Date: Jul 06 2000 00:45:12 EDT
From: "Moalboal Mailing List" <starner@hotmail.com>
Subject: [Moalboal Mailing List] mailing #8
Mailing #8
Moalboal July 2000
Hello People!!
WEATHER:
About 29 degrees, sunshine and blue skies every day. You should come and
visit.
BIRTHS AND SOCIAL:
Chicago, Instructor at Nelsons (and my girlfriend) but now in Palau,
managed to get her renewal fee back after PADI screwed up her teaching
status for 9 months.
Buddy, the visaya dog as well as the coolest dog on the beach is dead. San
Miguel (papa San) has claimed another soul. Well, actually, buddy got run
over by the san Miguel truck while sleeping outside the house of his bitch
of choice.
Kanae, the Japanese lady that is like a mother for all lost or confused
Japanese men here, is back from a loooooooooooooong vacation in Thailand.
Now Honda has a place to have an early beer and an understanding listener
again.
Jean-Luca is now back. A bit earlier than we expected. Could it be that
his new wife made him come back earlier?? Anyhow, Roxy is now open.
Jespers and Lebeths kid is now born. A bit overdue, but still welcome. It
took Lebeth 1 hour to get it out (Jesper was sleeping meanwhile). 4 inches
taller than your average Pilippina. Yes it was a girl.
Action Jochen, Dolphin Rudy + son, Greg, tech Ralph, AiAiÿs Mark, Mario
and Lars&Lars just made a Cave exploration north of Argao. This was a cave
that no other Moalboal ppl have ever been to. Really BIG cave with
repelling afterwards. Lotÿs of smiling faces. As Greg said, itÿs nice to
do something different during low season.
We have had high tide and high winds here, so now is Hondas restaurant
kind of broken in two pieces. But that is nothing that a few carpenters
and a bag of cement can't fix.
The Peso hit a 20 month low yesterday with 43.6peso/1 US$
GOSSIP:
Sorry not much gossip this time. We are only a handful of foreigners on
the beach right now. But there is a rumor that they are building a resort
at Norma's. Norma's is between Neptune and Pacitas They used to have the
cheapest beer on the beach, 6 pesos/bottle in 1992, if I remember
everything right. Those were the days. The resort might even get itÿs own
dive shop. That is good so they can take some load off the other dive
shops :)
In the sun star today they wrote that club Med is planning to build a US$
20 million resort in Palawan
THE DEEP THOUGHT:
A short waitress that we all have met or seen got a job as a secretary at
a resort here. We would think that that for sure would be a move up in the
world, hey. Better salary and a chance for advancement. After 2 weeks she
quit because it was boring. Now sheÿs got her old job back and is happy
again. Maybe we all have something to learn from that, but then the
company selling Prozac might go bankrupt :)
ACCORDING TO NELSON (our inside man into politics here):
Moalboal town now has 2 million or so to start building the road to
Panagsama. When the first phase is done more money will (or might) get
released. Now they are applying for permission to make the road 6 inch
thick instead of 8 inches, which is highway standard. Anyway, I have seen
with my own eyes that they have started with the project.
GENERAL:
If anyone has any information that they think would be interesting for
people on this list, please do let me know and I will add it in.
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Best regards,
Lars Starner,
starner@hotmail.com
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