Sunday morning, at 6:00 am on the dot – electricity goes out. After a short wait, it’s clearly not coming back on and several nearby resorts start their generators. The power company says it’ll be back on at 16:00 (4 pm) and sure enough, the power comes back on exactly 10 hours later at 4:00 [...]
Got up early Sunday for some swimming and snorkeling before the homies started acting like opening day at a trailer-park swimming pool…about 5:30 or 6am. Annnnnnd….brownout, just as I step outside. No bother, not going to be home anyway. Out swimming around was pretty good although visibility was poor. Got about 1.5 kilometers out and [...]
So, there I was early on a Sunday morning, about 4am making plans for leaving Boracay on a weeklong hiatus. Sometimes ya just need to get back to civilization with decently cooked food, drinkable water, and most importantly… electricity. My whole point in leaving is the frustration of daily brownouts lasting anywhere from 30 minutes [...]
The winds finally changed directions for Habagat season, meaning my western side of the island is getting cooler air and my happy ass can go outside. With the wind, it’s like the difference between night and day for temperature around here. I spent most of the day in the water, something I’ve not done in [...]
Thats what I should name this, the BBB. Boracay Brownout Blog. Its gotten to be as boring and tedious and a brownout or life in general on Boracay. Todays started sometime 8ish am and is still kickin’ after lunchtime hours. Had a generator but some genious though that’d be a good time to plug in [...]
I have been asked many times about why I hate brownouts so much since Boracay is all about outside activities anyway. Guess what, you can suck on the great outside. I don’t like sailboats, sunsets, humidity, bright sunlight, food poisoning, or windless and cloudless days where the water is like glass ….. Which is what [...]
Any modern writing course demands this opening sentence to summarize the the topic. I and a glass of vodka/grape Tang, however, demand said course shut the hell up. We love our Boracay power outages so much that prostitutes offer a brownout discount and you know me, always a child of the dark. Holy Week on [...]
After eating nothing but pure red meat for two days solid and drinking a couple liters of rum, we arrive at some ‘me time’ in the bathroom during another brownout. Just as the task at hand was becoming violent, I looked up to see this. OMG did things end badly in an instant. Use the [...]
Tropical Storm Ketsana came ripping through here and dumped THE record for rainfall in Manila. Its the most on record, apparently but then again no-one bothered recording it until Americans came. On Boracay, it was a lot of crazy winds and rain bursts. There were groups all over station 3 from the cave to the station-house, [...]
The internet connection at home has been sketchy for a few weeks. Seems be a guaranteed outage if it rains or the wind blows or, like today, no reason whatsoever. We’ve been having sporadic brownouts and rain every day for a few weeks now. Don’t know if thats causing it – my bet is the [...]
Went out with some friends and Chad took pics with me and a tequila bottle – don’t remember it. Summer Place was in there somehow. I do remember a girl sticking her daisy-dukes in my face at Bom Boms. Made a 2,000 peso order for tacos at Jammers and being about 300p short, handed the [...]
*****UPDATE****** To whom it may concern, thanks for the crank-call delivery order from da’Marios. (proof they know me well already, hehe) That 450 pesos that Boracay Tourist Center turned down? I got it done and sent registered mail at the post for 300p. whoops, your bad. Even the longtime postmaster was like ‘huh, why wouldn’t [...]
The brownouts have gotten bad lately, now its not even scheduled stuff. Every day, the electricity has gone out before sunrise and stayed of for a number of hours. Normally coming back on around noon, then out again for a few hours. Several days ago, it went out at 5am and came back on at [...]
I’m punching this one out while I have the chance, (as well as recharging everything I own). We went out drinking the other night and hit up Juice Bar, Hey Jude, and Jammers. My bill at Juice Bar was about 500p which is normal for me, but at Hey Jude, everyone was buying me drinks! [...]
I’m sick and tired of this crap, just too damn much all at once. It came time to goto Manila for a wedding, cool! 2 days to fly, jesus christ I feel like crap. cant get any airlines on the phones. stay inside. The next day blows: I rehydrate all night, wake to find my [...]
You gotta be kidding me, the electricity went out yesterday at 9pm and guess what, …. it’s still out then next day at 4:27pm. That’s 19 solid hours of brownout on Boracay, again. Are they telling anyone? Nope. Excuses? Nope. And now we’re in the pre-Peak Season where the rates dipped a little before Easter [...]
Brownout – massive one last night. Lasted from 8pm until around noon today. Sputtered to life a few times for moments. Electric company didn’t even know about it until people started calling them; then claimed a few hours later than nothing was wrong. Weather on Boracay – The coolness finally broke and the sun came [...]
Wow… we had 6 brownouts in a single night here on Boracay. It started around 8pm and would have one for 30-60 min then on for an hour or two. Just one long series of brownouts. Go figure, they installed a whole new electrical grid over a 2 month period that’s ‘made’ to withstand typhoons [...]
I bought a monthly password from a friend at the resort next door and it normally works nicely. My wireless here is faster than cable-modem from Kalibo Cable when I had a dedicated line. Trying to get better reception to his guests in the resort, he installed a new, outdoor, high-powered wireless router. Problem is [...]
We were told last month about daily brown-outs scheduled for every day over the next month. I say ‘told’ but we really found out on the first day of brownouts and then in the Manila newspaper that same day. They’re finally fixing the same lines they ‘fixed’ over the last 4 months of scheduled brownouts. [...]
For some reason, the brown outs haven’t been happening like they said. It’s not like it was a rumor mill that came up with the ideas, I personally called them and was told YES every day from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm would be a brown out for the entire island of Boracay. And it [...]
It’s 07:50 am leaving 10 minutes until the official start time of the power outage. They say they’re doing a substation installation and its gonna take 2 months of daily outages. But yesterday, it only lasted about 4 or 5 hours, perhaps less. I even called them and the guy answering was audibly weary of [...]
Brown out, black out, power outage; whatever you want to call it. I’m down at Blue Mango and sure enough, the generator is running. Supposedly for 2 months, the power will be out daily. How does this happen? After a typhoon, they can get it up after 5 days but now the entire island is [...]
Brown out that never stops? HuH? This is what I’m hearing from a few friends of mine. A couple of them have business interests and get direct calls regarding this. The low-down as that Boracay power company, Akelco, is going to turn off the electricity every day from morning to evening (hottest times of the [...]
I don’t really remember when I started but it was around 04:30 when I woke up and left for Isla Baila, which is still closed for construction, which is OK because I had a tab there. So heck, now I’m just gonna have to bar-hop my way down the beach to all those tiny hotel [...]
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