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i've done more than a fair amount of googling but can find no report on how (indeed *if*) i can get a tourist visa (good for 60 days on usa passport) now that i am already in LOS on a 30-day entry stamp. i need another 30 days, so if i can't get a tourist visa from inside LOS, i'll need to fly out on a visa run (land-return only garnering me another 15 days). so--anybody know if/how i can get that tourist visa good for my full 60 days? if it can be done for no more than the cost of flying out and back, i'd rather stay put. --but... if i do have to fly out and back, the best (cheapest) deals i've found so far are flights to PNH (phnom penh) on cambodia/angkor air for about $160+ -- with flights to KUL and SGN (air asia) being a bit higher. i figure where ever i go there'll be enough lb action/entertainment to tide me over for a couple nights, so it's really a matter of least cost and least aggravation... any advice greatly appreciated.

while it is, of course, true that pointy headed, buzz-kill liberals do in fact hate the usa, jesus, baseball and most especially apple pie, i don't think that provides sufficient motivation to create such a grand hoax. it just so happens that the ice shelf is melting (that part which doesn't burst into flame), oceans are rising (those which don't retreat prior to reactor-eating tsunamis), and the air in china is so polluted you can't even see factories burning (but what's a factory or two really, between friends). i'm quite comfortable putting it all down to coincidence. if not serendipity. not dissimilar from meeting a bar girl in pattaya who's never been with a customer before. it could happen. fucking apple pie.

great call, Kahuna -- THAT is the 'obscure movie' i am waiting for... though considering how they butchered the blues gotten by such delectable 'cowgirls', i might be waiting a couple lifetimes b4 robbins lets another dream get dashed at 24fps... and meantime, i do find myself occasionally wandering off the track at the glimpse of a shadowed ravine, wondering whether my long-sought villa might await a mere tightrope walk away.... but back to the topic of moment, further regarding Rodriguez's long strange trip taken without the more traditional rewards of fortune and fame: in the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the holy grail, even in Cognito. so better listen to me, sister, and pay close attention, mister: it's very good to play the game, amuse the god, avoid the pain, but don't trust fortune, don't trust fame, your real self doesn't know your name and in that we're all the same: we're all incognito.

i have recently learned -- but please correct me if i have been misinformed on this -- that high school education in the philippines is not free. more than a few 20-year-old lb's (and gg's for that matter) have told me that they are either still in *high school* because they had to temporarily drop out or have ceased going to school altogether -- because they can not afford to pay for it. if this is true, no wonder 70% have no education to speak of.

and both now on thaifriendly as well. with superb and sexy photos. yum.

"banana daquiris", "connoisseurs of cock", "a pleasure sharing a few" -- have these gatherings migrated from PBG to Sunnee or has Sunnee expanded to encompass PBG? inquiring minds want to know. and so they've sent me. so... when's the next sewing circle? i'll bring my own knitting needles, thank you.

maybe it's not photoshopped--maybe it's just detachable. could be glued to that little red riding crop.

i've had a few ladyboys in cebu ask me to stay at the radisson blu so i'm pretty sure it's lb friendly, lol. it's also very expensive. and though i don't mind paying extra for value, i find amenities such as hh bidets in the bathrooms, to be essentials when paying top dollar, and at the raddison you're more likely than not to have to go without--and an unscrubbed lb bum is never an option. i've recommended Harolds Hotel before but my good buddy stayed there and didn't care for it, so to each his own. if you want a nice new lb-friendly place right next to Ayala, then check out Quest--a place i did not like for very personal reasons, but which showed great promise and convenience and never blinked when my barely passable lb's traipsed through. matter of fact, i've stayed a half-dozen places in cebu city (casablanca, summit, crown plaza,goldberry suites) and have *never* had an issue bringing an lb to the room. now that i think about it, the brand spanking new goldberry suites on mactan island was a fantastic place to stay--if you don't mind being way the fuck out on mactan island, that is. if you're new to cebu city, i recommend a place close to ayala--which is a great place for all your first meetings. enjoy.

