Mabuhay...

That's hello in Filipino, methinks.. *Down, Arroyo, down... good girl*

Anyway, I dragged my tired arse the whole day around with my colleague, looking for a potential client whose office is in Quezon City. That's part of Metro Manila which comprises of Manila, Pasay City, Quezon, Makati (riot zone), etc. Dun ask me. I'm as confused as you are.

Anyhow, I'm typing this in an internet cafe in Robinson Manila with a small fucken cockroach crawling on the table besides me. *No, Arroyo, no biting of Marcos' shoes.. bad girl!! Down, girl!!*

The security here is tighter than Cameron Diaz's ass. I've seen more sercurity guards here than policemen. There are checks everwhere you go, i.e. public places like shopping malls, MRT and LRT. Plus they all carry guns. Pretty surreal. So far, they've pretty alright, I suppose. In the LRT, there are segregations between males and females. Eh, this ain't a Muslim country innit? Methinks the authorities is afraid that since it's always so overcrowded (insert corny Radiohead reference) - Packt Like Saradines In A Can, the guys here might pull a Japanese man groping a Sailormoon-outfitted high school girl. Who knows?

On a more disturbing side, since this is, after all, a Third World country. I've seen homeless street children going around begging for money and food. They dun study and are improperly educated. My colleague scoffed, "See, they are so ill-mannered right now. When they grow up, the guys will become criminals and the girls whores!" I dunno man. The circumstances they grow up in are really shitty. I dun blame them but dun wish to pity them either. They are even perhaps tougher than you and me... I saw this homeless woman tuggin her 2 kids sleeping on the streets, unwashed and unkempted. A piece of cardboard was their mattress. The older child was about 2 while the other was barely 6 months old. It's really sad. I din wanna take any pictures of them sleeping in the street. I guess, it's easier to judge and act high and mighty that way. I wish them luck.

*Arroyo...No!!! No biting of Estrada's ass!!!*

Gotta go!!! More soon!!!