Pinoys abroad… what are the top 10 situations you’d rather not experience when on vacation in the Phils?
Let’s forget the situations that obviously involves the criminal element such as murders, rapes and kidnappings.
Let’s rather focus on the slightly humorous dilemmas that we as balikbayans are more likely to face.
-The sudden influx of relatives to your home with huge expectations of gifts galore?
-Being stuck in mid-day in traffic for 3 hours with the airconditioning busted?
-The mysterious case of the "luggage lost within the NAIA terminal" and the horrors of having to wait 3-5 days for it?
-The headache of facing the restaurant bill EVERY single time you and your "newly-extended" family go out and eat… together with those who can actually afford to pay for it themselves.
-3 straight days of power failures, or most commonly known as "brown-outs"?
-The fact that there are NO foreign movies shown in the theatres during the christmas holidays?
1. 6hrs PAL flight delay because it’s Pacquiao’s fight with dela Hoya
2. MMDA blue guys won’t get out of my way
3. Coding for my car so I have hire a van with unexplained charges
4. Airport parking guards asking for ‘pasalubong’
5. The street children at MIA road sprinting to clean my car’s windshield but rather adding sleeper marks on the hood and the fender
6. The untrained call center agent if I will complain why I can’t connect to the internet
7. It will take a week for a Globelines tech to fix my internet line. I’d rather fix it.
8. I can’t buy accessories for my laptop nearby
9. The never ending Telenovelas.
10. I can’t find a ‘balut’ vendor
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Boy reaction to getting a Nintendo 64 for his Christmas present.