NZ / Brit on his way to losing shirt
May 26th 2018, 8:11 pm
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Re: NZ / Brit on his way to losing shirt
Hi again, well you wouldn't believe it Trevor and Sheila flew back to the Philippines yesterday. The reason if you can believe it is that Sheila got into a facebook spat with other members of the barangay where her family live. Her mother won the election to become Kagawad in the Barangay and someone made a comment about the fathers past history as Baranguy Captain. Apparently after a typhoon Sheilas father instead of distributing corrugated iron to family's who had lost roofs etc in the storm kept it all himself. Then how he had begged not to be prosecuted by the incoming Capitaino. Messy messy. Anyway Sheila became very indignant at the slurs on her family and believes her family need her to sort these troublemakers out. She has contacted the Baranguy Captain and has organized a meeting to have these people prosecuted. Sheila is one of those people who loves to have lots of friends but always seems to end up with lots of enemies. The locals tell her she is arrogant because she is rich, little do they realize she is getting poorer every day. Her family by the way are saying nothing. Will be interesting to see if her dreams of people not saying negative things about her family on facebook can be enforced by the Baranguy. Initially Trevor was not going to go but he has accompanied her, I meanly suggested to my wife that while she was there she would put their section on the market but with Trevor there that possibility may not eventuate.
Jun 5th 2018, 7:52 pm
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Hi, well that was a fizzer, they were back in NZ on the 31st and supposedly everything has been sorted out. What a waste of time. Be interesting to see what happens if the mother begins the family tradition of sticking her nose in the community trough.
Jun 5th 2018, 11:35 pm
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Keep the posts coming. Makes good reading whilst P11 goes into hibernation.
Jun 6th 2018, 4:01 am
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Mikek1,
Just in case you are concerned...its all good here. Nothing to report worth reading.....hence no posts. Sorry to disappoint you!
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Just in case you are concerned...its all good here. Nothing to report worth reading.....hence no posts. Sorry to disappoint you!
Regards
Jun 6th 2018, 4:11 am
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P11,
Presume the pawnshops debts have been relinquished?
Presume the pawnshops debts have been relinquished?
Jun 6th 2018, 5:04 am
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mikeK1,
Nope. Will post something later. No more comments here from me. Don't wish to hijack this thread.
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Nope. Will post something later. No more comments here from me. Don't wish to hijack this thread.
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Jun 20th 2018, 4:40 pm
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Re: NZ / Brit on his way to losing shirt
Hi one and all, this is a little story of a Brit in NZ who met and married a very nice Filipina the only problem as in some cases the family comes first.
Just to keep it simple and anonymous we shall assign them Australian names perhaps Trevor and Sheila would be adequate.
Trev, who is still on a British passport came to NZ with his parents when he was a kid long before his wife was born. His dad after a time packed up and went back to Britain and Trev single till this episode started lived with mum.
Sheila was born a little more than 30 years after Trev, for the Philippines she came from a wealthy family at the time, her father was a Baranguy Captain for one term and obviously stole enough money from the community to get the family flush for the next few years.
Sheila went to train as a nurse in the Philippines and in 2010 was shipped to NZ to study on a student visa, not sure what it was because she still has no qualifications. Never mind.
Sheila according to her received 2000 peso per week pocket money, she was the youngest and obviously spoilt. She also had a sister working in England. When my wife qualified as a teacher and worked at a private school she used to get paid 3000 pesos a MONTH and out of that she had to pay for the children's supplies. To show the difference and put my wife on yet a higher pedestal I shall make some comparisons. My wife the oldest in the family used to go and stand in line outside a milk fish boning factory at night to collect a bag of fish bones which were given out to the poor. She was ridiculed because a teacher should not have to do that they thought. No one used to talk to her when she was poor but for the last 8 years she gets daily texts from her so called mates asking how she is, my wife never replies because she knows they will all ask to borrow money.
Anyway Sheila had a sweet upbringing and did not need to be shown how to spend money.
Trevor worked away in NZ doing different things and was living with his mum in a house he had purchased with her about 30 years previously.
Just to keep it simple and anonymous we shall assign them Australian names perhaps Trevor and Sheila would be adequate.
Trev, who is still on a British passport came to NZ with his parents when he was a kid long before his wife was born. His dad after a time packed up and went back to Britain and Trev single till this episode started lived with mum.
Sheila was born a little more than 30 years after Trev, for the Philippines she came from a wealthy family at the time, her father was a Baranguy Captain for one term and obviously stole enough money from the community to get the family flush for the next few years.
Sheila went to train as a nurse in the Philippines and in 2010 was shipped to NZ to study on a student visa, not sure what it was because she still has no qualifications. Never mind.
Sheila according to her received 2000 peso per week pocket money, she was the youngest and obviously spoilt. She also had a sister working in England. When my wife qualified as a teacher and worked at a private school she used to get paid 3000 pesos a MONTH and out of that she had to pay for the children's supplies. To show the difference and put my wife on yet a higher pedestal I shall make some comparisons. My wife the oldest in the family used to go and stand in line outside a milk fish boning factory at night to collect a bag of fish bones which were given out to the poor. She was ridiculed because a teacher should not have to do that they thought. No one used to talk to her when she was poor but for the last 8 years she gets daily texts from her so called mates asking how she is, my wife never replies because she knows they will all ask to borrow money.
Anyway Sheila had a sweet upbringing and did not need to be shown how to spend money.
Trevor worked away in NZ doing different things and was living with his mum in a house he had purchased with her about 30 years previously.
