Retirement in the Philippines
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Posted:Sep 21, 2009 5:19 pm
Last Updated:Sep 22, 2009 2:45 pm 6027 Views
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Special Resident Retirement Visa (SRRA) is a privilege granted to foreigners who would like to have a permanent resident status in the Philippines. For investing in the Philippines, foreigners can enter and leave the country as many times and as long as one wishes, including family members. With a Special Resident Visa, a holder can live, do business, study in the Philippines indefinitely.
Service fee of $300 each for spouse or dependent (up to 3 dependents)
For families with more than 3 dependents, additional $ 15,000/dependent
Immigration conversion fee:
• Php: 7,600 for spouse and 16 to 20 years old.
• Php: 7,350 for 14 to 15 years old.
• Php: 6,850 for 13 years old and below
• PLRA ID card ($10) for spouse and/or dependent
• Immigration express fee of Php 500 per person (elective)
Note: The required investment money (US$ 50,000 for 50 years old & above, $75,000 for 35 to 49 years) to avail of the Special Resident Retirement Visa (SRRA) must be deposited in a bank accredited by the Philippine Retirement Authority. This deposit can be withdrawn after 6 months but must be invested in the Philippines. It can be used to buy properties (condominiums) stocks, securities, etc.
Online Application is available at the Phil. Retirement Authority site.
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ZAMBALES (Phil) has 9 Islands: all of them WHITE sand
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Posted:Mar 17, 2009 1:12 am
Last Updated:Sep 22, 2009 10:39 pm 7393 Views
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ZAMBALES (Phil) has 9 Islands: all of them WHITE sand
1 Grande Island
Subic Bay Freeport, Zambales
The former R & R center for most of the American Navy personnel stationed in Subic. .Land area 40 hectares.
2 Pamana (Sneak) Island
Calapandayan, Subic,Zambales
In the heart of historic America army base of Subic Bay,overlooking South China Sea lie the island called "Isla Pequena".This island used to be a haven for fishermen to escape the giant waves during stormy weathers,which must be the reason why it is known to locals as the Sneak Island.
3-4 Camara and Capones Island, Anawangin Cove, Silaguin Bay
Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales
The Camara Islands lie a few kilometers from the shores of Pundaquit,Zambales. 2 kilometers offshore. These islands are known for white beaches,speckled with colorful crushed coral. Clear turquoise waters hold the visitor spell-bound. High rock cliffs invite rappellers.
Capones Island can be accessed by banca from the town of Pundaquit. There are a number of breaks on the island which are all reef breaks. This Island is famous for its average yet manageable surfs. In the right season,the island's reefs offer well formed breaks for advance surfers. Pundaquit however has waves perfect for beginners ranging from 3-9 ft during particular seasons. This can be heaps of fun! . Capones Island, where a lighthouse is located is ideal place for fishing and boating
5. Magalawa Island (Palauig Zambales)
6. San Salvador Island/Marine Sanctuary
Masinloc, Zambales
San Salvador Island, located in the western side of Masinloc, Zambales, is about 2.5 kilometers away from the mainland, or a 30-minute pump boat ride from the coast. Its abundance in marine resources has made it famous as scuba divers' paradise in Central Luzon. Divers would certainly love feasting their eyes on seeing the largest Manta Rays in the country each measuring about 10 feet in diameter. The island is rich in fruit-bearing trees like mangoes. Clean water, smooth beach coupled with powdery white sand and cool sea breeze. The island is host to the only fish sanctuary in Luzon whose reef is made up of used tires to substantially increase fish production. Land area is 380 hectares.
7. Potipot Island
Uacon, Candelaria, Zambales
The town of Candelaria in Brgy Uacon is the jump off point to Potipot Island, an idyllic South China Sea setting with fringes of white-sand beaches and a beautiful snorkeling reef. 7 hectares Land Area. Isla Vista Beach Resort is the nearest kick off point- just a 3 minute boat ride.
8. Hermana Mayor, Bolitok, Sta. Cruz Zambales,
Hermana Mayor is an island in the middle of the sea. It is popularly known as Ms. Universe Island. It is the venue where the candidates of the 1979 Miss Universe Beauty Pageant posed for photograph.
9. Hermana Menor sits next to the much larger "big sister," Hermana Mayor
Ten minutes before reaching the island coast, we could see at a certain angle the two isles, Menor and Mayor, seemingly attached, indeed like two intimate siblings.
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What is worst? Alone Sad and Single OR in a relationship but feeling lonely and alone?
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Posted:Jan 11, 2009 7:21 pm
Last Updated:Sep 22, 2009 10:48 pm 5985 Views
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As I go along my daily rounds of blog reading, I noticed that most of the topic pertains to being single, alone and sad. Maybe the very reason they are in this site, hoping for the end of their singleness, aloneness and/or sadness.
And for those of us who are in a relationship, I still read and feel their aloneness and sadness.
Feeling isolated and lonely happens to both cases, single and attached. But what could be the difference?
What is more heart wrenching?
Could it be that happiness is a choice?
Whether we are in a relationship or unattached at the moment,
we could choose to be happy, counting every day the blessings of our present status in life, and hoping that when it is time to move on or to make a change, we would have the strength and the wisdom to welcome the good and bad things that comes out of the new status.
