Adventure

There would be no other word that best described what happened that Friday night. After a casual dinner with the gang at Ila Puti. Laughter started that night when Alex approached a table for two and talked with "Karissa" which was an epic fail! I mean at first, anyone could realize that it wasn't her mainly because it was only a table for two and there were 10 or us. Kudos for your fail 'lex. After a huge dinner, we went to La Marea for some just-sit-and-talk-with-coffee time. After which right then and there, the group decided going to Mountain View which was suggested again and again before but pushed through only at that day and so it began. Sadly not all went with us but nevertheless 7 is not a bad number at all. Daryl, Fred, Erwin, Me, Kim, Judy, and Lorena.

First up, we wouldn't go to an adventure without any food and drink. So we went to Mercury Drug and bought Sour Cream Piatos, Tostillos, Bacon and Cheese Clover, 2 Nagarayas original and hot&spicy, and a couple of Loacker Waffles. Sadly no 1L water could be bought there so we headed out to Everything2Go to buy about 6L of Absolute water suggested by Kim (supposedly 1L per person but miscalculated, D'oh!). The travel from IT park to Mountain View was a sinch. Got 2 taxis to take us there, simple. Once there, we started our hike all the way top to a point where we found the perfect place to stay and no, we didn't stay in a place where there was a karaoke machine. But we didn't walk all the way there without any bloopers - It wouldn't be fun, right? On our way up, the plastic bag that held 5L of water bottles tore and was it a great chase. Daryl and Erwin chased the bottles downhill while everyone was laughing and thank God for Judy for the car that was heading down had it's headlights on. Phew! The spot where we sat down had a great view of Cebu City. It was really fun to just hang out, eat some chips, drink water, and laugh 'til your stomach hurts. That was where we spent most of our time. Aside from all that fun, Fred, Kim, and I saw two shooting stars. Later we noticed that the place below us that had a karaoke machine was vacant so we went down and decided to stay there. It was Fred's defining moment for it was like he had a concert. Oh! Don't forget the blooper we had here. Fred really believed that we had hacked the karaoke machine just because we told him to just select songs without inserting in coins which in fact, Daryl had already inserted it ahead of time. Good one! After we ran out of 5 peso coins, the karaoke's rate per song, we just sat there and began talking again.

3 AM came, so we thought of starting our hike all the way down since we still had a lot of distance to cover. About approximately 1/10 of our hike, we saw a jeep that decided to start his round early and so we hopped aboard on our way back to civilization. Luckily the jeep was to pass Jones, that was where we went and had breakfast at McDonalds. We got there at around 4 AM but none of us really cared what time it was. After breakfast, we finally went to our separate ways home. Got home around 6 AM, took a shower and slept. Adventure, complete.

Yiruma

Last Sunday, I had a chat with a friend of mine. It felt... nice... having to chat with someone you had lost communication with for a long time. She placed this link as her status message on her Yahoo Messenger account, curious of what it was, I clicked it. Turns out it was a very nice video on Youtube. Anyways, I couldn't stop looking at the video as it progressed then started remembering the good memories I had way back in the past.

As we continued chatting, I began researching it over the net since I liked the music so much. Well, she told me that she wanted to have a copy of it so I went ahead and searched the song on my favorite download place, 4shared. (lucky it isn't banned in the office) Going back, I gave her the link for the mp3s. I didn't expect that she'd also go ahead and research it herself. She gave me a link to all the songs that artist had. And you guessed it right, the artist's name is Yiruma. (It's the title of this post) Instrumental music really helps me relax. I just finished downloading all the songs in the link she gave me tonight and now I'll listen to it at work! It relieves me of all the destress I get from the office. It brings me peace when I listen to it.

Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgKZsgYgA08&feature=related

Hope you like it as much as I did!