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	Create New Topic   My Posts   My forum buddies   Invite friends   Private messages Russian brides > Main Forum > All Raging Bull Author Post ragingbull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/5/2012 12:37:40 AM   "i retaliate not provoke" That's not true, Danny. I don't really read your feuds with others like LR, but I'm sure they can give you examples. I see evidence that there are others besides LR. I'll give you an example. It is something we talked about many times: the chocolates. I did not even want to talk about whom I sent it to. I was simply having a problem with the post office and posted that. From that, you called her a scammer and that led to your telling me she's probably pregnant, and the baby was not mine. I was pretty sure what you said did not happen because I was in communication with her, everyday. Very few times, did she not answer the phone. But, anything can happen, and there was a small chance that it did. Still you do not know. You said that to retaliate? What did I do? I think you said that just to provoke. I think you provoked Martin, but I don't understand how he can get that pissed over slandering an imaginary wife. Rag'n'Bull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/5/2012 10:17:59 PM   Quite amusing ... It's girlfriend's birthday later this month and, at lunch yesterday at my Australian neighbour's resort, the staff suggested that the resort could do a modestly sized birthday cake for around USD12 ... Exclaiming at the price I joked to just wait until I see the resort owner to negotiate. Just then the resort owner walked around the corner in desperation saying "I'll do you a birthday cake for nothing if you'll lend me 10 sacks of cement for a week or so" ... I promptly handed him the key to my storage shed across the road. Over a few beers last evening he explained that since the recent earthquake his water tank has developed a leak and there's no cement to be had on the island or in the mainland city, he was desperate and I did him a great favour. I can't wait to joke with girlfriend that she means so much to me I traded 10 sacks of cement for her. :) As of yesterday she's decided that she wants an engagement ring for her birthday ... so far I've offered to buy her a washing machine. :) lonelyranger1701 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/6/2012 2:12:35 AM   Rb,,,,, did danny attack you after you came to his aide or rescue???? He was looking for pity or sympathy from me,,, I helped him,,, then he used that and attacked me and has never stopped! He is just a piece of $h!t!! lonelyranger1701 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/6/2012 2:05:20 PM   "but you where to thick to understand " LMFAO,,,,,,, classic DUNT!! ragingbull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/6/2012 4:42:19 PM   Now, I don't believe you put an "if" there. Even if you did, that was provoking. Why would you post anything like that if not to provoke? The girl I was communicating with is pregnant and the baby is not mine is not provoking? You posted that because I sent $10 worth of chocolates I got on an after Easter Sale? You are too thick to understand what is and what is not provoking. Others post against you in disguise and not, because you provoke. You provoked Martin, just like your answer to the chocolates was provoking. Your post above mine is provoking. What does my mother and my giving gifts have to do with your beef with Martin? You post is speculation, something that you know nothing about. You post that to provoke, not to retaliate. All I wanted was a little clarification on the post office. If I was to give my whole paycheck, it is my business if I don't mention it in the forum. You provoke by your speculation on the nasty and bad things about me and what I am doing, brought about by Rasputin. Rag'n'Bull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/28/2012 7:46:17 PM   Well it's still "all go" here on the island ... Since I fired the Aussie chief builder and the previous foreman girlfriend and I are managing the build ourselves, with the assistance of the new foreman of course, these days we're up at 7 o'clock of a morning, up to the site, then off to do any shopping for materials that may be required then back to the site etc. At present, on site we have 4 carpenters, 3 masons and 4 labourers, of the accommodation building the roof timber frame is on and treated against termites etc. whilst 2 of the carpenters are laying Hardiflex sheeting on top, then we'll have the roof batons arriving for them to be anti termite etc. treated and fitted whilst girlfriend and I are currently shopping around for the thousands of roof nipa's that we're going to need. The other 2 carpenters are occupied making and installing the door and window jambs. Meanwhile the 3 masons have been occupied rendering the side and real walls but that's about to change later today when they start building the internal inter-room and bathroom walls whilst filling in the gaps around the door and window jambs. One main concern I have is that there is still no cement available for sale on the island, I bought in 120 bags of it from the mainland last week bringing my stock up to around 160 bags but the way we're going through it that's not going to last very long. It's girlfriend's