Puerto Galera Feb 2009

I decided to celebrate my 19th birthday on the nearest beach, Puerto Galera. It's usually just 2-3 hours away from Manila. 2 hours drive going to the port, and 45 mins boat ride going to the island. Bus is about P 160 back then, and boat ride is about P250 each. The room was about P1,500 per night that can accommodate all of us.

Me and my friends didn't go prepared. We just packed our bags, invited our friends and of course, most of them are down. Here in the Philippines, when it's your birthday, you'll be the one to pay shit for your friends! LOL So most of them were down to go because I had the accommodation and food covered, they just paid for their transpo.

My birthday is February 8th, and I can still remember, we left February 7th evening, we got there around 9pm to surprise us that there's no boat at night and the last boat ride is at 5pm. LOL! Of course, why would a small boat ride at night pitch black in the middle of the ocean. None of us were thinking... So, we had to stay at the port and wait til 6am as its the earliest boat schedule. Yes, we were there from 9pm to 6 fucking a.m.

It's funny how we (my friends) all  got together. We are all form different school, some of them are from Lyceum, FEU and me and my classmate Gelo are from Letran. The girl from FEU was just brought by her friend. So on that night, I got to know this girl Carla, and we spent the whole night talking about our love life! which means puppy love! LOL I had a strange story about my "love life" that's worth a story,  so we had fun talking about it all night.

Before the midnight came, I was laying down on the bench feeling all tired, and my friends were just roaming around and I was looking after our stuff. Suddenly, there was an announcement saying my name and greeting me "Happy Birthday" while my friends are coming to me with a cake with candles lit! It was beautiful! It was very touching! I appreciate the fact that they made it special even when we were in a not-so-good situation.

As we got to the beach, we were all happy and excited. The water was so damn cold though! And the weather was pretty gloomy. We saw a lot of hot guys! It was so fulfilling seeing them sexy guys walking around in front of you. I felt like they all knew it was my birthday and they decided to do a half-naked fashion show in front of me! LOL

As the day went by, those guys introduced themselves to us. So we hung out, we had a lot of drinks! There's this drink that Puerto Galera's famous of, it's called "Mindoro Sling", we been drinking that the whole time. I remember playing with these other group, some cards and other fun games. I remember seeing those hot guys again and hung out with them..... and that's the last memory I had.

I woke up with the worst headache, surprised that I'm wearing a different clothes, sleeping on our bed with my friends. Like, i don't know how I got home, how i changed and what the hell did i do the whole night! As they woke up, they were all laughing at me! I got too drunk and they said i keep going in the water and just jumping and swimming and laughing, just like a kid. :) So they took me back to the room and they bathe me! changed my clothes and left me on the bed. I could not remember any of these, but i'm glad they took care of me.

We had a very few pictures from this trip, because the camera we used got corrupted when we got back in Manila. Here are few pictures of me and my friends, the beach, what Puerto Galera looked like back then, it wasn't too established and it was pretty....

In the bus going to Batangas Port
Left to right
(Lucky Alcala, Carla Abaring, Lea Andrade, Me, Warlene Mariano, Jovy de Asis)

This is my buddy, my classmate, Gelo Aguilar
You already know he's not too masculine :)

With Gelo and Warlene getting ready to step out

Gloomy weather.
Puerto Galera used to be this simple

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That's the kind of boat we rode going to the beach

It's like a mandatory to get henna tattoo when you go to Puerto Galera
I don't know why, I guess it looks cooler, but such a dirt after few days
They call me "Faevulous" that's why I got that LOL (eww)
It's only P100

Goofin around
Lea, Jovy, Lucky, Carla, Warlene

Being EMO!

Happy Birthday to me!!

Getting braids is P150-200

Got our hair did, and shopping souvenir

I also remember playing Volleyball with those hot guys
We had a deal that whichever team will win will buy drinks that night
They end up winning but they paid for the drinks LOL

It was fun! It's just a shame that we didn't have enough pictures because the camera got corrupted, so we didn't have saved pictures with those hot sexy guys... But my friend Warlene end up dating one of the guys and they were together for like 2 years. And my friend got through so much shit just to be with him, but anyway, it's amazing how random their meeting was.

