Today was a real office day outside the office (we worked from Jamie's room in Citadines) where the four of us, Jaime, Kat, Simon and I slaved away with putting the finishing touches on our deliverables. It felt a bit like a "Cliff young shuffle" though - we crawled along adding links, moving folders, changing xls fields, ... slowly but steadily.
The second most exciting thing therefore were my two visits to the post office on the other side of the road. I totally shocked them going in 10 minutes after opening to ask for stamps. They looked as if this hadn't happened in a long time, asking me to come back when the actual post officer would be there (no clue when this would be). I dared to come back 15 min before they officially closed (working times MO-FR, 9-12, 13-15:30), and the guy (or woman, was really hard to tell) was standing outside and saying that I should come back during opening hours. I must have stared at both my watch and the big opening hours sign in disbelief so that (s)he re-opened the door to let me in and locked it again right behind me. Quite strange experience, but I got my stamps. They said it will take at least 4 weeks for them to be shipped to Europe...
The real excitement though happened after work - when Bambi took us to "Barbara's" in Intramuros to have a cultural dinner: buffet accompanied by music and costumed dancers. The guitar players were quite good, Vineet and Vince excelled in the Filipino national dance (Vince was even blind-folded), Sindhu was pampered with tons of vegetarian food, and DJ started his "Tour de Wine", which ended in the Manila House, Manila's oldest Hotel in town. More pics to follow!
The second most exciting thing therefore were my two visits to the post office on the other side of the road. I totally shocked them going in 10 minutes after opening to ask for stamps. They looked as if this hadn't happened in a long time, asking me to come back when the actual post officer would be there (no clue when this would be). I dared to come back 15 min before they officially closed (working times MO-FR, 9-12, 13-15:30), and the guy (or woman, was really hard to tell) was standing outside and saying that I should come back during opening hours. I must have stared at both my watch and the big opening hours sign in disbelief so that (s)he re-opened the door to let me in and locked it again right behind me. Quite strange experience, but I got my stamps. They said it will take at least 4 weeks for them to be shipped to Europe...
The real excitement though happened after work - when Bambi took us to "Barbara's" in Intramuros to have a cultural dinner: buffet accompanied by music and costumed dancers. The guitar players were quite good, Vineet and Vince excelled in the Filipino national dance (Vince was even blind-folded), Sindhu was pampered with tons of vegetarian food, and DJ started his "Tour de Wine", which ended in the Manila House, Manila's oldest Hotel in town. More pics to follow!