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....
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In the bus going to Batangas Port
Left to right
(Lucky Alcala, Carla Abaring, Lea Andrade, Me, Warlene Mariano, Jovy de Asis) |
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This is my buddy, my classmate, Gelo Aguilar
You already know he's not too masculine :) |
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| With Gelo and Warlene getting ready to step out |
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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 |
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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 |
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Goofin around
Lea, Jovy, Lucky, Carla, Warlene |
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| Being EMO! |
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| Happy Birthday to me!! |
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| Getting braids is P150-200 |
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| Got our hair did, and shopping souvenir |
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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
