It's 4am, and may kwento ako

One word will sum up why this blog was updated frequently the last time I was in Warsaw: jetlag. Despite traveling back and forth numerous times over the past year across several time zones, my body still thinks its 11:00am, when in fact it's 4am.



My antidote: coffee, an ipod with a wifi connection, and lots of cigarettes. A couple of beers last night also helped. There is now a permanent haze of smoke in my apartment (it has been there since last night) - it's similar to the smog over Makati on a clear day. I would open the windows to let the smoke out, but its so cold outside that I'd rather die from suffocation.

The past 48 hours have been interesting. I was able to get a good seat on the plane to Amsterdam - I had an aisle seat, good legroom (no seat in front of me), plus no one was sitting beside me. It was like being in business class (not!) - the food was terrible though, but that's expected. Also, as you can see from my last post, I originally thought that my flight was on the 15th. When I re-checked my ticket, I discovered that I was actually flying on the 14th - this stressed out Mav a lot (she's still stressed out, I think), and I suddenly had a ton of things to finish.

Warsaw didn't change much since my last visit. We had dinner at a new restaurant last night (called Papaya) which had raving reviews ("Must visit!") - it was pretty good. As expected, the "spicy" pork dish I ordered was not spicy at all, but that's OK. The beer still tastes great, and I'm looking forward to stuffing myself silly with Keilbasa later tonight.

I'm going with some Pinoys from the office to Krakow tomorrow. we'll stay there overnight, and then take a bus to Zakopane - a small ski town up in the Polish mountains. There should be lots of snow, and I am not looking forward to that.

Anyway, that's it for me. Have a nice weekend everyone!