It's been a month since I started school, and because of that I'm really desperate to go somewhere. 'Coz I want seize the remaining time I still have, while I am not yet busy with school stuffs. I want to go on adventure around Manila. But there's a problem, I can't go alone. Hehe. I want somebody to accompany me. So I end up with one of my H.S best friend Jean and my young brother, CJ.
So yes... this is the saddest thing that I never ever want to happen, when summer was already over again! I don't know what should I feel about it. I feel so unhappy, because I didn't enjoy my summer. I remember when it's was just starting, I told myself that, "Hey Nicole, be productive this summer. Don't waste any day of it." But it turns out, "all-do-nothing-day-this-whole-summer". I can't remember anything that I made productively. All i did was,
> wake up > still on bed while using laptop > pick up cell phone and still on bed > laptop again > eat > laptop > eat > laptop > watch movie > eat > sleep <
Hayst, definitely productive Nicole, huh?!
I regret doing nothing! I even told myself that I am going to read my Economics book! But I failed to! Ugh! Instead of studying in advance for the next school year, I even forgot everything that our professors (even all the lessons my professor in major) taught us. As in all, wala ng natira sa utak ko. Hirap talaga pagdating sa academics, nagiging short-term ang memory ko. Ahekhekhek!
I also planned that I am going to gala anywhere, lalo na wala naman pasok! Freeeeeeeee ako! Kaso wala namang budget! Huhu! #ThugLayf (Meron naman akong napuntahan with my big and younger brother pero hindi sapat T_T) Tsaka hindi ako nakapagswimming! (Though may swimming-an naman sa Malangaan, pero hindi kami nagbeach o kahit private pool man lang. Feeling ko tuloy hindi nag Summer. Lol)
But behind all of that, kahit masyadong sobrang aga yung naging outing with family and friends, at least, we're able to experience it. Yung nga lang, sobrang aga talaga. Isipin mo ba naman, March, eh naguumpisa pa lang 'yung bakasyon. Ayun, nga nga nung huli. Hehehe!
But anyways, In spite of my 'all-do-nothing-day' I still tried to list down some of activities I found myself productive this summer:
- Me and one of my friend, Jean tried to make our own business (part time job). Kasi nga tengga lang sa bahay. Nagcustomize kami ng T-shirt printing. Kaso hindi rin nagtagal, kasi umuwi siya sa probinsya niya. If I remember it correctly, we only had one batch of orders and as of now, yung second batch, hindi pa rin tapos. Lol. Wala kasi siya e! Wala akong katuwang!
- Because of the phenomenon Korean drama these days, "Descendants of the Sun", I am so desperate to learn Korean/Hangul. So I teach myself alone, thanks to internet, I am able to learn it for free. I memorized their Alphabet, and I am already familiar to some of their words. Basic words lang, hehe.
- Update and catch up my blog posts, fixed my blog as well. Because of that, I got to know how to tweak blogpsot's html template.
- Yup! I did jogging with Jean (again), but it doesn't took long. (Siguro 3-4 days lang, kasi araw araw, tinamad na kami. Hahaha!)
- I finished a book! A wattpad story! At last! (Kasi puro epub ako, hehe, like: Anna ATFK & Lola ATBND)
- Customized my own planner, and calendar (I put some inspirational words, in case I got out of the right track. Lol)
'Yun lang, wala na akong maisip na iba pa. Hahaha! Kasi wala na naman talaga! Haha!
Sighed. Nalalapit na naman ang panibagong yugto ng aking 'college life'
That's all I can share for now.
I never thought that I will be able to experience this kind of event. Because in my entire seventeen years of experience, though i am already living in Manila for study, I am not able to go and experience this kind of event. I thought this is going to be just an ordinary day shopping for school supplies (that I will blog next time) with my siblings minus my little brother who's the only one left in the house with his nanny.
In my case, desktop is very helpful to me. This is where I can easily save the files that I need in the near future. And because of constantly using it, there will be a time that our desktop was nearly full or already full.
In today's blog, I am going to share to you my first time Watson's Haul experience. Believe me or not, in my whole sixteen years of existence, I've never been in Watson, either with friends or family or rather alone. I am really shy to get inside of the store. Because all of their customers are really well-experience to shop for their beauty & skincare products. Me, I don't have any background at all. Because first, I am not a self-conscious person. Whatever I look like it was all fine to me. I don't care to what they say about my physical appearance. Second, maybe because I don't have a sister. Though I have some cousins, but we're not that close to ask them about something like this. So, how would I know something about 'buying beauty & skincare products' ayt? Last, because my mother doesn't teach us even buy us something like this. I think because she already know that I doesn't need that. Or... Maybe I am just a late bloomer. Lol.
