robertorex

Damn cheep, these your okis you're talking about? I just got a pair and was worried about the durability with the 50% sugarcane, but do you think your breakage was more of a stitching issue?

I've been scrolling through the pages and can't find an answer, has the straightish cut for this contest been hijacked in favor of a slim cut?

I think I might have to get into this contest now that the dry bones contest has been hijacked from a straight cut to slim. who do i pm?

Was that movie actually good?

I actually saw the movie, wasn't blown away. Then again, I went in expecting to see 300 with asian people. It's more acting and character driven, more of Genghis Khan the family man than Genghis Khan who raped all of Asia and fathered .02% of all males currently alive.

I guess it was a pretty good movie, if you're into those historical epics like Spartacus and the like.

dropped my black kings off at the tailor for hemming today. Will post fit pics when I get them later this week.

kim kardashian is horrible at sex. sorry.

I gotta say the same about Ozawa. But then again I've never seen Dizon...

or you can cop one to rock one to stock(keep em ICY!).

lol I had to blink there, I thought I was on niketalk for a second!

I'd say craigslist is your best friend here. If you're going to be working in government center I'd say places on the green line in brookline or allston are also good bets.

My favorite places to eat in the Philippines are the ones that serve seafood. I stayed in the Renaissance Towers in Pasig and there was this wet market nearby where you choose your fresh fish, crabs, shrimp, etc. and they prepare it for you in the several restaurants surrounding the wet market. Most of the servers and waiters were transvestites or gay. Any of the locals know what I'm talking about? The food was so good. There are also a bunch of good Chinese restaurants around the Green Hills/San Juan area that serve slammin sea food. One restaurant that comes to mind is King Crab. I haven't tried the newer, fancy restaurants in Greenbelt 5 or Serendra. I'd much rather eat at the mom and pop joints where the real shit is.

I lived in the condos right across from Renaissance, I think you're talking about that place down Julia Vargas where they have a bunch of those "turo-turo" places. They're amazing. You point, wait a bit, and eat all day. Wonderful

I'd have to say that one of my best seafood experiences was down south in Iloilo with some of my fam there. They have joints which locals call "Talabahan" where people go to eat huge rock oysters (talaba). Iloilo is also where they actually catch the stuff so it was mad fresh too. They don't even give you utensils - just huge buckets of oysters, some bowls of water to dip your hands in, and some plates to mix your sauces.

It was me, two of my cousins, and their driver eating oysters and drinking beers continuously for about three hours. total bill was about P800 (~$17)

Heyy, just poppin in to ask some questions. I'm 18 years old, in community college working up to transfer to a university, and don't really know what to do with my life. I have an uncle that's fairly well off in the PI that always begs me to come out. I was planning on going next summer but that's irrelevant. what I wanted to know, how hard is it to make a good living out there? I don't know if that's what I want to do with my life, but its been running through my mind. After schooling out here in the states, is there any chance of living well there with a nice job?

The observation I've made is that as it is, it's hard to get "made" in the Philippines unless you have mad connections and friends and family in high places, which in that case you already are kind of made. The idea a lot of people have is to get made somewhere else (especially the States) and then move to the Philippines when you have the connections, the capital, and the resources (some, for want of another c, would say crooks)

Once you do have all of that it's easy to be rich in the Philippines. I mean, it's easy to be rich anywhere but at comparable dollar wage levels it's much easier to own a nice apartment and live well in the Philippines, and if you make enough money, you can retain a driver and some maids like your uncle probably does

Hey Flip Sufuers,

Been lurking in the unregistered masses for forever, but I found this thread so interesting that I felt it was high time for me to finally show up.

Reading through some of the posts were a little difficult for me because I have a soft spot for Manila and the Philippines. Although I was born in DC, I moved to Manila at four months old, lived there the first eighteen years of my life, and went to a local high school (Xavier lol) before moving to Boston for college (where I've been for two years now). I still have a lot of friends and family back home and I'm there every winter for Christmas and New Year's.

I guess the reason the negative comments about Manila sort of stung me was because I knew that they were mostly true. Dirty, polluted, crowded, shit wages, crappy zoning and transportation, not to mention endemic poverty and crime hanging over everyone's head? It wasn't until I lived in a city that got all of these things "right" that I realized how hard and far behind it was in my city. It's funny, I hear many Fil-Am kids talking about "getting their eyes opened" when they take a trip to the motherland but it was a trip to America that woke me up to a lot of the problems back home.

It's sad too because even the people aren't free from the hate. I remember back in high school my teachers would tell me that Filipino workers were prized overseas because they were skilled and spoke English. It got a little ironic when I saw my favorite teachers bolt the country for dollar salaries in New Mexico and a fast-track to green cards. On SuFu everyone raves about the craftsmanship and attention to detail that every Japanese worker puts into his art, but some people here think that Filipinos can't even stitch a damn pair of jeans right.

When some people call our culture "flawed" it's easy to get angry and spout who-do-you-think-you-are kind of bullshit, but we Filipinos got to point the lens at ourselves and see why they're calling us that. I think we'll all agree that in the Philippines the gap between the "haves" that own whole island groups and the "have-nots" who live on a dollar a day is so huge that people there assume it's natural, like the way the grand canyon is. When people hate on Filipino workers for being "lazy", "passive", or "unambitious" you guys gotta understand that this is because these people are taught that slapping together fake jeans is the highest station in life they can aspire to. They're born into a society where from day one of their lives they're looking up at a glass ceiling where people on the other side are pointing guns at them and telling them that since they don't have it to begin with, they never will. So instead of fighting to break through it, they try to climb over each other to be on the top of the cage. Crab mentality.

And therein you have the root (imo) of most all the problems in the Philippines. People are too afraid of changing things. Why do we keep electing our politicians from the same corrupt families? Why do we continue to pay our workers shit and give more money to the people with it? And most of all, why do we continue to tell people to avoid our country like the bird flu?

Not wanting to sound like a sap activist college kid, but the only way to get things changed in the Philippines is to stop hating on it and take some pride in what it does have. Great food, talented local designers (they're there if you look), hot women, and a wealth of history, art, and culture. Might I add that besides food and haircuts, taxi rides, drinks, tattoos and vacationing are all ridiculously cheap and well worth purchasing in the Philippines.

/rant over. Sorry about being long-winded, I just had to get that off my chest. I do all the normal SuFu things too like clothes, shoes, and denim so don't judge me as a soapbox guy for one post

Looking forward to meeting all of you! I wanted to stick some tagalog in this post for the hell of it but I think it might be against the rules