4 hours in Jolibee

Ok so most of you are probably wondering what the heck is Jolibee. Jolibee is a Philippine version of McDonalds. It is more popular than McDs here - and you can find a Jolibee resturant just about everywhere. Very handy when you have to apply for an extension on your visa in Manila.
I had hear many horror stories about the immigration department here: the queues, the wait, the heat; so I didn't expect to much when I went down on Thursday to extend my visa.
Even getting to the immigration department involves two metro trains (for which you must pay for separately) and walk to the older part of town in the heat. I managed to find it OK and prepared myself for the worst: queues of 50 people, being sent to 4 separate queues for each part of the proceedure e.t.c. e.t.c. but actually it was not so bad - I was out of there in about 15 minutes (thanks to a few prayers). However that was just the first part of the experience as they keep your passport to put the required stamp in and ask you to come back in the afternoon.
So I had about 4 1/2 hours to waste. It was too hot to walk anywhere and I had done sightseeing in that area last time I was in Manila. Jolibee was the best option.
I had a great time seeing how slowly I could drink an iced tea (about 1 hour at least) and then ordered lunch. All up I was there for about 4 hours! I read and prayed and thoroughly enjoyed my enforced quiet time (sort of quiet as Jolibee is a pretty busy place).
I went back for my visa at 3pm (no problems, not much queue - Praise God!) and headed home.
Well Manila is a crazy place but there are things I am beginning to like about it - sort of. You can eat anytime you want and anything you want really, movies cost about NZ $3-4, the malls are big, air-conditioned and the shopping can be very reasonably priced, the people are very friendly and sometimes there are days where the air is not so poluted!
They do do a few crazy things here though - this week they have been digging the road outside our base and dug a ditch right in front of the our driveway. It was left like that for about 5 days - no planks to cover it, just a ditch. We could not get the van out and eventually when they finally did fill the ditch in (after much asking from us) it was at about 10.30 at night and right below my window. Interesting!