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I can think of any other title for this blog. Though I was planning to do this blog since Wednesday, I still haven't thought of any good title. Anyways, it has been a month since my high school started to make Wednesday Lunch as our mini reunion. Well, it's solely because our friends from the CTHM-HRM were making food for the Albertus Magnus Building every Wednesday in the Patio Maria Cafeteria a.k.a 'cafcaf'. Haha! So last Wednesday, I wasn't actually planning on going there because we have a makeup classes on that hour. But then, weather must have used its ways, classes were suspended 12PM that day at I was able to come there and meet my high school friends. At 1PM the cafeteria will be closed so I together with my friends Pauline, Anael and Erica decided to go to SM North EDSA because I wanted to look for a gift for my brother. :) So when we were already at SM, we thought of just spending the rest of the day in Pauline's house since Pauline and I haven't eaten our lunch yet. We decided to make something to eat. Something new, and something a little challenging. So we made Pesto Pasta and Garlic Toasts. Yey! :)

So our ingredients? For the toast are White Loaves and  Garlic Margarine. For the Pesto are Basil Leaves, Spanish Sardines, Evaporated Milk, Garlic and of course, the Pasta.

Our chef? None other than Erica Macamay assisted by Pauline Chavez for the Pesto. For the Toasts, Anael and I were the one assigned to it. :)

These are our finish products! Yummm! But wait there's more ...

We decided to plate our meals! Haha. Yes, maybe we're out of our minds trying to be a chef for a day. Haha! :) The plates arranged respectively (Mine, Pauline's, Erica's, Anael's). TPH

Sugar-Coated Messages

It's been a year since I change my phone and I was surprise when I opened my old phone today and found some text messages way back 2010 and early 2011. It was so nostalgic when I am reading each personal messages sent for me. It was the best thing to see when you're already having doubts about old friendship. :) Some of these messages was sent for my birthday, the others are for graduation.  This made me realize that one of my best birthdays was my 17th birthday. Well, at least better than my 18th. Haha! That birthday, I was able to celebrate it with both my ITB babies and SMPLCTY family. Plus I get to have 3 cakes from 3 groups of people I love the most: ITB, SMPLCTY and of course my family. Yey, right? Then you get to add this sugar-coated messages with the big card Pau gave me as a bonus. Super fun! Haha! Come to think of it, I'm a lot happier that year than on my debut. 

Well, it's been my past-time now to share with you some of the things that makes me really happy. So I figure out a way to share those text messages with lesser hassle. So I forward it to my phone right now because I can take screen caps of it on my iPhone. I get to choose 13 messages than almost made me cry again. :) I'll be posting some names of the people who sent a message but for the others, I'm sorry I forgot. =) I still love you, though! Find you messages here!

P.S. : I used my dad's sim card to forward this messages so never mind the name Daddy Sabio as the one who send it. Haha!

Message 1: Raymund Tabora's Graduation GM

Message 2: Anael Bautista's Graduation GM

Message 3: Rode Dario's Graduation GM part 1

Message 4: Rode Dario's Graduation GM part 2

Message 5: Sorry. :(

Message 6: Franco Sena's excuse for not making it to my birthday party. Haha! But it's cute though.

Message 7: Timothy Marquez' birthday greetings. He's 2nd to greet that time, by the way. Haha!

Message 8: Jen Chan's cutest greeting for me.

Message 9: Sorry. :(

Message 10: Sorry. :(

Message 11: Sorry. :(

Message 12: Sorry. :(

Message 13: Abigael Ferrer's random sweet group message

I'm sorry I really have a bad memory but you know I love you! Whoever sent those lovely messages that I don't remember. Hehe! TPH

First Touch

It's not what you think it is, if you know what I mean. haha! Anyways, I haven't done any blog post since I started my summer vacation. So here it is! The day after our bloody Final Examination, my brother together with his friends organized a swimming outing to finally start off the summer vacation. 

