pancake house - almost dying - mall of asia - pool party

so this morning we ate breakfast at the pancake house like 2 blocks away from the apt. it was pretty good. we all (except neal, he likes his sleep in the morning) ordered the banana pancakes.

then we got a taxi to go to the mall of asia (the third biggest mall in the world?). first of all, no taxi driver wanted to take us because we would ask them if they had a meter. see, if they didn't have to use their meter, then they could charge us whatever they wanted. finally we got a taxi.

then we almost died.

yup, the driver kept falling asleep. then as we were coming up to a tunnel, the car got too close to the curb (neal was in front, i was behind the driver) and i thought to myself, "hes gunna hit the curb". and he did, and then he woke up, freaked out and the car spun out and we got t-boned by a huge bus.

no, i'm kidding. he woke up and we skidded to a stop across side of the wall of the tunnel. it was pretty scary.

another taxi stopped in front of us and we got out, took some pictures of the jacked up wheels (the front tire was really messed up), and then got in the other taxi and continued on our way. when we were about 5 minutes from the mall of asia, i realized that i didn't have my phone. it must've fallen out of my lap when we crashed.

so we dropped of neal and winder at the mall and then drove all the way back to the tunnel. the driver was still there and i told him that i left my phone there. he looked everywhere and said there was nothing. so i looked and found it under the driver's seat, where i thought it went. phew.

we drove back to mall of asia and met up with the other guys. then israel jacob zaragosa met us and we ate lunch at chow king. then we walked around the mall. it has 4 buildings which are all huge.

when we got tired of walking around the mall, we came home and decided to have a pool party on the 6th floor of the apt building. there were some little filipino kids playing like 4 guitars and singing some weird songs while we were swimming. so we requested that they play "magasin" by eraserheads and we all sang along. it was amazing.

fun day.

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