Trip to Baguio

Here are some pics that I have when we had this little unplanned trip to Baguio with my brother's friend. :D

I'm Back!

It's been three days since I sailed in here. My supposedly 10-days off was extended due to some reasons, also because of the holy week. Yeah, we had3 non-working days last week! And it's really great because it's the first time that we took off from work during the lent season.

My vacation was great, I met new friends while aboard the boat bound home, met my family and friends again. I had a great time in Margos. I don't want to write here all the things that I did because I could go on for days with my list. Just to sum everything that I/we did = Fun!

It's just 6 days before my birthday, I don't wish for material things anymore. I just want my dad(my grandfather) to have a longer life and great time on his birthday too.

Here are some pictures of my family:

Big Fat Greek Holiday

Afroessa Hotel

Our hotel room



Fira, Santorini

Two weeks after my Big Fat Greek Holiday! At the first day of our trip, we spent the whole day exploring the hotel that we were staying. We were staying at the Afroessa Hotel, it is located in Fira, the capital of Santorini. The hotel is just a five minute walk to the shops of Fira, unfortunately my mom and brother kept reminding me that our trip is exclusively a family bonding trip and NOT a shopping trip. So sad.. I was really drooling over the fabulous shops there. But.. nothing can stop me from spending my own money... I still get to buy something for myself as my souvenir but after that I didn't spend a cent na kasi ang mahal pagkinonvert mo sa piso mamumulubi ako!!!

I'll upload our pics later after my shift. :p

Treat and Trip

Oh my! I know that I haven't updated this blog for a while but I didn't realize that it was already a couple of weeks since the last time that I updated this pretty li'l blog of mine. ^_^

I didn't even get to 'blog' about what had happened when we watched UAAP live at Ultra (ADMU vs UST), though our team didn't win that time, it was still worth it. Its a great game though!

Anyway, I was thinking about going to Baguio tomorrow, almost all is set but yesterday my cousin Trish called me and asked if I could come with her to Singapore tonight because she and her boyfriend were supposed to have that little fieldtrip in Sing, but something came up and her boyfriend can't make it so she's taking me with her instead of him. Though I'm only the second choice, but who cares? That's Singapore we're talking about man! And who am I to say no to that offer? It's all expense paid, as in totally free! When she asked me I didn't say yes right away, of course I thought of it first for about 5 seconds! Whehehehe!

So, were off to Singapore tonight! Yippee! Thanks a lot Trish, love you lots!

Orchard Rd.... Marina Square.... here I come!

Club Manila East

I already made a draft for my supposedly entry about our company outing but it seems like I wasn't able to save last night so I can't retrieve it today. Anyway, I'm already tired to write those stuff again. I'll just post a picture here and a link to my yahoo photos so that you'll be able to view pictures from our company outing last May 29 at Club Manila East, Taytay, Rizal.


These are the people from the PMG-IS Department, and the wackiest department in TA ever! (L-R) me, RT, Erin,Sheina,Tin, RB, Kitty, Elza, Sir Wilson, Carlo, Ms Glads,Tiny, Ms Myles, Nhez, Sir Leo and Grace at the back is Red.

We had so much fun, that we don't want to go home anymore. :D Anyway, just see the pictures for yourself. :-P

Thank God for Paulo

I'm done reading Eleven Minutes and it took me 3 days to finish the book because I'm on a night shift and its really hard to do some reading when i get home from work when I'm already tired and very sleepy. But still, I managed to finish it in 3 days! Good for me! The book is really great! And as always, Paulo Coelho never fails to fascinate and hypnotize me with his works. He made me journey with Maria from her small town in the interior of Brazil, to Copacabana, to Geneva, Switzerland and Paris. How she struggled to achieved her dreams, from being a young, pretty innocent girl to an intellectual prostitute. And how she learned from every mistake she made in life. And finally, how she found herself and her love.

If you love reading, i suggest you read this book. I'm also planning to read Veronika Decides to Die and The Zahir (works of P.Coelho) on my day-off.

On the Other Hand

My friends are inviting me to come with them to Puerto Galera this Saturday, but I haven't decided yet. It's hard for me to say yes because I got books to read, I still have work tonight, and I only have one day-off for this week. And I don't think I can still squeeze that 'Puerto Galera get-away' on my schedule without affecting or ruining any on my list, because for sure if I'll be going to Puerto I won't be able to report for work on Sunday.

I really want to go with them 'coz its been ages since our last trip together, but how will I do that? It's too late to file for a vacation leave, I don't also want to phone in sick and file a SL on Sunday (I'm afraid of karma) but I also don't want to be absent (I hate deductions, and I don't want to lose the attendance incentive). Whew!

And hey, did I mention that I'm planning to have my birthday bash on Saturday night? Whew! (again!) Please enlighten me...

