Sing Along 04 February 24, 2008
Here’s another one. 
Enjoy!
Love Song by Sara Bareilles
Head under water
And you tell me to breathe easy for a while
Breathing gets harder, even I know that
You made room for me but it’s too soon to see
If I’m happy in your hands
I’m unusually hard to hold on to
Blank stares at blank pages
No easy way to say this
You mean well, but you make this hard on me
I’m not gonna write you a love song
‘Cause you asked for it
‘Cause you need one, you see
I’m not gonna write you a love song
‘Cause you tell me it’s
Make or breaking this
If you’re on your way
I’m not gonna write you to stay
If all you have is leaving I’m gonna need a better
Reason to write you a love song today
I learned the hard way
That they all say things you want to hear
And my heavy heart sinks deep down under you and
Your twisted words,
Your help just hurts
You are not what I thought you were
Hello to high and dry
Convinced me to please you
Made me think that I need this too
I’m trying to let you hear me as I am
I’m not gonna write you a love song
‘Cause you asked for it
‘Cause you need one, you see
I’m not gonna write you a love song
‘Cause you tell me it’s
Make or breaking this
If you’re on your way
I’m not gonna write you to stay
If all you have is leaving I’m gonna need a better
Reason to write you a love song today
Promise me that you’ll leave the light on
To help me see with daylight, my guide, gone
‘Cause I believe there’s a way you can love me
Because I say
I won’t write you a love song
‘Cause you asked for it
‘Cause you need one, you see
I’m not gonna write you a love song
‘Cause you asked for it
‘Cause you need one, you see
I’m not gonna write you a love song
‘Cause you tell me it’s
Make or breaking this
If you’re on your way
I’m not gonna write you to stay
If your heart is nowhere in it
I don’t want it for a minute
Babe, I’ll walk the seven seas when I believe that
There’s a reason to
Write you a love song today
I went back to Boracay last February. It was a much needed R & R for everyone! We were there February 9 (Saturday) - 14 (Thursday)! That was my longest stay ever on the island. We were able to stay there that long because daddy followed on Monday (February 11). We went back to Boracay because daddy’s sister, husband & my cousin visited from Sydney. And it was my uncle’s 50th birthday - he’s the uncle that’s living in Boracay, he’s a diving instructor. I can’t really give a blow by blow account of what we did for every single day because, you know me, I’m such a Dory (from Finding Nemo). During the weekend our friend, R, was w/ BF and I in our resort. The we separated Monday - he moved in w/ his GF in another resort and BF and I moved in with daddy. There was just one thing that pissed me off the whole trip - my camera acted up! It would only take bright white shots during the day! But night shots are just fine. Grrr.. We tried setting up everything to Automatic, it still won’t take decent day shots then we tried to setup stuff manually, still the same. Good thing my uncle had a memory card reader and everyone was given copies of everyone’s pictures. 
When in Boracay, you should always go to Jonah’s and have their shakes. They’re so creamy and full of flavor! My personal favorites are the Choco-Banana and Strawberry shakes. BF’s favorite is the Choco-Banana-Peanut shake. This, I’m sure, we had our first day in Boracay. We walked from d Mall to Jonah’s (just to w
ork up our thirst) and had shakes. BF’s manager from work (who is a very good friend of ours) was also in Boracay for the weekend with his semi-girlfriend (we really don’t know their status). She treated us to shakes and a pizza. After our shakes we walked some more and found a manong putting up his barbecue stall already (once 4pm strikes these bbq stalls pop up like mushrooms). I had a hotdog while they had isaw (chicken intestines) and pusit (dried squid). I also eat these but I opted for the hotdog instead. After this, we decided to head back in our own hotels to rest & freshen up for dinner - manager invited us to dinner, his treat. 
Dinner that day (Saturday) was at Gasthof. It’s located in D Mall and they’re famous for their ribs. But when we placed our orders they ran out of ribs, imagine! We chose to eat there because of that! 
