Zamora Reunion 2013

Last December, I was part of my very first family reunion - but this wasn't your
normal kind of just-have-lunch-together-then-go-home kind of thing - this reunion
took a looooong time to plan. We had a bunch of family dinners and meetings and
more meetings and more meetings until I just stopped going because I had too much work, haha.


The day finally came. We had to be there at 9am in our Zamora family shirts
(Omg yes we had color-coordinated shirts for each branch of the Zamora family ok)

Mom and I both wore sneakers

Was happy to get there and see so much lechon!

Lol, let me introduce Bebas Neue, my favorite go-to font for absolutely anything,
especially when I need a nice font for a project. It's clean and pretty and not the annoying kind of bold.

This is where the reunion happened (I am from Slytherin)

Sitting with my cousin Ysabel before everything started

Pammy's not looking lol.
Kamusta naman ang Zamora emblem on a shirt, 'yo.

Ate's cute fan

There was a part in the mass when we had to raise our thumbs to praise god or love or something.
AHAHAHAHA look at Miko's face AHAHA omg Ate was laughing a lot when she took this

Another funny part: They were flashing the lyrics of Little Drummer Boy...

Playing with my table napkin at mass

Kuya Leo asking for a photo with Tess

Lucky kids who were allowed to eat Mcdo at the reunion

On the way to the car because we got bored.
Exit reunion, enter Tisha's house.

Flabebe (Oh you know, just the Pokemon who caused a whole war)

Charmander my love

Tisha's ghetto nails

Was time to go back to the family because lunch was over and the program was about to start.
Exit Tisha's house, enter Megatent again!


Found my long lost far away cousin Jana (It was more of she found me, but anyway)
who I haven't seen in such a long time. We both went to
St. Paul, Pasig for school and were classmates in the 4th grade! :-)

Behind the stage area at the tent, there were exhibits of each branch (I am from the Tomas branch)
and when I looked to check for my name, I WAS NOT THERE. HOW DARE THEY
Hehe lol joke lang am not enggry

Kuya Dennis sang "I Will Be Here."
He said, "This song is dedicated to my beautiful mother."
Insert 3-second pause. "Si dad na rin nga."

When Kuya was singing, Mom got up from her seat and went to Dad, then sat on his lap!!!
(I obviously have a photo of this event, but as usual, I have been forbidden to show it)


It was so shocking that everyone started taking my parents' photo instead of my brother's,
who was still singing on stage at the time. :-)) (Sino kaya yang nandun sa likod?)

Left the tent again, but only to hang out in the car and get some aircon.

Video game break

We really do weird things when we're bored

This girl just got so bored she actually fell asleep

Went back inside the tent for the raffle, where Markus won a yoga lesson, then it was time to go!
HAPPY REUNION TO ALL 864 OF US
(Omg ang dami guys)

22 YEARS OLD

OMG I FORGOT TO TALK ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY I TURNED 22 LAST NOVEMBER!
(And yes that was what I wore to my party)

Christmas 2013

MERRY LATE CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!

Last Christmas, (I gave you my heart) ops super baduy joke sorry.

Last Christmas, we mostly celebrated in our room
(Which is why most of the photos were taken in there)

Following two photos were taken and directed by Ate:

1. "Ana, you lie down on the bed. Mickey, move next to Tracy. Okay, now smile."

2. "Now laugh with your heads back!"

For some reason gift-opening came waaaay before midnight.

Ate got me strawberry shorts and a lot more cute things,

and Kuya Manolo got me a lamp I could draw on!!!

Miko taught Christian how to do a flip (with the help of his shoulder)

You can never separate these two.

So I just make buntot all the time

How the room looked after the opening of gifts

Merry Christmas to my favorite yaya!!!

"Grabe ang ganda talaga ng homicidal dog na yan."
- Dad on Simba

Hanging out with Jesus and Christian
(Happy Birthday, man!!!)

Christian in his kung fu attire (aka ribbon on his forehead) telling me to help him get up

Christian crying to Ate after one of the kids stole his kung fu attire

Mickey being a serious Indian.
Don't the shadows on his face look like Indian facepaint?

I ran out of space on the bed.

Christian after getting over his missing kung fu attire.
Christian deciding that he would be part of our army instead.
Christian ordering us to get up and start a war with the other kids.

Dad's Birthday 2013

It feels great to be able to post entries that aren't about New York!!!

I've been stuck on that Day Six + Day Seven entry for such a long time eh!

We were back at White Space for Dad's birthday last year!

Here's Mickey with some Pink Berry. 

(This was the night that Tess developed an obsession

with their hazelnut flavored yogurt)

Us kids had to stay at a table outside,

so we killed time by taking shots like this 

until they called us for dinner time.

(also known as boredom strikes part one)

Pink Berry is yummy guys, go try some.

(Tess recommends the chocolate crunch topping.

She swears that it is to die for.)

Mickey, Daffy, and Tess wanted a photo with Mr. Alan-dude and Mr. Manny Villar

Kuya Dennis sang with Lee Grane (LEE GRANE!!!!!!!)

But she also sang alone and it was super nice as usual!!!

Boredom strikes part two - trying to recreate a Pinoy teleserye poster

while waiting for the lechon to re-appear at the buffet area.

(I wanted to post a photo of my parents being all cuddly here, but Dad told me not to)

This is Tito Mau, one of the cutest lolos I have ever met.

He likes taking and editing pictures and giving them as gifts.

He's also super kaduper nice and cuuuuuuute

Kuya Dennis sang with Mayor Lani + Lino helping set up the mic

Ate and her cat ears

Chame and Ate Diday

Yay family picture!!!

