Makati City, Philippines

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This is the Uni-Mec grocery store in Comembo.

There is a grocery store, drug store, fruit market, bike shop, bakery, pawn shop, Infotech office and police station right here on the end of this block.

It's one of my favorite places to sit back and watch people.

The grocery store has a line of tricycles next to it. When you exit the store you can step right into one, no muss no fuss. Not exactly perfection because of the size and quality of the trikes but convenient for sure.

This store as many others also has a room out in front that you can leave your bags of goods from other stores. Step up and put your bag on the counter. They take it and put it into a space underneath and give you a plastic card. On the way out grab your other bags and you're off.

Once inside the UM store you'll find a very packed store but it is air conditioned. The carts are small and there's normally a lot of kids playing around either with the carts or each other.

As I've said many times before, Filipinos dont know how to flow. This is true in the street and on foot. People stop right in the middle of the flow and start talking to someone or answer a cell call all the time. In the US it's generally regarded as normal to get the fuck out of the way of the flow when you have to do something other than move forward. They don't flow.

Once you get around 50 people screwing around doing this or that you'll find the items that you're looking for...and 50 people will somehow be unable to get around YOU.

Everything is tight Everything is small.

But the great part of it all....

Everyone is polite and smiley.

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Here are a few more of the Ospital.

Quite a modern looking building considering this neighborhood. I've been inside and it's modern and nice looking inside too but I've not used any of their services.

Pinang says it's a good (H)ospital but she's never been to the US.

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These are the little Bas-....um, I mean kids that were tossing the firecrackers at me.

The kid in the white shirt had quite a sassy mouth on him too. Where'd he learn to be so obnoxious? Had to be some American.

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From the cab. Just a sign about what the local government is doing there.

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We were in a grocery store somewhere, not the Uni-Mec, and they had a small section of American sorta things.

The price was about the same as home and I totally forgot to check the sell by date.

There was some interest by others in the family in eating the pancakes in the morning but overall, I liked them the best.

It's a good idea to get a good breakfast before sitting in a cab in the street for hour on end.

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These are some other things we bought at that same time. We were going to try to make our own pizzas and cakes but lost interest.

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Do you golf? I see golf as one of the dumbest games on the planet but I DO have the photos of the Army golf course.

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I dont like golf, I dont understand how it works and I dont care to learn so....if you are a golfer you'll have to interpret what the photos are yourself.

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Thinking about moveing to the PI , cool consept ,
Hell we know all about white flight , we not only left the city we left he whole state , the whole Damn area !!!
But to leave the country ???
That is a BIG step !!!
Luck to ya Bud !! ( oh and keep the pics comeing !!)

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Some serious ball washers there.

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Originally Posted by zippyt

That is a BIG step !!!

It's all about options man. Most of the sailors that I've talked to would LOVE to move there.

As much as things are kinda on the downturn here, they are on the UPswing in Asia. I've got a lot of studying to do but I'm thinking that the option of going there for 6 on, 6 off will work out well.

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Check out those rules...and rates!

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