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Manila Weekend Recap, Part 1

Published by Justine

Prelude: When Bianca told me she needed help in planning her wedding, I gladly obliged, despite being a plane ride away. Whatever I could do, I tried to help. Fortunately and to our pleasant surprise, the church she chose had very limited slots and her chosen date was May 20 at 9am. I didn’t expect to be spending my birthday in Manila this year, but I was glad! It meant I would be spending it with the Jakarta famkada again, just like 2014 and a bit of last year. We (Mom, Jana, me) left on the 18th, taking the last flight out by PAL. It was an early night for us because we wanted to avoid traffic, and we did. What I hated the most was that our flight was delayed by 2+ hours, so it was quite a bitch waiting in the airport. The only thing that consoled me was PAL planes are better, so it was a very comfortable trip. I joked to Jana that we spend more hours waiting in the airport …

A Post Birthday Listicle

Published by Justine

I may not blog as often, but I always make sure to have a blog up at the time of my birthday, whether a reflection, a recap, or just something to remember. No excuses! My birthday weekend was jampacked to say the least because I was in Manila for one of my best friend’s wedding on Saturday the 20th, and my birthday was on the 21st. That meant friends from Jakarta flew home to Manila. Double happies. I didn’t really have anything planned in terms of a celebration and just went with the waves. I had so much fun because I didn’t expect anything. I always have to remember that. My birthday was a celebration in itself because a good friend whom I met through twitter years ago got me tickets to ABS-CBN’s noontime show ASAP but even grander as it was Star Magic’s 25th Anniversary! Needless to say, I saw most of the local celebrities. Giddy and totally fangirl-ed! The weekend felt long and that was a great feeling because it meant I could treasure …

Terrace House: Boys & Girls in the City – A Subjective Ranking

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I finally, finally, finally finished Terrace House: Boys & Girls in the City. I say finally because I didn’t choose the most favorable time to binge-watch it, with all the travel and wedding (and birthday, probs), and work-related things I had to attend to. But I just. Could not. Stop. I spent a good amount of weekend time for it and the minute I got home from work, it would be the first thing I do. This resulted to finishing all 46 episodes in a span of 10 days. That may not seem like binge-watching but I HAD SO MUCH TO DO AND WORK IN BETWEEN ALDFJA;SDLJFA;F. ANYWAY! (Fair warning: this post may contain spoilers for those who have not watched and are planning to.) A little side note: I started with Aloha State when it first came out because it was more “real-time” and shorter. This made me develop a softer spot for the Aloha State cast. I feel like if I watched B&GITC first, Aloha State cast wouldn’t matter as much to me. …

The Failed Trek That Was

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So today, we went up up and away to Osmeña Peak in the South of Cebu. Summertime dates should mean summer weather, right? Well we were wrong. In defense of that short but gruesome trek, now that I’m at home it wasn’t pretty bad. But this morning while I was struggling through the muddy trek soaking wet in rain, it was pretty damn bad. We left the house a little after 4am and arrived Dalaguete around 7 after a pit stop at Jollibee Carcar for breakfast. Weather was still bright and sunny and because it was summer, I had thought it was going to be all clear skies. I’ve been dying to go to Osmeña Peak for ages but just never found the perfect time, and I thought (we all thought) that today would be it. Mother Nature did not agree. Once we left Carcar and proceeded to Sibonga all the way to Argao and Dalaguete, rains had already started to pour—not much, but consistent enough to keep the grounds wet and for sure soften …

A Recap of My Week

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It’s Friday (DUH)! This week really passed by like a breeze. I guess it helped that Monday was a holiday (yayy Labor Day) and there were a series of events this week that made it all the more faster. They say time flies when you’re having fun, right? On Tuesday, the Philippine Bar Results came out after a grueling 6 months of waiting. I can’t imagine having to take an exam and not knowing the results almost half a year later, especially one that will determine my future. How do y’all do it? Anyway, my closest friend from childhood and my neighbor across the street, Hazel, is now a full-fledged lawyer! It was so funny because I had been patiently waiting for the results to come out the whole day, camping out on twitter search results (my preference of news release) to find out if she had made the cut. Series of updates stated that it would be out before at 11:30. For some weird reason, a little before 11, the school’s fire alarm rang …