Our conversation then went on to the girls before and now. I’m meaning to say about the girls that was brought up way before the internet came. We both made ourselves and our families as a sample. Like me and that friend were both brought up in the farm. We are happy and satisfied of what we had before. We have to get by of what toys we have even just making toys out from scratched. We are taught to obey our parents always and be respectful of the elders. Like we were talking also of how we used to dressed ourselves before, it is so conservatively. Which both of us said that it is okay to be updated in the year we are now, but we are hoping that the Filipinas will still have a little bit of the conservativeness that we had before. With the internet now, wow, the girls are just showing off everything just to lure the guys  to earned extra cash. I know lots also were brought good thing with the internet and some people were just using it for the bad thing.

The innocence of Filipino Kids

You know it is the modern era now, that’s what they called it. But still lots of men here still wants the ladies to have some old fashion ways. I mean I’ve heard young men making comment that they still want the conservative ways of the old days. Like they want that they will be the one chasing the girls, instead of the other way around. They still want too, that they will go to the house and ask the parent of the girl, if they can court the daughter. They want the ladies to dress up more conservative than seeing bulging cleavage. I’ve heard people saying that you can find ladies do the old fashion way  in the province. I think we still have lots of conservative ladies in the city, but a little harder to find. I’m glad we still have some ladies like that this days. I also know that it is far from the old days what we have now, but at least some ladies are trying to still remained some old ways.

But thinking of it. My friend that we just had the chat, her daughters were somewhat raised the old way. So I think it really depends on every parent on how to disciplined their kids. Or is it also from who the kids really hangs out with nowadays will tell who the kids really are? We were just really puzzled by how the young ladies nowadays knows how to lure guys on the net at the young age. Also how the older ladies chat on the net and showing off everything, and with lots of guy pretending to be a lady just to get money. So many things and questions on our mind. It is hard to find good answer.

But we are also talking of the guys wanting a wild ladies (like naughty one). We all would say that it is not hard to find ladies like that, just go to the bar that have dancers, and they can find women they wanted. Luckily here in Davao we don’t have bars that have nude dancers. I think the mayor here will closed down the establishment right away. I’ve heard over ten years ago they had places like that here, but the last mayor here closed that places down. Good for him.

Really the old fashion ways of the Filipinos is fading more and more. I’m glad and sad that people are more open into whats new with the surroundings. But it is also makes other people wanted more and more as if with no satisfactions and that makes the other people do drastic stuff that ends up hurting them or others. I guess this is part of life that we have to accept and deal with it. Really hard to find solutions but we can talk about it and share ideas about it.

Cheers!

I’ve been asked this questions through emails more than a dozen times. Questions from a foreigner that wanting to retire here.

Before answering the questions, I have to ask some questions first.

• Are you single?
• No family here to support, I mean a lady or a lady with kid?
•  You have to tell me where do you want to live. Expenses here really varies from place to place.

I answered the question not on how he should spend the money, but what can he spend on the basic needs here in the Philippines particularly here in Davao City. A single guy: A 1000 bucks in Davao where I’m based, you could make it if you are living a simple life. You have to live in a low rental place, I mean the rent should at be less than P10k a month or P15k a month at the most. The P10k is hard to find here in the city for that price if furnished. You’re also paying the electricity(might be P2k-P3k) and the water(might be like P500) and cable(might be like P750) and internet(varies the speed you like from P1k-P2500). If you eat like the local people then you can eat cheap here.

$1,000 can carry you for a month

Just go to the small eatery/carenderia and you can probably eat maybe less than 100pesos each meal. I guess if you don’t indulge yourself too much for the imported items, you will be okay. You don’t go out too much during night time to drink or something you will be okay too. Just wear also the local brand for clothing and shoes/flip flops then you will be okay. Shirts you can buy on sale sometimes for P150-P300. Flip flops ranges from P80-P250. If you want it really cheap, go for the “UKAY-UKAY” ( The Filipinos call it  “THE UK”  in short). You can find at the UK a shirt for men for like P50, jeans shorts you might get at around P150. If you had Filipino friend let her/him shop the clothing for you at the UK. If you are going to the ukay-ukay yourself, the prices will not go down instead it might go up especially if they had no price tags on the items, plus it is hard for you to bargain. Unless you’re like Bob that knows how to speak the language. Bob knows how to bargain there.

