Filipino Journey I have just arrived in the Philippines with a few friends As we get checked in there is a guy who gives us all of our paperwork/visas They are printed on transparent acetate cards that are oversized which fit into my loose pants pocket only barely without falling out We are in an area similar to a large cafeteria almost, partly looks like an abandoned k-mart with bare walls and busted fluorescent lights There seems to be food waste all over the floor with some kind of brownish orange sticky sauce smeared all over the place like someone was mopping with oriental sauce The floor is very sticky and I'm trying not to walk on it as I explore where we are I'm just kind of amazed that I'm in a new place My friends are moving very fast and not really taking things in, they are also boisterous and I worry we may be drawing too much attention to ourselves We adventure around the inside here, I notice children scattered playing in the corners, and people generally waiting around like a train station of sorts, though I am surprised at how dingy and worn down everything is We go through a doorway to another room and I notice a giant block of butter maybe 3 feet high on the other side, I take up a chunk and eat it My friends all laugh, I notice there are businessmen and other random people coming in and out of this concourse One guy in a suit coming through the doorway sees me eat it and laughs too but it's all jovial and lighthearted When we finally leave the area we are in a very busy marketplace-type bazaar roadway that seems like a back alley connected to other streets It is very busy with people coming in both directions, vendors shouting and even the odd motorbike whizzing past, it seems very populated I tell my friends we should probably find someplace safe because I know not everywhere around here is safe to be as a tourist We are dodging in and out of alleyways eventually meeting a friendly looking american He leads us to his permaculture farm which seems very interesting I notice there are other americans living there in a commune-type setting G is with me now, it seems my friends have gone in a different direction As we're walking through this permaculture farm I notice that it's nestled around/built into a wooden framed house, going through the different rooms I realize that we accidentally just walked into their home I see the main guy who owns the place in his bedroom He is a farmer and also a chef, he is very friendly and incredibly kind, a relaxed soul We apologize that we're in the bedroom and he walks us back out giving us a little tour of the permaculture farm along the way and the little community center where everyone is hanging out I notice there are a lot of very earthian healthy looking people but they all seem like-minded and hospitable It is picturesque and comfortable here He's describing a dish they're putting together, it's very similar to falafel He asks if we know how to form them with a wood dowel concave mold he is holding and if we would mind helping them prepare a large batch for the community We agree, I'm very happy to learn about a new dish in a new place, I am amazed to be in a new country and that there are so many like-minded souls here I notice that I’m wearing these very shiny brown leather shoes and the floors are very smooth terracotta tile I slide over the tiles very easily as if there is a layer of oil on the floor To the point where I don't even have to walk or lift my feet to move around It sort of feels like I'm ice skating and I tell them how weird it feels to be able to move around They watch me and chuckle as I kind of slide around the room without really moving my feet much We walk outside together and I ask him if there are many permaculture farms around here He says no, I respond that I'm really surprised I thought that there will be more permaculture farms like this in the Philippines He says there's a couple but it's not very popular with the locals As we're walking I notice practically across the street from the farm there are many other similar types of people wearing tan leather-bound medieval armor and some of them are riding horses There's some kind of grand activity going on that seems like a medieval game of sorts I'm just amazed at everyone’s coordination and the varying outfits They're very excited to be involved in the activity, and everyone besides me seems to know what's going on I talked to a random girl with black hair as I am walking into the group I now have leather armor on my shoulders I'm watching the horses ride and do stunts as they're also manipulating different weapons and staffs in a LARP fashion, it reminds me of a renaissance festival G is with me now so we walk in the other direction away from the permaculture farm and notice that we're very close to the beach now The ocean is to my left I am in a video call on my phone with the main chef guy from the farm Describing what I'm seeing, the beach is very close to the road so I walk over Excited because I've never been in this ocean before, I stand with just half of my feet in the water I see the waves gently crashing, the sand is incredibly white, almost pearlescent Though the shore is only two or three feet deep along the side of the road which is very close to the water The water is turbulent, not really wavy but I can see peaks The water is also darker than I expected, it looks different than other seas or oceans I've been in I'm very excitedly explaining on the phone what I'm seeing and I'm so happy to be in a new place with G As I'm looking around more I see almost what look like high-end villa sort of enclosures They all seem like streamlined verandas of organic shapes terraced multiple levels high and built into the hillside all facing the ocean There are random pieces of furniture scattered about and little curtains hanging around doorways I'm wondering if maybe these are timeshares or if people live here I don't see any place for beds or anything so I'm really confused as to the layout We're just kind of adventuring around different passageways I seem to go inward too deep and through a curtain there's an older woman wearing flowing clothes who is obviously staying here, she comes out to meet us but doesn't say anything Apologize turning around we walk back out towards the sea I am walking down the road by myself now I seem to be wearing some traditional garb that fits loosely, like multiple layers with the outer layer covered in decorations and a vibrant blue color As I'm walking I notice a group of people almost like a religious gathering in the street They are walking towards me slowly like a meditative walk As I get closer I see it's mostly younger children with maybe a half dozen adults in the center They are all wearing matching garb of blues and reds, which also match my outfit They're playing chimes and flutes while walking in a very specific way almost like a dance So I step to the side to let them pass but one of the men in the group sees the way I'm acting and shouts “Continue walking!” Saying over and over again “Just walk straight ahead with your hands at your side, just walk straight ahead with your hands down, just walk straight ahead don't stop!” I gather I have done something culturally improper and he is correcting me So I continue to walk forward just looking straight ahead and walking through them as they pass through around me I see now they all have ornate decorations all over their shoulders and down the front They all