Back to Reality April 19, 2008

I went to Boracay with friends last April 11-14. It was super fun! This trip was 2 years in the making. I was with BF and I’s close circle of friends from college. My bestfriend was there also! No trip could’ve been more fun! We had a 2pm flight out of Manila on Friday (April 11) and an 8 am flight out of Caticlan on Monday (April 14). We stayed at Ole, yes, it’s the Mexican/Cuban/Spanish restaurant in D Mall. They really have nice rooms. They had 3 rooms in all and we rented all of them, hehe, we were 8 in the group eh. The 1st room was good for 2 then the 2nd was good for 3 then the 3rd room was good for 4 but if you’re a tight group I’m sure it’ll fit more. BF and I were in the 2nd room. The group was supposed to be 9 but 1 friend backed out at the last minute because he was sick with fever for 3 days already. We got settled in the room at around 5pm already so the 1st day wasn’t really filled with activities. We just had dinner at Gasthoff - yummy ribs - then we had drinks at Paraw after.

We really went there just to relax so we just had steady days. Sleep, eat, drink, sleep, eat, drink & so on and so forth. And we didn’t do any water activities any more (snorkeling, parasailing, etc). We just lounged at the beach and drank shakes. Oh, it rained! But we were swimming at the time so it was fun! I met a girl from the Czech republic, her name’s Marcela. One of my friends wanted her braids so I asked Marcela where she got hers (it had beads kase). We had lunch at Shenna’s (near Rock & Roll crepes) - I ordered their Carbonara which was literally a plate full of pasta. For P125, it wasn’t bad. Though the service will take long. Whether you come early or during lunch hours - which will take longer. For happy hour we drank in Guilly’s Island but before we got their me, BF and one friend ate ihaw ihaw first. I had 1 isaw and a hotdog, hehe There was an event going on it was Myx at the Paraw area while it was Campus 99.5 RT at Guilly’s. The bands over at Myx were nice but the crowd wasn’t. It was too much so we just stayed at Guilly’s. I have a picture with Ramon Bautista! Haha he was a host at the event since he’s also a DJ for 99.5 RT. He’s sooo funny in person! And he’s really nice & accommodating. Kamikaze was the main band of the night and when they started playing the crowd came flooding in! As in children, manongs, bangkeros, everyone! We almost got trampled on! Good thing we weren’t sitting on the mats & pillows on the sand. 2 of our friends were asked to join a game in between bands, the guys who invited them were sitting just behind us (inside the ropes) so we just crossed to the ropes and stayed with them. Kamikaze was sooo good! Jay was so entertaining! He got the crowd hooked! After they performed we just stayed at Guilly’s and partied!

The following day was a really slow once since it was a Sunday. A friend of ours is staying in Boracay already because he’s fixing something for work there. He works for a company that has ferry deliveries to Caticlan and he’s in Boracay because he’s fixing the delivery route there. Anyway, he took us to this amazing place near Panoly & Shangri-La already (super dulo), waaay past Station 1 already. It was also near the Balinghai residential condominiums. The beach front had, I think, around 4 hug cabanas where you can just lounge. Eat, drink, sleep, smoke or what have you. We bought liempo on the way there and we had it bbq’d for us. I think this is private property so it’s not something really accessible to anyone. Our friend knows the manager (I think) of the area. We stayed there the whole afternoon until early evening, BF and I joined our group around 7:30-8pm already. We just had dinner at Ole and bought drinks to drink upstairs. Since we had an early flight the next day we just decided to stay in and drink in the biggest room. We left Ole at around 6:30am and we were settled in the pre-departure area by 7:15-7:20. When we arrived in Manila we had brunch at Lin Lu restaurant, it’s one of the little eateries beside the Domestic airport. Since some of them had shift that night, we all hailed cabs and went on our merry way.

I didn’t have shift Monday night anymore because technically I was a “bum” already. I resigned from Accenture already and I’m now working for Globe Telecom. I’m officially starting on Monday (April 21). My first day was last April 16 but the 3 days were just for orientation so I start work on Monday. Good luck to me! I’m really excited! My first time ever since I started working to work during “normal” hours. I’m still adjusting to the rush hour traffic and the huge amounts of people. I didn’t get to experience this at night. This is also my 1st time to work at an “office”. After working in a call center, I worked in a BPO setup, pretty much the same except we didn’t have calls.

I am welcoming the change. I’m even embracing it! I can’t really say much about it yet since I haven’t officially started but we’ll see by the end of next week if I’m still alive, haha!

I’m welcoming myself to the real world.