Some corrections!

Oh man - I put some of the text in this post in blue and now my whole blog has turned blue...*sigh*
Very sick of technology lately. Trying again. I have discovered that the edit feature in blogger doesn't actually edit either, you just waste time changing everything and then it re-posts your original post for you - I guess it doesn't believe in the right to change your mind :-(

So nice to talk to friends back home, but then when you hang up, makes you realise that you miss them even more... (hugs to Clare). Less than two months until I will be home at Christmas and I am really excited about it - I can't wait to see my Nana. Clare was asking last night if it really felt like six months and in a way it feels like I have been here forever - as I was saying, my life in Melbourne seems extremely remote right now - Manila is my home and my stomping ground and it is my life at the moment - Melbourne seems remote and far, far away. However, I am still making a list (and checking it twice!) for Christmas - I added 'go to the Moonlight Cinema' this week! But Manila is definitely home for now and despite the heat and the constant noise and the pollution, I feel very established here.

Okay - so turns out I have boo-booed - and I will quote directly from the source here...

hi kate, i went to your blog site and noticed one small typo error. actually its my fault, i missed to tell you to use single 'p' in the word 'filippinos'. oopps....sorry. correct spelling is 'filipinos'. guess i'm already late =<> joel

(sorry Joel - guess you won't be helping me fix any more of my code, hey?!)
So anyway - from now on they will be referred to (on my better days) as Filipinos - that felt really funny to type!

Also, from Helen:
BTW, just a warning that some might have misunderstood your mention of the "naughty-DVD place" in one of your blogs. I'm assuming it's a place you buy cheap pirated copies of DVDs, not an alternative that doesn't bear mentioning.

*adopting indignant stance for anyone who thought otherwise*
Of course I only meant pirated DVDs - what do you take me for? I mean, I am happy to spend my money on illegally copied DVDs, but draw the line at (I am guessing) perfectly legal but totally objectional smut!! Am horrified you would think anything else of me - I have standards, you know!! (double ones, apparently!!) (I really miss smilies, once again...*cry*)

Anyway - am flat out and have to run, as I am getting everything ready to take ten days in Palawan - cannot wait. I am so excited. Ange and I were perusing the Lonely Planet last night and talking about places to go etc. It is going to be so much fun - this Underground River is UNESCO listed (or something) and apparently just stunning. I am so ready to get out of Manila and have a holiday (my first since I got here).

So - you may not hear from me for a few weeks - I don't think there will be too many net cafe's in Palawan (it is knows as the final frontier of the Philippines) so you will just have to hold your horses for updates etc.

Toodlepip

(apparently (don't remember this but sounds like me!) I wrote a message on the whiteboard in my team when I left WVA and it has toodlepip in it - and it is still there - six months later!!! Good to feel missed! And remembered...as the toodlepip girl!)