First Few Days at Home

I have been here for 6 days and here are the things I did so far

1. Mall hopping with mom and dad
2. Jolibbee spree with Ron, my nephew.
3. Karaoke (inside our house)
4. Renewing my NBI clearance
5. Eating all those food and fruits I so miss
6. Cleaning and preparing for Marcus’ arrival

In between those things, all I can think of are blogging and how much I miss surfing the internet. Yes, we don’t have an internet at home so my blogging is very irregular. I can post 5 entries in a day and 0 the next day. Every time I have a chance to use an internet connection, I grab it and then I blog until it’s time to go home in our remote neighborhood where the number of Karaoke stands are more than the number of houses with a television. Can you imagine how noisy it is in the evening? Our house is along the main road (like 75% of all the Filipino houses, hihihi) so imagine the sound of all those tricycle passing by adding up to the irritating voices from the Karaoke stands. Hmmm… not a very pretty thing to listen to.

I am so not used to this anymore. Of course, I will always welcome the opportunity to come home and see my parents but there are just some things which I wish I can avoid. And those are:

1. not having an internet connection
2. noisy surrounding
3. noisy tricycles that cause heavy traffic

But anyway, no matter what…I love Philippines and I will keep coming back.

Excuses Excuses

steiermark2.JPGI will be gone for at least 2 weeks and I don’t know how frequent can I post in this time.

We decided to go to Guimaras and I have today to arrange all our flights and hotel bookings. After that all will be finalized. I will be flying to the Philippines tomorrow and Marcus will follow after a week then off we go to Guimaras together.

I remember that I promised to post some pictures from our Christmas Holiday Vacation in Austria and I just realized today (when I was about to make a promise to post Guimaras pictures when I get back) that I haven’t yet. So here are some photos taken last Christmas in Austria.

The photo on the left side is a tower up in the mountains some where in Steiermark. :) Errr…I am sorry I am not very good in remembering dates as well as names of people and places.

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This is me giftwraping the Christmas presents

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Me and Benjamin ready to go the Uncle Franz’ house for dinner

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Eating Afpelstrüdel up in some mountain

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A church on the way to Steiermark

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A town…I am not sure what’s the name…sorry.

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Marcus and Benjamin getting ready for a sleigh ride

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my favorite shot of our visit in Steiermark

Going To Some Place Warm

plane.jpgI am in a rush. Reason is because I am flying tomorrow to the Philippines and I haven’t packed my luggage yet. Though I love visiting places, I truly resent a lot of things connected o travelling and those are having to pack and unpack, being in a plane, being in an airport, waiting for flights, carrying my heavy luggage, and having a jetlag. Obviously, I will not have a jetlag this time because Philippines and China are in the same time zone but I cannot avoid the rest.

My flight to Beijing will start at 10:00 in the morning meaning I have to be at the airport by 8:30 and I will then arrive in Beijing at 12:00. The long flight from Beijing to Manila will start at around 4:00 in the afternoon so I have like 4 hours to wait in the airport. I will be travelling with Marcus’ EGDE China Mobile connection so I will surely have an internet connection to keep me occupied. Unfortunately, the plane to Manila will have a stopover in Xiamen for an hour. It sucks but it’s ok, I suppose the EDGE will still work there.

And then I will land at around midnight in Manila but that is not the end of it. There is still a 2 hour bus ride to my hometown. Now I should stop here because this is becoming like a stalker’s wet dream.

Regular blogging will resume after this two weeks holiday in the Philippines. Whenever I get hold of an internet connection, I will try to post at in at least one of my blogs.

Upcoming Holiday in the Philippines

We are going to have our Chinese New Year holiday in the Philippines! Yehey! I am so excited. My flight is on the 25th and as in, I am SOOOOOOOOOO excited!

I have a week to stay with my family in Tarlac then Marcus and I (and probably the whole family too) will go to some place nice.

Here are our options:

Guimaras (mango haven)
Bohol (too far already but I would really love to see the place)
Puerto Gallera
Subic
Pagudpud
100 Islands

The good thing about travelling within Luzon is that it is convenient and cheap. If we will be travelling with the family including my three super kulit (stubborn) nephews somewhere nearby is very ideal.

But Guimaras and Bohol are such lovely places!

So the deal would be if we go to Guimaras or Bohol, there would just be me and Marcus whilst if we go somewhere in Luzon, the whole gang can come too.

What would it be?

And by the way, how can I have non-stop wireless internet connection in the Philippines for two weeks? ( Don’t like a lock in period of 24 months) Got any ideas? Thanks.