I know in reality it's not a joke Got a female relative heading to Canada next year, looking forward to a good life I am sure. Decided to marry her boyfriend they will go as a skilled worker married couple, The soon to be grooms father has taken him aside and started asking him to fund repairs and an extension to the house despite the grooms family stumping up one single centavo for the paperwork, airfare or indeed anything, everything is being paid for by the brides family Utang na loob is a one way street in pinoy culture.