Angel

I few days ago, I went to a dressmaker to have the maxi dress of my dreams be sewn for me but that didn’t happen because the dressmaker, who previously charge me 120 RMB for a long cotton dress, now like to charge me 650RMB for the maxi dress. I mean sure, the maxi dress should be more expensive considering that the material needed is silk but 650 RMB!? Is she crazy or what? I thought it would cost around 200-300 RMB and I did try to bargain but at some point I gave up. For that money, I can buy like five pairs of jeans and a dress. I went home disappointed and thinking that I could never have a maxi dress while in China because like I told you last time, maxi dresses are not that hot in China. Stores don’t sell it so if I want to have one I have to have it sewn for me.

But luckily, when we went shopping last Saturday, I was able to find and buy this maxi dress. It’s the only maxi dress I saw in the whole shopping area mind you and I am just glad that it fits me. Alright, the colors are not exactly what I had in mind but it still looks nice and it’s just 300RMB.

It’s time for my bitchy rants again so it’s time to update this blog.

I want to make it clear that I am not only rude to a particular person or people belonging to a particular race, age group, religion, country, etc. I am just plain rude and I don’t choose whom I can be rude to. I am no angel, everybody knows that (or at least those who visited and read this blog) and if by now you are still not able to keep up… then that’s your problem.

Anyway, right now I just want to write about my annoyance at the taxi driver who conned me. Yep, I was conned by a small-eyed, stinky, yellow-teethed, taxi driver. I cannot imagine that this person thinks he needs money (well that’s the reason why he rip me off, right?) more than he needs a shower!!!! Iw!

If you want to read the whole story how I got a fake 50RMB, read it here. Now if you are in China and you clicked that link, you will most likely NOT be able to view it because it is blocked. Yep that blog and the whole website hosting it are blocked. Censored. Why? Go figure. How am I able to access it?, you might ask. Well, I’ve been here too long to learn about using a proxy and a software that allows me to surf blocked sites.

Back to the stinky bugger. Yeah him….the taxi driver in his stinky dilapidated taxi…. I do wish him ILL. I wish that he’ll be conned as well and will lost twice as much as the money he got from me… or… maybe that’s not right because he’ll just con somebody again. Maybe it’s better to wish him something that would really torture him! Yes right… so scratch my first wish and here is my FINAL wish… I wish that a group of horny, wrinkled, fat and unattractive old naked women be in a tub without water with him and he cannot (otherwise his small junior will be cut off) leave the tub without getting cleaned. How is he going to be cleaned if there’s no water in the tub? Well, that’s the point, he can’t be cleaned therefore he’ll stay there forever OR he can choose to live without his teeny-weeny junior (Oh heck, it’s probably not big enough to be beneficial anyway!).

This blog “had” a page rank of 3.

For those of you who don’t know what Page Rank is, I’ll tell you in the simplest way. Page Rank is used by Google to measure the importance of your site. It is a ranking from 1 to 10, 10 being the highest rank. This blog ranked 3. Now, don’t laugh. Nowadays, be happy if you are even indexed by Google. I mean Google has been so unbelievably tight these days…Google is becoming EVIL. You see, some smart ass small time companies were able to make money out of selling Google’s Page Ranks and since Google is too stupid to make a good approach about it, it tries to stop these small time companies by taking away the Page Ranks of the sites authored by those who are working for these small timers. Ha! What a very stupid and kindergarten-like approach to things! (Opps, sorry. By saying kindergarten, I offending my three year old nephew… kindergarten pupils can think better).

Mr. Arschloch, A.K.A Google, invented a game wherein different kinds of playmates should participate in. Now that some of the playmates are having fun, Mr. Arschloch gets angry and forced the playmates that are having fun to stay out of the game.

Stupid, stupid, stupidddddddddddd!

Does this site look like there are some paid posts in it? Paid links? Then why the hell Mr. Arschloch took my PR away?

Answer : Because Mr. Arschloch is stupid.

We are back from our 3 weeks holiday in the tropics. The temperature here in China is still pretty much the same and the amount of spitting have not lessened a bit. We still can enjoy the cold temperature until around April and the spitting? Well luckily, that we can enjoy until we leave this country.

