Jana wrote:mdaemon stated: "Arnel won't give up this job. Poor people from 3rd world countries such as myself and Arnel are only given one (if any) chance in a lifetime to succeed. When that happens, we cling to it like an 18 year old virgin falling in love and marrying a toothless 58 year old ex-prostitute who gave him his first blow job
On the subject of bringing Arnel's family to America, I don't think it is possible as I am sure his kid goes to school and wouldn't be allowed to take a long vacation. Hopefully, when Arnel's immigration status is more permanent, he can bring at least his kids to America with him. I am not sure about his girlfriend though as he is still technically married to another woman. As we are more catholic than the Pope himself, we are one of the only two countries in the world that do not have divorce laws. Because of this, there is very little chance of Arnel being able to marry his girlfriend to make migrating to the states in the future a little less complicated."
mdaemon, I agree with you, Arnel is not going to give up this job. He struggled until 40 to make it and probably had little money. And I believe he's probably loyal to a fault and knows how much of a chance these guys gave him. He's not going to let them down. Arnel's child is only three, so not in school. Although, his girlfriend has two little girls, so I agree with the school thing. But I always understood in interviews about him that he had been married. I always assumed he was divorced and just didn't want to remarry and lived with Cherry. So in the Philippines divorce is never allowed?
Jana, unfortunately, there's no " DIVORCE LAW" in the Philippines bcoz we are the only biggest Catholic country in ASIA that had almost 90 % catholic populations and once you get married, and your marriage didn't work out for you and your husband and decided to separate, you cannot married twice unless there's is a valid reason or ground to annul your marriage such infidelityy, incapacity to perform your duty as a wife or as a husband, marital rape, physical abused by both parties, or when your husband or wife died, that's the only time for you to get married again , but if you only separated, then you cannot get married again. In Arnel's case, his ex wife left him for another man when they're still living here in HK and then he meet Cherry and they're just lived together coz although Arnel can file a case against his ex- wife for infidelity reason o adultery, you need a lot of money to support your case and it will take years probably 1-3 yrs or more before the court allowed to declare your marriage to be null or void. As far as i know only those rich people in the Philippines can afford to file a case in court but for the people who depended only on a meager wages. it's very difficult for them to bring their case to the court. But now that Arnel earned enough money and if he still want to annulled his marriage so that he can marry Cherry, he can do it now, but another question here is i don't know anything about Cherry as i have just learn that she has also 2 daughters, i don't know if she's married or not, if she's married, it's another problem again, so you see, arnel face enough problem here, thst's why when asked if he can relocate his family to the US and he said "NO", i already know the reason why . there's a lot of technicalities and legalities to consider before the US immigration in the phillipines give them US visa/.
"Just knowing Arnel makes me a better guy" - Jonathan Cain
