I'll try. But I'll have a bigger chance probably for him to notice me, if I show him some beautiful girls or something. Hahahahaha... The man himself!
Yes, and again an example is my father. Chubby, not really good-looking, but had countless of wives and girlfriends in several countries including of course, the Philippines. Even had heaps of kids. You don't have to tell me. Hahahahahahha... ...but I'll probably won't have much competitors with the girls of my preferences anyway. It seems like every one hates gingers, Hahahhahaha... But I'm so enthralled by that red-hair and pale white skin.
Degrees two a penny ? Where on earth did you get that from ?...and what an insult to our youngsters who have worked so hard to gain theirs.
I think I get what he is implying, and I think get yours too. Correct me if I'm wrong. There are so many graduates nowadays, so many different degrees. Some have graduated from this university or that university, etcera, etcetera.... It's good to have, of course. But it shouldn't be your only selling point. I had worked in an HR capacity too before. What is important is to show what you have gained from that degree. And also your other skills. In Business/Marketing terms, what your competitive advantage is. 'What makes you different from our other applicants?' A diploma is still after all just some paper. My mother likes to make a big fuzz about it. She used to show it to the neighbours and friends. Even my medals and such, they're just trinkets really. What is more important is, what is retained in the head.
Written on the comfort room cubicle wall at university, above the loo roll: "Degrees. Please take one"
i suppose i'm lucky when it comes to wealth... i can afford anything i want. but i sometimes cant afford what i need.
What there are in the UK are a significant quantity of 2nd rate or irrelevant degrees. By irrelevant I mean, not what business / industry needs. So having a degree can be down to having one that the employer isnt seeking.
First of all my respect to u for making something of ur life after starting ur life in Tondo. yes i am aware of Tondo smokey mountain etc. i have been to PI to Manila & am going back November. My advice is wherever u go u will encounter good times problems people who will help people who will try to take advantage. whatever happens dnt think.we are all the same
Please tell me how you went about applying for a British passport, as you must have been over 18 at the time? I was always lead to believe that if someones only claim to British citizenship is through an unmarried father and the child was born before before 2006, the child is not a British citizen automatically. However, the child can normally be registered as a British citizen, provided that application is made before age 0f 18. Some of the best times of my life were spent staying with friends in Tondo. Its not all bad.
My parents were both married back in 1981 and both British. My mother became a British citizen because of the virtue of being married to my father. The British Nationality Act of 1981, that took out the provision that automatically grants citizenship to the non-UK wives of British men was yet to be implemented. I had a UK child passport when I was young. It was never renewed and it was submitted to the UK Consulate here in Manila. I never got it back. I also have Consulate Birth Registry and every thing. It's not that bad, if you were born there and know the streets. And you know how to avoid danger. But for someone who was rich before, then to suddenly moved there and to experience the harshness of life; it's like falling down a cliff.
No worries. So yes, I'm British by descent through both or either of them. I'm also eligible for an Ancestry Visa if ever for some reason in hell that I don't get my UK passport (you never know with HMPO these days), because my maternal grandmother is also a naturalised British. She got hers through migrating there (OFW) back in the 70s. She was a cleaner, kitchen staff, waitress, etc. and then she got married to a British man in the UK. I've got other relatives there as well, both paternal and maternal. But I'm not close to any of them.
Its a shame that you didnt look into your adult passport application earlier. Presumably you were not thinking along those lines a few years back?
Yes, because I got by my Philippine passport just fine before. Until I realised that no matter how much I achieve or work hard, that if I try to 'play by the rules' all the time, there will be things that I won't be able to overcome. US, UK, EU, all those Western citizens/passports holders, most of the time they are given preference over a Filipino/Philippine passport-holder like me. ------ Anyway like I said in a previous post, the reason why I applied for my UK passport in the first place, was because of a job offer from Chevron in Barrow Island in Western Australia. The offer has already been rescinded a long time ago. I was fresh out of university, hopeful, full of energy like most graduates. Then I got this offer from this multi-national company, which offered just a couple of bucks short from six figures salary. I was so thrilled, jumping up and down because finally I thought that all of my hardships would bear fruit. Pinoy, boy from the slums, then one step closer to achieving the dream... But at the last minute, just couple of days when I was about ready to move; already bought a few suits, ties, shoes, I got a phone call. A woman informed me that I wouldn't be able to proceed with the job offer since they were told by WA government that I cannot work there since I'm neither an Australian resident nor a citizen. Then the woman asked me if I hold a passport from UK, US, EU, and all those other first-world Western countries. I said no. After that, she informed me that she's sorry and that Chevron is sorry... blah...blah...blah... I was distraught, broke my heart. I then called my mum, told her about it. It was then that she said to me that I had a UK child passport before and that she thinks I'm eligible for an adult one. But she's not really knowledgeable about all these UK rules and such, so we called upon an immigration lawyer in the UK. The UK lawyer who is a family friend, and also a Pinay British by descent informed us, based from all the check-list, that I am also British by descent and eligible for a UK passport. So what I did next, was head to the British Embassy in Sydney, then told them about my situation. They advised me though, that it would be easier if I apply here in Manila instead since I was born here and most of my documents are from here. So I did just that, I went back to the Philippines. A really, really, stupid move that I still regret up to this very day... Just couple of days when I got back, I went straight to the Embassy, then lodged my application. Then several bad-lucks struck. The passport processing was moved to Hong Kong some months after. I was ordered to do a new one again. Then some months after again, it was moved back to the UK, had to do another one. All those passport backlogs problem/Theresa May/Paul Pugh issues , basically that's what I went through. The rules kept changing. The required documents did too. How to lodge it. Etcetera, etcetera... So fast forward, here we are...
Of sh1te. You would think they would have processed the application, despite the changes, under the rulings at the oint in time that you made the application.
