Just came back from Puerto Galera after being stranded there an extra two days. *rasmfasm* Let me recap:
Well, we went to Batangas on Saturday afternoon to stay at the village of the company my mom works in. See, Cocochem (the company), has a head office in Manila and a plant in Batangas. Some who work at the plant in Batangas were given a house in the Cocochem village, and we spent the night in two of the guesthouses there. There was… about 29 of us altogether there, I think. :D
Anyways, the next morning, we then proceeded to the pier to board a boat and go off to Puerto Galera. The boat arrived at noon, and we arrived at our beach destination at 1:30PM, I think. After settling in to our rooms, we then scrambled to the beach to swim and stuff. The water was so clear, it was beautiful. Me and my little brother went diving for prettyful rocks and stuff. I also got to see lots of small fish, and a slightly bigger one, with black and white stripes. ^^ It was fun. And it was a Sunday, which meant a lot of the people there would be going home the same day because of work. And the beach would be ours! *insert evil sadistic laugh here* MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The going-home-of-other-visitors part and having-the-beach-to-ourselves bit was pretty worthless, though. Why? Well, come Monday morning, it was signal #1 in Puerto Galera, which meant really strong winds and really crazy humongous waves. We tried “conquering” the waves, which resulted in most of us having lots of bruises on our body. See, with the huge waves came strong undertows, and whenever the waves crashed to the shore, and it was so strong, our feet would get sucked by the undertow we would get crashed by the waves on to the stony part of the shore. Thus resulting in our aching bodies. And whenever one tries to go far to avoid the crashing waves, the undertow again supported the humongo-problem of being crashed against the stones because it’d take us like we were part of the wave and crash us. Damn, that hurt so much. ‘Tis murder, I tell you, murder! ;) Because of the storm, not one boat could take us back to Batangas, so we had to stay two extra nights until there was actually a boat that could take us all back.
Our last swim there got to be really fun, though. We finally managed to “conquer” the waves, as I like to call it, and avoid being crashed against the stones. It was really fun how we would “jump” over these really huge waves that we were so scared of just the day before. Hehe. And after that, all of us (most of us there were kids) just sat on the shore (a safe distance from the waters, I might add) in a line, watching the sun set and enjoying that peaceful feeling. It was nice. And the colors of the sky were really beautiful, too. *sigh*
It wasn’t exactly the greatest beach-trip ever, but it was fun nonetheless. We haven’t had a reunion like this in almost two years, so it was nice. I just wish our other cousins, who couldn’t go because of the swelling of their dad’s foot, were there. It would’ve been so much better with them, and they’re the ones we hardly get to see. :( Oh well. ^^ I must add that I hate the fact that most of the stuff they sold there was overpriced. It was irritating. For example, a small bottle of Coke would go for about P8 here in Manila, but there, it was a whopping P15. And a 1.5 liter of Coke would normally be about P30, but there, it was P50. Stupid ass. And to think I’m used to living on Coke! *rasmfasm*
My parents are going to Bangkok tomorrow. *sigh* Must get money for a movie marathon for myself. I need new movies! :P
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Cally said on May 20, 2004 at 3:44 am:
Woo hoo! Awesome Layout! The Vines are quite good! Yay, have fun in your movie marathon…pick out some good ones!
Drea said on May 20, 2004 at 5:46 am:
OUCH! Signal #1?? Baaad. In Boracay, the waves are 10 feet high during signal #1. My mom’s bathing suit came off.
Hehe, so how’s Alias? What eppy are you guys in?
Michelle said on May 20, 2004 at 11:24 am:
I’m glad you had fun in Puerto Galera. :-) I haven’t been there, though. :-(
Drea said on May 20, 2004 at 2:11 pm:
Hey, if you have David Letterman, I suggest you watch. The same day that Kiefer Sutherland will gueststar, Incubus will perform. ;)
Sara said on May 21, 2004 at 9:33 am:
I am still in love with this layout *sighs* The Vines are just great! But anyway, glad you had fun on your trip!!! :D
Anna said on May 21, 2004 at 4:22 pm:
Wow, you had fun.. Yeah despite of bad stuff that happend.. Its still definitely fun.. 50 PESOS FOR 1.5??? O yeah.. I just remembered.. duh me, things are overpriced there..Hehe.. just wanna share something, when we had a break in Baguio it was raining too.. lol.. Not a storm though, but would be a bit bit good?
Ellie said on May 22, 2004 at 1:40 am:
That sounds like much fun. I want to go to a beach. Ga. And even if you were trapped there, its still a fun story to tell. Sometimes I wish I’d get lost while driving just because it’d be interesting. Lol, I’m odd, yes, I know.
Danica said on May 22, 2004 at 1:13 pm:
hay sadly ni ako nakapunta sa beach this summer :( i wanna see puerto galera!
rap said on May 22, 2004 at 7:12 pm:
yikes! you got stranded in puerto galera? but hey, that sounds fun! better than getting stranded in the streets of manila because of FLOOD. nyeh… ang aga mag rainy season noh? anyway, cute layout!
Michelle said on May 22, 2004 at 7:47 pm:
Really? Oh.. that’s bad. :-( Anyway, I left you a comment on your previous entry. :-P Something went wrong with our PC and this entry didn’t load for me.
Michelle said on May 23, 2004 at 10:54 am:
Oo nga no.. hmm, ang labo. Anyway, that was only about PoA. PoA is gonna start June 2nd since movies always start Wednesdays for us. They had to adjust it a little bit. (Thank God they moved it in an earlier date instead of a later! ^_^) Btw, there’s The OC later! Hehe.
Monica said on May 23, 2004 at 12:50 pm:
duude sounds like you had fun! apparently i’ve been to the Oregon coast which has waves like that!
JC said on May 25, 2004 at 12:43 am:
Sounds like you had a fabulous time. :) I haven’t been to the Philippines for…a while now Maybe 5 years. But last time I went, I went to a lot of beaches. All gorgeous. My grandfather who lives there bought himself a gorgeous beach.