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Bonsai Tree

Bonsai Tree Master

Bonsai Tree Master? Hardly, but today we saw a guy on the street selling Bonsai Trees. He was from Car Car, a town south of Cebu City. He started out the day with several trees, I guess all he could carry and rode buses to the north part of the Cebu Province. Quite a journey. By the time he got to Bogo City, he had only three trees left.

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Bogo Brown Out Revisited

Another Day without Electricity

Jessie’s reasoning seemed sound and we both thought they would brown out Bogo City last Sunday. They didn’t but they were right on time today. I guess they are going to do it once per month but trying to figure out which month doesn’t seem to have a pattern. Tomorrow Jessie is going to call and ask how we can find out when they will turn the power off in Bogo City.

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Brown Out In Bogo

So if Jessie’s theory holds out, they will brown out the third Sunday next month. We need to find out how to know when this is going to happen so we can be prepared.

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Brown Out In Bogo City, Philippines

Expatriate Woes: No power means no cash.
Brown out in Bogo City

Today was a bit of a bummer. Nothing major just a power outage when I had no cash in my pocket. Our power went out around 6am and stayed out until about 4pm.

Being hot was the worst of it. I tried to tough it out but finally I took a shower just to cool off and then went to Jollibee. Jollibee was running on generator and was cooler. But we had only 150 peso so our choices were limited. Jessie got some kind of ice cream/drink. I guess a small sundae. I had three cokes and read the paper. We stayed there about two hours and finally the lights came back on. it was hard to be so close to others eating chicken and french fries when I could only sit and drink my coke.

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