We are now on our final and the most-thrilling destination here in Tagaytay, the Sky Ranch. If you are an amusement park person — who love to try all it's exciting ride activities, I bet you wouldn't dare to miss this place whenever visiting Tagaytay!
After our epic adventure in Taal Volcano Island, we headed to the place where we were initially going — a perfect place for picnic, relaxation, sightseeing, the Picnic Grove. It is one of must-visit place here in Tagaytay because of its overlooking view of Taal Volcano in the middle of Taal Lake.
If you haven't read yet my previous blog "Tagaytay Adventure: Almost in the Crater of the Smallest Volcano in the Philippines", here's a short recap of our itinerary:
OUR TAGAYTAY ITINERARY
7:00 AM to 10:00 AM — Travel time from Bulacan to Tagaytay
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM — Brunch time
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM — Taal Volcano Island Tour
1:00 AM to 3:00 PM — Tagaytay Picnic Grove
3:00 PM to 8:00 PM — Skyranch Tagaytay "Ride-All-You-Can"
8:00 PM to 11:00 PM — Travel time from Tagaytay to Bulacan
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM — Brunch time
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM — Taal Volcano Island Tour
1:00 AM to 3:00 PM — Tagaytay Picnic Grove
3:00 PM to 8:00 PM — Skyranch Tagaytay "Ride-All-You-Can"
8:00 PM to 11:00 PM — Travel time from Tagaytay to Bulacan
OUR SECOND STOP: TAGAYTAY PICNIC GROVE
We drove back to the Picnic Grove after drying myself from that unexpected boat ride. Arriving to the place, we left Tito and Tita inside the car because they requested to rest first.
We took our time go around place appreciating its cold breeze and panoramic view.
We also spent most our time taking scenic, rare and candid photos of ourselves.
We found ourselves resting with these gazebos on the top of the place where we witnessed the panoramic view of Taal Lake and its volcano. After spending few hours here, we now headed to our last destination, the Tagaytay Skyranch.
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Tagaytay is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Philippines because of its outstanding scenery of overlooking iconic view of Taal Volcano Island in the middle of the lake and its cooler climate provided by its high altitude. So, if you want to get away from the busiest city and traffic congestion of Metro Manila, Tagaytay is only an hour and thirty minutes drive from Metro Manila and a perfect destination for you to get unwind and have some fun like what we did!
So, yes! Summer has officially started for me since the next day of our last day of school, definitely, the start of my summer vacation. It's too early for me to have this summer getaway. But it's a great start of my summer, indeed! Anyways, today, I definitely had an amazing adventure. Really. Because this is my first time to go on cave adventure unexpectedly. Yup! You just read it right. Sounds awesome, right?
Looking back to when we are all busy planning for our dream universities even before graduating high school up to preparing for the entrance exams. Time flies really fast that I haven't noticed I am no longer a freshman college student. I just survived a year and three years more to conquer.
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Well, I already expected to travel somewhere outside Manila since I am already in College. But I just never expected it to happen early in my freshman year. My college friends and I decided to travel Tagaytay for just half a day.
Our day doesn't just end by just attending the Synersion. We decided to go to the carnival. Since it was just right in front of the venue. Honestly speaking, it was my first time to try any carnival rides in my entire life.
After being busy with couple months, the four of us finally got a chance to be reunited! It made it more special because we got reunited from the same occasion where our name "Naive Gals" was made. The only difference was, this event "Synersion" was a combination of Fusion —event for preschooler to elementary, and Synergy —event for all high schooler.
The Synersion
Finally, after a year, my Dad let me join his light spinning around our city with my brother 'coz it was been a year already since my last time to bike this far. Well, initially, I thought I would never get a chance again to bike this far because my dad literally don't allow me to join them because I was actually the only girl (but not a biker) from the family and discriminated for that.
After weeks staying in my dorm, I finally had time to be at home. It felt so much good that I even invited my younger brother to stroll around our city. He used the fat bike (Chubby Miner) and I used the mountain bike. This place is quite far from our home but manageable to get here with bike. I felt relieved afterwards 'coz I felt like I lose some weight. Lol.
Since this week was very a stressful week to me, I treated myself some sweets before to start reviewing for the midterms. Well, it is my one way to unwind myself so I could review more seriously later on. So, we went to this place —where there are a lot of sweets and I am here to this little tiny space but filled with heaven foods.