My pleas will continue to go unheard. At least until April 30, it’s gonna be more of the same around these parts I reckon.
Yesterday afternoon I attended a nice Easter gathering (non-religious) at a neighbor and fellow Hasher’s house here in Alta Vista. Three other couples also joined the festivities. Ed did up some nice roasted chickens. I brought some brownies and ice cream. And beer, which is getting to be in short supply at the markets these days. And so the running out of essentials begins!
You can see Easter mountain off in the background. Today is the traditional day the Hash hikes up to the top. Some of the folks at yesterday’s party are making the trek today. I opted out as it is my grocery shopping day. Plus I didn’t want to climb that motherfucker in this heat!
Later in the afternoon, I made my way over to “Gomans” for my usual fix of brews. As I approached I saw a police car pulling away. That can’t be good I thought to myself. I went on in and all the customers were crowded out on the back patio. The bartender said no one can sit at the bar and they would be closing at 6:00 (the curfew). Today the Barangay had these pictures posted on their Facebook page:
So, I’m still unclear about what if anything happened. I mean, they didn’t close the place down immediately or haul anyone away. I’ll go by later to see if anything has changed.
I chose not to stay at “Gomans” because I didn’t want to be out on the deck with everyone else. I am serious about keeping social distance, even if I’m drinking illegally. So, I moved down to my Speakeasy. Sat out in the back at a table on the beach. No one else was out there. A bit later, a waitress came up to me and said “thank goodness the police couldn’t see you sitting out here. They were just here!”. Oh boy.
Grocery shopping this morning. Pain in the ass as usual. Store used to open at 7. Got there at 8 and still closed. Was told it would open “before 9”. Turns out that meant 8:30.
The store was out of much of what I wanted, but I scored some needed items. Got the rest with a stop at Divimart on the way home. Ah, how I miss my Royal shopping experience!
Ah well. This too shall pass. I hope.
I meant to say, in my comment to yesterday’s post, that you don’t need to worry about the nanny state when you’ve got “friends” who are willing to do the state’s bidding on its behalf.
Sorry to read that more and more seems to be shutting down. The government had better not shut down delivery services and other elements of the supply chain, or the country’s gonna run out of stock on everything pretty dang quick.
Also meant to say that a 15K hike in PI heat and humidity, with at least one mountain in the way, is an impressive feat.
Try not to flirt with arrest. If there’s any anti-foreigner sentiment floating around, the police will be happy to have an excuse to lock up Whitey.
Agree with Kevin. Seems to me you could be pushing the envelope with the authorities.
Keep safe
BTW
I wanted to show you a picture of CS from my house today. Since I have no ten year old to help me I couldn’t figure out how to post it
No kidding on the rat fink “friends”, Kevin. At least they have revealed themselves for all to see.
The supply chains never operated that efficiently here anyway. I understand the port in Manila is overwhelmed with container ships and nowhere to offload the cargo. This country doesn’t function well during the best of times, watching the ineptness on display now would be almost funny–from a distance!
No worries, I’m playing it relatively safe. It’s a biggie to violate curfew and I don’t do that. Walks without an authorized destination may be a gray area, but my story is I’m just taking a roundabout way to the store in order to avoid people on the street who may be carrying the virus. I’m not sure what would happen to the customers at the Speakeasy if the police raided. I’d probably just plead ignorance–“oh, since it was open I thought it was okay to be here. Sorry!”
Jerry, if there is a way to post pics in the comments I don’t know it either. I’m the original techno-peasant. Had the daughter of one of my helper’s friends set up my smart TV so I could watch Amazon Prime on the big screen. It was kind of embarrassing…
Can’t see CS anyway. I’m above the clouds, but I did take a picture. Been snowing all day.
McCrarey, every time I see you with that mask on I think you have robbed a PI bank. Now, you don’t seem like that kind of fellow but I’m putting you on notice—If I see pics of you driving a Porsche through Alta Vista with Angel Locsin(Google her fine Filipina Ass) in the passenger seat and Buddy &Lucky sitting on her lap eating T-Bone steaks I will contact the Philippine NBI. You are probably already on their Radar account of your militant stance against the curfew. Peace Out!
Soju, Thanks for the heads up on Angel! It would be truly ironic if I robbed a bank. All the gals here seem to think I am one. That’s what happens when you have a good peso-nality like I do. And just to be clear, I always abide by curfew. It is what I do BEFORE 6 p.m. that may be questionable.