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We’ve been having issues at home. Not to say that this has just started now, but there has been a ton of issues for the past 15 years and new issues just pop up now and then.

Right now, my brother’s girlfriend is staying with me in my room. Including Scott, the three of us are kind of cramped in my tiny room. Not that I mind. But I did realize that my room is really REALLY cramped. It’s no surprise either. In my 3.5m x 5m room, I have an office desk instead of a computer desk for my computer, I have a tall cabinet, a drawer cabinet, a 7cu ft refrigerator, and a double deck bed wherein the bottom is a queen sized bed.

I really want to bring out at least the drawer cabinet but there’s already too much stuff in the garage like outdoor furniture that there’s no space.

I guess we’ll have to be cramped like this for a while until my brother and his girlfriend reconciles and Scott goes back to the US.

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Panda called me the day before and said we’ll meet at 9am, and that she’ll call me. So I set my alarm for 6am, and kept snoozing it until 8am. A few minutes before 9, we were at Lavender MRT station already.

She sends me a message saying she just woke up and will take an hour.

So we wait a bit. We walked around Lavender station. Panda said there wasn’t really much to see, so she was suggesting Bugis. She was right. There was absolutely nothing to see in Lavender. So I took a picture of the bridge. lol.

I checked out the ad board a bit while waiting too. I saw a lot of pianos for sale. That and the review/study center/assistance ads–reviews, language, gmat prep, other kinds of prep, and room or lodging ads.

The sight of seeing a number of pianos being sold was so depressing. I want a piano for myself too, and I want to learn how to play the piano. It was depressing because I could probably afford a piano if I save enough for it.

I found it amazing how there were a lot of review and similar ads to that. Most of the Singaporean people I’ve met online are usually really intelligent (at least I think so) and busy. After school they’ll need to go study. And probably because most of the Singaporeans I know are otaku, they understand Japanese. I saw an ad for English language learning, and on the same sheet, Mandarin language learning.

—forgive me if I may not be writing in correct grammar… where I’ve been is affecting me and I’m beginning to talk the same way and my typing is also getting infected—

Anyway, back to what I was thinking…I think people here take studying seriously. At least the people I’m exposed to and from what I’ve seen. Sure some people will say “No.” but I think in general, it is like that. In a place as competitive as Singapore, I’m sure a lot of parents would want their children to get a good education, and a lot of adults would want to further their education to get a better position. If I ever have a child, I’ll make sure to instill a thirst of knowledge for that kid.

Panda arrived around 10:30am and she was pretty. Have I ever mentioned that I only met Panda through IRC? I’ve never met her in real life. So it was good.

We looked for Beach Rd to eat Bak Kut Teh. I couldn’t stomach eating yet the one with the pork innerds so I just had the ribs. It was good. Although Panda said she eats Bak Kut Teh somewhere which is better but she doesn’t know how to get there.

After Bak Kut Teh we walked back to the station and went to Orchard. We were able to get free ice cream–Magnum Gold. The logo is the same as Selecta Ice Cream in the Philippines. The chocolate coating was gold, and tasted like it had a lot of butter. There’s also a caramel swirl in the ice cream itself.

We also walked inside a mall and did window shopping… but everything was too expensive.

We went to Chinatown afterward so I could buy souvenirs

To be continued

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After going to UP Diliman to get my Graduation Certificate (Diploma) I brought q3m to SM North because of the mere fact that it’s just a jeep ride away. I’ve always just taken him to Trinoma. We bought his new sandals in Trinoma. We did groceries once in Trinoma.

But to be honest, I used to like SM North more. It’s just that Trinoma is easier to go to. It is so convenient to go there. What I hate about Trinoma is going home. If going there is convenient, going home is so inconvenient. Getting a cab is harder because there’s no somewhat central lane where cabs would pass by and drop off/pick up passengers unlike SM North. For Trinoma I only want to go home in the evening and I’ll go to one corner where there’s hardly anyone there and wait for a cab.

For this reason, I hardly go to SM North now.

When we were at Trinoma, I had this urge to go to TimeZone and play a bit. I’ve been wanting to play with someone on the foosball tables but q3m didn’t seem interested in playing games so we just looked for his shoes last time we were there.

When we went to SM North, we concentrated on the groceries because we were looking for some things. We did find some Navel Oranges and he was pretty happy with it. It was a bit pricey for him though. He said normally he’d buy them at 0.25 usd. The ones in the groceries was about 0.50 usd so we didn’t get too many.

We went around the Skywalk to find a place to eat. He was in the mood for Mexican food but the one there wasn’t Mexican enough for him so we settled at Kangaroo Jack. He had Medium Rare Ribeye and I had baby backribs. His Ribeye was bad and my ribs were good enough for the price. We went home pretty pleased.

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Trek to the Bomod-Ok Big Falls, originally uploaded by mishimiao.

I really love taking pictures of mountain silhouettes and how they look like pieces of japanese paper torn and layered on top of each other. I can’t get enough pics of it. I even do continuous shots of them. >_>. Here’s Yu taking pictures of the scenery.

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Sagada with q3m, originally uploaded by mishimiao.

One of the few pictures I’m really proud of. Apparently I did something bad. One of the tour coordinators told me I should have asked permission first before taking this picture. oh well.

