Pasalubong
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Re: Retiring To Sipalay
Originally Posted by scot47
(Post 11731161)
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Re: Retiring To Sipalay
Originally Posted by Gazza-d
(Post 11731358)
When we visit we probably have more pasalubong than clothes, and probably nearly as much comming back home again.
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Re: Retiring To Sipalay
Originally Posted by Stokkevn
(Post 11731384)
When we used to come for 6 weeks winter holiday, I used to find upon arrival my compliment of shorts, tee-shirts and undies were reduced to a couple of pairs. These had been replaced by everything from second hand mobiles to kids toys and usual gadgets/boys toys, not that I really minded except XL UK size is not quite the same as XL Philippine size. Returning to the UK was all 4 bags fitted into 1 hand carry bag along with the obligatory 2kg of dried fish.
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Re: Retiring To Sipalay
Originally Posted by Gazza-d
(Post 11731388)
Yes when we return home our cases are like a russian doll, one inside the other. Most of my clothes have been given away, including my mobile phone. :lol:
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Re: Retiring To Sipalay
Originally Posted by Stokkevn
(Post 11731393)
I can only assume your wife's family is related to my wife's family.
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Re: Retiring To Sipalay
Originally Posted by Gazza-d
(Post 11731395)
The way they seem to work our relations I think they must all be related.
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Re: Retiring To Sipalay
Not sure why the post on Pasalubong has been posted here. Thought it was relevant to my topic Retiring in Sipalay but cannot see the connection. Maybe there is. Would be better served as a separate topic.
All good here! Regards All Pete M |
Re: Retiring To Sipalay
Originally Posted by springsteen11
(Post 11732134)
Not sure why the post on Pasalubong has been posted here. Thought it was relevant to my topic Retiring in Sipalay but cannot see the connection. Maybe there is. Would be better served as a separate topic.
All good here! Regards All Pete M As you wish . I have moved the posts into a thread of their own. |
Re: Pasalubong
I posted it because I thought it provides an insight into cultural differences and what is expected of people in a Filipino extended family. Marrying a Filipina means getting into a tangled web of extended family relationships.
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Re: Pasalubong
Originally Posted by scot47
(Post 11732398)
Marrying a Filipina means getting into a tangled web of extended family relationships.
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Re: Pasalubong
I am visiting the northern Philippines with my Filipina gf for a month over Christmas and will be staying with her mother and three twenty something children. I am sure she will take lots of presents but wonder whether I ought to make separate gifts of my own. By then the relationship will be four or five months old.
As a second question I have had the thought that my gf and I might take a week long holiday away from her family in some resort in that part of the islands. Am I right to think that the coast of Cagayan is the area to look or are there holiday resorts scattered about? Also I wonder if taking her away from her family for a time would be regarded negatively? |
Re: Pasalubong
Originally Posted by johnlisbon
(Post 11757796)
I am visiting the northern Philippines with my Filipina gf for a month over Christmas and will be staying with her mother and three twenty something children. I am sure she will take lots of presents but wonder whether I ought to make separate gifts of my own. By then the relationship will be four or five months old.
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Re: Pasalubong
Thanks.
That sounds like a good, practical idea - and rather splendidly undemanding (I am pretty awful at present buying). |
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