SB: The fat goes straight to my face, so my jowls are eyebrows get the worst of it. Back to darker hair and better eyebrows pic though!
Biggerboat: Glad it was of some help at least. A lot of the book is common sense, but for me at least, it was nice to have it put in that format for me.
Taking a vacation from all my vacations now. Vacations are stressful... too stressful. These did not go particularly smoothly either. Started off with a girl I used to live with and her Russian friend visiting me in Manila.
Still have my jowls and bad eyebrows at this point, but looking better than the other pic. Also first use of a selfie stick ever, and I think I did an ok job. Manila was fun, just did a few bars and Intramuros which is the only historic thing I know about here. Then we flew to Cebu. We hung out for 2 days before they went to an island and I was by myself. By myself I met this awesome girl on Badoo. OMG I'm in love. We hung out for two days then I went back to Manila to meet my other friend. We did some heavy drinking and had a good time, then we headed to Palawan where the troubles began.
To begin with, my Chinese friend who I was meeting up with got into a fight with the Russian and they were no longer on speaking terms. They still have 3 weeks of traveling together at this point
and didin't talk to each other the entire time we were there. Quick side rant: it's a beach. They're pretty much all the same, I'm not sure why we flew an hour to this place then took a 6 hour bus. There's a similar quality beach an hour and a half drive from my house, or another an hour flight away. Ugh.
Anyways Palawan was beautiful:
but there were no hotels over the weekend. Why didn't you book a hotel BGP? Well because when I mentioned it both my friends laughed in my face "omg who books ahead of time, just go there and find one." Great idea!
There was a huge fiasco finding the hotel which I won't go into. But it involved my taking an hour long + walk in pitch black and up to my knees in water at times to get to it at night. It was awful.
Things really started to get ****ty after the weekend. My friends decided to go a motorbike ride around the island. I politely declined "Are you ****ing kidding me? It's a ****ty island with ****ty roads and nothing to see. There's no way in hell I'm going." They decided to go, and did not have a good time. When they came back I noticed my Chinese friend was bleeding like crazy from her leg. When I asked about it they said that they lost control of the motorbike and crashed. The boy managed to stay up, but the girl hit it hard. Well how was the trip though? "Are you ****ing kidding me? It's a ****ty island with ****ty roads and nothing to see." Oh that's too bad, I had a great day sipping on mango shakes and reading. She was livid for the entire day, until she tuckered herself out
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
The next day my guy friend and I take off back to the city with the airport to find that our flight has been moved up and we weren't told. Why weren't we told? Well I booked our return flight for March not February. Small mistake for me, but my friend missed his flights back to China. Oops sorry.
And then the third and final leg of the trip. My guy friend's wife and her sister flew in to visit (long story) and then I went with them to Puerto Galera. Hour and a half drive and then a ferry ride to the island, much better. Also we had booked hotels beforehand yay!
First night was Chinese New Year so we spent it with the sister's diving instructor (she was there to learn how to dive) and the other Chinese students. I hadn't spoken that much Chinese in a long time, but I held my own imo. The diving instructor's house was on a large hill with a pretty awesome view:
so we enjoyed that, had some tea:
and hot pot. The next day my friend's wife and I were walking around and we ran into three of the Chinese students we'd met the night before. One of them was ****ed. He had also had a motorbike accident and landed on his face. Poor guy. My friend's wife and I had a great time though, we spent a few days on the beach together while the sister learned to dive.
Nice and relaxing, but I didn't swim much at all due to people coming out of the water with awful looking rashes from jellyfish. The sister did well with her classes, but her fragile 80 pound Cantonese body did not deal well with the cold. The first day she threw up in the water, caught a fever and was coughing all night. She still loved it though. I was also not the best roommate for these two. I was only planning to stay a few days but ended up staying most of the week with them. I ran out of clean underwear and there's no real stores there so I just bought a swimming suit. That night the sister was doing her first night dive, and the wife and I went onto the boat with them. I thought I heard a rip in my pants getting onto the boat but checked out my pants and everything was fine.
The next morning I woke up to a very Chinese sounding scream and wondered wtf was wrong. Apparently the rip was not in my pants, it was my new swimming suit, and my testicles were just flapping around in the air conditioning breeze. The sister's bed faced mine so she woke up to that nice view. Ooops.
Overall great trip and had a lot of fun, but I'm very happy to be back at my apartment and have some downtime. Oh also finally sucked out on someone: QQ vs KK all in on an 883 board. Nice.