Time Zone Difference

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dLaY

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(07/07/02 05:15:27)

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Well Roses told me that we can discuss the time zone difference here.

Time difference can be one of a problem area. As we know that me and my partner Echo were in two different continent..the time difference between US and Norway is complicated... I'm 9 hours advance in her time... sometimes one of the reason I feel frustrated..I can't handle the fact and still can't understand :grr

To make the story short ..if whenever I want her I can't because she's busy at work, she have to do her errands or rather she have to sleep. But If whenever she is not busy I can't because I have to work..but still I try my best to call and communicate with her but I can't stay longer.. this is very hard

Full of sacrifices.

Well how about you folks??? How do you handle this time zone difference ???

Jayvee4u

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(07/07/02 09:38:53)

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Toronto and California is only 3 hours difference. Toronto is 3 hours advance. By the time she's at work at 8 in the morning,I am still sleeping at 5am. Whenever she calls I am still so sleepy and spaced out and I have to make up for the minutes lost sleep. By the time I reach work, she's out for lunch. I wait for her to be back at work at 1pm and talk to her for a minute or less, literally. Usually if I call her at work, sharks(bosses) are near her vicinity so the moment i say hello, she just say, "sharks"~ which is our code for saying, "can't talk honey,bosses are around". The moment she's home by 6am, it's still 3pm my time and I am still at work. Most often when she calls me, I am taking my 15 mins break. By the time I am driving on my way to work which is about 5pm-6pm, she calls me to say goodnite because it's her bedtime at 9pm. There! Talking about how wonderful LDR is... :moon

immature1

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(07/07/02 21:22:30)

HOT SHOT

having different timezones is so frustrating.. at first that is.. but when u guys plan when you can talk i guess it won't be a problem.. but sometimes there are things that can't be avoided.. things that can affect your schedules.. especially for working couples... when one is so busy. that can be very frustrating especially when u guys need to discuss something and u can't talk.. *sigh* u feel like flying to where she is.

rosedollar

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(07/08/02 02:02:37)

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Oh, thanks for this thread dlaY!

Well good thing for me and Tango, we're about 2 hours time difference lang, she's ahead of me 2 hours so it isn't much of a great gap in time difference. Though of course schedules are still considered. Tango works at night and when she comes home she usually wakes me up in time for me to get ready for work too. We schedule our everyday lunchdates and dinnerdates too! lol :lol

At nights, it is not so much of a problem though she would oftentimes be more sleepy ahead of me, lol, but that is understandable, am a night owl, hihihi.

Well for those whose time zone difference is bigger, i think it is important to always communicate and talk abt the time spent together whether online or on the phone so that each doesn't feel neglected in a way or lacking much needed quality time. I think everything can be resolved and arranged when you honestly talk it over.

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Everyday, i will be right here waiting for you ... everyday...

dLaY

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(07/08/02 07:04:17)

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Nice for you Roses... 2 hours is ok...atleast if not big difference... Have question for you mars what do you mean you and Tango schedule the lunchdate and dinnerdate???do you eat at the same time??? is that what you mean???

echo27

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(07/24/02 23:20:28)

i'm so sorry honey... i know its hard but what i am trying to say is... if we talk on the phone... lets make it more of a quality not quantity... :yak

it doesnt make any sense if we are on the phone often but we dont have anything to talk about... its just dead silence on both ends... like when i am at work... you know i cant stay long on the phone. my phone is always busy -- at lunch time... well, we have atleast an hour to talk or sleep together, but there are times that i dont take my lunch bec i have a case or a project to finish before the day is over...

when its time for me to go home... sometimes i dont want to interrupt your sleep bec i know you need to sleep longer; after work and weekends are the only times i have to do my errands and have a good time... :jam

to flush away all the stressors that i have been harboring all week at work & just to survive...

we tried to talk in the morning, on my way to work -- and sometimes on my way home -- this is at least good 45 mins to an hour (if there's traffic - each way) -- everyday... that's 2 hours.

time zone difference is difficult -- now that you have identified another problem that we are encountering... now lets discuss about the solution -- we need to find a way to resolve this... got any???

i love you and i miss you so much... darleng. and i also know how frustrated you are...

you can feel the pressure more by living there in norway (nice country but a bit boring) than i do here in california... :danz

so sorry honey... :luvsic

cclu

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(07/30/02 17:19:24)

The time difference between Texas and the Netherlands is 7 hours. From the get-go, T2U and I have had one rule, call whenever you NEED to. For the most part, we exchange emails and chat online.

Our schedule goes like this: before I go to sleep, I send her an email if it's before the time she's supposed to wake up (11:20 AM my time), but if I'm up late, then I call her for a few minutes just to start off her day and we talk until she has to leave for work (around midnight my time); tapos when I wake up in the morning (around 6:30 AM my time), there's usually an email from T2U and most of the time, she's on one of the messenger programs while she's at work so we chat until I have to go to work; by the time I get to work (around 8:30 AM my time), we have about 1 hr. to chat then it's time for her to go home (her travel time home is about 1 hr.); if she goes home directly (meaning, if she's not going out with friends or co-workers) then we chat until she goes to bed and then she will call me for a few minutes, too; if she goes out with her friends, most of the time, I will get a call or a msg from her saying to call her on her cell and I keep her company until she gets home, and sometimes, if she's not tired, she will log on to chat. Now, that's on the weekdays. Weekends are just a jumble all together but we usually talk over the phone at least once a day on the weekends (when she visits her parents then she's not online at all because they don't have a computer).

