Marbel at night.

We rarely use the overpass because of its reputation of being stinky most of the time. Some people just don't have manners and piss on the bridge! Good thing they cleaned it now. The view from the overpass is...different.

Here are some photos I took. Thanks to my brother for telling me that you get the "highway effect" (the one where the car lights kind of merge together to create a busy highway effect) with the Twilight setting on the digicam. However, the streets of Marbel aren't really that busy to begin with, so this is all I got.

More photographs of my hometown here:
http://simplyceecee.multiply.com/photos/album/6/Hometown_Glory

What a Pizza, Tia Nina!

Food trips are always fun.
Last night we ate at Tia Nina's -- a pizza parlor that serves BIG pizzas. You've seen the picture, right?
Eating at new places is so fun. Last time, we ate at Basilio's which serve delicious pasta! And another time when we ate All-You-Can Eat Pasta at SaBalai Bistro. (More of them at later posts).

So we have this pizza which is half a meter in diameter, right? That was the XL pizza. 16 slices. I can't imagine how much bigger and more delicious the XXL pizza was, which was 32 slices. Not to mention the gigantic appetite you'll need to finish that pizza off. Imagine a round table you eat from at convenience stores.

Too bad it was a little burnt. But the toppings were fine. It was just, a little too thin crust for my taste.
And I wish I had more of the slices with more toppings. I had a feeling I was left with the corner slices. haha

Now I'm just dreaming of that pizza to pass through my lips again.

Frisbee and my hamstrings.

It's a struggle just to get up and go to SMRAA. The thought of doing that much activity is unappealing. But then I don't regret it after stepping on that rubberized track and doing just even one lap is rewarding. It's nice to exercise. Yun nga lang, mahirap talaga bumangon at pumunta sa track.

Today, me, Remy, Jacque and Melvonn joined the "Air Benders". Who were we to refuse the invitation to learn about how Ultimate Frisbee is really played? Who wouldv'e thought it'd be so...hard. I love the name by the way. I'm an Avatar:The Last Airbender fan.

Things I learned today (which I hope will help):

1. A real ultimate ftisbee costs 700 pesos and weighs a lot more than our 100-peso frisbee. No wonder, since it's more appropriate for throwing. Still, for recreation, a cheaper one is enough.
2. I learned the backhand throw and forehand throw.
3. Basic drills.
4. The game. A team needs to get their frisbee on the other side. Like football.
5. If you drop the frisbee, the other team gets it.
6. Once you catch the frisbee, you can't take more than three steps. Else, that will be travelling. (I travelled two times today.hehe. Got carried away after catching a frisbee)
7. An opponent will try to block you(like in basketball!), and will count and wait for six seconds until you pass the frisbee to yout team mate. Otherwise, the other team gets th frisbee.
8. Your opponent needs to tap your frisbee after you catch it. hmmm.. i don't know when or why....
9. The frisbee has to be held by a player at the goal to count as a score. (like in football)

Sorry for sounding like an amateur. I AM one. 

That was fun, but,God, my hamstrings hurt.

image from nataliedee.com

buko halo-halo,review centers and friends.

It's just nice to get out and not worry about anything. (but then I ended up worrying anyway).
There's this famous place in Brgy Saravia that serves buko halo-halo. Aparejas buko halo-halo.
The assortment of vehicles - luxury cars, vans, trucks, multicabs -seem out of place and strange lining up in the quiet road-side of Barangay Saravia. But people come there just to eat the buko halo-halo. And why not? It's cheap and delicious. And in the strange way of Philippine entrepreneurship, the neighbors have followed suit. There are about four(?) buko halo-halo places now all within 5 meters of each other.
But nothing seems to compare with the original.

Image from [link]. (It's close to what we have eaten)

It was fun and laidback. The prospect of hitchhiking from Saravia to the main city was exciting, but we chickened out. 

Along the way we saw clouds pouring rain on Mt.Matutum. It was the first time I've seen rain coming roght out of the clouds. It looks like an army of cloud people are pouring large bottomless buckets of water along the clouds. 

We had planned on playing frisbee on the park but it rained. Apparently nobody wanted to get wet even though most frisbee players played rain or shine. We settled for KCC and couldn't resist the lure of Booksale.

We had also worried about which review center we would enroll to. It IS mind boggling. Plus there's the worry of studying with your classmates. Would it be a temptation? Though it's hard to imagine anyone not being serious about the board exams.

God, I'm really indecisive. Sometimes I want others to decide for me and I'll just let it be. Ironic how at some points in time I'm the one they look to for a decision. It's easier to decide for one's self because one could live with the consequences. But if that decision affects a lot of people, it's not so easy to decide. It's not easy to take the blame, that's why I admire leaders who makes good decisions that don't have to take the blame, but receive praise.

I remembered a depressing part of my life. It would never leave for a long time. But when I see the friends I have, and the good things that I have, who am I to continue spreading negative vibes? Good and bad are a given in anyone's life and I'm happy to be reminded that my life doesn't entirely suck.

Image by Propaganda-panda @deviantart