Asia's Next Top Model

Good morning! What are your plans for today? Here I am watching Asia's Next Top Model in YouTube. I'm just relaxing for now, while thinking of something to do for later that would not bore me.

I'm sure everybody knows, or has already heard about the show. Well, it is well known here in Asia. That's how some models are discovered. I have a favorite contestant which is Maureen Wroblewitz. As you can see in her last name, she is half German. Her mom is Filipina and her father is German. As of now she is at top five. I am so proud of her for making it that far. But it would be so much better if she did win. We will see what happens.

What to do on a rainy day

Today is not a good day to roam around the city. It’s been raining ever since I got here; 3 days in a row now. It's hard to find something to do when you cannot go outside without getting wet.

Anyway, my suggestion is this: instead of being stuck in the house, I think the better place to visit is the mall. If you are living in the city, I am sure malls do exist there. Even without money, a mall is always fun to go to, since there is so much to see. It is better than to bore yourself at home. So, that’s what I want to do today, I have laundry to take care of but, I can’t just wash my clothes now with all this raining, since I don’t have a dryer, and I cannot hang the clothes in the rain to get dry. I will just wait for a nice day for that. Instead, I go to the mall and do some window shopping (that is, not buying anything). Now I will get ready, and go out.

Staying Home

For today's lunch, I am cooking Pork Nilaga for myself. I woke up early this morning, and it was raining. I waited a bit until the rain was gone, then I went out to buy meat at the market nearby my place. I didn't buy much meat, because I have no one to share it with. I am alone here, my friends are out of town. Last night they left for Bicol for 3 days.

This place where I renting my room freaks me out sometimes, especially when I am alone in the entire house. This happens seldom since there are many rooms rented out, but today is such a day since everyone is gone somewhere. So now I got all I need for the rest of the day. I will finish cooking my food, then eat, shower, and then lock up myself inside my room. I will be using Facebook alot today, and maybe watch an anime series in YouTube once I have a better internet connection. That's my plan for the whole day. I wish everyone a good day!

Province School Has Started

Yesterday, the classes have started at my hometown. Everyone got so busy preparing for school. One of those students who are really excited to go back to school is my cousin. Next year she’ll be graduating from high school. Actually, we will both finishing school next year, hopefully: I will graduate in college (if I pass, hopefully) and she will finish high school. She is smart and I know she can keep up with her studies until she finishes. I never doubt her to make it. It’s just me who doesn't believe in myself sometimes.

Anyway, since school has started, I went back to Tacloban even though my classes won't be starting until next week. I chose to leave the province, because I had no one to hang around in the house anymore. My cousin and all my friends are in school all day for five days in a week. I am very close to my cousin, we are like sisters, and we are always together. We always help each other do all the households. But everything has its ending, school days are back! We wont be able to do things in the house anymore, I feel sorry for my auntie for that, I know how tiring her work is, and now that vacation is over, after coming home from work she’ll definitely do the chores that I and my cousin did in the house during vacation.

Worryless life

College life is where you don't have to worry about anything, from notebooks, to paper, school bag, pencil, and other stuffs for school. Unlike elementary and high school, things must be prepared on the very first day of school. That's what the parents do for their kids who are to study. Why I know about this, it's because I been through all that back in the days.

Now that I am in college, studying alone, I don't seems to worry about things. In 1 week, school will start, and I haven't even bought any stuffs for school. Not that I don't have money to buy those, it is just that I don't really feel like I am in need of getting those right away. It's funny sometimes, other college students go to school without bringing any paper with them or even notebooks. I myself make always sure I bring eveything I might needed in school. The reason why I haven't gotten anything yet is because, school may be starting already, but in the first week, not much is going on. It's going to be a week more or so, before the classes will be properly arranged.

Last day of Fiesta

Yesterday was a blast! We celebrated the last day of Fiesta with my cousins. We has lots of food and drinks. I bought four cases of Red Horse Beer for us. When drunk, I came up with the crazy idea to hide our alcohol behind the dried banana leaves, so that nobody would know we were drunk and nobody would ask us for more beer. It was only a joke though. People in the province seldomly drink Red Horse, because it is kind of expensive. Most people here go for the cheaper alcohol.

But I wasn't the only one who spent money for alcohol yesterday. Everybody did. We were only five people and we were really drunken at the end, so, for the last case that we had, we decided to give some to the other people who walked by us. The Fiesta this June was definitely fun. Though most got drunk, it was all good because nobody started to fight. People yesterday were all enjoying the Fiesta.

Travelling makes you smart

Travelling gives you lots of experiences and changes your viewpoint. It makes you smart and mature, because you can see beyond the scope of your little province life. I had been to two counties already, but that doesn't mean I'd stop travelling whenever I can. If there's another opportunity for me to travel, I'd surely grab it. Traveling is expensive, but it is a once in a lifetime opportunity to learn the world. Grab every opportunity, never let go of it, or you will later regret it.

There is the time of travelling and the time after travelling. Only after the travel, you learn how rich you are now with the new experiences. When I was still on the trip, I never appreciated how amazing it is being in a country. The first time I traveled, I was very tense and confused with so many strange impressions. I felt like in a movie, not in the real world, and I was not as relaxed as I should have been. Now, since the day I arrived back in the Philippines, my experiences during my travel are always in my mind. There is no day without thinking I had already been in other countries. Isn't that amazing? I am grateful for getting invited to the two trips. It will always stay in my memories.