Archive for December, 2008

Hangover in different levels

Monday, December 29th, 2008

For a given reason I had to copy the following levels to here. I might have reached 3-4 yesterday. Did I tell you already that i hate Barhopping with the Beermonster ?? … at least for a few hours ??

Hangover-Level1

No pain. No real feeling of illness. You slept in your own bed and when you woke up there were no traffic cones in there with you. You are still able to function relatively well on the energy stored up from all those vodka redbulls. However, you can drink 10 bottles of water and still feel as parched as the Sahara.

Hangover-Level 2

No pain, but something is definitely amiss. You may look okay but you have the attention span and mental capacity of a stapler. The coffee you hug to try and remain focused is only exacerbating your rumbling gut, which is craving a full English breakfast. Although you have a nice demeanour about the office, you are costing your employer valuable money because all you really can handle is some light filing, followed by aimlessly surfing the net and writing junk e-mails.

Hangover-Level 3

Slight headache. Stomach feels crap. You are definitely a space cadet and not very productive. Anytime a girl or lad walks by you gag because the perfume/aftershave reminds you of the random gin shots you did at the house party after the bouncer kicked you out of the club at 1:45 am. Life would be better right now if you were in your bed with a dozen doughnuts and a liter of coke watching daytime TV. You’ve had 4 cups of coffee, a gallon of water, 2 Sausage Rolls and a liter of  coke-light yet you haven’t peed once.

Hangover-Level 4

You have lost the will to live. Your head is throbbing and you can’t speak too quickly or else you might spew. Your boss has already lambasted you for being late and has given you a lecture for reeking of booze. You wore nice clothes, but you smell of socks, and you can’t hide the fact that you either missed an oh-so crucial spot shaving or it looks like you put your make-up on while riding the dodgems (depending on your gender). Your teeth have their own individual sweaters. Your eyes look like one big vein and your hairstyle makes you look like a reject from a second-grade class circa 1976. You would give a weeks pay for one of the following - home time, a doughnut and somewhere to be alone, or a Time Machine so you could go back and NOT have gone out the night before. You scare small children in the street just by walking past them.

Hangover-Level 5

You have a second heartbeat in your head, which is actually annoying the employee who sits next to you. Vodka vapour is seeping out of every pore and making you dizzy. You still have toothpaste crust in the corners of your mouth from brushing your teeth. Your body has lost the ability to generate saliva, so your tongue is suffocating you. You’d cry but that would take the last drop of moisture left in your body. Death seems pretty good right now. Your boss doesn’t even get mad at you and your co-workers think that your dog just died because you look so pathetic. You should have called in sick because, let’s face it, all you can manage to do is breathe ….. very gently.

Hangover-Level 6

You arrive home and climb into bed. Sleep comes instantly, as you were fighting it all the way home in the taxi. You get about 2 hours sleep until the noises inside your head wake you up. You notice that your bed has been cleared for take off and is flying relentlessly around the room. No matter what you do you now, you’re going to chuck. You stumble out of bed and now find that your room is in a yacht under full sail. After walking along the skirting boards on alternating walls knocking off all the pictures, you find the toilet. If you are lucky you will remember to lift the lid before you spontaneously explode and wake the whole house up with your impersonation of walrus mating calls. You sit there on the floor in your undies, cuddling the only friend in the world you have left (the toilet), randomly continuing to make the walrus noises, spitting, and farting. Help usually comes at this stage, even if it is short lived. Tears stream down your face and your abdomen hurts. Help now turns into abuse and he/she usually goes back to bed leaving you there in the dark. With your stomach totally empty, your spontaneous eruptions have died back to 15-minute intervals, but your body won’t relent. You are convinced that you are starting to turn yourself inside out and swear that you saw your tonsils shoot out of your mouth on the last occasion. It is now dawn and you pass your disgusted partner getting up for the day as you try to climb into bed. She/he abuses you again for trying to get into bed with lumpy bits of dried vomit in your hair. Work is not an option. The whole day is spent trying to avoid anything that might make you sick again, like moving. You vow never to touch a drop again - until next weekend.

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Angeles trip - first night out

Monday, December 29th, 2008

At around 1 pm I arrived at the house of Kim and Tom. House might be a bit of an understatement, it is a huge lot with a pretty house and a nice pool. I know their old castle, but  this one is really topping it. Spacious open with big pool nice garden , just hard to describe. We were sitting outside at the bar next to the pool and enjoyed a cold ice tea while talking a bit about the next days.
This  evening we will go to Roadhouse for a charity event for the Bahay Bata Center in Angels City where Tom will be the MV. A plate of Kim’s Potato Salad and some meatballs were perfect as I was a bit hungry. After the snack I went for a nap as I will face a loooong night.

