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Yesterday I managed a day off…it really wipes me out when I have a week with no day off (i.e. last week) so I spent the better part of yesterday morning snoozing!
Once I eventually woke up I decided that today was going to be the ‘last push’ on sorting out my boxes and putting furniture in the right place…so there followed about five hours of pushing, pulling, shoving and emptying… and at the end of it…the apartment looked half way respectable – I still need to organize the basics…gas, cable TV and internet…(not too sure if my Grand-mother would class cable TV and internet as basics…but there you go…I am getting withdrawal symptoms from no BBC World!).
So after all the furniture arranging I decided to venture out to get some bits and pieces for the house a.k.a. retail therapy! Having shopped mainly at MegaMall and Rockwell I decided to venture to new malling grounds and headed to Glorietta…actually a very nice mall, but very confusing with no clear layout as to what shops were where…as a result (I don’t enjoy shopping at the best of times, so need it all planned and organized) I gave up and headed over to Greenbelt for some dinner. For the third time in a row I sat in the restaurant (different restaurants…am not that much of a sucker for punishment!) with the menu (after having made my choice) for about 15 minutes before someone came over and asked if I was ready…what do I need to do raise a flag? In normal restaurant speak if the guest pushes the menu away and starts to read – they are ready to order…anyway, dinner was good but then figured it was time to head home. If I thought the taxi queue at MegaMall was disorganized…Glorietta takes it to a whole new level…no empty taxis allowed up to the door, no designated queuing area…if you want a taxi you head out into the middle of the road and flag one down…dangerous and disorganized…could just about sum up Manila!
Whilst wandering through Glorietta yesterday I saw something in a shop window that made me look twice…it was a one of those shops selling all the religious bits and pieces that seem to be so popular / necessary here….
All I can say is that I hope He saves……
It was nice to come back to an apartment with some semblance of order and homeliness about it…the cats obviously felt a bit more relaxed as well!
Now the house is vaguely organized I need to start working on my extra-curricular activities so will now try to line up a tennis instructor and find somewhere to carry on with my fencing!
A quick look around the what’s been happening over the last few days leads me to Torn and Frayed and a post about using the railways in Manila…to be honest I saw a railway track in Manila the other day and from the look of the track it seemed obvious to me that trains don’t run here anymore…obviously I am wrong.
John Simpson (one of my favourite BBC correspondents) has written a good column on the Amman bombings…the picture they use at the top shows demonstrators waving placards with pictures of King Abdullah and in the background you can just make out a placard showing a picture of the late King Hussein, those sad, knowing and kindly eyes are instantly recognizable….he would be devastated by the recent events in his wonderful Kingdom.
And to finish….another view from my apartment…the light in the distance is Manila Bay…normally a dirty dishwater colour…in this picture shimmering gold...
Once I eventually woke up I decided that today was going to be the ‘last push’ on sorting out my boxes and putting furniture in the right place…so there followed about five hours of pushing, pulling, shoving and emptying… and at the end of it…the apartment looked half way respectable – I still need to organize the basics…gas, cable TV and internet…(not too sure if my Grand-mother would class cable TV and internet as basics…but there you go…I am getting withdrawal symptoms from no BBC World!).
So after all the furniture arranging I decided to venture out to get some bits and pieces for the house a.k.a. retail therapy! Having shopped mainly at MegaMall and Rockwell I decided to venture to new malling grounds and headed to Glorietta…actually a very nice mall, but very confusing with no clear layout as to what shops were where…as a result (I don’t enjoy shopping at the best of times, so need it all planned and organized) I gave up and headed over to Greenbelt for some dinner. For the third time in a row I sat in the restaurant (different restaurants…am not that much of a sucker for punishment!) with the menu (after having made my choice) for about 15 minutes before someone came over and asked if I was ready…what do I need to do raise a flag? In normal restaurant speak if the guest pushes the menu away and starts to read – they are ready to order…anyway, dinner was good but then figured it was time to head home. If I thought the taxi queue at MegaMall was disorganized…Glorietta takes it to a whole new level…no empty taxis allowed up to the door, no designated queuing area…if you want a taxi you head out into the middle of the road and flag one down…dangerous and disorganized…could just about sum up Manila!
Whilst wandering through Glorietta yesterday I saw something in a shop window that made me look twice…it was a one of those shops selling all the religious bits and pieces that seem to be so popular / necessary here….
All I can say is that I hope He saves……
It was nice to come back to an apartment with some semblance of order and homeliness about it…the cats obviously felt a bit more relaxed as well!
Now the house is vaguely organized I need to start working on my extra-curricular activities so will now try to line up a tennis instructor and find somewhere to carry on with my fencing!
A quick look around the what’s been happening over the last few days leads me to Torn and Frayed and a post about using the railways in Manila…to be honest I saw a railway track in Manila the other day and from the look of the track it seemed obvious to me that trains don’t run here anymore…obviously I am wrong.
John Simpson (one of my favourite BBC correspondents) has written a good column on the Amman bombings…the picture they use at the top shows demonstrators waving placards with pictures of King Abdullah and in the background you can just make out a placard showing a picture of the late King Hussein, those sad, knowing and kindly eyes are instantly recognizable….he would be devastated by the recent events in his wonderful Kingdom.
And to finish….another view from my apartment…the light in the distance is Manila Bay…normally a dirty dishwater colour…in this picture shimmering gold...
posted by Madame Chiang at 12:59 pm
2 Comments:
Good to hear your flat's almost done. Nothing like having a nice peaceful home to go to after a long hard day. We also have 2 cats which are great stress busters as soon as you open the door.
It can't really have effect, I think this way.
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