Blog Version 12:
Butterflies/Flutter
my delayed Bacolod entry
9:54 AM
April 28, 2008
Bacolod was great, but it was so activity packed, I decided to just list down some highlights so I don't forget anything. XD I went with Sig, Stacy and Vigile, along with Sig's family, and we stayed at Sig's family's resort, the Quiet Place. Free of charge too! They're so nice. /hug (I'm actually using Vigile's skeletal entry as a base, cause I get confused with the days. ^^)
Day 1:
Sims and waiting
Departure from Manila. Delayed flight.
Korean couple-stalking at NAIA. 29 matching pairs of clothing. Sweet~
FOREIGN GESTURE. X
I got the window seat!
Storm during the flight. Beautiful lightning bolts. XD
Arrived at Bacolod airport. Brown-out sa airport!!
Vigile.. erm... red week? ;p
Chicken Inasal and Calea cakes with Manang Omi.
The Quiet Place. Roomie Sig in Room 9.
Hector!
Frog Symphony. Ewww...
Began with the "frog-protection-formation".
Monopoly. For some weird reason, stacy's been throwing a lot of doubles. Sig and Stacy tied.
My roomie has a nightly beauty regimen! (And of course I got included a bit. ^^)
Day 2:
The Quiet Place. Went Exploring. Angry Ducks!
Vigile is a tree-hugger! XD
Angry Ducks! Wack wack wack~!
Angry Monkeys. 0_o Pigeons and herons too!
Eating. Mommy Dog? Not sure if this is when we meet her. But we came across her during exploring. I think.
Nognog Si Yuv yuv!!!
Boating! And emptying the boats of rain water. XD
Dinner at Bob's. Dessert at Bob's Cafe.
Monopoly~ I won!!
And our room was so full of static, for some strange reason. It actually crackles when you brush your hair. ^^
Day 3:
We went fishing in Sig's dad's fisheries with live shrimp bait! It was 1hr and 30minutes away from civilization, with the car driving mostly at 120kph. So far! @_@
Stacy caught the first fish! And I caught the weirdest fish. A tadpole looking fat fish. ^^
Crab! Waah! T_T
Shopping. Never in my life did I imagine that I'd go shopping together with some of the Kada in Bacolod. We really were becoming girly. But we did need socks. Poor Vince.
Maru shirt! XD
Pink shirt for Dwelly. Real men wear pink!
Note: Shopped in Gaisano, bad bad place. A sock priced at 180+ suddenly costs about 290+ at the cashier. WTH?!?
Happy birthday Vince! Dinner at Kaisei. Curry Vigile!
Monopoly! and I won thanks to my landing fortuitously on both Park Place and Boardwalk. XD
And we first meet the Baby Seal Shirt while packing for the overnight in the mountains. XD
Went night swimming in the Kiddie Pool cause the main pool was infested with live swimming and mating frogs. X_x I almost died. I had to walk around with a flashlight. ^^
Go Sig! Spit on the frogs in your disgust for their super slow reaction time!! XD
Day 4:
Overnight at Patag Mountain and swimming in the freezing waterfalls.
Vigile is a tree-kisser! 0_o And her cellphone tried to leave her. ^^
Met the Pena (with an enye) brothers and cousins. Codename: Frnd 2.
Tadpoles in the water. One even had the audacity to swim near me, and nobody else, despite the fact that i'm the only one freaked out by frogs and tadpoles. @_@
Discovered "Vince the Twins". Hehe..
James said to Sig: "I love you manang..." and almost got hit by a monoblock chair. XD
Bonfire and toasted mallows!
Fireflies!
Played Mafia. And enjoyed several cracks about sig's brother, Paulo, being not totally useless, cause he can breathe on the plants (or be used as a bad example). XD
Didn't sleep much that night cause it was freezing and the mosquitoes were eating us. One of Sig's brothers said we should have brought Katol, plus we were waiting for the driver to wake up.
Bonded with another Pena (enye) brother. ^^ Who at some point scared me and stacy into hysterical laughter. XD Never watch Saw again Stacy!
Day5:
Descended the mountains at 5 am with Bravo and JP.
So tired, we slept most of the way back to the Quiet Place.
Ate and slept most of the day. (We were supposed to go look at the museum of dolls, meet Stacy's nikki, etc.)
We ate at Pepe's that night with the Pena (enye) clan. And then we had cake a t calea's, and played monopoly with Sig's brothers James and Sean and Vince.
