should learn to save money instead of making sacrifices for other people by being too generous to them which would only make them lazy and develop a culture of mendicancy.
This has actually been going on for so long already. An OFW would work abroad, earn a lot more than he could in The Philippines which he would then send to his relatives, friends and anyone who could fool him to part with his money. People in The Philippines would give a lot of BS reasons as to why the OFW should give to them. We shall dispel these BS reasons in this article so you as an OFW can have the resolve to hold on to your money which you earn and you rightfully deserves to have. You also need to learn to make that money grow rather than put it in the hands of consumerists back in The Philippines who would merely make it vanish in thin air.
I. DON’T LET THEM TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE “LUCKY”
People in The Philippines would try to make you feel guilty and imply that you are “lucky” to be working abroad, therefore you have the obligation to “share” your “blessings” with the “less fortunate”. Unless you benefit from something like a lottery win, I believe that everyone’s situation in life was brought about by his conscious decisions and actions. If the OFW did not develop his or her skills, invest in whatever monetary considerations are needed to make working abroad possible and bravely go to a strange land adapting to a different culture then he or she would not succeed. Luck has little or nothing to do with it.
I am an OFW and I could say that my decisions led me to where I am, not a ball landing on the right number on a roulette table. To be able to qualify for a position in the Middle East, I developled my computer skills to a high level to the point of getting an MCP certification along with a myriad of other technical knowledge that could go along with it. That took a lot of hard work and patience in reading thick books and practicing on the computer for long hours. Those who preferred to party on a frequent basis, hang out uselessly for hours and value inanities instead of knowledge would of course not develop the skills to be anything so I do not see why I would give them even a single penny.
II. ALWAYS THINK THAT YOU NEED TO SAVE FOR YOUR OWN FUTURE
When I started working in the Middle East, I noticed that my co-workers were sending almost all their money to their relatives in The Philippines and leaving next to nothing for themselves. They also keep on buying the latest gadgets, clothing and jewelry they could get their hands on that they seem to not be able to save anything. I asked them why they keep doing those things and they said that they just wanted to be generous and happy.
As for me, I just live a simple life. I just buy the basics such as my food, low priced (but decent) clothing and other necessities. The only major thing I bought was a computer so I could be entertained and be able to do some extra work. At the end of my contract, I had $17,000 in my bank account and I used to immigrate to the United States where I believe I wanted to live permanently. The investment paid off as I have become a permanent resident in the US and have successfully established myself to live here for the rest of my life. I have been here for over nine years now yet I have heard that most of my former co-workers are still in the Middle East, with no savings and uncertain about their future.
They would not be able to work in the Middle East forever so when they already grow old and weak and they do not have an investment that would make their future secure then they would be back to where they started once their OFW status fades into oblivion. They just keep on throwing away money by giving heaps of it to their relatives (who are devoid of wisdom and discipline) instead of investing their money into something they could rely on when they get older such as immigrating to a first world country or putting up a thriving business (ran by themselves, not by relatives who would just screw it up and steal their money).
III. DO NOT GET AFFECTED BY GUILT
The most common tactic of Filipinos who want to sucker an OFW into giving money to them is to use guilt. I am OK with giving to people who have genuine medical emergencies that are matters of life and death but for other reasons, I really would not give anything even if they cry an ocean of tears. They would imply (or even say explicitly) that you are greedy and self-centered if you don’t “help” them. I know a case of an elderly OFW nurse in the USA who owned property in The Philippines and she rented it out to her relatives. These relatives stopped paying rent and told the OFW that life is hard and they really do not have any money to spend on anything. The OFW, feeling sorry, allowed them to live rent free for a few years and still paid her mortgage. One day, another relative of the OFW who is in the USA had his Facebook page open. He happily showed pictures of their relatives in The Philippines and she saw the ones living in her house. On the timeline, during the years that they were not paying rent she saw that they were going on vacation to Boracay, Pearl Farm, Palawan and having a great time. She then immediately demanded that they pay rent realizing that they were really not having a hard time since they kept going on vacations. What did she get in return? The relatives in her house told all their other relatives that she is “nothing but a greedy, self centered and selfish old woman”.
Another friend of mine who is a nurse confided in me that she married this uneducated Filipino guy who had no ambition or drive in life at all. She then heard that the guy’s family were saying that they “hit the jackpot” so I told her she has to brace herself for all the palms that would be facing up in front of her face waiting eagerly for her to drop them some greenbacks.
IV. NEVER BELIEVE IN PEOPLE WHO SAY YOU CAN GIVE THEM MONEY TO START A BUSINESS FOR YOU IN ‘DA ‘PINAS WHILE YOU ARE AWAY
A lot of OFWs have cases wherein relatives, friends or even random people would give them an idea that they would put up a business in Da Pinas using the OFW’s hard earned dollars only to find out that those people do not have a clue about running a business and screwed up their auto shop, carinderia, repair shop or other cockamamie scheme they were sold into participating in. By the time they find out, their dollars were already squandered. It is better to run your own business and know what you are doing by getting advice from people in the industry your business is in than have relatives swindle you out of your money.
V. WHAT I TELL MYSELF
Whenever someone from The Philippines tries to ask me for money, what I say is that all this money I have are earned by me and I would only give this money to someone who would give me something that I deem of equal value to it.
As an OFW, I have this money now because:
1. I saved
- While others were throwing their money away, I sacrificed useless “pleasures” so I would have something more concrete in the future.
2. I invested
- I invested time into developing my skills needed and getting education.
- I invested my savings into immigrating to a better country so I could be in a better and more permanent situation.
3. I risked
- I risked my savings into my immigration into the US never certain that it would succeed.
Those who are NOT willing to sacrifice in order to save, NOT smart enough to invest and NOT brave enough to risk do not deserve my money or anything they did not earn for that matter. They want what I have? They have to give me something of equal value or they have to also save, invest and risk so they can have money of their own.
VI. GIVING MONEY ON A REGULAR BASIS DEVELOPS A CULTURE OF MENDICANCY
You would always find a lot of unemployed OFW relatives who just do things like play basketball, hang out and sleep the whole day because (as one American with a Filipina wife told me) Filipinos are great enablers. As long as you keep giving to the Filipinos, they would never learn to stand on their own two feet or use their brains in order to make themselves productive. They would also develop a sense of entitlement over time that when you stop giving them money they would think that you are reneging on your “obligations”.
As an OFW, it is time for you to think about yourself. You need to have a stable future so you need to save money so you can invest it. Giving money to people in The Philippines does more harm than good when you look at the grand scheme of things. Think about it.

http://definitelyfilipino.com/blog/2012/03/24/the-most-important-lesson-every-ofw-must-learn/

+ 10000000000000. Infinity.

