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Daily Happenings
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Ya know, theres been so much drama this past week, I’m gonna turn off the SEO entry for this one. But sure enough, I’m still not going to list the details here. In the US, we call that “Pleading the 5th”. Or drinking a 5th….or something that somehow connects alcohol and legal issues…..
Well, the nice weather is gone and the sun came back out yesterday, after raining for almost a week. That creates humidity. OK class, all together now lets pronounce humidity….” DAYMN!” I can see how the different pronunciations might be confusing…in in the mother tongue of fat-crackerese, DAYMN! said loudly is a valid expression of painful humidity.
Lets see…
- I found out my cell phone is jacked up. It sends messages out to people not intended. The clicky sound for the camera also stopped.
- I have been drinking myself stupid recently, worse than normal and I hit black-out drive before 10pm last night.
- I used FaceBook to find a long-lost best friend I had back in the Army.
- I am single again and could sell my sheets to a sperm clinic.
- I found out that I can pack everything I need into 2 bags and a backpack…not bad considering my scuba stuff is in there too.
- I also found out that I can swim in stormy water at 05:30am using a mask with no strap.
- I got my visa renewed, late as usual.
- I found out that I have been here so long that they will not let me leave when I want. I am required to now pay 500 pesos for paperwork a week before and another 1400 pesos at the immigration office in the airport. So, if theres an impending death in the family, basically I’m screwed. Thanks for visiting the Philippines and spending more money than my family makes in a year!…oh and be sure to leave your wallet on the way out. Bye now!
- I have had the feeling of hair-in-the-back-of-my-throat for a solid week now.
- I shaved my head back down; sweating in that mop was not doing me any good.
- I accidentally sent a few hundred emails to people by mixing up the merge of gmail addy books and adding people to Yahoo messenger.
- I had a deep conversation with a guy who spent 5 months in a mental wing of Philippines prison last year…then agreed to have him teach me some diving specialties.
- I cleaned the house spotless last week; now it looks pretty unsanitary.
- I spent way too much money this past week.
- I am going stircrazy on this island. I dont want to dive. I don’t want to see the same people over and over. I dont like tourists anymore. Nothing blows up here. I need to get back to work just to have something to do.
- We have had more and more power outages.
- A big part of Boracay island was without water yesterday. Apparently one of the suppliers were low on supply so they sent people to sneak out and turn off the lines to certain areas so the ‘big guys’ could have water. Small businesses, residential, public…no water. Resorts and spas and anyplace with a swimming pool – lots of water. I watched the guys fan out to turn it back on later. They denied doing it even as about 20 of us watched them. While the denial words were coming out of their mouth, they were kicking sand back over the access cover so it wouldn’t look disturbed.
- I got heartburn last night for the 1st time in months.
- Got a sunburn on my head, neck, and shoulders.
- Looks like I’m losing weight again.
As I type this, leaning on my bed, I look around and cant stand the sight of the inside of this house anymore but really dont want to got be around any one else either. That means I have to wear clothes. On the brighter side, I have a new outlook on finding a better quality of female companion. Not that this will actually happen, but hey, its a start.
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jesus christ, whats the deal with leaving man? Am I going to have to go through all that bullshit? I doubt it because when I head there to live there full time for a year I’ll be married and have that baklybon visa or however the fuck you spell it. It covers me for a full year.
May 22, 2008 at 5:56 AM
Married doesn’t matter. My friend is Canadian and has been married for a year to a Filipina. (Super, super hot btw, I mean painfully hot). Anyway, I ran into him at immigration and it was the first he had heard of it. They said it used to be 8 months (which no-one seems to remember happening) but now its if you have been here for 6 months.
So, at 6 months, you’re locked in. She said its possible to do it one day and be able to leave the next, but the implication was that it was going to take you a lot of hoop-jumping in Manila to do it. Here, she gets 500 P and hands you some papers. This is your ‘express’. It’s good for a month. Hand that in at the airport immigration section and it’s supposed to be painless–except for another 1,400 P.
What I DO remember is at 16 months solid, I would have to leave the country on a visa run. I saw that on the immigration site a month back.
May 22, 2008 at 1:29 PM