vange's nest: baguio

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Saturday, August 9, 2008

high blood bago umuwi

From the market and Grotto, we asked Manong driver to bring us to Victory Liner to buy tickets. Morning shift people will leave Baguio 5 hours earlier than the evening shifters but just to be sure that we will get tickets, we wanna get it earlier too.

Grabe! super haba ng pila!! and we might get stuck if we choose to ride Victory Liner since they don't sell tickets for the time we were scheduled to leave Baguio.

We were about to leave but I've seen familiar face on the line. Tsk!

monayyyyyyy!!!!

Since I have been closed to IT people at Tektite, I kissed him on the cheeks. I didn't notice that he was with his girlfriend pala. And the girl was looking at me intensely, I never thought she's Monay's girlfriend. Aba! ano namang malay ko!!!

We left Victory Liner and we decided to book for another bus line. Then our stupid driver announced that he couldnt pick us up at 2am since his service daw was done starting at 5pm. TSK!!!

I told him, we didnt specify time and he should have drop us on time that we will leave Baguio and that will be at 2am. He said too much reasons that I couldnt bear at all. I started raising my voice.

Junel noticed that I was at peak of my behavior and onti na lang, I'll curse that bitchy driver. Junel and others talked to the driver but the driver still stood with what he said to me.

My day was ruined from then on and we decided to just get an FX to pick us up and leave Baguio at the same time morning shift left.

to market to market...

It's always been famous for anyone who goes to Baguio to go, not in some known places, but to the market-- yeah...veggies and ukay-ukay.

So just right after that sumptous lunch at the other side of Baguio, we cross the street and found ourselves busy checking the market.

not as busy..

According to Dennis, there are ukay-ukay's that are expensive. After all, we're in Baguio, we have to look for some cheap but quality stuffs there. I've seen many people wearing furry jackets and I wanna buy one.

From the restaurant/carinderia haven that we had lunch on, we passed the busy street of Baguio and found ourselves walking in an airconditioned street of ukay-ukay.

and yes!! sabi ni Dennis, mas maraming pang cheaper pa jan!

I'm like, "hey! dami nitong ganito sa Manila a" but I haven't been to one in Manila. Prolly, my first ukay-ukay experience was in Baguio. And I was kinda like... tsk. This place is real! Puro may tatak lahat! I bought one blouse and a sun dress. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the jacket I've been looking for :(

hanggang Baguio ba naman!

dennis!! pang babae yan 'pre

si eggie, matinding tumawad!!!

Eggie and Anya bought 2 pairs of shoes. :( Too bad for me, I have big feet :P. Hirap maghanap anything that fits me. Junel's friend bought a furry coat but we were in the market when I noticed it.

We went inside the market and to my surprise, it isn't the same market na puro chicken, gulay and the likes ang tinda. We found almost everything inside it.

souvenirs..

I was about to buy these souvenir items but it scared me just by looking at it. I was thinking, if I'm gonna put it somewhere. It will just give me this goosebumps everytime I look at it.

Just at the souvenir area, I almost have my sack full. Dami ko na nabili, when Dennis informed us that we will buy some tamtaco's and ube jam and strawberrys and... arrgh! can't wait!

strawberries

everlasting

oranges

choose ur pasalubong

They all bought vegetables but since I don't eat any veggies, I just managed to fill my sack with these ^^.

And we walked towards the van na medyo malayong malayo pa, so there were kids who offered their help just for 20 pesos to carry all our sacks. Parang lugi, but then again, you won't imagine those lil fellows can carry a 10 kilo-sack each on their hands.

I was soo tired then but they are still planning to go to the Grotto. I told 'em I couldn't do it, so they can leave me at the van. Jumpy joined me then. (read ______)

ayan, itsurang pagod :(

Grotto

pagakyat...

istasyon...

kaya pa!

lapit na!!!

at last!!!

a view from the top

parang nakarating sa summit :)

serious mode...

pray along

with Her

Ma. Regina :)

pababa, masarap magtaho

models :P

It's late at night when we decided to go home. Well, obviously, we have visited only few places, those places where any people can visit, and we're kinda like bitin. Uuwi na kami tomorrow. :(

Of course Baguio isn't complete if we don't share horror stories. LOL. Wala kaming experience on horror stories at the place that we stayed but we just saw this famous house along the street. I guess everyone who have been gone to Baguio is familiar with this white house.

syempre takutan nga.. try to zoom the picture and you can notice a sillhouette of a guy standing in the window

LOL. true or not, this house is not only reminding anyone about another ghost stories but it's kinda scary passing this big white house though.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Burnham baby

We decided to go to burnham and just walk there. Darn, dami pa ring tao, and we had a hard time going to somewhere since it's people traffic.. :( pero eto lang yun e. we had fun.

