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My return to Manila involved a 6-hour bus ride from where I was in western Negros island to the main city of Bacolod where I took a boat for a 20-hour sailing trip to Manila. A flight would have taken me less than 2 hours, but I love to travel by boat. As you see in the pics below, it was a big boat like a cruise ship and I availed myself of an individual cabin with private bathroom, including a bath tub big enough for 2. There are different levels of accommodation--the cheapest being a huge open area with rows and rows of bunk beds and then it gets more expensive in cabins with different levels of comfort and occupancy. The boat has a big cafeteria-style restaurant for everyone and a smaller restaurant for the passengers in the more exclusive cabins. It also has a shop, a hairdresser, a videoke room, a chapel. Meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) are included in the fare. Beer is extra and costs US$1.5 a can. Here are some pics I took around the boat, including of big cocks on their way to Manila for betting cockfighting: As you might have guessed from my Hitler videos, I am a bit of a World War II buff. That's a view of the Pacific war theather's famous Corregidor Island (closer on the horizon) from my cabin window. That's where MacArthur held the fort as long as he could before getting out and saying "I shall return!" The island fell to the japs who were kicked out for good 3 years later when the Americans won the war. Let me cut to the chase: My greatest motivation for boat-traveling in the Philippines is to spend much of the trip in the room having sex. That's a given when I am bringing a companion along, but alas it was not the case on this sailing. But in a boat with over a thousand passengers it is not so difficult for a sexyman like me to find company. The biggest impediment is time. My trip started at 11 pm, which made it difficult to score a sleepover buddy before the night's festivities (live singing show) were over at 1 AM. So immediately after dumping my luggage on the cabin, I went on a quick hostile recognizance mission of the whole ship looking for a target of opportunity. Finding none, I set up camp on the cafeteria where the live singing show was taking place. Being the only foreigner, and a playful one at that, I attracted the attention of the band and sang along with them. There were no ladyboys around, but hopefully one of the senoritas would be attracted and send a signal. But it did not happen. When the show finished, everybody dissipated and I retired alone to my luxury cabin for what was the first night of solo-sleeping in almost 3 weeks. I was awoken at 6 AM by the boat's extremely loudspeakers "morning prayer" and call for breakfast (6:30-8:30), which I skipped. Got up later and stuck around the cabin somewhat lethargic wondering if it was even worth going on the prowl... But at 11 AM or so, on the prowl I went. Looked everywhere and not a single ladyboy on the boat. Young or old. Ugly or Sexy. None. Plenty of GGs of course, but none sending the "hit me" signals, which meant I had to do it the hard way. Pick an attractive enough one, figure out if she is available (like not traveling with husband or relatives) and make a move. I spotted one attractive enough MILF by herself. I proceeded to observe her to see if she was traveling alone. I followed her around the boat from a non-threatening distance. She was headed to her riff-raff class deck and once I was there I could not think of anything better than to implausibly go over to her bunk asking for directions to the cafeteria. I think she (and all the dudes around) figured what I was up to, but she smiled and offered to guide me. I invited the MILF to eat in the exclusive restaurant and she accepted. I had age-assessed her in her 30s, but she was actually 41. She was a simple lady who had worked as a housemaid in one of the Arab sheikdoms and was going back to Manila for another stint in Dubai. I have a thing for Filipino maids from back in the 1990s when I lived in Hong Kong. We talked over lunch, we took pics on the boat deck and I bought her an ice cream and a tank top in the boat shop. Then I invited her to try it in my room, She resisted but I insisted telling her she could charge her phone for free (as opposed to pay-charge machines elsewhere on the boat) and watch TV with me. The rest is history. Let's call her Fanta as in F for fucking all the way to Manila for the 6 hours we had left on the trip.

Just a normal view in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

I have it but have always taken extra precautions. Don't use my correct name or date of birth, have registered with an email address that is used for social media only, never had a photo of myself on it, use freebie add-ons Fluff Busting Purity (Google it) & Ad Blocker Plus on my browser so do not get any sponsored items or ads and whilst online I only now use a paid VPN. On all my devices I have disabled location for all apps and only allow a map app to use location when I need to use that app. Christmas before last my sister gave me Google Home apparatus which I politely declined so she took it back and gave me a store card to same value.

