MarcosZeitola wrote: ↑August 29th, 2021, 12:21 am
Age and lockdown took a toll on you
both, really now? I was under the impression C was still only in her early twenties, so I assume she still looks fine. As for you, you at least appear to still have a full head of hair, which is more than 90% of expats your age can say.
It's nice to hear your better half has been so successful in her own right, it truly does sound like a great partnership. Mrs. Zeitola far out-earns me, too, having become a rather successful day trader during the pandemic and having mad some solid cash in crypto. I cannot complain and life has been good to me, and I am shocked at how... little I actually had to do myself.
LOL, what I mean is, if I can be more explicit, that both C and I have put on some weight. This condo here in Davao has a gym, not big but sufficient to do some cardio and weight, so we resumed exercising about a month ago. Might take a little while to see the results
I kind of envy those foreigners who come here to basically retire: they live on whatever passive income they have, and/or their pensions, and they live a frugal yet easy and carefree lifestyle with their Pinay girlfriends/wives. The idea of doing just the same grazed me more than once. In the end, common sense told me that I am still a bit too young and my software skills are still well on demand to just give up and start raising pigs in the province. My idea is to try and save a bit more to be able to build our "dream home" somewhere near Manila, or even near Cebu or Davao, so we have the perks or more space without having to live too far from civilization (offices, malls, nightlife, etc.).
Or we might well return to Europe...but over there the cost of living is a lot higher and the home-building a little bit harder, if anything because of the strict urban planning regulations. C is skeptical, she still believes old Europe is far better..it might take a trip or two to get convinced that, all things considered, the lifestyle we are having over here is not too bad!
Congratulations about Mrs Zeitola the crypto trader! I sure you used the term "out-earn" with some irony as, in a partnership, it's all about pooling cash together. Crypto has been giving a few people some great returns, some others a lot of headaches. I have traditionally been risk-averse and only invested a couple of thousands dollars in crypto. I made some profits, but nothing stellar. The ultimate irony is that my current job is for an Ethereum blockchain startup that is involved in the latest trading trend, liquidity mining. I might get to learn the ropes and perhaps placea few trades myself...spare cash permitting
Good luck to the both of you! Going strong!
MarcosZeitola wrote: ↑August 29th, 2021, 12:21 am
It probably is, PD, it probably is. But what I particularly like about PAG is the fact that he's actually been claiming to be strong, tall, a male model... but he has this habit of 'leaking' pics of himself with the whores he buys. Last year he leaked one photo of himself with a lady who he said was six foot tall, as you can see in my opening post on this thread. Good ol' PAG only came up to her shoulders with his head... making him about, 5'2" or 5'3" at best. I run into Filipino dudes taller than this supposedly big and tough American fellow every day and I bet most are tougher, too.
Yeah, I saw that pic. I found it more pathetic than funny. It's all part of his delusions, I guess...