I’m online everyday but I can’t blog that much because I’m using my dad’s laptop. My computer is still dead. I can’t use it because the monitor is acting up. I miss blogging already. I want to post some photos but I will be needing a photoshop to resize and put a watermark on my photos. My dad’s laptop doesn’t have Photoshop installed. I’m also thinking of moving to Tumblr. It’s easier to blog there. But I’m not yet sure because I will surely miss some features of Wordpress.

I know most of you are aware of what happened in the Philippines, particularly in Metro Manila. Typhoon Ondoy (International Name: Typhoon Ketsana) brought non-stop heavy rain which caused floods. There are a lot of houses and cars submerged. Even celebrities became a victim of the floods. The government declared a state of calamity in Manila. People are in dire need of food, medicines, clothes and the like. Many are now homeless.

I went to Manila for my annual check-up. We left Tacloban at six in the morning. We arrived at 2:30 AM the next day. We used our car that’s why it took us around 18 hours before we reached our destination. But if we took the plane, it would only take less than an hour to get to Manila. The problem is I’m not allowed to ride a plane anymore. After the check-up and a few days of staying there, we decided to go to Subic and visit my uncle.

I love Subic. I really enjoyed my stay there. Traffic’s not heavy, less pollution, everything was in order and the rules are strictly implemented, no excuses. It felt like I was in the US.

We went to Ocean Adventure. I’ve always wanted to go there ever since I saw it featured on some TV shows. And I wanted to see a dolphin in person. We were kinda lucky because Kablog, a TV show being aired here in the Philippines, was having their shoot featuring the dolphins of Ocean Adventure.

Next day, we went to Zoobic Safari. I really enjoyed every single minute that I was there. Well, except when we were with one group of family who were noisy. It’s a good thing that they decided to eat lunch first before continuing to the second part of the tour. While me and my mom, together with a group of 3 tourist, decided to go on without them. We went to building where the tigers are being kept. The place was so stinky. They feed every tiger 7-10 kilos of meat every single day. Then we went to the Tiger Safari where you will ride a jeep and if you buy a chicken, the tigers will chase or attack the jeep to get the chicken. We didn’t buy a chicken, we were to scared.

I don’t care if I was absent from school for 2 weeks because my Subic trip was so awesome!

Somehow, I got lazy surfing the internet. I’ve been busy with my offline life. School’s great. I’ve met some new friends, but I miss my friends from my former school. I only have 5 subjects and my schedule is not that hectic. I have a lot of free time to spare. I was hospitalized twice (July 12-14 and 17-21). It’s a good thing that classes were suspended when I was at the hospital because one of the students from my school got infected with the A(H1N1) flu. What’s freaking irritating is that some of my classmates thought that I was the one who got the A(H1N1) flu because I was absent for 2 weeks. Just to clear things up, I was hospitalized because of bronchitis, not A(H1N1) flu. Now, I’m having a hard time trying to catch up with the lessons. I still have to take some special exams. Oh, before I forget, my friend gave birth to a cute baby girl. I’m so happy for her.

Note: This will be a random post so expect a lot of grammar mistakes.

My sister arrived from Manila last Friday to spend her birthday with us. She brought a friend with her. As I was waiting for them at the airport’s parking lot, I was so excited because we had a lot of things planned for the weekend until the day they would go back to Manila. We had a small party the night they arrived. We spent the night karaoke singing and eating. We also watched “27 Dresses”. I like it but it’s kinda like a rip-off of Rico and Claudine’s movie. But the lead actress is so beautiful.

On Saturday, the day of her birthday, we went to Ormoc to spend an overnight at Sabin hotel. We were supposed to have night swimming but we decided to swim the next morning. I spent the night camwhoring using the cam’s self-timer. There were a lot of running that happened that night. LOL. We started swimming at eight in the morning. I really had fun at the “walking” pool. I call it “walking pool” because I don’t know how to swim, I just walk. After eating breakfast and checking out at the hotel, we went straight to Rafael’s farm which is just a few minutes drive from Tacloban City. We had lunch there. I was really happy because I love that place. And I got to practice taking good pictures. How I wish I had a DSLR but dad’s digicam was already okay. After eating and picture-taking, we were about to leave when I saw my high school batchmate and former college classmate, Jim, with his family.

We also went to San Juanico Bridge. I felt like it was my first time to be there. I’ve been at San Juanico Bridge a couple of times before but I never had my picture taken there. I kinda felt like I was a tourist in our own province.

Yesterday, we didn’t have any classes because of the Sangyaw Festival. We went to Robinson’s to watch Transformers 2 Movie. I was really impressed with the movie. I forgot to bring a jacket. It was really cold inside the movie theater. Note to self: Bring a jacket when going out to watch movies. After watching Transformers 2, we bought some snacks at the supermarket, went home and watched Twilight (again) and Wanted.

My sister and her friend already went back to Manila early this morning. I already miss hanging out with them. Back to the normal boring life.

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