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To: shades who wrote (66053)	7/7/2005 9:01:17 PM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 74559

Well it sounds like you are at least having fun chatting :)

To: shades who wrote (66053)	7/7/2005 9:11:34 PM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 74559

1450 phillipine pesos = $US25....

To: shades who wrote (66053)	7/7/2005 10:05:33 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Shades, Re: "her contract" When the gal tell you she has a "contract" what that usually means is that her employer hires her on a contract that specifies a period of employment less than six months in duration. By doing that the company doesn't have to pay the Philippine minimum wage (about $3 USD per day in Bohol) or bother with any old age pension witholding or other reporting. Most employees in retail jobs work on this basis. It means that every six months you get a vacation or get to go job hunting. If this gal has a computer at home that means that her parents are pretty well off. A school teacher or a clerk in a bank or government office makes a good bit less than $100 USD per month in Bohol and a landline phone with dialup internet is probably $25 USD per month not to mention the cost of the computer or the cost of the electricity it takes to run a computer. A school teacher or a bank teller doesn't make enough to have internet at home. I bet she is sending you this stuff from an internet cafe. I have never heard of anybody smoking opium there. What they are smoking is "shabu" which is a very powerful methamphetimine, made there in the Philippines from precursor chemicals smuggled in from mainland China, usually being made by these Chinese networks. They have lots of raids and the Constabulary captures spectacular amounts of the stuff, someties tons of it, nearly always along with some "fresh off the boat" meth chemists from China. It is a really big problem, worse than here because the stuff is much more potent and pure than the "stove top" concoctions here in the US. There is really a shortage of young men there with several million of them out of the country working in the middle east and on ships all over the world. And there are very little in the way of jobs for the ones at home. The place is a real disaster in the making. Slagle