Cambodia and Thailand - a Prelude!

And I am back!

I've just come back from a week-long trip to 2 countries in IndoChina, and boy was it amazing! I have so many pictures to show, soooo many stories to tell, and so little time. But I'll try my very best to get them all up within a week - so wish me tons of luck! :)

As an overview or a sort of prequel, this trip was booked way back in late August  to early September. The flights added up to Php 8,830+ per person. This was for 5 flights (cheap, right? :D):

Cebu to Manila
Manila to Siem Reap
Krabi to Bangkok
Bangkok to Manila
Manila to Cebu

Cebu Pacific now has direct flights from Cebu to Bangkok and Siem Reap, but the direct flights only started about 2 to 3 weeks from when we booked and paid for our flights. It would have been cheaper by at least a thousand pesos, but overall, it would have cost us (additional night for accommodation, etc) more since the direct flights schedules weren't really conducive for the plan that we already laid out.

I had drafted a loose itinerary, as well as places of interest where we could go, which I'm posting here for reference:

Added Asiatique to the list of Bangkok activities a week before we started the trip, but couldn't find the updated version of the file. :P

Now the big question is: Were we able to go do all of the above activities?

Keep posted to find out! ^_^

SURPRISE! ^_^

My mother and sister handed me an LBC package about 30 minutes ago - totally unexpected. For the life of me, I couldn't recall having ordered anything that should arrive by post. Mama was grinning when she told me that it came from Mcbeau, my bestfriend from childhood, who she had met over Facebook chat sometime last week and had asked for our address and my shoe size - AND to keep it all a secret from me.

Was I surprised?

TOTALLY! Waaahhh couldn't stop smiling for a few minutes as I was opening the package. And then I saw this:

Which made me go:

Isn't it puurrrttteeyyy?? I love it! And good timing, too! I'll be packing this in my backpack for my trip this Thursday! :D Anddd! Considering I've never had any birthday surprises that I can recall (thinking again now.. Nope.), this was even more appreciated! Needless to say, I am one happy girl right now, and my birthday isn't even until this Sunday. Hehe. :)

Aren't bestfriends the absolute best? ^_^

Thanks, besty!!! I love you! Mwah! :*

Christening!

Hello, blog!

I've finally created you! I only hope I'll be able to keep this up haha. I'll be back with my stories! ^^,

AH1N1 Awareness Seminar

Whilst spamming with Cleo and John D. at work, the drama queen announced (out of the blue) a seminar to be held a few hours after we get off work at CIT regarding the current pandemic caused by this new type of flu. Of course we had to go -- sayang ang certific, i mean, valuable information na mahatag sa seminar. ;p It really was informative. John isn't in any of the pictures because he failed to make it, saon taman natulog man. We saw a few, ehem, colleagues there as well. ^_^

IELTS EXAM

Start:	Jan 16, '09 09:00a
End:	Jan 16, '09 12:00p
Location:	- - - - I have no idea!! oh no!!!! T_T - - - -

Listening, Reading, Writing

IELTS Speaking Test

Start:	Jan 16, '09 6:15p
End:	Jan 16, '09 6:30p
Location:	- - - - I have no idea!! oh no!!!! T_T - - - -

Speaking portion of the IELTS exam

Yza is home again

Start:	Jan 17, '09 5:00p
End:	Jan 20, '09 05:00a
Location:	Queen City of the South

Yza will be home again on January 17, in time for the Sinulog festival the next day.. Wooootttt!!! =D

Sykes Volleyball

December 13, 2008 at the City Sports Gym, and about 30 minutes at Starbucks (annex) Ayala.

Demi Luv's Birthday at Toledo

... lagi lagi dugai na kaau ni...;p

After a tedious 9-hour shift which ended at 8 am, I went home, showered, changed clothes, and then went to starmart (atbang sa southbus) to meet liz and john.. We proceeded to city link to catch a vhire ride to toledo, where demi lab met us at a Gal's bakeshop..

Demi's hair was short and curly.

She took us to her lola's house, gave us red tea to drink, and ordered us to make name tags. It was torture. After about an hour's worth of tambay2, we went to the local elementary school to meet the kids (and their teacher) who were gonna be part of demilab's party.

There was no available venue as yet when we, and the jollibee people, arrived.. So we waited at the listening center.. I never even knew there was such a center. After a few minutes, a room was made available to us; so we rearranged some stuff, Riza said her "BISAYA" prayer.. and then..

PARTY TIME! I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story..

After that, it was time to go home.. Back to the city, back to reality, back to freakin work.. walai tugpahai ang show..


Demi Luv, you are truly a blessing to the people around you. May He shower you with blessings all throughout life.. =D I love you dems! Happy birthday (belated)

Sykes Christmas Party at Shangrila

Held last December 6, 2008.

Photo-mongers as usual ahahahaha.. Though incomplete, we managed to make the night memorable and enjoyable.. ahemm.. =D such an eventful night..