I won't question the allegation that SM City Pampanga is the longest shopping mall in the Philippines. I've walked among the many wings of the complex and I can sincerely say that it dwarfs many of the shopping malls I've been in – all around the globe. In fact, I spent two hours there just a couple of days ago.
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There are a whole lot of four-letter words I can describe the past few days with and not all of them are bad words (censorship is not required). Of course, there are several variations of some really bad four-letter words I used as well. To get an understanding of what I'm talking about, follow along as I explain the sequence of events since the last time I wrote.
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I don't normally use terms like "fat ass", but since my wife uses it to describe her rear end, I thought I'd take the liberty to use it too. I was going to put a picture of a fat ass as the lead-in to this article, but anything I could come up with would probably be in bad taste. [Update: Based on a commenter suggestion, there is now a picture of an ass.]
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On September 24th, I took the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx) to the Northern Luzon Expressway (NLEx) en route to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Manila in order to drop my wife off for her flight on Philippine Airlines.
As you can see if you click to enlarge the image, it starts at the Tipo Junction on SBMA (Subic Bay Management Authority, more properly titled Subic Bay Freeport Zone) and heads northeast to the Clark Economic Zone. The length of that stretch is about 50 kilometers (about 31 miles). The speed limit on the expressway is 100 kph (about 62 mph), so it only takes about a half hour to traverse.
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