palawan escapade journal - day 3: the wedding, & the days after that

and so to continue with my so-called vacation out of town...

day 3, 28th of december 2005. wedding day of ces & jing. last minute details have been taken cared of (or so we think?)

anyways... i wore a dress of course as i was part of the entourage. rarely u will see me wear something so "lady-like". hehe! not that i hate wearing girly-dresses. im just not comfortable, im not the girly-type. in my adult life, i can name the few times that i HAVE to wear one: college graduation, my brother's wedding (which i want to forget!), and this wedding.

of course, when i get married myself, i'd like to wear the most beautiful wedding dress i can think of. that is if ever i get married! hahaha!

so much for this...the following days were spent sight-seeing, outing on the beach & eating!!! Ü

in limbo...

that's the way i've been in for the past 3 months at work, in limbo. the transfer i was hoping for will not materialize. i finally accepted that it won't happen. not here, not now. somebody seems to hate me that much. i don't know why. was it karma? was it bad luck?

just to ask my current boss for permission to transfer caused me a lot of stress, and now, it has caused me shame. last week, i was asked for updates, so my boss can get a replacement for me as soon as possible, i was not able to give any clear answer. they have placed a job opening ad on the internet, i think it meant my application was denied. And i was not planning to tell the world about it. it's a shame on my part. oh, i just did, here in my blog! good thing that the people concerned dont know my blog address. haha!

i hoped & prayed for it, but then again, maybe HE has other plans for me.

purpose...

this quote was sent to my email yesterday, i just thought this makes sense. ok sa timing eto kahapon nung mabasa ko kasi i was feeling depressed & frustrated about my life. haaay! minsan tuloy naiisip ko ano nga ba ang purpose ng existence ko sa mundong ito? am i such a bad person not to deserve a bit of happiness? :-(

"Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stomp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in a pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." - Norton Juster, "The Phantom Tollbooth"

my palawan escapade journal - day 2

December 27 - day 2 of my palawan escapade. mid-morning, we've gone for a bay cruise on board a medium-sized boat. we had lunch on the boat, several kinds of seafood & a huge lobster was served! (yum!yum! ang sarap! sorry na lang cecile & jermaine, di ko alam controversial pala ang lobster na yun! hahaha! may utang tuloy kami sa inyo. Ü)

our afternoon was spent for church rehearsal. we were late for the 3pm practice so we had to wait till 5pm. a wedding ceremony was about to start that time, we opted to stay & observe. the bride starts to walk down the aisle & lo & behold! a tagalog soap opera theme song was playing on the background for her bridal march! (ipaglalaban ko ang ating pag-ibig! maghintay ka lamang at ako'y darating... - theme from "Ang Panday" soap pera) pwede pala yun 'no? i find it amusing. hehehe!

by the way, i managed to take some pics during our bay cruise though it was a cloudy day.

sa likod ng mga ulap -1

sa likod ng mga ulap -2

evening came, the soon-to-be wed couple spent some time with us for dinner to talk about some things which need follow-ups since they won't be able to attend to those things anymore during the wedding day itself. eto kami (clockwise: Cecile - the bride, Vien, Weng, Jermaine - the groom, Jayjay, Fat & ME!)

dinner time at Badjao Seafood restaurant (trying out the food which will be served for the wedding reception)

my palawan escapade journal - day 1

pls bear with the details...hehe! ganito lang talaga ako mag-kwento...

December 26 '05 - panic attacks!!! it's past 12 midnight & i have not packed anything yet for my trip! got home late from a Christmas celebration at my aunt's place. being a semi-OC (that's right! i confess! i have a semi-condition of being an obsessive-compulsive!), i carefully laid out all the clothes i might be using for the duration of my "palawan escapade". for each day, a different set of clothes were folded and tucked into my suitcase. hehe! i even have a checklist, so that i won't leave out anything. i packed another bag for the camera & other stuffs that did not fit in my suitcase. all my bags are packed and im ready to go...(leaving on a jet plane song plays at the back of my mind). i finished packing at 3am. i felt really sleepy that time, and set my alarm clock at 530am. the alarm goes off! i think I accidentally pressed the snooze button and overslept until 630 am. panic mode again! im supposed to be at the airport 2 hours before my 915am flight. i still have to buy other stuffs & fill the car with gas. my brother drove me to the airport, we got there 8am. there was a long queue outside, i was worried im not gonna be able to make it. i got in line, it was starting to rain. syet! naiihi na ko sa kaba na hindi makasakay sa eroplano!!! i got inside at 830am & found out that most of the passengers on queue were leaving for Boracay. the counter for the Palawan flight wasnt really full. i checked in my luggage and waited for boarding time. the flight was a bit late. the plane took off past 930am. i dozed off as soon as i was seated (sleepyhead!), i was in dreamland when loud cries from little babies bellowed inside the plane. i was seated beside a lady with a baby on her lap. the baby was fiddling with my arm, maybe he was trying to have a playtime with me. i made funny faces at him, not to scare him, just so he would leave me. maybe the baby mistook me for a clown and continued to smile at me. oh well, at least he was not crying anymore.

11am - arrived safely in palawan. before i forget, the purpose of this trip is to attend Cecile & Jermaine's wedding. (more about them on a different journal entry). they fetched me from the airport, took me to Kuya Doy's (Cecile's big bro) place to have breakfast before i get settled at an inn. there, i met the couple's families. parang fiesta. hehe! special mention goes to Hannah, that cute little kid who's a carbon copy of Ces in more ways than i thought.

past 12 noon- after having lunch at Kuya Doy's (Thank you Kuya Doy sa food preps. sarap ng pagkain!), we went on a city tour. the weather was not cooperative at that time, what a spoiler! anyways, we went to see the butterfly farm (the butterflies were out of sight because of the rain); the Iwahig Penal colony (bought some stuffs made by the inmates from the souvenir shop); Viet village (which was already abandoned since all of the Vietnamese refugees who used to live there migrated to the US as part of their retribution for the post-Vietnam war victims); Sta. Monica ranch (owned by the political clan of the Mitras, this place kinda reminded me of Tagaytay); and Bakers Hill (again, somehow looked like a place i've seen in Tagaytay). baked goodies here are yummy (specially the ensaimadas) and not so expensive.

past 630 pm - dinner time! we had a sumptuous meal of crabs, sweet & sour and grilled fish at Kuya Doy's. no gimik night for now. im a bit tired and had to rest early. or maybe it's being busog that's why i feel sleepy. hehe!