But since it was the dinner rush already and it was full everywhere, we already had a table, so we just opted to stay and have dinner there. We just had Inihaw na Liempo, Sinigang na Hipon, and Chopseuy. Then manager approached the bbq station again and lo and behold, they ribs again! Haha so he ordered 1 whole slab which we just had as pica pica since we were almost finished with dinner already. It was really yummy. 
with daddy and my titos (uncles) and titas (aunts) for midmorning or after lunch sunbathing and swimming sessions and during happy hour, around 4:30-5:30pm. BF and I would eat a heavy breakfast and just eat again like no tomorrow at night, hehe. 
kfast at Aria in D Mall. It’s an Italian restaurant known for their pizza & pastas. Cafe Del Sol, which is right across from Aria, is also owned by whoever owns Aria. For 2 mornings I had Boneless Bangus (milkfish) - the first day I found it really, really delicious so I had to order it again the next day. My breakfast comes with 1 egg (scrambled for me, of course), Atchara (pickled something), coffee or juice (which I upgraded to a fresh one - yummy!), and fresh mango. Our first breakfast there, BF had a Spanish Omelette which he didn’t finish because it was as huge as the plate (believe me, the plate was huge!) but on our second breakfast there he had the Tenderloin Tapa instead - which came with the same stuff as my order. We ordered coffee separately and had fresh juice with our breakfast - I had fresh mango juice while BF had fresh orange juice.
Tuesday - We celebrated my uncle’s 
birthday. 2 more uncles from Ilo Ilo (our province) came over for dinner. We had Drunken Chicken (by my uncle’s girlfriend), Eggplant with Olive Oil & Balsamic Vinegar (also by the same girlfriend), Grilled Fish (not sure what kind but it was huge & yummy), Grilled Stuffed Squid and Grilled Porkchops (all grilled by the birthday boy), we also had sliced green mango
, beer, wine 
(red & white) and Coke. 
It was such a fun-filled night. 
diving for the first time in my 25 years of life! It was such a nerve-wracking but exciting experience! First things first, I’m hella scared of open waters; I always think that something will just pull me down from underneath. We watch an introduction to diving video first then we geared up. Putting on the wet suit is hell! It was so hard! Pulling and tugging and pulling and tugging some more! But after everything is zipped up, it was pretty cool, haha! Now, we had to do the skills practice - how to breathe thru the regulator, how to remove water in your mask if you’re 30 feet underwater, how to remove water if you swallowed some if you remove your regulator and the like. This is done just by the shore, there would be a floating buoy near us saying “Diver’s Below” - wow! Hehe 
way from the group! Haha I even to be on a separate class (remedial, perhaps?)! My uncle had an assistant, L who helped me out - he would be my personal lifesaver! (And my cousin & I found him cute, in a rugged, bad boy sorta way ;)) He would make ‘inhale, exhale’ hand gestures to me under the water to help me breathe normally - I was breathing way too fast. Sound was multiplied ten times underneath so it scared me even more to hear myself breathing that way. Oh, and did I mention I was also claustrophobic? Ay yay yay, recipe for disaster! So skills practice was done so we went up to the dive shop again to put our tanks in a push cart then we walked to the speed boat. I was able to regulate my breathing as this point. Everyone in our [diving] group (me, my cousin, daddy, my 2 uncles plus L) thought I wouldn’t be able to go down. I was thinking the same thing too, actually. And then we had to go down the water doing th
e ‘flip thing’! Aaagh! It was so funny because I was all geared up and ready to flip so my uncle was in front of me pushing me! Haha and I was not falling! I was holding on to dear life! Until I just flipped on my own (it was fun!). Then I started breathing really fast again - imagine this is the open ocean already! So L was beside me again and doing the inhale, exhale hand signal again. He was so good actually, that I didn’t notice that he was slowly bringing me down already (nice one, L!). At this point, I was still so concentrated on my breathing that I wasn’t appreciating the view yet. 
I was holding on to L with 2 hands! Haha I looked stupid, I’m sure. Then he let go 1 of my hands and I started ‘feeling’ the water. Then we swam a bit and he took me so near the coral that I started swimming away from it! Haha I wasn’t ready to touch stuff yet! And then I found Nemo, hehe that was really fun! And I think it was at this point that I started enjoying the dive. It was so monument
al! And then L let go of my other hand and just held my vest. I felt so free! Haha but I did look at him every once in a while to check if he was still holding my vest! 
I am addicted! Haha, it is sooo fun! My mom got my brother one for Christmas (2007) and we’ve all been playing non stop ever since. It’s a fun way of exercising since it’s a really physical game. My mom told me that if she knew that it’s just a Wii that would make get up and sweat, she should have bought one when it first came out. Haha!
