Some DVDs to start to explain life in the UK

I sent K a package with some DVDs:

Four Weddings and a Funeral
Love Actually
Notting Hill
Bridget Jones' Diary
Pride and Prejudice (the Colin Firth version!)
Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)
The King's Speech

I added:

Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
Gone With The Wind
Casablanca
Ladyhawke

just because I like them...

And for small k, the stepsprog, I added Paddington. And a Paddington book...

What would you send?

I am taking Jackass the movie with me next month...plus some other visual stuff.

My asawa likes watching gardeners world, father ted, countryfile and 'The good life' with richard briers. A lot of those you can also get on YouTube.. One way to share media easier than sending DVD movies is if you both install "google drive" on your respective computers, and set up one account, then you sign into google drive using the same account on both computers, whatever you place in the 'shared' directory on your pc, will appear on hers and vice versa. That means that you can send/receive document files, movies files, music and so on..

Lovely idea. Alas she doesnt have an Internet connection at present. I could do that when she is back home, perhaps.

Well with any luck you won't need to, visa application permitting Pretty hardcore you guys getting on without the internet I have to say.. We use a medical videoconferencing package called Vsee (which offers automatic answer) which means that we are both online 24-7. Whenever anyone wants to talk they just call up the other person and it picks up automatically. I can't imagine managing without the internet for very long..

Long and complext story. We had an Internet connection when she was working in Manila and renting a house, then when she decided to come to the UK she gave up the job and went home to Mindanao to live with her parents, thinking that a "pocket wifi" would work (it does, but not at all well...) then she moved back to Manila just for the TB test and the biometrics...

Ohhh I see.. That's pretty disruptive. And there I am throwing a fit when the internet is a bit slow. You've been to Mindanao? I hear that for a westerner that's kind of... iffy?

Yes, more than once. Indeed, last January I was sitting with two of K's nephews on the roof of a jeepney driving the whole length of Zamboanga del Sur, which is officially part of the "badlands", infested with Islamist terrorists. All I got from the surprised locals was " Hi Joe!". And that was after a swim in the pirate infested Sulu Sea.

Most of Mindanao is safe as houses. Few typhoons and few earthquakes.

K's parents come from the area near Mount Canlaon, in Negros Oriental; they moved to Mindanao when they married, to get land to farm.

Never heard of VSee before but reading the info it seems ideal for low bandwidth usage/connection

Andrew is a secret agent from MI6. His code name is James Blonde.

Hence why he's not afraid of some terrorist with a sword and some pirates. He takes them out for lunch, using his suave and sense of humour.

Kidding aside, Mindanao usually don't encounter typhoons and earthquakes. It's usually us Luzonians and the Visayans who always suffer during the storm season.

By the way,

No Game of Thrones?
James Bond?
The Inbetweeners?
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels?
Shaun of the Dead?
Taken?
Braveheart?
Mr. Bean?

Oh no! I've been watching the wrong movies.

Yeah that's why I've been using it. Overall over the last couple of years I feel that its been better than Skype. You can also choose the video resolution and framerate yourself.

Can she watch British dvds on a Philippines dvd player?

"Only Fools and Horses" was voted the best sitcom by the British public.

good point. If she has a us region or a far eastern region player then no. Perhaps it's a specail region free player? You can also switch the region on your pc dvd drive a limited number of times..

I remember we used to get video CDs quite a lot from street vendors. CDs seem a lot more popular there than here, perhaps because they are cheap.

Still got a few of them here now.

My wife is a particular fan of films that contain either violence, gangsters or people getting eaten alive by animals. I do worry about her sometimes. She sits and shouts at the television whenever the action gets a little tense, and sometimes stands up in the centre of the room and begins yelling.

"Stupid Americans" is a particular favourite of hers, when people (regardless of nationality) make the inevevitable decision to go back inside a house where a killer/man eating mammal is on the lose.

I do enjoy watching horror films with her.

We have enjoyed some tv boxsets too. Luther, Hannibal, The Sopranos and Breaking Bad all went down well.

She has been known to enjoy romantic comedies too in some of her more tender moments.

As for Rowan Atkinson, Mr Bean's Holiday is surprisingly enjoyable.

I have a huge collection of pirate CDs from when I lived in China.

Speaking of which, the Philippines is full of cheap Chinese DVD players that will play anything - region 1, 2. 3. 4 - because what they mostly get used for is pirate stuff anyway!

Accordingly, I expect these genuine DVDs to work all right - if they don't, I will just ask K to buy a multi region player.

Yuna - thanks for confirming my choices.
Knightstrike - K is fairly boyish as girls go, but she ain't a dyke! And who needs "Game of Thrones" when you can watch "The Philippines Elections, 2016" for free!

I like the new avatar Yuna, you look very pretty and sophisticated for sure, I'm not very sophisticated because I had to look up how to spell it

I'm sure a busy professional like yourself doesn't have many opportunities to find a chap, I assume through your work that you travel around a little.

You're very pretty and come across as a really pleasant person, love will come knocking at the door soon enough.

I look how I met my wife in Dubai, I was stopping at the Hyatt Regency in Dubai, I had a little walk around the shops on the ground floor of the hotel and I heard karaoke blurring out from this bar, I walked into the bar and the rest is history so to speak, my first meeting with my now wife. In other words, you really do not know when love is around the corner.

By the way, next time you are in Dubai go to the Hibiki Music Lounge (they have a Facebook page), lots of Filipinos and westerners enjoying karaoke and drinks. Its the kind of place where you don't get any unwanted attention that's why my wife used to go after work for a couple of hours.