Traders Pasay

... this barbeque place. Enough time to put down another three beers (each) and eat around a dozen meat skewers. We had quite a few different kinds but my favorites were the cherry tomatoes wrapped in bacon. The bill for 6 beers and around 20 of these meat skewers was 400 pesos. There was a lot of street kids coming up and trying to sell us cigarettes, candies, sunglasses, roses, etc. We did not want any of their stuff, mostly because we believe that almost all of the ...

... playing it for money but it was easily worth it - only the 2nd time I have been properly beaten since the begining of my travels. So I have another day of chess here, then a morning and then out to Palawan. 1/4/09 Well, I went back, played chess for 5 hours with the same guy and lost the same amount of money but I won 4 games, drew about 10 and he won 9 - it was close and I was getting better and better - winning 3 on the trot but then I got tired and he ...

... point out the infraction that they stopped me for and to compare the fines to the "Policeman Ball" tickets. Also keep paper and pencil handy so that if you are stopped you can get their name and license number, just to keep things above board so to speak. And by the way, I had a chance to go back that way a couple of days later and guess what, no yield sign, guess he just needed a little spending money for Saturday night.

... wanted Eileen and I to try it too but Eileen was too cold being a Filipina and not accustomed to dealing with ice and snow. I declined because I was wearing a short dress. The thought of my underwear freezing to the ice was amusing but not something I thought I needed to endure or have everyone else witness. I waited for the others and enjoyed some breaths of cold, crisp air instead. Unfortunately, the ...

... de roue, il valait mieux. Ensuite il se met a pleuvoir. Oups, il faut rapatrier tout le monde a l'interieur, plus les bagages, cartons et 2 poules. Ca devient un jeepney boite de sardine... 5 minutes avant d'arriver, le chauffeur s'arrete et recupere l'argent du voyage aupres de chacun, comme ca, pas de risque de resquille... Petit cours d'education sexuelle : l'accroissement de la population, la corruption, l'embargo americain un temps, tout cela a conforte une grande pauvrete. La ...

... away again for wearing a sleeveless top (what was this, the Savoy?) we eventually got in (me wearing size 10 white shoes and a huge LA-Mexican gangster white t-shirt - i looked like I'd escaped from hospital). Inside, no deerhunter type straw hut with sweaty vested Pinos shouting at scaggedy fowl, this was proper sport. The adverts in the programme offered the latest in Cock (ahem) Boosting Feed with true comedy names (you can imagine). 30 ...

Hi everybody! We arrived safely in Manila last night around midnight. No major incidents or adventures this time...which is probably a good thing. We flew...backwards...to Minneapolis St. Paul...before flying all the way to Tokyo. From there, we hopped down to Manila. Altogether, we think the travel time was more than 26 hours. It's Monday a 8:30 AM local Manila time. It's 13 hours ahead of our home time zone. We're running on about 5 ...

... knowing that time is ticking by, and soon, Guilin will just be another bubble that burst, a stage play that ended, a footprint on the sand that was erased by sea waves. Thank God for memories. I had to drag Ms. Chen and requested her to take more pictures of me while waiting for our bus ride. I told her I wanted myself to be in the background of Guilin's busy city streets. And I readily posed in front of the Sheraton Hotel, a Beijing 2002 Olympics poster, and a traffic scene complete ...

... his mate round and we bought 2 litre bottles of local brandy (called 'Generoso' and at only P60 a bottle it certainly was...). It was at this point I started noticing my health deteriorate...watering eyes, sore throat and mass headache. ****, the same symptoms I had in Guatemala 8 months ago that had me bed-ridden for a week. We all got lashed up and Karaoke'd a bit, danced a bit and then tried to watch another horror film (I fell asleep at this point hoping I'd feel better ...

... reply in English. The bilingualism of this city is astounding. Thankfully, I got my new ISIC card on Friday, which I presented to the people at the LKG building. After 55 minutes of waiting in fresh, white and professional looking waiting area at the Cathay Pacific office, my number was called. A very polite woman (she said "Sir" in almost every sentence too) helped me switch my two flights to Australia to the 10th of June. It didn't cost me anything. I am very much impressed with ...