Thursday, April 30, 2009

High Definition Audio Bus

what it's like to swim with whale sharks


It is 20 m long, 2 m wide and it is not a boat. Exactly, whale shark, fish najobrovskejsia what I've seen and in which I have ever swam. With huge mouths, through which passes (Apparently) only plankton, so one's safe (Apparently).

So as it all looked. Hur action took place in March, when the United Colours of 5 Beneton traineekov (spirit, polish, Peru, Romania, Slovakia) decided on e will go to swim with fish for the weekend. Place is called Dons and the South Luzon. We flew there and jackets as we schlep bus 12 hours. In the morning there is still a loss and redress hladacka prices (as is already in the Philippines to travel stays) and then sup on the boat.

Vyfasovali have fins and snorkel and went to sea with the crew. The guy climbed the pole and watched from there, or is it something in the neighborhood boat nemihne. And now it is flashed for about 5 minutes after odjzde. So quickly plugged fins, snorkel and put into water sup. And we have already followed a guy who watched the whale. Still I had no idea what happens to me, when he saw somewhere (under him, led myself, I do not know where) something huge and moving slowly on its size ... and then it came, The first rev peruviansky be started and we know that Karl saw the goldfish. So helter-skelter, we swam in that direction and there it was - something seated, with yellow horseshoes, directly doorstep! I stopped breathing, that I could not ULAK from screaming ... it was my first experience. Rybka but now uplavala so sup on the boat. After another 5-10 min followed by a second jump and it was something. I already knew what to expect and I remind you "mostly breathe:)". A fish is fortunately emerged further from me, so I was able to predict how to swim in it (recommended distance of 3 m, hl Avnet from the tail on). And I swam with her Dlhe 2 minutes - uuuuuuzasnyyyy feeling. More, fraudulent silence and vastly dear creature, who let a man carry a swim ....

After the third jump I dared even closer, so the fish was in touch and I could see her huge head, gills and dozens of small fishes moving around her as the guardian ... We were lucky enough to see about 6th Experience to the experience.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Thesis Statement Format

Cockfights the Philippines


Well, I better not even The blank (copied from an article on idnes.cz):

audience roars as sensory deprived and the scene recalls meeting a crazy sect. The air is blood and death. To them, cock warriors with blades on massive talons in the ring at all spares. For Filipinos are like Olympians and their struggles are a kind of perverse holiday.

cockfighting has not always been the domain of Asian countries. In Latin America gives the hens too well to trimming, and I feel that even in New Mexico. Sometime in the nineteenth century Feathers flew air in England. Now there are just illegal dogs games.

The vast majority of places are already guarded sort of matches the international association, but here in the Philippines on this shit wrong. Sharpened razor talons on cocks are proof. Roosters are grown exclusively for the fight.

Roosters, who have come head to head in this game of life and death are different opelichanci who stand on zadělaným at your grandmother's backyard. Vypulírovaní a new convertible model, truncated comb massive claws. Feathers them glittering in all the colors of the rainbow.

circular arena is filled with people. The battlefield is surrounded by a glass wall. Before every battle with the Roosters first rozdráždí. Owners of warriors is attached to each other, and chickens can be crazy. Feathers on the neck and they načepýří presence of another cock is put into a trance battle.

audience roared like a madman. Air crumpled money are flying and the experienced punters clutching hands with gold rings. How do I know who gave them what and who bet, I understand. Must have a computer in the head, otherwise it is not possible.

Suddenly everything suddenly falls silent.

The fight remains in the arena a referee and two birds. On one leg to seeded spurs, sharp as a razor. And nothing happens. Both birds look as if he is most interested if there are worms in the floor. Here and there you sions with DAMASK and do not go together.

Yet they are all glowing eyes in the audience as denying magnetized. The whole hall waiting for the sacred silence.

And then a flash puts everything into motion. The impact of two small bodies, swoosh of wings and feathers odlítající. Zahučí audience, as when Baros misses an empty fifth wicket. Both birds to collide like two rocks and turns into a blurry shape that rotates with lightning speed. A ball of fury. Their physiognomy turns. The pile of feathers suddenly become a battle carcass, načepýřená napřaženými ball with claws, which is flying furiously through the air. Sometimes you hear břinknutí as spurs to hit him.

