Quote Originally Posted by maria_and_matt View Post
sounds like a good idea but i have learnt that not everybody is as nice and as pleasant as the majority... you sometimes get characters that seem ok on the outside but not so good on the inside...
i also find that most pinays here especially where i live are so jealous of others.. they seem to always be in competition with what others have.. and i do not get that.. lets say if this pinay got a 3 bedroom house the others would say well i got a 4 bedroom house! this pinay gota new car, others would start a gossip that well she owes a lot of money! i mean for crying out loud what cant we just mind our own business and be happy for what our fellow pinay have.
just an example i was walking my dog and bumped into 'old pinay friends' they asked me where i worked and i said i dont, the reply was 'so ano gawa mo nagpapalaki ka na lng ng puke mo?' (please let ur wives translate this i cannot even find the right words to use!) and i went on to say that last year when i was actively looking for a part time job they circulated rumours that we are having financial difficulties...

all in all i think that i am still lucky with my hubby and son.. that maybe i think my husband is boring and he is a miserable git no doubt about that, but he loves me, he gives me everything and for that i am truly thankful for. most of this is just culture differences. i stay here coz i love them, i just hope he knows what i have given up to be here with them.

for all you brits love your pinay wives, we have given up so much to be here with you. merry xmas to all, i hope that we all have a blessed one!
I understand what you mean Maria. Please don’t be offended as I can feel you are affected by dangerous and disgusting Filipinas around. I also feel what you feel when they giving bad comments about what we doing. I did receive bad comments too! I was just helping a friend to look after her other kid, and was told I am just a baby sitter. And when I started to go to college last year, I was told it’s impossible because we live in a village that far from college. What the h*ll is wrong with them?, I’m old and still studying they said. Gosh! I have 65 year old classmates. When I booked my flight, they started to be more jealous. Hay buhay!!! Since then I feel my enemies cannot hurt me but my friends will kill me so I started to dump them and move on without them. Since then I am aware with Filipinas but I always stay friendly with them. Say hi! Hello if I meet them anywhere as still they are my kababayans. But never will I’ll be affected with those kind of Filipina as I consider my Mom-in-law as my best friend and some lovely pinays close here. I just don’t know why young generations acts and feel they are rich when they step down UK soil. How many times they mentioned that I have no home. Nakikitira lang! But they don’t realized their house is council house and renting and my husband also pays my Mom weekly. They just even told me to get all my husband earnings like what they’re doing. But why they cannot afford to fly and go for a holidays if they have all their husband’s earnings?

Oh boy oh dear! Really hard to find a genuine friend in UK.
Just be brave Maria, having a loving son and a loving husband is great.
Just hello to them and give them smile. Tell them straight what you think is right.

Ring Ate Ping if you need to talk to mature, straight to the point pinay. Mature in sense of principles not mature in age.