I should have listened to Scarlet’s Walk a long time ago

What can I say? It’s feels hella good to be home.

Going to Punta Fuego in the middle of a typhoon is like getting a dish of melted ice cream on a hot summer day. What you have is already there, but not quite in the state you want it to be. I’m sure the place is very beautiful around April to mid-May, but do not go there on the months of June until whenever it stops raining. It was a little depressing. Everything was so gray! The sky, the water, even the grass and the trees seemed to lose their green-ness. The only saving grace was the smell of the saltwater. It was everywhere we went, even in our casita. The smell wasn’t very strong; it was just right, like really mild perfume, and somehow that felt very relaxing.

So what exactly did we do there? Well, my sister and I made pa-cute to all the guys in our swimsuits in that freezing cold weather (not!). I had a massage at the spa. I ate a lot. I watched movies. I was supposed to go to the gym to work out and get rid of all my excess calories, but it’s hard to get around Punta Fuego without getting wet because it’s obviously a summer place and they hardly have any roofs or anything outside. So by the time I got to the gym I was wet, cold, and bitchy. I tried to open the door to the gym, only to find out that it was locked. All that getting wet for nothing. Grrrrr. What’s a girl to do? I marched back to the casita, got out the Playstation2, and became re-addicted to The Sims. If someone doesn’t save me I will waste away in front of the TV from playing that game.

Our vacation wasn’t really all that bad, though. I just wished the weather could’ve been better. Why, why, why did it have to rain? When we were at Cebu three years ago the sun was still there. But it’s still quite odd how the rainy season started on the day my brother died. That night, it rained really hard.

Traffic was horrible today. Our house is only five minutes away from the South Super Highway toll gate but the traffic was so terrible, it took us another extra hour to get home. o_O I’m just happy that I’m warm and dry here in the computer room, and that my house is still in one piece. I picked up a newspaper this morning (for the first time in months) and I was so horrifed when I read about all those people typhoon Chedeng killed. It’s funny how I only thought of it as a mere irritation, like a speck of dirt on white pants, something that ruined my vacation plans. Whereas so many people in this country saw the storm as something that wrecked their homes and killed their loved ones. Man, am I a pampered, insensitive bitch. And for some reason I was in a newspaper-reading mood today because I actually read the damn thing from cover to cover. Even the entertainment section. So anyways, now I’m back to resuming whatever activities I like doing (namely, talking to Jason :P).

Oh, and awesome news. My best friend Angelica got out of the waitlist of UP Los Banos. She is now a UP student!!! I’m so happy for her. Hehehe. All summer she was really worried that she would end up at CSB. Heh. I love how we both got into better univerisites than the people from our high school who used to torment us for speaking in English all the time. She’s going to stay at a coed dorm, I’m jealous. And I heard that UPLB is a real party place. Well, good for her. I always tell her that she needs to go out more.

For some strange reason I’m actually excited about college now.

Pictures and photography stint below:
Punta Fuego
Taal Vista
Scavenger Hunt Photolog