Today is Wednesday, March 10th,2010 and it is now 1243PM here in Brooklyn,New York City.
Continuation of my previous entry...
So finally Jackie comes on and tells me she is in the on-base internet cafe. I really did not findit strange because over the previous few days she had been locked out of her Yahoo ID (something that happens in Asia quite a bit for some reason) and been trying to see if it was related to her PC (systemic) by trying to access it via the cafe. Before much was said she told me that after having gone to sleep the night before, someone had removed a fewof the slatsin the large jalousie window in the livingroom. The person then entered the house and stole the PC and DVDplayer.
She had already contacted her eldest bro. (in SE Asia the eldest sibling,especially male, assumes the role of a surrogate parent). He was on his way back to the base and would escort her to the MP station to file a report. Military bases the world over are hotbeds for gossip and a neighbour had already come to her and reported that a man was trying to sell a PC at an off-base cafe.
When we next talked several hours later she told me that they had made the report and also visited the cafe. Indeed the cafe had bought it and wanted 10,000 Pesos (225 US) to relinquish it. In the West the cafe could be charged forhaving bought a stolen item but in the Philippines things are much different.
The next morning eldest bro took Jackie to the cafe to obtain the PC and were informed that the clerk who bought the computer had been savvy enough to record the sellers info. Much to her suprise and horror Jackie found that the seller (i.e. the thief) was her youngest brother!
Eldest bro wanted to beat him but by then he was in the wind. He then insisted, to Jackie's horror, that they file a criminal complaint (called "blottering" in local parlance) againt the youngest brother.
To be continued...
Continuation of my previous entry...
So finally Jackie comes on and tells me she is in the on-base internet cafe. I really did not findit strange because over the previous few days she had been locked out of her Yahoo ID (something that happens in Asia quite a bit for some reason) and been trying to see if it was related to her PC (systemic) by trying to access it via the cafe. Before much was said she told me that after having gone to sleep the night before, someone had removed a fewof the slatsin the large jalousie window in the livingroom. The person then entered the house and stole the PC and DVDplayer.
She had already contacted her eldest bro. (in SE Asia the eldest sibling,especially male, assumes the role of a surrogate parent). He was on his way back to the base and would escort her to the MP station to file a report. Military bases the world over are hotbeds for gossip and a neighbour had already come to her and reported that a man was trying to sell a PC at an off-base cafe.
When we next talked several hours later she told me that they had made the report and also visited the cafe. Indeed the cafe had bought it and wanted 10,000 Pesos (225 US) to relinquish it. In the West the cafe could be charged forhaving bought a stolen item but in the Philippines things are much different.
The next morning eldest bro took Jackie to the cafe to obtain the PC and were informed that the clerk who bought the computer had been savvy enough to record the sellers info. Much to her suprise and horror Jackie found that the seller (i.e. the thief) was her youngest brother!
Eldest bro wanted to beat him but by then he was in the wind. He then insisted, to Jackie's horror, that they file a criminal complaint (called "blottering" in local parlance) againt the youngest brother.
To be continued...