First Kota Kinabalu, Then Hong Kong... Where's My Rest Time???
Oct. 27
Last day of the second quarter. Time for some relaxation!!!
Today's the birthday of Denzel. Happy Birthday to You Denzel!
Oct. 28
First day of the semestral break. This day was our scheduled flight to Kota Kinabalu. We had our speech practice at Alfred's house. I stayed up to 11:30 am, because I have to rush home and do some final packing. At around 12:30nn, the driver picked us up and we headed to our grandmother's residence. After having a quick lunch, we went to the airport... Wait. Where's the airport? Haha. It's in Clark, Angeles, Pampanga. Imagine. We have to drive for about 45 mins to reach the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport. It's a long way... My tired cousins slept on the way there.
We reached the airport too early. The guards didn't let us in. He thinks that we might crowd the airport. So we waited for about an hour... Tick tock tick tock... Finally. After the long adn exhausting hour, we entered the gates, checked in, settle all taxes, and we were all ready to go. But, there was a small problem. Our flight is at 6pm, and it's only 3!!! Another 3 hours...
After 3 decades... I mean, 3 hours and 30 minutes (the plane was delayed for another 30 mins...), we boarded the plane. I made some last minute texting before leaving the Philippines.
8pm. We arrived KK (Kota Kinabalu). Yeesh. The airport was under renovation. We took the airport taxi to go to the Kinabalu Daya Hotel. After leaving our stuffs there, dad took the 12 of us (granma, mama ester, dichie himhim, dihia jeff, kowa, paopao, shoti, bebe, mum, me, fritz and frenz) to a nearby restaurant for dinner. We returned to the hotel bloated.
Oct. 29
Start of the city tour. We went to many places, so many that I forgot them. :D i think I have to make a research of those places. I'll try to relate the tourists spots some other time in my future posts.
Oct. 30
We didn't do anything, but stayed on a beach. I had a lot of first times there. It was my first time to ride a banana boat, my first time to para-sail and also my first time to sea underwater creatures by snorkeling. I returned with a darker skin color.
Oct. 31
Returned from KK. We headed straight to Puregold Duty Free. We had dinner at Lok Foo, at Dau, Pampanga.
Today's also Jasmine's birthday. REAL birthday. Haha. Party niya yun noong 23. Hehehe. Happy Birthday to You Jasmine!!!
Nov. 1
All Saints' Day. I did some of my homework and unpacked my stuffs. Nothing much.
Nov. 2
All Souls' Day. We had our Speech practice in Alfred's house. Grabe. After a few days away from home, a lot has been changed. Changes happen here and there... EVERYWHERE!!! Hahaha. After practices, we headed to Tasty's Dumplings to eat merienda. I went home, and packed for my following Hong Kong trip.
Nov. 3
Left Manila. Arrived Hong Kong. Two things I hate about Philippine Airports is that they are so slow and so "over maingat". The lines are kilometer-long and the people there makes you remove your "clothing" (belts, shoes, watches, etc.). Every inspection you go through. RAWR!!! It's a waste of time. In HK, all you have to do is to pass through the metal sensors and hand your Hong Kong ID (if you have one), then you're done. In less than 15 mins, we've passed through the immigration section and have claimed our baggages. We were ready to go to the Hong Kong Islands. We took CityFlyer bus, route A11 to North Point. Our hotel this time is none other than South China Hotel, located at Java Street, North Point. This is where we stay everytime we went to HK. It's like our "resthouse". Hehehe. Suki tatay ko dun. :D
We went to HK to settle some business. My aunt had her house under renovation, so we had to move dad's books, clothes and other stuffs to somewhere else. All these banging and drilling makes my head spinning again. We finished all the moving in the whole afternoon. Soooo tired... I am starting to hate my aunt for wasting my vacation.
Nov. 4
Dad had some business appointments with someone in Shenzhen. We took the KCR (Kowloon-Canton Railway). We had lunch there, and returned to Hong Kong.
Dad knew that we were on the waiting list on the next day's flights. He told me that we'll have to wait for available seats from the first to the last flight of the day.
Oh yeah. My cousins returned from HK today. They had a grat time there, esp. in Disneyland. :D
Nov. 5
Woke up at 7am. Hotelink (buses that connects the airport to the hotels throughout the city) picked us at 8am. Arrived in airport at 9am, tried to check in but can't. The airport was packed with people. Still no available seats...
Buddha answered dad's prayers. There were two available seats (lucky us!!!) on the first flight to Manila. We had to ran all the way to reach the boarding gates.
Arrived Philippines. Long lines again!!! Something funny occured in the arrival halls. There were no available pushcarts. Beat that!
Mum and my two brothers came to fetch us. We had a little snack, then we did our Sunday routine... visiting some Chinese temples. Reached home. Did assignments. Classes starts tomorrow.
Nov. 6
Third Quarter officially starts today. Same school schedule... I handed the pasalubongs to my friends. 3B managed to swallow 2 big packs to fish fillet in just one day. The classroom smells like fish. Not my problem. You guys wanted to eat!!! hahahahahahahahahaha!!!
I have posted my pictures of our KK tour at www.francolim1990.multiply.com . Feel free to browse and to comment. Comment my posts too!
