Oooh boy...
My three favorite tagalog songs were played here in the cafe...sunod sunod pa. So mahirap hindi magsenti, hehe. Oh well, but I'd rather not talk about that now. So I'll just post few lines from the song in my head right now...
"Oh I am what I am, I'll do what I want but I can't hide
I won't go, I won't sleep, I can't breathe until you're resting here with me
I won't leave, I can't hide, I cannot be, until you're resting here with me."
-HERE WITH ME by Dido
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My last few days of sembreak in Cebu was great. Especially the day Ana had a post birthday celebration at Shakey's. Others who were present were Gail, Denise, Ronald, Czarnie, and Joy(who left early). I met up with Denise before the celebration to pick out a gift for Ana and to catch up with what's been up with her lately. We ended up buying a Calvin & Hobbes comic book, which i would have gladly bought for myself, hehe...oh well. I was quite content listening to everyones chika sessions over lunch and Gail gave me 2 music cds with so many cool songs on them. Thanks Gail! Well after lunch, we headed for Ayala...the old stomping grounds of our batch some years ago. We were a bit undecided on what to do there though, if we were gonna go play billiards or something. But no, we ended up lounging around again and spent a whole lot of the time playing around with trivia was happily bombarding our way. Before we decided to split ways, we decided to have a group picture of us taken (which would be the first time I'd be part of their group pics.)...but I think i blinked on both shots, darn. But I still had lots of fun that afternoon.
I bummed myself out that night coz I went with my parents to some halloween party in the country club. None of my brothers were there coz they all had their own "gimmicks". But the live band with RJ Jacinto was pretty good though playing some good old rock from the oldies. But still, I was bummed out...it just wasn't my crowd (haha, as if I have one at all).
I couldn't think of a better way to end my vacation than have some friendly competition with my brothers (see Brothers Olympics). I really missed being competitive in sports and just getting to fool around with the some trash talking was nice, hehe. It was all good.
Hmmm...as usual, I was still tense thinking about getting on an airplane again.
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There has always been something in silence that seduced me. The quiet things somehow seem more moving, more potent. So much stays in the realm of the unsaid, and after everything else, still so much would remain when we could say all that we can.
Thursday, November 04, 2004
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
The Brothers Olympics
Me and my 3 other brothers (Jon, III, and Ron)have come up with the idea to have a sort of olympics. We are going to pair off and compete in the best of 5 from six different sports to choose from. The sports are billiards, bowling, basketball, table tennis, relay and Volleyball. I have teamed up with Kuya Boky and the team that wins 3 of the sports first wins the Olympics. The loser of the most recent sport competed for gets to choose what the next sport would be. Of course, knowing me and my brothers, there's always something at stake. There's a bet of P5000 on the line (Thats more than enough to get me a darn good scanner!). And yesterday, we kicked it off!
Billiards
It starts off with a one one one. I go against Kuya Popot and my partner goes against Ron. Uhm...we lost this one. So we go to the next game...
Bowling
Naturally, we creamed them on this one by totally decimating them in the first two games of a best of 5 series. But they caught up to tie the series and force a game 5. But unfortunately for them, they had no chance in the last game.
Stats...
So far, the games are tied at one a piece, Can't wait for December to collect! hehe
Me and my 3 other brothers (Jon, III, and Ron)have come up with the idea to have a sort of olympics. We are going to pair off and compete in the best of 5 from six different sports to choose from. The sports are billiards, bowling, basketball, table tennis, relay and Volleyball. I have teamed up with Kuya Boky and the team that wins 3 of the sports first wins the Olympics. The loser of the most recent sport competed for gets to choose what the next sport would be. Of course, knowing me and my brothers, there's always something at stake. There's a bet of P5000 on the line (Thats more than enough to get me a darn good scanner!). And yesterday, we kicked it off!
Billiards
It starts off with a one one one. I go against Kuya Popot and my partner goes against Ron. Uhm...we lost this one. So we go to the next game...
Bowling
Naturally, we creamed them on this one by totally decimating them in the first two games of a best of 5 series. But they caught up to tie the series and force a game 5. But unfortunately for them, they had no chance in the last game.
Stats...
So far, the games are tied at one a piece, Can't wait for December to collect! hehe
A week in Cagayan...
My dad picked us up at the port 10 minutes after we arrived with his brand new silver Honda CRV. I couldn't wait to get to the house, but since everyone else but me didn't get to eat breakfast yet, we had to stop by at Jollibee. When we finally got to the campus (Liceo de Cagayan University), I found out my dad stayed in the museum which seemed a bit creepy with all those old stuff there and with no one else around really. But the the garden was really big...as in BIG, and they had a pet eagle and a parrot. And in the garage, a bunch of cool cars were lined up, like a vintage convertible jaguar, a rolls royce, a couple of BMW's and some more of this and that. So after taking our much needed baths (trust me...you DO NOT want to take showers on the boat), we scoured the city to get an idea of what places to go to throughout the week. Later that night, we ate at Sunburst Fried Chicken with their eat/drink all you can promo (P119)...sobrang sulit at sarap. Hmmm, if most of my friends think I'm a big eater, wait till they see my brothers! My youngest brother has the biggest mouth among us though, he averaged 8-10 chicken peices of chicken everytime we ate there (not yet including all the rice, drinks and side salads and stuff). Later that night, we decided to spend our weekend in Camiguin, and that meant only one thing...SWIMMING!
