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On December 18th I left for Philippines with my brother and dad and arrived at around 10:00 pm in Manila on the 20th to meet my cousin Kuya Junty who flew from Zamboanga to help us out and let us use his apartment. At first I didn't think that Philippines was gonna be fun because the first day we just visited my tito and tita who's in Philippines and just talked and ate it was boring even though it was nice to see my tito and tita again. The next day my dad wanted to do some shopping to bring back home to the US. We met up my Kuya Junjun, Dino, Benji (he's balding and it's pretty obvious but he's the greatest because it doesnt stop him from talking to random girls in the mall), and Toto (Toto is like... his sexuality is unknown to the whole family, everyone thinks he's gay cause he acts and talks gay but people claim he has a girlfriend) .. blah blah.. after we shopped we slept and left for Zamboanga City my hometown with Kuya Junty. We got to the airport and then we arrived at my Tita Bebot's compound. Holy sht I missed that place. It was bigger then I remember the last time I visited 5 years ago. The compound consisted of 3 houses packed together in the form of an L then there was the wide garage for the many cars and a outdoor bar and pool hall and the compound had a big wall surrounding it so we have privacy from the busy city.
Ok I'll just skip around some parts..
Damn I love Zamboanga City the streets are so small yet there's so maany people on the street it's so cozy. Don't get me started with the food, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner was heaven. Anyway I swam alot in the beach with my Kuya Banjo (who I practically hung out with for the whole time I was there.. my favorite cousine) we always talked about girls and how some girls we knew are insane like this girl in my grade who has red eyes and where this hellraiser looking jacket.. really scary.. my cousin kept telling me that if visits he's gonna convert her to a christian. Ok so we do stuff and we do other stuff.. then it was my Tita Bebot and Tito Juni's anniversary on the 23rd! Yay! All I drank there was this mango wine.. soo good but it didn't have alot of alcohol. At one point of the party everyone was in singing infront my Tita Bebot's house because they havea huge porch and they were doing gift a raffle for gifts. I was sitting at one of the table outside with my Kuya Junty, Banjo my dad and my Tito Altir and my Tito Altir was talking about reuniting me and my childhood friend from 10 years ago named Kikay (well thats her nick name) since he works with her dad.
Ok let me talk my friend kay really quickly, she was the former little miss Philippines. It's funny how you'll never know who will turn out to be successful. she also does show business and is a host for one of the local tv shows in Zamboanga. I was kinda worried that she wasn't gonna remember me so I was like ah I'm not gonna worry about it she probably forgot me. So... Christmas Eve came and we had a big dinner outside went to mass and opened presents on midnight. Christmas day everyone woke up early and went to my Tita Bebot's beach house. I love it there, they bought alot of the land there including the beach infront of it so we had alot of space to do stuff. I loved Christmas there cause all my relatives that I haven't seen in years was there. Ok so time goes by and I darnk alot of alcohol cause my aunts and uncles was like "Drink drink, we missed you so much now drink!" so I just drank alot of mango wine, 3 bottles of san miguel light, 2 glasses of Captain Morgan rum, a glass of Merlot, and alot of champagne. I got alittle tipsy but it was ok I stopped dirnking when I almost lost my balance when I was standing infront of the jacuzzi and almost fell ontop of my nephew. So I drank alot of C2! The best green tea ever! And peed out all the alcohol and I sang Karaoke. Me and my cousins had a contest to see who can get the highest score. In first place was my cousin's daughter who I forgot her name but she got a 98 on that titanic song, in 2nd was my cousin Audri she got a 96 on a song called Burn and 3rd place was me! I got a 92 on More than Words by Extreme. I could've got a better score but all my girl cousins were like "AAwwwww I love this part awwwww" while I was singing.. and in last place was my Kuya Banjo with a 78 on that time after time song. Ok so everyone left and we went home at around 8 and it was dark and me and kuya banjo was like.. " Eh! To early to sleep!"
So we turned on the boombox outside put in some Queen and tried to breakdance xd I remember it really clear cause banjo was doing slow motion breakdancing during bohemian rhapsody and he did this funny as hell dance during that Bicycle song. We stopped and went to sleep at around 10 cause we were tired from swimming in the rocky as hell beach infront of the beach house.
I woke up, had lunch at my Lola's house since my tito boy who was visisting from Ippil was going back the next day. Then we went home play basketball and stuff blah blah went to the mall.
The next day I hung out with my Kuya Junty and Banjo and his friends who was visiting from Manila it was.. Jeff, Adrian, Leo, Mark, and Carlos and we swam in the beach and played soccer. Those guys are funny as hell whenever they spoke english they would use an english accent.. a filipino accent mixed with an english accent is priceless. Then I ate Satti which is a super hot muslim food that you can only get in Zamboanga City. Remember if you ever visit Zamboanga got find a SATTI restaurant and eat Satti! You'll love it!
Ok.. I'll skip some parts.. go to the last day in Zamboanga City
On the 29th I thought it was gonna be another day of soccer.. I woke up and sat up and started thinking what I'm gonna do today and all of a sudden my Tita Bebot opens the door and says "You have a date! Kikay wants to see you at Lantaka Hotel for lunch" Whoaa! I was kinda suprised and happy that she remembered me after 10 long as years without any communication. It's funny cause out of all my friends I had 10 years ago she's the only one I remember.. but anyway I went to Lantaka Hotel (by the sea) with my Tita Bebot, Junty his wife Celeste and their son Joey, Banjo, and my little brother. I sat waiting all of a sudden I hear a group of girls chatting and it was getting closer. then I saw kikay! My long lost friend and she hugged me.
