Dec 31 - Formosa Overnight Party

Dec 31 - Markado market this morning

We woke up early in order to get to the traditional market. Needed to get things ready for the party tonight.

Afternoon, while waiting for Lito to come pick us up to the beach, we were clenaning the room, doing laundry, putting tattoo stickres on and also getting tanned for me.

Some greens from the landlord's little garden.

Dec 30 - Soko

Soko in their dialec (Bisaya) means angry. Connie likes to use her mum to threaten the workers. She's always like "What? Oh....Mama soko. She will kill you!"

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alisa: come here
noi: affirmative no

Were you late for work this morning?
NOI!!!

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salama: thanks
walaysapayang: welcome

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dali dali: quickly
hee nai: slowly

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sa kayang: small boat
sakanyang: you are right

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dubi: water

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guo dong (sounds like jelly in Chinese): hungry

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Here comes a situation: at the dinner yesterday, the dishes were nee nai. Connie told the server, "dali dali, we are guo dong ne...salama!"

Dec 30 - Ultimate the 30th

I was warned last night that today is gonna be a crazy working day since there's no work from tomorrow until Jan 2. I think I will be helping at the factory today in order to get to my favorite Philippine restaurant for dinner. I went there for my first dinner here and the food there was faaaabulous! Connie said I was like doing another working holiday - exchange food and accommodation by working. True! But until now (9:58am) I am still updating my blog. Ha ha...


Ummm...Connie was thinking and I was playing around.

Today ended up with a real busy day. But even it was busy, they stayed positive. Love it!

It was a pay day and at 5pm everyboday lined up to get their salary envelopes. Marina, Yadz and June were doing the money this afternoon since the accountant wasn't there today. They found out the money was short by 800 pesos. Connie was soko at Yadz. There were two more quotes from Yadz again. "I'm not accounting, I am just counnting!" & "I'm sure I'm honest, but I don't know two of them..."

After getting the money, there will be a long new year weekend. People were very very happy and whenever we said "pictures pictures!", they were like crazy and posed already even if we were not ready to take the photos yet.

Man, they were very cute!

They worked overtime today and I finally did my "working holiday." It was tiring!!! Seriously!!!

But I knew there was a dinner after that. All the hard work paid off :))) Salama, auntie Kang!