Boredom strikes part three - Pretending to raise lighters like people do at concerts 

+ being a super dramatic piano player

Tess + Kuya Lino (Omg I feel really weird about this I still don't know how to address

him cos saying "Kuya" feels weird but just saying Lino seems a little disrespectful :-)) )

Miko is missing!

I introduced Carlos to (the awesome and super cool) Tito Greg that night.

When Mickey took this, Tito Greg was telling me that my shoes were cool

and I was telling him that his shoes were cooler.

Tito Greg discussing what to do in life after graduation, lol

Dad sang a song for Mom! Yihee!

It's been years, but I still haven't given up trying to ask Ate for a picture 

and having her cooperate with me.

Jeroen and Kuya Dennis

Put a heart between Kuya Lino and Fille because they got married recently CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Went home and opened Dad's gifts as usual

Super cute cos I found a gift from Dad's two secretaries and his long-time driver, Eddie.

So cute, 'no? They all pitched in to get him some chocolates I love them huhuhuh!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!

NY: Day Six + Day Seven

Oops. Super late again with the blog posts.

Work has been making me not want to post anything

and just go to sleep every chance I get - but I was feeling very relaxed today, so tah dah!

The New York posts will finally end today!

On Day Six (aka the last day there), I didn't feel like going out anymore

so I asked to stay at the hotel until it was time for lunch.

Kuya Manolo did the same and went up to our room to come get me at around 11:30am,

then we got a cab and rode to Rockefeller Center, where we found out that the girls still

weren't done shopping. (Hay naku!!!) 

I said to Kuya Manolo that there wasn't anywhere I wanted to go so 

I just made buntot. He went to Lacoste and got a few shirts for himself 

and it was finally time for lunch around 30 minutes later.

(We shouldn't've left so early!!!)

Lunch was at the Rock Center Cafe where I ate really yummy leaves!

Kuya Dennis was showing off the coins that he was planning to give to Jackie Chan.

(Inside joke that happened a few posts before this one)

Passed by Brookstone because Mom was checking out some neck pillows.

I saw a Boogie Board there and remembered Carlos' lola, Abu, who would write down what she wanted to say on it because of a complication in her speech before she passed. I drew on the one I saw at the store cos I suddenly missed her! I was about to erase the drawing when the salesperson behind me said,
"No, leave it there, I like it!"

Spent the rest of the afternoon with Mom at the Center, and then went with 

Kuya Dennis to the sports store nearby so he could buy his daughter Maxine a pair of shoes.

Yay birds!

Mom didn't know where she wanted to eat for dinner, so we ended up at Bryant Park again.

It was cute this time though, because I accidentally dropped my knife on the floor,

and I guess the lady behind me thought that I was embarrassed about it so she

turned around to face me and said, "Oh, that happens to me aaaall the time!"

After bringing Mom back to the hotel, we left for Times Square because we were going to watch Romeo and Juliet (starring ORLANDO BLOOM!!!!!!) and we didn't want to be late.

Had some proper dinner at Shake Shack! 

(This place gets reaaaaaally full. When we bought our food we just
stood there waiting for a group of people to finish eating so we could get some seats,
 and we saw this Korean family who were just sitting there talking - no food anymore,
except for a lola munching on some fries. My siblings and I were planning
 on how to stare at them so they would get the message and leave,
 but nothing was working! Soon there were more people standing near us,
staring at the same family who STILL WASN'T GETTING UP!
Omg anyway finally they left and I had a great dinner)

Spot the minions, 'yo. I know how much people love them

Passed by M&M's World because Tisha wanted more pink ones to give away at her birthday.

(The bag of white ones ended up being Kuya Dennis' way to stay awake at the play that night)

That dad on the left was totally judging me.

Last night at Times Square!!! (Deep inside, yay. I can't be away from Manila 

for too long because I get homesick pretty easy! Lol)

Super long line for Romeo and Juliet because:

1. It was opening night

2. ORLANDO BLOOM

Chenen!!!

I know photos are not allowed, but the play was done anyway so I tried to snap one with my phone - the one shot I had failed miserably!!! (Pero Orlando Bloom's the one in black taking a bow there, in the middle. And I got to see him topless + ride a motorcycle around the stage so I guess it's ok)

Boys were hungry again so we stopped to get some food, again.

Now get this - We saw Maria Sharapova na naman. This time with her boylet, walking around

the Duane Reed near the hotel. Ate Diday and Kuya Dennis were both telling me AGAIN,

"KUHANAN MO NA!!!!" but I chickened out and regretted it the moment we began walking 

back to the hotel. I said to myself that if ever she passed by the lobby again I would ask na.

Fast forward to back at the hotel, and lo and behold, she DID pass by.

It went a little like this:

(Ana and Kuya Manolo standing outside the hotel)

(Maria + boylet are about to walk in)

ANA: Hi, may I take your picture?

MARIA: (Doesn't look at me) No sorry

And that was it. =)))))

Omg sobrang fail pero at least I tried? HAHAHA

Day Seven and all our bags are packed!

(I only own the purple Rimowa, the rest are Ate Diday's and Mom's)

Arranged Ate Diday's money because organization is good.

Same driver who took us to the hotel on the first night picked us up on our last day.

They told me to make sure not to make them ugly when I took their photo, lol.

Meet Gwapo-Guy-Who-Helped-Us-With-Our-Bags. 

The hotel gave us these when we left.

(This is what a pretty font looks like, okay? Learn, people!!!)

And then it was finally to go home!!!

The end