First Night-I had to take the 3:30 pm Fly the Bus from Swagman-Manila to Angeles since I had to pick up my plane ticket for Bangkok around 11:30am on Pedro Gil Ave. in Malate. The traffic was still heavy and took over 1 hour to hit the expressway. There even was construction on the expressway so it took almost 2 hours and 45 minutes to reach Swagman Hotel-Angeles. They dropped me off near Roadhouse and I had to walk to Orchid Inn with my luggage and hand carry in tow. As far as the night scene, I only went to around 5 or 6 bars since I got a late start due to my late arrival in Angeles. The bars that I went into were mostly slow with only a few customers drinking in the bars. Sometimes I was the only one in there until somebody else came in later. The bars have a little less girls except for the larger and busier bars which still has a lot of girls and those bars are the ones packed with customers. I stayed mostly in the Jungle Bar to The Club area last night (Monday). First I went to Byrd Cage but was disappointed that the BC Mama will be away for a week. Next I went to the Camelot Castle which is the old Tahitian Queen. This place was really nice and was fairly packed with customers and dancers. I ended up buying a couple of ladies drinks at 125 pesos. The customer drinks are between 55-60 pesos for local drinks. I missed the happy hour which lasts until 8:00pm at most bars. After that I went into the Bunny Ranch which is the old Monte Carlo. It was a so-so bar with the waitresses dressed in a playboy bunny outfit but not quite as sexy as Hugh Hefner girls. I didn't find anything I liked in there, so I headed into Jungle Bar. The Jungle Bar hasn't changed much since the last time I was there. It was starting to get late already so I just went and called over a girl that I would regret later. After a few ladies drinks, she wants me to buy her best friend a drink (this happened to me many times before). Later she tells me to bar fine her and also her friend (I've done this before with disastrous results). I finally gave in and paid the 2000 peso bar fine to cover both girls. They want to go to the Pick Up Disco which is a new bar that opened up on Real Street next to Confettis. The customer base is mostly Filipino and it's suppose to be a pick up joint even though it really didn't seem like that to me. Around 2 am there was a special show there called Jesus Christ Super Star and it was a well choreographed show and worth seeing again. There was no cover so I stayed and watch the half hour show since I didn't see it on Broadway. This was a locally produced production. The bedroom activities wasn't really that great because while in the Jungle, I bought a raffle ticket and won 2 tequila shots and that messed me up since I was already drinking screwdrivers and a few beers earlier in the night. My performance suffered from the excess alcohol consumption that night. The next morning I realized that I spent way over my budget for the night. I couldn't believe that I spent over 7,000 pesos my first night in Angeles City. Normally I only spend half that amount. Paying 2 bar fines probably contributed to the high expenditures last night. I have to be less generous or I'll have to start getting a credit card cash advance before my trip's over. I've already given away half of my t-shirts (I've brought 10 with me) and also the t-shirt vendors still remember me. My chocolates are disappearing fast since I'm popular when I walk in with my chocolates, but when it's gone in a few seconds then I'm the most unpopular customer in there. Funny how that works out. Most of the hotels here have cut their rates except for Orchid Inn. I'm still paying the $29 for a standard room. Maybe I've got to soften up Roselle with some chocolates to see if I can get a discount on my room. Tonight I'll check out the other

side of Field's Avenue. Also, the 2 girls that I bar fined from the Jungle took some of the items from the refrigerator so I'll have to find out how much I owe for the missing drinks and candy bars. That's why I hate having all those tempting goodies provided by the hotel to tempt the girls. I've got to figure a way to hide the stuff or they'll raid the refrigerator and cost me a few hundred pesos per night.

Second Night-

I’m just getting warmed up on my second night in Angeles (Tuesday). I checked out Private Dancer (formerly Illusions), Roadhouse (still rock & roll music and free popcorn), DMZ (small but cozy), Geckos (another small bar), Voodoo (also small), Blue Fox (small and intimate), La Bamba (midnight-2am happy hour but where are the girls?), Rhapsody (boring), Ayers (met nice cherry girl yesterday), Cambodia Club (I liked this bar and one of the busy bars), Volcano (my favorite-I wonder why, but a lot of cherry girls dancing). The night in a nutshell as follows: Private Dancer-OK. Road House-OK. DMZ-skipped, Geckos-skipped, Voodoo-so-so, Blue Fox-skipped, La Bamba-late happy hour midnight-2 am-skipped, Rhapsody-bought drinks for waitress-so-so, Ayers-skipped, Cambodia Club-nice, 2 levels, bought drinks for 3 waitresses, the waitress had menstruation, Volcano-8 of 10 dancers on the stage are cherry girls. I finally settle on a waitress from Volcano. Looks 7, talent 8..