Way of transportation here could be cheap, if you like walking, it will be cheaper for you to just walk around town or ride jeepneys instead of riding the taxi. Riding taxi can be expensive. If you add up it will cost you lots of money. The start up of the taxi nowadays is P40. I think its P3 every how many meters or so.

Local snacks are cheap (that foreigner likes it too) like halo-halo (P30), donuts (side walk vendors P10, at the mall P20-P25), humbao (siopao P15-P20), banana que (P5). Fruits (mangoes P50 per kilo, banana P25 per kilo, pomelo P90-P100 per kilo, pineapple P15-P20 per kilo, watermelon P15 per kilo) and veggies (potato big one P80-P90 per kilo, lettuce small P30 a piece, cucumber P50-P60 a kilo) are cheap here too not the imported ones of course. If you want to live cheaply too and you want to cook your meals, you can do it. Like me I usually substitute the imported items that I can’t find in the stores here. Thank God for internet. It’s almost all there what to substitute and such. Like just a sample, my kids likes to eat pancakes, one of the ingredients on the pancakes is buttermilk, can’t find it here or I seldom see it here. So I made my own buttermilk, whipped cream, heavy cream, pumpkin ( I substitute it with squash) and other ingredients. Lots of other stuff that’s not yet available here in Davao. So being I cooked most of the time I usually substitute the ingredients. Well, I think it works, Bob and the kids liked what I made for them though. Meats usually cost P120 per kilo, fish P80-P150 per kilo. Pasta P60-P100 a pack, if cooking for 1 person it will take a long time to finish a pack of a pasta. Really if you just spend the money wisely with just the basic necessities, 1000 bucks is really good for a single foreigner guy here in Davao City.

But there is also a solution to be living way less here in Davao. Just rent the place like a room for rent with like a bunk bed, just ask the landlord if you can put an air conditioning to your room with your expense. Some room rented it for P800 per person and 4 people inside. Just try to rent the whole room to yourself and just put a small fridge, buy a little thingy (dongle)  for internet hook up for your laptop. Just watch shows that you like on your PC. Just like the backpackers. Not a lot would do it, but some might do it too.

I am talking about Davao expenses here. I’m pretty sure living  in Metro Manila is way expensive than Davao when it comes to food. But clothing and housing maybe Manila is a little bit cheaper than us here? Cebu is expensive than Davao in food too. General Santos City is cheaper than Davao in food. Cagayan De Oro might be similar to Davao in prices or it might a little more or a little less. I think in some areas like Davao 1000 bucks is already okay to live monthly, to other areas like Metro Manila and maybe Cebu City 1000 bucks is not enough there.

I know someone that I helped before. He is receiving $1000 bucks a month from disability. He was renting a condo here in Davao. As far as I know he is still here and enjoying the nice life of being here. He spent less than P25k for a condo and electricity and water included. He saves a lot by eating and cooking the local food here. I think he still had some extra money to spend for going out with friends. It really helped him a lot by living in Africa before. He told me that the lifestyle that he has here was way better than what he had in Africa. So I think that helped him a lot for the adjustments of living here.

Really my advice to anyone, before moving here try to ask yourself if you are ready for a lot of changes that will come in your life. Are you ready to be living outside your comfort zone? If not just stay where you are and learn more, until the time that your mind is set to accept the challenge. I tell you it is not an easy living here. It takes a lot of adjustments and patience. If you are living with the same income as above feel free to share how you live here in the Philippines. Thank you.

Cheers!

“Dear Feyma, how are you? I am an avid reader of your site for quite sometime now. I am a Filipina living in North America for over 15 years now. We have a few things in common. I am a little older than you. My husband will be turning 53 next year. I wanted to retire there, but my husband wants to wait until he is retiring from work and wants to saved ore money for us later. Really I think because of his mom being old and no one will take care of her. He has a brother, but I think him and his wife were just too busy taking care of other things and have no time for my mother-in-law. It really comes down to us. We asked My mother-in-law if she would want to live in the Philippines? We even said to her that we could hire a nurse for her. You’ve mentioned before about how cheap it is to hire a nurse there. So I told her and I showed her your site. She doesn’t want to be in the Philippines. She said that she wants to be near to her family and friends here in the US. The Philippines is just too far, she said. I am really getting tired and getting sick of the life here. I really envy you and your husband and those expats that live there. I wish we could retire there soon. I really hope.