The MOST Important Lesson Every OFW MUST Learn
By tikboytikas | March 24, 2012 | Filed under: CAREERS, CULTURE, Education,


^^This is something good to read for all OFWs and their family/ friends!!

http://www.uscis.gov/images/layout/logo.jpg
Remove Conditions on Permanent Residence Based on Marriage

Your permanent residence status is conditional if it is based on a marriage that was less than 2 years old on the day you were given permanent residence. You are given conditional resident status on the day you are lawfully admitted to the United States on an immigrant visa or adjustment of your status to permanent residence.

Your status is conditional, because you must prove that you did not get married to evade the immigration laws of the United States. To remove these conditions you must file Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence.

Eligibility Criteria ...

How to Apply to Remove the Conditions

You and your spouse must apply together to remove the conditions on your residence by filing Form I-751. You should apply during the 90 days before your second anniversary as a conditional resident. The expiration date on your green card is also the date of your second anniversary as a conditional resident. If you do not apply to remove the conditions in time, you could lose your conditional resident status and be removed from the country.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=745218a1f8b73210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=4ca43a4107083210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986

Public Law 99-639 (Act of 11/10/86), which was passed in order to deter immigration-related marriage fraud. Its major provision stipulates that aliens deriving their immigrant status based on a marriage of less than two years are conditional immigrants. To remove their conditional status the immigrants must apply at an U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office during the 90-day period before their second-year anniversary of receiving conditional status. If the aliens cannot show that the marriage through which the status was obtained was and is a valid one, their conditional immigrant status may be terminated and they may become deportable.
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=ec4295c4f635f010VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCRD&vgnextchannel=b328194d3e88d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD

He should get an immigration lawyer. He married in good faith but she cheated and broke the contract of marriage. :ohno:

Ang dami talagang ganyang "tulayan" lang. At least hindi sila nagkaanak kuno like my mom's friend. Turns out it wasn't his!:ohno: Bitch.

http://www.uscis.gov/images/layout/logo.jpg
Remove Conditions on Permanent Residence Based on Marriage

Your permanent residence status is conditional if it is based on a marriage that was less than 2 years old on the day you were given permanent residence. :ohno:
Thanks for the share. Wonder if this also applies in Canada. I think ok yang 2 years. Any longer could be too sakal to the wife. Biro mo, she will be a slave to the whims of the American husband for such time.

^^That should also be considered in canadian immigration to avoid these fraud and taking advantage of canadian government system.

The following is the current canadian immigration law against marriage fraud, but it mostly targeting only the "Arrange Marriage":

There are some people who think marriage to a Canadian citizen will be their ticket to Canada.

It is a crime for foreign nationals to marry Canadian citizens or permanent residents only to gain entry into Canada. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) is working to prevent these fraudulent marriages.

In many cases, sponsors and foreign applicants arrange a “marriage of convenience”: a marriage or common-law relationship where the sole purpose is for the sponsored spouse to immigrate to Canada.

CIC officers are specially trained to recognize genuine immigration applications, and they know how to detect marriages of convenience. They use several methods to uncover marriage fraud, including document checks, site visits and interviews with sponsors and applicants. Canadian citizens or permanent residents found to be part of a marriage of convenience for immigration purposes may be charged with a crime.

Don’t become a victim of marriage fraud

If you are a Canadian citizen or permanent resident and you meet someone from another country on the Internet or while travelling, you should take care if you are considering marrying them and sponsoring them to Canada.

Sponsors must financially support their spouse for three years, even if the marriage or relationship fails. If your spouse uses social assistance, you will have to repay the money, and you won’t be able to sponsor anyone else until the debt is repaid. Sponsorship is a legally binding financial commitment with the Government of Canada.

Sponsors: Do not be tempted by offers of money or other rewards to enter into a marriage of convenience just so the person can immigrate to Canada. If you do this, you can face serious criminal charges, and you will still have to meet the terms of the sponsorship.

Do not feel you are obligated to help somebody by being part of a marriage of convenience, no matter what the reason. It is not worth the risks.

Visa applicants: Don’t get involved in a marriage of convenience. You will be refused a visa and may be banned from travel to Canada for two years. This will remain permanently on your CIC record.

CIC recognizes that even genuine marriages can fail. However, if you enter into a marriage of convenience and come to Canada as an immigrant, enforcement action can be taken against you. This enforcement action could end with your being deported by the Canada Border Services Agency.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/protection/fraud/marriage.asp

The husband should report to the Canadian immigration that he filled for separation and not supporting her so that her immigration status will be cancelled. if she is not a citizen. He should also give the address where she live to the immigration. If he file for thief in court and she will be found guilty, then she will be deported.

^^ Just recently, i always get advertisements from the net from the government of Canada.

Canadians being warned of WEDDING FRAUDS.. i wonder why...

Salamat sa inyong mga suporta and ill keep in mind, even may say something to mys cousin in case he hasn't know this yet.

No offense spear, but he stole his family jewels... the shining ones and his alone... :ohno:

I hate users like that. At least hindi sa US. It'd get ugly.

No offense taken. My cousin was he, and he married an OFW filipina who are now also a suspect in both marriage fraud and theft above $5k. I think the case is now under investigation. But there was also some talks that the girl is trying to be reunited with my cousin! :ohno: Honestly right now i dont know whats goin on there aside from those latest updates i heard a month ago about the investigation or something.

Way too many stories like these. Tsk.

My best friend says, those stories of fellow Pinoys setting-up their kababayans having trouble with Immigration is very true. He'd rather befriend other nationalities than get too close with Pinoys in his area! Why is this attitude persisting?

Yes its true. Marami nang desperado ngayon lalo na di parin nawawala yung mga kahirapan sa pilipinas kahit na merong economic progress but its hardly felt by low income families back home.

