Manila

[Amjeck]

A lot of talk in the manila cetion is about burgos (to expensive) , MBC (too many fuglies) , and internet hookups (too time consuming). Where's the mainstream action that caters to the philipinos, like "casas" and streetwalkers. What about cheap action like 500-1000p. Surely there has to be something more out there?

[LukeSkywalker]

1, 200 dead! Looks like a major disaster this time.

I feel for this poor island country with her sweet and gentle girls.

Hope the honeys are still alive and well.

http://news.yahoo.com/typhoon-haiyan...011653699.html

'Massive destruction' as typhoon kills at least 1, 200 in Philippines, says Red Cross.

Reuters By Manuel Mogato.


At least 1, 000 killed in Philippine city: Red Cross Reuters.

Super typhoon Haiyan slams into Philippines, at least three dead Reuters.

At least 1, 000 killed in Philippine city: Red Cross Reuters.

1, 200 feared dead in typhoon-devastated Philippines AFP.

One of world's strongest storms hits Philippines Associated Press.

TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters). One of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall devastated the central Philippines, killing more than 1, 000 people in one city alone and 200 in another province, the Red Cross estimated on Saturday, as reports of high casualties began to emerge.

A day after Typhoon Haiyan churned through the Philippine archipelago in a straight line from east to west, rescue teams struggled to reach far-flung regions, hampered by washed out roads, many choked with debris and fallen trees.

The death toll is expected to rise sharply from the fast-moving storm, whose circumference eclipsed the whole country and which late on Saturday was heading for Vietnam.

Among the hardest hit was coastal Tacloban in central Leyte province, where preliminary estimates suggest more than 1, 000 people were killed, said Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of the Philippine Red Cross, as water surges rushed through the city.

"An estimated more than 1, 000 bodies were seen floating in Tacloban as reported by our Red Cross teams," she told Reuters."In Samar, about 200 deaths. Validation is ongoing."

She expected a more exact number to emerge after a more precise counting of bodies on the ground in those regions.

Witnesses said bodies covered in plastic were lying on the streets. Television footage shows cars piled atop each other.

"The last time I saw something of this scale was in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami," said Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, head of the U. N. Disaster Assessment Coordination Team sent to Tacloban, referring to the 2004 earthquake and tsunami.

"This is destruction on a massive scale. There are cars thrown like tumbleweed and the streets are strewn with debris."

The category 5 "super typhoon" weakened to a category 4 on Saturday, though forecasters said it could strengthen again over the South China Sea en route to Vietnam.

Authorities in 15 provinces in Vietnam have started to call back boats and prepare for possible landslides. Nearly 300, 000 people were moved to safer areas in two provinces alone. The Nang and Quang Nam. According to the government's website.

The Philippines has yet to restore communications with officials in Tacloban, a city of about 220, 000. A government official estimated at least 100 were killed and more than 100 wounded, but conceded the toll would likely rise sharply.

The national disaster agency has yet to confirm the toll but broken power poles, trees, bent tin roofs and splintered houses littered the streets of the city about 580 km (360 miles) southeast of Manila.

"IT WAS LIKE A TSUNAMI"

The airport was nearly destroyed as raging seawaters swept through the city, shattering the glass of the airport tower, leveling the terminal and overturning nearby vehicles.

"Almost all houses were destroyed, many are totally damaged. Only a few are left standing," said Major Rey Balido, a spokesman for the national disaster agency.

Local television network ABS-CBN showed images of looting in one of the city's biggest malls, with residents carting away everything from appliances to suitcases and grocery items.

Airport manager Efren Nagrama. 47, said water levels rose up to four meters (13 ft) in the airport.

"It was like a tsunami. We escaped through the windows and I held on to a pole for about an hour as rain, seawater and wind swept through the airport. Some of my staff survived by clinging to trees. I prayed hard all throughout until the water subsided."

Across the country, about a million people took shelter in 37 provinces after President Benigno Aquino appealed to those in the typhoon's path to leave vulnerable areas.

"For casualties, we think it will be substantially more," Aquino told reporters.

Officials started evacuating residents from low-lying areas, coastlines and hilly villages as early as three days before the typhoon struck on Friday, officials said. But not all headed the call to evacuate.

"I saw those big waves and immediately told my neighbors to flee," said Floremil Mazo, a villager in southeastern Davao Oriental province.

Meteorologists said the impact may not be as strong as feared because the storm was moving so quickly, reducing the risk of flooding and landslides from torrential rain, the biggest causes of typhoon casualties in the Philippines.

Ferry services and airports in the central Philippines remained closed, hampering aid deliveries to Tacloban, although the military said three C-130 transport planes managed to land at its airport on Saturday.

At least two people were killed on the tourist destination island of Cebu, three in Iloilo province and another three in Coron town in southwestern Palawan province, radio reports said.

"I never thought the winds would be that strong that they could destroy my house," LynLyn Golfan of Cebu said in a television interview while sifting through the debris.