So a night before we drove out of town, I actually attended a crazy party together with some high school friends. Well, it's not as crazy as what happened to my twins friends. That night some of my friends gone to our house to prepare for the party since our house the somewhat closest to the event venue. They arrive at our house late so we were also that in that party. I actually thought of not going since my real barkada doesn't plan to go, I hesitate but then when I thought of how hard it is to organize such party and how sad it is to see that some of your friends didn't think of how hard it is to organize for it to be perfect and just mess it up because they're lazy and whatever, I thought I wouldn't let her efforts be put aside. So I came. To my surprise, we (high school friends) just occupied a table and when I say a a table, it is just one table of ten. Yes, we were just ten there. Well, the whole party is cute and sassy, but I find her mobile bar and photo booth really entertaining for some parts are dull because you don't know those people who participated in it. As usual, the after party was the most memorable part of it. People has gone crazy with their cupcake in one hand and cupcake icing on the other, putting it in everybody everywhere and running really wild all over the place. Of course, I wasn't able to spare myself from this because, even if you beg people to not put icing on you, they will. And yes, so after all these craziness and we settled down in our table thinking that it was the first time we got over-powered with college friends. Because usually, we high school friends are the craziest in a party. No matter how many we were, we were able to over-power and almost control the party. haha! But this time we've got over-powered. And yes my friend were not the drunk ones. Haha! It's payback time, yes! Luckily those drunk ones are close to us too so we didn't have a hard time sobering them up, making them realize how crazy they were in front of us. So that was happen the night  right after our last exam. BTW, here's some pictures of the party we came.

(L-R) JJ Adonis, Stefft Villalon, Yours truly, Angel Malonga, MJ Clamar, Macaire Garcia

HS friends plus some close college friends with the debutante

the only high school friends who came plus Mara and Bridget

duck face

just another happy shot

My one and only picture with icing on my face. lol

So, we go on to the swimming party. We drove south to Laguna and headed to Splash Island. We've got discount in our tickets that's why we decided to go there. And yes there were tons of people queuing for a ticket in replace of the voucher we've got. So before we entered the water park, we got stuck for a long time in the parking lot. Why? Because my great brother left two keys inside the car and the tickets were stuck inside too. So we waited about almost 2-3 hours just to fix it. Luckily, my brother's friend were able to find someone who can open it. But after we finally opened the car, before we could enter, one of my brother's friend got swindled by a girl outside the waterpark because of the discount he might get not think that the ticket that were sold to him was already used. haha! So when we finally entered, we saw a huge number of people after all the hassles that we've been through we've thought of just letting go of our 250 pesos and just transfer to a more peaceful place to swim but then we thought of just spending our day in the Balsa River just to not waste our effort and time going in. So we changed our clothes and we dropped our thing in the car because we thought that there's no one whose willing to guard it for the sake of the others. After spending some time at the Balsa River, a river-like pool where you just need to go with the flow of water, we've decided to try Twisted Palms, where you would slide with a partner in a salbabida that looks like infinite symbol, and after that we tried to visit the Agos Grandes but the wave are still close so we just decided to eat and take pictures in the car. After we finished eating, we tried again the Agos Grandes, a wave pool, and we stayed there for ages! haha. The waves are too strong so after that, we all felt body pains. So after we tried the Agos Grandes, we've tried Magellan's Drop, where you slide on chest with mats in a long slide, and it was so amazing just spare me with the fact that I came latest among those I slide with. And the latter part are all part of the history. haha! We may looked like we didn't enjoyed the trip. But everything is totally worth it. BTW, here's some pictures of our swimming outing. TPH

Rainbow 2009

Yes, I'm blogging when I suppose to be reviewing for my final exams. haha! Anyways, last week, I've opened my clear book of lyrics because I've been into covers nowadays so I opened it and at the back pages of my clear book, I saw a 1/2 crosswise intermediate pad with doodles of random things that I've been thinking that time. When I've read everything. I was like "Damn, I've been so corny back in the days" but you know the worst part in it? I've been a jejemon for once in my life. Of course, don't deny that you've never been a jejemon because before, the more jejemon you are, the more in you are. But those were the days. Anyways, so after I've read the sheet of paper, I've decided to read my special paper all over again. My special papers are those papers that has been sentimental to me ever since it was written. And I so another sheet of papers with doodles. I laughed hard because of it. I've decided I wanted to blog some of it but I wanted to blog things that hasn't been offensive for some. haha! Some of my doodles expresses my hatred for my past enemies and I thought that it wouldn't be nice if I post that doodles here when I've already moved on with everything. So I choose a paper that expresses nothing but love.  And I guess this is it. This piece of back to back letter is a presentation of my high school siblings' love for me. Yes, I'm not just sugar-coating it but its true. Well, you decide. haha!