socrates recently forced me to ride the bts and then actually *walk* for at least 4.2 minutes past a series of lovely 'artist' bars filled with eye candy and possibility in order to see this 'darkside' for myself and i must say it reminded me immediately and continuously of the *old* guess bar back on soi 1 when it used to be a lounge with music playing at a level that accompanied rather than eliminated conversation, lighting that balanced the romantic/illusionary with the practical/functional, a lineup that was engaging without being extraordinary, friendly without being annoying. all in all, my new favorite bar in bangkok. though i confess i'd move it up to a must-see if it only had a pool table...hint? hint? if it did, i'd definitely have to find a hotel closer than my current soi 4 hang-out in order to more easily and repeatedly enjoy the place. even still, an easy recommend for a place to at least 'meet-up' for a drink and chat prior to a night out--not quite the PBG of bkk (no food), but as close as i've found so far.

hey randi, confess i don't get to this board very often lately, so i'm late to see your post/request. in general i would 'recommend' the same 'plan' in cebu or manila. clearly each of us must proceed according to our own idiosyncratic comfort levels, but to roughly refine my own: in PH (be it cebu or manila) i meet 90% of my dates through dateinasia and pinalove and *never* go to bars to p.u. lb's (in LOS 90% of the lb's are meet are through or at a bar). i no longer schedule first/blind dates direct to my hotel room (it's hard to bail on a troublesome mismatch who is nothing like you'd imagined from her photos, once they're sitting on your bed). i meet up in public places with plenty of traffic (ayala mall in cebu city, various coffee shops in manila), buy them coffee and then mutually determine whether either of us wants to claim a sick water buffalo or continue or date back in my room. in my experience there seem to be two general distinctions between cebu and manila (which might to some slight degree affect your "Plan"): the first is that manila is fucking gigantic and very difficult to get around in. if a girl tells you that she lives in 'manila' she might be 2-3 hours away depending on whether you're staying in makati city or quezon city--hell, you could both be in quezon city and she'd *still* be 90 minutes away. traffic in manila is....okay, there's no word sufficient to describe traffic in manila. then again, more than a few of the girls in cebu only belatedly pointed out they actually live in the 'province' and don't have the 'fare' to come see you. but whether it's a slow taxi in manila or a long-distance bus in cebu, i *never* send fare ahead of the date. and i *always* immediately reimburse their roundtrip fare, as a show of good faith. the total fare and to whom they pay it is different between cebu and manila, but they way you (or should i say, the way I) deal with it is virtually identical. secondly, there are (in my own limited experience--having yet to hit triple digits in the PH) more 'professionals' in manila than there are in cebu. then again, there are still many girls who say they live in 'manila' but actually live places such as 'cavite' or 'bulucan' and while only being about 20km away (2 hours by some combo of jeepney/bus/train/trike and taxi), they are truly a world away. as to wheither i'm really the first foreign man they ever met, i have my doubts (though about 40% have claimed just that). but the 'tip' you (or should i say I) give them is only slightly higher in manila, and that is a reflection of my perception of a higher cost of living in manila. and this, certainly, is my own idiosyncracy--taking into account cost of living in determining how much i give the girl. and this, of course, only applies to those non-pro cases wherein you haven't already 'negotiated' and 'agreed' to somewhere between 1000 and 4000 pesos--depending on whether she's a country girl who's never been to the City, or a webcam girl from ImLive who just spend 45k on her tits. having said all that, i suppose i could just erase it all and answer your question with this-- i don't know what your 'game plan' is, but if it worked in cebu, it should work in manila. at least, mine did. happy hunting.

an uncomfortably fine line between "jumped" and "fell", between "minor verbal" and "punch to the mouth". sad in any case for all involved, though if Elmore Leonard is to be believed, it could happen anywhere.

pdogg can you redact that asshole's name? he should never be heard of again. period. if someone's going to put a bullet thru their own brain, it should be their first bullet. and only then should we publish his name -- and thank him for going first. and alone.

