Ready for Flores de Mayo … attack of the Giant golf balls
Posted by: Fats in: Takaw at Sursur!After sending off mail at the postal office at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC), we had lunch at the center’s Golf Club restaurant. My partner had wanton mami and I had dinuguan with rice. Their dinuguan was quite good, a rather large serving actually, since there was still half a bowl left after I’ve finished all the rice. My partner still can’t eat dinuguan, which is understandable, in fact, I don’t know of any foreigner who’d dare to eat dinuguan. Of course, some Filipinos don’t eat it - for religious or health reasons - but very rarely for reasons that it is thick pork blood stew. Recipe here.
On the way to the restuarant, we saw a group of people pushing this huge concrete replica of a golf ball. It seems that the Veterans Golf Club has been very busy raising funds for paving of golf cart tracks across the greens, installing of large golf balls along the sides of the paving (I hope that they are not lights that could only get shattered by wayward golf balls!), and the (intended) installation of this giant golf ball somewhere near the club house restaurant where a program was scheduled tomorrow with several politicians (headed by Congressman Mikey Arroyo) attending opening rites.
I am not a golf fan nor a politicking fan, but I like the food at the club house (their pancit canton is also good, as well as their crab omelette). The guy at the hospital’s postal office is also very friendly, a very lively old fellow who obviously loves his job. 
Anyway, below is a photo of the folks at the VMMC pushing the giant golf ball.
The other day, youths in our apartment blocks have been busy painting the grounds of the basketball court. I took a photo (below). Seems the current officers of the homeowners’ association have been working hard getting things cleaned up, fixed and organized. They have also been organizing Miss Gay Bikini Open contests and parades for this May fiesta. 
Not a nice afternoon for taking photos from the mall rooftop parking, but I took photos anyway (below). Maybe on a nice clear day I can take another photo where the mountains are more visible.
In the meantime, the garden photos from Polomolok are now on-line, as well as photos I took on the flight back to Manila.
I also took short videos of the take-off at GenSan airport, and below are two screengrabs from the videos, this showing the beautiful little airport on the left corner. It may be a small airport but I am sure it is strategically located and a very well equipped one, especially since it has been estalished by the Americans (as is the Manila International Airport originally a US military airbase) and could be turned into an airbase in the event of war in the Pacific … Hmm… war, pacific, doesn’t sound right to me.
And this (below), over the wings of the airplane is visible the mountains far away and the bay in the middleground. It is really a beautiful landscape…
