weekend getaway

Last Friday, we decided to go to La Union. It was an unplanned trip. I had my overnight bag with me 'coz I was planning to have a long weekend in Batangas, at my lola's house specifically. Then suddenly an idea popped up from my mind--why don't we [angels] have a long weekend together in La Union since we planned to go there before I'll leave Manila this April 11. Plus, it will be a three-day weekend which rarely happens to us since we work in different Korean companies that follows Korean holidays.I got my overnight bag already so I was ready to go anywhere. I texted the angels if they liked to have a weekend in La Union and we would be staying at Ayka's house. I waited for their confirmation and they all said YES except for Grace since she got her weekend all planned out already. It was fine but it would have been better if she went with us *wink*. Ayka, Nancy and I went to La Union at Saturday dawn and Weng followed us on the afternoon of that same day. We planned to have a maximum of P1500 trip and I think we only spent less than 1500 except for Weng 'coz she had dinner in one of the small hotels in La union--hahaha!.

AT LA UNION--February 29--March 1, 2010


Saturday


The three of us arrived at La Union at around 9am. We directly went to Ayka's place, had breakfast and slept until early that afternoon . As usual, we always wanted to take a rest before hitting the spots in San Fernando, La Union.


Around 3 pm

We went to Ayka's favorite Chinese restaurant and elementary school, the city's cathedral, Pagoda and the city's capitol. We couldn't decide where to go since we were still waiting for Weng to arrive. We didn't really want to explore the place without her. When we went to the Pagoda. It seemed like we were somewhere in China. The view from the Pagoda was breath taking. We could see the whole city and the blue sea. It was a little bit sad though that there were a lot of vandals on it and it was not well taken care of. We also went to the city's capitol since someone invited us to go there when we were about to go home. We saw the different governors of the city and we we went to the capitol's ground and watched the sunset.


Saturday night

Weng would arrive at around 10pm so we went to the city's plaza where she should get off. We waited for her and when she arrived we went to one of the hotels in the city for her to have a late dinner. I had coffee as usual and cookies. When we went back to Ayka's place, we watched American Idol 'coz Ayka wanted to show us Casey James, one of the contestants of American Idol and her crush. Before the program ended, all of us had a crush on him to. WAY TO GO Casey James!


Sunday morning

We planned to go to Ma-cho temple and to the different beaches in La Union.  We started our day a little bit late already as usual. We were a little bit slow in getting ready for the day. First, we went to two different beach resorts somewhere on the northern part of La Union. Since nobody wanted to swim, so we didn't bring clothes for swimming. The beaches were beautiful but then it was so hot to swim. Then we went to Ma-cho temple. Again, it was like we were somewhere in China and when we went there, there were a lot of Chinese who were offering so we weren't able to burn incense and other chinese stuff to do in a Chinese temple--hahaha!


early afternoon
We went to the beach resorts somewhere down south. It was like we were beach hopping. We hanged out in one of the resorts there and had fruit shakes. It was so refreshing to have a shake in a very hot day. I could feel that summer was already starting here in the Philipines.


late afternoon

We went to Ayka's brother's house to see his nephews and niece. Her sister-in-law asked us if we went to Greece. We were like dumbfounded since we didn't know what she was asking us. Until Nancy told us, " there is a resort featured on TV with a Greek theme".Late that afternoon, we went to this "Greece" resort. We found out that the name of this resort was "Thunderbird" and we were like, "what the heck? An awesome resort with a name THUNDERBIRD?". The place made us feel that we were in Greece, maybe somewhere in Santorini but we could not get over with its name. They could have given it a name that makes you think of Greece or paradise and not make you think of a rooster for cockfighting. It was really funny. Until now, I'm still thinking about what made the owner of that hotel or the company think of that name. Everything would have been perfect for that resort except for its name.


at night
We went to the city's night market to buy the famous "Ilocos empanada". We bought different kinds of food and we went back at Ayka's place to have dinner instead of going to the beach due to some reasons..thinking about it..I don't know why? hahaha!


Monday--
going back to Manila
back to reality


Hope we will have another weekend escape despite the problems that each of us have. It might just be temporary but it helps us to keep sane. Sometimes we just need to get away from all the dramas in life.

Miss listening to English and Filipino songs...

These past few months, I've been so crazy listening to soundtracks of different Asian dramas that I've watched. Well, if you're going to open my laptop, the playlist that you can find in my mp3 player will be Asian songs..Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese songs and I don't even understand them. I just like the rhythm and melody and they are so pleasing to my ears.

