Monday, 17 November 2008

Poor Rhianna!

Me and a few friends went to the Rhianna and Chris Brown concert last night. I have never heard such a quiet crowd!! Seriously really quiet. We were the only people we could see dancing, singing along or even cheering! Everyone just stood there with their cameras in the air filming her. It was the weirdest gig I have ever been to. I felt so sorry for her. She even mentioned that she had never had a crowd that quiet before.

Right at the very end when she was singing Umbrella Chris Brown came out and sang with her, the crowd went wild, every time he got near to her the were screaming!! He touched her at one stage and a girl behind us fainted. So bizarre. There was 60,000 people there and they only seemed to be interested in the romance between the pair.

Before and after the concert we went for drinks in a really nice bar called Cav in Fort Bonifacio High Street where you can serve yourself. How it works is; they give a little plastic card and when you want a glass of wine you go up to a glass cabinet that has a big selection of good wine. You put the card into a little slot and then choose which wine you want by pressing one of three buttons beside the bottle you want. You have 3 options
  1. Pay for a taster
  2. Pay for a half glass
  3. Pay for a full glass

When you want to pay the bill you just hand back the little plastic card then they give you a scary bill because the novelty of it means you drink way more wine than you normally would! Expensive but fun.

Saturday, 15 November 2008

Sunsets at Manila Bay

They say the pollution makes the sunsets at Manila Bay beautiful. I'm not sure if that's true but they really are gorgeous. Photos definitely don't do them justice but thousands of people flock there at the weekends to go and watch them.









We go down to Manila bay some weekends to watch the sunset then stay and watch the fireworks from a bar later. Every Friday and Saturday the nearby Mall of Asia holds an amazing fireworks display. All the bars and restaurant have outdoor sections that look directly over the water so you can have a beer* or dinner when you are watching.
*Well I can have a beer, Mike has a coffee so he can drive home!

Where did all the water go?????

It is Saturday morning and I'm following my usual routine of dragging my ass out of bed to sit at the pool in my building that normally looks like this:







But now it looks like this!









The feckers are re -tiling it! How stupid!!! Why would they start on a Saturday! Doh!