Posted in it's entirety. A very good lesson to learn. Sorry mga mods:

The MOST Important Lesson Every OFW MUST Learn
By tikboytikas | March 24, 2012 | Filed under: CAREERS, CULTURE, Education,

A few articles came out from different news sources about Suze Orman’s advice to OFWs about not sending too much money to relatives in The Philippines. She reasoned out that they can never be sure that their jobs overseas or their ability to do work would last as long as they need it to. She said that they should learn to save money instead of making sacrifices for other people by being too generous to them which would only make them lazy and develop a culture of mendicancy.
This has actually been going on for so long already. An OFW would work abroad, earn a lot more than he could in The Philippines which he would then send to his relatives, friends and anyone who could fool him to part with his money. People in The Philippines would give a lot of BS reasons as to why the OFW should give to them. We shall dispel these BS reasons in this article so you as an OFW can have the resolve to hold on to your money which you earn and you rightfully deserves to have. You also need to learn to make that money grow rather than put it in the hands of consumerists back in The Philippines who would merely make it vanish in thin air.
I. DON’T LET THEM TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE “LUCKY”
People in The Philippines would try to make you feel guilty and imply that you are “lucky” to be working abroad, therefore you have the obligation to “share” your “blessings” with the “less fortunate”. Unless you benefit from something like a lottery win, I believe that everyone’s situation in life was brought about by his conscious decisions and actions. If the OFW did not develop his or her skills, invest in whatever monetary considerations are needed to make working abroad possible and bravely go to a strange land adapting to a different culture then he or she would not succeed. Luck has little or nothing to do with it.
I am an OFW and I could say that my decisions led me to where I am, not a ball landing on the right number on a roulette table. To be able to qualify for a position in the Middle East, I developled my computer skills to a high level to the point of getting an MCP certification along with a myriad of other technical knowledge that could go along with it. That took a lot of hard work and patience in reading thick books and practicing on the computer for long hours. Those who preferred to party on a frequent basis, hang out uselessly for hours and value inanities instead of knowledge would of course not develop the skills to be anything so I do not see why I would give them even a single penny.
II. ALWAYS THINK THAT YOU NEED TO SAVE FOR YOUR OWN FUTURE
When I started working in the Middle East, I noticed that my co-workers were sending almost all their money to their relatives in The Philippines and leaving next to nothing for themselves. They also keep on buying the latest gadgets, clothing and jewelry they could get their hands on that they seem to not be able to save anything. I asked them why they keep doing those things and they said that they just wanted to be generous and happy.
As for me, I just live a simple life. I just buy the basics such as my food, low priced (but decent) clothing and other necessities. The only major thing I bought was a computer so I could be entertained and be able to do some extra work. At the end of my contract, I had $17,000 in my bank account and I used to immigrate to the United States where I believe I wanted to live permanently. The investment paid off as I have become a permanent resident in the US and have successfully established myself to live here for the rest of my life. I have been here for over nine years now yet I have heard that most of my former co-workers are still in the Middle East, with no savings and uncertain about their future.
They would not be able to work in the Middle East forever so when they already grow old and weak and they do not have an investment that would make their future secure then they would be back to where they started once their OFW status fades into oblivion. They just keep on throwing away money by giving heaps of it to their relatives (who are devoid of wisdom and discipline) instead of investing their money into something they could rely on when they get older such as immigrating to a first world country or putting up a thriving business (ran by themselves, not by relatives who would just screw it up and steal their money).
III. DO NOT GET AFFECTED BY GUILT
The most common tactic of Filipinos who want to sucker an OFW into giving money to them is to use guilt. I am OK with giving to people who have genuine medical emergencies that are matters of life and death but for other reasons, I really would not give anything even if they cry an ocean of tears. They would imply (or even say explicitly) that you are greedy and self-centered if you don’t “help” them. I know a case of an elderly OFW nurse in the USA who owned property in The Philippines and she rented it out to her relatives. These relatives stopped paying rent and told the OFW that life is hard and they really do not have any money to spend on anything. The OFW, feeling sorry, allowed them to live rent free for a few years and still paid her mortgage. One day, another relative of the OFW who is in the USA had his Facebook page open. He happily showed pictures of their relatives in The Philippines and she saw the ones living in her house. On the timeline, during the years that they were not paying rent she saw that they were going on vacation to Boracay, Pearl Farm, Palawan and having a great time. She then immediately demanded that they pay rent realizing that they were really not having a hard time since they kept going on vacations. What did she get in return? The relatives in her house told all their other relatives that she is “nothing but a greedy, self centered and selfish old woman”.
Another friend of mine who is a nurse confided in me that she married this uneducated Filipino guy who had no ambition or drive in life at all. She then heard that the guy’s family were saying that they “hit the jackpot” so I told her she has to brace herself for all the palms that would be facing up in front of her face waiting eagerly for her to drop them some greenbacks.
IV. NEVER BELIEVE IN PEOPLE WHO SAY YOU CAN GIVE THEM MONEY TO START A BUSINESS FOR YOU IN ‘DA ‘PINAS WHILE YOU ARE AWAY
A lot of OFWs have cases wherein relatives, friends or even random people would give them an idea that they would put up a business in Da Pinas using the OFW’s hard earned dollars only to find out that those people do not have a clue about running a business and screwed up their auto shop, carinderia, repair shop or other cockamamie scheme they were sold into participating in. By the time they find out, their dollars were already squandered. It is better to run your own business and know what you are doing by getting advice from people in the industry your business is in than have relatives swindle you out of your money.
V. WHAT I TELL MYSELF
Whenever someone from The Philippines tries to ask me for money, what I say is that all this money I have are earned by me and I would only give this money to someone who would give me something that I deem of equal value to it.
As an OFW, I have this money now because:
1. I saved
- While others were throwing their money away, I sacrificed useless “pleasures” so I would have something more concrete in the future.
2. I invested
- I invested time into developing my skills needed and getting education.
- I invested my savings into immigrating to a better country so I could be in a better and more permanent situation.
3. I risked
- I risked my savings into my immigration into the US never certain that it would succeed.
Those who are NOT willing to sacrifice in order to save, NOT smart enough to invest and NOT brave enough to risk do not deserve my money or anything they did not earn for that matter. They want what I have? They have to give me something of equal value or they have to also save, invest and risk so they can have money of their own.
VI. GIVING MONEY ON A REGULAR BASIS DEVELOPS A CULTURE OF MENDICANCY
You would always find a lot of unemployed OFW relatives who just do things like play basketball, hang out and sleep the whole day because (as one American with a Filipina wife told me) Filipinos are great enablers. As long as you keep giving to the Filipinos, they would never learn to stand on their own two feet or use their brains in order to make themselves productive. They would also develop a sense of entitlement over time that when you stop giving them money they would think that you are reneging on your “obligations”.
As an OFW, it is time for you to think about yourself. You need to have a stable future so you need to save money so you can invest it. Giving money to people in The Philippines does more harm than good when you look at the grand scheme of things. Think about it.

