NY: (Not quite) Day One

Hiii! This is the story of how I went to New York.

(Lol yes this entry is about the journey there! Hahaha

it won't be pointless, I promise. Some really funny things happened)

Standing on the baggage weighing scale - this is not allowed pls wag tularan.

I took this when we were fixing our tickets to Hong Kong.

I didn't take any photos at the lounge, but this did happen there...

MOM: 'Day, may tsismis ako sa'yo mamaya.

ATE DIDAY: Sige, mamaya sa lounge.

ANA: Can I know the tsismis?

MOM: No, Anette. It's about sex. 

Took a photo of the guy in the seat next to me

When we landed in Hong Kong, we had to go through inspection before 

we could go to the next lounge (which was my plan) or go shopping 

(this was Ate Diday and Mom's plan, duh) tapos Kuya Manolo called me and said:

Merienda at the Cathay lounge

I had noodles from the Noodle Bar! (Hi Trachea, I remembered you!)

When Ate Diday and Mom left to go shopping, I moved into an
emo spot at the lounge (I have a photo of that on my LJ blog, except it's gone now!)
and had an ice cream while talking to Kimpoi and Carlos on Viber.

Walking to the plane..............................................................

For a 14-hour flight, always have a comfortable shirt to sleep in.
This polo is not that shirt.

This is that shirt! 

The plane pretends it's night time so that people go to sleep!
I was busy watching a bunch of movies and shows -
and when I actually wanted to sleep na, the plane started shaking
and I thought we were going to die :-| I was just lying there
 wishing for the shaking to calm down huhuhuhuhuhuhuhu

Fast forward to New York! We were in line for whatever it is you have to do
when you get to a new country - I have no idea what it is called
but it involves showing your passport and giving your finger prints. That is not
the point here, because the point is
JOHN LEGEND PASSED BY US WHILE WE WERE STANDING IN LINE

YEAH AS IN THIS GUY OK.
Huhuhuhu I love him

(Thank you, Google #1)


Ate Diday had a driver pick us up, and I got to ride shotgun!

Fast forward again - chenen! This is the lobby of our hotel.

This is us on the way up to our floor.

The guy who checked us in was also the guy who brought our bags up to our rooms.
While he was moving our luggage, he asked me if I wanted a fun fact.

Yes, as in this guy.

(Thank you, Google #2)

Now, I haven't been back to New York for quite a while
(Quite a while = 16 years), so nothing looked familiar to me.


The restaurant at the lobby of our hotel was closed and they wanted to eat dinner,
so we walked around a bit. Our hotel is right in front of the Public Library, by the way!

We turned at the corner and ended up at Bryant Park where we found
a restaurant, so we decided to eat there (read: gutomy abwell)

And that's pretty much it for the On-the-way-there-because-I-don't-count-it-as-a-day post!

My website's up!

Okay I have been worrying about a decent portfolio website for a while now, 

because the last one I made was pure HTML (and purely for portfolio class in school, haha) 

and when I checked back on it recently, a lot of codes were broken. 

I got scared thinking that people who were thinking about hiring me would

 be seeing the broken links so I decided to kill my whole site and remake it into a whole new thing.

I gave up on coding on pure HTML na rin, and looked for a nice Wordpress theme - 

Fast forward to editing and editing the theme I got, and now I think I'm finally happy with it.
(Happy enough to share with the world jhgdsjhdjs)

I still feel weird about the logo though... But I guess this will do for now.

Just click my face to see it!

Singapore: Day Four (and kind of Five)

On the last whole day in Singapore, I declared that I would shop.

(This would include Tisha's pasalubong, my friends' pasalubong, and me me me)

Hoy I was wearing denim pa rin ha. 

Extra information - I sewed the sleeves on this shirt to keep them folded forever.

Hala? (Miko was making me do something other than just standing there)

So ayon - Miko went off to meet up with his frisbee buddies, Mom and Dad went off

to Takashimaya, Ate Diday was somewhere too, and I walk from the hotel to Cineleisure

and went to Burger King for some lunch since everything was still closed.

When I was a kid, Ate would always order a whopper but ask that it be plain.

As in meat and bread lang, then she'd put ketchup on it while eating it.