We went to Camiguin the next day by boat, a much larger one from what I expected. But I was glad for a change that the docks were really clean, and there was nothing but stretches of green and blue for as far as the eye could see. The baot trip wasn't more than an hour, and when we got there, we found out that it was their Lansones Festival and that tourists were flocking in. It took us a while to look for a resort since they were all fully booked, but thatnkfully, we got to one just in time to get their last available room, whew!
One of the attractions in Camiguin is the White Island which is actually a sandbar about a kilometer away from our resort. We immediately went off to the small island of nothing but soft white sand. and the water was really shallow in a lot of areas which was ideal for wading. I left my brothers to make a tour of the island...but turns out it was a bad idea coz i had encounters with the third kind...oh well. But nonetheless, I got to circle the island unscathed and i got to enjoy one of the most beautiful sunsets I have ever seen. *MENTAL NOTE: NEVER FORGET TO BRING A CAMERA* Oh well, I made sure to make a mental image of it in my head and I'll get down to painting it very soon. We went back to the resort around 7 and had dinner. Me and my brothers then decided to just play cards until 1 am. The next day, we just loitered around the beach and prepared to head back to Cagayan coz my older brother had to catch his trip back to Cebu ahead of us.
The next few days, me and my younger brother basically spent most of our time malling, pigging out, taking driving lessons from our dad and watching tv. Hmm...I'm getting tired of writing coz the computer has been malfunctioning and i end up losing a bunch of stuff I've already written down. So...i'll just make a list of stuff i like to rememeber about the trip...
Cagayan highlights and others...
1. Must remember not to be the last one to sleep if you don't want lay victim to a snorefest from brothers and dad.
2. Always bring a camera
3. Must go back to the restauraunt by the beach if I ever get back to Cagayan.
4. My younger brother had a supernatural experience in the museum at night. When he tried to hide away from us to answer the call of his "gf", he was frightened when the rocking chair in the main living room started moving on its own. Haha, the poor boy went back in the room with us:)
5. My dad was onced followed by a jeep full of armed men. Luckily, the jeep was no match for the speed of a CRV.
6. I had overtook my first car, or truck rather, in Cagayan...woohoo!
(will add if I remember anything more to add...)
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"Life is suffering. And the source of all suffering is desire"-buddhist saying
My dad picked us up at the port 10 minutes after we arrived with his brand new silver Honda CRV. I couldn't wait to get to the house, but since everyone else but me didn't get to eat breakfast yet, we had to stop by at Jollibee. When we finally got to the campus (Liceo de Cagayan University), I found out my dad stayed in the museum which seemed a bit creepy with all those old stuff there and with no one else around really. But the the garden was really big...as in BIG, and they had a pet eagle and a parrot. And in the garage, a bunch of cool cars were lined up, like a vintage convertible jaguar, a rolls royce, a couple of BMW's and some more of this and that. So after taking our much needed baths (trust me...you DO NOT want to take showers on the boat), we scoured the city to get an idea of what places to go to throughout the week. Later that night, we ate at Sunburst Fried Chicken with their eat/drink all you can promo (P119)...sobrang sulit at sarap. Hmmm, if most of my friends think I'm a big eater, wait till they see my brothers! My youngest brother has the biggest mouth among us though, he averaged 8-10 chicken peices of chicken everytime we ate there (not yet including all the rice, drinks and side salads and stuff). Later that night, we decided to spend our weekend in Camiguin, and that meant only one thing...SWIMMING!
We went to Camiguin the next day by boat, a much larger one from what I expected. But I was glad for a change that the docks were really clean, and there was nothing but stretches of green and blue for as far as the eye could see. The baot trip wasn't more than an hour, and when we got there, we found out that it was their Lansones Festival and that tourists were flocking in. It took us a while to look for a resort since they were all fully booked, but thatnkfully, we got to one just in time to get their last available room, whew!
One of the attractions in Camiguin is the White Island which is actually a sandbar about a kilometer away from our resort. We immediately went off to the small island of nothing but soft white sand. and the water was really shallow in a lot of areas which was ideal for wading. I left my brothers to make a tour of the island...but turns out it was a bad idea coz i had encounters with the third kind...oh well. But nonetheless, I got to circle the island unscathed and i got to enjoy one of the most beautiful sunsets I have ever seen. *MENTAL NOTE: NEVER FORGET TO BRING A CAMERA* Oh well, I made sure to make a mental image of it in my head and I'll get down to painting it very soon. We went back to the resort around 7 and had dinner. Me and my brothers then decided to just play cards until 1 am. The next day, we just loitered around the beach and prepared to head back to Cagayan coz my older brother had to catch his trip back to Cebu ahead of us.
The next few days, me and my younger brother basically spent most of our time malling, pigging out, taking driving lessons from our dad and watching tv. Hmm...I'm getting tired of writing coz the computer has been malfunctioning and i end up losing a bunch of stuff I've already written down. So...i'll just make a list of stuff i like to rememeber about the trip...
Cagayan highlights and others...
1. Must remember not to be the last one to sleep if you don't want lay victim to a snorefest from brothers and dad.
2. Always bring a camera
3. Must go back to the restauraunt by the beach if I ever get back to Cagayan.
4. My younger brother had a supernatural experience in the museum at night. When he tried to hide away from us to answer the call of his "gf", he was frightened when the rocking chair in the main living room started moving on its own. Haha, the poor boy went back in the room with us:)
5. My dad was onced followed by a jeep full of armed men. Luckily, the jeep was no match for the speed of a CRV.
6. I had overtook my first car, or truck rather, in Cagayan...woohoo!
(will add if I remember anything more to add...)
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"Life is suffering. And the source of all suffering is desire"-buddhist saying