Darkside

[pennybarry]

No way pen, not acceptable that manila is slums....

Definitely no.. The subject matter is about call center to transfer to Manila so they should have shown pictures of the business districts like Ortigas Avenue or Meralco Ave, in Pasig City; Ayala Avenue, Makati City; Libis, Quezon City. etc etc. They don't have call centres in the slum areas, quite sure of that....
When i first came here i was asked by a filipina where do i hold office back home. I answered at the PSEC 9th flr. She was surprised and said never thought of it. Huh! lucky enough to work in a bldg of just 33 floors...
What does she thinks of Manila?

Great! I accept that Manila has slums but I believed that not all living in slums are living in poverty I have a friend who lives in a slum in Makati and she is a bank executive. I am sure she can afford to pay rent for better house but I discovered why she chose to live there.

Free Electricity and water. No meter at all they have health card for free medication in Makati Medical Centre. Sosyal!

I asked where's the water came from, there's secret pipe coming from underground and so as electricity. It was built decades ago. Electric bill is the most expensive bills for every family in Pinas as it is monopolized by only Lopez so they chosse to live there even the place were burned for few times.

P&P + Sophie + Tawi2 = Darkside !!!! lol what happened to this thread!!!!

From Slums to Corn Fields

Well, That always happened in many threads!!! As long as they're happy, be it!! I don't rant and moan for that

The photo was a stock photo, it had nothing to do with putting off the workers. (this has been said many times on this thread...)

If the workers were transfered (which isn't going to happen anyway) they wouldn't be paid UK wages for long as they would either be downgraded to local wages or more likely got rid of.

Ok ! but they must be paid redundancy as it is too hard to start again in a different place. I am sure not all filipinos working there were not came from Makati.

They need money for a better start!

[Pepe n Pilar]

Great! I accept that Manila has slums but I believed that not all living in slums are living in poverty I have a friend who lives in a slum in Makati and she is a bank executive. I am sure she can afford to pay rent for better house but I discovered why she chose to live there.

Free Electricity and water. No meter at all they have health card for free medication in Makati Medical Centre. Sosyal!

I asked where's the water came from, there's secret pipe coming from underground and so as electricity. It was built decades ago. Electric bill is the most expensive bills for every family in Pinas as it is monopolized by only Lopez so they chosse to live there even the place were burned for few times.

Hi Penny,

A bank executive living in slums? I guess a bank executive in the Phils has so much benefits like they can avail of housing loan and car loan at low interest rates, a sack of rice among many others. Some banks offers quarterly if not semi-annual bonuses, performance bonuses, dividends, group insurances, etc etc. Why does your friend prefer to live in slums? Is the slum you're referring to the same as the one in the picture?

Free electricy and water? No meter at all? Is that legal? A secret pipe?? that is cheating!!!

About health cards, i have heard from some pinoys that almost all of the municipalities offer this card to their residents(may they be rich or poor). So every resident is entitled to have this and use it for free and/or avail of discounts in the hospitals or centres within their municipality. So if one is a Makati resident he/she can have one and use that at Makati Medical Center. Likewise a resident of Mandaluyong City, etc etc.

[Tawi2]

Mandaluyong P&P Inside or out The theft of electricity is widespread in Pinas,I was in toril a few months ago and a policeman was telling me the previous night they had caught three guys attemtping to tap into a beach resorts power

[Pepe n Pilar]

Mandaluyong P&P Inside or out The theft of electricity is widespread in Pinas,I was in toril a few months ago and a policeman was telling me the previous night they had caught three guys attemtping to tap into a beach resorts power

Hi Tawi2,
I'm referring to residents of a certain Municipality that can avail of the health cards hence i mentioned Makati and Mandaluyong as examples. Greenhills, White Plains Subdivision are villages in Mandaluyong as well. Yeah, i know there is a joke in the Phils once you mention the word Mandaluyong they always ask " Is it inside or outside" meaning is it inside the prison or outside?"....

[Tawi2]

You got the Joke P&PIts the mental Hospital at Mandaluyong,its an automatic response as soon as someone says they are from Mandaluyong to ask "Inside or out?"

[Pepe n Pilar]

You got the Joke P&PIts the mental Hospital at Mandaluyong,its an automatic response as soon as someone says they are from Mandaluyong to ask "Inside or out?"

yeah, why do you know all of these stuffs Tawi2? ... Were you married to a filipina before? or just got married? or are you making a documentary film of this lovely country? You know almost everything from the different dialects spoken in every region to filipino delicacies to amazing sceneries found in all corners of the archipelago..


Cheers!

[Tawi2]

I guess I am just inquisitive and nosy I have similar interests in a few other countries

[pennybarry]

Hi Penny,

A bank executive living in slums? I guess a bank executive in the Phils has so much benefits like they can avail of housing loan and car loan at low interest rates, a sack of rice among many others. Some banks offers quarterly if not semi-annual bonuses, performance bonuses, dividends, group insurances, etc etc. Why does your friend prefer to live in slums? Is the slum you're referring to the same as the one in the picture?

Free electricy and water? No meter at all? Is that legal? A secret pipe?? that is cheating!!!

About health cards, i have heard from some pinoys that almost all of the municipalities offer this card to their residents(may they be rich or poor). So every resident is entitled to have this and use it for free and/or avail of discounts in the hospitals or centres within their municipality. So if one is a Makati resident he/she can have one and use that at Makati Medical Center. Likewise a resident of Mandaluyong City, etc etc.

They live there for almost 40 years and her parents live there before. The place is bit better than the photo.
She's not interested in any loan.
The pipe in the whole street was there for decades. Maybe that's why there were arsonists burned the whole street. To clean the place and build a tenement style but residents didn't agree.

Not sure if rich can avail free hospitalization. We have also a hospital in our place but only poor/no income can avail. Senior Citizens can also avail free hospitalization and discounted medicine.

Mandaluyong P&P Inside or out The theft of electricity is widespread in Pinas,I was in toril a few months ago and a policeman was telling me the previous night they had caught three guys attemtping to tap into a beach resorts power

Yes, there are! Tapping and nicking live wire from the posts
Even the broadband cable from the posts. I have experienced a week without income from my shop because the PLDT cables were stolen from the posts from nearby town. It took a week to replace the cable.

yeah, why do you know all of these stuffs Tawi2? ... Were you married to a filipina before? or just got married? or are you making a documentary film of this lovely country? You know almost everything from the different dialects spoken in every region to filipino delicacies to amazing sceneries found in all corners of the archipelago..


Cheers!

I doubt Tawi's blood is 50% pinoy

[vbkelly]

You got the Joke P&PIts the mental Hospital at Mandaluyong,its an automatic response as soon as someone says they are from Mandaluyong to ask "Inside or out?"

tawi2 im from inside of mandaluyong hehe bcoz outside is San juan or Makati or pasig or SAnta Ana Punta lol

[Tawi2]

Sakto na tubag VB

p&p,I watched that program Manila to Mindanao,I actually had tears in my eyes when I saw the anguish of that girl determined not to follow the steps of her mother,and you know something?There are slums right here in the UK,I used to live in one as a kid,thankfully its flattened now,bulldozed to the ground