Dear Feyma

I am wondering, you’ve said that you had big adjustments to make when you moved back there. Is it really that bad? I am curious of what you’ve been through when you finally lived there. I don’t have any kids, so you think it will be a little better to adjust? I want to tell you that me and my husband will live comfortably when we decide to retire there. I want to buy a house there so that we don’t have to worry about money for a house. He will received good money on his retirement. I don’t want to live in a big house there. Just good enough for me and my husband. We liked to travel a lot there and see the other areas of the Philippines. I hope to see you and your husband when we will travel there. I like your website. Keep up the good work. I am hoping that you will write back. Karen “

They want to retire in the Philippines

Hi Karen, To answer your questions on my adjustments on living here. For the first few days coming back it was okay at first. I think I was still in the zone of being like a vacationer here. After a couple of weeks or so, it became a reality for me that I am here in the Philippines to live not vacationing. I started to have anxiety already. I was depressed for quite some time. It’s not fun to be here in the Philippines anymore.

Like after a month, I am already ready to move back to the US again in a heartbeat. Bob and I made a commitment to ourselves before going back here to the Philippines to lived, that no matter what happened whether we like it or not here we have to stay here for 5 years. If ever between the 5 years of staying here that we don’t like living here, then we can move back to the States. Well, thankfully before my 5 years of living here I liked it here already.

Also seeing that my son Chris who has some special needs was well accepted here and well loved by my family and friends, that was really my turning point watching my son so happy and loved here. I can’t ask for more than that. He is really one of the main reason for us to move here.

I will be honest with you it took me like 3 years to fully adjust here. It’s not an easy adjustment. I have my urge to go back to the States once in awhile. You will experience a lot of crying and wishing to be where you are from. To think of it, I am not a shopper person there in the States. When I was in the States stayed home and just do some stuff at home like decorating the house, painting and decorating birdhouses. I am a stay at home mom there, do some volunteering a few times a month in school.One of the hard parts of living here was watching our kababayan (fellowmen) struggle in life everyday. I really felt sorry for them. It was always hard seeing some members of my family struggle in life too. The good part of going back here, my kids at least know my mom. She stayed with us off and on for a few years before she passed away. She like to stay in the farm. My kids like to stay in the farm too. They’re so excited when summer time arrives here. They spent some weeks on the farm with my sisters and brothers there.

To answer your question if it might be easier for you to adjust since you don’t have any kids? That I don’t know. I know some friends that don’t have kids that the wife went through similar to what I’ve been through. In fairness it might be easier with you guys now. When we moved back here at that time internet was just new. No skype or cheaper calls abroad unlike now lots of free calls and text and the webcam. The technology nowadays is really something. Problem in my case my friends before we hardly talk because they are not a computer savvy. I am not either. I know a little bit though.

You don’t really need big money to live here if you are not a shopaholic person. If you live in the city away from Manila, then it’s a little cheaper. It’s way cheaper in the South when it comes to food. Most of the food in Manila comes from the other part of the Philippines and the Southern Mindanao.Where do you want to settle here? I am based in Davao.

Thank you so much for writing Karen. I will advise you to go through all the post here on the sites. You will learn a lot from our early post here. I wish you and your husband the best of luck. Honestly, we went through the same way before. It was hard to accept at first on Bob’s mother. But she knows that we really want to live here and it was really the best we did for our oldest son Chris. Hope you can follow your dream. Good luck to you.

Hey guys maybe you can share some advice for Karen. I will really appreciate you guys help. I know a lot of you guys went through what she’s feeling right now. It is not easy to convince the better half also to live here, leaving his love ones behind there. I hope that they will really end up living here later.

Cheers!

So I was so intrigued and hooked to the TV. The guest host said that he is sick of the poor people in America, they are whining that they are really poor. But if you go see their houses they will have a pretty descent house, flat screen TV, microwave oven, stove, washer & dryer, dishwasher, cable TV, Xbox 360 or the new one, Wii, fridge and car and many others. The guest host were saying that growing up back in the day, most of the household just had the basic stuff. No whining though that they don’t have this and that.

Poor people in the Philippines

Quite honestly there is not even a comparison there with the way of living here and the way of living in the West. The poor people here really live difficultly. The West should be ashamed of the whining and complaining. They live the good life compared to any poor places in the third world countries.  For the people from the West that never been to any third world countries, they would think that every country in the world lives the way they did.