Third Night-

Last night was one of my patented wait until the bars are ready to close routine of picking up my girl for the night. I even had to resort to my backup choice as it was again past 2am before I picked up my bar fine for my third night in Angeles. I got a late start again because I woke up late on Wednesday. I went to the money changer and it was only 52.0 pesos to the dollar. Today it was also the same rate. I decided that I should check out the upper area of Field's Avenue near McAurther Ave. I bought my usual t-shirts from the t-shirt vendors, then I bought some VCD's which don’t work, and finally a few DVD's of recent movies. I don't know about the quality of these discs. I suspect that it's probably not going to be top quality since you get what you pay for. My bar hopping started at Ayer Bar (I rate it a 6) and made it just in time for the happy hour and in most bars it only lasts until 8:00pm. I bought a few drinks for a couple of girls but no prospects so far as I didn't care for either of the girls. Next I went into Bedrock and I didn't really like it and finished my drink quickly. It wasn't worth more than a 4 rating and is too small and very few dancers. I went into Nero's Forum next and got hustled by the waitresses, so I bought some more ladies drinks. Still no good prospects as I'm spending my money too fast already. I would still rate it an 8 for the ambience and the quality of the club's interior. I skipped the Blue Nile and then went into Misty's. It looks like it's worth a 7 even though it looks the same as last year. I again bought a drink for one of the waitress. Time to move on and then into Treasure Island. Bad choice and can't be much more than a 4. Only a handful of dancers and all of them are 6 and below. I slip into the Owl's Nest (the old Fantastic) and would give it a 5 rating. Only 4 dancers on the stage and the only decent one was (as you guessed it) a cherry girl. It seems that late at night if there are any decent girls left they are usually cherry girls. I guess it's getting late already and it's becoming slim pickings again. I head over to Angels next. A lot of dancers buy they're not

too receptive. I finally call one over and I can tell right off the bat that this is not going to work out. I still give this bar a 6 for the popcorn. I finally let her go as I can tell that she's not interested in me. I've done this type of thing pretty often in my 3 nights in Angeles so far and I thought I should have enough experience to avoid this type of wasting my time and money on the wrong girls. Next, it's into Stinger and it's very slow with only 4 dancers on stage and I give it a weak 5. I find out that La Bamba has a midnight to 2:00am happy hour so this is where I go into next. There's about 7 dancers on the stage and they all look terrible even with the beer that I'm drinking in there. Maybe I need a couple shots of tequila before they start to look good. I can't believe that this bar is so slow since I remember that they used to have 50-60 girls leaving the bar at closing last year. I give it a 5 and walk out. I finally end up in Volcano at 2:00am and pick up the same waitress that I bar fined the previous night since I'm almost out of options. At least she remembers me and it turned out OK for me last night. I would still give Volcano a 7 and they had about 10 dancers on stage and like last night most of them were cherry girls. There are also a lot of waitresses in there about the same amount as the dancers.

