My Danish colleague has some interesting observations about the Filipino cultures. And I would like to share it with the reading masses - if there are people reading this blog.

Danish: Why do Filipino cover ONLY their hair with their palm when it rains?
Me: Err, I haven’t thought of that.
Danish: Do you have something in your hair to protect that you would sacrifice your whole body to get soaked?
Me: Funny thing is Filipinos love their hair! Actually I think it is embedded in us that once our head is wet we are susceptible to fever.
Danish: OK.

I went home to Davao today. I was praying hardly that the heavy rain will stop cause I’m very very afraid of air pockets - how much more coming from a typhoon!

My flight was scheduled at 1pm. I didn’t eat lunch cause I thought hell Cebu Pacific will have free snacks, might as well grab it. I was wrong. Dead wrong.

I thought snacks were free, just like it was always been. But this time, I was really hungry and was relieved to see the flight attendants with their snacks. And then, "Sir, what do you want?", "Uhmm, water please", "Ok, sir, that would be 50 bucks", WHAT?!?!??! My inner jan2x said. But the hell, I don’t want to cause a scandal, so I paid up. That sucks. Really.

No. More. Snacks. 

Yesterday we went to - forget the name of the place - a bar right in front of Gwellos in Palanca.

The place is much cozier compared to Gwellos, but the latter stands out in its musical choices. Well I’m not really a fan of R&Beh music.

Anyway, after the R&Beh music, a band performed. The singer asked our group if someone is celebrating something. Well Argie pointed at me and shouted, "It’s Jan2x’s birthday!" Oh shucks. Then the singer greeted me and asked me if I want to request a song. Argie requested Linger by Cranberries. He said that he is a fan of Irish bands and it fits that rainy night. Good thing the band obliged.

Who would have thought that our country will be visited by a typhoon this month. Certainly not me, I was fully aware that the Philippines is experiencing an unusual dry season to the point of drought, not this 2-3 days of constant raining and flooding.

It’s really dishearting to know that even typhoons migrate to other country. Everyone is hoping for a typhoon ever since July started because it will alleviate the drought here, but unfortunately the typhoons migrated to Japan instead - which unfortunately have been battered by strong typhoons recently.

Even typhoons migrate! WTF! Oh man, first the brain drain now the typhoon drain!