Wish you would have posted earlier, I may have been able to see you. Are you commentating on the World Cup tomorrow?
I hope they provide microphone for the players. It would be very interesting what they are talking about every play. I am sure people would laugh if Efren was talking to Django. Or Alex talking nonsense? Imagine if there were microphones during the time Dennis was partnered with Gomez, that would be funny! The crowd would go nuts!
Wonder why there are no ladies joining? I was hoping jasmine would have played for Austria.
Yeah, I'm working today and all week. I get to do the Philippine 'B' team (Efren and Bustie) match today. The 'A' team is Orcollo and Van Corteza! Hopefully you'll be able to watch it on line somewhere. This is one of the best tournaments of the year! Of course it's live over here on Solar Sports and also shown live across most of Asia. I'm not sure about Europe though.
P.S. Pangit doesn't bother me a bit with his random musings. We just have a different experience, I'm not nearly so thin skinned although I can get exasperated at times myself. I really could care less if the construction crews are wearing hard hats (most are) or not. I see them scrambling around like monkeys on the catwalks and scaffolding and no one ever falls! I have a feeling that when the Egyptians built the pyramids, they weren't wearing hard hats either. :smile:
One thing he failed to mention is the wonderful service you get when shopping in the malls here. Walk into any store and you will be immediately greeted by more than one employee, quite willing to help you find something and hopefully make a purchase. Handsome and attractive young people wearing neatly tailored uniforms are in all the businesses, even the small kiosks in the walkways. SOOOO unlike the USA where you are lucky to find a store employee or even a cashier to pay for something. I know it's all about employee payrolls and benefits, but that says more about the ills of our society that we can no longer employ proper staffing, even in major retailers. If we could somehow find a way to fully staff the retail giants in America, most of the unemployment problem could be solved. Twenty years ago department stores had full staffing in all departments, not three people on a floor!
Once again, we have a different point of view. Yet he still chooses to live here. And I keep coming back over and over again. For me the bottom line is the affordability, friendly people and all the pool I can eat! I can overlook for the most part the inconveniences of life here. No question this is not the USA, more like being in Mexico. But English is spoken here as well as the native languages and communication is not a problem. The weather tends to be warm to hot every day, which I greatly prefer over cold weather. Still not as hot as Vegas or Phoenix or Palm Springs in the Summer. My attitude remains you have to take the good with the bad. There is no nirvana on Earth, at least I haven't found one yet.
One other thing, I see little discrimination here of any kind, the people very accepting of all lifestyles and cultural differences. A woman just walked by and gave me a big smile. I like it here! Why not!
