By The Sea

Ever since, Subic Bay has been my family's favorite place to stay during the Holy Week. We always liked the good food, fair weather, and the beautiful beach! And this year was no different. 

Nighttime fell and we had to eat dinner. We were hearing a couple of drum beats and people were forming a crowd and we saw them! They were performing by the shore and asking donations for their costumes.

I've got to say, I had the best grilled squid that night. The best, I say! I'm not even kidding. 

My tita mommy and I had to squeeze ourselves at the rightmost part just to avoid the freakin' sunlight! Hahaha!

We celebrated Easter at the nearby Ayala mall and had lunch and a little shopping there. 

We had to stay for just a night because I still had a graduation practice the next day. Though it sucks, I had to cherish every bit of my senior life. Helloooo college, soon!  

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

Sonya's Garden

Along with my family last Saturday, I had a lunch buffet at Sonya's Garden in Alfonso, Cavite. The  ambiance was so peaceful, I thought I was in a church! The people are neat and quiet and the whole place is really relaxing. The cool wind of Tagaytay seemed to be present in Alfonso, too. We didn't mind the long trip on the way there because the food was really delicious.

First, we were served with the salad greens along with some cucumber, mangoes, nuts and a whole lot more.

They also have this Sonya's Super Secret Salad Dressing that I loved so much. I think I got full eating just the salad itself!

Next up were the bread and the chicken. The chicken's not really a part of the lunch buffet, but when we made our reservation, I think my dad ordered chicken already. So yep, we had chicken. I think it was marinated with lots of herbs and spices 'cause I can recognize the taste! My mom usually does that, marinating chicken with herbs. The bread, on the other hand, was a fresh baked whole wheat sesame bread. Dips and toppings came along with it like basil pesto, white cheese, anchovies, and a whole lot more. Plus, they're homemade!

Next was pasta! A bowl of noodles were given to us then several bowls of different sauces came along with it. You get to make a pasta of your own choice and you can put in fried salmon belly to add texture and taste! 

What I love most in buffets: dessert! This time, we were given a slice of chocolate cake, turon, sweet potatoes and tarragon tea! Don't underestimate their chocolate cake, even I gave up eating it because of its sweetness regardless of the size! It was just too sweet! 

Tarragon tea!! The leaves are available in their shop so you can make this tea in your home. :)

Sweet potatoes! Didn't try this, though. But we were told that it is best eaten with mint leaves. I found it weird but my sibs and 'rents liked it.

Turon!

Unlike most buffets wherein you stand up and go around to get some food, here at Sonya's Garden, they bring the food to you! If you want to have some more of their food, you can just ask the waiters and waitresses and they'll do the refill themselves. Great for lazy people! Haha! This sit-down style that they have makes the buffet look like set meals that adds class to their service.

Before going there, reservations should be made. Should you want to know more about Sonya's Garden, you can visit their site here! I recommend you to try! :)

With all these food, you'll never notice that you're already full! All of their ingredients come from their garden so they really choose the best ones for the quality of their food. They also have additional services like the spa, bed and breakfast, panaderia, and country store. They also have a place wherein you can rent for wedding receptions, debut, and meetings.

Can't wait to go back!

The Boyfriend's Recital

Last week, I attended Jesse's (along with his sister) piano recital at East 19 Bar & Grill in Sucat/Muntinlupa. The recitalists were asked to stay in separate tables so I was with their mom for the whole time. T'was awkward at first, but then we had some conversations and it went on for a while. His mom's nice. ^___________^

Here are pictures :D