Okay, so I think that it must be unfair if I just posted this with no explanation of what the hell is written on it. haha! So I thought of explaining some things with you guys. 

1. ze "I love you - TJ" with an orange circle on it - well, it was clearly a prank of one of my friends, Rodelina Dario. She didn't wrote any true name on it but the handwriting says it all. haha. So she wrote it because back in high school, I had a a small crush in one of our friends (well, name is clearly stated, right?) and that time it was still on the tip of the iceberg.
2. ze "Iolablair" thingy -- it was written by our class president and also a good friend, Edresa. She wrote "Iolablair" because that time, we were both addicted to the tv series Gossip Girl and because I love the character of Blair Waldorf in the series, she calls me like that. haha.
3. ze "dream love/ dreamlab" thingy in a pen writing -- I use to make code names and I clearly use that code name for some one. Just guess who's that for. haha!
4. ze "kerengkeng" word in the sky blue ink -- it was written by one of my closest bestfriend, Jennifer Chan. The term kerengkeng is a term use to describe a flirt. We both use it with each other to represent our to overacting feeling when our crushes does something good for us. haha
5. ze "heart broken sabio" thing with the underline -- it was written by Carmela Alora and the reason why she did was because, according to her, there's one guy who added her in her Y!M that has a name of "heart broken sabio" I don't know if its true but yeah, that's funny. 

And the rest is part of the history. haha! It was our christmas party when they wrote it. We actually wrote one for each other because it was an activity prepared by our adviser. High school is really fun when you are surrounded with beautiful people. Not just by face but also by heart. I was really blessed to have bunch of friends like them that I actually treat as my additional siblings. I just miss them so much. I just have to reminisce with these shits to bring back every good thing that happened to me back then. BTW, I named this blog "Rainbow 2009" because every message is written in different colors and it was writter Christmas 2009. TPH

Happy Monday

Last Monday, one of my friends, Erica Macamay celebrated her birthday, treating us to Bon Chon at Il Terrazzo, Tomas Morato. 

Photos by: Bon Chon- Bay Area

Bon Chon is a South Korean chicken restaurant that it now well know to the United States. Obviously, their specialty are their chickens that are just delicious even without any sauce. You can choose from their specialty: drumstick, chops, thigh, wings and you could also try their sandwiches and their Korean local add-ons. 

What we ordered are my friend's personal pick, Chops that are made out of Chicken Fillet coated with a special crispy breading. Actually, I don't know how to describe it. haha. Kidding aside, it's really a must try to eat from this not-a-fast food nor fine-dining restaurant. 

Of course, what would be a birthday celebration without a cake? It's actually our tradition to surprise our bitches whose not celebrating their debut with something sweet and thoughtful. This time, we actually did not thought about it very much what to give so we decided to just give an on-the-spot birthday cake. After eating and talking at Bon Chon,  we took some stroll around and took picture in Il Terrazzo but we did not stop there. Since we're already in Tomas Morato and it's still not that late we decided to stroll down to ABS-CBN to visit the Big Brother House. We walked from Il Terrazzo to Eugenio Lopez drive to see the most popular house in the Philippines. Afterwards, we entered the ABS-CBN compound where we saw a flea market like inside their building. It's actually boring if you can't go through their gates to the studios so we just literally stroll around the gates of ABS-CBN. haha! I know it sounds crazy but we just did. We passed by the Broadcasting Center, Bantay Bata and back to the PBB House. After strolling around abs-cbn, we decided to window shop at TriNoma and then went home at around 10pm. TPH