<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style> Hello to all out there in Trike land of wounder, beauty and serenity.
I registered in this group a while back. I thought I had posted a new member hello before this but I looked back in the files and I guess I didn't save it or something went wrong with Windows (again). This is a big problem with Windows and only one of the reasons I just converted over to Linux for my laptop. I'm using Zorin 9 core and man it is sweet and easy to use. I guarantee you I will never go back to Windows again.
Okay about me. I am married to a very Beautiful and tiny little filipina lady and we live in the Philippines in Ormoc City, Leyte but we are preparing to move to the US. I can't take it here any more. I've been here now over 7 years. In the beginning thought it would be Paradise here but nope. There isn't even a McDonald’s here. There are no auto dealerships or any auto parts stores! There are only TV stores, banks, two department stores, three food stores and bunches of small 115 to 150cc bike stores representing every brand you can think of and then some more I never heard of. Everyone has one because that's all you can get here you never see a big bike here. I can't wait to get home to Oroville, CA and start building my Trike.
There are many things that have prevented me from going home. Such as about five years ago I bought some land with an unfinished home on it. I started to add a small extension to the house and finish it out the way my wife and I wanted but ran into problems with the contractor and his workers. If you try to show them they are doing something the wrong way they will just look at you and act like they don't understand English and smile at you then continue doing what they were doing. If you approach them again they will just quit the job by simply not showing up for work any more without tellin you anything. If this happens two or three times it will give you the reputation as a hard one to work for and makes it very hard to get replacements. This is why it took so long to build our house. Their slow pace in doing things with their building practices being so crazy caused so much extra labor it ate me up. Their labor cost is so small you would think this is great but they are so slow and the breaks and long lunches and having to do it over again along with the very high cost of goods here is why it cost so much to build. Also you have to factor in the taking advantage factor. If you are a foreigner you pay double or triple the regular cost. The reason for that is they think that because you have the dollar and it is 44 times bigger than the peso so you are so rich. So you if you are rich you can afford to pay more and that is how they think without any regrets, shame or remorse at all.
Okay enough of that. After the house was built the biggest typhoon in the worlds history hit us directly dead center like shooting at a bulls eye and almost flattened our house, it blew our furniture to somewhere I don't know where, caused P120,000 pesos damage to our cars and gave me double phenomena. I wound up in the hospital and spent 5 days in intensive care. I came so close to dieing it wasn't funny. Any way after that our niece had a burst appendix, bless her heart she was only six years old and no one would help her, not even the doctors. They would have let her die if I didn't step in to help. She had two different surgeries within a week and spent a little over a month in intensive care to get better. That all cost me almost P2,000,000.00 pesos.
My wife and I are now living in a boarding house now in a small room to our self that is about half the size of a cheep motel room but we share the bathroom with others. This is a place for college students but we are trying our best to pay off the debit it cost us for all of our expenses for all that we been through in the past 18 months including all I just told you about. I am also trying to pay for the cost to migrate my wife to the USA so we can live there and get out of this hell hole place of sorrow, struggle and sacrifice just to be able to wake up in the morning and see the sun again. I figure it may take us between 2 to 5 years to get it all done and out of here.
Remember I am a 67 year old disabled retired man that has a fixed income that is lower than the poverty level there in the USA, another reason I came here in the first place. I have a piece of land there in Oroville CA with an old 1984 Champion Titian motor home that needs so much work on it, it is almost silly to try and repair it to a point we can live in it. I may have to mortgage the land and put a small modular home on it to live in. I really don't want to do that because then I will have a big payment to deal with every month for the next 30 years on it.
Okay now you know everything about me. I hope I didn't boar you to much.
By for now, Ta Da
JwwpapaorDaddyJohn
I registered in this group a while back. I thought I had posted a new member hello before this but I looked back in the files and I guess I didn't save it or something went wrong with Windows (again). This is a big problem with Windows and only one of the reasons I just converted over to Linux for my laptop. I'm using Zorin 9 core and man it is sweet and easy to use. I guarantee you I will never go back to Windows again.
Okay about me. I am married to a very Beautiful and tiny little filipina lady and we live in the Philippines in Ormoc City, Leyte but we are preparing to move to the US. I can't take it here any more. I've been here now over 7 years. In the beginning thought it would be Paradise here but nope. There isn't even a McDonald’s here. There are no auto dealerships or any auto parts stores! There are only TV stores, banks, two department stores, three food stores and bunches of small 115 to 150cc bike stores representing every brand you can think of and then some more I never heard of. Everyone has one because that's all you can get here you never see a big bike here. I can't wait to get home to Oroville, CA and start building my Trike.
There are many things that have prevented me from going home. Such as about five years ago I bought some land with an unfinished home on it. I started to add a small extension to the house and finish it out the way my wife and I wanted but ran into problems with the contractor and his workers. If you try to show them they are doing something the wrong way they will just look at you and act like they don't understand English and smile at you then continue doing what they were doing. If you approach them again they will just quit the job by simply not showing up for work any more without tellin you anything. If this happens two or three times it will give you the reputation as a hard one to work for and makes it very hard to get replacements. This is why it took so long to build our house. Their slow pace in doing things with their building practices being so crazy caused so much extra labor it ate me up. Their labor cost is so small you would think this is great but they are so slow and the breaks and long lunches and having to do it over again along with the very high cost of goods here is why it cost so much to build. Also you have to factor in the taking advantage factor. If you are a foreigner you pay double or triple the regular cost. The reason for that is they think that because you have the dollar and it is 44 times bigger than the peso so you are so rich. So you if you are rich you can afford to pay more and that is how they think without any regrets, shame or remorse at all.
Okay enough of that. After the house was built the biggest typhoon in the worlds history hit us directly dead center like shooting at a bulls eye and almost flattened our house, it blew our furniture to somewhere I don't know where, caused P120,000 pesos damage to our cars and gave me double phenomena. I wound up in the hospital and spent 5 days in intensive care. I came so close to dieing it wasn't funny. Any way after that our niece had a burst appendix, bless her heart she was only six years old and no one would help her, not even the doctors. They would have let her die if I didn't step in to help. She had two different surgeries within a week and spent a little over a month in intensive care to get better. That all cost me almost P2,000,000.00 pesos.
My wife and I are now living in a boarding house now in a small room to our self that is about half the size of a cheep motel room but we share the bathroom with others. This is a place for college students but we are trying our best to pay off the debit it cost us for all of our expenses for all that we been through in the past 18 months including all I just told you about. I am also trying to pay for the cost to migrate my wife to the USA so we can live there and get out of this hell hole place of sorrow, struggle and sacrifice just to be able to wake up in the morning and see the sun again. I figure it may take us between 2 to 5 years to get it all done and out of here.
Remember I am a 67 year old disabled retired man that has a fixed income that is lower than the poverty level there in the USA, another reason I came here in the first place. I have a piece of land there in Oroville CA with an old 1984 Champion Titian motor home that needs so much work on it, it is almost silly to try and repair it to a point we can live in it. I may have to mortgage the land and put a small modular home on it to live in. I really don't want to do that because then I will have a big payment to deal with every month for the next 30 years on it.
Okay now you know everything about me. I hope I didn't boar you to much.
By for now, Ta Da
JwwpapaorDaddyJohn