Anyone remember the movie...'Village of the damned? something about all the people looking the same, something like that. I headed down into Jomtien last night from BBG Towers, hopping on a baht bus on Beach road. Marvellous...an empty baht bus. Idly musing if i should maybe stay on it and finally head to TJs in Naklua as i just knew that the love of my life would be waiting on tenterhooks for me, or alternatively she would possibly be trying to avoid Pdoggs groping advances of course. A couple of hundred yards down the road, the bus stopped to allow four Russians to board. Mmmm. i thought...okay, maybe the much nearer Katty Bar then. As the bus groaned in pain trying to get going with the very extra weight on board, i looked up. This is when it got scary. The 2 men were big but the 2 women were bigger. oh well, not wanting to get into the overweight debate particularly, i won't go on about that. But! they were all wearing the same shirts... the men and the women... you know what i mean... the white cotton things with hoods and sleeves that hang down to the knees? And as the bus crawled along it passed more people walking...some wearing the same feckin' shirts. Now i know the ex-communist states tried to eradicate individuality, which is the natural enemy of socialism, and understand that the Russian modern generation may have been influenced by parents and history. But what is it with all wearing the same shirts? And to cap it all, this morning i was sitting outside my local 7-11 [as you do] idly passing the time people watching. i swear to god, 3 Russians walked past at different times, all wearing the same feckin' shirts. okay mmmm...but what finally did it...cracked me up.... as i was leaving, a youngish russian couple pulled up on a motorbike... you guessed it...both wearing the white hoody long sleeved feckin' shirts. and then the female on the back seat jumped off to reveal a young kid about 2 years old... and you've guessed it again... the kid had on a feckin' shirt the same as mama and papa. this was when i finally realised that Jomtien is becoming the Village of the damned. it's getting very weird...the cuckoo is flying over the Jomtien nest. okay enough of this...i'm off to the night market to get myself a shirt....

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Nice report Rom. You have whetted my appetite to visit the Phils, as I've never been there before. Nice MILF you scored. I alyways look out for the 30+ ones. They tend to be better in the room and more fun outside of it. Keep it coming.

This is what makes your trip (and trip report) even greater. Instead of filling posts saying "I have been in the same bars as my forum mates", you're telling us new adventures, new places discovery, new ways of traveling and new ways of meeting ladyboys. I had the feeling this could be possible after my trip in the Philippines but I had decided not to go back there since no one had been able to show another way. I didn't believe it would be possible. Well, you've done it. I might change my mind in the next few years. Glad to read this. Don't worry too much for Rom. He might be smart enough to find a boat captain able to make this trip without going through the icebergs.

Should have stayed on the bus BBG if it was headed to the Village of the Damn Sexy Ladyboys in Naklua!

Your right Seven, here's a more upbeat bit from Professor Mark Harris Professor Mark Harris, from the University of Leeds, said: 'Its true that the numbers... look scary. 'One positive spin is that if we are only aware of five per cent of the total cases, the implication is that 95 per cent of cases have only resulted in either mild symptoms such that the infected people did not consider it serious enough to seek medical help, or indeed the virus may be causing an inapparent infection.

The shirt - and sometimes matching shorts - I first noticed a few years ago - is of white cotton, overprinted with a repeat 'picture' of a dodgy looking building - a palm tree and the legend 'Thailand'. The building looks nothing like one I've ever seen in Thailand. I reckon that some factory somewhere in the world is running off yards of this cotton fabric - printing the dodgy picture on it and then overprinting the name of the wherever resort/country etc, These shirts seem very popular with the Russians - but as BBG mentions I've seen more of the 'White Hoodies' this year. I must stay in more.

I've been getting from 39.18 to the £ when I arrived 2 weeks ago to 39.85 over the last 3 days. Yesterday it was 40. This morning it's 40.3. Still less than the 43-44 I was getting last January. It will be interesting to see how the £ fares after we leave the EU at 11pm GMT on Friday. I fear a fall, but I hope I'm wrong.

Reminds me a bit of the Titanic with a long queue in steerage with the first class passengers living in the lap of luxury. Her pic on the bow (or stern) also reminds me of the Titanic. But Jack and Rose weren't protected by Saint Therese of the baby Jesus while you guys were, hence a safe journey!

Australia has its 6th victim. They’ve sent him home and instructed him to not pass it on..... https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/coronavirus-case-confirmed-in-victoria-bringing-national-total-to-six-c-670864 The guy flew in from Wuhan and us Australia’s 6th coronavirus victim. He had the symptoms of a cold and has now been sent home with instructions not to pass it on to others in the house with him. seems it’s not serious at all outside China. It’s just a variety of the flu. Like SARS, it’ll burn itself out. no locking down the city, airport or other places he’s been in. The restaurant he visited is a buffet style. Patrons are advised to see a doctor is they feel sick. Like him, just stay home.

