Pew Pew take2

 I haven't posted in a while. Partly due to the heat, mostly due to laziness. So again, I'll be updating in a series this week, starting with the Boracay trip I went on with my friends last April 12, 2012.
My friends being Ateneans and an Iska were on break, meaning Jen and I, being La Sallians, had to cut a day or two of class. Supposedly the trip was to bond with one of our friends who's leaving for Singapore later this year, but at the last minute, her parents made her back out... no REAL surprise there.
So anyway, night before we left, we stayed at Phoebe's house. Just because it would be more convenient... and more fun.
Phoebe and Sarah tried teaching me how to play bridge. Which I can beat them at after a few tries. BOOM BABY! We barely slept and Pheebs didn't sleep at all. So yeah, rushrushrush to the airport... Not really, we were pretty chill coz we were super early.
I'll speed through the next part coz I can feel you getting bored.
So we check-in our "luggage", have breakfast at the airport. Chill a bit more, board the tiny plane and fall asleep before take-off. Land at Caticlan airport and wait for the carousel to spit out our bags.
Funny thing though, there was a box of Dove bar soap riding the carousel like nobody's business.
Moving on, we had a short ride to the boat, rode it across to Boracay island itself then shuttle ride to the hotel. Estacio Uno, same place we stayed last time.
We got there at around 9am so we had to chill a bit at the cabana.

Chillin at the cabana with Jen, Phoebe and Patrick. (c)Gai Pardilla

By 10am we were showed to our room, so we picked our beds and took naps til lunch.

Our room. (c) Jenina See

After our nap and lunch, we went out to ride the Zorb. It's this huge plastic bubble that they can either strap you into to or let you slosh around with a bucket or two worth of water, then they let you roll down a hill... try it if you haven't. It's fun.

ZORB! (c) Gai Pardilla

Wet and wild. (c) Phoebe Chua

Sarah strapped in for the dry Zorb ride! (c) Phoebe Chua

We bummed around the rest of the day, had dinner and bonded over drinks. First night was 3 pitchers of Toilet Duck. Which was fun. Bonded with Patrick and Mark. Soldiers fell one by one... survivors: I can't even remember but I think it was me, Gai and Phoebe? Jen broke out in a killer rash, so did Patrick.

Next day we bummed around again but it started to rain. Hard. Which would have been fine. Except we were going to go on a yacht ride with everyone. But we decided to persevere and it turned out fine. It stopped raining by the time we got on the boat and we were able to relax and enjoy the view. Which was awesome, just so you know. I'll post the video of the view sometime this week. Honest.

Row row row your boat! (c) Sarah Liao

Jen, Phoebe and Gai.

Everyone we were with on our trip.

Jen's attempt at being a "photographer". (c) Jenina See

Group pic of me and my girls! (c) Mark Ley

View of the shoreline in party mode.

So yeah, we had massages then went out to eat. Went back to the hotel after and started drinking. Again. Absolut and Jose Cuervo this time. Not really the Cuervo but the Absolut was gone.

Absolut with Sprite and cherries.

We drank til 4am, I think. Again one by one the soldiers fell except for 3 survivors: Gai, Mark and me. We were a bit hungry so we headed to Jonah's for some shake. Yum.

Survivors enjoying shakes from Jonah's.

Went back to the resort and chilled awhile. The two other people in the picture mixed Cuervo into my shake. Dastardly devils. Didn't really matter though, coz I'm strong. Kidding. Anyway. Yeah. We stayed up til around 5:30am. Then that was it, trip over. Back to Manila. Sad story. But super fun weekend.

Sunrise Buckets!

God knows I love hanging out with friends, whether it be my HS friends, blockmates, orgmates or whatever. So last last Friday, March 30, me and a few of my JEMA buddies decided to go out for dinner and chill. Maybe even watch The Hunger Games if there was some time. But there wasn't so we chilled at the resto for a few hours and moved on to Happy Lemon at around 11:30pm. The wings at Sunrise Buckets in Madison Square were awesome. As in YUMMEH IN MAH TUMMEH. Kinda pricey though, worth it if you just chow down there once in a while.

Had a lot of fun taking pictures on Ken's phone, again, and comparing the number of chicken bones on our plate.

In case you were curious, Jen won by a landslide.

Eventually, I got bored at the restaurant and I came up with the idea that we should have a lookalike picture thing. And I had brought my beanie and glasses so...

TA-DAAAH! Aren't we such cutie pies?
Right side, top to bottom: Loel, Jen, Star, Nica and Ed.
Left side, top to bottom: Kelvin, Ken, Me, Mondy and Albert.

Me, Nica and Jen rode Kelvin's car to Happy Lemon. Friggin awesome pimped out ride. I don't have a picture right now, I'll post one next time.

So yeah. That's all. Another post before the weekend. Promise.

Happy Thursdays!

Happy Thursdays are making a comeback in DLSU! So here's another vlog. This time it's with my friend, Ken Vergara. We made it on his Samsung s2 with the Paper Camera app. Pretty cool. Made us look like we had rotten teeth though. Oh well, papel (paper in English). Camera people were Jen See, Nica Villanueva and Albert Uy. At some point Nica and Jen forget that they can be heard on the video, too even if they aren't seen. Sorry for that.
Drumroll please! Now presenting KEN "THE FACE VALUE" VERGARA'S DEBUT ON MY BLOG!

