howdy mates!
haha just gotten back from the philippines!!
haha man it was great!
okay this will probably be a very long post
considering the fact that we were there for seven days!!!
haha.
anyway.
okay i'll do it this way for easy reading.
oh and ber, de, nicole, aiyah, everyone who was there too,
if i got any facts wrong please tell me!
haha i'm such a muddle head
i probably will have lotsa mistakes that have to do with the order of events.
anyway, here goes!
have fun!
ohoh and as soon as i get the photos ready, i pinky promise with a seal
that i'll try my best to upload all of them in a civilised way.


DAY 1: THURSDAY
woke up at five thirty in the morning with a whooping yell.
boy i was excited.
this holiday was gonna be one heck of a ride.
the taxi came at six
( them grown ups decided the taxi was most practical,
after my dear brother convinced them that it would be a hideous sight if we dragged our blooming lugguageto the mrt...)
anyway, we reached the budget terminal at like six thirty.
boy it was so awesome. i'd never been to the budget terminal.
it was real clean with a nice caffetaria.
actually, to tell ya'll the truth,
i couldn really be bothered where we were
so long as they had those cool trolleys meant for pushing luguagges
although everyone knows,
it can't hurt to get a whooping ride on it around the airport.
haha.anyway, we were suppose to meet at eight thirty...
but thanks to the erp,we went there like two hours earlier.
kinda weird if you asked me but fun all the same.
it wasn a terrible wait though.music, food, sleep.
seems like a pigs life but hey i did walk around some
to do some 'exercise' okay who am i kidding,
i only walked from the taxi to the chairs
and from the chairs to the checkin in of lugguage place.
other than that, i was glued to the chair...
but hey, that counts right?
anyway, after the very long wait, they finally came.
except for nicole's family and daniel.
it's funny how they had two daniels.
okay nevermind.
anyway
they were to join us all the same on saturday.
but uncle chee onn couldn come which was a great pity
okay i'm boring you with the minute details but oh well,
okay so they had some food ordered.
emme was the best.
apparently she ordered a chicken pie which was kinda small.
then later she saw a carbonara(excuse the spelling)pie which hey,
sounds jolly good if you asked me,
but the carbonara pie had no carbonara inside.
haha in fact it was just a whooping big version of the tiny chicken pie
with a whooping big price too. haha.
oh well. poor thing.
anyway, at around okay i dont know the time
but who really bothers about the time when you're about to go for a crazy holiday?
okay so around a certain time,
we went into the other side of the glass door.
okay excuse my vocabulary but if i'm not wrong they call it the departal hall?
another thing i'm not really keen on knowing.
i can just see my english teacher's eyes cutting through me,
telling me i'm so dead.
anyway,so it was just the usual stuff, and then we were on the plane!
and because we had gone so early,
we were seated way in the front.
i sat with my brother and a nice lady,
actually she isn a lady,okay fine, a young lady.
okay anyway,the flight was the best.
i love flying on planes!!!!
okay there's really nothing else you can fly on except helis and all
but it was fun all the same.
we had cup noodles which costed like freaking four dollars!
but here's the thing,while the soup was piping hot,
the noodles were cold.
cooked deifintely, but cold.
rather weird.
but anyway, i mostly slept...and slept.
but when the plane was descending i was wide awake.
i loved the feeling that the plane is going down
but we're not crashing.
anyway, the same stuff when we landed,
collection of lugguage.
and then aunty jean who is with the nav in philippines came with arnold
( i'm sorry if the names are spelt wrong!xd)
to pick us up.
oh and on the way, we saw a truckload of fat pigs.
i'm not using the word lightly here when i say fat.
they are just humoungiagantic!!!
simply unbelievable!
poor things though i must say.
i mean they don't seem to realize that they are on their way to get slaughtered.
poor poor things...
anyway they were really nice a chirpy
and brought us to this shopping centre where we had tea.
a rather funny tea if you asked me.
we had carbonara(this one had noodles)
and pasta and all from the pancake house!!!
yea.
the portions were quite small which was just as well i guess
since it was only tea.
after that we shopped abit
but i guess being so tired from the flight
(which is rather strange since all we did on the flight was sleep)
we weren exactly in the mood.
i just went through the rackes and stoned quite a bit...
and then we went for dinner.
okay you might think 'you mean all they ever did there was eat and eat and eat?
thats not so, the best was yet to come.
anyway, we went to this bufffet with local food.
we weren that accustomed to the taste of cocal food i guess,
but it was okay all the same.
the thing that made the meal interestin
was trying all sorts of food that seemed weird to us
(but then again we probably weren used to it is all)
it was fun,
laughin at the funny faces of shock put on upon the first bite of certain foods and playing.
and soon we were back piled up in the very cool van which belonged to arnold.
and were on our way to the nav building!!!
it was a cosy place,very friendly to me i must say.
and our room was so cute with bunks and all. i
t didn take us long to fall asleep,
maybe it wasn that we were tired
but that we couldn wait for another jolly day to begin.


