{"id":163,"date":"2007-02-27T00:08:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T04:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2007\/02\/27\/making-it-out-of-manila-alive-and-richer\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T23:38:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T03:38:22","slug":"making-it-out-of-manila-alive-and-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2007\/02\/27\/making-it-out-of-manila-alive-and-richer\/","title":{"rendered":"Making it out of Manila alive and richer (or, I shall return)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner was at Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Adriatico last night (visit #5 for Trevor and Kerensa, #2 for us), followed by a calamansi juice or two at Hobbit House, before a few stern words with a meter-shirking driver.<\/p>\n<p>This morning Trevor and Kerensa went back, and Nic and I walked around a bit.&nbsp; We saw the waterfront (such as it and its really disgusting little strip of beach were) before walking back to the same caf\u00c3\u00a9 for a pretty good omelet breakfast.&nbsp; Then we walked all the way back up Mabini to our dump, checked out, had another fight over the merits of the taximeter, and THEN the fun began.<\/p>\n<p>We checked in quickly enough (after jumping through a few security hoops) to learn that our flight was grievously overbooked.&nbsp; The offer for volunteers was P3000 cash (~US$60) and a free roundtrip ticket MNL-HKG or vice-versa.&nbsp; We took it.&nbsp; I guess I&#8217;ll be going back?&nbsp; Boracay sounds nice.&nbsp; We were offered all of the same again and a hotel room with transfers to abandon our new 6 p.m. flight, but we both had to be back before Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The flight was roomy (exit row) and fairly normal, with a minor delay due to the offloading of the checked bags belonging to the 6 p.m. volunteers.&nbsp; To my surprise, our bags made it on the same flight we did and showed up after just a little agonizing in HKG.&nbsp; Scenic bus rides later, we were at Lingnan where I have a ton of work to do for tomorrow.&nbsp; I have to choose a paper topic (or few) by 9:30 and give a presentation at 16:00, in addition to dealing with the paper and electronic pileup of the last couple weeks.&nbsp; Good trip, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner was at Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Adriatico last night (visit #5 for Trevor and Kerensa, #2 for us), followed by a calamansi juice or two at Hobbit House, before a few stern words with a meter-shirking driver. This morning Trevor and Kerensa went back, and Nic and I walked around a bit.&nbsp; We saw the waterfront (such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[97,95,106],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","tag-manila","tag-philippines","tag-southeast-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}