Today I’m remembering, Today I’m planning to get back for an extended period of time. Manila – The Philippines is developing, and so am I. We’ll meet again soon. The goal is to do Six Months and Six Months. Six Months split between the Providence – New Bedford – Fall River MSA, the Boston – Quincy – Cambridge MSA, and the Orlando – Daytona Beach – Kissimmee MSA. For those of you who don’t know what MSA is – it’s Metropolitan Statisical Area. It’s usually the area the radio stations reach and they itemize for Nielsen Ratings and such.

Great song for this, by the Standells, I love that Dirty Water.

Oh, Boston you’re my home.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8h2gVcDQ9E

In my near two years in manila I never met as many tech -oriented Entrepreneurs as I have met back at my home area. Providence, Boston, Nashua, Fall River, Brockton, Cambridge. Manila – you are awesome. I love you. For many different reasons. I feel Manila will someday be the techno-hub of Asia. For now it’s still Tokyo.

yesterday, i’m waiting all day in the only pair of shorts i have… all my dirty laundry being held by ‘labander hub’ who doesn’t pick up the phone all day yesterday. after many txt messages, i quit on leaving the house with these filthy shorts.

today, saturday, i send an SMS over to ‘labander hub’ at about 0900hrs.. they apologize for not bringing the laundry due to the rain storm. OK – no problem. They also say delivery man is coming within the hour – OK great, I can finally leave the house and take care of things! waiting all afternoon, many SMS messages sent, no reply..

this is damn hard work. this must be pakistan or something - i did not take this picture - but it makes the philippines look more developed than the USSA

1500hrs rolls around. I really want to get to Recto. I really really want to leave my house. I really really want to get away from the Internet! Finally, I call and say, “mare saan laundry ko? gusto ko sa laundry na?, she says” mamayana sir, later sir, is this american eric?”, I say, “OPO! yes! kelan nmn po? (when is it coming), can i come get it now?”, she replied, “YES sir come get it now.”

So then, I get ready to take a shower, and shazam! here’s Alain the laundry guy!

Good thing I didn’t go down there.

Oy WordPress, thank you for letting me rant! The walls do not talk back and neither do you!

At the end, I can not complain at all. 14kilos of Laundry Wash, Dry, Press and Delivered for PHP308… ~USD$6.45  .. PROPS to Labander Hub Laundry Services - Beside this one incident, they provided grea service to me for more than 6 months! beat that Uncle Sam!