February 2009

Student Life

My college Life is worth a story to tell. I was an Entrepreneurship student. Not a lot of students in my school take this course, so in my class we're only 21 in my freshmen year, down to 16, down to 12. We have more boys than girls. I was very friendly though. I know almost everyone; Girls, Boys, Maldito, Frox, Swabe, Basketball players, Volleyball players, Coaches, the Pastors, the vendors outside, pretty much everyone.

I'm usually the one who has the balls to do whatever, with that being said, my Professor would always push me to represent my class. Here are some of it:

This is when we were in our freshmen year :) all youngins, i was 17, they were younger :)

I was Cleopatra during my Literature class event. I sewn those beads up to make such skirt!

I ran as a House Representative for my course,
Entrepreneurship - I didn't get the position :D LOL

I joined Teatro De Letran which is the theater acting club
This was my second stage acting, we performed in the other branch of my school,
Letran Bataan. I did a small part, a beauty queen. LOL

Fashion Show I did for our biology class event
as always, we need to make something out of recycled materials
mine was from a cigarette filter, and his was from corn

I hosted our own event for our Business Opportunities class

with Dr. Nancy Balasan, she's always been our adviser and always been my favorite!
Gelo is the guy at the back whose always been my buddy

The is the whole class of EN3A (3rd yr Entrepreneurship students) together with
the speakers and Dr. Nancy Balasan

while everyone's partying inside the campus for KJWAN's performance,
I met them outside the campus :)
KJWAN is a popular alternative band
(Marc Abaya, Mike Romero)

I got 7 medals, 4 ribbons and a sash
for so many reasons. LOL

I remember the last thing i said on my speech
"Don't let anything hinder you from your goals"
LOL It don't mean so much to me now, but it did mean a lot to me back then

By best friend Ashel came with me to this graduation thing to support me
She deserve a bestest friend award

I was the campaign manager for Alyansa Letranista, promoting my classmate
Gilbert De Gula for Mayor (The leader of the student body)
He eventually won and did a great job!

MALDITO supporting Alyansa Letranista
Just like in politics, you need your peoples to support you
Maldito is a group in my school, who is a group of rich young men
who has nice cars. They are big deal in my school, back then

I forget what we were doing, but this is just an intermission number
for our Business Opportunities event
It's about mythology

Zeus and Artemis
Ok we don't look like one, but whatevers :D

I always have flower on my ear,
and yes, i pull that show off stomach costumes

EN4A (4th yr Entrepreneurship students)
on our successful grand event. I still remember how much we worked hard for this event!

In one of my class mates' house
First time in our four yrs in college that we had to do a sleep over
so we can all help each other doing our Strategic Management papers
it's more than a thesis!! It's too much! oh the hardest class i've ever had!!!

After passing the defense for our thesis, it's about time to celebrate
with our professor on that thesis! You won't notice that he's a professor cos he's so young!

This was the last Christmas Party with everyone

With the lower batch of Entrepreneurship students

In my course, we should implement our business plan,
and make it work for a year to make it work,
but this one was just a soft launching
I been working on my clothing line as my desired business

I did a lot more. I was always the secretary of our club, i used to be the chief editor of our newspapers, I was a muse for our sports fest, and other curricular and non-curricular activities. Thinking back, I realized I did enjoy my college Life. I was already a party head when I was in college. I didn't graduate though, I dropped out of school after I've taken my Major classes, because I was working back then, and I had only left my minor subject and i wasn't interested, i guess because I was already making money since I already knew the major things about business, and didn't want to spend time at school listening to Jose Rizal's Life and theology classes. Sorry not sorry. LOL

I had pretty much good life in college. I knew the right people, i forget to mention that I always watched NCAA Basketball games on my first years, first of all because we were required to support our team, and because I always get free tickets. :)

<3 Faye

Introduction

I am a young Filipina. I grew up in a province having the freedom to make my own decisions and I've decided to do everything while I'm young, enjoy Life without having to worry about anything but myself. I've decided to go places and explore. I want to get to know my own country, I want to see the deeper meaning of the Philippines. I want to witness the beauty of this island. I am a proud citizen.

I am now 23 yrs old, still young, but I am here to post and publish the places I been to and the experiences I've had in the past. So maybe, one day when i'm older, I have something to look at and read to remember the days of my Life. I am proud, because I know not all Filipinos get to experience these at young age. I feel so grateful that I want to share it to people (whose going to read this) and maybe feel the same feeling I got, learn the things I learned even without having to really experience it.

Enjoy :)