Sentidokomon

Don’t Advertise

Dear Joy,
 
Reading your article on the latest happenings with the immigration, I agree with you totally. However, the Filipinas who are without visas are sometimes have only themselves to blame. Let me give you few examples. As I live within the walls, I see Filipinas every day. Recently on one of my days off, I was walking down Pericleous St., around ten in the morning, I passed one flat and I heard a Filipina singing on the top of her voice a song by Celine Dion. If I were an immigration officer, I would be making a note of that address. Also in the evening, you see some Filipinas standing outside the flat talking to their cell phones. Why are you standing outside your flat in the cold evening talking to your cell phone? It means that in the flat are other Filipinas, and in order that they can have a private conversation they stand outside. Again an immigration officer in plain clothes will see all this. Singing at the local karaoke bar in the middle of the afternoon, does not show that you are hard at work either. My advice, if you don’t want problems, DON’T advertise yourself. I am constantly told that, “Kuya, we live in Nicosia because it’s near Solomon Square and we don’t have to walk far to get to the bus.â€? Well, for those girls who are by this time in the Philippines, how far is Solomon Square now? I am sorry if I sound too harsh Joy, but lately I find some DH, do not act proper. Laughing, shouting into their cell phones when they are in the street, Western Union or Coinstar. You would not do that in the Philippines, so why do it here. Come to Cyprus, by all means. Do your work, save your money, live your life. You don’t have to be a “runawayâ€?. We all know that there are places where you can go to get help if you are having problems with your employers. But, to run away so you can be “live out” or to be near your friends or boyfriends… then don’t be surprised when you get caught.
 
Regards always,
Pambos Kourtoulos
 

Dear Pambos,
 

Thank you for your letter and patronage to Tinig Pinoy. My colleague Johanna has an answer to your letter in her column “Sideview�. Enjoy reading!
 

Chief Ed