Alright, been a minute. So some recap/boring post to catch my life up - Philippines is goddamn amazing. Top 5 country on my list, maybe even higher. Girls are simple, its the only place so far in the world where I'm comfortable just going out solo because people are so friendly and inviting. Vietnam was kinda similar like when you go out to eat people just invite you over - but there's still the huge language barrier and viets are completely harmless - but a bit creepy when they welcome you to come join them to eat at a restaurant because you are alone and then not a single one speaks english. Phils everyone speaks english, and I understand like 10% of their language as well since its spanish based. Had a lot of sex, so much strange. Met up with a 2p2er and cruised around a couple places with him as well for a few weeks. Honestly wish I went to more places while I was there but I mean jesus, there's an easy 15 islands I've heard about that I REALLY want to go to and spend at least 4-5 days, and I'm sure there's 100 more I just haven't heard about yet. Didn't scuba dive while I was there, huge fail for me. Almost went at one place but we did snorkel with turtles and see some reefs, so I skipped diving. Then there was a really cool shipwreck I wanted to dive, but conditions were bad all week and everyday I called and they weren't allowed to go out there. Kind of a major bummer - I need to scuba dive more. Didn't skate much either, but did get in some poker volume and had a great month.
60 hours of travel to uruguay and I got hauled off the airplane in a wheelchair. Had a fever of 41, throat infection, and my knees couldn't walk since I was all shiver cold but hot on all the flights and curled up in a ball/tucked up resting on my knees and they just got ruined. Some free shots and rest at airport clinic and I felt better. Doctor even got my luggage and stamped me through immigration. Nice to be back in latin america again, and saw some friends in Montevideo as well. I didn't cash but was easiest live tourney I've played - just felt super in the zone with no tough decisions. Dropped 1k on a hotel for 5 nights and amayastars wouldn't give me a refund. Sigh. Buddy shipped highroller, awkwardly saw a girl I banged last time I was in town, we ate some nice food with the homies, had weed for the first time in awhile, got my Brazil visa and now I'm in Brazil!! Porto Alegre was my first stop, if only to break up long bus rides. 13th in red spade open after being chiplead from 18 left. Was fairly soul crushing, but didn't tilt at all. A random internet DC makes me go nuts, but MTTs gonna MTT. trips < backdoor flush, JJ < QQ, TT < KK and I'm out. Just blows that a decent score there would have changed some things for me - go home to see grandma and mom and such - but oh well. Keep it moving and grateful to have a run.
Just got into florianopolis a couple hours ago and holy balls I'm gonna like it here, I can tell. Oh butts are like 30% bigger in brazil, so I am so so so so hyped. People are so normal here, it's strange. Every skin color, height, fat people, style. Big skateboard and surf scene, I see a lot of rando guys on the street that have the same style as me...it's just odd to not stick out like a sore thumb like in Asia.
Portuguese is the weirdest language ever, if only because I almost understand every word they say...but really don't understand at all. Reading comprehension is much higher and I'm sure with time I'll get used to the 'B' being a 'V', the 'D' being a 'G', the 'G' being a 'SCHH' and so on. Want to finish the duolingo Portuguese course and see where I'm at from there, but I could see myself spending 1-2 hours a day for the next couple months actively learning this language - opposite of spanish which I learned thru facebooking girls, spanish music/movies, skate friends, and a vocab/verb base from high school. Gonna be working alot for the next month at least. 30k VPPs to get ideally before December when I go to BSOP/LAPT and then my college friend comes to visit and we go to Rio and cruise around Brazil until xmas. Normally wouldn't be that tough but SNGs are fuuuuuuuuuucked and even 30s get super reggy sometimes. Off-peak I should be able to mix in plenty of 60s and 100s though, seems fair as I'm playing insanely overrolled for $15s at the moment.
Didn't really take many pics in phils. Grinding poker and online dating, degen nights, and chilling on the beach was basically all that I did. Had a great day cliff jumping at this place with all you can drink/all you can eat and various levels of cliffjumping. Pretty confident in my flippin skills, although wish I would have tried gainer and backflip off the biggest 10m jump. I was wasted though, and that high gets super squirrelly if you over-rotate anything. Awesome day although wish there were more crazy type kids on the trip, I was the only one flipping around.
cliff jump spot
water is just toooo nice all over phils.
Besides Oktoberfest and a bit of skate/surf/sex, I'm hoping my life stays boring and I grind my butt off. So will prob be updating this thing about as often as I have been.
Anyways life is nice, happy to be here, happy to start eating healthy again since I'll have a kitchen. Read the tibetan book of the dead and goddammit I'm just mad I never read it before. Best guidebook ever for meditation and also directly applies to getting the most out of psychadelics. Boa noite meninos, todos ser legal