Roadtrip Sept 2009

One of my friends' cousin just went here in the Philippines for the first time and he wanted to show around his cousin. My good friend Tantan was a newbie here in PI too, so he had to ask me, and he asked the perfect person! LOL

I'm always down to do trips! and my girls too since we were living together. So we plan on having a roadtrip, from Manila to La Union, La Union to Baguio. My friend Lec Carino has a house in La Union, so she went with us from Manila to their house. We left around 2am, and got to La Union around 6am. We went to the fish market so we have something to eat when we get to Lec's house.

La Union is one of the surfing spots here in the Philippines. They usually have an annual surfing event. If you want to know more about La Union, visit their website: (http://www.launion.gov.ph/news.php)

Lec's house is on San Fernando, La Union. Their house is right in front of the beach, just few steps away! It's amazing! The water's blue, the sand was fine! There was cottages where you can just chill. That's where we had lunch. The seafood was amaaazing!! I wonder why is it that province people are soooo fuckin' good at cooking!!

After lunch, Lec's friend gave us the privilege to check the nicest hotel in La Union, Thunder Bird Resort and Casino (http://www.thunderbirdresortslaunion.com/)

On our way
(Warlene Mariano, Trisha Sebastian)

Our boys Tantan and Tonton LOL

Fish Market at Bauang Market

Warlene attempting to skim board

Our lunch feast.
I know it looked gross as Jovy was sitting on the table
but nobody really cared

Oh it was good!! Eating by the beach with good ass food!

The cottages made out of random woods :D

approaching Thunder Bird Resort

The View
Lec, Me, Warlene, Jovy, Trisha, Lucky and Lea

Beautiful

After Thunder Bird, it's time to go to the surfing area, San Juan, La Union.

Of course, jump shot

It wasn't too wavy when we were there

That WHITE house in the middle was memorable to me,
that's where we stayed before when i first came to visit this place
They're renting the one unit for 20k per month... Not bad, waking up to a nice breeze,
close to the beach, everything simple.

We didn't spend the night at Lec's, we plan on going up Baguio to party it up! They said the "best" or decent night clubs are in Baguio, so we went. It was so scary driving up there at night! OMG it was pitch black, foggy as fuck! The only thing you'd see is the white lane in the middle of the road! We were all awake and focused on there road! It was scary! I didn't know why we did that, I guess we weren't informed that it'd be pitch black.

Baguio is one of the tourist spot, because it's high land. It's popular of strawberries, flowers, and weed. LOL If you want to know more about Baguio, here: (http://www.baguio.gov.ph/)

We were all trippin and we kept driving going up, they say it's scary going up there, so tried going up.and in a snap, the car was covered with moist, like seriously it was so sudden! So Tantan had to stop cos he couldn't see anything and i freaked out like why the fuck did that happen! I was freaking out but he couldn't move because he couldn't see anything, we had to stay there in the middle and let the moist out of the heater. Creepy as fuck! LOL After that we went to Nirvana, where there's few clubs. I forget where we went, but we sure did have a great time!! The club was soooo ghetto! but we rocked the place! LOL I think they have a better clubs out there nowadays.

Trisha, Me, Cham (Lec's sister) and Lec
Damn we were on to that Mango Sling!

Outside SM Baguio. We had to stop to try their street food
AHH-MAZING!

Tonton, Lea, Warlene, Lucky, Tantan, Trisha, Jovy, Cham and Me.
It was a good night :D

So because we're drunk and we cant drive down to La Union in the middle of the night, we put our ghetto on, parked on the street and took a nap! LOL Why we didn't get a room, because we were too many! and it was like 4am, we just needed to past time because it was too foggy. We woke up and there's vandal on our windows saying "ONE LOVE" LMAO!! i don't know if they saw there's people inside the car, but it was still so funny! Then we drove back to Manila.

Oh it was a good time. We were laughing all the way back. The two filams were happy to see the other side of the Philippines too!

xoxo

Virgin Beach Resort May 2009

Summer is about to be over, so me and my friends decided to go out of town. Actually, we went to my friend's farm and we stayed there. It was beautiful! Bein gin the province, hearing the birds chirps, the early call of the roosters, the silence at night, and pitch black. Who wouldn't miss the aura of the province?

Then we decided to go to the beach "nearby", well, we are already in Batangas, and it took us 2hrs to get to Laiya. I guess we got lost or took the longer way, but now there's easier way to go there.

Batangas is one of the nearest beaches from Manila. it takes 2-3 hours or more... If you want to know more a bout Batangas, plese visit (http://www.batangas.gov.ph/)

Since we're doing day trip, we went for the resort where they accept day tours. Usually the offer rooms and not let day trips, so we end up at Virgin Beach Resort. I forget how much it was but we only paid for the cottage. You will find out more details on their website (http://www.virginbeachresort.com/index.php)

Since summer's almost over, the weather was already starting to be bipolar. One sec it's sunny, one sec it's gloomy. The beach was amazing though, you can actually tell that it's "virgin", untouched.

Here are some pictures... of me. LOL

I love this picture! It's some girl-time kinda picture!
Ashel Sioson, Carla Abaring

I still remember how funny this moment was, Carla was so proud telling us she took a good picture
This picture was not a good picture!

My Best Friend Ashel... Yes she is short as hell

Ashel, Aya and me

I only had few pictures... Back then you can only upload 60 pictures per album on Facebook, so I don't know what happened to the other pictures. LOL Of course i saved MY pictures :)

Fontana March 2009

I think this was the very first time me and my block mates and other school mates went out to do something altogether. We went to Fontana which is in Clark, Pampangga. About 2-3 hours away from Manila. I love going there having the smooth, non-traffic road.

Pampangga is a nice, clean city. There's bunch of foreigners there though because they have an american camp out there, so the city is pretty established. It's popular for the Mt Pinatubo eruption and lahar tragedies that displaced the town, it's also popular for the church that was buried during the eruption, it has become a tourist spot.

(To know more about Pampangga: http://pampanga.gov.ph/)

San Guillermo Church lost 6 meters of its bottom.

Anyway,  so me and my friends drove down there to go to Fontana. Fontana is a member's only kind of resort, i mean you can go in but you can only rent a house if you're member. There's also a newly built casino there (during that time). Fontana was one of the first resort that had a wave-pool LOL I used to go there a lot with my relatives when my Uncle was still working there.

Of course you can bring food. I forget how much the room was but I think it was just less than 15k and we all have split. The house rental doesn't cover the entrance fee at the pool or resort. I think it was around P200 that time, but to make sure you can check their website.

(If you want to know more about Fontana: http://www.fontanaleisureparks.com/)

Here are some photos of me and my friends. We were youngins. :)

Front of the house

with my buddy Angelo Aguilar

At the back of the house

The village

Inside the house

Chillin

the "Falls"

Long slide!

Captain Hook hooked my bikini
They have fun pool!

The is the pool where there's waves. I think it comes every 15mins

Such a fun pool!

Man-made sand

Over all, it was fun. I had a great time bonding with my classmates. The place is mostly for family gatherings/trips. I think I was THE ONLY ONE wearing bikini and i felt kinda bad. Well, I really didn't care that much, I do what i gotta do :D

I suppose Fontana is more established now. Families go there because kids have fun while parents have fun at the casino. LOL