Fiasta Manila 2
The second night dinner was a carefully design one, we were invited to have dinner at Precidencial Palace ( Magnaca ) with President Aroyo, she passed the impredtion a few months ago and is a very controvasal President at the history of Phillipine, but to see an dine with President is a great honor, so, everyone goes with happy mood. as we were told any commucication and recoreding devices were not allowed when seeing the president, so I am a good boy, check in my deviced at hotel and didn't bring it with me. however, R. he follow my advice with panic, I never saw a man such counting on communication, he is anxious when there's no mobile phone with him, he must judge me with a wrong messanger. I don't mind, who in the world can't live without a phone for 4 hours, this is beyond my imagination.we arrived Macnatan by 6:00 pm and walking in the palacy, in front of the buidling, there is a giant tree, decorated with light, as Christ is so important to them ( a almost 100 Christain country, with very minor Muslim in Nindanaor Island ), President show up by 6:30 with a very short and brief speech , then she walked around the party and speaking, shaking hand, taking photos with us. well, I do see a lots of " photo hungers " sneak to fit in the picture zone.
after the President greeting dinner, we were lead to another members' house for entertainment, this is the founder member of Phillipine charpter's house, it only take 2 minutes walk from Presidential Palace to his house, a big big house, in the garden, more than 200 chairs were set for us, a rythme session with orchastra were stand by, I can see there will be another great performer, yes, they called her the Diva of Phillipine, she sang a few songs, the problem with her is too much living in the shadow of Barbra Stradsand; then we were welcome to visit the house, a 6 rooms gallary of comtemporary Phillipine artist. of course, a lot of food / drinks were prepered for us.
Day 3 is the main Fiastan Day, we were asked to get up by 6:00 am, by 7:00 am at the restaurant, we were sitting Tribe by Tribe ( I am in the tribe of Meboro ), and the 16 tribes competition will take place in a day. they design games for us and we collect shell coins as the token redeem to points, in the moring, we were sent to Intrumuro for competition of 3 games, " Fear Factor " is the scary one, we must take the very local / special food. I taste the blood and win our first and only number 1 in the morning. then taking curise - big boat to the island of Gladdiodor where the Pacific War make it a place for memorial. the boad ride for 90 minutes, they built tent in the broken fort and military house and renovated it to a diner place, with grill food and music , performance, the logistic is complicate, no wonder the follow day, food poison and contamination take place, more than 20 members suffer from the belly ache.
the competition in the island is like treasure island hunt, but it modified to 4 session : Notes ( visit the places ), Photo check ( identify the similar scene ), Trivia ( answering the questionarie by checking clue on the road ) and challenge ( some of the note, stops you can challenge with the host for higher points ) our tribe leader Sheong is good in developing the energy and get the 99 point in the island. in the island, we met the 3rd President Ramos in the helicaptor site, he chew his ciger, talking with us under the sun and I win one Ramos ciger from him. humor and talktive.
the schedule running late on the island, so the Dine Around pospone to 8:00 pm, dine around is to be invited to one of the members' house for catering dinner, you can image average 6 tables of space should be OK for such a group, I change to Classical Night the last minutes to follow other members from Taipei, they ( Phillipine members ) told me that I make the right choice as Donnie's house is worth seeing and its a big house, inside you have everything, even a chapal that you can prey for your own family.
they introduce the chef and the memu, make is so official, Donnie have a lovly twins and Crekit, his wife is taking care of the family quite well, we eat, drink, talk and met the interesting R. who by introducing form other Phillipine member, have a habit of keep Tiger as pet , R. told us now he had 50 Tigers in Phillipine, this is so amazing, he told me there's are only 2 persons in the world who had Tiger as habit, the other one is Michael Jackson. we stayed until 11, the after dinner music performace is more Jazz, there's no such a thing like Classical, in Donnie Gradfater's house, you see all the antique colletion from vaies counties, Russins, Art Deco , Chinese and Spanish. Donnie's grandfater who was the ambassor to Vintical before, in the country which respect Christian and Church, you can imagine the position he was.
Day 4 , wake up tied, but I tried to catch up 2 education session, " The future world " presentation by Walfgang is good, but to be honest, to predict future is easy, as you don't need to prove you are right, time advacne you to thinkg BIG, but he is a good speaker. another person of insperation is Victor Fung, chairman of Li and Fong. a Harvard Professor turn successful entrepurnoir, his case together with Jollibee were 2 famous Harvard study and every MBA student must familiar with.
Lunch is good but I skip the afternoon session as I need to come home to attend Ali's dinner at Chieng Shan, landed on the airport and on my way to Chien Shan, I listened to the City / County major elections final , learning that KMT get a big triumph out of DPP, this is the vote people ink for not trust the current administration anymore. I had a good mood, wife on her way to Chieng Shan and accompany me.
I woke up with bad stomach and saw doctor immediaty, I am the last victim from the Manila conference. I am OK, a great experience, I am thinking of join the Pakistane Conference next year. it shouled be another great encounter.
posted by Roger @ 12/05/2005 12:41:00 下午
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