.. She had a nice body rolleyes .. nice face light skin..
She brought like 5 of her friends and her mom and I thought it was going to be a quiet lunch but the whole time her friends kept asking me questions about america and about myself.. it was annoying.. her friends really weren't that good looking.. one of her friends was really cute though, she was short nice face nice body and also light skinned (In philippines you're hotter when you're light =P it's the opposite in America where everyone loves it when you're tan.).. her name was Elise or Alissa or something eh I'll just call her Liss for now. Kay didn't really talk she would have that really shy act, she would look at me I would smile and she would smile and slow look down and I didn't realyl talk to her at first cause I really didn't know what to say.. and then there's Banjo whispering "Psst talk about Metallica!" "What?! She doesn't like Metallica! I'm not really into Metallica either.. what the hell are you talking about?!" I answered him. So lunch we didnt really get caught up..
After lunch my dad and tito texted my Tita's cell (In Philippines Texting is like the biggest thing there. No one calls anyone.. it's just text. ) anyway my dad and tito texted my tita and said that he didnt want to seperate us yet so my aunt was like.. "Ok kids Arnold (our very own driver! Ah, life is great in Philippines) will take you anywhere you want just text him to pick you up. So then we went to the mall and me and Kikay split up with everyone else and started walking around the mall and talking about how life was and changes that occured, how diffirent america and Zamboanga is from each other. We stopped by a cafe in the mall to sit and drink some iced coffee since the heat was unbearable. Out of the whole time we were alone we knew that everyone else was following us and hiding but it was ok. Ok so then we went to Fort Pilar where you light a candle and pray.. I prayed for one of my cousins.. Jojo cause right now he's addicted to drugs and alcohol and all my relatives tried everything to help him.. we put him in rehab but he climbed over the wall and tumbled down a hill to freedom.. ah my Lola still loves him and protects him even though he stole all her jewelry one day and sell it.. after praying we went to the museaum (sp?) and then went to another mall where they showed me the latest bands in Philippines in the CD store. I bought alot of music from Philippines .. the Eraserheads of course which is my favorite filipino band next to Bamboo and which im listening to as I'm typing. I also bought Bamboo (btw every guy in the Philippines loves the song Hallelujah and Much Has Been Said by Bamboo so go listen to it NOW!!!!!!! Anyway after the mall we went home to get ready cause we were gonna go to a concert.. it was a band called Sugar Free. Ok so me Banjo, my bro, Kikay, and her best friend Liss (remember her.. yeah they're like.. the type of best friends where they have to wear matching outfits.. they were both wearing baby blue shirt underneath a jean jacket, both were wearing jeans and they both had pigtails rolleyes .) was the only one who came and we watched the concert.. Liss was like .. hitting on me cause she was the one that kept asking me if I was alright, if I was bored, if I was hungry, if I was thristy, if I needed a drink, if I was having fun. The Concert was ok the local Zamboanga bands played before Sugar Free did and they covered really good songs including some Eraserheads and Bamboo and also american favorites like Bob Marley, Gavin McGraw (is that his name? The song I dont want to be anyone other than what I've been trying to be lately.) and others. Ok so the concert ended at 11 and we didn't want to end the night yet so Banjo texted Arnold to take us to Cafe Sacco which is a cafe/bar and you can watch a live band there and request songs or be a guest musician and play something.
My brother was already sleepy, he slept during the half of the concert so Arnold took him home. I had so much fun there and I didn't want to drink cause I know that the girls didnt like alcoholic guys so I just drank coke.. about 10 bottle of coke. I downed a bottle in 5 seconds and I remember the fizz gave me a headache.. thats where Liss started hitting on me again.. everytime I would look down even for 5 seconds she would rub my back and ask if I was ok, if I need to throw up, if I wanted to go th the bathroom. But I would just say I'm ok.. I love that girl.. so funny and hyper. Then we started taking stupid pictures of each other.. this one picture we took I remember I pretended that I was gonna kiss my Kuya Banjo and his face was priceless when Kay took that picture.. I'll some pics soon once I get the film developed and I get my scanner workin again. But it was great.. oh yeah.. there was this little kid.. he was only 8 and he was sooo amazing on the drums! He played Hallelujah by Bamboo (listen to the song the drums are realyl good and imagine an 8year old filipino kid drumming!) Anyway I got Kay's and Liss's phone # and they got my email address and we keep in touch my email and texting. Damn I already miss Philippines so much.. thats why I'm begging my dad to go back for Christmas next year.. or May for one of my cousin's wedding.
Ok so it was 3 am and it was time to go home and I had to go the airport at 5:30. When we reached Kikay's house to drop off the 2 girls we spent like 3 minutes hugging saying "keep in touch, keep in touch" Kay wiped a tear off. So me and Banjo went home and then my dad was like.. You only have about 2 hours to sleep and I was like ah s**t I'm gonna stay up. So then me and Kuya Banjo stayed up all night listening to Eraserheads and putting this karaoke queen cd and started singing to queen while drinking coffee and we started talking about girls again he told me some of his secrets and he showed me poems he wrote while he drunk about a girl named Hazel.
Ok everyone woke up we packed up and left for Manila where we stayed in Westin Plaza Hotel (the best hotel in Manila) and we hung out with Kuya Benji (the one who's balding and still a flirter) Ok so we did some food shopping so we can bring it back to US.. then we slept and went home.. the flight home was horrible.. I felt dizzy and I threw up..Ok that's all.. I think you all can tell that I didn't want to leave. sweatdrop
 Duezt · Tue Jan 03, 2006 @ 12:32am · 2 Comments |
