Couch/furniture manufacturing exporting to the Americas?

Don't know if this would be classified as a budget business idea. Don't know if marrying a girl from a powerful family would be budget either lol.

Big fire in Rockwell Power Plant right now... I hope my favorite mall doesn't burn down .

Anyone got any good info on a monthly rental in Angeles City that has internet? Looking for somewhere around 15,000 pesos per month, don't care what its like as long as it has internet access.

Yah me2 me2, although I gotta say I still prefer greenbelt.

hey alex lets meet up at the greenbelt dont they have some clubs there?

I recently moved to Manila with grinding as my main income. Tomorrow I'm gonna go look for a condo in Quezon City. Makate is nice and all, but I'ld rather be where the real people are + QC has a better nightlife.
I'll read the thread once I have more time to find out who's who and doing what.

what are the highest no limit games that run in manila?

update on how the internet speed is there?
is there reliable internet for 15 tables of poker?

what about the pot/weed/marijuana availability there? Easy? Cheap?

My parents go there in the winter time to enjoy having 5 maids.

the highest frequent game in a licensed casino is the P 50/100 game in the hyatt. Sometimes there is a P 100/200 game.
P100 = €1.55 / $ 2.05

Haven't seen anything higher yet. But there might be biger games from time to time. You can have Cardrooms text you when they should appear.

Internet so far has been dissapointing, It lags a lot and I have some conection losses now and then. But that is mainly because of the hotel I'm in. I don't know anything about regular internet yet.

about pot/weed/mariuahana:
Drugs are bad mkay (I have no idea)

they have a 100/200/500 auto straddle and 500/1000 game at the metro.

Ow snap, they lied to me.
I'll check it out soon.

If I could grind 1/2 6max online could I live comfortably in the Phillipines?

Yes very much so, just make sure you have enough cash outside of your roll as you have to pay the whole lease period's rent +2 months security deposit in advance.

Any business ideas based in the Philippines as a primary source of income with a budget of about $10,000?

its real cheap pretty easy to get but it sucks ass. You will be really disappointed if you are used to smoking hi grade pot. Also a couple of joints found on you can get you locked up for life or juiced big time in bribe money.

So i go out today to grab a bite to eat and right outside my building there are like 50 Filipinos staring at a 20" TV inside a tiny barber shop. I think to myself that's weird. Then i go a block further to the mall and there are about 100 people staring at the TV in some small fast food joint. Now i'm getting slightly worried. I'm thinking, oh ****, something very bad must be happening to make all these people stop what they are doing to stare at a tiny box from outside a shop that sells chicken burgers. So i stop to see what all the commotion is about, expecting it to be somewhere along the lines of the Filipino President being over thrown, swine flu infecting a quarter of the population or aliens invading earth. Nope, it was just a boxing match. I continued on. Filipinos sure love their boxing.

It was filipino champ Manny Pacquiao's title fight.

http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/sp...continues.html

man, that's Pac Man, the pride and joy of the Philippines.

I saw it last night, what a machine! However, his opponent, an Englishman came up with the gameplan of blocking punches with his chin!

i had to pay 30k pesos once. fun times looking back at it lol

Only Chuck Norris blocks punches with his chin.

Sounds like a perfect rip off setup in which you end up getting booted out of your place after a month and them keeping the cash and renting it out again.

On an unrelated note, how do you like Manila so far?

Yes, this is why you should only go through the big developers, like Ayala or Rockwell land, since they would lose way too much business trying this for it to make any sense, because I have heard of scams happening (not exactly what you describe) semi-regularly when not dealing w/major groups.

So far manila is a mixed bag, although I am basically happy. Living is cheap. Yesterday I went to lunch with Tyrese Sebastian and it was $5 for the two of us for a simple but filling and complete meal at a local place in a nice mall. A cheap haircut is $1.5, an upscale haircut is $7-8, and the top of the line haircut (at probably the best place in the country) is $30 or so. The girls are also very hot if you are in the right places, and given income inequality they are all looking for guys making western incomes, as the average CPA here makes $200-300/month. The other day we were hitting on some girls at a club and they expressed no interest in us but when we mentioned that we were from the US they went nuts (unfortunately they were not particularly attractive). I am also paying $460/month for a pretty big and fairly nice 35 sqm studio in one of the most upscale developments in the country. The lobby is elegant and there is a nice, very green pool area. Security is very good and the staff is also very friendly.

What I just described is great, but there are big downsides. The pollution actually makes you feel sick sometimes, and walking around it is just scorching some days. Also, I'm not really happy about any method of transportation I might have. Drivers are all maniacs and my main option for transport is a taxi which looks like it is made of tin, has no seat belts, and has a licensing structure so that the driver has to drive 24hrs straight, so in addition to crazy driving, a tin car, and no seat belts, the guys are falling asleep. The alternative is to hire a chauffeured car from avis, which though ridiculously cheap by western standards, the cost does add up. My apartment, though in a fancy building, also had its share of problems. I had leakage in my washing machine closet ceiling which left a yellow pool on the ground. When I looked up at the ceiling later I noticed that there was a waste pipe. I called the building maintenance and they claim the pipe is sealed so it must've come from somewhere else (one of them also dipped his hand in the pool and smelled it and told me that it didn't smell like urine, but like soap), but I'm still not entirely thrilled by the fact. There was also a distinct smell of sewage in my bathroom, which they were able to fix, but it still didn't leave a great impression. One can say this stuff can happen anywhere, but I have talked to family friends who live in similar buildings and it is apparently the norm here, while in a similarly nice building in the first world it would be the rare exception. On a side note, I am also irritated by the constant attempts people make to scam me.

Overall life is quite comfortable here, and I would recommend it to people thinking of coming here, but they definitely need a disclaimer that there are a lot of things they will love and a lot of things that they really might not like at all.

10% of the pot