End of Installment

The last vlog installment for Zambales! It's pretty much just me talking to the camera, Apa making a few comments and Cz washing her clothes in the ocean.
Enjoy!

Tiwala Lang (Have a Little Faith)

I'm baaaaack!
So I haven't posted for more than a week, I'm sorry. I've been busy and tired with school and all. I was supposed to post about my Cristobal climb as soon as I came back last Sunday, but to no one's surprise (I'm sure), I was exhausted.
So here it is, a quick review of my weekend.

Got up early to pick up my cousin, Cait, before heading to the meet-up place. It was her first climb, so my aunt bought her a new tent and sleeping bag. She bought herself a new bag. So, she was pretty ready for the climb.

Achie Cait, all geared up and ready to go! (c) Iris Ang

There was a total of ten of us, some of them I've just met and others I haven't seen in a while. Our guide, Kuya Christian, was the same person who guided us the first time DLSU OC went up Cristobal. He actually remembered those of us who were there last time. Me, Benj and JR. Kudos to the first timers who were able to climb the Devil's Mountain - Ken and Cait.
As usual, I was the last up the mountain. But give me a break, my bag was heavier than usual, it was my first time to carry my own tent on top of everything I normally bring.
Anyway, it wasn't as cold as the first time we went up, which was a bit of a bummer. It was still fun though. We played cards in the tents and mostly just bonded with everyone while waiting for dinner to be ready. DINNER WAS SINIGANG! Extremely happy tummy.

(L-R) Abi, Cait and Iris while we were playing Monopoly Deal.

JR, Benj and Renz

Bonded in the tent for a few more hours. Right before we went to bed, my "friends" decided it would be a good idea to narrate Insidious in deatil and proceed to scare the s*** out of me for the rest of the night. F***ers. 

So anyway, we woke up the next day and went to the mountain's peak. Didn't have much a view though, a pity since they that the scenery is awesome. The fog killed any chance of that though.

(Start top L, clockwise) Godfrey, Rod, JR, Me, Renz, Benj, Kevin, Iris, Abi and Cait.

So we pretty much just took a few pictures at the peak and headed down the mountain. In fairness, I was one of the first of us down. Snaps for me?

So yeah, we went into the town where Kuya Christian lives and washed ourselves off in the lake before we took a proper shower at his house. The lake was freezing cold, but pretty fun.

Chillin at the lake.

So yeah. After we all showered, we headed back to Manila. Exhausted but happy. Cheesy, but it's true.
I'll post something else tomorrow to make up for my extremely long absence. Night!

Friday the 13th

I don't get what people have against Friday the 13th. It's just the last weekday on the 13th day of a given month, but people relate bad luck to it.
Honestly, I had a pretty good week, including Friday the 13th. The most eventful was actually Wednesday and Friday.
I had a photoshoot for The Marketer, a JEMA publication for DLSU. Super fun. Thanks to Jica Coronel for making me look pretty and Kashka Tobias for taking the pictures.

Prep time. Photo taken by Kashka Tobias. (More photos soon.)

I got promoted, my lips are sealed about where though. We had our first JE meeting of the year, as well as the first OC meeting of the year. It was super fun hanging out with everyone again. And it's finally crunch time for all the orgs I want to run for officer in. We're down to the last cut by the end of the term, so fingers crossed. This was all on Wednesday.
On Friday was the Oh See What's In Store, which I hosted with Cz Santos, one of the many good friends I have made since joining DLSU OC. It was a lot of fun, even if there was just 25 of us. We actually turned it into a teambuilding seminar, what with all the games we played that inspired cooperation and communication. Even our faculty adviser, Sir Migs, joined in. 

(From top, L-R) Apa, Ryan, Justine, Kean, Larry, Ryu, and ... I can't remember who. Fulfilling requirements for the game, On The Ground.

Just to kill time, we even had Ryuta Murakami make a speech in Japanese and had Ram Manipol translate... kind of. It just ended with us having a laugh and still not understanding anything.

We got Ryu to say 'Outdoor Club' in Japanese.

After everything, OC President, Lance Dy, even treated us to dinner at McDonald's.
Not a bad way to spend the week of Friday the 13th, I'd say.

Beachin' Good Vibes

Just got home from my weekend trip to Les Caraibes in Laiya, Batangas. It was a pretty awesome weekend of chilling and bonding with friends. This is probably the best spent first-weekend-of-the-year of my entire life.
Friends. Beach. Drinks. NO HOMEWORK. How could you go wrong?
Just the fact that we were on the beach meant that my weekend couldn't. I love the beach. The sand between my toes, sun shining, waves kissing the shoreline.

The beach makes me happy. I don't care that when I have to come back to reality, there's a chance of me being sun burnt and aching. Not to mention the fact that no matter how many times I take a shower, there still seems to be sand somewhere on me.
There's something about beaches that make me feel like life is perfect... I dunno.
Well, that's all folks. I'll post more about my trip when I can. Right now, my hands are tied.