06 October, 2008

Ma ni la!


So just to start out, I'm going to tell y'all that Manila is probably the craziest place on earth. It really is the sin city of the world...there are no rules and everyone does as they please. The area of Manila that we first saw had nothing but pimps and prostitutes...like Vegas x100. haha. Other than that, we saw some pretty cool stuff though, such as the hobbit house that legitimately had little people to serve your drinks to you...so moral...



The other thing that I loved about this city were these things called jeepmeys. They looked like the old Jeeps made in the old days but extended so that they could act like a bus...there were 1000s all over the roads and all individually painted so that they had their own personalities...I think they were also the driver's personal car as well as the public transport. haha. Some of them had awesome stereos and stuff too so that you would party on the bus on your way somewhere. They also had these extreme pedicabs that were with motorcycles instead of bikes...those were pretty awesome as well. I've got to admit, other countries have such cooler ways of getting around than the USA.
Here's the roomy with who turned out to be a prostitute....like i said, everyone was a prostitute...even though she was cool and just told us about manila and philippines/what to do around there...she also did believe though that i was from the philppines, ben was from spain, and my asian friend phong was from norway...
We boarded a random boat because all the ferries were cancelled due to the typhoon in the philippines at the time....this is what was printed on our boat....it probably wasn't our most intelligent decision to take a boat into a typhoon, but isn't the water the safest place during one?

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