Fourth Night-

 I hate to check out the bars on Holy Thursday (today), Good Friday (tomorrow), Black Saturday, and Easter Sunday as a lot of bars and businesses will be closed on some or all of those days. I had a hard time finding a laundry service that was open today (Thursday). Margarita Station laundry service is closed on Thursday and Friday; Kokomos laundry service is closed from Thursday through Sunday. I finally found a small shop that will do my laundry for me today but I must pick it up tonight as they will be closed tomorrow for Good Friday. I guess it's best not to visit the Philippines during the Easter holiday as the bars will be closed and a lot of businesses will also be closed, too. The exchange rate is also down. I'll try to start out a little earlier since a lot of bars will be closed today and tomorrow. I'm finding that I may have to go into my special reserves that I use for emergencies since I'm over budget already due to my difficulty finding decent girls to bar fine. Even though there are less customers in the bar, there's also a lot less girls available, too, especially in the 8-10 range. There's a lot of girls in the 5 and below range, but that is not what we come here for. Last night was a total disaster, but before I get into that I'll give a quick update of a few happening here. I'll miss the body painting contest on Sunday at the Kitten Club. Last night I had the Mongolian BBQ at Margarita Station. Can't wait for their chicken & rib combination on Saturday night. I finally found a laundry service open yesterday (Thursday) and they said it should be ready at 10pm, but when I went there at 9:45pm it was already closed and they won't open up until Saturday. I hope to pick up my laundry as that's my last day in Angeles.The internet café at Swagman Travel was closed today so I'm in Rick's Café now. So far I've only eaten at Kokomos or Margarita Station so far. I haven't tried Rick's yet but I remember that it was the slowest restaurant in town at the time. Now to my disastrous night in Angeles. The day started out pretty much normal. After dinner at Margarita Station, my first stop was Dirty Duck. They didn't have any dancers until 6pm and that was only 3 girls and after their set there were no dancers again. At least they had a good air conditioner system and it was real cool inside. Perfect for the hot summer days. I rate it a 5. Next across the street was my next stop at Welcome Inn. I'll give it a 4 and they only had about 3 dancers on stage. Nothing worth watching. After that I hop

into Black Jack, but it was too early for Longhair's brother to sing songs. There were about 8 dancers on stage and I give the bar a 6, but I didn't see anything I like. Next stop was Las Vegas Club and a free pull on the slot machine. I didn't win anything and there were about 7 girls on stage and worth about a 6 rating. My next stop was next door into a new bar called Blueberry Hill and it looked like it could have been the old Exotica bar and they have the resident singer Longhair there but it was too early yet for him to sing. I give Blueberry Hill a 5 for it's boring interior and lack of decent dancers. I finally run into a girl over there that I remember from last year when she used to work for Stinger before. I find out that she's going to her province after work that night and be gone for a week so I won't be able to bar fine her. I remember her from last year when I bar fined her at Stinger. I bought her some ladies drinks for the old times sake. Next it's off to Insomnia which is nearby Margarita Station. There are about 9 girls on stage and they look about average (seems to be the same no matter where you go). I buy some more ladies drinks but find out the girl is a cherry so I made my standard mistake again. This bar is only a 5 on my list. From there I check into the Brown Sugar which is the old Ziggy's bar. There were about a dozen dancers on stage and all the ones I liked were cherry girls (of course). I guess anything that looks good late at night are probably cherry girls as the non-cherries that are attractive are all ready gone. I still give it a 6 for the good looking cherry girls. After that, I head into the Kitten Club. There are only about 7 girls on stage and the girl I buy a drink for also turns out to be a cherry girl. Where are all these cherry girls coming from? I'll give this bar a 7 also. The girl I bar fined last year from Kitten Club is already pregnant. They also have a tequila girl in there and also that raffle board for 100 pesos. I won a local cocktail on my raffle. Now comes my horror story. After exiting the Kitten Club, I started proceeding back to the main bar section of Field's Ave., but after walking past Bunny Ranch, a girl from Jungle latched onto me and dragged me into Jungle. She was one of the 2 girls that I bar fined on Monday night at Jungle. So I just decided to buy them each one drink and try to leave as soon as possible. As I mentioned before these were the 2 girls that raided my refrigerator and took most of my candy bars in there. The damage the last time was almost 200 pesos to my bill for the mini bar contents. I buy them drinks, then they want me to buy their friend a drink. After that they pressure me into bar fining them. I finally give into bar fining only one of the girls. The other one puts up a little fuss, and then I leave with my girl. She wants to go to the Pick Up Disco so we go there until 1:30am. When we get back to my hotel room she then tells me that she wants to sleep and will wake up at 3 am. I'm starting to get a little annoyed already, but I guess I could wait until 3:00 for action. Then around 3:00am the phone rings and her friend from Jungle wants to come up to the room. So we let her in and they start talking to each in Tagalog and soon the girl tells me that they both have to leave for an emergency. We spent the next 40 minutes or so arguing or at least the girl explaining why she's leaving. I just said fine and I'll talk to the Mamasan the next day. Then they start whining and begging me not to see the Mamasan since they are worried they'll lose their jobs. I was really starting to get frustrated and was almost ready to shove them out the door or else call the security to remove them from my room. I finally give in as it's getting real late around 4 am and told them I won't talk to the Mamasan (just to get rid of them before I lose my temper). I don't plan on ever visiting Jungle as long as those 2 girls work there. I'll avoid that area at night for my last two days in Angeles City. I'm glad I didn't end up bar fining both girls and lose out on 2000 pesos, but I

