Day 3 & 4

DAY THREE

Date: 18^th June 2014

Day: Wednesday

Time: 21:29

Weather: sticky sticky! Rainy night

Today was yet another nua day, just that we changed the location of nuaing our day away haha. I woke at 5.15, same timing as Niko from Finland, and the sky was already SO BRIGHT! Took my own sweet time to change and get ready, woke Kim up nearing 6 and headed down for a morning Kopi-O (LOVE) and buns! Got our way to Wendy’s ourselves (yay success! Jeep > MRT) to meet Vim there and according to ‘filippino time’ (which means they will lag abit haha), we set off at 7am in Vim’s car!

Took an hour+ to leave Mandaluyong and reach the school in the mountains! Mr Vim kept feeding us throughout the day: beef noodles (left the beef for Kim again, xiexieni), really sweet mangos, local fruit, nuts, delicious HUGE lunch (which was my favourite fish friends in sweet and sour sauce, another fish friend braised, chicken, salad, sticky rice) half-alive duck egg called balutt which I can’t bring myself to eat, Kim tried it though! Brave!!! (Y)

We basically spent the day touring the Arts School which was just populated with the top music scholars of the area, from pianist, guitarists, to visual artists, creative writers etc. It was their secondary school so everyone is talented AND young (made me wonder what’s my talent again, 快点来 Talent, if you are even existent hahaha) People are really friendly and Mr Vim, being the Director, is a real big shot and I can tell how he is being strongly respected and loved by members of the school :’) Meanwhile… Kim and I are just small flies beside the King with zero talents LOL CUI.

We got alighted at a Robinsons Shopping mall which has a cinema andddd Gongcha (omg didn’t expect this)!!! Walked around and returned back while it was drizzling slightly. Did some work and planning but the best part of the day was WIFI (finally) <3 Slept at 2 and woke at 7+, ready to start a brand new day! J

DAY FOUR

Date: 19^th June 2014

Day: Thursday

Time: 23:34

Weather: Rainy less humid day

Hi.

Today I figured out that this random ‘Jumbo Hot Dog on stick’ that I ate twice is actually a mix of pork and beef, not chicken. Luckily I realized it early, if not Guan Yin Ma from SG needs to take an overseas trip here soon already. So yup, no more jumbo hot dogs!

Washed my clothes yesterday for the first time here and yay I just kept them back into the luggage nice and dry J The other EPs are clubbing, whoohoo whoohoo time but Kim and I have different schedules from them because of our projects anyway, so we’re having quiet alone-time in the dorm instead J 我喜欢.

Let’s take a trip down today’s memory lane. It was just Kim and I in the dorm last night, and because of the time we turned the aircon on, it didn’t switch off in the middle of the night so awesome, we had a super good undisturbed 没有被热醒 sleep J Headed out after the usual simple breakfast, took a tricycle to the Mental Hospital but got cheated off $30 pesos extra (sian). The trip there took $80, but the trip back was $50! Oh well, part and parcel of a foreigner’s life. The hospital felt like hospitals in the olden Singapore. It was nice and clean, but much less technologically advanced and a little old. Paints were chipping off and tables were a little dirty. We visited the waiting area of the Women and Children Protection department and got an idea of what should be done to improve the place in general. The doctors were classy nice ladies and welcomed us warmly J We were done with our tasks really quickly, chop chop Singaporean style. The trip there and back took only about two hours+ in total. By 10+, we were done for the day already!

Headed back to the dorm to get the first draft of proposal out and we were officially done again! After Kim rested, we set off for Taft Avenue! Random trip to random MRT station just because google says that place has some nice cafes, and yes tadah!!! They do! Nerissa, Kim’s buddy, is so amazing she brought us around enthusiastically despite her busy schedule and even treated us to Nachos at Zack’s. I got myself a SGD3 fish burgerrrrr (love for fish never dies). [ERM OK OMG WHEN I WAS TYPING THIS ON MY LAPTOP IN MY BED, NIKO MY ANGMOH ROOMMATE FROM FINLAND IS CHANGING HIS PANTS IN FRONT OF ME. CULTURE DIFFERENCE CULTURE SHOCK CULTURE SCARE OMG LOLOL] After Zack’s burger (first burger in PH) [OK NOW HE STARTS CHANGING HIS TOP OK CAN. TOO OPEN MY FRIENDS. THIS CULTURE. TOO OPEN! NUUUUUU] we headed off to this filippino-koreanish café that has a really nice feel to it, atas atas, with nice decorations and all, feels like those cafés back home. Got myself an iced Americano, hmm the ones at home still win. We sat at this wooden area where shoes aren’t allowed, it was right beside the windows you can see the crowd come and go, it was nice J Chill and good.

Ended the day taking the LRT and then switching over to the MRT, busy busy busy crowd as usual, but yes we are really getting used to this! J