Sigh...

gotta love it.

non-permanence

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

"Manila needs a marketing campaign"

Hell yeah. The ENTIRE country does. I don't know what they're trying to do now with WOW Philippines but looking at their website isn't much of haluwow. We didn't need supreme "eventologist" TIm Yap to prance around in his golden trenchcoat and feathered pen boa to make such a statement. (Sarcasm is welcome to be interpreted as jealousy as this major queen has the financial capacity to travel from Ibiza to the rest of Asia).

A friend of mine went to Manila during Springbreak to visit her parents (she's American). I promised her I'd email her all the wonderful shopping destinations and great beaches but the coldness of the season and the lack of technical wiring or wireless signal for lack of better terms, prevented me to do so.

I hope she had a great time though.

It just irks me how one of the most wonderfully wonderful places in the world can be such a secret. People here go way over their heads to go to Miami for the beaches and the parties the same way people in Manila go ape to go to Boracay over Lent. It's ludricous that a Catholic nation readies itself for the best parties during Holy Week.... how every chromosome in everyone's bodies ache to immerse themselves of the guiltiest pleasures known to humankind during a week supposedly devoted to lenten sacrifice.

LOVE it.

I myself have never experienced how crazy the Holy Week can be in the island of Boracay... my tickets for the island are usually reserved for late April or May even. As a tourist, I'd FLIP at the idea of this. As a Catholic tourist, I might think otherwise, but I heard the Boracay processions during Holy Week can BE a sight to see.

Puerto Galera has students and yuppies prancing around armed with tents. You don't even need a reservation to go to this beach... granted you're more than likely to see someone you know there and hint around for a quick shower in their bathroom while you lay your tent by the beach.

Verrry economical. Never done this though. I find a bathroom essential to be shared only by a group of few people. But with the 2 hour drive and the 30 minute boat ride, you really can't go wrong... you can just catch the last boat out if you're not up for roughing it... or don't sleep at all and catch the earliest one and sleep on the way home.

You might want someone you trust to watch over your things though.

Oh what I would give to get a tan with those halter lines tracing my back and my shoulders.

I am so pale. Lost without my 7,107 islands during summer....what's a girl to do? Vigan days, Boracay nights, Galera afternoons and mga hapon sa Panglao.

Cebu, Dakak, Greenbelt, Ruins.

Geez.... what werre they thinking? Manila is a homing paradise!

Crazy politics, traffic so jammed it's not even funny and hot hot weather set aside... I'm sure I'd think otherwise when I'm there... I have the attention span of a six year old so it seems.

It must be the cold.

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