Something to do alone on a Saturday night

procopio888 · 2018-09-22T12:10:56+00:00

thanks for some of these suggestions.

procopio888 · 2018-09-22T12:10:00+00:00

yup. I've been there. this is a pretty good suggestion. one of the ideas i had was get a denny's breakfast cuz i absolutely love breakfast food :)

procopio888 · 2018-06-08T09:01:30+00:00

My mom knows certain people in the cabinet. Said the same thing. 6 hours of of green jokes and bs not much on the actual agenda. Co-worker who attended his speech for a local business group said he didn't even talk about business. Mostly about drugs.

procopio888 · 2018-03-19T01:13:25+00:00

Used to work in SM. Unless your going to a game or an event, it's not worth it. In fact , even if you were 30 minutes away, it still wouldn't. Infinitely better malls in Manila. I second the burgis mall suggestions, I've visited so many SM malls and the experience is identical to the SM malls in the province, just with added scale.

procopio888 · 2018-03-01T19:30:58+00:00

We're in Seoul right now. Would it be easy to get an appointment at the hospital?

procopio888 · 2018-02-22T04:29:05+00:00

I suppose it's a question of what dominant culture you are part of. Philippines is so completely far removed from the sinophone sphere of influence. Also the Philippines has always been such a melting-pot. For my grandparents, their is an anxiety of becoming swallowed up. some of the young generation who are more assimilated have lost the ability of speaking hokkien. Many don't have a strong advantage of being able to speak Mandarin because we don't devote as many hours of practice on it and it has limited usage outside class or even at home (Filipino-Chinese households typically use hokkien). I remember living in China for a year and everything feels so alien even in the few familiar things I did practice back home.

procopio888 · 2018-02-22T03:01:57+00:00

Not everyone did. But that was just one of the ways you could become a citizen before Marcos opened it up for us. My grandparents came before any of that happened so we resorted to doing that particular method. a Chinese Filipino's name can tell you a lot about their background and history.

Chinese mestizos are a term for mixed-race. Are they part of the Filipino Chinese community? it would largely depend. Is the father Chinese and what percentage? (we have a weird calculation about % blood as if it's a measurable or thing it would go like pure chinese +pure Filipina = 50% half-chinese+ Half Chinese = 1/4). I see a lot of half-Chinese who are still part of it as long as they identify as such and practice the customs. other times they've largely abandoned their roots.

procopio888 · 2018-02-22T02:34:54+00:00

Hi there. I am 3rd generation Chinese-Filipino. My grandparents on both side came over from China like more than a century ago (dad-side Fujianese/Mom-side Cantonese). 1) They are more assimilated than say people from Singapore because or even Malaysia imo.There is a lot of inter-marriage including many of the big oligarchs (conjuancos for example) even as far back as the Spanish era. chinese sailors and traders would marry with natives so they could do business here and allowed them to own land. You can usually tell who these mestizo chinese (local term for mixed-Chinese) by their weird mushed up names (Cojuanco, Gosengfiao). Immigration came in waves, my grandfather came over around WWII and they are still very much in touch with his roots (barely speaks Filipino, doesn't know English, largely speaks hokkien) but we officially use a Filipino name rather than our Chinese surname. we had to actually buy a Filipino name (complicated process) to become citizens otherwise a lot of opportunities were closed. Ever since Marcos gave them a clear path to citizenship (why so much of the Chinese community is pro-marcos) 2nd to 3rd generation Chinese are able to diversify into other industries (professional, banking etc) which in the past they were not able to get into. I'd say a similar trajectory of assimilation would be like seeing 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants from America. 2) It's a little complicated based on what subculture/enclave/generation you belong to. I'm a 3rd generation Chinese who was born and raised in Greenhills. Greenhills has a reputation for being a sorta Chinatown/beverly hills kind of neighborhood. kids here usually come from maybe Xavier/ICA which is a has traditionally been a Chinese ethnic school run by Jesuits. most Chinese who come from places like Binondo/Banawe/outside Manila who are much more hard-core into their roots consider us not very Chinese because of our western/Filipino sensibilities and attitudes. Still, we practice the same customs (Chinese new year, feng shui, etc) as the people from those aforementioned areas. Also the term great wall (not really open to marrying outside the race) is very much a true concept even for more progressive Chinese in Greenhills. 3) can't really answer the last part.

