Do's for Manila


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January 10th 2009
Published: March 4th 2009
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1. Hang out with dwarfs in Hobbit House which claims to have the smallest bar staff in the world.

2. Practice Swedish with a 72-year old Kristina from Gotland, help her with English needlework
vocabulary and with a bleeding heart, decline her offer to join her and another Swede in murdering a bottle of whiskey later on tonight.

3. Discuss the Saimaan kanava with a Philippino sailor who has been to Joensuu several times. Then meet another sailor who is a fan of Swan boats from Finland.

4. Wonder why on earth would a 10-year-old boy know the lyrics to Zombie by Cranberries in 2009.

5. Be reminded of your age when realizing that Zombie came out 15 years ago. Fuck.

6. Be sorry about missing the Black Nazarene procession by one day only to read in the paper that 300 people were hospitalized by the mad masses of people trying to reach the cord attached to the supposedly miracle making black statue of Jesus during the procession.

7. Ride a jeepney, a Philippino mix of a bus and Jeep, through town and get off at the right stop like you had been riding these things all your life. Then get absolutely lost in Chinatown.

8. Laugh at a small girl jamming it to the rhythm of a rap song most probably called Fuck Like a Porn Star (at least that was the chorus) blazing from the sound system of the the Rizal Park populated by hundreds of families on a lovely Saturday afternoon.

9. Be surprised by what a relaxed place Manila is for a third world capital city.

10. Drink the cheapest Starbucks Coffee ever and read newspapers before leaving the urban delights behind for a few days of hiking in the mountainous north Luzon.

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11th March 2009

#4, 5 and 8
Classic!

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