But if they are watching TV, they will know. I know it’s always shown on TV, like the famine and hunger in Africa. People in the West saw also the people in South America lived, other Asian nations really lives. I know a lot of them watch that movie Slumdog Millionaire. It really features the poor area of India. You know those people carrying some baskets on top of their heads. Never seen those on the developed countries. And it reminds us of how some of the people lived here. It is sad but its the truth though. With the cable TV and the internet now, you can pretty much see how other country lives.

We saw on TV that many poor in the States have XBox 360s!

Just see the food of the poor people in the West. When we used to live in the States. A few times we were behind somebody at the grocery store. They’re supposed to be poor because they were using the food stamps. It would have been fine until all the grocery items they had in their cart were all frozen and with name brand. You all know that frozen food are expensive. Here we are behind them helped pay the grocery they had in their cart. We are trying to budget what we can get for our money. We tried to get as much as possible on the sale items. But the people ahead of us just don’t care, they had the food stamp anyway. As if sky is the limit for them.  They know how to play the system. Those are the kind of people also that would complained and whined about the hard life they have there. Here most of the families that lives below the poverty line might just eat once a day and only rice with no other food. Some might just have bananas or like a snack thing to fill up their tummy. Just can’t afford to buy some main dish with the rice. If the poor people here experience just a fraction of what the poor people in the West experience, I think the poor Filipinos thinks they are in heaven. Don’t you think? I bet they do.

All in all, you can never compare the life of the poor people here to the life of the poor people in the in the West. But just a reminder to us all that even though most of the people here don’t have the fraction of what the West have, but they still had a big smile in their faces and thankful to God of the life that was given to them. They just don’t have the time to whine about the hard life they had everyday.

The whiners here are the one that have family abroad working and even they are getting some money and boxes of goodies, they still complained that its not enough. They are learning from somewhere that they want more…more…more… Even the family sent a whole airplane full of goodies still it’s NOT ENOUGH though… But still that’s just small percentage of complainers here compared to the West.

To some it up, really no comparison of the poor people there in the West to the poor people here in the Philippines. Here the government will not give out food stamp or other stuff to the poor. The poor here have to strive hard to feed the family members they have. As you all know big family consist of 6 or more children in the family. Schools for the grade school and high school here are not free. Even the public schools here the parents have to pay the tuition fees. No free healthcare here too.

You guys probably wonder why we still want to live here with all the poor surroundings and stuff. Well, we still live pretty good here. Plus we want to help out a little bit to the needy ones here anyway we can. We are not wealthy but once in awhile we make some poor kids and family smiles by giving them some food and other stuff. I think that’s pretty good enough already.

During holiday season you guys from LIP family help us out to buy some foods and groceries to give to the poor people here. It was really a good feeling to give out to them. The smiles and the tears of joy from from the needy ones are enough already to be thankful to God of the blessings that we received everyday.

Have a great day everyone!

Cheers!

Well, I was talking to my sister, and her husband said something and I overheard when he said that their was a big flooding somewhere in Matina and some people were killed and missing. I told my sister that I did not watch TV yet, but saw on Facebook about a flooding. It was too early for people to post something. But the kids were preparing for school I run to my computer and checked the internet and a friend posted something on his wall on facebook that he is cancelling an event that they had planned. It sounds like a big celebration for some stuff, the party has been planned a month or so ago. But he said in respect to people that died and missing, they are cancelling the big event.

Just look at what happened to the cars

They don’t feel like partying. So of course I was so puzzled and I googled it. I didn’t see that much on the net. It was too early and the news people might be on the scene, no time for posting or updating the web. I didn’t turn on the TV, Bob was still sleeping. After the kids left for school, just then I watched  the TV, and sure,  it was shown locally and nationwide. It showed the water just gushing. Shanties and cars and other stuff were floating.

Pure Devastation

A few hours later Bob was having his Bisaya lesson. After the lesson I will most likely to join in with Bob and Bebe. We will have a good chat. Well, Bebe told us that some part in the area she lives in was flooded a little. Especially the one down from them. She then told us too the big flooding that night that I was talking about. It really saddened all of us. I felt sorry for the people especially the kids and the elderly. It really just an instant flood. We all know that Davao floods a lot due to the drainage problems. But this particular incidents, people were just not ready. I saw on TV the dead bodies that they found, It’s hard to see when they lined the dead bodies and seeing among the casualties were toddlers. Very hard to fathom. On our church they showed some videos, I think a lot of us were in tears.

