Letter from Manila - Santol - of course!

I've just popped into my local of choice for a drop of lunch and Christian, the happy little waiter has pointed out a poster which tells me that if I order a meal of a certain value, I will receive,free, either an All-Natural Calamansi Iced Tea (whatever that is) or a No-Eggs-Choco Banana Bread.

Now bear in mind that I've never eaten here (it interrupts the flow) and I only drink beer, I asked him where, amongst all the words, it mentioned alcohol. He admitted it didn't.

What strange people. 😊

Bloody hell I've missed loads in here! Been away so long the Phillipine government has found time to do something other than murder!

Glad the project is finally moving mate

She looks like a twenty a day girl 😂😂😂

Wish it did Rian. Unfortunately what it really means is that I'm waiting for a genetically slow people to make a quick decision. See the problem? 😁

My 100% job is still in "negotiation", whatever that still means and another, not so guaranteed, but far more interesting, had our tender document submitted last Friday.

What I can say is that L-O-L-A Lola is coming on leaps and bounds. At the first sign of me stirring in the morning, she leaps and bounds onto the bed to stick a very cold, wet nose into any available ear.

Just what you need at 3am! 😊

Rian, you just got to look on the bright side. I also suffer from insomnia & broken sleep but as Pitstop says 'Insomnia just means it's only 3 sleeps until Christmas'

I stand guilty as charged. I blame my parents for waking me at that time as a kid. They had a florist shop and I had to go to market with Dad or open up with Mum before I went to school. I've just never got out of the habit.

Strange this. I've had dogs pretty much all my life, but this is the first one who literally follows me everywhere (unless you shut the bog door) without any encouragement. I was out at a meeting yesterday for around four hours. Madam told me she wouldn't leave the garage door, not even for food!

Lying by my feet as I type.

Makes me smile.

Glad something does at the moment!

So on Wednesday, after two walang pasoks due to a Jeepney strike (gotta love it, the government ordered all their offices and schools closed across Metro manila, then said the strike had no effect - not much!) Tania came home with a letter telling me that the exams scheduled for earlier in the week would be on Thursday and that she would finish at 4.20pm.

4.20 - No sign

5.00 - Nothing

5.30 - Nowt

6.00 - Sweet FA

6.30 - Look who's here!

6.31 - Receive text telling me my daughter will be late finishing due to intranet issues (remember it's all done via i-Pad now) so the exams started late

6.32 - Respond that this information would have been far more useful at 4.20

6.33 - Reply asking me how do I expect her to invigilate exams and send SMS messages

6.34 - Politely ask how she can be overseeing exams when the system was down and, knowing this, at least warn parents there may be a delay

6.35 - Told I was free to arrange a meeting with the Principal.

Guess what I'm doing next week?

Might just send her the link to this thread and tell her to search 'Walang Pasok"

I'd never thought of planning and the like to be considered Satan's work, but given the pathological avoidance of it, you may have a point!

And it doesn't get any better. Last Wednesday we were (amazingly) informed that the school was having an emergency two weeks holiday starting Friday.

Tania, quiet reasonably, arranges to go and stay at a mate's house on Sunday night.

7pm on Sunday I received an SMS from school telling me that Grade 9 kids had to be in today between 9 and 11 to perform some dance or other for PE that they forgot to do last week!

End of sleepover.

I responded with, "I better cancel the flight tickets then". I received no reply.

Is there an alternative you can threaten to (/actually) move the girls to?
Or are they all as staggeringly incompetent?

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.