It takes only ten seconds. On the floor to endure battlefield feathers and then you hear a dry crunch. One cock as he fell and cut down the beak on the floor, blood pouring until the from her big puddle. It's over.

referee half-dead bird still gets up and gets to the ground, but he already has a foothold in the legs, just me and pleskne last legs twitching. I feel a little sick.

Arena quickly sweep, the blood soaked into the clay base and on the scene gladiators, living to die. Relieve them here today, dozens of them. One always dies. I have not seen battle, when both birds survive. Sometimes injuries are so serious that it can not survive even one of them.

Sometimes it takes twenty seconds and it's over, sometimes two cocks into each cut as long as five minutes before one of them finally leave this world.

cockfighting are exclusively male affairs. Master-breeding can bring its owner sought the prestige and respect. Something to that will.

... So that we have experienced it also with SISO and Beou last Saturday - only female, only whites, about all that we placed a bet. We saw about 15 games, the shortest lasted 9 seconds and was the withers. The fact that there looks exactly as described in Article guy - as in some Coliseum.

worth This is seen already because of what is happening in this country, what are the values \u200b\u200band interests of individual countries ... and that's all sponsored by Coca Cola was also quite interesting finding ... Anyhow, once again experience to overcome the CCL resistance at all to go there. AHA moment as embroidered!


Thursday, April 23, 2009

What Is White Lump Around Lip Piercing

place on the globe, where foot este nevkrocila Slovakia (actually, already hey;))


Philippines are very lahko "scestovatelne. Lacne letenky that ostrovy, dobra celkom miestnych busov infrastructure. A I'm ostrovy vyhlasene dostat to Palawan, Bohol, Negros, Boracay Mindoro alebo je v super popisane Lonely Planet.

Tentokrat som in vsak Roz hodla ist po inych stopach a to navstiv it Ostrov monsoon, zapadne od Mindora, KDE zarucene este Slovenska noha nevkrocila . Al ego traineecky Dany in Canada is in fact except the teacher and the Asian Institute Enterpreneurshipu farmers grow corn and also owns part of the island of Lubang. So there we went on a couple of days ...


way to Batangas by car, stop in Tagaytay, famous volcano in the middle of Taal Lake. We have, however, enjoy breakfast - Bangsilog - typical Philippine - garlic rice, vaji CCA and fish if it :).... Banana - all you can eat! VBantangas we barely managed to ship a single, had been with us for Lubang could get. We got a "first class" - the st Reche ship . Fortunately we have

if stacked este some boards, otherwise the mine - and so brutal e burning, because I fell asleep - it was still brutal. 5 hour cruise with Nigerijcankou Uzo, Kanadanskou Dana and 2 Philippine but it was worth. Sea, sun and forced with a graham usienkami (or vice versa:)) we did along about another 50 Philippine society.


While getting ashore sm e had to wade thousands of plastic bag - way behind my ideas about the "private beach". Us are still among the

struggling everyone can be Family members with bags Full poloroztopenymi meat or cake that brought as "pasalubong" - something as a gift from Manila.


We find ourselves in loocas village, whose residents about power beloc calls never experienced before, so after about 5 to reply how is my name and from where I was finally enshrined in the family home of Bob - a farmer jeh the family, which form the basis and the entire team of local teaching staff. Waiting us in y DATN lunch and sumptuous dinner - out of this house had not been before year electricity, a shower

and flush toilet forget.


We decided to camp out on the beach to choose from tomorrow, and today, after tiring of the daily journey to sleep in the house - without glass windows, only nets, in rooms that pat

Rila relatively new couple (judging by gifts from the wedding - mostly religiously oriented - statues, plates bearing the words "Relax, God's in charge" - ake typical for the Philippine passive culture;))


next morning sm e the fishing boat went on "this beach". Fact, not a soul, este we also had her own adjustment, to be given an area of \u200b\u200b2 tents ... tour followed, during which I had the opportunity to taste Cashew p boat. Yes, cashew nut and is therefore growing on the tree. The fact that it looks like pepper, it is another thing. This "pepper" was torn off and remain

ane as "a cashew. So probably because it's so expensive, or from the single tree can and do so much as my example, cashew apples from apple trees. We have not fed Karabaov - "local cow" and "a shower" in a single strand of fresh water, which is on the island. And then followed by long walks after solitary beach swimming in the sea, isolated, moving the towel just where you want, relax in the "hamoku" - thus hupajucej mesh with "Eve", as my mom still here in February brought the magazine:). In the evening we then tasted the local fish soup with green mango

and cooked on the fire freshly caught fish, brought to us by a local angler who y saw fire and came to "warm".