Eleven Days for 'Eleven Minutes'

Last April 18, that day happened to be my birthday, i went shopping for some stuff for myself and for my relatives coz the following day was my trip to the province. After shopping, i decided to buy the 11 minutes book by Paulo Coelho. I went to FIVE bookstores, unfortunately i found no trace of that book. After 'bookstore hopping', i never felt that exhausted and down coz i was really dying to have that book. I even cried a bucket of tears! I already read the first few chapters of that book and i quickly became obsess to that book. I don't know what's with Paulo (except for the obvious that he writes well) that he continues to hypnotize me with his works. One thing i love about eleven minutes is the plot itself and the character of Maria, on how she deals with life, love and intimacy. I already read some of Paulo's works but i still can't get enough of him, I'm still dying to have eleven minutes even after eleven days of searching. Eleven days didn't stop me, it makes me want that book more and more each day. I'm still hoping that it will land to my hands one of these days... I can wait for even eleven years for that book, I know it'll be worth the wait. But I'm also praying that it won't take that long.

Runway Traffic

April 19 was our flight to Cagayan de Oro, we left for the airport early and i was glad because our flight call was on time but what pissed me off was the take-off, it took us 45 minutes before we were able to fly because there was a runway traffic due to the same flight schedule with other airlines so we need to wait for the plane who gets to the runway line first to take-off before we could. Thanks to that runway traffic we were 45 minutes late, and we were late for the 12 o'clock trip to Zamboanga. Grrrrr.

Crying Scene

When we arrived at our grandfather's house, my daddy (grandfather) was crying coz he didn't know that were coming home because we wanted to surprise him, and truly he was surprised and he was more than teary eyed, he was really crying. He was shedding tears of joy because of our arrival.

Same Old Questions

Sigh. The same old questions were raised again... The questions that never fails to spoil my day:

* 'Do you have a boyfriend?' - Why do they want to know? Will they let me have one?

* 'Are you enjoying your stay in Manila?' - Of course, i do!

* 'When are you getting married?' - How will I? are there husbands for sale???? Tell me where i'll be able to find them if you have any idea... Hehehe On second thought nah just don't bother... I'm still enjoying the kind of life i'm living.... I'm not in a hurry.. I can wait for 11 years! Hahahaha I would be 32 then! Not bad? Not! Bad! :P

Tripping

Last Friday (Feb 17. '06), my brother and i were supposed to go to Baguio but we had changed our plans. Instead of going to Baguio, we changed our itinerary to San Isidro, Nueva Ecija to visit ate Jet, my bro's friend since elementary and the organizer or whatever you call her of the Gawad Kalinga project in the town of San Isidro. We left the Manila at around 6:00PM with my bro's other childhood friend ate Leslie, then we reached Gapan, the capital of Nueva Ecija past 8:00PM. Before proceeding to San Isidro, we ate first at Jollibee in Gapan then we went to the terminal to take a jeepney ride to San Isidro, unfortunately there were no longer jeepneys after 9:00PM. We called ate Jet right away to tell her about our situation and she suggested that we take the tricycle to San Isidro. Luckily, there was a bus to San Ildefonso who'll pass by San Isidro so we stopped the bus and hailed it to the town. When we reached San Isidro, we took the tricycle to the GK site. When we reached there we were welcomed and greeted by ate Jet and some of the residents of the site. They gave us a very warm welcome. The place is very serene and peaceful, and the houses though smaller than the average houses you can sense that the people living there very happy. Their houses are very colorful.

Ate Jet led us to her house, her house is small but very dainty. I love the feeling of being there because its feels like home to me. I also love the experience of fetching your own pail of water to bathe yourself. We slept late that night coz we were busy chatting and planning for our next day activity.

When we woke up the following day, my brother prepared breakfast for us. And also we helped ate Jet arrange her house to achieved its oriental look. Then after that we took a bath then prepared for our next activity, and that would be a late lunch at Isdaan in Gerona,Tarlac. Again we took the tricycle to the town proper, then hailed a jeepney to Sta. Rosa and from there we rode a bus to Tarlac City. We went to MetroTown Mall in Tarlac to feed ourselves then after that we rode a bus again to Isdaan. It was just a 15-minute drive from Tarlac City but I don't know why the conductor charged us Php55 for the ride. When we reached Isdaan there are a lot of people there because it was Sunday, we had a hard time looking for a place. Finally we found one, at the center of the pond. We enjoyed watching and feeding the fishes in the pond and i also love seeing kids amazed with the sight. Not long before sunset we left Isdaan for Tarlac City, we hailed a jeepney and my brother was shocked coz the fare was only Php15, we were like "Oh My God! We were fooled! Sigh." But my bother said that let's just think it was part of the package. When we reached Tarlac City we asked around as to where we should wait for the bus to Manila and we were instructed by a kind security guard at MetroTown to go to Siesta, its where the stopover of the buses. So we went there, we waited for almost an hour but we can't find a ride coz the buses were already full.

We almost lost hope. So we just waited along the highway, then we saw a Dagupan Bus for Manila so we hurried to their terminal, and luckily there are enough seats for us. Though the bus is not cozy... its an old bus with broken chairs but still we're thankful coz we'll be able to go back to Manila that night.(though we still have doubts about the bus) We reached Manila at around 10 o'clock. We were very satisfied with our trip coz the journey was really fun and challenging.


Disclaimer: We all don't know how to get to Tarlac via Nueva Ecija