just a little thing about travelling...

I love to travel. I want to see the world. Literally.
So many places to see, so little time, so little money.

Starting here in the Philippines I wanted to go to so many places.
Bohol. Palawan, Cebu, Ilocos, The Rice Terraces, Davao, Bicol.

And so many more places abroad. The whole bit.

I hope I get to see them all...

of mice, guitar freaks and something...

one of the mice i bought didn't work. gotta get to park square during the work day to have it tested.

i spent most of my time at the arcade. i missed it. the afternoon was spent wasting money playing Dance Maniax, Guitar Freaks, and Time Crisis. Nyahehe...

I miss those times.

Is this what I am waiting for...

In the light of this post, I have found out that I have taken this take 2 months ago and I got the same results....

You are the World

Completion, Good Reward.

The World is the final card of the Major Arcana, and as such represents saturnian energies, time, and completion.

The World card pictures a dancer in a Yoni (sometimes made of laurel leaves). The Yoni symbolizes the great Mother, the cervix through which everything is born, and also the doorway to the next life after death. It is indicative of a complete circle. Everything is finally coming together, successfully and at last. You will get that Ph.D. you've been working for years to complete, graduate at long last, marry after a long engagement, or finish that huge project. This card is not for little ends, but for big ones, important ones, ones that come with well earned cheers and acknowledgements. Your hard work, knowledge, wisdom, patience, etc, will absolutely pay-off; you've done everything right.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

my sister....the tard

i love my sister and all, but she seems to be really slow with regards to caring for laptops...
she was carrying my precious schroeder towards the house, when she was setting it down I hear a big "blag". and I went "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"

if I really remembered, it slid front first towards the table if it was the back part, i'm lucky it hit only the battery pack, but if its front first.... >_____< aw man.

when i told her to be careful she totally missed the point and whined to me "well it was in the casing...."

ITS SO NOT THE POINT..... x(

Savage Chicken plug...

because there's a little something of this in me everyday...
http://www.savagechickens.com/blog/

gomen ne

but this is the cutest cat icon ive ever seen ♥

HK: a side trip to Shen Zhen. (Day 2)

di-op ng yaya, kasama

Note: entries were written on the actual day of travel, I was just late in posting harhar...

HK: side trip to Tsim Tsun Shen Zhen.

Today, I abused my chucks and got all sweaty on my red mango sweater from a whole day trip to Shenzen (Tsim Tsun in Fookien).

But first, a breakfast treat in Cafe de Coral, 1-2 blocks away from our hotel was a little restaurant that serves international and local breakfast food.

from last night's...explosion...(i'll leave it at that). I settled for this sweet little combo : pork and century egg congee, a dimsum sampler of barbeque pork bun, xiumai, and a mushroom dumpling, + coffee(but it could be lemon tea, soda, juice, et.al) all for $18.50 (115 pesos). Food so much is considered cheap in my standards. considering the fact you're in the overseas and
a meal could at least be 200++ (like on our first day).


I'm more of a beef/meatball congee fan, but i seem to be getting old since i happened to like the pork/century egg combo. and the dimsum sampler is a perfect combination to add a kick of flavor to the congee. the xiumai was flavorful and meaty. and i ate bites in between spoonfuls of congee. the barbeque pork bun was AMAZING. I'm not a fan of barbeque pork buns because of my fear to have all those fat in it. But this totally changed my outlook. Not only was the bun soft, but the meat inside was tender and lean. you don't need those bun sauce like you drench on in Manila, this is the absolute real thing. The dumpling is also firm and tasty.

after that , a long walk from the MTR East Tsim Sha Tsui transit over to the KCR line on to Lou Hu in Shenzen. it was a fast 45 minute ride with a lot of mountain scenery, picturesque, jigsaw-puzzle worthy views and an uber modern train that has a TV telling the news and a digital sign indicating the next stop.


We got to Shenzen, filled up the usual arrival cards, went to immigration, had our passports stamped cross the neutral territory line (the gap between HK and Shenzen and arrived in China.


