I loved attending kindergarten because I get to eat free champorado(sweet chocolate rice porridge), adored wearing our pink uniform, take afternoon naps, do fun activities, sleep during lessons and skip classes whenever I want to. The crayons fascinated me most; my parents couldn’t afford luxury so they could only buy me the 8 pieces Crayola set. I would see my classmates owning 16 pcs. or the 24 pcs. set or even more, and I remember looking in jealousy every time they parade their bright, multi-colored crayons. One day I decided that I wanted to have as much crayons as I want [View Full Entry]

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First (half)Day ... I am proudly becoming a pro on catching the last minute schedules. We were just on time for the 13:00 Ferry schedule from Macau to Kowloon. We were running again, and I had to show the apologetic face to the rest of the passengers when we finally boarded (hidden meaning: IT'S NOT OUR FAULT, THEY LET US IN!). It's such a gloomy day ... I don't like it, it makes me sad; it was raining in Macau when we left and I was hoping for a better weather in Hong Kong but noooo! it was gloomy the whole [View Full Entry]

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Pre-MacauEvents Just another "we will miss the flight!" scare; feels like crying just the thought of it(a.k.a huhuhu, i don't want to waste PHP9,000++)! Of course we still made it to the Airport ;) we were the last ones to board. Just to be informed that our flight will be delayed for 30 minutes. Our plane finally took off at around 8:30ish. It was just a small plane, just as small as the ones used in the domestic flights. More than an hour after taking off, we were informed that our plane was having technical difficulties and that we were going [View Full Entry]

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Thanks to Manong Manuel for buying our tickets back to Cebu. Our Ferry was scheduled to leave Tagbilaran City at 5:30 PM. Just an FYI, there’s a sort of Korean invasion going on in the Philippines right now, from Korean soap operas, Korean singers, Korean actors to Korean Tourists; everywhere I go, there they are - lots of ‘em at the pier. I definitely don’t have anything against it because they help boost the Philippine tourism and Korean Kiddies are the cutest! (next to my nephews/nieces and my little cousins.hehe) ~~ We were just contemplating, it seems that hal [View Full Entry]

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Cramming! That’s what we’re good at. We didn’t start booking for our accommodation and Ferry tickets until yesterday. The Ferries to our main Bohol destination, Tagbilaran City were all fully booked and the hotels were giving us a hard time too ~ we were able to sort that out by paying more than what we budgeted and taking an alternative route to Tubigon, Bohol. Straight from work, we headed to NAIA Airport to catch our 08:00 o’clock flight which took off 20 minutes behind schedule with (the) Capt. Cuneta explaining- “Hello, this is your Captain. Sorry [View Full Entry]

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I’ve just realized that I’ve said yes to all weekend out of town invites in the previous three weekends and for the next two weeks to come; dear me, I’m feeling slightly exhausted now. But hey! I got very good reasons why I’ve been acting like a “Yes Girl!” Sheeesh! I’d have to slow down and check the weekly planner next time. It was an early Saturday for me - since it was weekend, my sleepy head was telling me ~ “I don’t wanna wake up yet!”. I had to drag myself out of the bed. Tagaytay, here we come! The [View Full Entry]

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A co-worker forwarded an email talking about a floating library called MV Doulos. I then read about it, found it interesting, and decided that I wanted to check it out. I was able to make one friend who i knew loves books, tag along. The ship was at a pier in Manila. We live at the Metropolitan area and the part where the ship is docked was unfamiliar to us. We found our way with the help of several security guards whom we asked for directions. By the port area's main gate, we were greeted by two jogging men who offered [View Full Entry]

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I don’t want to sound bitter but there were 9 people SUPPOSEDLY going to this trip, until everyone backed out and there were just two of us left. AM JUST KIDDING :) I actually just want to share the fun and experience ~ no hard feelings at all. The expected 1 ½ bus ride from Cubao Metro Manila to Olongapo City took us 3 hours; someone probably miscalculated (ehem!hehe). Olongapo City is quite organized, less dirty and well managed compared to Manila. Adjacent to the City was our main destination, the Subic Bay Freeport Zone which until 1992 was once the [View Full Entry]

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The week prior to this trip had been stressful and I was already tired to begin with. We went to yet another out of town trip; the main destination was Baguio, then La Union to try surfing (Me, wanting this so bad more than anyone else, I think). We went to the bus station to buy tickets but we were not able to anticipate the number of people going out of town for the long weekend. Monday was a public holiday so the busses for Baguio were fully booked and the next trip would be 5:00 AM the next day (no [View Full Entry]

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As much as I want to, I don’t think I can make this short. I think it was more than 16 hours flight from Manila to Amsterdam and finally another one hour flight to Manchester. We were on a French plane; the food wasn’t much of my liking but it filled me in anyway. I managed to watch at least four movies until the monitor stopped working; I had to content myself listening to music for the rest of the flight. It was the longest time I’ve ever been sitting, getting sleep was too hard and I was getting so bored. [View Full Entry]

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