have hats on which almost look oriental, flared up on the sides with a round top with colors that match the rest of their outfits The feeling as they pass me is almost mystical as I purposely attempt to not look directly at any of them I am in my parents' house now and I understand this is before we left for the Philippines Getting ready to go pack up and I’m told someone is at the front door for me It's not the person I'm expecting as I glance down the stairwell from the second floor looking out the front door I only see a pair of very tan very long legs Coming down the stairs closer I notice it's a woman in a red dress with blonde shoulder-length hair and bright blue eyes I recognize her immediately as Tricia Helfer from battlestar Stepping out to meet her I remember when winning the trip to the Philippines I randomly messaged her inviting her to come on the trip with us, even though I knew it would be a long shot, there was no way they would respond but here they were on my front door to go on this trip with us, she seemed excited too Complimented her on how good she was in battlestar and told her that I loved everything she brought to the character and how impressive it was that was her first acting gig Also that I understood why she hasn't wanted to try to revisit the role or just try much more in Hollywood since then because it was so popular, she tells me about how she wrote a film called Invertigo but it never got made The dream fades as we’re laughing and just generally chit-chatting on the front porch Fragment I am in a music store that seems to be having some special release party It’s locked to the general public and we’re all vibing inside There are maybe a dozen people and I only recognize a couple Christina Ricci is sitting in the corner with some friends The dream fades with the general murmur of layered small talk and chill music playing
Shit kinda sucks when dream recollection fades as you go to type your dream out. There's one thing that I can remember and that is this young girl. Her name was .... eurgh I can't remember and this is annoying me, because I asked for her name specifically so that I could perhaps meet her again when she was older. I recall that she did something pretty extraordinary. She was wearing a horizontally striped long-sleeved cotton shirt. We were in some sort of restaurant I think. Bt it was like the restaurant was in a large cavern. The tables were scattered throughout and it was lit by torch flames. (Perhaps I am just making this up, and this wasn't really part of my dream, but it's all I can think of at the moment). There was another part of the cavern and over there was Philippines or something. I can't remember anymore >.<
I had a nice dream last night involving TW and computers, lol. I'm not sure exactly what we were doing, but I was asleeep in bed and TW came into the room and he was like "hey I've figured out why it's not working! The guy that I am living with in student housing showed me. And it was something to do with the fact that it was html v1.0". He was trying to show me where "html v1.0" was written on a pencil, which was connected to a firelighter through a keychain. I was barely awake and was at that stage when I couldn't really focus on anything, and he was trying to show me the text which was really small so I was like "okay, wait a sec, my eyes are still adjusting to the light and I can't focus properly". I was also thinking "WTH this is kind of a cool surprise visit but this is kinda funny that he is showing me this at this time. Surely he'd show me once I've already woken up?" But I wasn't annoyed or anything, just slightly amused. There was more to the computery side of things than this. I have a feeling that it involved being connected to Pallkars using SSH, and stuff like that haha. Then there was another bit relevant to the fact that TW had lighters on his keychain; mum was asking for my advice about lighters because we were in Philippines, and asked if the one she was getting was expensive. It was $20.50, I think, and I was like "hell yeah that's really expensive!". She was like "oh, okay" lol. And thern there was another part where I was in the Philippines with Shaun and it was early morning, around 7.30 so I took the train to this random place and stayed there because it was slightly exciting. It was also raining pretty hard, and I had my umbrealla. I missed the first train there, and the people watching me as I missed it were like "oh.." and had that expression of half-sympathy half-amusement on their face as you do when someone JUST missses a train. One of them was an indian woman in traditional dress. The destination was at the top of a hill or something. I think it was some sort of campus and there was lots of student housing there. It may have led to the place where I was sleeping when TW came and saw me.
Okay, I remember bits of my dream pretty clearly I think. We were in the Philippines. But at the same time in my unit in Perth. It was a flat, one of those ones up high in the sky, and the building it was part of was joined to a sister-building. The Singaporean guy that was going to rent it out text messaged me to say that he had declined for now unless my place could surpass the fact that the other places had guinea pigs and rabbits for him to watch (something like that lol). My mum complained that I didn't clean the place up enough, which was true. Haha, my brother had somehow swapped bodies with someone else, and was really fat. xD He is quite thin/muscly IRL. We were going to some store on the same level as the flat. It was owned by some rich fliipinos. You had to do a blood test (just those ones where they prick your finger like for diabetics) and there was a security guard standing outside that would do that for you. For some reason the owner of the store wanted me to go in even without doing the blood test. But I needed to go back to the flat for some reason. And then I cam back with my bro and the two maid's children, em-em and adrian, and we went through. There was this cool escalator thingy there. I recall the place was quite shiny or something. I can't remember what happened here though. Afterwards, I watched an old man slide down the escalator thing awesomely; he did a jump as he went over the slopes. It was like a slide at Adventure World. There were three parts to it. Some children followed after him, but the girl did it on her feet and not sitting down like the man had done. I thought that I would've been too scared to do that at her age, and even now Then I met up with someone around my brother's age and he had a watergun. I was sitting with my brother, em-em and adrian, GB and I think someone else but I'm not sure who. We kept on walking round and round the table, working out who was going to sit where and next to who. I think AD was there. He's some guy that I went to high school with and not very many people liked him. But anyway, I think I sat next to him, but I am unsure of this. We were carrying our meals in our hand (chicken with rice) as we walked around the table, and there were drinks there in shots. Some were coca-cola and some were some type of clear alcoholic drink. Either wine or vodka. I remember thinking that I was going to drink the coke coz I'm not too fond of alcohol. Now here are some keywords that I wrote down, so that I could go back to them and write about these dreams. But it didn't work Book. Police on highway.
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