Yes but since I get all my money from my US VISA debit card I have no choice but to use the card when I need money. I think I've used my card seven times this trip and three times I got a better rate than TT Exchange and three times a little worse. But the difference between 30.84 and 30.64 on 30220 baht is only about US$5 so it's not a really big deal. About the price of a LD. My last four ATM withdrawals of 30220 baht have been a few dollars over US$1000. At the current VISA rate it would be US$985.

TT is US$ 30.84 at the moment. The pound has a little cushion above 40. I suppose this is all about the Coronavirus. I expect the USD to be above 31 by the weekend. I probably just jinxed the whole thing by make a prediction. The VISA card rate is only US$ 30.68. So as often is the case when the currency is moving fairly fast in one direction the VISA rate, which only changes ever 24 hours, is lagging.

Let's see if this works better. tj344.mp4

You got game Rom!

Great night up on the hill last night. Very difficult place to leave once the official,, family friendly entertainment finishes. A little clip for Xyzzy to enjoy in the days ahead :) IMG_8446.mov

Interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald today: "Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you" https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/facebook-will-now-show-you-exactly-how-it-stalks-you-20200129-p53vna.html The article originally appeared in the Washington Post but I'll copy into here anyhow Ever suspect the Facebook app is listening to you? What we now know is even creepier. Facebook is giving us a new way to glimpse just how much it knows about us: On Tuesday, the social network made a long-delayed "Off-Facebook Activity" tracker available to its 2 billion members. It shows Facebook and sister apps Instagram and Messenger don't need a microphone to target you with those eerily specific ads and posts - they're all up in your business countless other ways. Even with Facebook closed on my phone, the social network gets notified when I use the Peet's Coffee app. It knows when I read the website of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg or view articles from The Atlantic. Facebook knows when I click on my Home Depot shopping cart and when I open the Ring app to answer my video doorbell. It uses all this information from my not-on-Facebook, real-world life to shape the messages I see from businesses and politicians alike. You can see how Facebook is stalking you, too. The "Off-Facebook Activity" tracker will show you 180 days' worth of the data Facebook collects about you from the many organisations and advertisers in cahoots with it. This page, buried behind lots of settings menus, is the product of a promise CEO Mark Zuckerberg made during the height of the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal to provide ways we can "clear the history" in our accounts. Facebook's new tool isn't nearly as useful as your web browser's clear-history button - it doesn't let you reset your entire relationship with Facebook. But along with the transparency, it does give you a way to unlink some of its surveillance from your Facebook account. You might be shocked or at least a little embarrassed by what you find in there. My Washington Post colleagues found Facebook knew about a visit to sperm-measurement service, log-ins to medical insurance and even the website to register for the Equifax breach settlement. Even when your phone is entirely off, businesses can upload information about you making an in-store purchase. One colleague found 974 apps and websites shared his activity. Think of it more as a reminder that we're all living in a reality TV program where the cameras are always on. There's not necessarily a new privacy violation here. Facebook has been partnering with websites, apps and stores to track and target customers for years. And it's hardly alone. Lots of companies send information about us to ad and data firms. Think of it more as a reminder that we're all living in a reality TV program where the cameras are always on. Anyone who's concerned about the power Facebook has to manipulate people and shape elections should care about how it tracks us. It's easy to forget in the constant barrage of Zuckerberg's privacy apologies and fines, but here's the reality: Facebook keeps gathering more and more data about us, with few laws restricting how it can use it. Rivals such as Google don't offer anything comparable to the "Off-Facebook Activity" page. "Despite how commonplace this activity is across the internet, we believe it's important to help people understand why they're seeing the ads they see and to give them control over how their data is used, regardless of the services they use," says Facebook spokesman Jay Nancarrow. But hold the applause: Laws such as this year's California Consumer Privacy Act require companies to let us know exactly what data they've collected about us. In ugly detail Regardless, I'll take Facebook's new tool as a win for us. It offers an opportunity to see in ugly detail how Facebook's advertising surveillance system actually works. Chances are, it's not at all like you think. If all of this sounds confusing, it's not your fault. A Pew survey published in 2019 found 74 per cent of American Facebook members were unaware the social network builds a dossier on each of us to target ads. Facebook makes its surveillance systems so convoluted and, frankly, boring that we're less likely to object. I'm not letting that stop me. Here's the big picture: Everybody's experience on Facebook and Instagram is different. Your feed might be filled with stories about luxury real estate and ads from Mike Bloomberg, while mine might be NASCAR and Donald Trump commercials. That's because Facebook's software uses the data it gathers about us to tailor what it shows us. Facebook also lets advertisers target messages to the people the data suggests might be most receptive - or, in the case of political advertisers, easily swayed. 