i close my eyes, and the flashback starts.

my mom got home last night from her Handmaids ILC in Manila. ugh. we YFCs get Cebu and them old people get Manila? that's just not fair. not to worry, though. Next year our ILC is gonna be in Baguio. woo! and my mom told me that Tita Ann told her that she's making Yssa and kuya Scud go to next year's ILC too. err, that'll be weird. wala kasi siyang close sa'min. but whatever. Darlene made friends, maybe she'll make friends too. If she just stops being soo maarte. lulz.

Anyway, mom's back. Meaning we have to wake up as early as my other cousins, which is 8am or earlier. and that pretty much sucks cause i cannot wake up that early! it's summer, for goodness' sake! ugh. and when i'm up, then she starts yapping about me not doing chores and stuff. ugh, i do chores kaya! i just don't do it when i'm told. you're not the boss of me, no one bosses me around! and i hate, hate doing stuff when i'm told. i'm more of a 'do it when i feel like it' kind of person. and that explains why i never clean the classroom. and when everyone ignored me during the newspaper project last february, i took control of everything and they were like, "wow, van! marunong ka man pala mag.dala ng group"

mom. i can't live with her, i can't live without her.

okay, unahin ko muna si ted.
srsly, i don't blame them for being treated like that. don't them people ever watch CSI? never, never clean up a crime scene before the police comes. and the suicide letter, even thought trina's daughter has already confirmed that that was trina's handwriting on the suicide letter, they shouldn't hold it like that. they should've checked it for prints! what if somebody forced her to write the damn letter to make it look like a suicide letter? (got that one from lemony snicket. lulz) and did you see when the 'SOCO' got into the bathroom? they weren't even wearing any gloves and they were touching stuff! total sabotage of evidence much? xDD

moving onn. went to davao last monday with only 3 days' worth of clothing. puros pambahay, and a single pair of jeans. panay shorts and jogging pants. was supposed to go scuba diving on tuesday for ate danja's birthday, but it rained. so we went to the beach later instead. screw all the details, we just went there to read sookie stackhouse novels cause of low tide. fast forward to wednesday, my aunt arrived from virginia and woke me up at 6 in the freaking morning. i started to pack.

tita lang: what are you doing?
me: mag-uwi na po kami tita
tita lang: no you're not, you're staying for dinner with your cousins later

and then our stay prolonged til this morning. in other words, super laba ako dun. kung hindi naman, nanghiram ako ng damit kanila ate. lulz

my cousins and tita lang had drinking sessions almost every night. actually, they invited val and me, but since we don't drink and all, we just sat there and talked til 3 in the morning-really! we finished when our step grandmother came downstairs cause she was going to church. it was so much fun, then last sunday we all went to the beach. we were supposed to go to bluejazz~don't know the spelling, sorry!~ since we saw it on tv and everyone liked it, but it was a sunday and we figured we wouldn't be able to have fun there cause the pool was tiny and there would be a lot of people since the place is new and all. we passed by bluejazz on the way to paradise and boy, we were right. nung wednesday night, we went to world palace after dinner. 9pm-1am. super bonding kami nun! lolz.

last night daddy came over to play paintball at crocodile park. we waited for the rain to stop at home then went to people's park, then went to crocodile park. when we arrived, the place was deserted. tita lang was so pissed, cause she called them in the morning and they said they were open til midnight. so we went to kanto bar at matina town square instead, and had drinks. lolz~ i tried gin tonic, but it smelled and tasted like rubbing alcohol. how i know how rubbing alcohol tastes? the same way you would know how lunch tastes like while it's still being cooked. anyway, even though i added two tablespoons of sugar, it still tasted awful. i seriously do not understand alcoholics. why do they get hooked? it tastes disgusting. so i just got a bottomless iced tea that tasted farr from iced tea. it was like four seasons or something, and i wasn't allowed to share. one glass kasi, not pitcher. so i snuck it under the table na lang. lulz

so sleepy. i might have missed a thing or two on this post, but whatever. ciaoo

Part 1
Cebu was great. no wait, that's an understatement. whatever. pero ang itim ko na.
sabi pa nga ni aileen: ohmygahd, i'm gonna die na, then everyone else will say: yaah!
Where do I begin? there's soo much to share, but lemme just tell about the biggies.
We arrived at Cagayan around 4-ish in the afternoon, got on the ship at 8, sailed at 9:45.
egad, the superferry song was soo annoying.

kailan ka huling nasiyahan bago pa dumating sa pupuntahan? sakay na sa superferry, happy trip! sakay naaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
-vina morales

we've been singing that ALL the time now, just to put smiles on each other's faces, since the conference was so tiring and all. we arrived at cebu at 6 o'clock in the morning, and it was raining. we got out of the ship at 6:30, cause we waited for the rain to stop. then we went to sacred heart school, where the boys were gonna sleep. we left our stuff there, and we saw the first of many, many boylets. lulz. daw manul, but we didn't care. it's not like we're gonna see them everyday, riight? then when we had breakfast, and went to the sports complex, then we had a tour around cebu.

fast forward to april 3rd, andaming tao. well, not really. last year at tagaytay, there were 10,500 people. this year, there were only 9000. but that's okay. everyone was so nice. and the cameras were uh-may-zing. kwento: there was a photography contest and you had to take the best one that err, "symbolizes" the theme which is, step up: forgetting what lies behind. anywayy, there was this guy taking a picture of the arrival and it was supposed to be stolen but we stopped and posed instead, and he wasn't mad. then i asked what camera he used and he said it was a nikon d300. this:

and i was like, "kuya, di ba ito yung exact camera na ginagamit dati sa CSI:NY?" all he said was, "yan nga." *jaw drops. ulollerz. moving on, we stayed at cebu central school, which is in front of a mall. but it wasn't like a really good mall. it's just E-mall and A City Mall. and my ilonggo friends would laugh real hard whenever they said E-mall. Honestly, i don't get it.
i'd loove to write some more, but gossip girl is gonna be on soon, soo. ;D