I hope that the city will do something more on the drainage problem. Hopefully it will lessen the flooding here. I’m sure a lot of people were stranded on the way home that night. Lots of the jeepneys probably canceled their routes towards Matina Aplaya/Toril area. The flooding there was the worst one I think. Just like in our neighborhood we have a good drainage here. But when it rained so heavily the water in the drainage will get higher. Even though we have good drainage, some of our neighbor their house was lower than us and they had lots of water on their driveway. Luckily our house the owner built few more steps higher on the ground. Thank God for the owner’s thinking.

Heavy Damage in many parts of the city

It constantly worries us here when it rained during night time now. It used to be we really like raining during night time.It feels good to have the rain during night time. It cools down the place. Lately we changed our tunes on that. We don’t want rainy days right now. But its not really up to us on that anyway. Nature will do its course.

Just hoping that the people of Davao will eventually recover from the tragic tragedy soon.I hope anyway. To all of you that lost a love one on that tragedy our sincere condolences and prayers for you guys!

Just to make them comfortable, I moved a bit further. I just can’t resist it, I had to talk to these people. The kids were really cute. So I was asking them how many kids do they have? And what part of town they are from? They told me that they are from somewhere in Mati. I told them I’ve been there and I liked the place. I asked them what part of town they are from here in Davao, and it must not a long ways since it would be hard to be pushing the cart. The wife then said that they didn’t have any house here and that they are homeless. Watching the kids and them my heart just sank and I almost cried.I was gonna ask them why not go home to the province and live there with simple life. At least they can plant something and have some animals to sell and for food. I don’t really know the real story why they left the province, I don’t really want to pry with their lives. I was a stranger to them.

Homeless People in Davao

I should have figured it out why they have with them the empty boxes and the pots and pans. I should have known better than that. It was hard hearing from the people what they are doing especially with kids involved though. I really wanted to help these people out. But my gosh, we’ve got so many people that we are trying to help out too.  We can’t afford to be helping more. Its always difficult seeing something like that. Just then the person that I was going to meet showed up. Before I went to the meeting I gave some money to this people and told them to get some food. Really not that much, but at least to fill up their stomachs for the day.

Homeless man carrying his belongings

Another homeless couple that I really noticed here was living in the downtown area here in the city. These people were sleeping outside the building. I did notice them before like 2 years ago. I just didn’t think about it because I’ve seen a bunch of them sleeping at the sidewalk or the walkway of some buildings. But early this year I notice a hammock hanging at one of the tree outside the building. So I ask my niece and nephew if they noticed that before. They told me that those homeless there now had a baby. At first I thought they were just resting there for the day. But, I noticed every time we passed by there, that hammock had a baby in it and the father or the mother swinging it.Can you imagine during rainy days when its pouring down here in the city. They just had like boxes for the bed and a blanket. They could get wet. I felt sorry for the baby.

When we went back to take the pictures. It’s not just one couple there now living outside the building. Another couple was there too with a kid. Oh boy, whats going on with these people. I don’t really know what to think of it anymore. I wished they really used some protection for not having a baby. But on the other hand they might want to have a baby with them, so that its easy for people to dig into their pockets for change by seeing a baby there.

Geez, are we just sucked into our feelings here. Can’t help it though, I felt for the baby.

Big Sigh!!!

I wonder if there is a time that the Philippines will use coupons for something to buy in the store. I doubt it. But you’ll never know I guess. Couponing will really a big hit here. A lot of people here will definitely use the coupon. I really wonder what will happened to the cash register here if the coupon will almost wipe out the amount that was suppose to be paid. In the States the cash register sometimes has some problems, and it will take a long time to check out. They have to call the manager so that he/she can adjust something at the computer system. Hmm, It ain’t gonna happen here. In here the manager will just say our machine will not accept it and they won’t do anything. I have seen on the show that the people that uses the coupon, it will take like an hour or so at the cashier to check out. If it takes that long there, how much more here? It will be much longer here, on top of that if the register starts rejecting the coupon, another hours on that too.

So many coupons, free for the taking!

