But I surely do miss the competition from our Monday league matches. Looking forward to the new season which kicks off July 13. Which is good timing because I will be spending 10 days in Bali June 29-July 9.
Until I start my new career as a Rubbie, I will whet my darts appetite with tourneys here and there. We did a little “between the seasons” tournament last night at Bless U Pub. I partnered up with a Filipino guy named Norman. Hadn’t seen him throw before but he is quite a good darter. We managed a second place finish, behind Chris B. and Dave New. Some nice matches to get us there and it was a good time.
Saturday we are having an “international tourney” at Dolce. The concept is you partner up with someone from your home country and play for national pride. I’m throwing with COL Dan and although we likely won’t be the top ranked players, if we throw like we are capable of I like our chances. I expect strong competition from the Korean, Canadian, Filipino, and British entrants. Bottom line, it’s something a little different and it’s darts.
As you might have surmised from this post, it seems there is not much more to life for me than darts these days. Hell, it could be worse. And has been.
Hey, John,
If you run in to your Filipino partner again be sure to let him know that you didn’t see much evidence of Spanish influence in the Phil during your visit there a while back.:razz::lol::oops:
It’s true! Yeah, there was an old Spanish fort and Magellan’s cross of course. But nothing like the Spanish influence you see in oh, California…
Yeah, nothing much, other than stuff like………..say…
– 90%+ family names of Hispanic derivation…
– like you partially noted, a Catholic church on every corner…
– family structures and values totally reminiscent of a Catholic patriarchal social structure.
– highly valued ‘virginity’ among women, ironically squandered by the men who abandon their pregnant girlfriends in fulsome numbers.
– nearly every female and male name ends in an a or an o….
– the density of Spanish words imbedded in the Tagalog language and most other dialects too.
– indeed, the structure of the language, itself
– the horse-drawn carriage – the ‘Calesa’ – note the ‘a’ ending, still in great evidence on the streets.
– garishly colored busses and jeepney’s which ply the streets continually…(looks like Mexico or rural Puerto Rico, actually)
– the shape of many (most) young girls legs which are generally identical to those of Hispanics, mid-thigh down….
——-and on and on ………
No worries. Near as I can remember you seem to have gotten ill while you were there…….
But in any case, the Americans and many other cultures seem to have done even more damage in a far shorter period of time than the Spanish did in their 300 year colonization….
Good points. I guess I based it on the fact that no one there understood me when i spoke Spanish. Then again, my Spanish is not understood in Mexico either…
Spanish is not spoken – the Spanish ended their colonization long ago, long ago enough that the language largely died out when replaced by the dominance of English. English and Tagalog are taught from the first day of school till graduation and have been for decades. Tagalog is the dialect natively spoken in the Manila metropolitian area which is considered a province. One of the past presidents, Magsaysay, I believe, directed that all Filipino’s would be taught Tagalog, the language of the Capital, from grade school onward so that all Filipino’s would have a common language. It was a good move. Plus non Metro Manila residents speak their own province dialect, which makes the vast majority of Filipino’s speakers of at least three languages right out of the nest.
There is a province of Zamboanga (deep south west, an archipelago) where the dialect is almost Spanish but not quite. Spanish speaking tourists are amazed.
Just more trivia. Excuse the belaboring.