Kenny getting ready for the day.
I woke up with a hangover from the night before. Kenny did his laundry. We decided to leave for Alona Beach by 10:30 AM. While we were leaving my place, the landlord’s helper told me that the landlord was very mad. It was no surprise to me and wanted to offer an apology but she wasn’t around. When we got to my motorbike, we noticed that the rear tire was flat. We decided that Kenny and Mae find a ride to Alona Beach while I find a person to repair the flat tire.
At vulcanizing shop getting my flat tire patched.
You can’t just simply go to the local gas station to get a tire fixed. You have to find a shop that advertises itself as a “vulcanizing” shop. I went to the local gas station to ask where I can find a vulcanizing shop; there was one across from the church. I had no idea how much a flat tire fix normally costed so I had to text Mae about it. She said it should cost about 40 pesos. I paid 100 pesos because there were two holes in the tire.
Alona Beach water looked good.
When I eventually made it to Alona Beach, I met up with Kenny at Coco Vida. We decided to walk to Genesis and go snorkeling in front of it. We swam quite far out until the shallow reef tapered off into deep blue water. The water was warm, clear, and generally beautiful. Back near shore though there was an unusual amount of debris on the surface of the water. After snorkeling, we hung around Genesis a little bit and then went to eat lunch at Hayahay.
Early in the afternoon, Kenny and I decided to drive to Tagbilaran to do a little shopping and maybe watch the new Batman film. We went to BQ mall and was about 10 minutes too late to see the film. We decided to watch the next showing and to just shop around at the computer, hardware, and department store in the mall. At the mall, I noticed I got a text message from my landlord asking when I planned on being back at the house so she could talk with me about our noisy night in the pool. Is it that much of an emergency? Around 4:30 PM we went to the theater to watch Batman.
Timing to watch a movie in the theater is a little tricky. The cinemas here tend to play the previous showing up until only like 10 minutes of next showing. This is bad because if you go into a theater too early, you might accidentally spoil it by seeing the ending. We went into the theater about 10 minutes before our showing only to see the credits from the last showing. The film was good but wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. I’ve been looking forward to the film for a long time and just think my expectations were too high.
After the movie, we decided to drive back to my place where I was planning on talking to my landlord about the noisy previous night. She sent out another text to me which was hard to understand because it was really broken English. Not surprisingly, she basically complained about how noisy we were late in the night and how she doesn’t want me to bring guests over. I was getting a little nervous about what she wanted to talk about because she’s making such a big deal out of it. While driving home, I noticed that we had another flat tire on the same tire I had patched today.
Since Kenny didn’t think it would be safe for both of us to be on the bike while we looked for a vulcanizing shop, he ran ahead while I drove the bike. After several blocks and lots of asking around, we found a place. The mechanic said that we needed to replace the inner tube with a new one. I didn’t mind to do this because at least I will know the tire is fixed.
At Oops chilling out during happy hour.
Happy hour!
Kenny playing Genga with Marilen.
When we got home my landlord didn’t want to talk because she was busy watching TV and it was a little late at night. By 9 PM, Kenny and I decided to go to Alona Beach to partake in the Oops bar rum and Coke happy hour. We started off with a total of six rum and Cokes. At Oops we played Genga and then went off to Coco Vida for a few more drinks.
- jason
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