guess I'm lucky to get out of this mess with only one bar fine of 1000 pesos. They even asked me for 100 pesos for the trike when they left. What a lousy night it was.

Fifth Night- This was the first time that I’m in Angeles City for the Good Friday holiday as the only other time that I was in the Philippines on Good Friday was the day I went to Subic. You can see the Christ crusifications along the roads with a guy carrying the cross and other people whipping themselves. I know bar hopping tonight is going to be uneventful and I may not get a bar fine tonight either and it was really different with the majority of the bars being closed. I was able to find a few bars that was open but in all but one bar there were no dancers, just GRO style talking to customers and hustling for ladies drinks. Yes they still had bar fines but the pickings were really slim since only a small handful of bars were open. First I go into Voodoo and that's where all my chocolates disappear before I finish drinking there. I spent more time than normal in the bars because there are only a few bars open today. There were about 12-14 girls GRO type and almost all were average. The only good looking one turned out to be a cherry girl, so I let somebody else entertain her. I ended up with an older chunky girl next to me so I figure I'm not going to bar fine her as she'll turn me off. This bar had some pupus for the happy hour drinking hours. Not really that great because it's nachos with cheese. I’ll give this bar a 5. Next, I noticed that Champagne was open. I was shocked when I went inside to find that this place was packed with customers and it’s standing room only SRO. And Champagne had real dancers with their regular dancing outfits and that explains why this bar was so crowded. There were the usual number of girls dancing around 15 in each group and this seemed like the place to go for the night. If this was the only bar you went in for the night you would never know that all the other bars that were open had only the GRO format for the night. I saw a few good looking ones on stage and watched them for awhile, but I'm in a bad location with a seat next to the entrance of the club. I can't see all the girls on stage, but as soon as I was getting ready to ask the Mamasan to call the girl for me, somebody beat me to the 2 best girls a few seconds before me. I guess this happens to me all the time as I hesitate too long and miss my opportunity as usual. There is another girl with a cute face and nice body that just got up on the stage in the next group of dancers, but as soon as she stepped off somebody called her, too. I guess if you snooze you lose. I've got to go back tomorrow night early enough to grab the good ones before they slip away. I finally settle on a shorter chunkier 20 year old and she only looks like a 5 or 6 which is about average. I figure I should just bar fine her already since the other bars may have slim pickings in the GRO format. I'll always give Champagne the perpetual 8 rating for the sheer number of girls available. We decided to go bar hopping and end up at the Blue Nile. That place was packed and I had to take my girl from Champagne and sit on the upper floor since there's no room on the ground floor. It is also GRO style with the girls wearing regular street clothes and a lot of them were dancing but it's hard to tell which ones were working for the Blue Nile and which ones were customers since they all dressed alike. There were quite a few stunners there dancing in street clothes on the stage. Maybe I should have waited and looked into this bar first before bar fining the girl from Champagne. The Japanese tourists upstairs were being helped by the Mamasan and she called up the girls that they liked from downstairs. Those guys were something else as I was

watching them feel up the girls first and these guys even put their hands down the top of the girls dress to feel up their boobs. I guess they were picky and maybe I can learn a thing or two from observing the Japanese (from Japan) tactics. It seems that wherever the Japanese tourists goes they get special treatment because I guess they are big spenders and buy a lot of lady drinks and tip the girls very generously. This was the same at the EDSA in Manila. Volcano was open, but I figure I don't want my previous girl working there that I bar fined before to think that I was a butterfly so I didn't check inside there to see if they had regular dancers or the GRO format. At least the girl from Champagne stayed long time, but I was starting to get a hangover from all the mixing of alcohol that I was doing the past few nights.

