Interesting things I Learned

If you think about it, you learn something new everyday. Just this morning, I learned that the longer I linger in bed when I wake up, the bigger the chance I have of activating my morning allergy. We had our company strategic planning in Tali last weekend. Over dinner and lunch, I learned a few things from our lively conversations that ranged from food, travel, politics, and science. 1) Although not new news, Manila along with all the cities situated near coastlines will be completely submerged in water in 8 years. Half of Florida will have more beach space and Manhattan will suddenly turn into a water adventure. Now, THAT's an inconvenient truth. 2) There's a huge chance Obama will win in the US election. I guess they'd rather have a black man in the white house instead, just for the fun and irony of it all. Besides, change is good. 3) The buck doesn’t stop when you get a room in the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. They also let you pay to visit the spa even without booking a treatment and the use of the gym even if you're a guest. A fancy sounding Jasmine "massage" in the spa is really just somebody applying heated oil on you minus the body kneading and costs $75. Plus, there aren’t any prices on the restaurant menu so anything that might sound cheap might really not be. 4) There are no exceptions when renewing your US visa. EVERYONE has to wait in line, no matter how much of Manila you "own". Thankfully, you don't wait under the heat of the sun. 5) Crushed ginger can be used to soothe rheumatism. 6) Alfredo Lim is really Chinese. His father was born in China will he was born in Spratley. And he got a house in Forbes for free, thanks to his gun. 7) Some guy has genetically grown a man and a pig. When he grows up, he can be a congressman. 8) Dove Moisturizing lotion is really, really good. It's very creamy and absorbs instantly! 9) You need 5 billion pesos to become President of the Philippines. 10) Riding a hot air balloon suddenly seems like a fun thing to do. 11) Residents in provinces in China have a local passport and need to apply for a pass so the government can control people from moving to bigger cities and overpopulating it. 12) Turtle tastes fishy. 13) Europeans eat with the fork on their left hand, the knife on their right, and slice as they eat, Americans slice everything, and then eat, while Filipinos do away with slicing and dicing and go straight to inhale their food. 14) An awful lot of Brits are frightingly decent. 15) The Jumbo restaurant in Hong Kong has a license to sell a maximum limit of 25 dishes a day of this endangered fish. 16) There is a bookstore in London that has been on the same location since the 17th century. 17) "Moses" baskets for babies are sold in London for a whopping 600 pounds. The supplier sells the same thing in the monthly American Women's Bazaar for only 14 grand. Buying it here and sending it to the UK wont cost you more than 600 pounds. What did you learn last weekend?