I never grew out of it.

So ayon, after lunch, the stores were opening na. 

Biglang whaaaaaat? I found my high school friend Marga in a store!

(In Singapore pa of all places 'no? I hadn't seen her in a long time)

She's the one on the right. Tapos the friend she was with was from Benilde

pala, and she told me that she'd see me around Taft all the time.

(Lol nice to finally meet you - in Singapore. Lol)

Tapos she offered to take our picture so yay :-h

After spending a few hours at Cineleisure, I was a happy kid na so I walked 

back to the hotel na. I passed by some Milo at the milk tea place next door, 

then headed upstairs to the room. Had a pretty long Facetime call with Kimpoi

Also ate the Yan Yan I got from Seven Eleven on the first night.

I ended up throwing it away because it was super stale, jej.

Sana may Milo din sa milk tea places dito

Tapos ayon, Miko, Anica, and Ana just spent the rest of the day at the hotel.

Got room service na rin instead of going out (because we planned to go out 

then everyone just got lazy so ayon)

Fast forward to Day Five, where nothing particularly interesting happened.

(except for finding a robot and a deck of cards with wild animals on them in the airport)

I kinda slept through the flight, then I woke up with an hour left

before Manila, so I asked if I could have some bread and butter.

The steward appeared with different kinds, and I was so happy that 

I said, "YAY!" and then he said "YAY!" right back at me!

Huhuhuhu thank you for being happy for me, steward guy.

When I got back to Manila, Carlos told me that his parents were inviting

me to dinner, and I was allowed (WOOHOO)

so when we got home, I just dressed up, re-makeup-ed, then left!

We had ramen that night. It was goooooood.

Singapore: Day Three

This post was super kaduper delayed because nothing much happened
the last two days there so I got pretty lazy to blog about it.
Hemingway - here it is!


Day Three was the only day that I got to go around with Mr. Chow!
(He remembers me even though the last time he saw me I had black hair!)

That day I was with Ate Diday, Miko, and Anica.
They told me they'd take me to the best Korean Barbecue ever.

We went to an old church that they turned into a city walk thinggie kind of place.

Pretty, 'no? It's not used for masses anymore eh.
There were shops and restaurants

Chenen - we're suddenly at the Korean place.
Miko was deciding what to order

I found a tiny dilis head on my placemat.

Daming food

Nom

Ate Diday told me I would fall in love with this egg and I diiiiid.
It was super fluufy. (It's steamed egg)

Miko's broken credit card
(I don't have pictures, but after lunch we went to the bank to have it replaced)

Following the denim deal again - that's a top that I got from
Singapore with my Ate a few years back. It's ProudRace!

(Ayaw sumali ni Miko sa picture pero nasama pa rin siya -
You cannot escape the wide lens)

HEHE HELLO MR. CHOW
(The cap says 1991 - yes that was the year I was born)

Fast forward to dinner.
Grabe guys, I only had a Tori Q meal once on the whole trip.
I love you chicken skin.

After dinner, we were running late for our movie,
(Which was at VivoCity - a faraway place - but also the only
one with seats to Great Gatsby kaya gora na) so Miko asked the cab
driver if we could get to the mall in ten minutes, and it was
around the fourth scariest car ride I've ever been on.


Passed by Samsung(?) and it was so bright

Met up with Miko's friends at the cinema and paid for the seats we reserved

Chenen (I sat next to Ate Diday because I'm shy)
Scary pa kasi it was during the movie when the bombing at Serendra
happened so we couldn't concentrate for a bit kasi Ate Diday got a text about it

When we left the cinmea after the movie was over, the mall was pretty much closed na.

We couldn't get a cab home because everyone was trying to get a cab home so we
walked a bit further from the mall and tried to get a cab from there.

Something funny that Miko told me about -
Before they got to our room, Miko picked up Anica at the lobby.
They were so into their conversation that he didn't notice he'd pressed
the 7th floor instead of the 8th. He went to the room that was supposedly ours
(except it was one floor below lol), and tried to work the card key but
the door wouldn't unlock. He tried it a bunch of times until the lady inside heard
and opened the door. She started at them for a few seconds then slammed it shut lelz.