Bottled Sky

This week has been quite interesting so far, at least for me. I got to try a lot of new things, including riding a bike (I never learned as a kid) and getting a big ol’ shot in my thigh. Here’s a rundown of my week:

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It’s been a pretty good and decidedly lazy semestral break. Most days I just loaf around the house watching TV, reading books, and surfing the net. Others I spend hanging out with friends and making headway with my Christmas shopping. I’ve pretty much been having the same amount of physical activity as a pampered house cat.

However, I did get a bit of exercise this week when I went wall-climbing with my college barkada all Thursday afternoon. It was so much fun! We climbed until it got dark, and we wanted to keep on climbing but most of us could barely move our arms by then. While it certainly was fulfilling to reach the top of a wall, my favorite part was hanging high up in the air and getting belayed down. When I kept failing at my attempts to finish one of the more challenging walls, my friends accused me of falling on purpose just so I could swing around in my harness. I suppose they were partly right. While I’m still waiting for my chance to bungee jump, to learn trapeze, and to float around in a free fall tube, I have to get my thrills wherever I can!

Afterwards we headed to Chrissa‘s condo to waste all of the exercise we had just gotten by eating like construction workers. We had been in the middle of our movie marathon at 2 a.m. when we suddenly had a hankering for some ice cream. God bless the genius who invented the 24-hour convenience store. Because of him we were able to enjoy a half-gallon can of Selecta ice cream even on that ungodly hour.

The rest of Friday went pretty much the same way: movies, kulitan, food, more kulitan, more food, and endless picture-taking. When you’re friends with someone like Kathy there will always be a camera documenting your every move. We don’t mind most of the time

I uploaded a bunch of the snapshots we took. We got very creative with some of the shots, but we’ve decided to keep those pictures to ourselves so they won’t later be used for blackmail.

Last Saturday a bunch of my college friends and I met up at Megamall to watch The Stepford Wives. Before heading off to the cinema we stopped by the hardware store to get some stuff for Chrissa and Tin’s lab project. Being the crazy people that we are, we sort of got wacky on the pipe aisle. And being the photo whore that I am, I just had to take pictures. Here are Chrissa, Tin, and Albert to prove that the days of makeshift telephones made of string and tin cans are long gone.

The Atlanta PVC Pipe Company… Connecting People

After disturbing the peace on the pipe aisle, we were planning to pose for more photos wearing those huge silver letters used for building signs. (Bling-bling, baby!) Unfortunately, we were also running terribly late for the movie, so we had to cut short our little hardware store photo shoot. We’ll just have to get those bling-bling shots some other time

I was finally able to go on a vacation with my high school barkada this weekend. And it was the best vacation we’ve taken together so far. Here are some photos from the trip. It was shorter than our usual trips (just three days this time), but we were able to do so many things. Not all of us were able to come, though. A couple of the others had internships that they couldn’t get out of

On Friday morning Fatz, Aggie, Liz, Jo-Anne, Jess, and I drove up to Tagaytay. We headed straight to Fatz’s condo at the Highlands, a country club in Tagaytay, where we were going to be staying for all three days. After we had lunch we got a call from Bern, another friend of ours, who was at Punta Fuego with her family. She invited us to spend the afternoon there. So we immediately jumped in the car and drove to Batangas.

The resort they were staying in was beautiful, and there weren’t that many other people. I hadn’t been to the beach in years, so I was pretty psyched. We spent quite a bit of time frolicking in the waves, shrieking and trying our best to hold on to our suits hehe I did get knocked down a couple of times by some strong waves, but I managed not to ingest too much sand and saltwater. We also got messy in the sand, trying to build the cities of Troy and ancient Egypt. As you will see from the photos, we are very far from being competent sandcastle builders. We headed off to the pool afterwards to splash around with Bern’s little brother Cosco. After a late dinner, we kidnapped Bern from her family to spend the night with us in Tagaytay.

On Saturday morning we went on a mini road trip around Tagaytay with Fatz acting as our driver and tour guide. She spends every weekend there, so she knows her way around pretty well. In the afternoon we went back to the Highlands and swam at the sports club, where Fatz lost both her contact lenses in the pool. Jess was miraculously able to find one of her lenses. How she was able to find an itty-bitty contact lens in a swimming pool is beyond me! We then spent a couple of hours relaxing in the locker room, taking advantage of the Jacuzzi, sauna, and steam bath. We got so relaxed that most of us were out cold before midnight, falling asleep right in the middle of a DVD.

On Sunday we just kicked back at the condo, watching more DVDs while chomping through bag after bag of chips. Liz and Jess cooked an excellent lunch of pesto and garlic bread, so we were able to stuff ourselves full for the trip home.

Last night was one of the best nights of my entire life. I got to see Incubus live in concert… and how! I didn’t even know that I’d be going until my friend Tin won two tickets the day before the concert and decided to take me. (I love Tin!) And I definitely never imagined that I’d somehow end up practically right in front of the stage almost for free. To tell you the truth, I’m still in disbelief and completely on a high until now.

The tickets Tin won were only for the SRO Patron section so we weren’t that happy at first. We were with Nina and Zsha-zsha who happened to have tickets for the same section. We started lamenting about how we were not going to be able to see anything when two guys who were part of the concert’s crew approached us and offered to lend us some IDs and smuggle us into the Premiere section for 200 pesos each. We decided to take the chance, and we did get in. However as soon as the band got on stage, people started standing on their seats, completely blocking our view. I grabbed Tin and dragged her to the front. The bouncers tried to stop people from rushing to the barricade in front of the stage, but they eventually relented. And that’s how we ended up right up front, screaming our lungs out, just meters away from the hotness that is Brandon Boyd.

Incubus gave an amazing performance, and the show lasted for nearly two hours. The area in front of the stage was this close to being a full-on mosh pit—crazy, sweaty, and strangely enough, so much fun! Despite the fact that the little toe on my left foot got jumped on several times by what felt like a stacked-heeled boot (it still hurts when I walk) and the fact that I won’t be able to speak normally for the next couple of days, the experience was definitely worth all the money I didn’t have to pay!

We hung around at the concert venue for a while after the show to meet up with other friends and have our pictures taken. After we’d had enough–well, actually after the bouncers had started asking people to leave–Tin drove Nina and Zsha-zsha home. Then she dropped me off at Chrissa‘s condo, where my other college friends were having an overnight review session. I of course proceeded to disrupt their studying with my giddiness. By 4 a.m. I finally managed to fall asleep. Tin joined us again in the morning for breakfast and straight on till lunch.

I finally got home this afternoon, and right now I’m seriously considering never having the clothes I wore last night washed ever again due to the slimmest of chances that even a molecule of Brandon Boyd’s sweat somehow landed on them. Yeah, call me crazy