Wed 30 Sept

Nothing much unusual to report. It's time to play house. Wednesday is declared "Finance Night." Hot Totally Hot.

Wed 07 Oct

Ortigas Center went BLACK. My first black out! Yeah!!!!

First Ondoy.
Then two more typhoons.
Then 7.8 magnitude earthquakes in Sumatra.
Now blackouts.
Welcome to the Ring of Fire.

Oh, and some questions are answered. If you want to know, I'll tell you.

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Tues 06 Oct

A day that just blended Monday to Wednesday. What can I say? I suppose an explaination is due. But you can only visit the SM MegaMall so many times.

Mon 05 Oct

Work again.

So so so so so so so so

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Sun 04 Oct

Oh, my Manila Manila experience. Got to have one of those "a fool and his money are soon parted." Best early and least amount wins.

No one is your Buddha friend, Matt. Remember that you Indian art collector?

Karaoke
Birthday party
Beers
Nightclub
Some local's house
Jeepney ride
MRT to LRT
Rizal Park
More Karaoke

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Sat 03 Oct

Rosalia says, Matt acts. Shop for typhoon supplies. I may be on the 11th floor, but you may not get out!

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Fri 02 Oct

Next up: Typhoon what's her name? Closed the office at 3pm.

Weather rules the world around here. Humans really only play in her sandbox.

Thurs 01 Oct

The day of Durian fruit. "Smells like Hell, tastes like Heaven." Or, as Leo say, smells like shit, tastes like shit. Mark held the WC door open. Nel scooped a whopping lump of the yellow-white gooey stuff... and I became more Filipino. Just like that. No need for the WC. Thanks Mark, I almost needed it.

I'll write about burping durian later.

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Tues 29 Sept

Risk management and liability dilution.

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Mon 28 Sept

Work.
3 months?
1 year?
2 years?

I am busy as a bee on a pretty flower.

Sun 27 Sept

Rain? Gone a bit. But I think the Manila Bay oysters were too much, too fast.

more on that later.

Sat 26 Sept

RAIN! Ondoy attacks!

Who talks about the rain in the Philippines? Absolutely no one. Except when the locals say, "damn, that's a lot of rain." Then you kinda wonder...

This was the 40-year flood. One day of rain in one month. The most rain in one day in 40 years.

Global warming was all over the news. Well... I'm sure the cavemen thought global cooling was all over the news... And look where we are today? Al Gore has a new Lear Jet.

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Fri 25 Sept

Beers with Mark the RCE guru. Beers taste good after work. Beers wash away the water that fish swim in. The same water we walk and breathe.

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Thurs 24 Sept

3rd day of work. Not much to report here. I've officially entered the insane assylum.

You can never have too many Excel tracking sheets...

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Wed 23 Sept

Another day of work. Needs more explanation because this is getting weirder than the first day of pre-school.

I did party with Marge and her friends at the swank Shangri-La in Makati.

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Tues 22 Sept

First day of work my friends. First day of work. This deserves more than I can say than even in a place holder of lorem ipsum dolor set...

Let's just say crazy was left on the doorstep.

Mon 21 Sept

Eid al Fitr. Holiday Muslim style. Which means the Philippines celebrates. Almost Indian-style, "hey, you have a holiday? Then we shall have a holiday too."

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Sun 20 Sept

Arrival in Manila. Hey, where's the smoke and fire? This is supposed to be 3rd world. Well, at 0400 sights can be deceiving. But it was a world different than I expected. Green. Lush. Tropical. Palm trees swaying in the watery air.

And I met Glen. Pretty cool dude showing up one or two hours earlier than the flight was to arrive. We skipped Guam. I guess the plane had enough go-go juice with the headwind to avoid the Guam Palm Stop.

I called Glen on one of Marge's three mobile phones. She was my "single-serving" passenger friend on the flight.


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Sat 19 Sept

I Never had a Saturday that I did not have. So I guess this was a first for me. I wonder if I'll get paid for not having a Saturday? I was 33,000 feet over the Ring of Fire.

Friday 18 Sept

Departure buh-bye USA. Of course I need to add more here....