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Forum: Philippines
Oct 4th 2019, 8:30 am
Replies: 153
Views: 27,412
Posted By kompani101

Re: Oddities in the Philippines

I worked for a very large American engineering company for 30 years, they had industrial valves and parts manufactred in the US, Mexico, Germany and Italy, often compatibility and choosing the...
Forum: Philippines
Oct 3rd 2019, 8:59 am
Replies: 153
Views: 27,412
Posted By kompani101

Re: Oddities in the Philippines

The plumbing problem is they assume 1" is the same as 25mm, it isn't (it's 25.4mm), so they interchange metric and imperial pipe fittings and label them incorrectly. Last week we measured the...
Forum: Philippines
Sep 13th 2018, 8:09 am
Replies: 20
Views: 2,727
Posted By kompani101

Re: Rain

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/britishexpats.com-vbulletin/1311x635/windy_3fcd37657cf7b81c9b79e88c5d8a3223e8dd97a1.jpg

Screen grab showing Windy.com on my laptop.
For checking the weather I find -...
Forum: Philippines
Aug 8th 2018, 11:14 am
Replies: 31
Views: 5,714
Posted By kompani101

Re: Driving/Riding in the Philippines

I didn't know the number of hours logged with a driving instructor were checked by the LTO, this is not mentioned anywhere, I am now worried as I have done all the instruction so we have no logged...
Forum: Philippines
Aug 8th 2018, 11:09 am
Replies: 31
Views: 5,714
Posted By kompani101

Re: Driving/Riding in the Philippines

I didn't know the number of hours logged with a driving instructor were checked by the LTO, this is not mentioned anywhere, I am now worried as I have done all the instruction so we have no logged...
Forum: Philippines
Aug 8th 2018, 11:06 am
Replies: 31
Views: 5,714
Posted By kompani101

Re: Driving/Riding in the Philippines

We live just outside Roxas City, on the coast near Panay Town, so will be using the LTO at Roxas for the written and practical test. I've given all three a go in the car and because they have used...
Forum: Philippines
Aug 8th 2018, 10:16 am
Replies: 31
Views: 5,714
Posted By kompani101

Re: Driving/Riding in the Philippines

I am the only car driver in our household so have embarked on teaching our daughters, aged 19 & 18 plus my wife to drive our SUV. To safeguard my sanity I am teaching them one at a time, starting...
Forum: Philippines
Jun 25th 2018, 8:28 am
Replies: 4
Views: 745
Posted By kompani101

Re: Free Education??

We had, until this year, two daughters in High School and would regularly get letters begging for money for classroom fans etc. They invoked God etc, always in very poor English and signed personally...
Forum: Philippines
Jun 22nd 2018, 7:19 am
Replies: 35
Views: 3,181
Posted By kompani101

Re: Moving to the phillpines.

13a VISA - RESIDENCE VISA - PROBATIONARY
(Guide Only - Check With Local BI Office)

2 x Copies of application form.

1 x Copy of General Instructions.

BI Clearance not required - Check...
Forum: Philippines
Jun 21st 2018, 7:25 am
Replies: 2
Views: 653
Posted By kompani101

Re: Ordering PSA From Abroad

Welcome to Filipino world beating incompetence and world class customer service. If possible you need to speak to an official face to face and find a solution. In the meantime you can try telephoning...
Forum: Philippines
Jun 21st 2018, 7:15 am
Replies: 25
Views: 1,795
Posted By kompani101

Re: PhilSys-Philippine Systems-How Do You Feel About It?

