I got a wild hair up my ass and headed to Manila. I don’t really remember much about it but they said I arrived around 7pm. Audie invited me to stay with him in the Manila townhouse where we partied with B1, M, J1, G, S, J2, A, C, B2, and some girl that cant [...]
Today, July 1st, 2008 marks my one year anniversary on Boracay. I had parted ways with Iraq and The Company in mid June 2007. No more contractor for me. They gave me a ticket going to Texas by the most lengthy and impossible route imaginable. I had no intention of going back to the USA. [...]
Almost came and sat right on top of us. Wind speed estimates were from 90 to 120 km/hr. I dont think anyone actually recorded it here in Boracay. http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/genmet/rpnames.html and http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/jma-center/rsmc-hp-pub-eg/tyname.html These names are preselected in advance and they just go down the list as the storms occur. I had not known this. The first [...]
AaaaHooo!!!! 5 Days now the power has been out on Boracay. The typhoon “Frank” (I know) came in as a mild warning on Friday…nothing special expected here and was supposed to peak around 2pm that day. Whoops. I have too much cleaning up to do now that the power and water are back on so [...]
Civilized business – no one in a gas station or market in the US will raise the price on you just because you’re a certain race. I really miss self-checkout in Wal-Marts. Its interesting how we consider the US to have some scummy people all over, but even in walmart, they let you scan your [...]
I cant eat this stuff. I know a lot of people that have, and not a single foreigner I’ve talked to can say that it wasn’t a sickening experience for them. Oh well, different strokes for different folks. One guy listed that this was a “poor mans redbull” and that he loved the stuff (Manila [...]
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