Originally posted by peterdavid@Jun 19 2005, 06:53 PM
....do you think you'll miss the Philippines when Gina is here....?
Are you meeting her at the airport, or flying back out again?
What are you planning to do together once she's here (apart from the obvious)?
Think you'll miss the regular flights around the world?
haha, good questions ! well I wont be flying back to the Philippines in the short term, nothing for me now to go for, considering that I started dating Gina on October 23rd 2003, I have been on 6 different trips, totalling around £18,000 in cost, time seems to have gone so slow wiating for the different stages, I suppoee really when I look back, I am not at the end of the beginning of our life together, of course as you know with these type of relationships, they are so different, in that there are stages to go through that most couples never have to undertake, just having to apply to bring your girl to your own country is something you never would have had to do, 20 years ago.
Sadly as the Act was repealed in 1988 forcng no automatic right of entry for spouses, has brought on so much inconveience for many of us.
I will probably miss the flights to the Philippines,and the regular holidays every 9-10 weeks or so, although, the other down side of that is it eats up my spare money, and I cant of course progress, because I keep spending money on going to the Philippines.
As for Gina coming here, I think it will be nice, you know how it is, its no fun on your own, and living on your own for weeks on end, with no interaction, I sometimes look out in the community I live and see other couples going out for the day, and know soon that this will be in about 3 weeks.
I know some of you who look back now that you have your wife with you, and wonder what all the fuss was about, since it seems so far back, such is the passage of time when you are finally together, I know this because I met a guy on a Gulf Air Flight from Oman, who had been married to a Filipina for over 15 years, and remembers what it was like way way back when he went througha similar story to me, he said when you look back "it was like a blip on your life togther, although at first it seems to go on forever"
I think When Gina finally lands here it will be a big day for me, I was planning to fly back and collect Gina and fly back with her, but i have shelved that plan now, as their is no need to do that, the plan now is to let her fly to Heathrow, and I will meet her at arrivals hall, considering i went down to Heathrow this morning to collect my freind Steve who has jus arrived in from Manila, (poor Steve, kept waiting and waiting and waiting for BRITISH EMBASSY to get of their arses, cannot wait any longer, and has had the definate maybe promise that they will look at his wife's tourist visa application by Wednesday next week) I felt some kind of sympathy with him when he arrived this morning.)
So I will be the one to go back to the aiport and collect her, that will be a great day for me as you all know what that is like.
As for Plans ? and what we will do, well thought I Would follow some of my own advice and get her settled in, but hopefully as Gina arrives she will be here in time for the Barrio Festival, Gina is by profession a Phlebotomist (stop LOL you buggers up in Sheffield) I have contacted an agency in Essex, who said that they will be most likely to place her in a salaried position, when she arrives, and I think getting her straight out to work after a brief settling in period will be a good move, stop her being at home getting homesick.
Then we will be most likely working towards a return visit, probabl we will spend Christmas in the Philippines, for one thing its cheaper than here in the UK, hotels, food taxis etc, and then its into the unknown of 2006, not quite sure there, but we do want to buy a house togther, long term plans of course inlcude building a house in the Philippines.
But I cant think of much else as we speak Peter, guess thats it for now.