http://definitelyfilipino.com/blog/2012/03/24/the-most-important-lesson-every-ofw-must-learn/


That's why, all OFW should only support their immediate families (siblings, children, spouses, or parents) and not for your friends or relatives. Relatives siguro secondary mo na yun but never to your friends, thats just plain stupid unless you are in a love relationship.

Never work for other people that has nothing to do with your family unless if you are really well off, rich, and so much money to dispense.

Fund-raising on to secure release of death row Filipino
By RIYADH: RODOLFO ESTIMO JR., ARAB NEWS STAFF
Published: Apr 1, 2012 00:45 Updated: Apr 1, 2012 00:45

Former Philippine Ambassador Antonio P. Villamor left the Kingdom Thursday night after 15 days of negotiations in connection with the case of Rodelon “Eissah” Lanuza who is on death row in the Eastern Province.

“We're trying to raise the whole amount asked by the Saudi family for having granted forgiveness to Lanuza, also called Rodelon, in February 2011,” Villamor told Arab News.
...........http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article602703.ece

^^ Baka na inlove sa bading na kano...

Sus, baka mangyari yan sa 'yo madam anone... just to cover up your sins, you need a beard.

(di pa naman alam ni pinsan na, ikaw ay kaberde ng dating jowa niya na ka-birdy din?) :D

hindi ko balak lokohin ang iba lalo na ang sarili ko kung sakaling dumating ang ganong situwasyon. :D

Posted in it's entirety. A very good lesson to learn. Sorry mga mods:

The MOST Important Lesson Every OFW MUST Learn
By tikboytikas | March 24, 2012 | Filed under: CAREERS, CULTURE, Education,


I am an OFW and I could say that my decisions led me to where I am, not a ball landing on the right number on a roulette table. To be able to qualify for a position in the Middle East, I developled my computer skills to a high level to the point of getting an MCP certification along with a myriad of other technical knowledge that could go along with it. That took a lot of hard work and patience in reading thick books and practicing on the computer for long hours.

As an OFW, I have this money now because:
1. I saved
- While others were throwing their money away, I sacrificed useless “pleasures” so I would have something more concrete in the future.
2. I invested
- I invested time into developing my skills needed and getting education.
3. I risked

As an OFW, it is time for you to think about yourself. You need to have a stable future so you need to save money so you can invest it. Giving money to people in The Philippines does more harm than good when you look at the grand scheme of things. Think about it.

http://definitelyfilipino.com/blog/2012/03/24/the-most-important-lesson-every-ofw-must-learn/

grabe nakaka relate ako ng husto dyan sa sinulat ni kabayan. naalala ko tuloy nung bago pa alang ako dito Saudi at wala pang sapat na perang pambili ng libro ay labas masok ako sa bookstores para magbasa dahil wala naman library dito at hindi pa uso ang internet nung mga panahon na yun. nung unang contract ko din dito ay halos lahat ng sweldo ko ay pinapadala ko sa Pinas hoping na pag umuwi ako ay may magagamit ako pero wala ubos lahat. marami raw kasing gastos na kung ano ano. kaya nung bumalik ako sa dito ay natututo na akong magtabi para sa sarili ko. :D

kaya pala di ka na nagpapadala sa amin:lol:

@anone, di ba may mga pension fund pa naman kayo kung babalik kayo?

Marami talagang mga ganoong mga relatives ng OFW na kung waldas dun waldas dito eh gogoyohin ka pa.

Kaya sikat yung mga paki-boys sa atin, yung gumagawa ng dapat na gawain mo for a fee. Marami naman talaga ang mapagkakatiwalaan. I've heard of a story ng isang OFW na instead sa kanyang mga mag-anak pinagkatiwala yung pagbabayad ng mortgage eh nag-hire siya ng mga errand boys para ilakad lahat. It really works. :)

@anone, di ba may mga pension fund pa naman kayo kung babalik kayo?

Marami talagang mga ganoong mga relatives ng OFW na kung waldas dun waldas dito eh gogoyohin ka pa.

Kaya sikat yung mga paki-boys sa atin, yung gumagawa ng dapat na gawain mo for a fee. Marami naman talaga ang mapagkakatiwalaan. I've heard of a story ng isang OFW na instead sa kanyang mga mag-anak pinagkatiwala yung pagbabayad ng mortgage eh nag-hire siya ng mga errand boys para ilakad lahat. It really works. :)

pension galing sa kumpanyang pinapasukan ko wala pero may makukuha kaming indemnity(years of service).

good news to all Saudi expats.

Shoura: No taxes on expats

By RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO

Published: Apr 2, 2012 01:15 Updated: Apr 2, 2012 01:15

The Shoura Council rejected a move to tax the incomes of individual expatriate workers in the public and private sectors at its 18th regular session yesterday.

The session was chaired by Council Vice President Dr. Mohammed bin Amin Jafri.

Secretary-General of the Shoura Council Dr. Mohammed Al-Ghamdi said the council made the decision after hearing the arguments for and against the proposal.

He added that since proponents of the move could not attain the requisite majority in the house to secure approval, it was rejected. He said the Kingdom is implementing a number of developmental projects in various sectors that need professional skills.

Supporters felt if approved, the proposal would have helped bridge the gap between the wages of Saudis and non-Saudis and increased the chances for locals to work in the private sector. Al-Ghamdi clarified the proposal had been submitted some time ago.
.........................http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article603247.ece

^That's certainly great news to our kababayans in the Kingdom! Congrats sa inyo dyan!

good news to all Saudi expats.