Early this morning I logged on in magic 89.9 and listened to the music they were playing. Then something happened...I missed listening to English songs and I found out that I missed a lot of things. The songs were new to my ears and I felt good listening to it. It just amazed me. I'm not regretting listening to bunch of songs that I don't understand since it makes me appreciate Asian thingy but then it's just too bad to overdo it. Months ago, I was so curious about anything that was Asian..their language, their drama (tv series), their culture and fashion. I was so into it and I think I still am..waah! Anyway, it's so nice to know different cultures. It makes me realize how great and colorful Asia is. So beautiful that I hope I will be lucky enough to have a chance to explore it.

Single women's valentine's day

February 14th


Valentine's Day...Well, I was so busy. I had to meet different people. I had dates--my cousins and friends. It was still a date, right? Valentines is not just for those people who got lovers, it's for single people out there. It's time to be with our friends and family.


So, here's my valentines...


I spent more than half of my day in school. I had to go to school because of my classes. Oh! It was valentine's day and I was staring in a four walled corners of my room and listening to my professors' discussions. I felt a little bit bad because everybody was already enjoying their day while I was stuck with my classmates and professor discussing reading strategies and syllabus. What a day to spend. Well, I sensed that I'm not the only one who felt that way because I some of my classmates were restless and could not wait to get out of our classrooms. hahaha! Thank god! we didn't have a class in our last course which is grammatical structures...nobody wants to discuss grammar in a day like this, right?


After class, I met my cousins. We had pizza and spaghetti. Oh! I was bloated. We ordered many food and we were only three. We were together for less than three hours since I had to go somewhere. I had to go to my friend's place[Ayka] just to spend time with her and Nancy. She was so busy so we decided to have coffee instead and since I planned to see Weng before midnight together with Nancy, we had to live early because of the heavy traffic. While we were having coffee, we tried to catch each others lives though we didn't have much time to talk about every single details that happened to us. When we were about to meet Weng, we decided to call it off because I was tired and so is she. I think, I've been all over metro Manila that day. Though, my meeting with Weng was not push through, I still decided to go home early because I was too scared to commute from Quezon city to Alabang alone in the middle of the night. I'm a little bit skittish now because I was harassed months ago. It's just that I don't want to have that kind of experience because it makes me angry and hateful.


I arrived around midnight and when I reached my apartment, I'm alone and sometimes I just want it to be that way--alone. No one to talk to. I turned on my dvd and watched something that I already watched months ago.


Then Valentines day was over...that was how I spend my valentines day. I hope that I will be able to spend more time with those people closest to my heart next Valentines. It doesn't matter if you have someone [boyfriend] or not, what matters most is to spend time with those people who are closest to your heart--family and friends. Well, If we're going to be lucky some of the Angels [Ayka, Nancy and I] will have someone next valentines especially Ayka. hahaha! Who knows, love will be knocking on her door..For Nancy and I, maybe years from now..I still love being with myself.


'Till next Valentines...

Blogging and tagging...SUHS2000 saturday night

A few minutes ago...I got my grade in Second language Acquisition. I thought I did not make it. I can't imagine if I'm going to take that subject again. Last trimester was so traumatic that I don't think I want to repeat the same course. Anyway, I'm thankful that GOD is so merciful that he helped me. I was so happy when I opened my online grade. It was like I was about to jump out from my seat. No more worries about SLA. Now, I can focus on my courses this trimester. FIGHTING!

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Saturday, Jan 31st

I was so excited to have dinner with my batchmates that I didn't even want to attend my classes anymore last Saturday. Because of my laziness and excitement, I was absent in one of my subjects and that was unplanned and unexcpected. Well, there's always a first time. Anyway, I met my SUHS2000 batchmates here in Manila because we had to talk about our homecoming and the activities that we would like to have. Of course, all of us want it to be grand...palaban kasi batch namin..hahaha! So, we dined in Krocs again and then we had a meeting. It was so funny when we were about to pay the bill. We coerce our other batchmates to shell out some money and pay for the bill. In the end, some of us only paid less. hahaha! After that, we went to Ponte to hang out but then we there were bands playings so most of us didn't feel like it so we transferred and went to Absinth. There, we danced until our feet hurt. I think, this event is going to be one of the highlights this year...What a memorable Saturday night!

