On vacation

I'M IN THE PHILIPPINES! Yes, at this moment! Now! Ngayun!

All the pre-days planning and the trip are what have caused my lagging entries. Sorry. Anyway, so here I am with my family. We're staying in one of the big cities called Makati. And we're lucky with our location, staying in a hotel/condo building just across from the Greenbelt, which is a shopping/restaraunt/cafe/fast food but naturesque area -- I think the heart of Makati really. It's like staying at a hotel right smack in the middle of Times Square with a fraction of Central Park tucked in. Convenient, trendy and hip.

So I found this 24 hr internet cafe about 100 feet from our building at some basement location. Melinda says to use it at only 'safe' hours of the day, although I think this area seems really safe most of the time if not all.

We've been in the Philippines for a week already but today is really the only time I was able to find to get on the net. I'd taken it for grossly granted that 'hotspots' would be all over the place and that I'd be able to connect easily with my laptop or at least 'tap' into someone's unsecure network. Well as I've discovered, there are no wireless networks to be found and that 56k is still a hot item. Don't even think about hi-speed broadband here! Oh, and we don't have a cell phone. Talk about communication withdrawal. Boy, do I feel like a princess trapped in a wet market. Ummm yeah, whatever that means.

So hopefully, local pics of the area are to come in future entries now that they guy behind the desk says that I could upload stuff into their computers via usb.

Sigi na, as they'd say here.