i used to use latestays a lot but then it seems they began to 'hide' their fees. if you compare booking sites, based upon the so-called "rates" they post you'll be sadly surprised at the end result when you get around to making your payment. agoda also has 'taxes and fees' but at latestays it just seems they show up later and they add up higher. in general be aware of the "nett" price when booking online or you'll waste some time filling out the forms and sometimes just go with it rather than starting again when the sticker shot hits. it's rare that the actual hotel sites--or even walking in to the hotel itself--will beat the bargain sites (agoda, latestays, expedia) but it does happen. i guess it just depends on how much work you're willing to do before you book--and to top it off, the prices will literally fluctuate--much as airline prices do--and you might see a change of 20% between a monday morning and a tuesday night, at the same website--for a room you won't occupy for another 2-3 weeks, so once you do your comparisons, go back a couple times. because you just never know what might turn up...

forgive me oh yea purists, but whiskeytangofoxtrot with those sam elliott bookend pieces? seriously? too droll by half. all it lacked was chewing tobbacco clanging into a spittoon and spurs jangling louder than the bowling balls. not a fitting farewell to the coolest character cinema has ever seen. compare that with the image of john wayne exiting the cabin into the burning daylight at the end of 'the searchers'--now *that* is how to end a classic. the Dude should've handed the old cowpoke a well-started doobie and ambled off to take a leak. and we the viewer could've wandered away with him while the cowboy philospher prattled on--off-camera and off-mike. just goes to show, even the greatest writer/directors (and the coen bros are right up there in both categories) sometimes can't put the splice to the metal. still, the dude totally abides.

To quote the article: "In some ways, the trans-models have a proverbial leg up on their female colleagues, Mattos said. Unlike even the thinnest of women, who often fight cellulite and stretch marks, the trans-models have long, sinewy limbs unscarred by such typically female afflictions. Once they've lasered away facial or body hair, they can sometimes look more feminine even than models who were born female." "more feminine" indeed. that's not news to us here at LBR. i just hope "the wrong type" don't start crowding in to take my place in line... Here's the link: http://news.yahoo.com/transgenders-break-brazils-modeling-sector-074007183.html

a good percentage of the girls youll meet in cebu city actually live in lapu lapu. it's about an hour in traffic from ayala and/or mango square. mactan island (lapu lapu) is thought by some to be a 'beach resort' area, but if you're traveling across the globe, i highly suggest traveling another couple hours to what imho would be more of a 'real' resort on cebu -- moalboal, malapascua, apo island, etc. -- rather than share your island with an international airport, as you would be doing in lapu lapu on mactan. still, it is an easy jaunt for a night or two should you wish to look out the window at the ocean in between fucks, though i've found nothing there with a value comparable to diplomat. (btw, personally i prefer hotel casablanca for a cheap wild night near mango square with 'friendly--i.e., blind--hotel staff) then again, i still swear by dating sites here in cebu. last night i hit dateinasia, went to 'browse', typed in 'cebu' and in less than 5 minutes i was chatting with two lovely ladyboys. one of them lived outside the city, but the other was only ten minutes away from my hotel near ayala. i know she was only ten minutes away because 30 minutes later she was in my bed. lovely. too bad this typhoon is about to wreak havoc on further adventures, though even a jaded monger such as myself realizes there's more to worry about in a typhoon than where you put your dick. good to luck to anyone else in the PH right now. be safe. stay inside. get online. and when the sun comes back out, may we all go right back at it.

agreed. and excellent link, Lefty. hope dixondicks doesn't flame you too much for slowing the world down. i, for one, prefer the ambling pace. because i was soooo much older then, but i'm younger than that now.

as opposed to the insightful momentum of posts such as yours. (please insert no emoticon to disturb dixie)

anybody check out that 'press conference' last night? there were some *tough* questions presented to Mr O and the PM -- he deftly dodged them--and she seemed to never quite understand them. he admitted he'd asked the buddhist monks to pray for him, thus putting to rest once and for all those rumors that he might be muslim. or christian. btw, the president's 'favorite thai cuisine' is -- "all of it". he did manage a soft and semi-slurry 'kahbkunkap' at the end.

