Work work work....

I apologize for not being on here sooner but as you can tell by the title I have been a very busy boy. Lets see it all started very early in the month with a Trip to Cebu and Manila. The trip was over all about 11 days long. I was doing most of my work in Cebu helping some folks out up there with a major project. Then only spent the night in Manila before returning home.

I returned home to the tune of chaos, everything was breaking and/or not working properly here so I have pretty much spent everyday up until right now getting all that shit situated. Is everything 100% now? Fuck no and I do not think it every will be, just because the nature of the beast here is ALWAYS fucking changing. I apologize for being very general with my wording here but that is also the nature of the beast.

The good parts about Cebu (I got to see a few because they could not work us 24/7 even though they wanted to) was that its very cool on the upper side of the island. Its a very nice beach resort area, the water was awesome and super blue and I got to see my first sea snake. I was snorkeling at the hotel area beach and people where feeding the fish and what not when I noticed this big ass sea snake. He was just chilling there on the bottom of the ocean floor about 25 or 30 feet down just minding his own fucking business. No photos sorry I didn't have my gear with me or I would post some pics of him cause he looked really cool (like black and white camo). I however never got time to go to the casino in Cebu and I am very disappointed about that as I hear that Craps is a big game here. An already some of the other guys that did get to go won an ass ton off the craps tables so next time. So the first couple nights in Cebu we stayed at the Parkllan which was right downtown and really close to everything, which was cool. However they had this major ass construction project going on next door so we eventually moved to the other side of the island to the Shangri La resort. Which was where we spent the remainder of our days in Cebu. Google those hotels if you like because they are amazing places both of them and I would recommend either to a traveler. The Parkllan is closer to all the downtown stuff and had bigger rooms, but the Shangri La was a much nicer overall place (4 swimming pools, hot tub, golf coarse, and private beach) but was much farther away from EVERYTHING. It was an hour cab ride to downtown or pretty much anywhere. The only good side to that was that cabs are really cheap it was under 200pesos for an hour cab ride. At 47 pesos to 1 dollar you get the picture.

So anyways I am still around and wishing I was home for a freaking Halloween with my peeps, but alas I am not. I miss everyone and at the same time wish you all where here with me. This place is very poor financially but super rich in sights. I wish I had time to just travel to all the islands and see everything. You never know what you might see just flying around this place, for example I saw a school of whales while island hopping. How bad ass is that! Well folks take care and until next time be safe and I miss you!

Bama

Generation Kill + the PI

So let me just start by saying that if you are looking for a happy go lucky or funny sitcom Generation Kill is NOT I say again NOT for you. However if you want to watch a show with some balls and is a fairly accurate depiction of what combat is like then this is a must see. Its kind of like the "Saving Private Ryan" of today. There are parts and people in this series that will piss you right the fuck off. So do not watch this and yell at me later because of the few that are fucking idiots but the world is full of them. Watch the series with an open mind is all that I ask and if you can try and put your self in the Iceman's position. In my opinion he was one of the only ones of the series with any common fucking sense. Anyways it is a great watch especially if your into war stuff. So enjoy!

The PI, man this place is fucking beautiful parts of it are very run down and all that but in short terms if just very awesome place here. I was flying around to various places over the last few days and from 1800 or so feet up you can see for miles. There are somewhere in the neighborhood of 7000 islands here and most of them are uninhabited. While being out and about today I was thinking to myself the whole time I wonder what one of these little islands with no one around would cost to buy? Yes it would be a lot of hard work and all because you would have to build (and import) most everything. But I almost think it would really be worth it. To buy my own fucking island have a farm and garden build a pier and buy a boat! There you have it, I think that just might be my new goal, of coarse I will have to run it buy the wife and all, so I will keep you abreast of that situation as it unfolds. So back to the PI the water is just awesome, warm and crystal clear blue. Pretty much every island I saw made me think of Hawaii, but with less people no super rich influences and tons of natural beauty. I will put up some pics or maybe even video I hope some time. Until then just know that we are doing good things here and I hope we will continue to get to do some for as long as the people here need us.

Until next time! Peace, Love and all the good stuff!
Bama