Its gonna be June tomorrow

tomorrow will be june and if i was in the philippines it would only mean one thing: school. but now that im here in sydney, its the other way around. my first semester finishes by the second week of June, and by that time i'll be spending a month long of doing nothing.

but anyway, i dont want to talk about that. it gonna be june tomorrow, and i was like, man, i have to blog about my May trips. so here goes...

a week before my family left, we hit Canberra and Blue Mountains.

Canberra. oh canberra. what can i say about canberra? well, its really really small. i dont want to say its boring, cause Questacon was amazinggggg! but, it was somewhat sad. or like if i were to move there by myself, id be sad. anyway, we went to the parliament house (old and new), war memorial-- that took us the whole afternoon, mint factory where my brother made his own coin, black mountain where we went to this kinda like their sydney tower but more dangerous cause it didnt have a glass wall to protect you, and questacon, the funniest and most magical place in Canberra.

well, as for the blue mountains-- i didnt go. i was too tired and too lazy. so i pretended to be sick (which i kinda was) and stayed home to watch a movie in the city. hahahaha so when my dad found out about it, he bought me a key chain that said "Drama Queen." hahahahaha i deserved that key chain.



anyway, i dont want to describe the place or the experience, cause its one of those things that you have to go to to be able to really understand what im talking about, but i do have visuals to share to you. so enjoy! : )


more pictures here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.224400917571799.65210.100000056774910

Cold is Gold

Where have I been?

Well, i've been out and about ever since my family arrived last May 9. yup! ALL of them... Papa (with his security), Mama, Ate, Kuya... and Lola... and Marla... and Kuya Mik. we're all cramped up in one house, which i think is pretty amazing. haha

anyway, last weekend we, all the cousins, decided to go to gold coast for some cousin-downtime-bonding. and because we were merely relying on our own money, we decided to be as cheap-ass as we could. so we reserved the cheapest tickets and the cheapest room available = backpackers accommodation, meaning $39 dollars a night/ person.

let me tell you about being cheap when it comes to travelling, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAID FOR. so dont expect anything glamorous or expensive, because you wont get anything from that.

first of all, we missed our flight. okay, thats not because we bought cheap tickets, but because some psycho guy threatened to bomb the harbour bridge and so he ended up closing the bridge and made a 30-minute drive to 2 hours. we were late, but we had the chance to rebook it during traffic. so no worries. but we almost missed our re-booked flights... as in we were literally running inside the airport to reach our flight.

so as we got to gold coast, we rode a taxi and met the friendliest driver ever (Thanks Manong Chris!), reached our hostel and got our keys. and as we opened the door... we all had this nasty face. WHY? because the room REALLY SMELLED LIKE FEET. seriously, smell your feet now and just imagine it being 10times stronger than yours and its the scent of a room. THATS OUR ROOM. we couldnt complain. it was cheap. the only good part of it was that we had our own beds. but yeah, lesson learned. no more cheap-ass hostels. id rather pay twice as much.

the only scary part of the story was that we had to sleep there for 3 nights, and we all ended up being okay with it. i mean, yeah, we totally bought a deodorizer and sprayed it EVERYWHERE, EVERYDAY. but everytime we would leave and come back, we would smell the gross scent, but when we're already in the room, we wouldnt even smell the feet anymore. OMG. now that i think about it, that waas super gross.

anyway, enough about the room. for 4 days that we were there, we ended up going to a theme park and rode all the scary rides, fed some kangaroos, ate subway sandwiches all the time, walked around the city and bought stuff, went to the Ripley's museum, did that slingshot ride and screamed our lungs out (a video to prove it), tried to go to the beach and sunbathe (but we couldn't cause it was too cold and windy), played putahan, and just enjoyed ourselves even if.

so, if you guys plan to go to gold coast, dont go at this time. i mean if you want to experience the wild and crazy and hot kind of gold coast, this wouldnt be the time, but then again, if youre with good company, it doesnt really matter.

Palladian Cup 2011- solo drama

when i got back from New Zealand, it was pretty much a hell for me. why? well, because i had this wonderful week long that i didnt want to get out from... and cause i knew that i had a paper due on wednesday and the palladian cup on thursday.

I dont want to blog about my New Zealand trip just cause the pictures can describe the whole experience. so if you do want to see what I did in NZ just check out the links below:

day 1: christchurch
day 2-3: milford sound
day 4: glenorchy
all the days in queenstown
bungee experience
skydiving experience


So let's go back to Sydney.

Yesterday, I represented the House for the Palladian Cup. the Palladian Cup is an inter-college (dorm) competition with different categories, and it happens throughout the semester. yesterday was the solo drama category, and I was one of the representatives for our house.

I chose the character Ursula from the Little Mermaid, and can i just tell you that out of all the presentations,  i was actually the odd man out. the rest of the contestants did so well (but i did too), but yeah, hell, SOLO DRAMA nga talaga. hahahaha BUT, i dont care. i did my best, had an amazong costume-- did those tentacles by myself, looked butt ugly and creepy. so yeah, all good.

anyway, i didnt win, and the winners deserved it. one guy even composed his own thing, and it was amazing, i thought he would win it (he was second).

and of course, i wouldnt deprive you from not seeing what my presentation. blogging wouldnt suffice it, right? hahaha so enjoy my once-a-year-i-will-never-do-this-again act. : ) enjoy it while it last and while im still open for panlalait. : ) hahaha

ohhhhh! and yes, that's my hair... ALL OF IT.

here's the link: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=219542578057633&comments