00:00Hello, OG! Welcome to S&R Rendezvous Farm!
00:15Hello, OG! Good morning!
00:17We are now here at S&R Rendezvous Farm.
00:21I will show you around our simple house.
00:25Come on in!
00:28This is our living room.
00:30As you can see, I have a lot of plants.
00:34I love plants.
00:36Plus, the other memorabilia of my husband.
00:40I chose the other ones.
00:42I still have them.
00:44This is just next to it.
00:46The house is small.
00:48This is our kitchen.
00:58The pandemic started in 2020.
01:02We realized that while we have a house and a condo in Manila,
01:07Bukay Provincia is still the best.
01:11Actually, I'm from Naga City.
01:14My wife is from Oas, Albay.
01:16This is where we decided to look for our retirement place.
01:25We don't have any properties here in Naga City or Bicol.
01:33Originally, our plan was simple.
01:37I was thinking about the materials.
01:41The roof is made of wood.
01:49It's like a house.
01:52But when we moved to this place,
01:54it's really open.
01:56There are no trees growing.
02:01There's no wind.
02:05If a strong storm comes here,
02:09I can't handle it.
02:13So, we decided to have a farmhouse that's stable.
02:20So that the super typhoons can withstand.
02:23One of the first things my wife and I did
02:27while we were constructing this place,
02:29we planted a lot of plants.
02:31She planted plants.
02:33I planted trees.
02:35Now, the vegetables we get here are
02:39sweet potatoes,
02:41water spinach,
02:43malunggay leaves,
02:45alugbate leaves,
02:47if you're familiar with it.
02:50This is the place where we put our food.
02:59So that it's close to our table.
03:03We have a room here.
03:10This is our kitchen.
03:15These are what we harvested from the farm.
03:21From the chicken.
03:23We have eggs.
03:25This is my kitchen.
03:27I like it like this.
03:29It's open.
03:31You can see the view from the outside.
03:37This is our public bathroom.
03:42This is our women's bathroom.
03:44And this is the men's bathroom.
03:46But this is the men's bathroom.
03:48I have a lot of plants.
03:50During the pandemic,
03:52when we were here,
03:54I didn't do anything.
03:56I just separated the plants.
03:58But now, I have a lot of plants.
04:00This is my favorite place in the veranda.
04:04Sometimes, I sit here.
04:12This location,
04:14although it's on a farm,
04:16but it's close to the city.
04:18That's why the price here is a bit high.
04:22I got this at P700 per square meter.
04:27Although it's an installment.
04:29This is half a hectare.
04:31Originally, it's 5,000 square meters.
04:34That would be P3.5 million.
04:37Now, it's 1 hectare.
04:40My neighbors sold it to me.
04:42And it's okay for me
04:44because the neighbors
04:46who sold it to me,
04:48I made my farm animals there.
04:52So, I put chicken, turkey, cows.
04:57So, it's getting bigger and bigger.
05:05Do you know why this pond is here?
05:08My husband used to stay here
05:10when we were building our farmhouse.
05:12We were here for 6 months
05:14while he was building it.
05:16The other pond that we're talking about,
05:18because there are two of them,
05:20we put them in front of each other.
05:22Because our stuff doesn't fit there.
05:24That's why we put it there.
05:26In the middle, there are bricks.
05:28There are a lot of bricks.
05:30It's spreading now.
05:32There's a space in the middle
05:34where we have a table and a stove.
05:37The two ponds are facing each other.
05:42Our house pond serves a purpose.
05:45It's fast.
05:47The materials are bamboo.
05:49Bamboo,
05:51wood,
05:53but we made it made-to-order.
05:55So, we just ordered it.
05:57If it's made-to-order,
05:59it's a bit expensive.
06:01If you make it,
06:03you'll get a discount.
06:07I feel better
06:09here in the province
06:11because it's quiet
06:13and the surroundings are beautiful.
06:15We're happy that
06:17even the birds
06:19find our farmhouse
06:21a conducive place
06:23for them to build
06:25their own home also.
06:27Although there are only two of us,
06:29but our son is here
06:31and we're here with him.
06:33We built it
06:36using another infrastructure.
06:44It's about 200 square meters
06:46and it's made of concrete.
06:48So, we decided to use concrete.
06:50The flooring is tiles.
06:54The roof is a long span.
06:56We put it here
06:58to withstand
07:00the strong typhoons.
07:02We spent
07:04more or less P2M
07:06for the entire house.
07:13My advice
07:15that I can give
07:17and it came from my wife
07:19is to plan ahead.
07:21We planned ahead
07:23but our planning
07:25before I retired
07:27took only two years.
07:29But for others,
07:31my advice is to
07:33plan ahead.
07:35Because the time will come
07:37when you will retire.
07:39Do not wait for the time
07:41that you are already retired
07:43and think,
07:45what will I do?
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