'Interest categories' Facebook uses some data to put you into "interest" categories, such as people who live in Washington, DC, and are into cats. You can see the boxes Facebook has put you in by looking under its "ad preferences" menus. A part of this is easy to understand. Facebook obviously knows who your friends are, what you "like," and what and where you post. You entered that information yourself. But there's also a world of information Facebook gathers that you didn't volunteer to the social network - and probably didn't know was being collected. How does Facebook get this info? The social network provides partners tracking software they embed in apps, websites, loyalty cards and other systems. According to research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook has so-called tracker pixels or cookie-sharing code on about 30 per cent of the top 10,000 websites. Facebook's surveillance is hard to avoid. It doesn't require you to click "like" or use a "log-in with Facebook" button. You don't necessarily have to be logged in to the Facebook app or website on your phone - companies can report other identifying information to Facebook, which will marry up the activity to your account after the fact. Your off-Facebook activity isn't exposed to your friends; they won't see it in the News Feed. The social network also doesn't pass your personal information back to businesses - they just get the chance to target ads to people with Facebook accounts who triggered the trackers. A company could, for example, ask Facebook to show ads to people who looked at a certain style of shoe. (Off-Facebook activity doesn't contribute to Facebook's dossier of your ad "interests," but the social network might use it to suggest groups, events or Marketplace items to buy.) Thanks to the "Off-Facebook Activity" tool, I now know that Home Depot told Facebook when I visited its online store, viewed an item or added an item to a shopping cart. The Atlantic shared the pages I viewed and devices I used, which it says inform its distribution strategy and help it target campaigns. The Washington Post says it stopped using the Facebook tracking pixel, along with some other social-networking trackers, on content pages as of October 24. The Buttigieg US presidential campaign says it used the Facebook tracking pixel to target ads at people who have visited its website or engaged with its donation link. Peet's Coffee didn't respond to my questions. Ring, which is owned by Amazon, let Facebook know when I installed or opened its app. Spokeswoman Yassi Shahmiri says Ring uses the information to "optimise our marketing campaigns on Facebook," including advertising less to people who already own the product. But is that a good reason to share information about my doorbell with Facebook? Shahmiri says Ring doesn't share specific camera data, such as a motion detected at your door. But Ring does ping Facebook when I open the app, which is almost always when there's someone at my door. Guess I was foolish to presume what happens on my doorstep stays between me and Ring. (Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, but I review all tech with the same critical eye.) Facebook says it puts limits on the information organisations can share with it. For example, they're not supposed to pass along health and financial information. But it's unclear how well Facebook polices this. Using forensic software, I found Facebook tracker code on the website for an HIV drug. Nancarrow, the Facebook spokesman, says that "a health site with a Facebook Pixel does not mean that they are sharing sensitive medical information with Facebook." Don't businesses worry we'll find this to be oversharing? Most probably never thought we'd find out. Facebook says companies are required to provide us "robust notice" that they're sending data about our activity to the social network. But I found very few explained this tracking in clear terms. Facebook wants to paint surveillance as totally normal. Zuckerberg often says people want to see "relevant" ads. I wonder whom he's asking. About 81 per cent "of the public say that the potential risks they face because of data collection by companies outweigh the benefits," according to Pew. Here's what you can do: You can do a few things to fight back against Facebook's surveillance, some of which haven't been available before. The new "Off-Facebook Activity" page includes ways to ask Facebook to cut it out. From that page, click on "Clear History" to tell Facebook remove that data from your account. After you've done that, you still need to inform Facebook you want them to stop adding this data to your profile in the future. On the same "Off-Facebook Activity" page, look for another option to "Manage Future Activity." (To find it, you may first have to click "More Options" - sorry, I know they're not making this easy.) Click that, and then click the additional button labelled "Manage Future Activity," and then toggle off the button next to "Future Off-Facebook Activity." While we're adjusting things, I also recommend changing one other bad Facebook default setting. Under the settings menu, go to "Your Ad Preferences" (click here to go directly). Under the heading "Ad settings," look for "Ads based on data from partners." Make sure it is set to "Not allowed." The ultimate fix: Say farewell to Facebook and Instagram forever, and close your accounts. Now I have to share a bummer: Changing these settings doesn't actually stop Facebook from collecting data about you from other businesses. Facebook will just "disconnect" it from your profile, to use the social network's carefully chosen word. Mostly they're just promising they'll no longer use it to target you with ads on Facebook and Instagram - which means you'll be less likely to be manipulated based on your data. So what can you do if you don't want Facebook collecting all this data about you in the first place? That requires more hand-to-hand combat. On your computer, use a web browser that fights trackers, like Mozilla's Firefox. Or go even further by adding an ad or tracking-blocking extension to your browser, such as the EFF's Privacy Badger. My account tallied much less off-Facebook activity than most of my colleagues because I use Firefox along with Mozilla's Facebook Container add-on, which prevents Facebook's software from connecting with other sites. In smartphone apps, where tracking is also increasingly common, tracking even is harder to stop. A few services, such as Disconnect's Privacy Pro, scan app activity and block tracker traffic, but they may also interfere with the way apps function. Or there's the ultimate fix: Say farewell to Facebook and Instagram forever, and close your accounts. So far, though, that's not a choice most people have been willing to make.

