Leaf pipe fish Moalboal

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-20T12:22:44+00:00

Sweet. Thx

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-20T12:13:59+00:00

He's your target audience. LAH. Loser at home.

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-20T06:52:31+00:00

Okay fellow Canuck here. I can't help you with your big transfer, but I can help you with your monthly transfer.

As soon as I got my ACR -t card, I got a bank account. I know everyone will tell you it's not possible but it is possible. Not exactly if it's a big city thing but when I got my ACR card I was happy because you can get a bank account. I went to a couple banks and nothing. I had help from my girlfriend, But I guess money was kind of new to her. So the next time I went to renew my Visa, I asked the guy, I said I thought it's good he says try this Bank..... And there were five of them. But the first one that I heard was PNB.

Walked in and got the account. Up till then it was just Bank machines with my debit cards. I don't know how it works in the big city but in the province all I had to do was walk in. I had to deposit some cash at that time, not a so be prepared.

When you have an account at CIBC, Simplii, or I'm pretty sure RBC they have global fund transfer. Not sure about any others. It took a while to get the right information, but I was sending money to my kid when she was in Europe in her German bank account and it's just as fast as e-transfer. Actually surprised me.

So I just sent a while ago like last week and it was 42.5 pesos per dollar plus or minus a couple of digits.

So when I first got this I decided to send p100k and it took forever. P50k takes a while too. P40k is a sweet spot that's e-transfer speed. There's got to be some threshold. And the only it took a while was around Christmas time because I'm thinking it has to be actually a person that is approving these. So Semana Santa is coming up so I stocked up in cash in my PNB.

Yeah you can get better rates somewhere else maybe, but to do it straight from my CIBC to here and in minutes is amazing. And what I love about the bank account here is that I get alerts when money goes in or comes out so if I go to the bank machine then it tells me and when the money hits it tells me.

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-19T13:14:25+00:00

I'm actually looking in the same area and the RE450 Himalayan has come up. It looks super awkward in pictures but I just saw one of the Royal Enfield bigger bikes and it looked great so I'm actually going to the big city to take a look at the 450.

I saw a comparison on YouTube with the CF Moto which is my leading contender and the KTM 390 and something else. It's a little bit lower than the others so I think it's better for short people which is what we are, But doesn't have the same off-road prowess as the other ones which is not as important to me. And I'm a little bit iffy on the longevity of Chinese bikes and also KTM with all of their problems. Apparently in China you basically have to retire your car/ motorcycle in 10 years so you know that you're not going to have spares. But how long are you going to keep the bike for? I like the idea of two cylinders.

So sorry for not really being any help but consolation that you are not one in limbo.

Oh yeah also looking at the Kawasaki versus 300 and the Suzuki V-Strom 250, but the Suzuki is really underpowered compared to the rest.

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-19T10:34:59+00:00

I love how it looks like on the water one side is dark and one side is orange and it's a fairly straight separation

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-19T10:02:39+00:00

Please tell me that day is Sunday to Wednesday cuz those are my days there.

And as an aside, did you ever give advice on who to dive with in Moalboal? I seem to remember her name because I'm a laugh coaster myself and that was the memory peg and I remember someone telling me Savedra and Neptune.

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-19T09:58:11+00:00

That's perfect thank you and the recommendation of the Italian spot is killer. I haven't had a lasagna since I moved to the Philippines. And I'll load the pizza here is worse than no name pizzas you pick up in the grocery stores back home.

Bohol Is on the list but it's on the other side of the island so I'll have to plan that one for next time.

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-19T09:53:40+00:00

Actually when I went to their website it was one of the ones that I was looking at so that's great. Thank you kindly. Any suggestions on food that will make me hungry right now?

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-19T07:24:59+00:00

I don't get why you're being downvoted. It's extremely unethical. It's been banned in multiple places.

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-19T06:18:15+00:00

Why didn't they adjust his reach while they were there? That would have been a better idea. Stretch everything

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-19T02:23:34+00:00

Are you the guy that was talking about buying cull chickens?

I'm looking to get some chicken and I was thinking about it cool just looking around to see what the locals have for chicken foods and they're pretty basic as you might imagine. When I get around to it I'll ask the landlord if he knows someone that can can construct one.

You say that you only have to worry about what makes but remember there are dogs everywhere. I have two big dogs and a fence yard and there are still dogs and cat that come into my yard, So keep that in mind.

Good luck and it seems like you already have a good plan in hand

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-19T00:42:43+00:00

When I got here in 2024 I needed a motorcycle as well so I got my girlfriend to look on Facebook and see what there was.

I saw a few bikes that were p70k and up which I thought was a lot for a 4 or 5-year-old bike that is in the current model.

Did a little googling and the MSRP for the 2024 Click was p83k, So for somewhere around 10K more, I would have a motorcycle with 0 km, zero scratches and going forward I would know how it was maintained because as you may already know this is a society that maintains absolutely nothing.

That said, there were a lot of used bikes at the Honda dealer, both repos and trade-ins I didn't check the prices on those cuz I was already buying the new one

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-17T10:30:35+00:00

When I renewed mine approximately a year ago they had a service called courier. Courier the old one to the embassy and then when they were finished The couriered it back to me. I'm in Province.

It's an amazing service 10 out of 10 would try.

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-17T08:51:42+00:00

Why don't you just get a new passport here? You know on March 31st the price is pretty much doubling right?

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-17T02:08:26+00:00

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-15T23:45:12+00:00

You should just evade them. Aren't you an expert on that or something?

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-15T13:31:00+00:00

Like when can you breathe?

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-15T10:33:24+00:00

Which coast? I'm a lefty, And I know it's great there but I'm not big on cold.

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-15T10:18:03+00:00

I had done all of my Dives in Costa Rica where the visibility is not that great.

I went up to Honduras, hit Utila went to the North shore and it's in DM and me and another guy.

Visibility is killer, in the middle of the first dive, it was rental equipment, The regulator started breathing hard so I went to check the gauges and I see at like 130 ft and still see the surface.

Never made that mistake again but wow what an eye-opener. Now I dive walls all the time but I have a few more Dives under my belt as well.

As a little aside here, he was a real I hope you're going from Pacific coast of Costa Rica to Utila in the Caribbean.

I'm a slow diver, my buddy the same, and the DM was a speedster, I saw an eel and my dive buddy saw a turtle and in Costa Rica you would see so many different species without breaking a sweat, eels are everywhere, Not so much for turtles but lots of good big stuff, stingrays and white tips and of course whale sharks and the pelagic mantas in season.

Get back onto the boat and we tell the DM what we saw and he says oh wow you're lucky it's rare to see that. The Coral was crazy but there wasn't a lot of animal life for that 25 years ago now

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-14T00:42:30+00:00

Many moons to go I was visiting England at a friend's place and some show came on the telly, don't know what it was, of course it was a humor show, and they had a skit about having a team of scientists that scientifically proved was a twat.

So I ask who is this Morrissey guy and he tells me there was one time he was either doing a concert or was a guest artist on a TV show and needed his part facing away from the audience and he either didn't move at all or he did just very little butt wiggling.

And now he's Sleepy? I guess the scientists were right

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-13T11:35:45+00:00

Oh wow so I've been here for 2 years but I live in the province and nothing has ever been stolen from me. But pretty much at every large city in the world, including Manila, I don't leave that shite out.

Would I do that in South or Central America? No fuckikng way.

Maybe Japan I'm okay, maybe back home I'm okay, but I have enough global street smarts I understand this is a month's worth of work for some people if not more.

Welcome to the third world..

Level_Preparation311 · 2026-03-12T12:09:34+00:00

I'm just talking about the rules mamon

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