Dive-Monster Rhoody

As most here know, I am part of the www.dumagueteinfo.com – Team. Next to hanging on the forum of DI to keep it free from spammers who wanna sell NOKIA and PLAYSTATION or deleting any kind of political religious or racial crap, I am in charge of our relationship with our local advertisers. Irwin Ramas-Uypitching called me some weeks ago to meet him at his family-owned Hotel Palwa. They want to be part of Dumagueteinfo.

While we met at the Hotel’s restaurant  we agreed on a hosted advertisement page. As no pictures were available I asked to come again to take some shots for the page. Adam, his brother welcomed me a few days later and kindly let me take pictures from each and everything I wanted to. The friendliness of the staff at Hotel Palwa is just overwhelming. The rooms were  spacious, clean and I felt a very warm enjoyable atmosphere.
After finishing the picture-taking, I could not help myself and hang around there at the frontdesk with the lovely ladies for another hour or so just chatting and laughing. Sad enough for me, that they are all married or engaged so I have to behave, that I don’t get in trouble with jealous husbands and boyfriends.

As the pictures on a DI page are limited, those here are some which did not make it to the advertising page but it shows the attitude of the staff there. ALL employees I met were a lot of fun.
As I was working the last five years in a dive-resort in the Philippines, I think I know the difference between artificial smile at work and when staff enjoys their working place.
So if you visit Dumaguete and need to stay in the city, have a look at Hotel Palwa.
The Hotel is in a central location and only minutes by foot away from shopping-centers, offices, hospitals, restaurants and the famous Boulevard with the mainpart of the Dumaguete nightlife.

Enough promotion, I just wanted to share my expierience on a routine working day as a part of the Dumagueteinfo.com team. I mean I also could have a job in a german factory and press the same button 8 hours a day and 6 days a week.
I will not get rich here, but nothing can take all the expierience I made here away from me.  

Moving to the Philippines was definitely one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.

For me it’s always enjoyable to make this part of the job after the daily online-routine to go out to meet great people and personalities in Dumaguete.

 All this pictures here are “stolen shots”. The smile and laughing everywhere in the Philippines is something what makes life here so enjoyable, as is is not posing, it is just part of everydays life here. I wish we “Long-noses” could adobt it only partially

Cheers

Rhoody

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As I did survive somehow the month of January 2008 with all the parties a lot of work and quite some diving, I thought February must calm down an bit. Hmm, what dreamer I am…

The month started with 2 recovery days. After that I wanted to do a lot of public work in Dumaguete as I am the local Partner of Dumagueteinfo.com , the number one page about Dumaguete, Negros Oriental and the surrounding Islands. The public work needed to wait, as my moderator job on the Forum of DI kept me on my computer way longer then I want to.  We have 1500+ unique visitors on the page each day, some 300+ enter the Forum, some 40 are active posting everyday and 10 of them think they own DumagueteInfo. A honest piss off to this 10. We don’t need you on DI, stick your spams into a place of your body where the sun doesn’t shine….

Saying this, I met some great guys during the first 10 days. The Teach, a guy from Manchester moved to Dumaguete and is one of those guys where you can spend hours talking about each and everything without getting bored.  

Irwin Ramas Uypitching is another fantastic guy I met this days, he is the Manager of Hotel Palwa and part of a family with plenty of influence in Dumaguete. Great guy with a good sense of Humor. I am sure we meet and work together somehow in the future.

As playing guitar is one of my recreational activities, I got together with some guys and we meet occationally to Jam a bit. The only problem, all come from a different music direction and era. I am a bit tired playing music which is older than my grandparents….

Talking about old music. I just read an announcement CONNIE FRANCIS plays in Manila on 14th of february… 1 of 4 shows worldwide in 2008… my god and I will miss that. what a sad Valentines-day for me… I hope I will survive… she is probably one of the reasons why I am alive. I sent my daddy a mail and asked him if I was produced under the influence of her romantic songs. He did not answer jet.
shouldn’t she be dead already??? She must be older than the Rolling Stones together…

good folks, thats for now. I need to be a bit productive on my pages who are earning the rice on my plate…

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