DAY 2: FRIDAY

i was the first of the young uns to wake up.
a nice man directed me to where my parents were with the others eating breakfast.
a nice breakfast i must say.
i have never tasted mango so sweet and the bread was swell.
aunty jean roused my interest in the book store
when she told me that they had true color books
selling for a hundred and twenty pesos which is equivilent to bout four dollars?
let me take a while to tell you that pesos is the most fun currency i've ever seen,
firstly its like they don't need cents!
just one number.
and they have ten pesos in coins even!!!
it is reallllllly awesome!!!
okay so maybe i'm getting over excited and sentimental
or whatever that call that.
but wait till you hear that i refused to spend some of my pesos just for souvenoirs.
okok back to the books.
we probably robbed looked like we robbed the bookstore,
but it was worth it.
it was so cool, browsing the bookstore.
and then, we left for greenhills(?)
okay its green something.. i forgot.
anyway, it was realy cool!!
but a little tiring if you asked me.
you basically just walk through open shops and shops of clothes shoes and bags.
and electronic stuff.
they kinda all sell the same thing but bargaining was fun.
and all the sales people are so polite and nice.
but it was flustering,
tryna squeeze through the shops that were so tightly packed.
grabbed some gifts.
we were there up til lunch. say hello to jollibee.
after lunch,we shopped more.
haha.
my mom managed to get a pretty call bag for my dear grandma.
i'm pretty sure she'll like it.haha.
right,
then it was off to the theme park.
but anyway,before reaching we stopped at manila bay( did i get that right?)
and oh wait did i mention that their buses are just the cutest thing ever?!!
the buses even have their own names!!
anyway, snap went the camera,
and belle and i fed the small kittens with dougnuts.
killer for sure, krispy kream is sooooo sweet!!!
but the kittens were skin and bones or rather fur and bones they were soooo skinny,
we couldn help it..
okay then it was the theme park.
whoop!
it was rather funny though.
oh oh and we saw FROSTY THE SNOWMAN!!
or rather some poor dude in a frosty costume who kept getting bumped by children.
well he can grumble all he want that's for sure,
in a jolly suite like that with such a happy wide smile stuck onto it,
no one can tell even if he was sulking.
but oh well,when we first entered,
we thought the place was small.
but soon we discovered the outdoors.
qued for a ride,played some fun store games,
then we headed back, tired and conked out but hungry.
we went to a chinese restaurant where we ate food.well duh right?
but the food was great!!
yupyupyup.
it was good.
on the way home and all we played funny games
like in your pants and all,
so we all cracked up and then back to the hotel for showers,
and plopp onto the bedand zzzz's.