Shoura: No taxes on expats

By RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO

Published: Apr 2, 2012 01:15 Updated: Apr 2, 2012 01:15

The Shoura Council rejected a move to tax the incomes of individual expatriate workers in the public and private sectors at its 18th regular session yesterday.

The session was chaired by Council Vice President Dr. Mohammed bin Amin Jafri.

Secretary-General of the Shoura Council Dr. Mohammed Al-Ghamdi said the council made the decision after hearing the arguments for and against the proposal.

He added that since proponents of the move could not attain the requisite majority in the house to secure approval, it was rejected. He said the Kingdom is implementing a number of developmental projects in various sectors that need professional skills.

Supporters felt if approved, the proposal would have helped bridge the gap between the wages of Saudis and non-Saudis and increased the chances for locals to work in the private sector. Al-Ghamdi clarified the proposal had been submitted some time ago.
.........................http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article603247.ece

Sarap talaga pag tax free ang sahod. :D

Sarap talaga pag tax free ang sahod. :D

korek ka dyan buong buo ang sweldo. :D i love saudi talaga. :D kung pwede lang mag retiro dito ay dito na lang ako for life. :D :lol:

Sarap talaga pag tax free ang sahod. :D

are you speaking by experience? buti ka pa...

ako, I had to pay $1,900 more for 2011's taxation.... huhu :(

korek ka dyan buong buo ang sweldo. :D i love saudi talaga. :D kung pwede lang mag retiro dito ay dito na lang ako for life. :D :lol:

Ako rin, buong-buo ang sweldo - - - - - - -> punta kay misis!:nuts::nuts::nuts::nuts:

^^ aaay.. mas kawawa ka pala.. haha

Posted in it's entirety. A very good lesson to learn. Sorry mga mods:

The MOST Important Lesson Every OFW MUST Learn
By tikboytikas | March 24, 2012 | Filed under: CAREERS, CULTURE, Education,

A few articles came out from different news sources about Suze Orman’s advice to OFWs about not sending too much money to relatives in The Philippines. She reasoned out that they can never be sure that their jobs overseas or their ability to do work would last as long as they need it to. She said that they should learn to save money instead of making sacrifices for other people by being too generous to them which would only make them lazy and develop a culture of mendicancy.
This has actually been going on for so long already. An OFW would work abroad, earn a lot more than he could in The Philippines which he would then send to his relatives, friends and anyone who could fool him to part with his money. People in The Philippines would give a lot of BS reasons as to why the OFW should give to them. We shall dispel these BS reasons in this article so you as an OFW can have the resolve to hold on to your money which you earn and you rightfully deserves to have. You also need to learn to make that money grow rather than put it in the hands of consumerists back in The Philippines who would merely make it vanish in thin air.
I. DON’T LET THEM TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE “LUCKY”
People in The Philippines would try to make you feel guilty and imply that you are “lucky” to be working abroad, therefore you have the obligation to “share” your “blessings” with the “less fortunate”. Unless you benefit from something like a lottery win, I believe that everyone’s situation in life was brought about by his conscious decisions and actions. If the OFW did not develop his or her skills, invest in whatever monetary considerations are needed to make working abroad possible and bravely go to a strange land adapting to a different culture then he or she would not succeed. Luck has little or nothing to do with it.
I am an OFW and I could say that my decisions led me to where I am, not a ball landing on the right number on a roulette table. To be able to qualify for a position in the Middle East, I developled my computer skills to a high level to the point of getting an MCP certification along with a myriad of other technical knowledge that could go along with it. That took a lot of hard work and patience in reading thick books and practicing on the computer for long hours. Those who preferred to party on a frequent basis, hang out uselessly for hours and value inanities instead of knowledge would of course not develop the skills to be anything so I do not see why I would give them even a single penny.
II. ALWAYS THINK THAT YOU NEED TO SAVE FOR YOUR OWN FUTURE
When I started working in the Middle East, I noticed that my co-workers were sending almost all their money to their relatives in The Philippines and leaving next to nothing for themselves. They also keep on buying the latest gadgets, clothing and jewelry they could get their hands on that they seem to not be able to save anything. I asked them why they keep doing those things and they said that they just wanted to be generous and happy.
As for me, I just live a simple life. I just buy the basics such as my food, low priced (but decent) clothing and other necessities. The only major thing I bought was a computer so I could be entertained and be able to do some extra work. At the end of my contract, I had $17,000 in my bank account and I used to immigrate to the United States where I believe I wanted to live permanently. The investment paid off as I have become a permanent resident in the US and have successfully established myself to live here for the rest of my life. I have been here for over nine years now yet I have heard that most of my former co-workers are still in the Middle East, with no savings and uncertain about their future.
They would not be able to work in the Middle East forever so when they already grow old and weak and they do not have an investment that would make their future secure then they would be back to where they started once their OFW status fades into oblivion. They just keep on throwing away money by giving heaps of it to their relatives (who are devoid of wisdom and discipline) instead of investing their money into something they could rely on when they get older such as immigrating to a first world country or putting up a thriving business (ran by themselves, not by relatives who would just screw it up and steal their money).
III. DO NOT GET AFFECTED BY GUILT
The most common tactic of Filipinos who want to sucker an OFW into giving money to them is to use guilt. I am OK with giving to people who have genuine medical emergencies that are matters of life and death but for other reasons, I really would not give anything even if they cry an ocean of tears. They would imply (or even say explicitly) that you are greedy and self-centered if you don’t “help” them. I know a case of an elderly OFW nurse in the USA who owned property in The Philippines and she rented it out to her relatives. These relatives stopped paying rent and told the OFW that life is hard and they really do not have any money to spend on anything. The OFW, feeling sorry, allowed them to live rent free for a few years and still paid her mortgage. One day, another relative of the OFW who is in the USA had his Facebook page open. He happily showed pictures of their relatives in The Philippines and she saw the ones living in her house. On the timeline, during the years that they were not paying rent she saw that they were going on vacation to Boracay, Pearl Farm, Palawan and having a great time. She then immediately demanded that they pay rent realizing that they were really not having a hard time since they kept going on vacations. What did she get in return? The relatives in her house told all their other relatives that she is “nothing but a greedy, self centered and selfish old woman”.
Another friend of mine who is a nurse confided in me that she married this uneducated Filipino guy who had no ambition or drive in life at all. She then heard that the guy’s family were saying that they “hit the jackpot” so I told her she has to brace herself for all the palms that would be facing up in front of her face waiting eagerly for her to drop them some greenbacks.
IV. NEVER BELIEVE IN PEOPLE WHO SAY YOU CAN GIVE THEM MONEY TO START A BUSINESS FOR YOU IN ‘DA ‘PINAS WHILE YOU ARE AWAY
A lot of OFWs have cases wherein relatives, friends or even random people would give them an idea that they would put up a business in Da Pinas using the OFW’s hard earned dollars only to find out that those people do not have a clue about running a business and screwed up their auto shop, carinderia, repair shop or other cockamamie scheme they were sold into participating in. By the time they find out, their dollars were already squandered. It is better to run your own business and know what you are doing by getting advice from people in the industry your business is in than have relatives swindle you out of your money.
V. WHAT I TELL MYSELF
Whenever someone from The Philippines tries to ask me for money, what I say is that all this money I have are earned by me and I would only give this money to someone who would give me something that I deem of equal value to it.
As an OFW, I have this money now because:
1. I saved
- While others were throwing their money away, I sacrificed useless “pleasures” so I would have something more concrete in the future.
2. I invested
- I invested time into developing my skills needed and getting education.
- I invested my savings into immigrating to a better country so I could be in a better and more permanent situation.
3. I risked
- I risked my savings into my immigration into the US never certain that it would succeed.
Those who are NOT willing to sacrifice in order to save, NOT smart enough to invest and NOT brave enough to risk do not deserve my money or anything they did not earn for that matter. They want what I have? They have to give me something of equal value or they have to also save, invest and risk so they can have money of their own.
VI. GIVING MONEY ON A REGULAR BASIS DEVELOPS A CULTURE OF MENDICANCY
You would always find a lot of unemployed OFW relatives who just do things like play basketball, hang out and sleep the whole day because (as one American with a Filipina wife told me) Filipinos are great enablers. As long as you keep giving to the Filipinos, they would never learn to stand on their own two feet or use their brains in order to make themselves productive. They would also develop a sense of entitlement over time that when you stop giving them money they would think that you are reneging on your “obligations”.
As an OFW, it is time for you to think about yourself. You need to have a stable future so you need to save money so you can invest it. Giving money to people in The Philippines does more harm than good when you look at the grand scheme of things. Think about it.