Look at all the coupons

I was thinking of the couponing, because with the economy right now. I know its really hard work and total dedication, but hey if it help the family, why not. Some ladies even go to the extreme of dumpster diving for more coupons. Wow, they really are something. They will do anything to save money. Who will not try to save money nowadays. The last episode we saw the husband and wife were saving for a cruise in Europe. They wanted to buy groceries for under $50 and they want that they will not buy any groceries within 2 months so that they can used the money for the trip. They went to the grocery store and got all the groceries they wanted with the coupon of course. The total bill was $1,800-$1,900. With the coupon they just paid less than $20. I was really amazed by it. They were the best extreme couponing I’ve seen so far. Even our kids was in awe by it. It really amazes them that lots of the products were free and some of them the store would even pay them to get the product out of the shelves. Really amazing. My kids wanting and wishing for a coupon here to use at the store. At Toys R Us especially. Ha ha ha…

I am also overjoyed watching some of the coupon guru helping the troops and other charities. They will shop and spent some money and lots of the stuff they bought with coupon and the products they bought will go to the charity they support. I’m really humbled by what they did. One couple even bought like 200 pair of blue jeans and gave them to the homeless or something. At the check out counter they look like celebrities. People would take pictures, and when the cashier would say that your total cost and the saving and you save 97%. The other customer would usually grasp in disbelief and made comment like amazing, wish I could do that.

Well, if one of you tried already, good for you. Keep it up. To those who are wanting to save, try to watch the show. If you can save a hundred bucks or two every purchase its worth it a try then. Happy shopping everybody. Wish we have coupon here now with the Abreeza shopping mall and the True Value just open. Man I wish we have that coupon thing here. Wishful thinking you guys. Really I wish,

Cheers!

“Dear Feyma, I am a Pinay. An OFW working in the Middle East. I just got back from a month of vacation there in our beautiful country, I want to work extra hard right now to earn as much as I could. Then I want to retire there later. I have been supporting my family there ever since working here. I wanted to stop supporting my family, but I can’t tell them that. I just don’t have the face to tell them. Since the war started here in the Middle East, I have been thinking hard for my future. I want to settle down with my boyfriend . He is a Filipino who is working here too. We want to get married in a few years. He is also supporting his family (like parents and siblings) back home. Lately my bf and I were talking about saving our money for our futures. I felt guilty, Feyma, of doing this because I am used to helping my family. But I have also my future to look after too. My family lives somewhere in the Visayas. I have been reading some of your posts here about living near the family. I might have to give the small house that I built for my Papa & Mama. When me and my bf get married we might live in Mindanao. Watch out we might be neighbors someday. I learned a lot from the comments of your blog.

I want to earn and save my money right now, and invest my money later for a business. Do you happen to know what business is good in Pinas? I have family there that owned like a KTV bar. They asked me if I want to owned one for an investment. I told them no, I don’t have desire to own a KTV Bar.

Dear Feyma

Feyma I hope to see you and your husband when I retire there. I am thinking now of going to Mindanao next visit to Pinas to see what is good for me and my husband to be. Thank you so much for listening. Keep up the good work. I learned so much from this site”.

Should she be an ATM Machine for the family

So guys I need your opinion on how to handle on telling the family that they will be cut off from the support that was provided for a long time. It would be hard for the family to handle then. The lady also has the right to cut them off because she has to start her own family too. This is going to be big change for the family. Well, they should be happy though, they already had a house built for them. All in all this is not an easy thing for the woman and the man. Not sure if the man would quit supporting his family. For me if she quit supporting the family the guy should also do the same, quit supporting his family.

Wow, her questions about good business here in the Philippines? That would be a hard one to answer. For one, I don’t really know what she likes to do. Even if the business is good, if the owner is not into it, more likely the business will fail. I hope when time she retire she will study first what is good and what she like to do first before venturing into anything here. That’s what I do anyway. But it is up to her. I really hope for the best for the lady and the hubby to be too.

Thank you guys in advance from your unending advice here. I really appreciate very much.

Cheers!

Seminar at the Martin House

While Bob was talking to the tech guy there, I was thinking maybe we could have the seminar at our house. We could tell that the guy just don’t know what to do. Bob called up his partner for the seminar and told him the problem. He also said that what if the seminar be held at our house. So that night me and my people in the house were busy preparing the room for the seminar. You know what it was a hard work but it turn out good. The people that attended told us they like it because it felt so homey. They said they like it better here.

To all that came thank you so much for coming and the support. It’s also nice meeting you guys. I know a lot of you are tired from the trip. I hope you guys learned a lot from it.

Mabuhay and God bless!