DAY THREE: SATURDAY

say a whoooping hello to the mall of asia!
it is this giaganticalossal shopping mall.
it's huge really.
okay so actually all we did all day was shop.
i mean isn that what you do in a mall?
and there was this giant ice skating ring there.
but. i didn skate.
as much as i wanted to.
man skating is so awesome.
anyway, we ate at this food court for lunch.
i had mac n cheese.
i sure miss mac n cheese since america.
it was okay i guess.haha.
anyway, yea so we went shopping.
and shopping.
and shopping.
and shopping
and shopping
and okay you get what i mean.
my legs were like ouch.
but it was kinda fun.
especially when i goofed around.
the thing is, plain shopping isn fun.
you hafta try outragous stuff.
even if nobody would ever think them outfits are for actual wearing
its till fun.
especially when you look ridiculous.
haha.of course i can't always try on outragous clothes
if i'm gonna buy anythingbut once a store is fun.
especially shoes.
nicole and i spotted this shop that had the most peachy seats.
actually no, they almost looked scary,
like real animal's skin with a head.
but oh well.it was fun all the same.
ber said she saw them too.
anyway, for dinner that daywas fish and co.
oh and before dinner the rest had landed safely and came to join us.
yea fish and co was great.
but ber's family and my dad went to eat something else.
haha then the funny thing happened.
me, deb, and nicole went to the book store.
man, there were so many books there we lost track of time.
everyone was looking for us.
we were like half and hour late
and 'em adults almost reported to the security guards to page for us!
oh and did i mention that there are security guards everywhere?
EVERYWHERE. alot of them too.
so anyway, in the end they found us...
and then we went back to the nav centre.
only now cos there was more of us so instead of one family to a room,
the guys had a room and us girls slept in the girls dorm.
at least it wasn as cold as the previous nights though.
but haha we weren't about to sleep yet.
haha us youths played some swacking games first.
until our eyelids could open no longer then we went to zzz.
the next day: taygatay.
whopee


DAY FOUR: SUNDAY

oh man this post sure is long...
kkay anyway,
after a hurried packing and all we left for taygatay.
i'm so sorry but i don't quite remember the days events...
mostly we were on the road...
emme learned how to fix the rubiks( great job emme!!!)
compliments to me who teached her(fine fine i'll turn off my ego)
and jez's cube.
we went for dinner at someplace and then reached the hotel.
it was lovely.
and have i mentioned, the people there are sooo awesomely nice?
they act like everything is peachy even when you dont' say thanks and all.
they are so patient and all!!!
and not forgetting polite!
anyway, i didn have that much fun i guess,
my hand was suffering from the same old pain.
it was quite bad.
and its become such a bore to go to kkh so often.
but that's another thing.
oh well anyway, so i went to bed early.
haha.


DAY FIVE: MONDAY

must have been the early night,
i woke up as early as the rents.
but i just stoned in bed or read...
i don't know what time it was when ber called.
so i went to her room with the others awake there.
the adults had gone elsewhere so it was just us...
we had instant noodles for lunch.
and spent almost the entire day watchin tv
then went down to play a mix of captain's ball and ultimate frisbee.
and the weather was great!! really chilly though, and strong wind
... and yea, we played with a basketball.
it was heavier than a netball and harder to throw.
haha well duh, i've never been able to pass properly.
but it was fun all the same and i was really genuinely happy.
for that long.
anyway, we headed to the pool where we shared like two cans of coke.
yeayea so maybe two cans of coke is kinda little
but you can't say anything when one can costs a freaking two dollars.
and the pool side was so...romantic as emme put it.
yup we had fun then heade back to the room
we had spag for dinner.
an aunty rosy's original complete with tuna fish(???!!!)
it would have been great if they had passed on the tuna.
but oh well, it was nice all the same eating home cooked food even on holiday.
haha.
then then...oh shoot i forgot.
oh yea, we played cards!!
poker all the way man.
and i had a happy casino.
ironic isn't it?
it was brilliant!
and oh my after the stuff that has happened that have been a bummer,
(but oh well thanks to jest thank you girl!)
i finally was able to sorta forget.
and maybe i dont' care anymore.
its that or maybe, it just isn't such a big deal.
but anyway, back to the trip, i had a great time!
thanks to all my wonderful friends!
and of course my rents...
thanks guys, you have no idea how much ya'll mean.
love ya'll!!!!!!xdxdxd
okok anyway, i went to sleep quite soundly.


