I met Joysa in Angeles City which is where she was living at the time. Here aunt, the former Japasuki, has a house there and bought Joysa's grandmother one next door, which is where Joysa slept. Her job was in Clark, the former American Airbase that has since been turned into an industrial empowerment zone.
I had taken a jeepney to go to the mall and she was sitting across from me. I didn't pay much attention because of her body. Angeles is Asia's, and perhaps the world's largest centre for the sex trade. It is the kind of sleazy place where women blow smoke rings our of different orifices, play with boa constrictors or simply play hide the salami for 5 US Dollars. There fore, seeing a girl in her early 20s with a decent face and huge chest naturally led me to peg her as a sex worker. I have never been with a "pro." I like to think it is because I can get it for free whenever I want it which all things considered isn't too far from the truth, but the truth of the matter is that I am anal retentive about honesty and sincerity. I just wouldn't be able to enjoy myself with a woman who couldn't care less what I am doing. I want to at least convince myself that she actually desires me.
Luckily for me I found out that Joysa is not one of "them." The fact that she works so hard in a licit occupation when she could very simply lay on her back (or get on her knees) and make many times more than her salary really attracted me.
Upon my return to Manila I of course met Joysa at the airport and we spent a couple of days at the studio I am subletting. I was shocked when we were lying in bed and Joysa began asking me simple questions in Hebrew! She had missed me so much that she had been spending her time studying Hebrew. However that shock was nothing compared to what I felt when I went with her to her home in Bulucan. Sitting with her parents her mum floored me when she teased Joysa about wanting to convert to Judaism!
Joysa is very light for a Filipina but it still is no mean feat to blush and yet she turned beet red (OK, not exactly "beet red" but you get my point!). Later when we took a walk I asked her about it and she confessed that she wanted to convert. I asked her why she wanted to do this? I suspected that she wants to marry me of course, but she merely said that it is because she sees that Islam and Christianity merely came from Judaism and that the foundation is the purer form of the True Religion. Shocked is too weak a word to describe my feelings and to a degree I am still suprised.
I explained that if she really felt that she wanted to learn more about Judaism and Jews I will arrange for her to take classes in Makati which is what passes for a "Jewish neighbourhood" in the Philippines. Including Israeli Embassy staffers there are less than 300 Jews in the entire nation. Yet we do have 1 synagouge and a Jewish resturant just opened up so perhaps she will get her wish.
While I was visiting Bulacan I met one of her mum's friends, an effeminate gay man named Jae. Jae does Cam Sex. For those who might not be acquainted with the term "Cam Sex," a person with a web cam charges a fee by credit or debit card and proceeds to pleasure themselves, or rarely engage in on camera sex with a partner.
Jae had a new customer, a 50-something lorry (truck) driver from Norway. This married man with children was so smitten with Jae that 6 days after first "meeting" him/her online the bloke flew to Manila! So here they were, at Joysa's house holding hands and gushing sweet nothings to one another. Joysa is 3/4 Tagalog, the ethnicity indigenous to Central and Southern Luzon, the Manila area (she is 1/4 Kapampangan, the ethnicity indigenous to Pampanga, the province where Angeles City is located). I mention this because I have very little experience with cultures outside of the Central and Southern Philippines. In Mindanao gays are ridiculed and if they kissed and held hands they might be killed, especially in the bush where I live. In Bulacan though, it was as if nothing unusual was taking place.
The Norwegian man was supposed to stay 5 days but by day 3, the day I first saw him, he had called his wife to inform her their marriage was over and then began trying to get an extension on his visa. So strange to me, the difference in attitudes in different Filipino ethnicities.
It was time to head south last weekend. I felt like flying, 1 hour beats 2 days on a ferry, but monsoon is crazy this year. Mindanao was flooding and no planes were flying to the island so a ferry it was. Nothing of note there. I'm thankful for my Blackberry (and my International Plam yay!) But still, it gets old after awhile.
Arriving home was uneventful though at about the same time I was entering our compound there was an attack on the other side of largest rice paddy. Those who remember my pics in the late and lamented BL Gallery MAY remember a pic of me eating a very sour fruit in front of a palm tree and a gigantic emerald green rice paddy. That is our largest paddy. It is almost a kilometer long. On its southern edge is the municipality of Trento. At a checkpoint there the NPA (New Peoples Army), the Maoist insurgents, $achine gunned 6 people, killing 3. Good to see shit hasn't changed (sarcasm). Most worrying though is that a new Islamic Insurgency has begun. The MILF's (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) 105 Base Command (equivalent to an infantry brigade) has left the MILF and become the nucleus of a new and even more extreme group, BIFF (Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters). So, I have spent a couple of days ordering some recoiless rifles and 2 M60s for our group (BULIF, aka Bungkatoal Liberation Front), just to keep things at status quo.
Finally going to stock my goat farm, I am going to Bukidnon Province over the weekend to buy 5 pure breed bucks though I am considering 2 breeds. You would think by now I would have decided.
