My bucket list. Best places to visit. :)

I think you know the advice that I, and I expect others here, will give you.

Dress plainly. Do mano po to her parents, when you first meet them. Be sure (I really mean this!!!) to ask her father for permission to court his daughter. Do not spend a lot of money on dinners and parties, but you will be expected to pay for at least a lechon baboy and beer or Emperador all round.

Now is a good time to learn at least a few sentences in Bisaya.

Hi, Tiger! You may also add Puerto Galera in Mindoro, Boracay in Aklan, Ilocos, some beaches in Quezon province.

There are some awsome cave complexes in the Philippines. Seemingly Samar has some excellent examples, your next door neighbour island. Across the bridge.

http://itsmorefuninthephilippines.com/samar/

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/philippines/sohoton-caves-natural-bridge-national-park

I wish there was a comprehensive Bisayan/English phrase book online so I could shock my wife every once in a while with a sentence or two

Yes. I like the caves from the time I was a little boy, so Filipino capital of caves will be a good destination to visit.

Can you give us little bit more information what is nice in there that everyone should see ? Before it will be too late ?

You are not an old man, so it's never too late.

But it always can be too late. Car can hit me while I will be walking on the street. Tree could collapse on me when I will be walking through the forest. Plane can crash when I will be on board. Rock can fall of my head while I will be in the mountains. Accident in my work can always happens. Or even meteor from the sky can fall and smash my house.
Life is too short to wait.
This is the main reason I think why I dumped my ex girlfriend and come to the Philippines to search for a real love.

We all have personal ways to achieve our objectives.
I prefer to be a "glass half full" type of person rather than a "glass half empty" but when shocks happen like a health scare, it does focus one's ideas on mortality and re-focuses what is really essential in life and for me that is my family.
Personally, I don't think it is good to think too much about negative things but I can see why some people do.
Life works in strange ways. When I passed my UK Truck Class 1 artic license, I decided to celebrate by visiting the Philippines to go scuba diving again. I met my wife on that trip, and I believe being positive leads to other positive things.
Equally, you left a bad relationship and went to find a good one so that was a very positive thing.

Don't get me wrong. I am positive. I am just saying that we should catch our happiness now and here. Not looking for silly excuses and say "I will do this later. I'm too busy right now. I have no time."
We have to think about ours happiness and dreams and make it happen. Because nobody else will think and take care about that.
We have to live our lives. Plan our future and do everything to fulfill it.
Don't let anybody to tell you what you like and what will you do and make all the decisions instead of you.
People today are too lazy to live and be happy. Even if you offer them help they don't want to do it. Finding the excuses all the time that it will never happens, it's impossible to do, it's too hard or its too much troubles.

That's how the today's life look like. Wake up, go to work, go back home, eat and TV, sleep.
And every day the same scheme. If you try to advice them to change that for something better they will look at you like you were a crazy weirdo.

If you marry your sweetheart and have children, you will probably have to live that way also.
A father has responsibilities that are impossible to ignore if he is serious about his family.

I don't agree with that.
Remember. Glass is always half full.
You can always find a solution. You just need to think about it.
My father was always taking me to a trips through the mountains, to the caves deep underground, to swim in the river, and many other things.
When I was 4 year old child I reach a summit of a second highest mountain in my country. Well........almost reach because I have to stay under the summit because they didn't let me go saying it's too dangerous. You have to walk holding chains to secure you. but I was crying all the time that they don't allow me to go.
My father was taking me to the airports to look for the all events. We was looking at people jump with planes with parachute. And I like that too. Not hard to guess that when I finish my 16 years I went myself to do a parachuting course and jump from the plane myself.
And I don't think that I will change when I will have a children.
When I will have a children I will be living for them. I will do what ever I can to make them life happy. I know it will be very hard, but I try to teach them that there are better things than computer and TV