DAY SIX: TUESDAY

today is rated by me as the best day.
THE BEST IT WAS FANTASTICALLY WICKED AWESOME!
and that's the understatement of the century.
anyway, actually the day started quite crummy.
firstly, we waited real long for our tour guide for the day, romy.
now usually arnold drives us around
but we aparently the rents decided to find their own transport
although i dont' quite know why.
it was a bad wait though.
belle discovered mentos that had fuji apple flavour.
it was realy interesting.
i think its the best mentos flavour i've ever eaten
and we all know how much i love candyxdxd
okay anyway, apparently, due to miscommunication,
romy got the wrong place.
so we were quite late but anyway soon we piled into the bus the bus!
exactly the same as the ones with the names!!!!
it was real cool really wanted to try sitting in a bus like that.
and i sat at the end with an opening!
both de and i bought the true colors set,
so we brought one each.
anyway, the road was so dusty that in the end,
when we alighted, we were all covered in dust.
at least i was.
my forehead was full of dust when i rubbed it.
my book was covered in dust.
ber's camera was covered in dust.
but, at least my mom, my brother, dan and aunty rosy i think?
weren that bad cos they were sitting on the inside part.
but oh well.
we sang and talked and read while waiting for lunch.
lunch was good. veg and noodles. but abit too salty.
oh i learned something from de.
when dan says the food taste just right,
it means the food is too salty.
oh well. anyway,
after lunch we took a boat to the volcano crater.
man it was a mix of crud and awesome.
crud because i got soaked right up till my innings and was shivering cold.
awesome because it was plain fun!
poor emme didn seem to enjoy it though.
she and belle were sitting together and everytime a wave washed over us,
she made that oh so cute face and whimpered.
i was half laughin and half crying,
while my brother and jez were gloating at he back cos they didn get that wet.
well whatever,
the water splashing in made it more exciting.
haha but halfway through,
the boat ran outta the thing that makes them run.
i think its gas or smth.
anyway, we had to get attached to de's boat with dan yelling suckers off the back.
it wasn as fun after that cos we had to go slower.
but groovy all the same.
reaching there,
we alighted while i ran up to my mom to show off how drenched i was.
haha.
some poor ladies came up to us and almost seeemingly begged us
to purchase drinks and all.
i felt sooo sorry for them.
but not as sorry as the little children running along the cars on the big road,
begging for money or trying to sell stuff.
i mean jut one glance at their large round eyes pleading you,
and your heart aches
its prove that looks can kill and they're like skin and bones.
i guess it just makes me even more thankful to God
for all he has provided me with.
and i realize, i'm sooo fortunate.
oh well, anyway, there was a school there and horses!!!
and other animals like roosters and other farm animals.
anyway, we started walking up the trail to our destination,
which was the peak of somewhere...
okay anyway,
it was shit here and shit there.
it was just crummy...
i was like crud, we won't make it up and down again before dark.
thankfully, 'em rents payed for horserides up the sorta moutainlike thing
and it was the best horseride i've ever had!xdxd
my rider was a very nice lady,
my bro's was this dude who seemed to be really experienced,
ber had this guy who i think liked her alot,
de had a nice lady too,
emme had a lady too,
and dan had this really cute small dude
who was so cheerful and friendly.
the rest i'm not sure...
anyway, my horse was called sweet dreams and was such a dear.
the ride was wicked wicked smashing awesome.
no kidding.
first of all,
i've never ridden a horse by myself holding the ropes and all.
i mean of course the rider was the one hollering the commands
that made the horse gallop or trot but who cares!
i was holding the ropes!!
and it was one hell of a ride up a steep steep slope next to the cliff
at most parts one slip and byebye to my life!
my dad says he was kinda scared cos it was mostly dangerous.
mostly, i thought nothing of it
and had really literally the ride of my life.
my rider pointed out the holes where the hot gas from the volcanoes came out from.
man, it was hot!
emme's horse was hilarious.
simply hilarious.
it kept going for food very near the edge of the cliff.
real scary if you asked me,
but at the same time funny.
food food food. haha.
i shant post the comment i made...
it wasn that nice and i'm awful sorry.
but oh well.
jez looked funny cos he was so bloody tall and his horse was so bloody small.
my brother's rider was way cool,
taking the horse up the more dangerous but no doubt funner route.
my rider made sweet dreams gallop o' couple o' times.
it was rad.
the scenery was splendid!
okay this might sound really lame or whatever
but i suddenly felt like hidalgo or aragon.
i know of course for a fact that the speed they rode the horse
was like ten times faster
and they didn have someone else trailing at the back to make sure nothing went wrong
and their horses were definitely more well groom, much bigger,
much much bigger.
man, who am i kidding, my horse was like a pony.
but oh well, i had fun, can't blame me for my wild mind.
we reached the top and i sadly de mounted.
or whatever you call that action where you get off the horse.
anyway, the view was splendid and again, snap went the camera!
shirts were bought, pictures taken fun lived.
and then the much enticipated ride down.
talk about rad.
it was swell!
the ride down was scarier but definitely more thrilling and awesome,
dan's rider, the cute little dude galloped the horse all the way down.
a tinge of envy.
but just a little.
just as well, my ass was kinda sore...
we reached down and emme's horse,
thankfully,
wasn that hungry anymore.
we took the boat back.
but this time we sat in the back,
leavin jez and my bro in front.
but oh man, just my luck.
i got wet in the front quite bad and the guys didn have it that bad.
anyway, found out later,
that de deb and dan, the sibling trio
had fun sitting way in the front of the boat without any cover.
boy that must have been fun.
dinner was okay.
oh and they had coke.
i loved their coke cos they sold 'em in glass bottles.
call me weird but i thought it tasted better that way.
then we headed home.
at first i slept.
then awoke to my bro and dan singing.
so i joined in.
it was rad fun.
deb and de joined.
and emme slept.
so anyway we got back exhausted.
i was so freaking dirty,
i had to scrub myself extra hard and shampoo twice.
and then if im' not wrong we played poker again.
oh and i forgot that we also played boggle
a little anywy.
but we all got our asses whooped by who else?
deb, nicole and jez...sigh.
yea at de's room.
we had cup noodles and chilly noodles
and honey stars to accompany us into the night.
then we went to bed.