I guess, I'm babbling but I just wanted to show you how T2U and I worked around the schedule. We're both also pretty fortunate that we can send emails to each other through our cell phones. My work schedule is more flexible and I have a little more freedom with using the phone and stuff like that. When we really need to talk on the phone, we send a msg over the cell phones or something like that...

One piece of advice, always carry your phone cards with you so you can call anytime.

thanon

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(08/13/02 15:24:22)

Time difference for me and my babe is only one hour (me being ahead), which is really good, 'cause I phone her from work every night when she is just settling in nicely for some easy time in front of her pc! I used to call her in the morning after my shift is over 'cause it's a lot cheaper, but then she is just waking up (or I have woken her!) and have to get ready for work.

I have loads of sympathy for u girls that have to cope with distance and then on top of it, the tremendous time diffs!!

Now I have learnt to love ... make me forget how to hate ...

anjuliet

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(08/14/02 17:14:58)

When my dh and I were still on a LDR, CA was 8 hours behind England, and it was only around the afternoon when I could chat with him online or phone him. Weekends were a bit better cos he can stay up late into the night without having to worry about going to work the next day.

dLaY

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(08/15/02 16:08:55)

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Hey Anjuliet :hello

Welcome to the forum by the way

Thanks for dropping by..We are happy to have you here in the site..Hope you can visit us more often..Take care :ok

By the way nice picture :wink

anjuliet

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(08/15/02 16:45:08)

Thank you

I am planning to stop by here on a regular basis

I know Emily's picture look nice

Ay naku, *I cant think of the Tagalog word for flatterer* -sos!- :lol

dLaY

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(09/14/02 05:08:22)

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grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :duh

rosedollar

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(09/15/02 19:09:57)

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Relaxxxx marsssssss...... take time in the tub :bath

it can be relaxing... Get out, have fun! :party

Take your mind off of it first. Enjoy a cup of coffee! take time sipping it :java

Give some time for yourself :danz

Read a good book! And abt the time difference, just make schedules and i am sure it all can be worked out! Ok? :ok

Were there nothing else in the world but our love...
I still would have all i need. =)

escarlata(d)

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(10/12/02 18:10:17)

I tried to schedule my time with hers so we can meet each other as often as possible...*im not in a relationship with her*....and i was afraid i might sound obsessed with her.

but i sure felt a little different compared to other net pals.....and even real world friends.

dLaY

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(10/14/02 06:58:19)

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I understand how you feel Escarlata...I used the same way..try my best to schedule my time just to talk with her more often.. and I really dam obsessed with her and i hate it..If I were you take it easy and don't expect to much.
time difference make me feelllllllll grrrrrrrr :fd

dLaY

rosedollar

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(10/14/02 08:32:04)

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I hate to sound frustrating, but oh well, i agree. It is true, time zone difference can be such a pain, know what i mean? :grr

But then at least you are not physically together yet and then she still has no time for you, ryt? Now then i think that will be more frustrating.

escarlata(d)

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(10/15/02 11:50:17)

exactly dLay...im actually trying to stop myself from that (cos it sounds like a little bit of obsession) .....but im always going up at weird hours hoping to catch her.......

Tango71

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(10/15/02 17:17:21)

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I agree with you all but sometimes you can't control the feelings that you feel when you start to feel deeply for a person. It may not be mutual but still you can't deny the fact that you are feeling a certain way. This is very understandable since this is a familiar feeling but I think it depends on the degrees of a feeling. I would recall a certain verse in a song "The things you do for love..." Yes!! It does surprise you!! As if you are not the same person again and in an effort to revert to your former self you start to deny that you are in love? Well this is just my two cents.

In my opinon you are all doing the right thing. Dlay and Escarlata you are both trying to recognize the behavior that you want to change and need to change. To say it simply... you want to change for you and not for anyone else.

Just me,

Tango71
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Involve me and Iunderstand.
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escarlata(d)

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(10/16/02 07:23:50)

sigh. i felt i need to break off from it though. it sounds highly unhealthy to be online often only to catch a glimpse of someone. yes im touched she somewhat feels the same. (im still uncertain of the intensity of hers compared to mine though)

shinsengumi0906

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(04/29/03 17:48:53)

What can I say? I don't know how much our(my gf and i) time difference is. I'm in the US and she is in the Philippines, so all I do is add three of four hours to my time and change pm to am or vice versa.

It's pretty much okay for someone like me who can go with as little sleep as 3 or 2 hours or no sleep at all (even when I have school). I call several times a week, afternoon here, morning there, before she goes to school or during early mornings here, when she comes from from school. Sometimes we chat within the week and I stay up until 4 am or we chat at weekends for four hours or more, afternoon time in PI, madaling araw pa rin dito.

It's hard, especially during examination time, but I'm used to it. I think it's easier, time-wise, but for the cost of the phonecalls? Sa tingin ko mas lucky pa rin yung mga within the same state pero iba ang time difference. Cheaper.

Tango71

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(04/29/03 22:37:46)

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I agree about the phone calls. I used to remember the phone cards that I have collected while roses and I were apart. I used to spend $30.00 or more a day for phone cards. We tried different ways of communicating after the phone bill got a little high than normal. :lol

I would suggest to chat and email more and call on the weekends or you could try recording a greeting and emailing it to her. Roses and I used to do this if the budget is tight.

This is what you do if don't know it already:

Look for your sound recoder. Click on run and type this "sndrec32.exe" without the quotes or you could go to start>accessories>entertainment>sound recorder. Open it. It looks something like this:

All you need to do is hit the red button and record your voice. Once you have the piece that you want you may record it in three formats: .wav, .au, or .mid. I would recommend .wav or .mid since they could be played easily by any player.

Just me,

Tango71
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember.
Involve me and Iunderstand.
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