Date: Jul 27 2000 21:21:48 EDT
From: "Moalboal Mailing List" <starner@hotmail.com>
Subject: [Moalboal Mailing List] Moalboal aug, Mail #9
Moalboal June 2000
Hello People!!
WEATHER:
About 29 degrees, sunshine and blue skies every day. You should come and
visit.
ACTIVITIES:
Jesper, Neptune will give a DAN oxygen provider course this coming Sunday.
Hurry up to book, there is still a few spots open.
BIRTHS, SOCIAL AND GOSSIP
Typee has done another major voyage. This time she made it all the way to
Rhonda for refueling. All her tanks are now full of fuel and she's "ready"
for action.
Andy's little daughter just had her first birthday.
The Swedish couple Kicki and H†kan (cockfighting addicts, thinking about
retiring here) just came back for the fourth time. It's always nice when
people bring Swedish food, aquavit and newspapers when they come.
The Peso hit a 30 month low of 45.2 pesos/US$ in July. One kilo of mango
is 30 pesos now.
Lars (Neptune) mother, Eva came just two days ago. She brought 2 kilos
(!?!) of moose meat with her. I think that is the first time anyone has
ever eaten moose on the beach.
ACCORDING TO NELSON (our inside man into politics here):
The sanctuary is now definitely out of bounds for divers. We were allowed
to dive there before but now there is a stop to that. There are actually
plans to make a few more sanctuaries along the reef. They have made the
sanctuaries so that the fish can have a place to grow big before they get
caught. Divers do break corals, we all know that. Nelson has tried to
argue with the local counselors that even though divers do disturb the
reef, itÿs so minimal that they should allow divers. The decision still
stands though. They do get funding from abroad to maintain the
sanctuaries, letÿs just hope that they will not make the whole reef a
sanctuary.
LETTERS FROM ABROAD:
Hi! We are divers from Visaya Divers (Quo Vadis) where Greg is the
instructor and Do Do the dive master (or at least Do Do was our
dive master for most dives). We have been there in paradise three
times and we are now visiting Sean and Suki in Hong Kong. We are so
excited to learn about the newsletter and to be included in it. Send our
regards to Dolores, Mona and Josephine, Darlene Faye at Emma's, Ling Ling
and Jurgen and Marvin. We think of all of them almost daily. We will
definitely return - just trying to figure out when our next trip will be!
Sean and Suki send their love. There baby is due on September 13th. We'll
keep you posted on our plans and the arrival of their baby.
Right now we are traveling in China and have seen Beijing, the Great Wall,
Tianamen Square, the Forbidden City and Summer Palace, Mini Three Gorges
which will be totally flooded on 2003 (I think that is the date) and then
took a boat ride on the Li River. Now we are visiting Sean and Suki and
reminiscing about our times in Moalboal.
John and Kathy from Santa Barbara, California
Simon writes:
We had a party for Regula's birthday over the weekend. All of the Swiss
contingent of Moalboal came, including Pierre, Stella (arrived the day
before the party and staying for at least a month), Didier, Marc Kolly
(all from Lausanne), Thomy and his brother Andi (Frauenfeld), Denis and
Elisabeth (Geneva), Ida and Rune (honorary Swiss from Norway). We took
some photos and will send a couple over once Rune gets back to Norway and
can get his digital camera to disgorge its contents! It was quite amusing
to see all those faces from Moalboal sitting on seats at midnight with
bottles of wine in front of them, all wrapped up in thick jackets and with
blankets over their knees to keep warm - it was about 13 degrees and wet
which is considerably colder and nastier that any of us were used to!!
Marc is hoping that his girfriend Jesfil will be able to come over in a
few weeks when the perennial visa problems have been sorted out, and we
are planning another get together in August or September in Lausanne to
make sure that no-one will forget about the sunshine in Philippines.
That's all the news from here, we look forward to hearing the next
installment! All the best, Simon & Regula.
The rest of us, I'm sure, would also like to wish Regula a HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
Now what we want to know is if Simon can speak SwissGerman :)
YOU MAY BE MARRIED TO A MOALBOAL GIRL IF:
*Instead of a dowry, you got the whole bill for the wedding and the
honeymoon.
*You are expected to be able to read her mind just by watching her
eyebrows move up and down and which way her lips are pointed.
*All her relatives think your name is Joe.
*The instant you are married you have 1000 new close relatives that you
can't tell apart.
*Your refrigerator is always full but you cannot find any food that you
recognize.
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
http://home.netvigator.com/~moalboal/
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