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These are the two of the things that q3m likes here in the Philippines. The taxis because it’s relatively cheap compared to Michigan. The buses, he likes the ordinary ones, because they fly along the highway. He likes how sometimes the bus can be faster than the trains.

I told him that there are some buses and taxis that have print-out receipts but we haven’t encountered one yet. It would be great if we did encounter one like some that that one cab that I got on that had an epson receipt printer.

We’ll just have to ride more of these.

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We went to Sagada from April 1 to 4, but we left Manila on March 31 and arrived back April 5, the transition was on the road. I have a lot to tell, but I’m really in a rush right now. I should be preparing for my Corregidor trip for tomorrow which is going to be an overnight one, but I need to log in some things and let people know that I’m still alive.

We still can’t find Davidoff Mini Cigarillos anywhere so far. We’re going to the Ayala Malls in Makati when we get back from Corregidor to look for those darned cigarillos.

Few memorable things about the trip:

1. I booked Sagada because I wanted to go there but I didn’t know what to expect there.
2. I didn’t know that there would be a 2+ hour trek within the Rice Terraces down to the waterfalls and a 4+ hour trek back (I’m exaggerating)… and not just look at it and take pictures.
3. I didn’t know that the caves there were actually going to be explored and not just to look at it.
4. I found out that q3m doesn’t want me to look at his wallet after I asked him about his cheap insurance card that I saw in it.
5. There was a small crab in the cave.
6. I didn’t like rolling around in bat shit.
7. I’ll stick to taking pictures for the Rice Terraces and the Caves.
8. I’m glad the roads to Sagada are mostly paved.
9. I lost most self-consciousness around q3m because of that trip.
10. I’m not an adventurous person.

That’s about it for now. I’ll write a more detailed post about my days in Sagada and then in Corregidor. Toodles~

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Day 2 ensues. I woke up early coz Yu woke up early. After lazing around a bit we got up to get some breakfast. The breakfast at the hotel was a little expensive and I’m stingy so we walked around to look for breakfast. Yesterday we ate Jollibee’s Champ. Today I was hoping to get some Chow King. We decided to walk the opposite direction of where we went to yesterday. I also decided to get a little more adventurous so we turned to some street. After walking an hour I finally admitted that we were kind of lost and that there seemed to really be nothing in the direction we were walking to. Nothing cheap and within my acceptable cost of breakfast anyway.

We took a jeepney… I thought any jeepney would do. Apparently not. We had to get off in the middle of somewhere and walk again. It was a funny experience for Yu I guess because he hit his head (hahaha). We went to a Shopwise and we got a big bottle of Coke Zero (2L) and lugged it around, drinking while walking.

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I’m really tired of cleaning, and it’s my fault. It’s always my fault. I just can’t get myself to work on cleaning stuff for the whole day. My mind (and my butt) starts wandering to the computer and I do stuff, like check my Plurk. I saw Sara’s plurk that she planned to eat some Devil’s Food Cake from Chocolate Kiss and I figured… I’m so bored of staying at home (even though I just went out a couple of days ago).

So I figured… why not? I replied and said I’ll go too.

Sara had Devil’s Food Cake, and I had Kahlua Butter Cake and Guinumis (coconutty goodness). When it was time to leave, we parted ways. I wanted to buy siomai near the UP Shopping Center. It felt so nostalgic just walking inside SC. The atmosphere is so… so very much like UP. The scent of photocopy powder mixed with hair treatment, food and what not. I bought a big cone of ice cream (which is now P25… when I was studying it was only P20. Because I was thinking of fond memories of the 20-peso cones that I used to have before, I forgot to ask the Manong Ice Cream not to put cheese ice cream. I hate cheese ice cream.

Going home, I walked to the direction of the Vanguard building but I passed through the track oval. They put some cement paths there… before it was always just dust or mud. They probably noticed that a lot of people walk through that path a lot. People make shortcuts all the time in UP.

I watched as the sun slowly set… and thinking to myself… DAMN I should have brought my camera. I didn’t bring one because I didn’t bring a bag. I stuffed everything I wanted to bring in my pockets.

Walking along that path reminded me of my university years… when I didn’t need to look for the best weight loss diet pills because I was always walking and had some form of exercise. After I graduated and got a job that was so sedentary, I started getting larger and, well, the rest is history… I guess.

The footbridges got moved by the way… and they’re now GREEN. … an ugly shade of GREEN. It’s so disgustingly GREEN. Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE GREEN! It’s my favorite color… but somehow… the pink and blue combination looked prettier. *barfs in a corner*

I got home just in time for dinner although I was full from eating ice cream and siomai and cake and guinumis…

Cleaning? The hell I’d clean. I was too tired already. I stayed up though. Reading Hana-Kimi manga.

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And so the cleaning continues. I’m taking more breaks than actual cleaning. And I’m also doing things too randomly. Because I didn’t know where to start and it was taking me longer to think where to start than actually starting, I just … work on where I feel like. I’m not being very efficient either. I’m doing sorting and cleaning and whatever rather than just cleaning and throwing out stuff.

I also found expired Nestle Fruit Selections yogurt in my fridge. It’s just 5 days expired and I remember buying it because I wanted to work on my diet. Instead of taking something like glucomannan or another… but since it’s not something I’m really fond of, they went beyond the best before date. It tastes good though.

Ah… back to cleaning I shall go. Tata

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