I have to admit total ignorance of this new ID system. As I'm still only a visitor/tourist until a month or so when I apply for my 13a Residents Visa I assume it does not apply to me.
Forum: Philippines
May 6th 2018, 7:24 am
Replies: 10
Views: 865
Posted By kompani101

Re: Local Elections

So far our Barangay elections have been very civilised with minimum fuss.
Last year we borrowed my brother-in-law's huge sound system, pointed it to the village and basically drowned them out for a...
Forum: Philippines
Apr 29th 2018, 7:47 am
Replies: 8
Views: 968
Posted By kompani101

Re: Yahoo

If you use a mail reader such as Mozilla Thunderbird (for Windows) or Blue Mail (for Android) you can read all your email from one point and sometimes they can read / write to Yahoo when you can't...
Forum: Philippines
Feb 22nd 2018, 5:40 am
Replies: 5,897
Views: 970,770
Posted By kompani101

Re: Me and My Family

We live in a fishing village and have, generally, good neighbours. Yesterday we had to lower our bamboo mast we use for broadband to add another LTE transceiver. 5 villagers helped as the mast is...
Forum: Philippines
Feb 20th 2018, 12:56 pm
Replies: 5,897
Views: 970,770
Posted By kompani101

Re: Me and My Family

I have tried to help people less fortunate than myself. I have put a Cambodian and Indian through school and college and now help my local village but mainly through practical means rather than cash...
Forum: Philippines
Feb 20th 2018, 8:26 am
Replies: 5,897
Views: 970,770
Posted By kompani101

Re: Me and My Family

I use PNB (Philippines National Bank) they have 2 branches in London. Money can be paid into the London branch via cash/cheque/direct bank transfer etc, and it is converted to PHP and transferred...
Forum: Philippines
Feb 20th 2018, 8:11 am
Replies: 2
Views: 778
Posted By kompani101

Re: Kids - Points for Pera

That sounds like an excellent scheme. We sponsor the village basketball team shirts. A few weeks ago we had a great chat with a mid 20's school teacher living in the village and doing a distance...
Forum: Philippines
Feb 17th 2018, 7:21 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,027
Posted By kompani101

Re: Chinese smartphones

I hope anyone tracking me or listening to my mobile chat enjoy themselves with my coming to terms with life in the Philippines and often communicating bollocks in a Lancashire accent :-)
PS. If it's...
Forum: Philippines
Feb 17th 2018, 12:18 am
Replies: 38
Views: 7,651
Posted By kompani101

Re: Amusing Notices

Seen on the entrance gate to the large non Catholic cemetery in Roxas City;

PROMO PLOTS FOR SALE.

Perhaps buy one get one free?
Forum: Philippines
Jan 22nd 2018, 7:59 am
Replies: 38
Views: 7,651
Posted By kompani101

Re: Amusing Notices

I live near Roxas City and do the Kalibo run every couple of months and the signage is atrocious, when there is any. Lanes of the road just end in a 600mm drop, no warning signs. I kept noticing...
Forum: Philippines
Dec 28th 2017, 8:49 am
Replies: 2
Views: 1,014
Posted By kompani101

Re: Christmas in England

A nice few pints of draft beer, one lunchtime between Christmas and New Year, sat in front of a log fire while reading a good detective novel.
Forum: Philippines
Dec 23rd 2017, 3:52 am
Replies: 30
Views: 4,560
Posted By kompani101

Re: Things Could be Looking Up

I think that is the crux of the issue. If PLDT retain control over capacity, its distribution and wholesale pricing then there will probably be 3 almost identical retailers providing bad service, low...
Forum: Philippines
Dec 21st 2017, 10:54 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 4,560
Posted By kompani101

Re: Things Could be Looking Up

We had both Smart & Globe LTE wireless broadband in our house until recently. They used separate towers in separate towns near us but they performed almost identical for speed, rising and falling at...
Forum: Philippines
Dec 20th 2017, 10:05 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 4,560
Posted By kompani101

Re: Things Could be Looking Up

Our village has no telephone lines so we are reliant on LTE wireless connection for our broadband. We have two PLDT/Smart Home_Ultera systems, capped at the max 70GB per month at up to 10mbs but...
Forum: Philippines
Dec 16th 2017, 1:02 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 2,545
Posted By kompani101

Re: Reminders of Britain

Hearing the wind whistling through our gaps in windows and doors plus the rain beating on our tin roof reminds me of childhood holidays spent in my grandparents caravan near the sea front in...
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