Mike's Lucy

Nope. This is Ayala Mall Cebu.

Do want to get a new one or repair it?

That's Glorietta 4. There's also one in Parksquare beside SM Mall, it's a string of laptops there not sure if they repair laptops there. Also check Gilmore, along Aurora Blvd in New Manila, Quezon City. Another computer haven. Just take the train.

Hi. There is one in Ayala mall, I couldn't remember the name but it was located on the 3rd floor at the new wing with all the electronic shops. I had my laptop fixed there.

Has anyone tried rescheduling their biometrics? I am wondering if I could choose the date if I have it rescheduled. I heard about walk-ins as well but I want to know if anyone have tried doing it. Thanks guys.

for longer layovers like 10 to 12 hours, it's better to ride a train and roam around Tokyo...if you are adventurous.

Salamat Manang,

May I assume you only had a 2 hour layover? I know from prior experience that with short layovers, you may get escorted by a flight attendant to the waiting area for the next flight... My friend recently had a long 10 or 12 hour layover in Hong Kong, he took his family downtown to tour the sites...

Delta has a 2 hour layover price and a cheaper 11 hour price.

Thanks again for your input.

It was a 4 hour layover but it didn't feel like it because the time was so fast from transferring and looking for the gate plus at that time, there was a SARS breakout and we were checked before getting off the plane.

Salamat Manang,

May I assume you only had a 2 hour layover? I know from prior experience that with short layovers, you may get escorted by a flight attendant to the waiting area for the next flight... My friend recently had a long 10 or 12 hour layover in Hong Kong, he took his family downtown to tour the sites...

Delta has a 2 hour layover price and a cheaper 11 hour price.

Thanks again for your input.

Two years ago, on my way here I also had a layover in Japan but I did not deal any Japan Custom officials. The only thing I did was, transferred into another gate and had my ticket validated.

I don't think you're cheap. You are blinded or playing s_ _ _ _ d! How can you not know she is using you???? geee!!!

I hope this helps.

Filing for Japanese Police Clearance.

I WAS just expecting that she would act like a civilized person.. I didn't do anything to her. The no brainer here is treating your kababayan as your enemy. People who treat other people like that are just not civilized at all.

Merry Christmas to all.

Anyone here who have filed tourist visa for parents? My husband and I are planning to have my mom visit us here next year. I want to know how long it's going to take.

Thank you all.

Dami ang hindi mag-agree sa hubby mo. To prove it, i saw from the news that iphone-4 reservation was stopped due to system flooding. So many people wants to buy this iphone.

Am i too late for this thread? Hahaha im off today at walang magawa kaya balik VJ. Anyways, I have to agree with Rhea and personally i need an iphone or any phone where I can access the internet better esp while im at work.

So he can't file for k1 Visa...meaning, his only option is to wait until he is a US Citizen already?

I would like to apologize for posting this same topic in another forum.

Hello friends...

I would like to ask something with regard to my friend's situation. Her boyfriend is planning to petition her for fiancee visa but the problem is, he arrived here in the US with k1-visa and was divorced after 4 years of marriage. The divorced was granted this February if I'm not mistaken. Now, my question is, is he eligible to petition my friend for k1 visa already or he has to wait until he becomes a citizen? By the way, he was married to an American.

Thanks you.

Hello friends...

I would like to ask something with regard to my friend's situation. Her boyfriend is planning to petition her for fiancee visa but the problem is, he arrived here in the US with k1-visa and was divorced after 4 years of marriage. The divorced was granted this February if I'm not mistaken. Now, my question is, is he eligible to petition my friend for k1 visa already or he has to wait until he becomes a citizen? By the way, he was married to an American.

Thanks you.

REQUIREMENTS TO REPORT MARRIAGE

a) Accomplish Report of Marriage form.

- two (2) originals and three (3) photocopies

b) Original/certified true copy and four (4) photocopies of registered marriage

certificate.

c) Four (4) photocopies of Birth Certificate.

d) Two (2) photos each of applicant and her spouse (attach the photos to the original

Report of Marriage form before making photocopies).

e) For widowed applicant or spouse – four (4) photocopies of the deceased spouse's

Death Certificate

f) For annulled marriages - four (4) photocopies of annotated Marriage Contract or

Certificate of Registration and certified true copy of Court Order

g) For applicants with divorced spouse - four (4) photocopies of divorce decree

(If the spouse is former Filipino citizen, please submit four photocopies of

naturalization paper as proof that the spouse is a US citizen at the time of divorce)

h) Notarized Affidavit of Delayed Registration (marriage must be reported to the

Consulate within 12 months after the solemnization of marriage) – two (2) originals

and two (2) photocopies

i) Fee : $25.00 in money order or cashier’s check payable to the Philippine Consulate

General

j) Pre-paid return envelope

Hello everyone!!!