You know (or I know for that matter), that you are in china, there is this certain, "Chinese" smell in the air. The English words melts away slowly to form big gaudy Chinese signs emblazoned everywhere with 8 digit numbers. Plus when I went to the bathroom, Hello to the ground below. No more western toilets. everything is down there or you're outta here.

after the train ride was another train ride at the shenzen transit. traversing once again through all stations towards window of the world or shr tsie chr tsuan　世界之窓 (sekai shi mado ? LOL).

now, why is this called 'Window of the world'? well it's a park that houses little miniature wonders of the world. let's say, if you want to see all the famous places in the world but you're too cheap ass or ur just really poor that you can't go to places like these. go to shenzen and you could travel around the world in a day. or 3 hours.


At windows of the world, I could safely say that the most famous attraction is the Eiffel tower. which isn't miniature at all. it was a towering structure that everybody was hankering to take a picture of it with all its height while maintaining a familiarity to their
minuscule selves on the photo.



also, I would suggest since it's such a touristy but fun thing to do is to dress up and pose in some areas of the park. some ladies are renting international costumes ranging from china - thailand fo Y10 yuan (around 65 pesos) for the costumes.

My sister ended up Chinese, My other sister Japanese, and I went for Thai.

I bought a pretty cool personalized rubber(wooden) stamp together with a red clay stamp "pad" with it the stamp was Y20.

Why Thai? I mean, I always wanted to go japanese, but the thai costume was so pretty. the headdress was adorned with the fake pearls gold sequins was rounded on a used nike cap. the intricate design on the blouse and skirt was splashed on a deep red surface.

The family friend we went with ended up being a chinese emperor and a warrior, we ended up posing with all our family and friends.

After that, we went 3 stations befor Lou Ho which was THE shopping central. Throngs of people was walking around. the street stalls, and buildings and malls. Here also housed the first mcdonalds made in china which i went to eat a double cheeseburger and fries.

We walked around I bought socks for Y2.50(yuan) PHP16.50 i bought 8 pairs of socks. Mama bought a bag, my sister some t-shirt dresses, i bought gifts for ate weng but nothing much yet for me.

after that , we all trekked (walked really) to the Lou Ho restaurant in Tsim Tsun. There we met our family friend's in laws maybe? and treated us to a wonderful dinner of lobster with creamy noodles, vegetables, squid in spicy sauce, garlic clams with vermicelli noodles and other food that i cannot mention due to exoticness factor and authenticity


then a taxi ride back to the station where we got our passports stamped and we're back in HK for a bustling KCR train ride back to Tsim Sha Tsui. We all got there and just plopped to the bed exhausted and tired.

And onto day 3 of my HK waste of time excursion.

66% biatch

You Are 66% Bitchy

While you may not think of yourself as the ice queen, admit it, you're often in a bad mood. And it's those around you who often bear the brunt of your annoyance, even if they haven't done anything wrong!

How Bitchy Are You?

and here comes part 3

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Celebrity match part 2

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I DONT SEE THE RESEMBLANCE....

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sus...

Getting the hype...

I suddenly have this hype to do something. And I seem to be doing it right now.

Now let's see if it will open up to a new beginning...

(HK posts on a later date)

Hong Kong....Day 1...hopefully till Day 5

Here is my HK update. Mostly words, not so much pics. since I have to sift through almost 600 pictures ....and our own camera's cord I cannot find.

HK: the first half

The day started as bad as it was the night before.

After the 7:45ish-8ish release. we celebrated by eating leisurely with our chowking takeout after the bomb has been planted and i went home at 10.

I finished the preparation at 1:30am. all because i have misplaced my luggage's other lock. that took me a whole half hour dumping everything out again at the bed, and rearranging everything back in only to find it hiding on my sneakers. talk about crappy.

i woke up at 5am woozy and obviously still needing sleep. my good dream of playing this cool RPG was cut short. and we headed off to NAIA1 at 5:30.

The line was NOT helping either. so they opened up for the smaller luggages,

Apparently the machine cannot withstand such weights, and I was waiting for my family while our luggage piled up on the other side.

The rude examiner told me : "inyo yan?" (those yours?)
me: "yeah"
examiner: "kunin mo na, walang kukuha niyan." (get it, nobody's gonna get it for you)

i don't know if it was the lethargic, but god, i told him.

me: "well you dont have to be rude.."

that shut him up. i kept glaring at him, whom was just glaring at the screen.

i barked to my sister to get her luggage, i totally forgot to add "baka hiritan pa tayo niyan" to the point the guard asked if there was any problem.

