Copa Suites Manila Pasay

... will all be different. We no longer have a "home" to go back to. Someone else is living in our house and we will be living out of a suitcase traveling from place to place. We have been warned by those who have gone before us that people won't be able to relate to the things that have happened to us and some won't even care. And now that we've experienced life in a far away place where things are so different, we will have a new ...

... to follow him back to the "station" and we'll see what can be done. We take the next right and about 100 yards down he pulls over to the side of the road and gets off his bike. I pull in behind him, roll down my window and now's where the "good cop" comes into play and he hands me back my license "with a warning" but needed 2000 peso to make it all go away. Just had to laugh at that and told him no way; that's when he ...

Snow in Manila??? This is the tropics. How can there be snow? Is this the climate change that we've been hearing so much about? Yes there is snow in Manila but it's thanks to climate control - not climate change. The Star City amusement park has attempted to recreate an indoor winter wonderland complete with ice slides and sculptures. All you have to do is pay an additional 100 pesos and sign a waiver. A ...

... a faire ma resa sur Internet, ma carte de credit etant soi-disant non valide, alors je vais essayer par telephone. Je me rends a l'office des communications. Du fait de l'accroissement des tel cellulaires, il ne font plus telephone a l'office des telephones ! Il n'y a plus que le service des telegrammes de valide... Comme ca n'occupe pas son homme, l'employe est ravi de m'aider et moi aussi. Il me prete son portable et me demande pour combien j'en veux, car il faut recharger. Ben j'en ...

... at 5pm, keep going all-through-the-bloody-night!! Taking a rough old taxi with a passenger door half made out of polyfilla (the lazy ******* didn't even paint over it, it looked like a freshly plastered wall) we made our way to the more salubrious climbs around the American embassy. We're holed up in the Manila Bay Hostel. This is easily one of the weirdest places we have been. The taxi driver had no idea where it was, neither did we. Its ...

... coming to dinner? Very doubtful. But it will look good in the china cabinet. Oh, wait - we don't have one. I guess we'll be buying one when we get around to buying dining room furniture. After the first round of unpacking and sorting we came up with 3 boxes of clothes, linens and kitchen things that we had our driver haul away. He said he'd take whatever we had. If he can use it or find someone else who ...

... of liniment called "White Flower" and I would rub the oil on my temples with or without a headache. So much so, that I easily earned the reputation of someone who smelled like an old Chinese man. "Amoy instik," as my Filipino friends called me. I didn't mind of course. I like the way it smells and my olfactory nerve is presently savoring its fragrance as I write this. Anyway, I was not tempted to buy any of this Chinese medicine stuff. I made a promise not to buy anything anymore. From ...

... to the family and went for small walks. Tintin's Mum had 7 kids in total and they lost the father 15 years ago making bringing all 7 of them up extremely tough for her. But with the help of the kinship group system of helping each other it was a bit easier. Lunch was spaghetti 'Filipino style' which means the tomato sauce was sweet (anything to do with a tomato sauce seems to be highly sweetened here). There followed the traditional viewing of an afternoon horror film (the 5 ...

... train wasn't running. Everyone crowded the same stairs to get down from the sky-train platform. Apparently there was a strike. I walked a long ways and then decided that was a stupid thing to keep doing, so I got on a bus which I guessed was going in the right direction. I saw one stop while I walked along, and saw a destination-sign in it that seemed to be one I wanted (Ayala). I said "Ayala" at the door, the driver seemed to say yep. I stood near the front for about five minutes ...