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09 October 2016

High School Forever

Oh would you look at that! It seems that I owe myself a couple of posts since I have pretty much been quiet here since 2016 began. Let me post two successive entries (the first is this and the next one will be in a couple of days!)

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I figured, I've left the blog untouched since my last birthday post so why not continue with another birthday post! These photos were taken last 16 January when I held an overnight celebration with some of my favorites from High School.

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6 years after graduating from High School and everyone's still as indecisive, impulsive, ignorant, shallow, and boisterous as when we left the halls of our beloved High School Alma Mater.

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07 April 2014

We Were Skipping School and Drinking on the Job

I just returned from a very tiring weekend getaway which served as my cousin's 13th birthday celebration. We went to Zoobic Safari in Subic for a quick morning activity then drove all the way to Bataan where we slept. I'll be posting a lengthy entry about it as soon as I've gotten the photos. Anyway.

I got the title from Lana Del Rey's This is What Makes Us Girls. It was what I was listening to when I was writing down my I'm a 90s Kid entry published last month. Now let me copy-paste myself to provide a short but spot on description of the kind of best friend - relationship I have with the birthday celebrant in this post.

Almost on a weekly basis, against all odds (and by odds I mean all schedule stoppage including, but not limited to, classes and intern work), we find time to meet. If we have to cut other prior arrangements, we do just so we can spend a few hours with each other.

Top: H&M | Skirt: from my Lala | Shoes: Dorothy Perkins | Necklace: H&M

Her birthday coincided with my shift as an intern. Perhaps the title and the lifted paragraph would suffice in explaining why I was out on a dinner with my friends instead of fulfilling my obligations as student-intern. (Would it help if I mention I still went to the store and waited there for roughly 5 minutes for whoever picked me up that night? No? Oh. Carry on then.) Well, it was for my best friend and besides, I asked a thesismate to fill in for my position. I know which strings to pull when push comes to shove, you know! Hahaha.

Karen didn't have any plans to celebrate her 20th but because Jer and I insisted, she invited us to join her and her family as they dine in Yakimix that night. Pushy friends, if you must describe us. Arisa joined in as well. These photos were taken last 8 October 2013, by the way.

A very kind waiter took our photos but just as we were about to leave, he asked if he can have a photo with us too. We politely agreed thinking he did us a favor first anyway. The funny thing happened afterwards. The rest of the staff who were on duty then including the manager flanked us. Cute right?

02 April 2014

Out and About Part 2

Here's the other half of the previous post under the same title which you can find HERE. There, I'm making my life easier by documenting as a whole what I've done during the past months that I haven't been blogging. There seems to be lapses among the months but that's only because I'm going to post a few in-between events in separate entries.

November 2013: Visited my goddaughter Paris. Afterwards, my friends and I grabbed lunch, dessert, and of course some drinks.

November 2013: Because he's my mom's favorite local singer, we watched his 10th year anniversary concert in PICC. Jed Madela, as expected of him, validated why he's still in the industry.

December 2013: I spent an entire afternoon with one of my college best friends.

December 2013: my beloved cousin

December 2013: We were supposed to attend our HS reunion but my 'introvert'-ness kicked in so it was just the three of us.

January 2014: We went to Cebu for Sinulog. It was my first time. If I were to rate our 5 day, 4-night stay there with 10 stars as 10 being the highest, I'd give it an 11!