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hope you have no more recurrence
Hi Ed, sorry to hear about your bouts with malaria, where in the Philippines did you contract it? luckily I did not get it when I was there recently, hoping for your speedy recovery bro. Gil

Superb depiction.
Your description of observers reaction to your suffering really brought the story alive. I've often found it difficult to accurately recall pain and illness after the fact. It almost seems at times as if it's happening as I read...Harrowing, Brilliant! I've never had malaria myself, or taken any precautionary medication. I'm taking note.

I'm seriously considering getting re-tested after my hospital experience in China last year, despite that I was given a hell of a lot of antibiotics..The parasites can remain dormant in your liver for years. You should come back to the UK and get tested and treated properly at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases..

Re: Mindanao
Ive found your post while reading Cris nomad4ever.com site. Thanks visiting us here. I'm living here in General Santos City.. Thanks also for knowing and seeing some of our fellow tribal people here. More power to you :)

LAO ZHAI MARKET
Hi E Just a small question... on which day is Lao Zhai market?... or is the market every 5 or 6 days? Many thanks.

messages to edward
hi ed, how are you? i really enjoy your blog.. are you going back to taot bato? i know that place cos im loving in sicud whose near in taot bato,,, i wish you can come back again and i can meet you in real cos i enjoy to read your blog.. i give you my number so that we can meet .. 09295381713

You did it
You got past the surface beauty into the darker reality of the place from the sounds of it. Reading of your experience echos much of my own experience there yet I am still planning on the move. Will you go back? I very much would like you to email me if you would since public forums are well, public.

Blog of the year, for the Europe/Adventure cathegory
Check this out. :) http://www.travelblog.org/Forum/Threads/22180-1.html

the word 'good' does not suffice
outstanding writing. if you're not writing elsewhere, thanks for sharing your skill with us here on TB. it's a true pleasure reading you.

the place where i left before
im a woman with a simple ambition for my self and for my family i grew up in sicud rizal palawan i studied in elementary up to secondary on that place. but when i graduated high school i my family that i will contenue my college degree in manila im so sad cos im sure that i cant see the place where i started to grew up after how many years i going back in sicud rizal palawan im amaze my place coz its improving now they have a electricity ang improving sorrounding and very refreshing place and beautiful spots you can found it like taot bato, sidang sidang and many more... in taot bato they have a lot of indigenous people its familliar to call [PALAWAN a native people] thay so nice and friendly but despite of that the status of there living is so poor and they needs a lot of things especially medicine..and im giving my sympathy for them.. i want to help those people... maybe they have a person who can help me also to pursue my purposes to be able to help them....and i want also to avoid a descrimination for those people who lives peacefully in the mountain.we share our blessings to them...godbless and love our invironment and also to all indegenous people i adore you......

Being in the Moscow metro is one of my travel fantasies. But the fantasy up until now has been about crystal chandaliers and marble, and excluded beggars, babuskas, drunks, militisia.... But, I am always interested in human life, so they will add an extra dimension to the experinece when, I finally do get to Moscow. ''Of course, the darker your skin the more often you will be stopped. Who can blame them, however, when their salaries are barely more than the cost of renting a room?'' I can and do blame them. The dark skinned people likely earn less in Moscow than the Militsia do. '' Each one of these newly-grinning people was thinking the same thing: how nice that these children are not old and jaded like us, how nice that they relish a new experience and dive head first into it, how nice it would be to be able to laugh like that once again.'' Nice that somebody can see the joyful side of children. I often wonder why people so often only see the noisy, messy aspect of children. I as a parent often dispair about how modern societies view children.

"Greasy food does wonderful things for the mood on a cold, horrible day". I know that kebab always works for you;-). I now can imagine your daily life in Moscow. Thanks. As a tropical creature I am always excited and overwhelmed to see snow. But you succeeded in making me think, "Perhaps it is not as good; could be bleak, depressive and gloomy too," Just for comparison, so is the sun. In England people told me lucky because I have summer all year long. But let's put sun together with flies, mud, rubbish, fish market, blocked drain, lots of people, humidity and cigarette smoke. I've been there before (no wonder I love winter =p). Did you read a lot about Russian history? You wrote such a good story about Russian aristocrats and peasants toiling etc. Thumbs up.