birthday tomorrow, we'll be occupying it here on the island but on Saturday we're taking the Suzuki ( See, I can spell Suzuki :) across to the mainland to leave it there for a few days whilst we fly off to girlfriend's home of Cebu City, back to the mainland city next Tuesday to, hopefully, fill the van up with the supplies, besides cement, that we've had difficulty sourcing before returning home to the island next Wednesday. Have a nice day y'all :) Rag'n'Bull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/5/2012 9:50:49 AM   Well girlfriend and I are in the final eve of a five day, multi city, trip ... Last Saturday we travelled to the mainland city, 5.5 hours on the ferry, doing some chores and shopping before hot footing it to the mainland city airport to catch our flight to girlfriend's home city of Cebu, her first return home to see family & friends since we started living together on the island w.e.f. 09 January. Initially mother, particularly aunty, and family had been somewhat hostile towards me when GF and I met each other last year, part of this was that she was the family breadwinner and they regarded her as no more than an ATM but also they regarded me as just another 'sex tourist' foreigner. Well a couple of months ago, via telephone, mother came around to accepting that I'm really good for her daughter, that we do have a genuine relationship etc. and this past few days she/they have observed how well the two of us get along together, laughing ang joking etc, to have the balls and accept that previously they were wrong and accepting me as part of the family. Did plenty of shopping whilst we were in Cebu also, 10 ceiling (glass) lights, 10 towel rack/rail's, 10 bathroom drainers, some 30 universal power outlets etc, couriering some of this home whilst carrying much of it in our baggage, and, having (pretty much) filled the Suzuki Multicab up since our, this afternoon, return to the mainland city, having removed the front passenger seat to fit 5 bathroom door/jamb's in, we bumped in to some Czech/Filipino friends (resort owners) of ours who are asking a favour that I fit (their) three 20 litre drums of whatever in my Multicab before setting off on the ferry back home tomorrow lunchtime ... that'll cost them a few San Miguel's :) Have a nice day! apal1 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/6/2012 12:48:08 AM   Is Cebu a decent city or is it as dirty and dingy and filthy as I heard Manilla is? From what I recently read its becomming a central hub of sorts, but I don't always like to believe what I read. Rag'n'Bull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/6/2012 9:36:15 AM   Appalling, SIX threads you've posted in, we've arrived home via some 3.5 hours on the ferry then a 30 minute drive, a partial unload of the van then off to a restaurant for dinner and a few beers .... And what have you done today? ..... You've been on your life forum posting some crap or another in SIX different threads. :) And who needs to get a life? ... Me or you? P.S. Yeah, and Cebu City does have it's slums but, as they say, "There's no place like home"! Rag'n'Bull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/8/2012 9:56:27 AM   http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7234/7166189291_b66dc01e7a_b.jpg http://f arm8.staticflickr.com/7084/7166189285_e7b0a36c98_b.jpg Rag'n'Bull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/8/2012 10:02:47 AM   It's 'Fiesta' time in the local village at the moment, some of the tradesmen have excused themselves for a day or two to go and party but for those that have stayed loyal girlfriend and I have bought, today, a yellowfin tuna, rice and limes and tomorrow we're providing the loyal workers with a lunchtime BBQ when normally they would eat cold rice and bugger all else. apal1 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/8/2012 2:32:19 PM   I'm thinking of going to Cebu to setup some export business contacts for family. Clothing.Textiles and possibly some call center partnerships. I hear both of those are good in Cebu. May head there at the end of the month. I don't like Colombia. They have so many restrictions on business that I had a hard time finding a single American businessman operating there "legally". For obvious reasons (narco-traf). That in the fact that each manager I would hire would rob the business and employees too lazy to work and vouching for each other that they actually showed up to the office... apal1 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/8/2012 2:38:52 PM   Roof looks good. Do you have a view of the beach? What's the beach like in the phillipines? Is it as bad as Odessa in Summer when they open the beach clubs up that pour all their sewage waste directly out into the beach water? Auckland New Zealand had sanitation problems too.. when it rained all the sewage would overflow right into the bay. It smelled something fierce after the rains, but after a few hours would disappate. ;0 Rag'n'Bull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/8/2012 7:41:24 PM   Here's a pic of a local beach (just down the road) on this island: http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6210/6069584281_6f0c55cf09_z.jpg The roof is merely the compressed cement sheeting underlining, the finished roof shall be nipa however for nipa to fully waterproof one