Dec 29 - John Cena (WWE Idol of 2010)

After a hard-working day, people like to watch some entertainment even if it is already set up. In the WWE show, players have different characteristics designed. They have special styles and famous acts and even theme songs. And there are good people gang and bad people gang.

There used to be a very hilarious series called TLC series. If you can make your rival to the tables or the ladders and chairs, you are the winner. Very stupid I know, but somehow it was really fun to watch last night. John Cena's the WWE idol of this year.

John Cena's theme song

At 2:27 you will see Cena's famous act - waving in front of the face.

Dec 29 - Alegre Guitars Factory & Bluewater Beach Resort

Luckily, a very nice taxi driver drove us to the guitar town and to the very famous guitar factory called "Alegre." I pronounced the word worng so at first the driver didn't understand where we wanted to go. I thought "gre" was like British English so I pronounced it like "ger." Then I show the driver the address. He realized by saying "Ah......"A-'le-gre" na.....You have to say it this way. Espanio!" (Put the stress on "le") Oh! Right! Philippines has more to do with Span! How come I forgot all about this!

I bought a black ukulele for 1,400 pesos which equals to about 900NT dollars. Haha...Nydia, I got a cheaper one and it was made in Cebu!

Connie was trying to be a rocker there.

Later on, the same driver offered to drive us to anywhere we wanted to again. The plan was...going to the beach! So we went to Bluewater Resort for the afternoon for the sunbath and soaking in the water. Nice!

Jeepney again to dinner. Taiwanese cuisine for this evenning and met the Head of Taiwan Association in Cebu. He said anything, any troubles, just go for him! Ah-ha! He's our cushion now ;)

Supermarket after dinner. I bought some souveniors for Bala, Tracy and Becky. You guys will like it. That's the thing I like the most until now, very practical. You'll see!

Some other photos from today

Dec 29 - MYMP

MYMP - Make My Mother Proud, the popular band here.

By chances I heard their songs couple times from ICRT on Sundays. You know on Sunday morning there's a program playing top Indonisian or Filipino songs. I know MYMP from there.

So this time, before I came here, I planed to buy MYMP's album if possible. This afternoon I had a chance to go to a music shop. Again, like in Bali, I sang the song I was familiar with to the clerk and to have her find the album for me.

In the lyrics, there's a word - sa ka yang. I asked Marian

if she knows MYMP and what does that mean. She told me MYMP is popular here and if you pronounce the word "sa-ka-yang" that means small boat; if "sa-kyang" that means you are right. A very interesting way to learn a language, isn't it?!

Here's the song from Youtube. Love it!

Dec 29 - "I had a dream, ..."

Maybe I dreamed a lot last night. This morning Connie told me I was saying something like "mimimimimimimimi..." for about 3 minutes. She was trying to wake me up but I still kept saying mimimimimimi. Mi what? And I ended it up by sitting up with the last mi and I fell deep sleep again.

Photos from the factory

Dec 28 - Yadz

"Yadz" in filipino means gay. He feels absolutely okay with the way people call him so we forgot his real name. He said, "This is me. It's real me."

Quote from Yadz "I've never been kissed. I've never been touched. But I'm totally damaged!"

Here's another pic of Yadz with Connie's hubby, Michael (A-Long)

People here are so happy and so friendly, so funny, so open-minded and so crazy. And they value their "appearence" very much - including how they look and how they smell after work, especially young men. At noon, they only have a 1-hour lunch break. When @ 12:00, there's a lunch altert. They change clothes! and put on perfume! Yes! Only for this one hour! And at 5pm when they are ready to leave, bathrooms and locker rooms are packed. Men started to take out the small towls to clean themselves and get a change and put on purfume again. At 12pm and 5pm, when we opened the office door not to the factory yet, it was fuuullllllll of their perfume smell. I'm not exagerating it! I wish I could take a photo of the smell.

See the photo below. Those glasses were from a guy. Crazy enough!

Daisy with Marian

Dec 28 - Meanest customs ever!

4am, I was at Malina Airport going through the Customs. The officer was the meanest customs lady I have ever seen! I was handing her a form but forgot to sign somewhere. She said impatiently, "Sign!" I said, "Do you have a pen that I can borrow please?" She goes, "I have. But I'm using it."

And then I went to the Items to Declear Section. Just smile. Thank you. Merry Christmas. Then you could perfectly walk away without any troubles. p.s. I brought pork fiber (rou song) in! Not sure if this was alright but I was nervous!
9:40am Connie came to pick me up with the driver Lito.

First time saw Jeepney






Standing beside Lito, I'm totally white. Gear up!

Some other photos to share...