By Saturday afternoon, the typhoon was hovering 765 km west of San Jose in southwestern Occidental Mindoro province, packing winds of a maximum 185 kph, with gusts of up to 220 kph.

The storm lashed the islands of Leyte and Samar with 275-kph wind gusts and 5-6 meter (15-19 ft) waves on Friday before scouring the northern tip of Cebu province. It weakened slightly as it moved west-northwest near the tourist island of Boracay, later hitting Mindoro island.

Haiyan was the second category 5 typhoon to hit the Philippines this year after Typhoon Usagi in September. An average of 20 typhoons strike every year, and Haiyan was the 24th so far this year.

Last year, Typhoon Bopha flattened three towns in southern Mindanao, killing 1, 100 people and causing damage of more than $1 billion.

(Additional reporting by Rosemarie Francisco, Manuel Mogato and Karen Lema in Manila and Nguyen Phuong Linh in Hanoi; Editing by Jason Szep and Nick Macfie)

[Wicked Roger]

I'm guessing most of the readers here are not sleeping tonight in a bamboo hut on the east coast of Leyte while a category 4 typhoon arrives.

Very true X. Many texts on that too and I was watching its path on the web. But not with standing the recent events, drama is part of the pinay DNA which explains why at least 2 cuties have told me they is afraid their houses will not survive the supertyphoon even though they live in Baguio! Geography never been a stromg point of some!

[X Man]

I'm guessing most of the readers here are not sleeping tonight in a bamboo hut on the east coast of Leyte while a category 4 typhoon arrives.

They love 'drama' RK which am sure is partly based on their obesseion to suspend reality and watch soap operas (was this a plot in a soap opera?).

The recent events in the Visayas have left me with countless mesages of how bad the destruction was even when they are in Bicol, Ormoc etc as if the epicentre was there. Lots of "need go to the hospital as feel sick because of the shaking". Now with the supertyphoon looming I have more message from girls nowhere in the path but clearly fainting from the fear. Such is life if you like pinays.

[Wicked Roger]

We all know how filipinos become "weak and feel like fainting or develop a pain in the stomach if their meal time is delayed by 30 mins to 1 hour". I have experienced this personally many times by participants in seminar sessions that I have conducted. They must break for meals at the appointed times or they will feel "weak and ready to faint".

I suspect this example with the cabbie is something like that. An opportunity for some drama.

They love 'drama' RK which am sure is partly based on their obesseion to suspend reality and watch soap operas (was this a plot in a soap opera?).

The recent events in the Visayas have left me with countless mesages of how bad the destruction was even when they are in Bicol, Ormoc etc as if the epicentre was there. Lots of "need go to the hospital as feel sick because of the shaking". Now with the supertyphoon looming I have more message from girls nowhere in the path but clearly fainting from the fear. Such is life if you like pinays.

[FreebieFan]

If you go back to the original article about this so-called practice of taxi drivers "drugging" female passengers, you will see over 100 comments disputing the likelihood of this happening.

The emphasis in the original claim was on "female passengers".

Nobody was able to identify any "chemical" that could knock out a female passenger and yet leave the cab driver unaffected despite the high concentration of drug that would be needed in such a large space as a taxi.

No instances of males, or gay men, or even drunk passengers were identified.

The general conclusion was that the original alarm (article) was written by a junior journalist on "work experience" trying to make a name for herself.

In a Pattaya newpaper this week theres an equally bizarre "story" about a bar girl sitting on a baht bus. Two other ladies get on the bus, sit on either side of her, and touch her leg. Girl feels dizzy and disoriented. Next thing, the bar girl goes to the ATM with the two ladies and hands over Bht 90, 000. The ladies dissapear. The bargirl then reports this to the police. Similar sort of story. The wisdom of the comments section was that the girl had a gambling problem and this was her way of explaining to her partner that she had "lost" the money.

Bot of course if such a chemical were to exist. Wow. The possibilities of all ending up in a dazed state (more than we already are ). Are unlimited.

[Betong]

The general conclusion was that the original alarm (article) was written by a junior journalist on "work experience" trying to make a name for herself.

A couple days after reading that article I flew to Thailand where a couple of the papers were featuring, guess what, stories on taxis using chemicals to drug passengers in Bangkok. No doubt it actually has happened somewhere sometime, but for the most part it seems like an urban myth that just keeps coming back every few years.

[Red Kilt]

Http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/521765/...ic-conditioner

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has suspended the operation of one of the eight taxis whose drivers are facing complaints for allegedly spraying chemicals to make female passengers drowsy and easier to rob or abduct.

If you go back to the original article about this so-called practice of taxi drivers "drugging" female passengers, you will see over 100 comments disputing the likelihood of this happening.

The emphasis in the original claim was on "female passengers".

Nobody was able to identify any "chemical" that could knock out a female passenger and yet leave the cab driver unaffected despite the high concentration of drug that would be needed in such a large space as a taxi.

No instances of males, or gay men, or even drunk passengers were identified.