DAY SEVEN: WEDNESDAY

today arnold came.
and i woke up early...
anyway, some of us headed to this flower garden thing
that was really close to where we were staying.
actually all of us i with the exeption of emme my brother and deb.
all em were still snoozing away.
anyway, i had a much better time there than i expected.
yupyupyup!
the flowers were just stunning gorgeous.
they had these beds in the midst of tree trunks
with lamps hanging here and there that were simply the coolest.
of course the camera snapped some more again.
i found a giagantic pink lovely flower that had fallen onto the floor
and 'planted' it somewhere else.
of course the rest assured me that it would never grow.
ha.
they have no imagination that's for sure.
anyway, i loved the girls bathroom.
i know i know you are probably going like
'this girl has gone nuts' i assure you i have not gone nuts cos i already AM nuts.
haha.
the entrance to the toilet was a drawed curtain
trimmed with seashells cool to the touch.
once you enter the curtain,
you reach a little room that as a cute wooden bench and a wooden dressing table
complete with three mirrors facing whoever was sitting on the little stool
that was placed in front of the table.
curtains similiar to that of the entrance
were hung behind the bench that leaned against the window.
there was a wooden door from the inside that let to the real toilet.
haha.
the sink was outside this tiny room that supposedly to me,
had come from a fairytale.
the sink was an oval bowl which rested on a pile of square bricks.
a rather peculiar sink if you asked me but it worked all the same.
then... after takin a few pictures,
dan stepped on dog remains.
haha.
poor dude.
poor ber too who followed suit.
so while they were busy gettin it off their shoes
i went to the herb place with nicole de and my dad and my mom and well all the others.
it was real cool. i loved the smell.
not of the herbs though.
of the food coming from the kitchen of a restaurant that was right beside the herb garden
haha.
me and food again.
after that,
we went back to the hotel to drop some people off
so they can play at the club house
and get belle to continue go shop and sight see.
acutally we went to shop. again.
we were suppose to go picnic grove first but you hafta pay
and the only thing to do there is to horse ride which will be useless
since we had gone for the best horseride ever!xd
okay then we headed to people's park in the sky.
like almost the highest peak. but it wasn much use i guess.
the fog was so heavy i couldn see past ten feet.
or maybe even less.
still it was cool cos it seemed like we were in another dimension.
where almost everything was white.
bloody awesome.
oh and then we went to the shoe mart.
nope, they don't just sell shoes,
they sell a whole lot more.
we had lunch at shakeys.
its something like pizza hut i guess.
but man it was delicious to the t( i made this thing up, don't use it in your compo)
clapped in a place like that, the food was cool.
there was pizza, pasta, potato mojo's, chicken, lemon tea
and oh my jollywalodi, i was full after lunch.
yupyup, full to the brim!
then it was time to shop!
haha we found perfume great for gifts and me and de bought some.
and then we shopped shopped and shopped.
de found a beany with brim that my brother so wanted,
but the price it cost could buy me like eight other kinds of beanies.
oh well. haha.
it was fun but tiring though
and i bought cotten candy!
let me take a step back and tell you that cotten candy
is one of my favourite kind of candy.
its so fluffy and melts in your mouth.
you feel like your floating and can't help smiling as the floss melts in your mouth.
the sweet taste is sooooo good.
anyway, i got a cone and aunty eileen was so nice.
she bought like five balls of them talk about delirious.
okay maybe i'm over exaggerating.
but whatever, its cotton candy dudes!
we were suppose to go back to meet the three guys, emme and deb.
but poor poor uncle daniel lost his phone.
i think its a very valuable phone too!
apparently he left it in his pocket and then it disappeared.
so he guessed it was stolen.
so he had to go make a police report and because it was so late,
we couldn go back to fetch the others for dinner.
instead we stayed at sm for dinner.
not a bad thing though.
chowking was the best.
i think it was my favourite meal in philippines.
yup, thats a positive.
they sell chinese food.
okay maybe i was just craving for chinese food after the previous days without it.
so the food tasted doubly nice.
but still it was cool.
uncle daniel came back with arnold pretty late,
and by the time we got back it was close to twelve.
but all in all we had fun and we still played cards actually,
i didn stay that long.
i guess my eyelids just couldn open so i went back to our room to sleeeeeeeeeeep.
so far everything: peachy.
but i didn want tomorrow to come.


