Sunday, August 15, 2004
greetings from the extremely humid land of the philippines... I arrived yesterday (saturday) at noon making it friday at midnight there completing a full 24 hours travel from toronto to philippines... pretty exhausting but the flight wasn't too shabby coz of the tv in front of you.. i watched shrek 2 and prince & me plus two episodes of friends, that 70's show and will and grace... plus sleep... gravol works wonders! slept right throught the first flight.. anyways... once I arrived here, humidity immediately struck me and I was flustered.. its soo incredibly hot!!! moving on..
Daddy's picked us up and he took us to the farmer's market for lunch.. Its a horrible place that's so dirty and wet and yucky... (its a wet market full of seafood) and the people who worked there were throwing water all over the fish and stuff so you don't know what you're stepping on but it has THE BEST SEAFOOD anywhere.. you first go around and buy the freshest seafood you want then you bring it up to the restaurant and they cook it for you.. its is DELISH!!! cept for the yucky market part... i attacked those crabs and shrimps and calamari like there was no tomorrow.. best meal yet.
after lunch, we went to my aunt's place to greet my uncle since he's really sick then we went home to MY apartment.. man do i miss my apartment.. Its so bright and orange.. efore i leave, im going to take pics.. hehe.. so we unpacked then my dad took me to the dentist right away which is two floors down. worst thing happened... aparently my bottom teeth moved alot since my wisdom teeth grew in so ....... DUN DUN DUN.. I HAVE BRACES AGAIN!! (shudder!!!) on my bottom teeth.. only four teeth have braces and I HATE THEM!!!! GRRR!!! (NO LAUGHING! ITs a horrible sight!) enough of that.. its too depressing to talk about it...
after the horrible endurement at the dentist, my dad took me to the country club to watch his friends play tennis (shudder) and have a "merienda" (snack). I miss swimming there.. its was soo fun to swim in the deep pool since its like 10 feet deep! hehe.. afterwards.. my dad remembered that he had to take the car to the auto repair shop and he needed to bring two cars so that he can leave the car there and drive home with the other car. He asked my mom to drive but she wouldn't dare so he asked me. I reluctantly agreed even though i love driving. Why??? BECAUSE DRIVING IN THE PHILIPPINES IS SCARY!!!! there are no lanes, people don't obey stoplights, cars drive right up to your bumper leaving little space to move if they do come too close and its just downright freaky.. i have no idea what made me agree to drive.. so coming out of the driveway, I stuck to my dad's bumper and didn't look anywhere else... Somehow i managed to drive all the way to the auto shop which was 20 minutes aways although my dad said it was 5 and i was shaking by the end of it. SCARY!!! my dad drove back and we stayed at home after that... i was soo tired!!!
Next day, i was awake at 830 coz church was at 930. It was the 20th anniversary of the church so they held it in the araneta coliseum. do you wanna know how many people attended this thing??? more than 12 thousand!!! coz the coliseum holds 15000 and it was pretty full... crazy!!! I expected them to play cheesy songs but suprisingly they played now that your near, everyday, and stuff like that.. and it made me miss school soo much!!! hehehe....
after church, we went to podium to eat lunch.. this restaurant is called mini shabu-shabu (hotpot) and you each have your own hot pot thingie in front of you... its fun... went around to the shops and now im home... did soo much in 2 days and the day isn't even done yet...
MISS ALL OF YOU GUYS!!!!!
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