It's good to be back in here. It's been awhile since my last post and here i am again..ANyway, i just wanna know about what are the requirements for report of marriage in Philippines Consulate.Can somebody give me the list of requirements pls...It's gonna be our wedding anniversary next month and i think it is a must that we are going to report our marriage within 1 year of marriage.I need your response guys pls...

All the replies are appreciated.

I kinda figured a visa would be necessary to most places. Guess we will have to plan fairly early for any trips abroad.

Hi, I have a question and my searches here and google have turned up ambiguous, at best.

If we want to travel to the UK(or anywhere that allows Americans to enter without a visa), does my wife need to secure a travel visa or is the green card enough?

Thanks!

I am new to where I am working now and there is this guy that looks like a Filipino that I used to smile but changed my mind because he never smiled back and he was the employee of the month last month too. One day while I was in the break room with fellow Filipinos I asked.

Me: Is Ramon Filipino?

Pinay1: Oo bakit?

Me: He never smile, mahiyain ba or hindi talaga namamasin?

Pinay2: Hahaha, na notice mo din pala, hindi lang yan, if you try talking to him in Tagalog, he will never answer you back in Tagalog kahit nahihirapan na.

Me: Ay! Bakit naman sya ganyan?

Pinay1: Baka kongresman sya sa atin.

Me: Hehehehe

I do agree with the post below. I also believe that majority of the Filipinos who are now here in the US are not like what the OP is trying to imply mainly because Filipinos are molded with good values. Incase, you'll encounter hypocrites, just ignore them because hypocrites are everywhere.

You cannot please everybody its simple as that. It's either you deal with these type of people or scram. Let's just mind our own business and don't get carried away with our emotions. There's more important stuff to think about and minding other people's business is a waste of time. I've met some of these what you called hypocrite people but I didn't give a damn, as long as they're not hurting me and my family, I don't really give a $hit. Even back in Philippines, there's people like that so why we have to be so surprised? Tama nga sabi nila baka masabihan lang tayo na "Bakit ikaw ba nagpapalamon sa akin? Anong paki mo? Di lalo kalang ma upset! Peace!

My friend in Japan will be going there this coming June 23, 2010 to attend the 59th General Conference Session for Seventh-Day Adventist Church. She will be happy to know if any Filipino will attend the same event. Anyone?

Congratulations!

THE ESSENTIAL FILIPINO

discovering dreams

-

a British journalist breezed into manila

with an assignment to write

about ‘the essential Filipino’

he smiled confidently over his easy assignment

relishing the free tour as complementary reward

-

for three days, he ran around searching

he rejected the business district of makati

which reminded him of cold and calculating london

he went to historical places in intramuros

but saw only a glimpse of the past not the present

-

next he tried the native cuisine at market market

delicious yes, but nothing on the essential filipino

he was getting not only tired but also nervous

that he has not found his ‘easy’ story yet

time was running out, he had to go back in two days

-

he wasted the next day on inconsequential probes

into malls, churches, monuments

on his last day, he wrote his editor saying that

no one can possibly write about the essential filipino

in so short time, he asked for an extension

-

he was expecting a week, the editor was kind

but he was given only one lousy day extension

in desperation and panic, on his last day

he took a wild stab at marketplaces

in singalong, he sat on a curb too tired to think

-

then he realized his mistake

he was looking for places not people

the thought hit him like a terrorist’s bomb

the essential filipino was a person not a place

how stupid could he be, he thought

-

sitting on the curb in exasperation

he began looking at faces that passed by

he noticed a boy selling fishballs from a rolling cart

he had a torn shirt and was barefoot

what attracted him was not the fishballs

-

the boy gyrated like michael jackson

unmindful of the noisy crowd around him

the journalist approached him

noticing the earphones he wore

he instantly realized it was loud music

-

music that drowned the noise

and transported the boy into his inner garden

the journalist had to scream

in order to bring him back into the real world

the boy removed the earphones

-

*****************

-

JOURNALIST

Hey, what are you doing?

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BOY

Fishballs, sir, wanna buy?

-

JOURNALIST

Nice earphones, huh?

-

THE BOY GIVES THE EARPHONES TO THE JOURNALIST, WHO PUTS THEM ON. HE INSTANTLY REMOVES IT, ALMOST FALLING FROM THE DEFEANING ROCK MUSIC. THE BOY SMILES AND PUTS THEM BACK ON.

-

JOURNALIST

Hey, wait, we’re talking.

-

THE BOY REMOVES THE EARPHONES AND HANDS HIM THE TINY MP3 PLAYER FROM HIS POCKET. THE JOURNALIST EXAMINES IT.

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JOURNALIST

Where did you get this? This is expensive, first-class mp3 player with first-class earphones. They don’t match your air-conditioned shirt.

-

HE FLICKS THE HOLE IN HIS SHIRT.

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BOY

I saved income from selling fishballs for one whole year just to buy that. Nice huh?

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JOURNALIST

Why don’t you buy a new shirt and shoes?