http://definitelyfilipino.com/blog/2012/03/24/the-most-important-lesson-every-ofw-must-learn/

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time for our OFW's to learn to manage their own money and stop being stupid by wasting their hard earned money.

That's why, all OFW should only support their immediate families (siblings, children, spouses, or parents) and not for your friends or relatives. Relatives siguro secondary mo na yun but never to your friends, thats just plain stupid unless you are in a love relationship.

Never work for other people that has nothing to do with your family unless if you are really well off, rich, and so much money to dispense.

even supporting the immediate families should have limits. I support deserving family members in their education fees and some on their business capitals but i rquire them to pay it and as to other needs and wants they need to support themselves. Money does not come easy so you should give them that impression or else you would be raising a useless/inutile family member or person. i support even not family members who are deserving ones.

@anone, di ba may mga pension fund pa naman kayo kung babalik kayo?

Marami talagang mga ganoong mga relatives ng OFW na kung waldas dun waldas dito eh gogoyohin ka pa.

Kaya sikat yung mga paki-boys sa atin, yung gumagawa ng dapat na gawain mo for a fee. Marami naman talaga ang mapagkakatiwalaan. I've heard of a story ng isang OFW na instead sa kanyang mga mag-anak pinagkatiwala yung pagbabayad ng mortgage eh nag-hire siya ng mga errand boys para ilakad lahat. It really works. :) You mean there are professional agencies handling pools of agents or personal assistants? I'd rather get in touch with professional agencies rather than deal with obscure individuals having dubious credentials. It would be like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

Do you know of any websites for these agencies?

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You mean there are professional agencies handling pools of agents or personal assistants? I'd rather get in touch with professional agencies rather than deal with obscure individuals having dubious credentials. It would be like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

Do you know of any websites for these agencies?

Yun ang mahirap. As of the moment, I still have to yet find that agency. It does exist here in the Philippines and they're better kesa ipagkatiwala mo yung pagagawin mo sa mga kamag-anak mo with the seething culture of distrust around.

EDIT: I found one @Mercato. Mods, please take discretion if this is categorized as "selling" or anything. Just making a point here.

http://pakisuyo.sulit.com.ph/

According to their page:

PAKISUYO ONLINE is your 1st One-Stop Online Errand Center in the Philippines. For our kababayan abroad you can email us your errand and we can accomplish this for you. Our email address is pakisuyo.online@yahoo.com.ph and info@pakisuyo.com. We call ourselves as the "UTUSAN NG BAYAN" because we will do whatever you want us to do basta po LEGAL ang errand.

Sample errand: Pakibili naman ng one (1) whole lechon ang aking biyenan sa Palawan.. Pakipa deliver ito ng bago mag 3pm ng hapon sa October 24, 2008 . My maximum budget is P 8,000.00. Another one is, pakihanapan naman ako ng low cost housing not more than 500k sa bandang Cavite area. Gusto ko ng end unit o corner lot at dapat nasa main road dahil maglalagay ako ng mini store sa harapan. Sana mga 120 sqm.

What else? May naka save na akong pera, puwede bang hanapan mo ako ng food cart business na nagre-range ang franchise fee from 50 to 75k lang. Gusto ko sana fishball or dimsum ang products na ibebenta. Para ito sa anak ko na nakatambay lang sa bahay para hindi lahat ay umaasa lang sa ipapadala ko. Or - pakibilhan mo naman ako ng 21 inch na colored TV, Sony ang brand, regalo ko sa aanakin ko sa kasal. Then pakideliver sa Dec. 12 sa address na ito. Pakisulatan ang card ng. . . . .

Another one (malimit po itong errand na ito sa amin) - nasa labas po ako ng bansa pakibayaran naman ang amilyar ng dalawang property ko sa Laguna.