QA circled

yeah baby!

wawa! naliligaw kami :(

beautiful girls of TP

foot power!

Since we were near Burnham Park, errr, I guess we were really there, we just follow where other people were heading-boat boat boat, man! The slide will show you everything :) (hirap a)

Grabe, though that was the only thing that happened in Baguio (the sole happening), we enjoyed every moment even though we're tired walking around. We starved of course, and Dennis was thinking of eating sumthing unusual and cheap.

We walked along the I-forgot-the-road-name street near the ukay ukay place in Baguio and found this famed carinderia na uber-puno and jampacked.

I took care of ordering food since they went to they nearby ukay-ukay. I was really starving at that time and amazed looking at the menu. I got two words to say..SOO CHEAP!

halata bang gutom?

eto pacute lang :)

The carinderia has two levels, the ground floor is jampacked so we checked at the 2nd level. Damn, you wont imagine a carinderia that I think a reservation is needed to get a table. Puno rin sa taas. So, it's like a regular restaurant that you have to sit and wait first.

So we seated at a sirang bangkito outside the restaurant and waited to be called. After 30minutes we were called. Coolness, our long wait lasted and we were savored by good food this resto-carinderia haven gave us.

chicken

fish fillet

mixed pancit

chopsuey

crispy pata, ambilis maubos :)

mushroom and quail eggs

ALL OF THESE, 2 ORDERS EACH CAUSED US LESS THAN P900! CHEAP ISNT IT?

Although, this restaurant is not as famed hang out in Baguio, but this is highly recommended and all of our thumbs were up for recommendation ;)

Friday, May 23, 2008

Panagbenga 2008

I haven't experienced Panagbenga Festival in my whole life. This is the infamous flower festival that is held yearly in Baguio every February. On some cases, my friends and my sister always talks about it and yeah, I was a bit curious of checking that out.

Since we went on gimick to Nevada and went home at 5 in the morning, we woke up late, and prepared to eat food that we bought. Again, I was the one doing the kitchen work, with different help from some people who knows want to cook and doesn't want to sleep, unlike Eggie and Anya :P

ang mga mahihilig pumapak ng niluluto ko.!

yummy.. pancit canton or us???

hayz, dumadami ang umuumit ng food ha!

dennis and junel while drinking their coffee

anya, eggie and rosel, while waiting for the food..

"the addicted" to my breakfast

look at eggie, same pose :P ^v

puro si Junel nakikita ko a (kamot ulo)

...and that morning, we enjoyed smoking and seen the whole house that we stayed into. We realized one thing though, masarap palang magyosi sa Baguio.

pine tree nearby

we stayed here...

super lamig in the morning..need a jacket and a blanket when u go out..sarap magsmoke

and we're out to pose..

junel pacute

awww

YanYan and Eggie

with guia

pababa ng hagdan

Since we were late, we took breakfast and all, we havent had a chance to see the whole parade. It was a bit hassle to all of us, riding a cab, going to some places and all, since we were a lot. We were really having a hard time looking for a taxi.

When the caretaker visited us at the house, he suggested his friend and his van to be rented at any places we want to go. We agreed to pay him 1,500 for a day.

the ever stupid driver that we had(stories will follow...)

dennis and me

mga magka-away na magjowa

junel and his "friend"

rosel and jumpy..authentic away na to

We passed so many beautiful and famous places like The Mansion, Botanical Gardens but we didnt get the chance to go down since we were rushing to watch the parade. We knew that we were a bit late because of the breakfast but we still tried.

we have seen this beautiful flowers while we were walking on the airconditioned road of Baguio City

new to everyone, strawberry taho, only in Baguio

...and we were late.. :(

O yes we were late! We still have to walk and look where the parade was held and there were too many people walking as well.

Holiday Inn Float

..and these are all that we got :(

But don't fret, since the morning team arrived earlier than us, I will post the pictures of the yesterday's parade as well as the judgment night of these floats that we haven't seen. It is real Sinulog of the North perhaps, cuz it's kinda the same. All pictures came from the sooper digi cam of Dennis ;)