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From Madras to Manila: April 2006
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From Madras to Manila. Saturday, April 22, 2006. I don't like the sea very much. No, I'm not a beach person. Snorkeling, so called because of the sound you make when you mistakenly ingest a snootful of sea water instead of the life-giving air you expected, is a life-changing experience. The colours, the corals and the dazzling array of sea life makes all the pain worthwhile. And the very first time I went into the water with mask and flippers - Boracay. We jumped at the opportunity. The Pier Uno Resort.
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From Madras to Manila: Puerto Princessa Part 2: Snake Island
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From Madras to Manila. Monday, August 07, 2006. Puerto Princessa Part 2: Snake Island. I like sepia - it makes the worst pictures look classy! Underlined by the two bottles carefully placed under the sign by the last reader. We finally got to see a couple! Leave nothing but footprints. Posted by Amit Ray at 8:14 PM. Oooh - my favourite part of the Philippines. And your pics are stunning. But you really should have gone to Coron - it's amazing diving, and we now know how much you love diving ;). Torn and ...
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From Madras to Manila: Night of Liquid Fire
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From Madras to Manila. Saturday, June 17, 2006. Night of Liquid Fire. Sandi has been lazy and is refusing to write so thought would put in my bit on the night-time firefly cruise we went for after whale-watching. It's a 2-hr experience where you get taken out across the sea to a river mouth where you have these hundreds of fireflies that congregate on three trees and convert them into arresting, Vegas-style flashing displays that are quite out of this world! And, oh, the phosphoresence! Sandi, too, was f...
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From Madras to Manila: Lies, all lies!
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From Madras to Manila. Saturday, June 17, 2006. Lies, all lies! Hi there, violently protest about the being lazy part. My sister met with a really bad accident in LA and I was with her almost all of May. She is getting better, albeit very slowly:-( We are terribly shaken but very very grateful that she is alive and out of the hospital now. Have not really wanted to write anything much since then. SO as I said, I was just a little scared. Not anywhere close to being astral-travel-scared. So on the way bac...
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From Madras to Manila: Diving 101
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From Madras to Manila. Saturday, April 22, 2006. I don't like the sea very much. No, I'm not a beach person. Snorkeling, so called because of the sound you make when you mistakenly ingest a snootful of sea water instead of the life-giving air you expected, is a life-changing experience. The colours, the corals and the dazzling array of sea life makes all the pain worthwhile. And the very first time I went into the water with mask and flippers - Boracay. We jumped at the opportunity. The Pier Uno Resort.
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From Madras to Manila: September 2005
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From Madras to Manila. Thursday, September 29, 2005. The Beach Boys are coming to Manila! To sing some of their greatest hits! What could be better than having one of the greatest bands of all time come touring to your city? Note 1: this is not a rhetorical question, meaning you are supposed to answer it]. Note 2: if you don't know who the. Are then please read this. The answer is - having all the original members of the band present and voting at the occassion. A Pair of Beach Boys. Anyway, the nub of i...
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From Madras to Manila: May 2006
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From Madras to Manila. Sunday, May 14, 2006. We first learnt about the. And were instantly captivated by the idea of swimming with the biggest fish in the sea. The best season is only from Feb to early May and we made a a spur-of the moment decision to go in end April, booking full-fare tickets to Legazpi and somehow managing some last-minute acco in Donsol just a couple of days before we left. Booking acco is a lot harder than it appears, as there is only. We took the Air Philippines flight to Legazpi, ...
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From Madras to Manila: Fanaa, Noritake, a Wedding Anniversary and Acute Homesickness!
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From Madras to Manila. Saturday, June 24, 2006. Fanaa, Noritake, a Wedding Anniversary and Acute Homesickness! Last Sunday was our 3rd wedding anniversary. We celebrated it by watching a tragic love story ( Fanaa. And having dinner with friends. We got ourselves a lovely Noritake. Crockery set to celebrate the occasion. I don’t eat off it, I just stare at all that lovely China. Of course, I can’t cook very much so there isn’t much we can eat off our China anyway. And then there was light! Happy Weekend F...
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Perennial Ex-Pat: June 2005
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I'm English and I live in Macau. Nuff said. Thursday, June 30, 2005. Apparantly I'm going to be dead at 58. Which is 20 years later than most of my friends predict, so isn't as depressing as it sounds. I've now go to figure out what I'm gonna do for those extra 20 years. That's four times more than the number of people killed in the Arab-Israeli conflict over the last 50 years. Hardly anyone outside of China knows anything about Macau. Macau's economy grew 25% (that's twenty five percent! Although not to...