The general conclusion was that the original alarm (article) was written by a junior journalist on "work experience" trying to make a name for herself.

This article cited makes humorous reading.

We all know how filipinos become "weak and feel like fainting or develop a pain in the stomach if their meal time is delayed by 30 mins to 1 hour". I have experienced this personally many times by participants in seminar sessions that I have conducted. They must break for meals at the appointed times or they will feel "weak and ready to faint".

I suspect this example with the cabbie is something like that. An opportunity for some drama.

[Slippery]

The Gods sure were smiling on me today. I found a good guy taxi driver. Was getting [CodeWord140] soaked wet on the corner of Mabini and Quirino and flagged a taxi going in the opposite direction. He does an immediate illegal you-turn and pulls up in front of me. Tell him where I'm bound and he says 'sure, hop in'. No humming and harring, whines about the 'traffic' or requests for extra pesos. He sets the meter and away we go. He keeps me entertained for the next 40 minutes with stories about his 45 years of taxi driving in Manila (he must have been at least 70) and how things had changed, including the two times he had been robbed, both times by 'moslems'. He was a good driver too, anticipating gaps and expertly taking the right option every time. I was impressed.

Needless to say, I gave him a big, unasked for tip which he politely thanked me for. The guy sure was savvy. I'll bet he is the best tipped taxi driver in Manila.

CalTex station there is good for alot of things. Always lots of taxis there too.

[Cunning Stunt]

The Gods sure were smiling on me today. I found a good guy taxi driver. Was getting [CodeWord140] soaked wet on the corner of Mabini and Quirino and flagged a taxi going in the opposite direction. He does an immediate illegal u-turn and pulls up in front of me. Tell him where I'm bound and he says 'sure, hop in'. No humming and harring, whines about the 'traffic' or requests for extra pesos. He sets the meter and away we go. He keeps me entertained for the next 40 minutes with stories about his 45 years of taxi driving in Manila (he must have been at least 70) and how things had changed, including the two times he had been robbed, both times by 'moslems'. He was a good driver too, anticipating gaps and expertly taking the right option every time. I was impressed.

Needless to say, I gave him a big, unasked for tip which he politely thanked me for. The guy sure was savvy. I'll bet he is the best tipped taxi driver in Manila.

[Cunning Stunt]

But you have to love those "strange dates". Sometimes they make better memories than the one night stands.

Yeah, but try and look at it from the reverse angle. YOU could have been her 'strange' date!

[Soapy Smith]

a security guard has ushered me in past all the locals into the security check because I was a foreigner. I have been going there 3-4 times a year now for awhile.

I have had similar experiences. One security guard showed me a way that consistently gets you inside faster. The long lines of locals seem to build up near the entrance to the far right as you face the departure terminal. If you go down to the left, there is another door with what is usually a much shorter line pointed in the opposite direction. I have never waited in this other line more than a couple minutes. It often seems to me that many locals waiting at the door to the right end of the terminal are not actually flying, because they seem to hang out along the windows rather than actually get in line. Everybody give yourselves a break by going down to the door to the left (toward NAIA Terminal 2).

[Xaftas]

Hi there,

I have been reading forums on this site for a few years, but my lack of mongering experience suggests limited posts. This was partly due to being a student (back then) and partly due to generally not paying for sex.

However as I read there is little chance of a complete freebie in Manila.

I just flew in last night and went with my colleague (and good friend) to some bars in Greenbelt. Talent was very obvious. The evening was very short however due to today's workload.

Tonight we are going to Republiq to check it out.

Given the information this site has provided me all these years I feel its my duty to post my experiences here.

If anyone knows how to tell the difference between pros and amateurs please let me know.

Please hold on for future experiences.

[Muevelo]

Made a 10 day business trip to Manila back in September went to the various locations that I'll discuss in more posts.

Went to Cafe Havana for about a week by myself and had a good time; live Latin music being played and some of the hottest girls in one consolidated area of Manila (Makati) that I had ever seen. The upsell is that they all charge about $100 (can negotiate down to about $80) ; they spend the time, you can fuck them as many times as you want and then be out. Had one girl, can't even remember what she went by now, but small package of about 5ft 100lbs and bled every time I put it in her. Had to tip the hotel staff a half month's salary (for him) to ensure he didn't complain or tell where the bloody sheets / towels came from.

22 yrs old. Banging ass body; and just something about a girl when she Latin dances and then can take it to the bedroom in movements. I'm in love with the PI.

[Sammon]

In Phi there is no clear cut virgin or not a virgin classification as I am sure many of the mongers including me can attest to so called " Virgins" in AC bars only to find out they are not real virgins after barfining.

In general some girls if they have had couple of sexual encounters still consider themselves as virgins. Only after questioning they admit that they are not virgins anymore.

Still some of the bleed because whoever opened them had small dicks and did not completely eliminate the hymen.

Running to get away from you just means they are not comfortable with you for any number of reasons. Having said that there are plenty of fish er girls to make you happy in Phi.