my hands are full right now accomplishing step one as mayor of manila, but once i get the ladyboys off the street here--and into the high-paying jobs they all so rightly deserve packing legal weed into zip-lock maps of europe for export to mexico, i'll be all over hooking up with hillary (presuming she can prove to me she's gay and a former navy SEAL). hell's bells, boys, i think we could get some really good shit done together down in d.c. including the cranial implosion of limbaughbeckistan. word.

agreed-- and i hope my own attempt at extended parody did not do undue damage to paccie's psyche. where the hell is that 'tongue in cheek' emoticon when you need it, eh? and fb, i'll buy you two drinks when i see you. meantime, i'll try to stick with music clips (mostly) free of misinterpretation. now, back to the ladyboys

hey randi, i'm "passing through" manila now on my way to cebu. well, by 'passing through' i mean that my flight landed here and i decided to hang a few days before moving on. that was two weeks ago. my own 'network' of "must-do"'s grows faster than i can check them off--and i haven't seen *any* of your girls. i confess, my first pass-through of manila left me not wanting to visit again but i decided to return to see just one old favorite. and the next thing i know--i'm in the quicksand of plenty. the change of scenery from the cesspool in which i first landed in ermita/malate, to the modernesque westworld of ladyboy ass available in makati city has done wonders for my image of 'manila'. bottom line, if you don't need tits on a ladyboy, this place will blow your mind. and if you do, just buy her some. one thing i need some corroboration on--almost *every* ladyboy i've met swears to me that i'm one of the first 2 or 3 "foreign man" they have ever met (something no self-respecting lb i've ever met anywhere in pattaya/bangkok/phuket would dare say with a straight face). i'm upfront about my 'passing through', 'only for fun', 'no LTR', etc, so there seems to be no ulterior motive to deceive and the revelation is so ridiculously universal, that i've begun to believe. i must add at this point that -- in total contrast to my life in thailand-- i have not set foot in a single bar in manila. i have *only* met ladyboys from dating sites and most of them must make an hour+ ride in from 'the province' to see me -- which in manila is about 15km, btw. so my uneducated surmise is that that 15km/hour brings the untapped (ahem) resources of the 3rd world straight to your 1st world doorstep. btw, this thread is in the protected "lounge" section, free of fuckwits, right? i mean, we don't want word about the abundance of lb pulchritude waiting impatiently on pinalove to get out to the wrong type of characters do we? i mean, right? so maybe i'll come back in februrary and see you then. of course, to "come back" i will have had to have left in the first place....

sorry DT but that canary is supposed to warn of the *real* danger of imminent death, not the news-media-distorted possibility that yet-another mid-east-centric blow-up will end civilization as we know it (anyone remember the yom kippur war? the israelis' bombing of iraq's 'nuclear' facility? 9/11?--any one think this is really, ultimately, worse?) filtered through the eyes and pen of a guy who seems proud of his callous disregard for the opinions of others: "regularly caught up in wars of my own making on the old TLF site, it didn't bother me then, it bothers me less today." then again, since kahuna's feisty young nephew (for one at least) might not mind seeing pman pull a carradine (asphyxiation being the method by which said canary must give true warning) online -- and pman might enjoy it any way -- "if I get a reaction, I don't mind, in fact I rather enjoy it in a masochistic way". ...i'll sign those adoption papers. even if just to let me get back to my blissfully ignorant pursuit of rainbows -- especially ones with tight asses and long smooth legs. ps if i did know a former massad agent -- and i swear to christ i do not. never did. don't now. never wlll. i swear. -- i sure as shit wouldn't be bragging about it online, even if it were on some mongering site about chicks with dicks....i mean, you think there's any chance in hell they don't already know who the fuck you're talking about blabbering post-company down under? seriously. i can only hope you're bullshitting for the attention you confess you love so dearly. or you might be a canary for more than some bored mongers. -- so how's that for melodramatic hyperbole -- now get outta here.

that's no shrimp on that barbie, mate. happy bday

i'd love to settle down with my sweetie in a picket-fenced A, but past returns portend future gains when living the B, and though the scent of a woman stil encourages the C, the truth of it is my candle's been burned down to my D.