Sixth (Final) Night-

Saturday night which was my final night in Angeles turned out to be dead time. I had such a headache in the morning and took a few tylenols and wanted to take a hot shower, but guess what, brown out again. No hot water at this time. They still have those pesky brown outs everyday for anywhere from 1-3 hours. That kind of sucks. I starting to feel sick from the drinking, the smelly water, the heat, and whatever else. I ended up being incapacitated for the entire day and night. I didn't eat anything all day and I didn't go out drinking or bar hopping at all. What a waste! I was looking forward to the special party at Flamingo with a free barbeque dinner, raffles, and a raunchy show. I could hear the music from the club (as it's in the Orchid Inn Hotel) and I could only imagine what was going on there. I also had planned to be extra bold and try to grab all the maganda girls first but as it turns out that'll have to happen at another time. All I did was try to sleep and dream about the night that was not to be.

Bonus:

Final night in Manila

 Sunday morning when I woke up I got this itchy feeling and noticed that there were these real tiny fast moving ants that were all over my body and in the room, too. I was glad that I was checking out already since I don't want to stay there any longer with those bugs around. I also had a stack of bills for the minibars which I guess the girls cannot resist the temptations. Sometimes they ask me and other times they don't and that is what I hate when they sneak out the candy bars and such even after I gave them a box of macadamia nut chocolates. I went over to Manila via Fly the Bus. Guess what, there wasn't enough room on the bus for everybody so the 5 of us had to wait for a driver to arrive so that we can take the van to Swagman Manila. That kind of sucked since we had to wait over an hour before leaving Angeles. In Manila, I went to Robinson's Mall again since it's the coolest place in town on a hot day. I bought a few items to bring back to the Filipina girls at work. I decided to just go to EDSA again this night. At around 7 pm it was slow so I went into the few bars that I missed last week. There are only 7 clubs inside and 2 of them are really small with only a handful of dancers. The Cotton Club, Firehouse, Casino, and Pit Stop seemed to be the busiest. The Space Girls, Samba, and My Fair Lady were a little slower. I got hustled in the smaller bars so I guess I had some mediocre backups at Samba, Space Girls, and the Pit Stop. The second bar I went

into that night was Cotton Club and it was 8:00pm already. I was one of the first customers in that bar at that time. The GRO girls were all lined up on the bar stools next to the stage where the dancers were. Then one of them told me that she remembers me but I know I didn't bar fine this girl. Then she said she remembers me from Swagman and where I’m from. Then I realize that she was the girl that my friend had bar fined last year. She remembered that I took out a girl from there last year. After Cotton Club, I go into a couple of the other bars and finally settled down in My Fair Lady since I see one girl that looks hotter than Christina Agulera (sp). I finally ask the Mamasan to call her down as she had a real cute face, very slim with very tight abs, nice breasts, fair skinned, but she had a belly piercing. You can tell she hasn't had a baby yet because of no stretch marks. I guess I should have known that I should quit when I'm out of my league. I can tell from the beginning that she wasn't going to go bar fine with me but I was hoping I could change that. Finally I had to let go before too much damage is done. She left after awhile and I figure that I'm not going to waste more time and money on another girl in that club. The drink prices are much higher here than in Angeles. The customer drinks are 100 pesos and the ladies drinks from 185-295 pesos depending on what kind of drink it is. It adds up fast. I finally go back to Cotton Club at 11:00pm as I stated earlier. I called the GRO that was entertaining me earlier. The dancers didn't look so good at all. One thing I hate about the entertainers is that it's hard to tell what their body looks like with their dress on. Because with the dancers, you can tell if they have stretch marks, blemishes, and etc. I finally bar fine her and pay the 1000 pesos to the Mamasan. I've spent a lot of money already and had to settle for an average girl and she turns out to have a belly and not sexy at all. I rate her only a 5. I'm sorry, but the pictures that I have so far are really only below average. I was hoping to have better picks but with the slow down in the business and fewer available girls, and also being turned down by the stunners, I'm having one of those terrible trips again with nothing to brag about.