Still don't know how to include a tag board. Steph, help me!!! hahaha
Last day of the second quarter. Time for some relaxation!!!
Today's the birthday of Denzel. Happy Birthday to You Denzel!
Oct. 28
First day of the semestral break. This day was our scheduled flight to Kota Kinabalu. We had our speech practice at Alfred's house. I stayed up to 11:30 am, because I have to rush home and do some final packing. At around 12:30nn, the driver picked us up and we headed to our grandmother's residence. After having a quick lunch, we went to the airport... Wait. Where's the airport? Haha. It's in Clark, Angeles, Pampanga. Imagine. We have to drive for about 45 mins to reach the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport. It's a long way... My tired cousins slept on the way there.
We reached the airport too early. The guards didn't let us in. He thinks that we might crowd the airport. So we waited for about an hour... Tick tock tick tock... Finally. After the long adn exhausting hour, we entered the gates, checked in, settle all taxes, and we were all ready to go. But, there was a small problem. Our flight is at 6pm, and it's only 3!!! Another 3 hours...
After 3 decades... I mean, 3 hours and 30 minutes (the plane was delayed for another 30 mins...), we boarded the plane. I made some last minute texting before leaving the Philippines.
8pm. We arrived KK (Kota Kinabalu). Yeesh. The airport was under renovation. We took the airport taxi to go to the Kinabalu Daya Hotel. After leaving our stuffs there, dad took the 12 of us (granma, mama ester, dichie himhim, dihia jeff, kowa, paopao, shoti, bebe, mum, me, fritz and frenz) to a nearby restaurant for dinner. We returned to the hotel bloated.
Oct. 29
Start of the city tour. We went to many places, so many that I forgot them. :D i think I have to make a research of those places. I'll try to relate the tourists spots some other time in my future posts.
Oct. 30
We didn't do anything, but stayed on a beach. I had a lot of first times there. It was my first time to ride a banana boat, my first time to para-sail and also my first time to sea underwater creatures by snorkeling. I returned with a darker skin color.
Oct. 31
Returned from KK. We headed straight to Puregold Duty Free. We had dinner at Lok Foo, at Dau, Pampanga.
Today's also Jasmine's birthday. REAL birthday. Haha. Party niya yun noong 23. Hehehe. Happy Birthday to You Jasmine!!!
Nov. 1
All Saints' Day. I did some of my homework and unpacked my stuffs. Nothing much.
Nov. 2
All Souls' Day. We had our Speech practice in Alfred's house. Grabe. After a few days away from home, a lot has been changed. Changes happen here and there... EVERYWHERE!!! Hahaha. After practices, we headed to Tasty's Dumplings to eat merienda. I went home, and packed for my following Hong Kong trip.
Nov. 3
Left Manila. Arrived Hong Kong. Two things I hate about Philippine Airports is that they are so slow and so "over maingat". The lines are kilometer-long and the people there makes you remove your "clothing" (belts, shoes, watches, etc.). Every inspection you go through. RAWR!!! It's a waste of time. In HK, all you have to do is to pass through the metal sensors and hand your Hong Kong ID (if you have one), then you're done. In less than 15 mins, we've passed through the immigration section and have claimed our baggages. We were ready to go to the Hong Kong Islands. We took CityFlyer bus, route A11 to North Point. Our hotel this time is none other than South China Hotel, located at Java Street, North Point. This is where we stay everytime we went to HK. It's like our "resthouse". Hehehe. Suki tatay ko dun. :D
We went to HK to settle some business. My aunt had her house under renovation, so we had to move dad's books, clothes and other stuffs to somewhere else. All these banging and drilling makes my head spinning again. We finished all the moving in the whole afternoon. Soooo tired... I am starting to hate my aunt for wasting my vacation.
Nov. 4
Dad had some business appointments with someone in Shenzhen. We took the KCR (Kowloon-Canton Railway). We had lunch there, and returned to Hong Kong.
Dad knew that we were on the waiting list on the next day's flights. He told me that we'll have to wait for available seats from the first to the last flight of the day.
Oh yeah. My cousins returned from HK today. They had a grat time there, esp. in Disneyland. :D
Nov. 5
Woke up at 7am. Hotelink (buses that connects the airport to the hotels throughout the city) picked us at 8am. Arrived in airport at 9am, tried to check in but can't. The airport was packed with people. Still no available seats...
Buddha answered dad's prayers. There were two available seats (lucky us!!!) on the first flight to Manila. We had to ran all the way to reach the boarding gates.
Arrived Philippines. Long lines again!!! Something funny occured in the arrival halls. There were no available pushcarts. Beat that!
Mum and my two brothers came to fetch us. We had a little snack, then we did our Sunday routine... visiting some Chinese temples. Reached home. Did assignments. Classes starts tomorrow.
Nov. 6
Third Quarter officially starts today. Same school schedule... I handed the pasalubongs to my friends. 3B managed to swallow 2 big packs to fish fillet in just one day. The classroom smells like fish. Not my problem. You guys wanted to eat!!! hahahahahahahahahaha!!!
I have posted my pictures of our KK tour at www.francolim1990.multiply.com . Feel free to browse and to comment. Comment my posts too!
Still don't know how to include a tag board. Steph, help me!!! hahaha
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