Happiness is a state of mind, just as love is a decision.
Love and happiness are not mere feelings.
We could love inspite and despite of,
We could choose to be happy under any situation.
It is such a waste of time and energy to cry over what we don’t have or for what we have lost.
May we all find happiness in every thing that we do and in the place that we are in.
Have a good day!
Eileen
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Subic/Cawag to be Home of Neocove - a Donald Trump Project
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Posted:Dec 30, 2008 8:44 pm
Last Updated:Jul 14, 2009 10:54 pm 5937 Views
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Enter Donald Trump to the stage of the Subic Bay investors club. Yes, the billionaire real estate giant from the U.S. is interested in building a $1 billion high-end resort/leisure development in the Subic Bay area. If plans prevail, the project will be called Neocove, and will eventually be the largest high-end master-planned community in all of Asia when completed.
With multi-nationalists focusing on the Subic Bay area in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, Clark Subic Marketing believes this confidence in the area shows the potential for Subic Bay for continued and tremendous economic growth. This is a huge boost for Subic and for the Philippines in general and should be viewed as a path toward prosperity.
The team of real estate developers is actually a consortium of players made-up of Korean Heung-A Property Group, American Westgate Resorts Asia Ltd, the largest privately owned time share company in the world, operating 28 resorts in 11 US states, and the Trump Organization of Manhattan, the main oversight company of Donald Trump. This group of companies is actually looking into many other investment opportunities throughout Asia; the Subic project is only one of theses master-planned developments the group will be eyeing in the near future.
The property this group is looking at is actually just outside of the Subic Feeport in the area of Cawag, on a 457-hectare beachfront location. The plans at this point are for hotels, casinos, residential units, a convention center, retail shops, and even educational and medical facilities.
Of course the project will be constructed in phases, with building starting as soon as the first quarter of 2009, and a complete build-out in 10 years. The first phase will include the main road, drainage and utility-infrastructure, lakes, parks, bike paths, jogging trails, and to top it off, a 54-hole golf course, all due for completion in 2011.
This project, a definite high-end facility, has the potential to completely transform the Subic Bay Freeport. It’s anticipated to cater-to high-dollar long-term residents, tourist and businessmen from Europe and the U.S.
One of the differences this project offers is the fact that the focus will be on building a master-planned community to attract mainly long-term residents. With the inclusion of world-class medical facilities and international schools, the developers will focus on promoting the project to those markets in other countries that come to expect these type of amenities.
So, all of us in the Subic-Clark corridor should be keenly anticipating this first-of-its-kind project. With this undertaking, we look for a chance to move the Philippines into the realm of a more modern and complete country.
By Clark Subic Marketing
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Should We Tell Him?
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Posted:Dec 8, 2008 2:25 am
Last Updated:Dec 8, 2008 4:22 pm 5838 Views
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He was rushed to the hospital for just a simple dengue virus. Though his platelet was dangerously low, it was just a matter of fast blood transfusion and enough strength to get thru the virus incubation time. After four (4) days, he was released from the hospital. All of us gathered around for a celebration of life and thanksgiving.
After a week, he was rushed again to the hospital for the same symptoms, everyone was surprised and wondered how can someone get dengue again in a span of a week?? And thru the days that passed, it has unfolded slowly before our eyes, he has plastic anemia and is estimated to live for six months.
He is just 43 years old, husky and from the looks of it all, strong. He is going to leave behind him, five and a wife, my beloved sister, who is just 40 years old. It was a shock to everyone.
This got us into a dilemma, should we tell him? Or should we protect him from the painful truth?
If we tell him, it might get him depressed and just give up fighting for his life. If we keep it from him, aren’t we depriving him of his right to know and the chance to prepare for a meaningful end?
How would you handle this situation? Should we tell him?
If given the chance to choose on how we die, should we choose an accident and get it over with in an instant? Or is it better to live a long long life and die alone in a nursing home? Or be given a time line, say 6 months for our final end?
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Farming in the Philippines
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Posted:Dec 1, 2008 5:53 pm
Last Updated:May 8, 2024 1:33 pm 5777 Views
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Filipinos has a penchant for anything small. Our national bird is a small bird Maya. Instead of buses, we have for our usual transportation the jeepneys that can load about 16 passengers, tricycles (3) and motorbikes. Small convenience (sari sari) store in every corner in the village. Fishermen with small bancas (boats).
Our farms were used to be haciendas which has been subdivided due to the government’s land reform program into small farms averaging to 7 hectares each farm. So instead of seeing big farm equipments, the farmers has adapted the hand tractors with trailers which we call kuliglig, helicopter threshers, which can be moved from one place to another usually by the side of the road. Then the palay would be dried by the highway. The road becomes not only for cars but a big palay dryer during harvest time. And its common courtesy not to drive over them as much as you can.
The big rice mills now are just as small as refrigerators, serving the few harvest of each farmers. The plazas (town square) of each barrio/barangay which are actually basketball courts are also used as palay dryers during harvest time in November and March.
We are basically an agricultural country, but that is how we dry our palay. That’s how we handle farming. Small farms with their own small farm equipments. Are we under capitalism or socialism? It has made me wonder for a long time now.
Is it any surprise to us all, that an agricultural country imports rice to feed its population?
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