Here are some of our pictures...

First stop: Krocodile Grill, Greenbelt3 (dinner and meeting)

Paying of bills....well, some of us didn't want to pay much since we are students..hahaha! OH! wait...the students (Jogie and Carlo) were the one who gave a thousand...mmmmm...

LET'S START THE PARTY...

Absinth, Greenbelt3

single ladies...let's have a party..hahaha!

Deejay's farewell dinner

Monday--January 26, 2009

Greenbelt 3

I got a long weekend and I planned to go to La Union and Baguio with Ayka and Weng but then unexpected things happened and it was postponed. One of the reasons why was DJ..she was in town and she wanted us and our other highschool batchmates to meet up. Well, I'm cool with it. Who doesn't want to see her batchmates, right?

Meeting place: Starbucks, Greenbelt 3

Okay..I arrived first in the meeting place. Good for me. I think I'm now a punctual person. Thank god for our company rule which is--one can't be late even a minute. hahaha! Then, DJ arrived then followed by Carlo, Astrah, Apyang (though she's not our batchmate but she's like an adopted alread..;]) then Miguel. Oh! we were busy calling people to confirm if they were coming or not while waiting for the others to arrive. mmmm! Some people are just too busy that it's hard for us to have a get together...after few minutes, we decided to look for a restaurant so that we can have dinner...Gosh! Everybody was hungry already...

Krocs grill, Greenbelt 3

All right, we had some drinks before ordering food then snapping of pictures then chatting about our lives then other people's lives or shall I say our batchmates' lives.

The topics were:

1. the high school love teams--the unforgettable high school love teams like sssshhhh...

2. the batchmates who got married--Oh! we made a list and I think it was quite a long list. Maybe I'll post it one of these days.

3. our career and lovelife--I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing that everyone of us are single hahaha!. When it comes to career, I think everybody or maybe almost everybody are contented.

To wrap it up, the dinner was great. It was so fun! It struck me how I miss my high school friends, our school and our escapades. I'm also glad that we had that dinner since it was DJ's farewell party. It might take us years again to meet. For us who are still here, hope we will find time to hang out...

Long awaited weekend of the Angels

It's been months since we last saw each other. The last time was in Grace's birthday and it was ages ago. Anyway, the ultimate reason why it took us months to hang out together was our SCHEDULE especially Grace, Weng and I...So guilty that we some kinda stood up Nancy and Ayka. They were the ones who kept on bugging us about our meeting. Grace and I were too busy last term because of our papers and Weng had busy sched. Busy, busy...blame it to our sched..hahaha!

The long awaited weekend...

Finally, we decided to meet last SUNDAY. Since it was the only time that we were all vacant. hahaha! The time was settled but there were last minute a night before. Instead of going to Tagaytay, we ended up hanging out in Alabang...Well, it was not bad since it seemed like we were in Tagaytay because of the weather. It was so chilly.

PLAN:

Meeting place: ATC at 11:00AM
Lunch: West gate
After Lunch: Bowling
Late afternoon: Have coffee

Well, as usual we did not all arrive at 11:00AM..hahaha! Congratulations to Ayka and Nancy. They arrived exactly 11:00 or before 11:00. Followed by yours and truly..I arrived 15 minutes late. I was so engrossed in revising my paper that I forgot the time. Then followed by Shey and Grace. They were an hour and half late...Oh! We were so hungry. Then finally, Weng arrived and the time was 2:00PM...wooh..[It's better to be late than not to show up at all]. We could eat anything and anywhere but then we decided to have late or shall I say very late lunch in Westgate.

Each of us got a gift from Nancy...The cutest picture frame..hahaha!

Last Saturday was my first time to eat Paella because it looked yucky but then when I tasted it..Oh! it was so delicious. I think this will be one of my favorite dishes now.

AFTER LUNCH

We went to Paeng's bowling center in ATC. It was Ayka's first time to play bowling but then she was one of our highest scorers. hahaha!

AFTER BOWLING

Last stop...back to Westgate to have coffee in UCC. It was my first time to have coffee there since we decided not to have Starbucks because it's been our hang out place ever since. In short, we wanted to try another coffee. BTW, it was Weng's treat for us..for being late..hahaha! So, I really want to thank her for treating us. Also, for giving me the shawl (the pink one that I'm wearing).

The coffee in UCC is one of the best. It's heavenly but it's very expensive so I don't think I will always hang out there. hahaha!