DAY EIGHT: THURSDAY
the last and final day :(
of course i woke up and went
'awww so soon'
but oh well.
haha.
i woke up at seven forty five.
went to have breakfast at some place in the hotel.
i swear it looked just like a little cottage and it was next to the pool.
haha the food was great!
there were pancakes, beef broth, mango juice, coffee
man, i'd never tasted such nice pancakes!
haha anyway, after the wonderful meal,
i went back to our room to pack some then it was off to ber's room.
that's where we usually met.
soon we set off for manila.
haha due to some miscommunication however,
we went to people's park in the sky first.
i managed to get beanies which i'm sure jest and didi will just love.
(i'm sorry bout the skateboards jest, wait a while longer is all!!)
then we headed to manila, or rather the mall of asia there.
its so big though, there were so many shops there we haven't visited!
we slept all the way.
ber and belle went for manicures and pedicures and ended up with lovely nails!
haha, i decided to go around with my rents.
first though, we headed to this coffee place.
now, we all know how much i love candy,
and so it should come across as no surprise
that i loved the caramel coffee there!
haha! it was good!!!
the first shop we hit was pierre cardin
where we picked out two shirts for my dad.
haha, it made him shockingly slim!
( i'm not being mean here, but really, he looked alot skinner)
haha.
after that we went here and there, s
hopping for new year stuff.
it was quite fun tryina beat the time to visit as many shops as possible.
anyway, we ate at chowking for dinner again(jollygood)
and then we all piled into the van to get to the airport(:( )
it was fun on the plane, i got the window seat and despite it being almost pitch black,
the clouds were visible and most definitely, the stars.
it was awesome.
slept some, played paper games with my mom and slept again.
then i woke up like somewhere in the middle.
no one from our group was sleeping so we kinda goofed around a little
and before long, we were landing.
singapore was gorgeous from up above with all the city lights.
the view was real pretty.xdxd
anyway, after the usual stuff, we got out.
we spilt, leaving our family and nicole's family.
we went to the caffe to grab a bite.
after the meal, headed home thanks to a taxi.
i'll miss philippines, but it is good to be home.


next day: all i seem to be able to do is sleep, eat and sleep some more:)
thank God for the holidays:)
i love my friends.xdxdxdxdxdxd

that's all folks, i'm sorry its so long:)

oh and i can't wait for hong kong!!xdxd

peachy