needs such a roof pitch to create a waterfall effect ... Such a roof pitch on my buildings would look stupid, look out of place, I hate these Filipino roof designs, so we're, so to speak, "cheating" by underlining the roof with cement board that shall ensure the waterproofing ... and it bloody well insulates against the heat also, as soon as it went on it became lovely and cool inside the building. :) Just got so much going on at the moment, girlfriend and I are back off to the mainland for 2 nights, probably, leaving Tuesday, once back we need to get the chainsaw man back in for a day to fell 2 more coco trees and clear some stumps, today we're going to research further regarding digging a well, our new foreman suggests that our regular workers can do it but I've heard that a well digging specialist will do a much better job. Then we're waiting, and waiting, for our coco roof batons to be cut and delivered, we've already sourced and done a deal on some good nipa so once the batons are going on girlfriend and I shall be up the island 2 or 3 times each week collecting nipa in the van and so it goes on. Then we're still shopping for floor tiles, wall lights, wall fans, ceiling fans, bathroom doors etc, even the most basic of things here can be so difficult to source, on our flight back from Cebu earlier this week we carried back a box, weighing some 15kg, containing 10 ceiling lights whilst our suitcase contained some 30 universal power outlets, 10 bathroom drain grilles etc, whilst we couriered back to ourselves 10 bathroom towel racks/rails that we had bought. These Filipino's do try it on and perhaps they've got away with it in the past ... Our workers are on daily rates but for electrics and plumbing, electricians and plumbers earn more, one enters in to an overpriced fixed price contract per job ... Well now the walls are becoming rendered we're being approached being quoted overpriced fixed price contracts for the painting whilst our foreman has told us of a friend who will paint at the same daily rate as our other skilled tradesmen. As I said to girlfriend "WTF, this is painting, literally any idiot can move a paintbrush up and down, I happen to be a well experienced and excellent painter myself, and I'll make sure that the job is done properly so, as it stands at the moment, I'll take one or two of the labourers and I'll supervise and do much of the painting myself, to hell with these Filipino's and their inflated prices for unskilled work. Regarding business(s) in Philippines ... Unless one monitors closely one is going to be ripped off by the locals and/or the workers, these Filipino's can be as thick as two short planks, by example in a retail outlet one should always have a dedicated cashier on duty because many of them can't even count, just as an example yesterday we bought 1.5kg of rice at 35 peso's per kg ... the shop assistant had to refer to her calculator to realise that 1.5 x 35 is 52.5 ... but seriously, one can buy something for 50 peso's, give them a 100 peso bill and they still need a calculator to go figure! Once I have this business up and running I have it in mind to develop a farm to, initially, provide foodstuffs for the restaurant because one can't trust the pork and chicken etc. here not to be rotten, and because, with all the westerners, the locals want to charge something like USD2.00 per kg of potatoes, the CoCo land here is cheap so why not start a farm rearing pigs and chickens, providing eggs, growing potatoes and lots of other fruit and veggies etc. etc. etc. With the accommodations and restaurant the plan is that we shall live on site, there's our house to be built once the establishment is up and running but the farm shall be remote and we simply won't be able to prevent the odd chicken and eggs etc. being stolen by the workers, all we can hope to achieve is to control it and keep it within reason. Our Australian resort owner neighbour, well he's back in Oz at the moment but, girlfriend and I were sitting chatting with his Filipina wife yesterday lunchtime, her parents live next door to my land so when talking about fencing she asked if I could preserve a tree that her parents have planted on the boundary between the properties whilst mentioning it would be OK if I/we trimmed it from our side ... as girlfriend and I were leaving I muttered, under my breath but loud enough to be heard, "I'll trim it up alright, I'll trim it up with a phucking chainsaw", Aussie's wife totally got my sense of humour whilst calling after me "Martin, I'll phucking kill you". :) Rag'n'Bull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/9/2012 9:52:38 AM   As a follow up, and it's only something girlfriend mentioned bto me over dinner this evening, our new (ish) foreman attended the local village fiesta this afternoon and the locals were payinmg compliment to my accommodation building, how well it is being built and can be nothing except a success if the room rate is right ... and it will be right, the room rate been the subject of recent thoughts and discussions over these past few weeks ... and to think this building design, whilst I subsequently had it drawn up by a city engineer, started out on a piece of A4 graph paper that I downloaded and printed from the internet! And the locals have no idea about the adjacent restaurant that we haven't even started building