Other than that, switched back to morphine since my methadone finished, am taking 360 mgs of instant release tablets, 180 at breakfast and 180 ae between 4 and 5 PM.
I had taken a jeepney to go to the mall and she was sitting across from me. I didn't pay much attention because of her body. Angeles is Asia's, and perhaps the world's largest centre for the sex trade. It is the kind of sleazy place where women blow smoke rings our of different orifices, play with boa constrictors or simply play hide the salami for 5 US Dollars. There fore, seeing a girl in her early 20s with a decent face and huge chest naturally led me to peg her as a sex worker. I have never been with a "pro." I like to think it is because I can get it for free whenever I want it which all things considered isn't too far from the truth, but the truth of the matter is that I am anal retentive about honesty and sincerity. I just wouldn't be able to enjoy myself with a woman who couldn't care less what I am doing. I want to at least convince myself that she actually desires me.
Luckily for me I found out that Joysa is not one of "them." The fact that she works so hard in a licit occupation when she could very simply lay on her back (or get on her knees) and make many times more than her salary really attracted me.
Upon my return to Manila I of course met Joysa at the airport and we spent a couple of days at the studio I am subletting. I was shocked when we were lying in bed and Joysa began asking me simple questions in Hebrew! She had missed me so much that she had been spending her time studying Hebrew. However that shock was nothing compared to what I felt when I went with her to her home in Bulucan. Sitting with her parents her mum floored me when she teased Joysa about wanting to convert to Judaism!
Joysa is very light for a Filipina but it still is no mean feat to blush and yet she turned beet red (OK, not exactly "beet red" but you get my point!). Later when we took a walk I asked her about it and she confessed that she wanted to convert. I asked her why she wanted to do this? I suspected that she wants to marry me of course, but she merely said that it is because she sees that Islam and Christianity merely came from Judaism and that the foundation is the purer form of the True Religion. Shocked is too weak a word to describe my feelings and to a degree I am still suprised.
I explained that if she really felt that she wanted to learn more about Judaism and Jews I will arrange for her to take classes in Makati which is what passes for a "Jewish neighbourhood" in the Philippines. Including Israeli Embassy staffers there are less than 300 Jews in the entire nation. Yet we do have 1 synagouge and a Jewish resturant just opened up so perhaps she will get her wish.
While I was visiting Bulacan I met one of her mum's friends, an effeminate gay man named Jae. Jae does Cam Sex. For those who might not be acquainted with the term "Cam Sex," a person with a web cam charges a fee by credit or debit card and proceeds to pleasure themselves, or rarely engage in on camera sex with a partner.
Jae had a new customer, a 50-something lorry (truck) driver from Norway. This married man with children was so smitten with Jae that 6 days after first "meeting" him/her online the bloke flew to Manila! So here they were, at Joysa's house holding hands and gushing sweet nothings to one another. Joysa is 3/4 Tagalog, the ethnicity indigenous to Central and Southern Luzon, the Manila area (she is 1/4 Kapampangan, the ethnicity indigenous to Pampanga, the province where Angeles City is located). I mention this because I have very little experience with cultures outside of the Central and Southern Philippines. In Mindanao gays are ridiculed and if they kissed and held hands they might be killed, especially in the bush where I live. In Bulacan though, it was as if nothing unusual was taking place.
The Norwegian man was supposed to stay 5 days but by day 3, the day I first saw him, he had called his wife to inform her their marriage was over and then began trying to get an extension on his visa. So strange to me, the difference in attitudes in different Filipino ethnicities.
It was time to head south last weekend. I felt like flying, 1 hour beats 2 days on a ferry, but monsoon is crazy this year. Mindanao was flooding and no planes were flying to the island so a ferry it was. Nothing of note there. I'm thankful for my Blackberry (and my International Plam yay!) But still, it gets old after awhile.
Arriving home was uneventful though at about the same time I was entering our compound there was an attack on the other side of largest rice paddy. Those who remember my pics in the late and lamented BL Gallery MAY remember a pic of me eating a very sour fruit in front of a palm tree and a gigantic emerald green rice paddy. That is our largest paddy. It is almost a kilometer long. On its southern edge is the municipality of Trento. At a checkpoint there the NPA (New Peoples Army), the Maoist insurgents, $achine gunned 6 people, killing 3. Good to see shit hasn't changed (sarcasm). Most worrying though is that a new Islamic Insurgency has begun. The MILF's (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) 105 Base Command (equivalent to an infantry brigade) has left the MILF and become the nucleus of a new and even more extreme group, BIFF (Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters). So, I have spent a couple of days ordering some recoiless rifles and 2 M60s for our group (BULIF, aka Bungkatoal Liberation Front), just to keep things at status quo.
Finally going to stock my goat farm, I am going to Bukidnon Province over the weekend to buy 5 pure breed bucks though I am considering 2 breeds. You would think by now I would have decided.
Other than that, switched back to morphine since my methadone finished, am taking 360 mgs of instant release tablets, 180 at breakfast and 180 ae between 4 and 5 PM.