"Unfortunately," we had stayed a day longer, because the ship is operating only when the Zadar. I spent the journey back to the front of the ship itself, with music in the ears and the rising sun ... What a perfect contrast against crowded beaches and hot dovlenkov ym spot.


And, know that I have a place on earth where I found myself as the first Slovak .. . guaranteed;).


Sunday, April 12, 2009

Mount And Blade Mods List Version 1.011

Crucifix in the Philippines

Before leaving the Philippines my dad says: "The Philippines? Well, I know about them, they are pretty girls there and from there I guess ukrizovavaju for Easter ". Well, first (by occurrence of whites) and confirmed that the second I set out to verify.

Cele in elkonocne holidays are here uuuplne ine. Day is on Thursday and on Good Friday, when it does not sell alcohol and radios do not play rock music as we learned from a taxi driver. On Monday it have any celebration, everyone staring at me, of why we have a holiday on Monday, the sak Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday, but ... And Manila is totally empty. Everybody way out to their villages with the whole family or use off the beach and frcia.

I've pretty nice waited on Good Friday. And I lived to see. We went with a colleague, Karla (from Peru), the direction of Pampanga, San Fernando, Kutud. About 12 for lunch to be launched and already we have met the 10 first odhodlancov what was knocked back by a bunch of wooden chopsticks Tying the tail of rags. To them from the blood flowed, and the designated "Good People" they made some cuts ch ran with a wooden brush with fish scales. So I marched behind him, head scarves and dark corners of their replica crown of thorns. Karl wanted to be sure the blood really right and sidle closer to one of them, what it vypomstilo few drops blood on the clothing.

order we caught at least ake-take place, we arrived at the place already half 11th We saw podium and chairs and a few Japanese. And that let's ask how much the VIP stand. And they, of anything, just sign up and write from where you are. So we are waiting not at least passed the time in the shade, near the small hill with three crises, where the crucifixion takes place should be surrounded by other tourists, who was not afraid to ask for the VIP spot - from Greece, U.S., Germany, Indonesia ... Around 12 began to test the microphones by oznomov the need to release a taxi from any parking space or even lost spoluturistov called from "Czechoslovakia", let waved from the crowd, from where they are, of others looking for an hour.

And then it came. As the last part of "possession play, therefore the whole of Jesus' journey to the crisis came to Filipino soldiers in masks, the mother of Jesus, Mary and indeed a crying woman and of course" Jesus ". one last announcement, the audience has to respect ukrizujuceho of error and the stage of alcohol disinfection. Then already succeeded by the first BUCH and shocked the audience gasp, a uz second BUCH dvihali him up. Then another 2 BUCH and already had prikovane and legs. "Mother Jesus" began to lament, then some kind of monologue "bad ones" and then he still nailed to the monologue to overcome crisis - still supposedly played. Well, after about 3 minutes later he pulled the nails and take prec, that it can bind up the wounds as soon as possible.
Then followed the announcement, the audience has to maintain respect for a further 12 people who have crucified idu data - among them some kind of Australian. Well, after four us was enough, so we predrali between outgoing tourists who have risen to leave immediately after the first.


On the way to the bus, we still caught "pedikl" (bicycle with a cart) and the guy had no shirt. Scars on their backs, so we ask him, or even of he is "whipped" and why. And he, of hey, 2 years ago, because her grandmother has asthma ... well, like this bizarre, I described why it is here to do everything. Officially believe that their "flogging" get rid of all sins and crucified believe it is so easy to get to heaven ... or do not know what you think. Anyway - it was an experience of experience. Maybe not the most beautiful, but najbizardnejsich - but, another region, another morality;).