8 Suites By Fat Jimmy Tagaytay

I wanted to go to Lake Taal today. I checked out of the hotel and took a cab to the JAM Transit bus stop in Pasay. Janice joined me at the bus station because she was coming with me to Talisay. A ticket to Tanauan cost 95 pesos. The ride took an hour and a half. Once in Tanauan, we had to take a trike to the jeepney stop. Jeepneys are the Filipino version of the sawngthaew. We had to take a jeepney for 22 pesos each to Talisay ...

... to Mendez the street (after the public market), go straight and turn left on ...

... and quoted from a website of dubious accuracy that he can't have sex for 6 months and drink for 9 months (all rubbish of course but enough to make him sulk all night). Mark got lucky and went his own way with a girl who looked uncannily like Cleopatra. The rest of us went to Ms Kookeys again but we were in for a surprise when we discovered it was gay night and they were holding some kind of Mr Puerto competition. All the usual girls were sulking in ...

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... I remembered the scene in "Forrest Gump" where he was describing the rain and this was pretty much "sideways rain" that was coming down or being blown down. I did manage to cross the remainder of the road though as there was a slight break in the rain and wind that allowed me the briefest of moments to look out from behind the umbrella to see that the traffic was mostly clear. After that, the rest of the journey was pretty much looking at my feet ...

Derek and I headed out to a birthday party at the home of a gentleman we are working for. It was about an hour or so of a taxi ride north of where we are staying due to the traffic. If there was no traffic, it probably would have been a 15 minute ride or maybe a little bit longer. The house is in a gated community or a self contained community so even our taxi driver was turned around a little bit. It was still pretty ...

... does one get to the bowl of the Taal Volcano? Well, as I said you get up early, load into a nice and shiny red Ford pickup, and drive south out of the city to the town of Tagaytay. Where you take a road that leads over the edge of the Caldera and down a sharp twisting road to the edge of the larger lake... I think as I have written too much already, that this is where I will direct you to the pictures where I will continue the story...

Gearing up for the last few days that I am here as Holy Week is underway and the office will be at a skeleton crew on Thursday and closed on Friday. Things will continue as normal but I am sure tomorrow will be one of anticipation for the four day weekend that's coming up as the Design Teams will be pretty much done here in the office at 2:00 PM. We'll still be working ...

... was really nice, with a token Minor bird chatting rubbish, and we order a steak pie, a chicken pie and some country herb bread, it was lusho, mmm pie! So we took the rest of the bread back with us to the hotel and settled in for a little bit more American Idol. We sat and had a chat with Romeo who worked at the hotel for a while on the kind of veranda area outside our room, and there was a family celebration taking place next door, Romeo had said it ...

Took my camera and thought I'd take some pictures at work today... doh! Oh wait I can't show you "work" cause it's "secret"! Lol! So here's a picture of our door... And here are some more pictures looking out my window... I've got quite a view... too bad I had to move half way across the world to get an office with a view! I guess if I'm going to be here for a while it's at least a small trade deal.