Here's one "testi" from them:

(Again mods, please take discretion kung lantaran na... sorry talaga... :D)

http://PAKISUYO.sulit.com.ph/index.php/page/id/12940/PAKISUYO+OFW+TOP+STORIES:


STORY NO. 2 - A FRUSTRATED WIFE IN HONGKONG

Isang email ang natanggap namin last Sept 2007 nagpapahanap ng bahay at lupa. And sabi niya gusto niya sa bandang Cavite o Laguna at ang budget lang niya ay P 5,000.00 amortization per month. Ipa member ko raw siya sa Pag Ibig at babayaran daw niya ito within 10 years. Naghanap kami ng low cost housing at ipinadala namin sa kanya ang aming canvass. Pumili siya then sinabi na sige ipapadala ko na lahat ng requirements and magpa reserve ka na. We did the transaction with her within 3 days. We told her "ma'am wag po muna nating isara with the developer, kung puwede po sana ipa tripping muna natin anybody from your family". I was surprised with her answer - "No need. Basta pag uwi ko diyan after two years magugulat na lang sila na may bahay na kami". I insisted and mentioned to her na major investment ito kaya dapat ay magustuhan din ng family niya. Sabi niya ulit "ok lang yun ma'am kasi wala na akong tiwala sa kanila. Once na malaman nila na may binabayaran ako eh pipilitin nila ako na sila na ang magbayad.... kumuha na rin ako nun pero kahit pala nagpapadala ako di nila binabayaran. Halos 7 years akong umasa at excited na may bahay na kami... yun pala wala akong dadatnan kaya hanggang ngayon nasa Blumnetritt pa pamiya ko kasama kami sa squatters sa gilid ng palengke".

This story made me cry kasi dun ko na feel na ang mga kapamilya nating OFW ay buo ang pangarap para sa pamilya pero yung iba walang napapala kahit kayod kalabaw na sila. With her statement, hindi na ako nagtanong pa. Now she is continuously paying at halos 3x ng 5k na amortization ang inihuhulog. Basta't kausap ko siya online ang lagi niyang tanong.... "ma'am...ano kaya ang bagay na sopa sa bago naming townhouse, anong bagay na tiles, etc..etc... ". She is too excited kasi alam niya sa pamamagitan ng Pakisuyo matutupad niya na sa wakas ang pangarap na magkaroon ng sariling pamilya. That strengthened my desire to serve more OFW's kasi ang sarap ng pakiramdam kung may mga taong natutuwa sa serbisyo mo and I know this one of our noble missions .

Kaya pala sobrang booming ng business na ito ano?

even supporting the immediate families should have limits. I support deserving family members in their education fees and some on their business capitals but i rquire them to pay it and as to other needs and wants they need to support themselves. Money does not come easy so you should give them that impression or else you would be raising a useless/inutile family member or person. i support even not family members who are deserving ones.

Dapat na nating iwaksi ang ating mindset na kesyo naka abroad na ay bigtime na.

Yun ang mahirap. As of the moment, I still have to yet find that agency. It does exist here in the Philippines and they're better kesa ipagkatiwala mo yung pagagawin mo sa mga kamag-anak mo with the seething culture of distrust around.

EDIT: I found one @Mercato. Mods, please take discretion if this is categorized as "selling" or anything. Just making a point here.

http://pakisuyo.sulit.com.ph/

According to their page:


Here's one "testi" from them:

(Again mods, please take discretion kung lantaran na... sorry talaga... :D)

http://PAKISUYO.sulit.com.ph/index.php/page/id/12940/PAKISUYO+OFW+TOP+STORIES:



Kaya pala sobrang booming ng business na ito ano?Ohohoho. wunderbar. bookmarked already, I dont need it for the moment but the possibilities are endless for future use. Thanks Thanks. :D :D :D

even supporting the immediate families should have limits. I support deserving family members in their education fees and some on their business capitals but i rquire them to pay it and as to other needs and wants they need to support themselves. Money does not come easy so you should give them that impression or else you would be raising a useless/inutile family member or person. i support even not family members who are deserving ones.

Exactly. And we dont have to play the role of Santa Clause everyday or every month. Expats in north america also have more bills to pay than their counterparts who lives in the middleast.

Mortgage and property taxes here alone will suck your monthly salary bigtime with all those huge taxes specially here in canada. We all work hard for the best interest of our future and for our own family to feed.

For those having doubts if the Canadian immigration consultant that your agency is connected with has a license to practice you can check this link. The bottom part of the page also has the list of suspended and revoked members so you can be guided accordingly before you take the risk of parting with your hard earned money;

Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants

https://www.csic-scci.ca/en/find/

Dapat na nating iwaksi ang ating mindset na kesyo naka abroad na ay bigtime na.

Totoo naman na big time na talaga sila kasi malaki na kinikita nila. Pero kapag baon ka naman sa utang tulad ng marami nating kababayan sa north america who suffered under this recent economic downturn, then you have nothing to brag about. Mortgage pa nga lang with an amortization of 30-45 yrs and a $500 grand debt is not a pride to brag about unless you make money out of it by buying and selling then get the profits. Its a huge investment when you utilize it, but living on it for your whole life means nothing for your pocket.

So do not expect too much from your expat friends or relatives. Only the deserving people have the rights to receive blessings. By all means you can help anyone you like to without forgetting your own welfare. We cannot just be stupid, unless if when its in a life or death situation that you have to give everything you got to someone who took care of you in your whole life and reward him or her with all your blessings (including your wealth).

Just sharing this. Nice to know we haven't lost our good image as workers abroad.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/lifestyle/regional-tourism-faces-hard-labour/story-fn6njxlr-1226299559792

WHEN former AFL footballer and tourism entrepreneur Tony Smith left the Gold Coast to run two luxury resorts in Bali, he probably hadn't figured out just how cheap labour was there. But he quickly wised up.
For every one tourism worker it cost Smith to employ on the Gold Coast in his days running accommodation provider BreakFree, he can hire more than 20 times that many staff in Bali.
The pay rate for waiters and cleaners on the Indonesian island is $US150 ($142) a month.
Thanks to public holiday penalties in Australia, hospitality workers can earn as much as $125 an hour for working Sundays or public holidays.
"We have got 370 staff in the two Bali Semara properties," Smith says over breakfast at the Deck, a busy restaurant fronting his luxury Semara Resort and Spa in Bali's trendy Seminyak. "BreakFree had 1500 staff in 40 properties.









