New place, new kind of busride, new and awesome people, new event, new game--all new experiences during my birthday!
I owe this post, mostly to myself, because I know I will regret not posting this, considering the amount of pictures I took. And I'll be honest, I didn't take that many pictures because I didn't really know anyone yet when I started the trip, but I'm glad that I got to know people along the way. It was an awesome new way to experience my birthday and I'll try to be as specific as I can in this post, although it's 2:51am and I have to be up to go to work in 3 hours. : |
So I start my story the day before, there was a commotion at work when we were told one of our officemates had won us a free lunch via a radio station!
I admit it's not the best photo of this bunch but I tried. There was a long wait before we actually got to eat anything, and by the time we did, people mobbed the pantry and I couldn't get a shot. Still being the new girl in the office also meant that I could (and didn't want to) be overly picture-y.
I found out then that the officemate that won us the lunch had his birthday coming up which turned out to be the day after mine--literally! He was born a day after me, on the same year! What a coincidence. He was also going to AdCon, so we decided that it was going to be epic for us both!
Moving on to going to AdCon, I didn't get any pictures of the trip itself because it was 9pm and I just wanted to get some sleep. I wasn't sure what to expect so I thought I'd get as much sleep as I could. We had a rest-stop somewhere in the middle of nowhere that wasn't picture friendly and had the bathrooms that I only see in my nightmares (that it's a miracle I haven't dreamt of them since coming back!) and the bus we took had the lazyboy chairs which was pretty cool!
Upon getting to the bus terminal, some hubbub happened and our original accomodations did not follow through.
As a result, we waited 2 hours in the terminal. I kept quiet the whole time because I was sleepy and still didn't know anyone. I did get to see this double rainbow though which is quite awesome!
And then eventually we found this quaint place two blocks from the terminal. The place was called the JoMcKayle Apartelle--according to our officemate, it was all thanks to a tricycle driver that we found the place. I took no pictures of the sign because it was too early in the morning to care and all I wanted to do was to catch up on sleep (did I mention that the bus ride from Manila to Naga is 10 hours long?). When I got the energy, it was only then that I took some pictures of our room.
I ended up rooming with an officemate I had never met prior to that trip. I didn't mind since, at that point, I really didn't know anyone anyway so it didn't really matter. We stayed, at first at the second floor where all the other girls were and it was a very, very green room.
But before I had too much fun in this room shooting photos (and a room in which I thought would be awesome to have to myself to film a vlog in the future or something--I am to have a vlog room in my future apartment/house) people brought to our attention that the air conditioning wasn't working. When we informed the management about it, we were moved to a downstairs room temporarily and then permanently. I didn't mind it too much on the count of it was waaaay better and we had our own bathroom. Given, it was just as small but the "own bathroom thing" was a big plus. Also, the air conditioning was A-OK.
Yes, I do love thos curtains. As it turns out, our second room was even more inspiring to take pictures of because of this awesome lighting effect I got when the light hits our orange curtains! I took so many pictures while my roomate wasn't there and I just went nuts!
This is my side of the bed as you can see from the messy cover and the pretty white flats on the side.
Oh, wouldn't it be nice to wake up to this kind of coloring every morning? Given that the room was too small--with the amount of tired I felt, I really just dove right into this bed and slept.
AND that's all for now. I realize now that 4 days of being out of town probably means 4 separate posts, so that's how it's going to go. 'Til part2! :D
Mishie