You know, lately, I have been thinking of joining them in spitting in every corner everywhere. Why? Because they do it like no other people can. And oh by the way, they can do it really well. I don’t think I can ever come close. It’s an art how they do it. You know, it takes a lot of physical training to learn how to be able to dig deep from your trachea and how to make that sound which is so fabulous. Ohhh, it’s music to my ears. And when they do it all together… it’s like a symphony that no classical or pop music can equal. Plus they do it everywhere—in buses, planes, restaurants, offices, etc. so where ever you go, you can be sure to witness this amazing talent of theirs. I just love it. And if you think that only men can do it, you are wrong. The women here can spit twice as much and twice as far as the men. They will certainly surprise you.

So excuse me while I go and practice.

I will not book our precious holiday at Olman’s View, Bohol, Philippines again.

Why?

Because.

They don’t have a beach. They claim to be a cliff resort—fine. They are a cliff resort and the sea is just really a few steps down. In pictures, this resort looks nice but listen… they are directly in front of the harbour. If you look out to the ocean… your view would be the harbour which is around 200 meters or less away. So you can imagine how slimy and icky Olman’s sea water would be. I personally have seen the swimming area and it looks indescribably disgusting. Well, they have a decent pool and if you are contented spending your tropical island get away swimming in a pool then go ahead.

Why don’t I like them?

Ok, I will tell you the whole story.

I booked a room at Olman’s through an online travel agency office who gave me so much praises about Olman’s View. And because there are no other available resort that time due to flocking of visitors for the Chinese New Year week, I took it. Now, IslandAccommodations.com (the freakin’ travel agency office) demanded that I pay the full amount before they can confirm my booking and so that’s what I did. And by the way, this incompetent travel agency doesn’t accept credit card payments so I have to withdraw the money from my bank account and deposit it to their bank which is not so popular and which has only a few branches. It took us a day to find the bank (no branch in our city so we have to go somewhere else) and finish the transaction. In good faith, I did all what the evil travel agency office told me to do. Pay in full, deposit in their bank account, fax the deposit receipt, etc.

But oh God, I was really pissed off when I saw the resort. It was so awful. I told myself, it is not the resort’s fault, it’s the stupid travel agency office’s fault. I mean, why would they recommend a place like that??? They’re just so stupid and totally incompetent. When I called them and complained… they denied that they recommend the place to me. WTF, right? I mean common, I wouldn’t know about the place if they didn’t tell me about it. And I particularly asked them if that resort have a beach/area of the sea where we CAN SWIM. And they assured me that Olman’s View has it. And they don’t.

So we cancelled our 7 night 8 days booking. We were just there for an hour and we’re off. Olman’s View was apologetic and offered to take us to another hotel. But wait… they are not that nice like they seem because they took a 50% cancellation fees. WTF again! I mean nobody in his/her right mind would like to spend their precious precious holiday in their hotel and they know that. They know that they don’t have a chance of earning from their hotel so this is how they earn money… from cancellation fees. Sneaky a-holes!

But anyway, I didn’t complain to the resort anymore since they weren’t the ones I talked to. After we transferred to a surprisingly cheaper but way more beautiful resort, I called Islandsaccomodations.com to ask them to pay for our accommodations (in the resort where we moved) and to refund some money to us. See, we paid 3,100PHP/night for a deluxe room at Olman’s and the rate of the room we got at Alona Tropical is only 1,240PHP/night (a standard fan room with NO hot shower and freshwater—the only available that time). There would be a cut for the travel agent office but it is still way too much. I honestly believe (until now) that we pay too much for the accommodations we got. And I wouldn’t like to shoulder Olman’s 50% of the full booking charge because it wasn’t our fault. WE WERE MISINFORMED by IslandsAccommodations.com. Is not like we didn’t show up or anything.

And you know, the f****n’ travel agency office wanted to charge us more!!!! Can you imagine!? Very stupid and incompetent, right!? I argued and fought with the a-holes from Islandsaccommodations.com until they succumbed and agreed to cover our accommodations at Alona Tropical and not charge us for more money. It wasn’t an easy task believe me. There were a lot of denying and blaming and raising of voices, etc. I didn’t get a refund but that’s okay….they will certainly pay in another way.