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Jack Peterson
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Can you give me the details of your bike Jack, dont have much of an idea about them.

 

http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes/mountain/rockhopper

Available through out the Philippines at about 12.000 to 22.000 php This is mine at 14.500+ 2.500 hat gloves etc. Multi use Specialised.

 http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes

 

 

 

Mine was from Bernard's Bikes Dumaguete.

 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bernard-Bicycle-Supply/222415001119019

 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bernard-Bicycle-Supply/222415001119019?sk=photos_stream

 

Good for the body good for the Mind :thumbsup:

 

JP :tiphat:

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RBM
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One of the things I noticed whilst there recently that Filipinos basically obey the road rules

 

For sure this is not the case, the opposite apples.

 

On subject, perhaps join a club and have some involvement with different projects. Also have you considered going to the gym....light work outs to begin with. Its very noticeable to me if  I go a week or so without my feeling and mood definitely turns negative. 

 

Consider tennis, even if never played before Asians are pretty patient people. There is so much to do, matter of the bull and horns and doing something. Sitting with expats drinking is not an answer.

 

I love the suggestion of buying a bike, any form exercise, site seeing must be good.

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mogo51
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One of the things I noticed whilst there recently that Filipinos basically obey the road rules

 

For sure this is not the case, the opposite apples.

 

On subject, perhaps join a club and have some involvement with different projects. Also have you considered going to the gym....light work outs to begin with. Its very noticeable to me if  I go a week or so without my feeling and mood definitely turns negative. 

 

Consider tennis, even if never played before Asians are pretty patient people. There is so much to do, matter of the bull and horns and doing something. Sitting with expats drinking is not an answer.

 

I love the suggestion of buying a bike, any form exercise, site seeing must be good.

Wold love to do all that, but a chronic back condition which means I cannot even tie my shoelaces makes tennis etc

out of the queation. They suggested cycling to me, as a slight lean forward seems to reduce the pain from spinal

stenosis.

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mogo51
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One of the things I noticed whilst there recently that Filipinos basically obey the road rules

 

For sure this is not the case, the opposite apples.

 

On subject, perhaps join a club and have some involvement with different projects. Also have you considered going to the gym....light work outs to begin with. Its very noticeable to me if  I go a week or so without my feeling and mood definitely turns negative. 

 

Consider tennis, even if never played before Asians are pretty patient people. There is so much to do, matter of the bull and horns and doing something. Sitting with expats drinking is not an answer.

 

I love the suggestion of buying a bike, any form exercise, site seeing must be good.

Wold love to do all that, but a chronic back condition which means I cannot even tie my shoelaces makes tennis etc

out of the queation. They suggested cycling to me, as a slight lean forward seems to reduce the pain from spinal

stenosis.

I spent two weeks sitting in buses from Laoag to Angeles and I do not suggest that they are good drivers, but

basically they are not that bad. If you want to see the world's worst drivers, come to Thailand (alghough China

takes some beating).

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Dave Hounddriver
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I just had a great idea thanks to JP's post.  I am giving it a try and will update (assuming I remember) as time goes by.

 

I went out and bought my other half a peddle bike.  3,200 pesos for a 10 speed.  Its on the smaller side but so is she.  Now she can go peddle her stress off and I get a little peace in the cabin.

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Thomas
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Do any of you expats ever get "cabin fever"?
If you tell me when you are born, I can tell you how it can be solved  :)     It's HUGE difference between what different personalities need:

/More FRIENDS. In most smaller places it's EASY to get more friends by just talk to people and with some of them it will grow to friendship.  Harder the biger place you live in. In cities it can be solved by joining a group e g clubs with suiting interests.

/More HOBBIES.  You seem to be very short of things to do.  I have "to much" to do even if I would only count hobbies I want to do. It's MORE to do in Phils e g study their habbits  by intreract with people or study a language or just check nature.

/And/or some people get problem when they retire, because they have to FEEL USEFUL.  In our home countries we can solve it easy by doing some volontary work, but in Phils they demand WORK PERMIT to do such!!!  :bash:    But I don't know if the limit is zero or much.   Perhaps starting a small business?   :)

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Gratefuled
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• A lack of patience

• Always feeling tired

• Feeling unproductive and unmotivated

• Feeling sad or depressed

• Lethargy

• Difficulty concentrating

• Craving carbohydrates or sugar

• Difficulty waking in the morning

• Sleep disturbance

• Social withdrawal

• Irritability

 

I copied the list but it doesn't apply to me.

I've always lacked patience.

I don't know why they made up this list. It has nothing to do with "cabin fever".

I cannot relate to any others on the list.

Thanks anyway.

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Ynot
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Unfortunately I am not in a position to suffer cabin fever, still at work in Aus, but I did attend a retirement seminar and they mention that people fail to plan what they will do after retirement.  They plan their finances etc, but they actually fail to plan what they will do when they stop work and retire. I thought it was a valid point, so now I have two years, only 24 months left to plan what i will do in my retirement, I will not leave it till the day I've retired and then think gee what shall i do today! I will use these next 24 months to plan what i will do after i retire.

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RBM
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One of the things I noticed whilst there recently that Filipinos basically obey the road rules

 

For sure this is not the case, the opposite apples.

 

On subject, perhaps join a club and have some involvement with different projects. Also have you considered going to the gym....light work outs to begin with. Its very noticeable to me if  I go a week or so without my feeling and mood definitely turns negative. 

 

Consider tennis, even if never played before Asians are pretty patient people. There is so much to do, matter of the bull and horns and doing something. Sitting with expats drinking is not an answer.

 

I love the suggestion of buying a bike, any form exercise, site seeing must be good.

 

Wold love to do all that, but a chronic back condition which means I cannot even tie my shoelaces makes tennis etc

out of the queation. They suggested cycling to me, as a slight lean forward seems to reduce the pain from spinal

stenosis.

 

 

Sorry to read of your condition, it could be the bumps on the road may aggravate your problem. Do to the fact our local gym is totally slack in maintenance I ran out of patience and recently bought a Chinese made cross trainer. It was on special or as they say promo...also were stationary bikes. Employed an excellent mechanic for the assembly. he packed it  full of grease and its great, now just do weights in the gym. Maybe this would assist your condition by strengthening muscles and at a minimum make your feel better as you regain fitness.   

 

My first preference would be a bike for sure.

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RBM
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I spent two weeks sitting in buses from Laoag to Angeles and I do not suggest that they are good drivers, but basically they are not that bad. If you want to see the world's worst drivers, come to Thailand (alghough China takes some beating).

 

Nice to read this.

 

Love your opinion after traveling around the Visayas and experiencing some (not all) of the local ceres buses. I travel quite extensively in this area both by motor cycle and car, many a time I have faced a ceres  taking up most of the road on a blind bend. Further a favourite of them is to  stop when the passenger yells....seems mostly on blind bend. Locals do not enjoy walking here.

 

I have motor cycled quite a lot in Thailand, mostly North Thailand, yes many scares how ever if I was to rate them I would give them the edge over the locals here. Not by much though.

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