Manila Manila
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Greetings from Manila, Philippines!!!
Everything's good so far...
But things here aren't as cheap as i thought it'll be...
Got to know more of my new colleagues and have had lots of fun since arriving!! =)
26th Aug:
Airport at 7am..
Daddy, Mommy, Jerome & Jason sent me off...
I'm gonna miss my lil Jerome!!! =..(
Flew off at 9.40am,
Reached Manila at 1.25pm...
Upon reaching,
First stop: Mall of Asia..
It's supposedly 6times the size of Suntec!!!
Went there for lunch and to buy some neccesities..
Toilet roll, detergents, cleaning supplies, stock coffee and teas and food, etc etc...
Got to the apartment by 5.30pm...
Bonifacio Heights @ Taguig City...
It's supposedly an ATAS condo,
surrounded by Police HQ, Marines HQ and Army HQ..
Relatively safe...
My luggage was like 27kg...
Plus my groceries 3 heavy plastic bags full...
The bus stopped us at the main clubhouse and my apartment is like FREAKING FAR AWAY!!!
Pushed and pulled and panted over 20 mins and was perspiring like hell by the time i got there!!!
WORST!!!!
My apartment has a living room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms for 5 girls and ONLY ONE TOILET!!
PLUS it was DIRTY and crammed with furniture in the living room!!!
PLUS PLUS PLUS!!!
We don't have a cupboard to hang our clothes!!!!
*My clothes are still in my luggage =.=*
*** STACY!! I WANT UR APARTMENT!!!!!!***
Jerlyn & I were the first to arrive,
Joyce and Mee Nai were in the afternoon flight...
and ShuiYuan was on Thursday evening's flight...
Jerlyn and I cleaned the WHOLE place up and tried to shift the furniture to make the place more spacious...
The bedsheets had brown spots on them!!!
Both Jerlyn & I changed d bedsheets for all 5 beds!!!
I've never cleaned so hard in my life...
I appreciate my maid a lot more now!!!
Dinner at the clubhouse..
Waited SUPER long for the food to come!!!
Had Cordon Bleu Chicken and it was nice..
But some ate the beef...
The kitchen can only make it WELL WELL DONE!!
LOL!!!
Meals here are same priced as Singapore...
After dinner,
headed back to clean up further and wait for Joyce and Mee Nai...
Slept at 2am...
27th Aug:
Woke up at 7.30am...
Met at clubhouse at 9am...
Tour Day...
We were brought to see Mckinley Hill,
a chill out place with Starbucks and MacDonalds and all...
Just 5 mins away from our apartment...
Then went to Green Hill for shopping and lunch..
Didn't but anything except for an incense burner + aroma therapy oil for 350pesos...
Lunch @ Delifrance was provided for today..
Didn't have much of an appetite so shared with Jerlyn...
Next stop was GreenBelt in Makati...
Had almost 3 hours to walk around...
GreenBelt is like Suntec on a small scale..
5 different shopping buildings all connected...
GreenBelt 1 to GreenBelt5,
the lower the belt number, the cheaper it got..
Went to GB5 and strolled into LV, Gucci, Jimmy Choo, etc...
My favourite was probably GB3...
Some of the guys in the group went for a haircut so the few of us had drinks at GB3...
3bottles of beer @ 150pesos (SGD$5)!!!
SWEET!!!!!
Supposed to go to Market Market after but not enough time so we went back to the condo...
Stacy & I decided to swim =P
Joshua also joined us.
Dinner at clubhouse again after....
Went back to the apartment after...
Rested a little before meeting some of them at the clubhouse...
CLUBBING!!!!
Total 12 of us..
9 guys and 3 girls..
We shared the cab with Kris..
Wanted to got to Embassy..
It's apparently the place to be seen!!
Local celebritys go there...
BUT the place was closed...
Some stabbing case last week... -_-"
Went to Tabu but didn't like it..
Ended up at some place called Guilley's...
LOVE IT!!!!!
D guys bought 2btls Hennessy, 2btls, Chivas & 1btl Martel...
the 2hennessys disappeared within 1/2 hr....
Stacy, Diana, Tim and Bob went back first coz Bob was drunk...
Danced the night thru!!!!!
Left at 5.30am and almost got pickpocketed while getting onto the cab...
Lucky the guys spotted and shouted!!
The poor boy was also shocked coz the pocket of my bag he picked only held a padlock...
LOL!!!!
Got back and changed,
slept like a PIG!!!
All the way til almost 4pm...
28th Aug:
Met at clubhouse at 5pm...
Dinner for the whole batch...
Went to this resto called Dad & Mom near Mall of Asia...
After dinner,
went to MOA coz some of the guys wanted to get some stuff...
Stacy, Tim and I went for a massage and spa after...
24hrs spa place with free food!!!
heheehehe!!!!
Finished close to 2am before cabbing back....
Gonna have training later at 7am...
And it's now nearly 6am...
Gonna bathe and head out...
Miss u guys loads!!!!!!
