loving manila and running good…

Still a little bit down after hearing the news the love of my life is shacking up with Orlando Bloom, who is basically a…

I’m loving Manila so far despite a couple downers like incredible non-stop bad traffic and occasional confusingly bad service (spent a few painful hours trying to post my old mobile phone + simcard back home to my little sister - pure frustration dealing with various courier shops all morning) - but overall the city is awesome and I really love it here.

Signed the lease for my new apartment in Makati today (I think great location but don’t fully know my way around yet - but its one block from Greenbelt Park, which I’m told is the centre of Makati). It’s a cute little 1 bedroom on the 18th floor of a very new building, which looks a lot like a hotel when you enter the lobby. The facilities are amazing, with a awesome function area, games room, KTV (kareoke) rooms, pool and a cool gym. The apartment is for sale for around 100k so I might buy it after a couple months if I like it. Real estate is so cheap here compared to Australia, and I was resigned to maybe never owning property in Australia so its an exciting feeling to maybe be close to owning my first ever place. I was looking at awesome funky 2bdm loft-style new apartments the other day that were just incredibly cute and awesome going for around 220k in Makati. The same apartment in Sydney would cost something close to 800k I’m guessing and maybe easily 550k or so in Brisbane.

Here is a photo of what I’m talking about:

I’m really lucky there is some great guys living here who I can hang with: Franco of course, one of the biggest legends ever, Jethro and Marcus from Aust, and a Canadian guy named Mischa who is awesome and very amusing (and a sick good squeeze bacc player). I’m getting Franco’s little sister to do the interior design for my new place in the next couple weeks, and I’ve never done anything like that before, so that will be fun and interesting.

I’ve been a tiny bit sick in the last few days so started playing again online a bit, and have been super lucky running so good. I’m paranoid this upswing will end anytime now, as I’ve been running way too good for almost 2 months now, but just trying to enjoy it while it lasts. Lately its seems like the mid-limits have been much softer than they were in Dec/Jan across all the sites I play, and it seems everyone I know is winning again, which is awesome, after almost everyone I know lost big in Jan along with me. Not sure if the soft games are just an illusion or perhaps (fingers crossed) a permanent thing, but it definitely seems like the games have received a new influx of loose players (at least this is definitely the case on the few sites I play at).

I’m looking forward to playing some decent live games here as I suck at live poker as I hardly ever play it, but looking forward to playing some soft mid/high-limit live games with the rich Koreans that I hear about (who come in on bacc junkets and don’t mind the odd game of NL). If poker ever breaks into places like Macau and Singapore, the games are going to be insanely awesome for big stakes for awhile, so here’s to poker in Asia and possible glory days.

My last 3k hands over last few days (mostly 5/10, some 10/20):

Anyway, Manila is amazing and I hope I still love it in a year’s time as much as I do now - if I do, I doubt I will ever leave. Put it on your schedule for your next holiday destination - you won’t be disappointed.

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1. YOu look pretty hot in the Peter Pan costume…

   Comment by KK84 — April 14, 2007 @ 7:04 pm

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