Sig made a crack about lying, not sugarcoating. True~
Day 6:
Stayed at the Quiet Place all day because we wanted to play more monopoly that afternoon, to try the insurance ideas, etc. I almost won, but then Stacy has the greatest luck at throwing the dice. ^^ So I was 2nd place.
Also, we went swimming in the adult pool. ^^ We tried the slide, played Agawan Base, Chicken something, Patintero, etc., but I'd say the biggest success was Pespi 7-up. We changed a lot of rules to make it better, and Sig's poses and the evil race back to the base (evil cause there was cheating, pulling and blocking) made our day. XD
We went to the smallest SM ever! And ate dinner at Bob's. (Weirdly enough, both stacy and I thought we were in Pepe's. :P)
And sig wore the Baby Seal Shirt, today. XD
Day 7:
We decided to head to Guintubdan Falls. It was so nice, except I woke up with a really sore throat, and all my usual symptoms of a coming fever. But I was not about to get left behind. I mean, who knows when I'll be back right?
There was a Carabao in the middle of the road on the way there. XD HEhe.. It was funny. ^^
We saw the flowers that can literally drive you crazy (and we call it the: "flowers na nakakabaliw") and drive past a small nature park on the way back.
And I really succumbed to the fever that night. But my friends were really really nice and helpful and responsible about it. :D This is one of those times when I really feel younger than all three of them, despite being actually older. ^^
Day 8:
Today was packing, *sniffles* and shopping for pasalubong day. I was still a bit sick, but way better at least. We ate at... erm... I forgot. But this was where we bought Piyaya. We visited Sugarland, BongBong's, the Showroom, Bob's Cafe, etc. And then finally, back to the airport. T_T I didn't want to leave! T_T We ate at Jollibee's in Petron Taguig when we got to Manila.
Ooooh~ And this trip ended with a kiss for someone *wink wink*. But not me of course. :P
Things to note:
The scenery was always great. We were constantly driving everywhere. I think the Quiet Place alone was 30 minutes from Bacolod City? But we always had a driver, at Sig's request. XD
We also kept using our foreign gesture throughout the trip. If you play sims, one of the vacation goals is to "Learn a local gesture". In this case, we were in the Philippines, talking to Koreans who couldn't understand us, hence the gesture. ^^
We also kept saying we were living in sin, another relic from our Sim playing (we played before leaving, remember? And my Sim was actually on vacation then.) But whereas in the Sims, living in sin refers to roomies who aren't married and yet sleep together, in our case it just means living in sloth and gluttony. ^^
Also, we kept finding (and giving Vigile) food hearts, namely food that just so happened to be heart shaped. This included a heart-shaped tapa, and a heart-shaped onion leek. ^^
And throughout the trip, I couldn't help but feeling severely underdressed beside stacy, and even Vigile sometimes. T_T Oh well, it was inevitable. ^^
And I think that place contained more frogs than I'm ever willing to see in my lifetime. @_@ I actually took pleasure in the fact that we get to run over them everytime we leave the place at night. ^^ Why did the frog cross the road anyway? Mica says they get shocked by the car's headlights, but i think they're just too slow. One episode we caught of Mythbusters even mentioned a little sport involving Frog Killing. Jamie tried it when he was a kid. XD
Speaking of mythbusters, I don't think I've ever watched so many episodes in one week. In Bicol, when the commonly loved show was House, I kept seeing so many episodes of House, while in Bacolod, the show of choice was mythbusters, so suddenly, mythbusters was always on air. It was weird, but I wasn't able to catch any of the other show in the other place. Confusing? But isn't it weird? @_@
And I have to say, I was unusually observant during that trip. I dunno why. @_@ And we also kept having the WEIRDEST topics of conversation. ^^ My favorite was the name mutilation one, where we talked about the worst variations of our name. Then we gave it a job. (I didn't start it! Vigile and Sig insisted that Genin was a Ronin, so (Vigile) Virgie naturally had to be a clergy. XD Eventually, (Si)Gourney became a Journey, and (Stacy) Tessie became an Odyssey. ^^; Must later, Gournei became a Gourmet. :P)
And sadly, we missed out on a bunch of things while we were there. We missed Nikki (not that we know him personally, only Stacy does, but it was a shame she didn't get to meet him anyway), the Doll museum (cause we kept waking up really late, Stacy must be ashamed of us. ^^), and Lakawon, the white sand beach. But oh well, less sunburn for me I guess. I'm actually darker than Vigile already. ^^;
What a vacation! Please may we come back sometime! XD
come fly ~ gen
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April 29, 2008 6:44 PM