"One staff member in Australia costs the average of 24 staff in Bali.
"You can give so much more service to customers here in Bali than you could in Australia."
For Australian tourism operators it's the difficulty in finding staff in regional areas or the exorbitant pay rates.
One of Australia's largest tourism employers, Hamilton Island, has its share of problems, too.
While chief executive Glenn Bourke says penalty rates are not an issue for the Queensland island, his biggest challenge operating in a regional location is recruiting and retaining staff.
The general manager of the luxury Emirates-owned Wolgan Valley Resort and Spa near Sydney's Blue Mountains, Joost Heymeijer, has struck collective agreements with his staff, meaning penalty rates do not apply.
But he feels the pain of tourism operators who are forking out the big bucks to stay in business.
"Staff love it," says Heymeijer. "At $40 an hour, wouldn't you? It means Christmas.
"Some operators need to open on a Sunday and stay relevant, but it's very hard to open if you can barely cover costs because of penalty rates.
"There might be hospitality operators that function in the vicinity of a tourism icon who can't afford to open on a Sunday because of penalty rates.
"I could see that happen. In the end the operators lose.
"The visitor goes to a tourism icon and asks 'Where am I going to get a sandwich?'
"I think we need to go back to why it's called a penalty rate. The award is an amalgamation of changes over 150 years. Some bits and pieces are exceptionally old and go back to the time of Sunday as a day of rest. If you as an operator decided to open on a Sunday you get penalised. It's a very old-fashioned way of looking at tourism."
In Sydney, James Baillie, operator of Baillie Lodges, which runs Capella Lodge on Lord Howe Island and the Southern Ocean Lodge on Kangaroo Island, is angry.
"All of these penalty rates bring a line-level kitchen hand to getting $40 an hour on public holidays," Baillie says. "That is ludicrous ... the notion you should be paid $40 an hour to clean a room in a city hotel is totally out of reality." He has a solution. "The biggest issue we face with Australian labour is the lack of it," he says.
"What we really need is a temporary migration scheme where we can employ labour from appropriate countries like The Philippines, people who have a good work ethic and have a good command of English.
"We need them to be on a second-tier wage system like they do in the cruise-ship industry.
"We would pay them reasonably, even if we paid them half what Australians earn in positions like cleaning. They would still earn 10 times more than they would be paid back at home."
Under Baillie's plan, guest workers in remote locations would be housed on site in quality single accommodation with all meals and services provided.
"It would be incredibly advantageous if there was a second-tier wage structure to allow the employment of visiting workers on a realistic wage for doing jobs that Australians no longer wish to do," he says.
"We are talking entry-level jobs.
"It is commonplace in the US and the United Kingdom where the national workforce is basically no longer willing or not available to do those entry level jobs."
But Federal Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson is not having a bar of it. "This is not on. There's no way the Australian community will cop Filipinos being flown in and paid Filipino wages and conditions in Australia," Ferguson says. (Hmm?)
"The government is focused on improving labour supply especially in areas of high seasonal demand.
"We are working on streamlining 457 visa approvals for the tourism industry."
Baillie has other beefs about the problems of employing tourism staff in regional areas where he operates luxury lodges. Regional tourism operators are hampered by the lack of applicants for skilled and unskilled tourism jobs, retention and turnover is difficult and there is an "unsustainable wage structure".
Baillie says the cost and shortage of labour is reducing investment in regional Australia and is crippling the tourism industry, particularly in regional Australia.
"The award is city-focused and does not take into account that tourism takes place in regional and remote resorts," he says.
"If you are on an island in the Great Barrier Reef, does it matter if you work Saturday or Sunday or any day for that matter?
"Things are becoming more complicated and costing more at a time we can't afford it. The pay rates are really quite exorbitant.
"The cost of labour and complexity is become harder and harder.
"It's essential that the face of Australian tourism is still Australian, but it doesn't mean that the engine room behind the scenes can't be more efficiently staffed."
allenli@theaustralian.com.au (allenli@theaustralian.com.au%20)

Dapat na nating iwaksi ang ating mindset na kesyo naka abroad na ay bigtime na.

bigtime naman talaga, pero yan eh pag i compare mo sa local salaries dito. Pero it doesn't mean na pag "big time" ka hambambuhay na yon na ganon ka. have to think and invest in your future din. Ang bilis maubos ng pera pag di ka marunong mag ingat.

Big time nga sa labas pero pag sa labas mo rin gastusin yon eh tamang tama lang din siguro yon. Mataas nga sweldo sa labas pero mataas rin gastusin. Ok lang talaga na sa labas ng bansa trabaho mo tapos dito ka gastos o retire sa pinas:)

Totoo naman na big time na talaga sila kasi malaki na kinikita nila. Pero kapag baon ka naman sa utang tulad ng marami nating kababayan sa north america who suffered under this recent economic downturn, then you have nothing to brag about. Mortgage pa nga lang with an amortization of 30-45 yrs and a $500 grand debt is not a pride to brag about unless you make money out of it by buying and selling then get the profits. Its a huge investment when you utilize it, but living on it for your whole life means nothing for your pocket.

So do not expect too much from your expat friends or relatives. Only the deserving people have the rights to receive blessings. By all means you can help anyone you like to without forgetting your own welfare. We cannot just be stupid, unless if when its in a life or death situation that you have to give everything you got to someone who took care of you in your whole life and reward him or her with all your blessings (including your wealth).

one of the reason why we need to know how to invest in our future. we will never know what would it be like tommorow.

yes only deserving members of the family should be supported. ang dami kasi dyan tamad, mga walang pakinabang pero sinusuportahan pa rin ng mga relatives nila na OFW.

^^Yes very true. Laging magtatabi ng pera and need a lot of discipline and self control na wag wawaldasin ang savings, be smart.

Buying a house is i guess one of the quickest way to earn money for investment. First time buyers can sell their house around after 1-2 years and get like $100G profits depending how much the value of your home in the market.

^^ Depende din yan, but it's more appropriate for working couples.

If not OFWs can invest in mutual funds or government bonds. :)