I just kept glaring at the goddamned security personnel.

The flight delayed at around 8:30 which it means it took off at 9:30 or so, and we got to HK at 11.

The old airport was used to be in Kowloon if I'm not mistaken. now the HK international airport is in Lantau.

I knew when I walked out the plane and saw the chinese words with english words under them, I knew I'm not in Manila anymore, let alone the Philippines.

As I was in immigration I was in awe. I was in an airport? but there was practically everything there. a mall, a bunch of restaurants, and even a place where you can have a shower.

HK is pretty..."hilly" we passed by a couple of peaks riding the A21 bus towards Tsim Tsa
Tsui from the airport, since the only one who requested for transfers was for 2 + 1 child. So
that shuns me and my sister to riding the public transportation with a family friend. Which
opted me to ride on a sweet double decker overlooking a magnificent view of Hong Kong.


Almost everyone is trendily dressed in coat and boots. and a LOT of boots i say. in different shapes, textures and colors. those long tshirt dresses and skinny pants and also a lot of converse chucks. both genuine and imitations.

I can safely agree to Renan's insight with regards to seeing a BUNCH of pretty chinese women all over HK. pretty, stylish chinese women. and I was still at the airport.

Anyway the bus stopped at Kimberley Road in front of the Miramar Shopping plaza. Then the Hotel Miramar.

Everybody was famished, except me who ate some siopao tita rosie gave me from the plane ride, anyway we ended up eating at this restaurant that served noodles, congee and the typical chinese food like barbeque pork (asado am i correct?) and soy chicken.

I missed their stir fry noodles very much and I ordred it straight away upon seeing the (thank god) chinese menu with english subtitles.
My sister ordred the chicken feet and dumpling noodle soup. While mom, dad and my other sister ordered barbeque pork, soy chicken, and fried vegetables consisting of eggplant brocolli and stuffed green peppers.
Let me tell you something about HK's stirred noodles. The noodle it self is so flavorful that eating them alone is a pain.

Luckily, as i expected, when the server (whom was too cute for words by the way) gave me my order, it came with its proper neutralizer. the soup.

The clear broth soup really compliments the flavor of the noodles (which came with a side of greens and oyster sauce for more flavor). if you feel like you're getting sick from the noodles. you can slurp a few times on the soup and you'll be a-ok to eating again. :D

pricewise, it's a bit steep. my noodle was a whopping HK$38.00 which is roughly around PHP237.5 i don't really know, but taste-wise. it's really good. the charsiew pork was meaty and flavorful, very juicy and tender with just the right amount of fat. Also the iced red bean with herbal jelly drink was a treat.

One thing that I would like to try is the authentic HK yam-chaa. which i haven't had the opportunity yet.

anyway after that was a side trip to de dolce. a gelato store near the resto. the price was HK$28.00 for 2 flavors or one either on a cup/cone, HK$37.00 for the premium flavors...
I had the raspberry/mango combination. Thank god the woman speaks english, so did the cute server guy at the resto. He had that nice hair...all layered and pop star looking.

Back to the ice cream... :P

the mango was perfect. In a sense, it captured all essence of a perfect mango yoghurt. sweet, and the slightest hint of sourness to it. the raspberry was the usual.

what was intriguing is the fruit flavored yoghurt really had fruit pieces...amazing. not the artificially flavored yogurts like the ones in manila.

afternoon was a power nap. a quick powernap and dinner was at the lavish buffet spread at the Hotel Miramar. They were having a crab special. crab everything. steamed, appetizer, tossed with garlic, all types of crab in soups appetizers and the main course. the feast was amazing, there was a grill where you can ask to cook prawns and fresh scallops drenched in what i have a feeling is wine.

dessert was amazing as well.

after that we went to Miramar shopping center where my sister and i bought new flipflops that was on sale. 1 pair was HK$59.00, when you buy anything from the store, you get another pair for HK$29.00 so all in all its like HK$88.00 for 2 pairs. or PHP275.00 for each pair.

cheaper than havianas. Just as cute,

after that i had to zoom back to the Hotel for some...unexplainable emergency....

Tomorrow will be off to shenzen. or wherever...
o_o