For the nth time

The heat in Manila is so unbearable that my family and I chose to stay for several nights in our usual vacation spot, Subic Bay (thus, the title "For the nth time"). We didn't stay in the usual resort though because we wanted to try another that we found in the net. We ended up at Sheavens Seafront Resort. The WiFi was really good! I even tried to play League of Legends for a night and my ping was only 20+ considering I'm in a public place and not in the house. Hahaha that's how fast their net is!

The place was good, too. The downside was just there is no shore to walk on if you don't wanna have a dip in the beach but since we were just there for the ~cool breeze~ of the mountains and the beach, well, it was fine. They also have a swimming pool that is open until nighttime. Their restaurant is open 24 hours a day so if you get hungry in the middle of the night, you just have to go there and order. You don't have to pay shortly after finishing your meal because it can be done during the check-out so I enjoyed pigging out even by myself!

I was too lazy to get hold of my camera which is heavy and kind of bulky so I took these using my phone which is more convenient. My followers would notice how I was very active in Instagram during my stay there because I loved taking pictures of everything!!

Complementary drinks when we got there.

It was supposed to be "iced tea" but I only call it "ice" since it didn't taste like iced tea at all!

My sister on our first night there, having a night dip in the pool.

Day 2! We had lunch at Harbor Point.

Spinach Artichoke dip is my ultimate favorite (lower right)! 

Headed to Pier One for a night out! My family loves watching live bands.

Day 3! My pretty view while having lunch by myself. 

They went on island hopping without me, hence the lunch-with-myself thing. It was alright because I like being alone sometimes. Is that bad?

Grilled Pepper Steak! Medium well as I like it to be cooked.

Pretty, pretty sunset

Been eye-ing this on the menu and I was glad that it was finally available on our third night!

This was my dessert during our dinner.

Midnight snack with brother. I had waffles while he had the chocolate fondant like the photo above. Mine's presentation was better, heh!

Day 4! Breakfast!

Think of me when you're out, when you're out there

I spent literally the whole weekend with my family! My sister only gets home once in a blue moon because she's dealing with the life of a med student. Anyhoo it started with a bowling night! I missed this so much because the last time that we played bowling was two years ago, I think. Haha. And I super enjoyed it this time!

Afterwards we went to Blue Wave to just hang out. I was dead tired so I didn't take any pictures. Hahaha. The next day, I was supposed to have my investigation proper for our Physics subject but due to several complications, I went with my family to Manila Ocean Park instead.

We also had our family picture taken that day at Fujifilm MoA! 

That night, we also traveled to Tagaytay so we could have an overnight stay there just because. In the hotel room my siblings and I just watched a movie while my parents were out watching bands somewhere. The next day (which was today, Sunday) we slept the whole morning and had lunch at Bag of Beans, Tagaytay. 

The food was good, as always. I loved the buttermilk pancake! It sucks that I only tried it today. I will surely try all the other pancakes next time we eat there! T'was a long time also that we ate there so we were surprised that they had more parking spaces unlike last time. Afterwards, we visited the ever famous Pink Sisters chapel and bought cloister cookies!!!! 

It was a long and tiring but fun weekend and I haven't done anything for school yet. Heh! I'll start now, swear! 

P.S. I've been listening to Paramore songs lately since their concert will be 12 days from now. Thus, the blog title. Hahaha hyped!! 

Tiring weekend

Here's one of the many tiring weekends I'm going to have this year. I just took up Mapua Scholastic Aptitude Exam or more commonly called as MSAE this morning till afternoon then went straight to Tagaytay for my sister's birthday dinner! 

MSAE was actually pretty easy... and hard. 

Let me start off with the skills test. It actually started off pretty easy with the abstract reasoning shit.. and days before the test I have been browsing over the Internet of what might be some of the things we might actually draw during the test and I found this: 

[JSWC, this photo's NOT mine]

I don't know how this blogger took a photo of his/her test paper but yeah.. This is the second part of our skills test next to abstract reasoning. This is the photo that I've been using to practice for my test in Mapua and it sure did help me because what came out of the test was exactly the same! Don't be deceived by that lady in that picture, though, she's so small in the real test paper. I thought she was tall.. shit. The part two of the test involved us drawing the plant shown in the front and it was really challenging because of the pot. Or whatever. I hate that pot. Overall, my drawing was okay. I think it can be recognized as a plant. (That's what I think! But what will the Architecture department think? Huhuhu)

After lunch, the part two of the MSAE begun. We had two hours and 40 minutes to finish English, Math, and  what do they call the last part again? All I know is that most of them were about Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Critical Thinking. They had 90 items for English, and 45 each for the remaining two. I only found Math hard because I really didn't feel like studying days before the test. Before taking UPCAT and USTET, I studied Trigonometry (like functions!) and Statistics (permutation, combination stuff) very well and ironically, questions with those topics hadn't come out much for the first two tests I took so I was expecting less of those in the MSAE. Turned out, they had so many questions with those topics! That sucks because I was recalling my UPLink days with the Permutation and Combination stuff and I just can't seem to recall any. So I usually used shotgun method or cross-out method. Yep. 

After taking the test, Katherine, her cousin, and I immediately went home. Traffic in Cavite worsens as time goes by, you guys, and I hate it. I waited for my mom to pick me up outside our village because we'll be celebrating my sister's birthday in Tagaytay! So yep they picked me up then on the way going to Tagaytay, I told them stories about my MSAE experience like how the proctors are not strict at all and how we can actually use cellphones while taking the test and some other stuff.

Then we arrived at Pamana! I knowww I've blogged about this before but it's my family's favorite restaurant!  

P.S. Vacation's almost over! Aww :(

P.P.S. Notice the new layout? Hihi :> 

♥ Kat

Noche Buena

Yesterday before preparing for Noche Buena, I had to rant about several things to my mom before she agreed to eat at 12 midnight! My mom is super lazy when it comes to staying up late so she just slept until the time came and then ate after. She was even planning to move the Noche Buena at 10PM just so she could sleep already!  What a pig, mom. Hahaha.

That's my gift to my sister! 

Some of the gifts I received :D 

Merry Christmas, everyone! :) Another Christmas-y post coming up! :D