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 :)

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