Comments on: How to know you've adjusted…

By: Laurence

Laurence — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:20:45 +0000

Bob New York,

Yes I’ve seen some of those. I believe the word “Last” has been dropped from the names of these “resorts”.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:38:55 +0000

Hi rick b – Let’s see… torture that becomes pleasurable? Isn’t there a name for that kind of thing? This is a family site, though… so I’m not even going to go there!

By: rick b

rick b — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:35:44 +0000

The scoop, scoop shower is a good philippine experience, i was warned in advance and so i pass on this advice……..

hold your breath as the first scoop will take your breat away and if not holding breath may make you sqeal like aschool girl. Anyway once first scoop is navigated, quickly follow up with second and third, by the 4th, you start to enjoy it, really you do, it turns from torture to pleasure, especially if you are in the outside air……

well it worked for me, good luck to you

By: Bob New York

Bob New York — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:45:25 +0000

Laurence,
I believe I had a similar experience when I was taken by my Filipino friends to a social affair at what they called a ” Resort “. Knowing that the same word can conjure up different thoughts and impressions depending on what you are accoustomed to, naturally I was expecting something a lot different than what I found when we arrived at this ” resort “. I don’t want to get into any detail on the place and I did ” endure ” my stay at this resort, at times I had to remind myself that ” I am not at home here ” LOL. Despite the condition of the place as compared to my definition of the word ” resort “, I did have an enjoyable time at the social event and that overshadowed anything else.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:59:06 +0000

Hi Laurence – I can believe that!

By: Laurence

Laurence — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:39:51 +0000

My wife took me to a ’supermarket’ in Agoo. I thought we’d walked into the storeroom by mistake!

By: Jim Cunningham

Jim Cunningham — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:37:39 +0000

Hi again Bob New York and Dave Starr- The reason why I asked about pail was you only hear that word used in Scotland or Ireland but in England its a bucket.
Dave don’t believe all you hear about the Scots being mean with money as the Welsh can beat us all.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:03:50 +0000

Hi Dave – You’ve been an entrepreneur for a long, long time!

By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:00:33 +0000

I am as Scottish as they come without being born there and I always thought pail and bucket were interchangeable …being raised in the US I guess I never learned the finer points as to which is which.

Funny how thta tabo is another of those same-same Tagalog/Bisayan words ..I was raised with pails (or buckets) the house I grew up in in New jersey had only a hand pumped well, outside … but the thing we dipped the water with wasn’t a ladle or a ladel, it was a _dipper_.. One of my first (illeha\gaklly) paid jobs was as a free lance “dipper boy”, which every construction crew would have … I was 6 years old and men were working on the road near our house and my mother let me use the enameled bucket we used for drinling water and the long-handled enameled dipper to carry back and forth to the men to keep them ‘watered’. The foreman gave me a buck for the morning and a buck for the afternoon … unheard of wealth. And I learned a huge number of new vocabulary words from the woekers as well

One of my dream sports I’d like to see here in the Philippines would be a ‘cheap’ cointest between a Filipino and a Scots team … I’d probably learn a hting or two

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:23:33 +0000

Hi Bob New York – Thanks for sharing your trip experiences! That ladle is called a tabo here. Sounds like you are going to be a real pro with the tabo!

Hi Jim Cunningham – Those words are also commonly used in the States!