We go there around 5:30 pm and paid the 1000 peso entrance. The fee gives free food and drinks until midnight.  The event started very slow but picked up around 10:00 pm. Several raffles and auctions where on the schedule and some of the highlights were the shaving of Santas beard. Santa is a well known celebrity in Angeles and so many people want to see his beard fall. I met plenty of mates to have a beer with and visited the neighbor bar where Gordy (aka Drummer) is the Manager on duty that evening.

Roadhouse girls

Roadhouse girls

We left Roadhouse around 1 am and went for a barhop. This was the last time I looked at my watch and felt a bit tired already. We headed to Birdcage, where Kim and Tom were the Sunday-managers before, had a quick beer and moved to . All the bars were surprisingly quiet for a Saturday night and all Hotels full. As we were a crowd of 7 it was no problem and we had a god time. Next stop was Vortex to meet Martin, another Manger and old mate of the guys in our crowd. At time I was seriously damaged already and ready to go home. Martin ordered some weird shooters and they just gave me the rest. I was done but they dragged me to Carousel where I had to more beer while bagging Kim to call the driver to bring me home.

I have not really a detailed memory when I came home, but I made it to the room and felt asleep in a split-second.

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New Year in AC or a local drama Part one

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

It’s been a year that I visit Kim and Tom in Angeles, so it was more than time to book a flight to Luzon. I got a 2-way flight with Philippine Airline for only 2960 Peso and booked like always a pick up service via Margarita Station. I always use them and was never disappointed. They are not the cheapest but very reliable.

As everybody can imagine there is always a Philippine-drama when telling at home to will leave for some days. One thing you got to get used in this country… drama and jealousy .  As a guy you will have a jealous asawa when you yell at to a dog crossing your way and that usually ends in a drama if you react in any way. Talking about a situation like that could go a kind of like that:

She: I saw that…
You: HUH ??? what …
she: you smiled at someone…
you: errrrmm, no , I was yelling at the f$%@% dog.
she: you were smiling, I know the owner, she is very beautiful !!!
you: I don’t even know the owner , I was yelling at the dog
she: you know her, she lives down the road from the Sari-Sari shop you buy your cigarettes
you: but I don’t know her and her f@$%@ dog !!! But if she’s sexy you should introduce me, hehe
she: Bastos, see how you are, I know you don’t love me and want another girl…

There is no chance to win a discussion with a woman from the PI, so don’t yell at dogs or look at chicks.

A good thing  that I booked the trip just before Christmas, so she was busy with preparing all kinds of things to celebrate it nicely. While I am typing this I sit in the car on the way up to AC and wondering about that little traffic in Manila, usually there should be a traffic jam and no movement in any direction. Maybe I am a lucky one today… but don’t praise the day before it’s over.

More later, got some txt’s to reply. Maybe I should make a counter here how many txt I get in the next few days from my sweatheart.

Cheers for now

Rhoody

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Discover Scuba Diving in Siquijor

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Just when really stuffed with work and frustration I got a call from Kiwi Dive Resort in Larena Siquijor. They have guests arriving this evening and need an Instructor to introduce them to the underwater world. Hey, nothing can be better than jumping in the water and show some people the beauties of the sea.

The Discover Scuba programm is a PADI program for people who never tried diving before or just have no time for a Open Water course or want to make a course but are not that sure about it.  It can be done in about 3 hours and includes a bit theory, snd some very simple skills. It is held in confined water, what can be a swimmingpool or in that case a shallow protected bay with water shallow enough to stand up.

The DSD can also include a Open Water dive after the few skills are done. During this dive the instructor is basically responsible to control everything. The participant will just breath and watch fishes.

90% of my discover Scuba programms are ending up to become an Open Water course. This has nothing to do that I am so good. It is simply the wonderful aquatic life here in the Philippines.

This Programm costs about 50 US$. This can be credited towards the Open Water Course.

I will let you know if my 4 participants of the Discover Scuba Diving Programm going into the full course

… off to Siquijor

Rhoody

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Watch that closely - thinking about hurts

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Maybe “It hurts” is not the right description. I stumbled over a video which I just had to share. It gave me goose bumps and all my hair in my neck went straight up while watching it.

A guy named Steve Gass developed a Table Saw which stops when you put your finger into it.
Yeah man, right, maybe he has steel bones, that would stop the blade ripping of his finger, I thought.

Well Steve, the inventor got a visit from Discovery TV and demonstrated his table saw. I was watching that video now 3 times and it is still a kinda unreal for me. He proofed it with his own finger that the Table Saw really stops.

That saw-stop-module only works once but can be replaced at the cost of about US$ 60. 

That guy has unreal faith in his own creation.

My Grandpa would be happy if that invention came out some 50 years ago. One problem we may have in the Philippines here is that this table saw is not really useful.

Table Saws are mainly used to cut the beef, or at least the Karabow-meat, local butcher try to sell here as beef. You guys living here know what I am talking about…

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