Jil Wrinkle and Epril, Filipinas

Jil Wrinkle is one of my blog readers, which he found by searching on some as yet undisclosed keyterms (I should ask him what search term he used to find my blog, but I don’t blog for keyterms, but since I do SEO, it would be interesting to know what he searched for to find my blog). He came to Cagayan de Oro City to meet his online girlfriend. Jil is no novice to Asia. He has lived in Pattaya, Thailand for many more years than I have lived in The Philippines.

This is a photo of Jil and Epril in front of the Flower Market, which is is front of the Cagayan de Oro Cathedral.

Pattaya, Thailand, is a lot like Angeles City on Luzon, about an hour’s drive North from the outskirts of Metro-Manila, that is, there are lots of girlie clubs and the city had over 800,000 foreigners visitors there last year, and it is mainly a sex haven type of city. There are lots of sexy Thai chicks there that can be had for the the night or the hour, for very low rates, compared to American and European, as well as Japanese and Korean rates. While prostitution is illegal in Pattaya, it is largely tolerated; that is, paid for cheap sex with hot chicks is the main reason the city is so popular. Stopping it would bring an end to in one of the most prosperous city business models in Thailand. Please note that Pattaya also has the largest gay population in all of Thailand. So, this is not just a detestation spot for hetro-men.

Jil has had relationsips with multiple Thai chicks and he talks about it on his blog, that he and a lot of other foreigners “farang” from Pattaya, Thailand, were opting to bring Filipinas back to Thailand with them as their companions because Thai chicks just do not care for them. They will ride the meal ticket for as long as they can, but that’s all they are in it for. The Westerner will always be “farang”, not of the real people.

Filipinas are different. My hair gets brushed in the morning while I check my email. Coffee appears on my desk as if by magic. Sometimes I even get woken up, when I have an appointment, in the most pleasing of ways. (Jil likes to wake up with a foot massage). I think I’ll have Marissa’s younger brothter, Jojo (or Mario, Jr.)

teach her foot massage. He’s an accomplished masseuse, and putting in for his international mariner’s license, having spent the last year putting in his apprenticeship aboard Filipino passenger ships. My car gets washed every morning before I get up, and the garage gates are opened for me when leaving and arriving at my house. I don’t have to ask for it, it is just done. My dozen pair of shoes are always clean and ready to wear. In the morning a fresh pair of underwear is set out beside my razor.

I was supposed to meet Jil at Pryce Plaza at 2 PM, but when I arrived (on World Standard Time), he had not yet checked in, so I left a business card with my Filipino cell phone number, and before I could get across the Carmen Bridge, I got a call from Jil from the main desk at Pryce Plaza, and Jil tells me that he was glad I had photos of my Isuzu Vehicross on my blog because he saw me leaving as he was arriving.

I turned around almost as fast as I did for my attorney, Joe Pallugna, and headed back to Pryce Plaza, where Jil was still checking in to a very nice room with separate sleeping and living quarters, and had a Pyrceless view of Cagayan de Oro City. Epril had a chaperon of two other very pretty girls who were her relatives. I had offered to take Jil for a quick tour of the city, and we quickly headed out for a trip to the cathedral where I stopped so that Jil could buy some roses for Epril.

Jil’s itinerary for the trip included visiting the parents of Epril in Jasaan, about 30 km from Cagayan de Oro City, nearly an hour’s drive. Jil was doing the pamanhikan thing and I advised him to bring a lechon baboy (roasted whole pig) with him.

The reason he came to The Philippines to find a girl he writes about on Jil Wrinkle’s Blog.

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