Welcome earthlings!

Hi! Welcome to my blog. Like i said in the description, this is a site where I will chronicle my survival and adventure in Metro Manila. This might be a good site for all "Probinsyanos" out there who thinks of making a living in this Urban Jungle with mammoth traffic and congested canals that would give a 100 percent flooding everytime its rains hard.

I have been working in Makati for a year already and if there's one thing I have realized, it is how Manila shrink in front of you. You know, when you are a probinsyano like me you think of Manila as one big City with all its grandeur (tall building, beautiful parks, big shopping malls) and at the same time fear about the stories you watched in the movies or in your television sets. Everytime you come to Manila for a visit, the site is really overwhelming for you. But living here for a year already and having been to places (most of the time alone) like ayala, avenida, recto, cubao, ortigas, you realized that little by little your self-developed myth about Manila seems to disintegrate everyday. And once you've got to have the taste of the adventures (well most of it) the city offers, the place ceases to become an overwhelming place.

From day 1, you have to learn to adjust to riding buses, jeepneys and take more than one ride just to go to your desired destination (in the province yu can just hire a pedicab and they will bring you wherever you want to go). You have to learn to find a cheap place to eat and have the patience in following the que. An yes, you would learn that taxi drivers here knows how to round of to what they same is the nearest number. Like if your taxi meters tell s its 43 pesos and you gave 100 bucks, you know that you will receive a change of 50 pesos.

After learning all the things you need to learn, then you will realized you can "overcome Manila".