mabuhay in manila

hey y'all... yeah.. im in the philippines right now... donno wat the meaning of mabuhay.. i think its called foreigners... and pinoy i think is for locals...

ok wat am i doin in manila?? well da company sends me here for the manila project that will be go live on 2nd May. so i'm here for the on-site support lor.. i arrived in manila on the 28th.. dat was a tiring day.. i woke up at 5am, get ready for stuffs and ate a bit. reached kl sentral by 7am, n thank god it was a good timing, i boarded the ERL and 5 mins later it departed to KLIA...

once arrived there, surprisingly a lot of people already there... its like a peak season for air travel.. every local and foreigners are travelling to sumplace. the company send me together with another colleague, eva which is from basis team... her whole family including her cousin n uncle also sends her as well.. it was her first trip outside malaysia, and her dad told me dat i have to look afer his daughter... adoi... hehe have to be responsible lor... anyway, dat morning her dad belanja all of us for breakfast.. hehe nice way to entrusted me to take care of his daughter...

anyway, our flight were delayed half an hour.. maybe becoz of the weather.. so dats y we got ample time to have breakfast at mcD. hehe.. after had da breakfast eva said goodbye to her family, so my responsibility kicks in..ehee.. first task, show her how to pass the passport.. hehe.. she managed to pass it without any hiccups.. mine was the problem,the machine didnt read my fingerprints dat well.. then have to teach her how to go to which gate.. she was excited all the way until now.. haha..

anyway the flight quite ok la... da food i got was nasi lemak... ok lor... we touched down in manila (aquino airport). kinda dodgy at da airport.. when we came out of da airport, suddenly we were stopped by some people who requests everyone to gave the bag tags to them...donno for wat, but everyone have to give it.. then, panic start kicks in.. the technopark hotel personnel shud pick us up.. damned... da guy not there, we moved around n looking all the papers that people holding, still none.. then we have to go out of the place, becoz the waiting area is downstairs..
so once downstairs, people have to line up according to family surname!! watda?? so we were like, aiyoh where to stand?? luckily got this paging centre, so we paged for the hotel rep. luckily he looked for us at the paging booth, next, we were taken to the hotel.

the journey was a new experience for both of us, the traffic was very bad.. normally it takes 45 mins max to go to the hotel from the airport, our journey was twice da time. da drivers of manila are all kl minibusses drivers... all cilok there cilok here, 5cm near collisions summore..aiyoh...quite frightening...

we were lucky of no need to go to the office dat day.. so just vpn from room... not much work dat day, so we rested and had dinner in the hotel... quite ok lor... next post will be the first day in the office.hehe...