yet!!! On the subject of starting a business in such a city as Cebu, OK the mega salaries, by Philippines standards, are paid in the capital Manila but Cebu is the No.2 city where 'city salaries' are poaid ... start a business in a lesser city or indeed in the jungle, why pay 'city' salaries if one doesn't need to? apal1 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/9/2012 4:52:33 PM   That's an awesome view. Can see why you chose it. How is the fresh water supply? Do you tap into the local water company or use some sort of cistern? Rag'n'Bull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/9/2012 8:55:54 PM   What local water company? :) All the water comes from the ground, dig about 0.75 of a metre down on my land and one strikes water, once I fired the Aussie chief builder I instructed two of the labourers to concentrate on digging the first of two shit pits (that I'd kept on to Aussie about only for him to maintain his own agenda) just for our own water supply, they've dug up to a metre down and I joke with my 4' 11" girlfriend that it's not a shit pit, it's a swimming pool for little people and all this concrete and mortar we're mixing for the floors and walls ... the water is all coming from the hole in the ground I instructed they dig. Just making enquiries regarding digging a permanent well now, there is a city water supply (that comes from the ground also) at the end of the road, let's say 1km down the road, but it would be a nightmare to tap in to it, we'd need to have an electric pump at the end of the road, we'd have to bury hoses along the road but then we'd need to bury electric cabling, we'd need to power the electric pump from my land so that in the event of a power blackout we'd be in a position to fire up the generator(s) to maintain water supply. The plan is to dig a well, have a tank for storing water and then a pressurised water tank for distributing it around the development, a pressurised tank does away with building a concrete tower (for a tank to go on top of) which would cost in the region of USD2,000.00. apal1 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/10/2012 2:35:26 AM   Lucky to have such access to a water table like that. Fresh water is a commodity that the modern world just forgets about... Have you looked into solar and wind to generate some extra energy or all of it potentially? You probably tapped into the local grid to get your machinery up and running unless your all on generators? I know building on a renewable energy source would obviously be an added expense, but could pay for itself if you became labeled as a green tourist locale. Green tourism is on the rise and could get you some extra publicity should you have created a self-sustaining resort colony of sorts. That would be an investment that pays off dividends possibly. lonelyranger1701 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/10/2012 2:53:13 AM   Martin,,, are you having problems with your septic tanks floating??? Yes, even if they are made of concrete they can still float!! Back in the 80”s we were building three cabins on a nearby lake, they installed pre made septic tanks and had to fill them with water to get them to the bottom. They later poured an extra slab on top, then covered them with ground! A year later we had to remove all of them, even though we had ALL of the local permits!! It’s a long story! Rag'n'Bull Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/10/2012 3:31:59 AM   Basically there is bugger all wind here so any investment in wind energy would be, pret5ty much, wasted. As for solar, it's unbelievable the price of some things here, if the locals buy something regularly then the price is reasonable but, just as an example, because the majority of them sleep on the floor or on straw the price of (just) foam mattresses is OTT, just for a 4' 6" lump of foam mattress reckon on some USD135.00. Toilet rolls is another thing, many of these people wipe their arses with their hands, go figure the price of toilet rolls! Went to see girlfriend's family in Cebu last week and we went to younger sisters house, clearly one room where her, boyfriend, and three kids all sleep on the floor, when we found ourselves babysitting the three kids I enquired of girlfriend where sister and boyfriend were ... The answer came back, bluntly yet to the effect, that they'd gone for a shit and in this, effectively a, shanty town that means they'd gone to the river. If solar were cost efficient here then one or more of the expat property owners here would have already done it! Local grid? The island's electricity comes via an undersea cable from the mainland ... trouble is that the island has developed so much there's not enough electricity to go around thus we regularly experience blackouts. I've just bought a boat today for travelling up and down this main island and for trips to some of the outlying islands, pick it up later this week so in the meantime need to invest in a couple of life jackets, something to use as an anchor, some cord, and a few other bits and pieces ... Joked with girlfriend that she can feel perfectly safe, I'm going to name the boat "Titanic". :) Your Reply: Your name:   New Registration Password:   Forgot password?   refresh Code:   Russian brides > Main Forum > All Raging Bull
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