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!

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

Photoblog: Welcoming 2013!

Happy new year, people! :) 

♥ Kat

Cheers to the new year!

It's that time again when we say goodbye to the past year as we welcome another one! Whut haha. 2012 has really been a blast for me. I experienced some of my firsts, a few of my lasts maybe.. Haha but of course, I met some new friends, tried new stuff, and shit, I'm starting to have a love-hate relationship with this year because I feel like it.

I had many goals that were achieved, books that have been read, pictures taken, quizzes failed, food eaten, subjects passed, jeepneys rode (I had to), school works crammed on and submitted on-time anyways, and a whole bunch of stuff that I.... will forget someday. Hah! I have a short-term memory loss, you see. I don't really remember things well unless, of course, they are worth remembering. Like, hmmm, prom, maybe?

But, even though I tend to forget things after a short while, those people who passed by and/or stayed in my life will forever be stored in my heart. ♥ Hihi :P It's just that you have to remind me of the things we did back then! I'll remember some but I don't trust my memory haha :P

Going back to the actual point of the post, for every new year, new goals are set! I have bunchloads of goals coming out of my brain like farts that evaporate away afterwards. It's killing me. I don't even know why. I also have few wishes and stuff just because.

I shall save up for a new gadget I want! My phone is seriously just for text messages and calls since I can't download any apps! Occasionally it becomes an iPod but that happens very rarely since I have one on my own. Ugh, I don't know. I'm planning to replace my iPod, too, but that can wait.

I shall take many pictures! I'm a graduating student so that means I'll be permanently apart from the people I'm usually with.. (I mean my friends, but there's a possibility to be apart from my family, too = dormitory) I'll miss them for sure but of course I have to go beyond my boundaries and meet new people! I hope they'll be nice, though. There are a lot of bullies around but I guess I'll manage. :)

I shall travel to lots of places! 'Nuff said. :)

I shall meet new people! New school, new surroundings, new everythang~ I am so excited for college!

I shall fill my planner out faithfully... and everyday I shall write on it and I shall put pictures! I want it to have so much contents so that I will remember all the good and bad stuff that happened that year when I look back at it. My planners back then were failed attempts.. heh. So much money wasted, I'm telling you. I should have bought food for that instead. :(

I shall be more organized! I remember having this as one of my resolutions last year.. and yes I became more organized than before but it's not enough! I still lose some of my stuff and I keep on forgetting things I should have done. I was a busy person last year.

I shall be a responsible student! I have been a lazy one, I know. I'll try to make it up to my grades. Haha! They're not low, most definitely not high (I'm not an achiever), they're mediocre. It's okay for my parents and for me as well. I believe that it doesn't measure my intelligence. I will be a responsible one in a way that I will make a reviewer per lesson and I shall limit myself to the use of internet during exam week! Have you noticed that I kept on procrastinating last quarter? I even had a blog post during that week! Hahaha! Grade-conscious self: slightly on. But I think it's not being grade-conscious at all, I think it becoming a responsible one. (Would you look at that, self? I hope you're still the same after a month! Hahaha)

I shall update my blog more often! Seeing an overview of my blog, I noticed that I only post twice of thrice per month. Compared to other bloggers that I follow, they have like, 20 a month? I mean I won't jump immediately to 20 but I'll update as much as I can. Especially this summer!

I shall enroll in driving lessons! I'm very eager to learn driving as much as possible, and this year's my moment! I can apply now for a student license so I should learn how to drive. My mom thinks it's mandatory. I think so, too. My sister learned driving years ago and she's just applying it whenever she wanted. Hah. Not fun, sister. Not fun at all.

I shall graduate this year! We don't know what's gonna happen.. Hahaha Maybe my school would burn up and we'd have no more rooms to have classes. MAYBE! But I sure hope that wouldn't happen, I'm too excited to graduate!!!

I wish to pass the USTET! Results of all the entrance tests I took last year will be up this year! I am hyped and nervous at the same time. I really hope I do pass because I don't want to study anywhere else.

I wish that my highschool friends and I will still have the same bond even though we won't be seeing each other very often! That is up to them, of course. :) I'm always on the net and everything!

I shall read 25 books this year! Last year, my goal was to read 20 books and I did it! To make it more challenging, I added 5 more. I hope to accomplish this! :P

I plan to watch 100 movies I haven't watched yet this year! It'll be soo fun :> I shall blog for all the movies I have watched at the end of the year! :D

I'm looking forward to a fruitful and joyful year ahead! Happy new year, everyone! Have a good one!

♥ Kat

Seven in a day

So far, my Christmas vacation is going well--as in I've been a bum for almost a week now 'cause I did nothing but play table tennis and have dates and watch movies and read books. I'm not even complaining! Actually, today was a record-breaker (for me, atleast) because I got to watch seven movies in a row! The internet has been a bitch for days now so I can't surf the net like I used to and so I watch movies to pass the time instead.

Here are the movies I watched today: 

1. Ted
2. Cars 2
3. Corpse Bride
4. Brave
5. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
6. Mr. Popper's Penguins
7. Megamind

Okaaaaay... can I say that Cars 2 had been the corniest movie I watched today next to Mr. Popper's Penguins? Jim Carrey wasn't Jim Carrey in that movie [Mr. Popper's Penguins] at all. Some scenes made me laugh but somehow I didn't really feel him there. Know what I mean? 

And yes, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist has been added to my list of favorite movies. I should now bury myself in M&M's for not reading the book yet. 

Speaking of books, I've completed my goal of reading 20 books this year!

1. Bakit Hindi Ka Crush Ng Crush Mo? by Ramon Bautista
2. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
4. The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
5. City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
6. The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
7. The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
8. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
9. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
10. The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
11. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
12. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
13. The Pretty One by Cheryl Klam
14. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
15. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
16. Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
17. Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick
18. Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
19. The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket
20. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

I am now currently reading Why We Broke Up and I'm loving it, so far. :) The paper's glossy and all. I like the pretty pictures. And, can I say that David Handler is also Lemony Snicket? There, I said it. Thank you very much. 

I'm off to sleep. Or maybe continue on reading? Ciao!  

Oh my god I did not just say ciao.