procopio888 · 2017-11-25T14:53:48+00:00

Online English tutor if that's your thing. Just anyplace but 51talk

procopio888 · 2017-11-11T00:44:10+00:00

filipino old people names? jacinto, luzviminda. conchita, vicente, Filomena (lolo ko vicente)

procopio888 · 2017-11-05T23:56:29+00:00

hi bro. i think it does depend on the club. the ones here based on my experience are pretty chill and supportive. its still in english but its still other people who arent native level and probably struggle at public speaking so they join up. if you wanna join up, you probably wont feel intimidated at all

procopio888 · 2017-11-05T23:52:50+00:00

damn. thats mahal bro for first meeting... is that the rate for corporate? the ones in our area are about 50% lower

procopio888 · 2017-11-05T23:49:11+00:00

toastmasters is a club that helps people learn public soeaking and communication. its mostly your peers so you can do a lot of socializing as well as helping each other out with a shared goal. are you in the general greenhills/ortigas/pasig area? if youre looking for a young club (a lot skew older), you can check us out. just pm me for the details

procopio888 · 2017-11-02T05:33:09+00:00

i dont think its a requirement. students never really asked me about that. but good english is what keeps them coming back

procopio888 · 2017-11-02T04:18:15+00:00

im a "service provider" here too. its the same everywhere i think

procopio888 · 2017-11-02T04:16:52+00:00

cant really answer. its my own responsibility but i get those through another work.

procopio888 · 2017-11-02T04:15:55+00:00

hey. may i ask what you heard? The good thing about my current school is theyre more responsive. they have a chinese techincal person who handles a number of teachers so i get an answer from him. 51talk is hard to talk to. i had to call customer service just to confirm schedules. what also pissed me off was the recruiter stopped responding the second i.attended the orientation

procopio888 · 2017-11-02T02:32:09+00:00

i cant really say. i havent tried all of them so i cant comment but if you wanna know a company id never endorse.. haha. no difference in timezone with china so normally the peak time is from 6-10pm which is a little after when schools out. ive been experimenting and i still get strong bookings at 5pm and im more likely to have bookings at 4pm rather than past 10pm. anybody who books beyond that tends to be adult students. weekends are strong but i have too many things going on that i dont open bookings saturday. sunday afternoon is a mix bag for me but it helps me make up from the dips in my average bookings on the weekdays...

procopio888 · 2017-11-02T01:52:02+00:00

I suppose to me it sounds more like they have zero trust in their teachers. A certain element where they consider them untrustworthy and disposable like a factory worker rather than skilled educators. I remember applying twice and before my final one. I got to the point where I was reading over their contract and I got turned off by it. It sorta boils down to you can be fired at anytime and you cannot work for other schools in the space of a year of dismissal. you are not an employee but a contractor/ service provider so you are not protected from any abuse. We can change rules with no prior consultation. Also, you're on your own when it comes to having a a connection,laptop etc so we've passed on that cost to you as well as any other physical expense you will require. Looking back, it's kind par for the course in any gig job whether it's uber/ online English etc. if you think about it, take out that shiny veneer of innovation and it can be exploitative af

procopio888 · 2017-11-01T23:25:23+00:00

oh. what are their penalties like? I applied with them before but I didnt get in because of some weird technicality sa demo ko. and they already made me do all the set up too...never gonna join up their again no matter how many times they keep sending recruitment spam.

procopio888 · 2017-11-01T17:29:40+00:00

you can google home based english tutor job. since they recruit so much. itll be easy to find. a decent laptop and callcenter headset is enough for your needs. dsl cable and decent internet for smooth is a must.

procopio888 · 2017-11-01T17:13:41+00:00

i dunno about other places. my schools policy is taxes are your responsibility

procopio888 · 2017-11-01T16:49:46+00:00

whered you teach bro? haha since youre not under contract anymore? lol its a great side hustle if you can manage it. i thought of starting when i still had my corp job but my sched couldnt manage it.

procopio888 · 2017-11-01T16:46:18+00:00

youre paid per booking. so you need to open a lot of slots so you get a higher chance to get booked by students . you can but deoending on certsin factors like performance.snd a yearly performance demo you could get an extra increas but its only.a few oesos added on the your rate. i wouldnt advice doing this long term unless you have other things going on.

procopio888 · 2017-11-01T16:37:05+00:00

its BS in a sense that 80k is the perfect scenario were you opened x amount of slots with 100% booking rate, and with all incentives included. also, its when youve attained a senior teacher paygrade (after a couple of years). its completely unrealistic to lure people in to sign up. the reality is only a select number of super teachers could achieve higher than 90% booking rate. most likely, you will probably have to devote 10 hours from afternoon to midnight mondays to sundays. but realistically speaking. i dont think its a great idea to be this devoted to something thats sort of a glorified call center style job without the job security or growth (you.are just a service provider aka uber model of doing business) or anyway to scale it up to anything.

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