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BOY

No need. Not important. Waste of hard earned money. Clothes don’t make me happy, only music.

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JOURNALIST

You kill yourself selling fishballs the whole day for a year just to buy those?

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BOY

Why not? What would you buy? What is your dream? Me, this is my dream, but it is no longer a dream. It’s real now. I don’t need shirts and shoes, just a dream of dancing to music. What is your dream anyway?

-

AT FIRST, THE JOURNALIST IS AT A LOSS FOR WORDS BECAUSE HE REALLY HAS NO ‘DREAM’ IN MIND, OR PERHAPS HIS DREAM IS TO FILE A STORY, THAT IS ALL, BUT THAT IS NOT REALLY A ‘DREAM’. A DREAM MUST BE SPIRITUAL AND FOREVER, AS IMPLIED IN THE BOY’S WORDS.

-

JOURNALIST

I guess I have no dream. Or yes I have a dream but it is not a good dream.

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BOY

Too bad. You must be very sad. Buy yourself an mp3.

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JOURNALIST

But that is not my dream.

-

BOY

So what is your real dream. There must be something you really really like.

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JOURNALIST

I have been working so hard to survive that I forget what I really really like. My life is work work work.

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BOY

But I also work work work. You must find your true dream and go for it.

-

******************

-

and so the british journalist

was beginning to discern the essential filipino

he was amazed how in his dire poverty

the boy rejected the very materialism

that was gradually destroying affluent society

-

the essential filipino was a free spirit

who was poor and happy all at once

perhaps it came from his insular environment

or from his distant past, his austronesian roots

of nomads in tiny boats roaming the vast seas

-

the journalist took out a notebook

and started writing frantically

the boy peered into his writing, trying to read

and said aloud ‘essential filipino … free spirit

spiritual dreams … nomadic boat people …

-

*****************

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BOY

(Grabbing the notebook.) I know this is your dream. You just don’t know it. What you write here is your dream.

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JOURNALIST

(Stunned at the boy’s perception.) I … I … I guess so.

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BOY

It is not a guess. You know it. Once you know your dream, you must go for it, or else you will be very sad and soon you will die because you know you have no more reason to live for. You must go for a dream or die. You cannot live just to live, can you?

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JOURNALIST

Guess not. Thank you for telling me my dream.

-

ALMOST IN TEARS, THE JOURNALIST HUGS THE BOY AND GIVES HIM A HUNDRED PESO BILL. THE BOY IS STUNNED.

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BOY

What for?

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JOURNALIST

Because you help me find my dream that was right in front of my nose all this while.

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BOY

Yes, you cannot see things that are too near. You have to move back to see.

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JOURNALIST

Go, buy yourself more music.

-

**********************

-

it took thirty minutes for the journalist

to write his story at his hotel

in ten electronic milliseconds

the story was at the editor’s desk

the editor replied

-

‘this is the best story yet for a long time

our staff writers write about absurd things

what you wrote is an important wisdom

for the affluent world from the impoverished world

stay there for a month and write me more’

-

the journalist had a field day

his dream, like the boy, was now a reality

he would hang around with street vendors

later, he moved to the countryside

and wrote about the wisdom of farmers and fishermen

-

he immersed himself in the essential filipino

poor, happy, equipped with a different kind of wisdom

unknown in the affluent world

he married a kalinga native and wrote a book

a best seller entitled ‘discovering dreams’

-

it was a poorlittlerichboy

selling sticks of fishballs for six US cents each

which ignited his soul

the essential filipino whose ancient wisdom

was hard to find in civilized places he knew

-

eastwind

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_________________________________________

where goodness abounds

there also is evil lurking

to sow confusion and hatred

-

where evil abounds

there also is virtue lurking

to sow harmony and peace

-

the tension between good and evil is everywhere

we perpetrate one or the other

the destiny of the world is up to each of us

-

_________________________________________

mahatma gandhi’s principle of non-violence

revolves around the concept that –

-

peace is a more powerful weapon than war

a smile is more powerful than a sneer

a whisper is louder than a scream

the calm is in the eye of the storm

and total darkness recedes

when a single candlelight glows

-

_________________________________________

we pedestal great men, creating semi-gods

like michael jackson and john lennon

not knowing the fame and fortune we bestow

would devour their spirits and consume them totally

-

of what use is the tall pedestal

men tell us to scale

when we would grow into giants

and fall with a resounding crash

-

better to be a happy unknown ant

than a sad noted giant

there is virtue in anonymity

and folly in popularity

congrats

My husband went food shopping alone yesterday and when he came back, I asked him why he didn't call me while he was still in the car so I could have went down and helped him carry the bags. He replied, there is one more left outside go get it. I went outside and saw the flowers....I was surprised because I wasn't really expecting him to give me anything for valentines. ( I know he loves me but he is not the type who sends flowers or anything for any occasions). I love him very, very much.