Who'da thought going to San Pablo would take so long? O__o It took us two hours. Hehehe...And throughout the trip I was thinking how we as children used to love long field trip rides (the longer, the father away XD). I remember being disappointed whenever the ride would take less than an hour. But now, older and more impatient, long trips are nothing but an inconvenience. Nonetheless, we got there, and it was fun fun fun from there on out.. XD



The place was really nice. Although, not as nice as I'd have expected from the photos on the internet, it was much much better than many of the previous planning sem resorts we've been in. We had the huge Ilang-ilang session hall all to ourselves, and we mostly used only half of it, unless a game was in play (which reminds me to give due credit to Boss Riza who loves having and organizing games but hates playing them kasi daw lagi siyang natatalo at sinumang matalo ay maghuhugas ng pinggan..lol..)

The rooms were okay, it was all wooden and stuff from the outside, which looked absolutely pretty, specially with the capiz windows that were very neat and rather convenient for using as a door when the real door was stuck. ^__^ The key to our room (room 2) was particularly memorable because it was cylidrical instead of the usual flat, and it reminded us room twosters of a futuristic sci-fi movie. Hehehe. Too bad we didn't get a picture of it.

Inside the rooms, I took the top bed on the double deck and was having a difficult time going up and down the whole time. (No one else's fault but mine lol). Outside our rooms, we had our very own grass place (which for convenience sake I will call the yard). That was where we had our barbequed dinner during our first night, and the slogan session, and the Pepsi-7up and Monkey monkey and bubuka and bulaklak and pusoy-dos-with-shot session. That was also where we played a pretty neat prank on our beloved president. XD You should've seen his face! ^____________^

The food was fantastic! :D For the first time we had a planning sem with abundance of food (meaning catered lol). We could even take seconds! A privilege I never let pass. XD We even had merienda! :D Wheee~ This was all thanks to Dindi's Mark's family who made a lot of tummies happy. Mine was in bliss. *.*

I was even missing Genina when we had Cordon Bleu (wehehehe~) because we have a special memory together in relation to that dish. TuT I was almost hoping I could MMS a piece to her. ^____^

Lalala~

I'm not quite sure why I'm being very in-depth about this...



this is the only serious pic I am going to show you~


toh pa pala..XD


barbeque-ing for dinner


barbequed mallows. *yum yum*


sasara ang bulaklak, bubuka ang bulaklak, dadaan si riza, pakembot kembot pa!


mukha bang nagso-slogan session? UPCE We Define.


that's what they call "may spark!"


picture picture after ng slogan~


PUBorito!


Ops!


ech-ar..hoy pat!


little boys doin' the raindance. O__o


Matrix group 1 :p


ang mga boss. :D

Planning sem photo credits: Riza

Unfortunately, I had to leave a little earlier, the day of the calendaring session. :( That's because I had to go to Sta. Rosa to drop some stuff off and be home before my dad's birthday on the 12th. I had loads of fun already anyway, so it wasn't a waste at all.

My adventure to Sta. Rosa was, well, an adventure in the truest sense. Lol. I took three jeepneys from the resort, but the last one was the best. We were on the freeway when we got a flat tire. Whee~ O___o We were near the exit na naman eh, and I could see Enchanted Kingdom from where we pulled over. So I was thinking whether I should walk the rest of the way, kasi naman, only very few (chosen) people would have a walking-along-the-freeway-while-watching-the-ferris-wheel-go-round-and-round experience. But then..I didn't walk the rest of the way. I got there anyway, long story though. Some van picked us up and brought us there for an extra P10. (Short lang pala lol). At first I was hesitant to ride because it was a private vehicle and the word "hijack!" was floating around in my head, but I rode anyway because I'd be the only one left with mr. jeepney driver fixing the tire if I didn't.

As I said, I did get to my destination. :)



Finally met Toto Vanvan and Kuya Les. Hung out for a while. Played with the kulit bunch (no pics of them, unfortunately -- Little Athena was extremely sweet though TuT...and ticklish). Dropped the stuff off. Hugged and kissed and was off again. Which was funny because Kuya Les and Ate Michelle thought I was going to Mindoro with them for Baby Vanvan's birthday binyag. XD Kasi I had a big bag from the planning sem. Lol.

The trip home was the most tiring. From Sta. Rosa to Cubao it took us almost 3 hours due to bad expressway traffic. Then when I got to Ever, I didn't walk home as planned, because when I planned that I was thinking I'd be home a little earlier, which means a little brighter and less dangerous. O_o So yeah..I had to wait for my folks to fetch me. ^__^ But it was all right. Last stretch of the journey na naman yun eh. :D