Faceborg is pure toxic SHITE! I have been off that evil thing for about 3 years. Never missed it. Feeling infinitely better. The sooner we all cancel that shit the better. I am not joking.

I agree. Go for it! The worst they can do as Arch says is to cancel the flight. When you click through to the various offers, you'll see Air China, Kissandfly, Vayama etc. I wonder if the flight was cancelled would ther ebe less of a hassle getting a refund through Air China or a 3rd party such as Kissnadfly? I've always been a bit wary of the 3rd party sites thinking if there was some sort of problem with a booking that I'd rather deal directly with an airline. But maybe with a cancellation refund, the 3rd party would want to protect their reputation and pressure the airline? What do you guys think? Talking about Skyscanner guys, if you use Skyscanner we really would appreciate it if you use our links. If you click through to a Skyscanner deal, we earn a small commission whether or not you actually book a flight. This helps defray the operating costs of LBR. Skyscanner Link If you are using Agoda or Booking.com we would also appreciate it if you use our links. Thanks!

Scary stuff sure, but I did some more reading and its not necessarily deadly for most people. Its a tough one for the already ill, weak and elderly sure, but a reasonable healthy person should be able to fight it with adequate care, I like to think.

I would take it. The worst thing that will happen is they cancel the flight, hopefully with some advance notice.....Seriously doubt they you will make it to China then you will be forced to stay there.

but what are we going to do for a photographer for next monday's Teya and Sunny night?..... cancel your flight BB!

Thanks SP. I call it a non-TR because I leave some stuff out, mostly the GGs. But in the next post I will showcase one for a change. I guess you mean "frowned upon" by their own pinoy people who see them as sinners ... ? To me what annoys me is that they are frowned upon by farang keyboard warriors who do not hesitate to disparage them by comparison to the Thais. "Anteater" ? They wish. To me anteater makes me think long and probing. Like Longmint. I rather compare the Thai phimosis cocks to mole rats: I had heard one of the Philippines best beaches--Sugar Beach--was nearby and I decided to go check it out for myself. I knew that ladyboys would happen along the way, as they did. And yes the beach was awesome. As were the ladyboys. I got another BM question by private message that I choose to answer in the open and in the vague. It was about one of the ladyboys that I call Sprite because she is a bit elf-like and she drinks Sprite. Sprite is a good kid. She lives with her parents and 5 (?) siblings in the shack near where the pig (I paid for) was roasted and shared with the neighbors. I met her on the beach together with another ladyboy and then they introduced me to more ladyboys. They were all done with high school and were only too eager to hang out with me all day as they said I was the first foreigner they ever met. I showed them all a good time with what to us farangs amounts to pocket change. It was a bit awkward when I met Sprite's parents who were both younger than me. Even one of the grandfathers seemed younger. It was Sprite who led me to the St. Paul festival in a nearby town where I rooted for her neighborhood troupe, which Sprite was a member of. When she saw that I enjoy drinking coconut water, she would fetch me coconuts from the tree tops even though I would ask her not to because I feared she might fall and hurt herself on my account. In the end, Sprite begged me to take her with me back to Manila and I was tempted, but wiser heads prevailed. We will stay in touch and who knows next time? Here are some memories of Sprite: