Philippines Vacation

September 23, 2009 - Departure

2.20 pm - Vienna - Riyadh
23.30 pm - Riyadh - Manila

2.20 pm - Manila - the next day ( I think haha)

This has been one of the best happenings in my life for now. My brother and I challenged ourselves. Flying to the philippines on our own - without our mom&without our dad. When my brother and I thought about that kind of vacation I agreed. Actually my brother wanted to travel alone, but my mom didn't allow him to. His last time was 8 years ago and he is not fluent in tagalog, therefore someone has to join him. Who's ready to suffer? ME, I am ready! .. Why suffer, because my brother is KINDA spoiled and KINDA can't live on his own for now. And he needs a translator haha! So we decided, let's fly together! We couldn't believe at first that we're really flying, up to that day I wasn't excited at all. But september 23 came, our stuff was packed and we left our appartment. Trip to the airport went really fast, check-in was smooth and chill. Tito Leo, Tita Rosel and Tita Josie brought us to the airport too. Some picture taking and this is our first serious family picture, which is not usual.

We went inside, met my dads friend, who also flew to the Philippines on the same day.
Boarding - I said my last goodbyes on twitter, text message and on facebook. The plane looked really comfortable and I turned on the personal screen and whoops! Shock! They had tagalog movies! and Pinay stewardess. Laughtrip. I really thought I am going to have a hard time understanding the people there. I prepared a book while we were flying, but I watched movies. Richard Gutierrez and Angel Locsins THE PROMISE. But the bad thing is - everything was censored and the "twist" in the movie was not shown. The love scene, which is pretty bad because if I didn't know what happened, I'd had hated that movie. haha ^^ But I need to accept their tradition and beliefs.

Anyway, Riyadh to Manila was great! My brother and I we had our own rows and used it up like our own beds. It was great! .. (But on our way back to vienna it wasn't that good :p )

I even liked the announcement Mga Binibining at Ginoong ..etc. It was on tagalog! I felt like I was sitting in PAL (though I haven't flown with PAL yet). And the safety cards were on tagalog too, part of it :D


Just about to land:

We arrived in Manila and the fun started :D Immigration, my brother didn't know what to answer when he was asked something :p hahaha, we went to the conveyor thingy and picked up our luggage. We went out and saw our pick-upers. My cousin and tita liza!

WOW feeling, hug here hug there and then we went to Mall of Asia. Our driver was my dad's cousin :). Mall of Asia is pretty BIG!! woot! ..



we had our late lunch/dinner at chowking and afterwards I went to powerbooks and bought my magazines and Nikki Gils "Young Women on the journey". Afterwards we went home to batangas and rested.

That was our day 1 :) hihi