My Thoughts

After our trip to Malaysia; we took a four hour flight to Taipei, Taiwan. We had to wait an hour or so before leaving for Los Angeles (something bad happened there by the way, I’ll tell ya about it soon…) By the way, the airport in Malaysia was really cool! The flight to Los Angeles took around 18 hours; it didn’t seem that long though since I was sleeping most of the trip.

We finally arrived. We were welcomed by two friendly immigration staff. One was Pinoy! (okay, maybe I’m a bit over-reacting)… When we were checking in our luggage, my brother noticed that one of the padlocks were forcefully pried open… We were disappointed. By the time we arrived at the Alaskan airport, we noticed that 4 out of 5 of our bags locks were forcefully pried open… This time we were pissed. The four hour flight to Alaska seemed much longer than our 18 hour flight to LA.

Alaska is sooooooooo beautiful. When you leave the airport (which looks way better than Los Angeles’), the smell of incense just fills your nostrils. I take another deep breath. That smell was the smell of pine trees, and it’s everywhere! Right now, the sun set’s at 11 pm and it rises at around 2 am (how cool is that!). I’ve been walking around the city finally with the freedom my parents gave me, I can walk alone! (sometimes it’s nice to have some "me" time once in a while). Everyone here is so friendly. You can’t go to any store without at least one person saying "hi" to you. People smile everywhere and have that "twinkle" (I guess that’s one way to put it) in they’re eyes.

I started walking around at around 7 am to 9 then I went back to the hotel and took the car around the city. Breakfast here was great by the way. I started walking again at around 1:30 visiting every single art gallery in the city; one of my favorites is Artique. They have wonderful whimsical paintings eveywhere, and that’s the style I like (think Mirror Mask, if you’ve seen that movie). I arrived around 3 o’ clock.

Now, I’m back at the hotel. We’ll be visiting this place called Earthquake Park. They say it’s great for pictures. We’ll leave as soon as my mom comes back from buying gloves for our ship cruise to Canada. =)

That’s all for now, ciao!

I’m in Malaysia right now! My first impressions were… WOW
The airport was absolutely stunning. There was a free coffee machine!=P Everyone staff in the airport wore cool clothes (think of Indian royalty, haha). Everyone here’s really friendly compared with Hongkong (oh, how much I loathe that place). I had no idea that this place was really developed, you should check out the freeway; I love it! It’s like having the SRP all over the city, and people from Cebu should know what that is… Haha What I really like about this place is that girls here dress modestly (alright, call me old fashioned… grr!! =P).

I’ll try to post some pics of the place soon. We might be going to the Petronas Towers tommorow! Oh, and the girl from the front desk told me about a cool spot; it’s an entire spot completely devoted to satay! Woohoo! =D It’s called Kajang; I’ll also try to visit that on the way back from Petronas.

Sadly, we’re only staying here for a night. =( That’s because we’re leaving for Los Angeles tomorrow, then Alaska!

Malaysian food is excellent. If you’ve tried Thai cuisine, it’s something like that but it’s not too hot — it’s just right. =)

Alright, that’s about it for today. This is kind of a draft though, so I’ll try to edit it sometime.

Ciao!

The day started out with my mom waking up me up at ten in the morning; it was Tuesday. She told me we were going to the beach…  "What? We’re going to the beach? Umm… Okay! =P" I went down for breakfast, something was different though. My aunt and uncle from Manila’s here! =D The thing is we don’t have any relatives here in Cebu, so it’s a bit of a big occasion. =)

We left for Mactan at 12 and took a quick stop at Ayala before that. We took one of those bangkas (or whatever you call those native boats! The one with ‘wings’ =P). We took the boat to this restaurant situated right in the middle of the sea! And there are a lot of Koreans there. Haha We began handpicking the seafood freshly caught from the waters below us. We had some scallops, crabs, squid and some fish. My dad started complaining though about the slow service, it took us half an hour to get our beer and they weren’t even cold!

After a few minutes the food came and we finally got what we wanted… cold beer! The wait was completely worth it; nothing tastes better than fresh seafood. =D After finishing our meal, this bassist and guitarist came… Music! My uncle requested for a song, the "Magellan" song! He joined in the song; oh yeah, did I mention he’s like the "choir master"  (or however you call it) at church. Then he sang a Frank Sinatra song… He was unstoppable!

In the end, he finally finished. We went off to Bantayan! =D Since the time I woke up, I decided not to swim. Just in case, I placed my phone in the bag because I wanted to sit at one of the boat’s "wings". Here’s a pic!

That’s me hanging at the wing. =P

After sitting around, I tried walking at the edge of the wing without holding anything. Guess what? I fell! =P That’s when I decided to swim, Haha. That’s when I realised "Oh my God! I still have my wallet" Here’s a pic. That’s my wallet I’m holding =)

After the beach we went off home to rest. A few hours later, we went off to Lai Garden (home of Cebu’s best siomai =D). After a hearty meal, we went of to Aziza for a drink. I finally get to try a Singapore sling!  Haha

We ended our day with a nice massage before going to sleep… =)