Coron hidden Haven

For the second time around. 

July 20-23. A four day visit again to an island where all you mumble are words "wow", "amazing" as you indulge to the well-created island of Coron in Palawan. We've been here last summer, and as part of my Tita Ellen and family homecoming, my father suggested to come visit Coron with me quoting him, "Maganda sa Coron, magsasawa kayo sa mga ganda ng dagat dun". Well, can't blame him, Coron is indeed one that surely every Filipino should be proud of.

July 20, rain poured hard, and thoughts of "what if our flight is canceled" rambled to our minds, but then again, excitement can't hinder us to stop ourselves in our vacation. As expected, our flight was delayed for the heavy rain and strong winds in Manila. We traveled all the way to Busuanga, like riding the The Abyss in Ocean Park in HK (no kidding here, you can literally feel that i-cant-explain feeling in your tummy while the abyss started to work). Enough for the explaining, well I guess, God really protected us all through out our flight, Amen to that! :)

Busuanga Airport

New baby to practice to.

Cause Papa is too generous to the camera shops, so another lens for our Nikon. I'll be just posting some of the shots we had in trying out the new lens. And before I forgot, we never mastered using our Nikon, so sorry for the not-so-good shots. 

Here are some of the shots we had. Good thing, focusing is now easier to use. HAHA! :)

Year older? Naaat.

July 14.


Originally, my Tita Ellen's birthday was last July 7. As a part of their homecoming, a simple gathering was made in D.A.P to celebrate her 4_th birthday. (and yes, I didn't mention your real age tita! HAHA!). 


Swimming with the high sun at its best, not to mention the overflowing of calories on the food table. It became a small reunion on my Tita Ellen's and Tito Mark's side. All day karaoke, tired cheeks bones for the non-stop picture taking plus the huge laughs we shared that day and the joyful tears that ran to Tita Ellen's eyes as a sign of her cry baby attitude? Naaat, because of the overwhelming feelings of having our complete family gathered in an event, of course! RIGHT TITA? :)


So here are some shots our camera captured that day, I'm to lazy to upload so I will only post some of the striking photos we had.

You can fall that hard, but lessons will surely be kept.

Never imagined myself having a heart-to-heart talk with my mom's closest friend. Maybe, we compliment each other characters or what, all I know was during that night, I can utter all the things I wanted to share like sharing to my own best friend. 

It was almost midnight when we finished talking. We laughed as hard, and shared each other experiences about love, fashion, beauty tips, etc. And again I missed that "__" again while we had our heart-to-heart talk that night, which made realized how much I grown from that day it ended. Rest assured, I gained a tita and friend in Tita April's personality, that I will continue to treasure till the end.

Here's one of our conversation in Facebook. I'll just share what she keeps on reminding me to about relationships and stuff. 

haha...someday talaga, basta, i open mo ang sarili mo sa lahat ng possibilities, wag mo ilagay sa isip mo na ikaw ay para sa kanya lang or magkakabalikan or something like that...wag matakot mag jump sa ibang relasyon kahit laro laro lang, malay mo diba, mag grow sya into something beautiful (xempre know your limitations ah)...sarap mag inarte talaga hehe 

Well said Tita April, I will surely copy that! Amen. 

Thank you again! I love youuu! Bonding again soon. <3

Photodumped

I'm lazy and I know it.

I was about to blog about my BUM days at home, but again laziness hit me so hard. So I decided just to post my late instagram pictures, just to satisfy myself, yes I finally blogged again -_-. My writing vibes slept for today, we should follow-up our caffeine date, don't sleep to much okay? , so sorry for my vanity and my overwhelming pacute poses for this blog entry. HAHA! Promised myself to do a real blog entry for the next days. I PROMISE THAT. :)

Minnie Copper. (borrowed from my friend of course) 

I'm so thin those days. :( Hello there B! One night of visiting our princess Ruston in her in-house review. :)

My pumpkin soup during Ynah's Birthday celebration.

Milk and Tea for Happy Children

Monday. And yes, last day of happy hour at Starbucks, but no 50% discount frappe nor latte can heal our addiction to milk teas. :))

To end my bff Fen's visit to Vito Cruz, we went to HP-village square for her FIRST wintermelon milk tea experience in Moonleaf. Lucky us, we managed to see those pretty red velvet cupcakes waving "Hello" to us and trying to say "C mon buy me". This what really happens if you fail to eat your cravings. HAHAHA! :)) I don't know why, but we can't stop chatting over and over again plus the usual photo vanity. You can't blame us, we are just enjoying the cozy ambiance of the place. :))

Got crave up

Post-PFW. 


Headed to Fort just because we were craving so much for Jamba Juice. Then our usual vanity bonding and lots of stories to catch up. Missed our another cravings for red velvet from Sonja's cupcakes. :( I'll be just photodumping here. Nothing else to say, just the let the photos do their job. :)

Changed my outfit, because can't stay long with my "tiis-ganda" heels. HAHA!

GET dressed and DO the Runway

May 27, 2012.

Got an invite from Jian Lasala, a designer from the Philippine Fashion Week (Thank you, again!) for the runway show scheduled at 4pm. Joined my friend Paola to hear mass at Baclaran Church at around 2pm, so imagine how I rushed to get dressed that day. I was with my best friends RC and Fen. Been late, but fortunately we still managed to watch the entire runway. 

Tons of amazing talent with every walk of each model, flashing that fierce atmosphere for the whole time. And what can you expect, I keep on whispering to my friend, "Hey I want those shoes, those bracelets, those.....". Haha! Actually all you can hear from us three, were fashion critique-wannabe comments in every collection of a designer. LOL. But anyway, thank you for showcasing your huge talents in your collection, hope to see all the names of these designers for the next PFW. :)

Don't wait for another day, DO IT NOW.

Reviewing for board was my daily routine for my past weeks. 

Never had the chance to blog again, and seriously missed doing this. :) Anyway, I am in my 4 days off from my NLE review, free from the draining hours of non-stop answering of board-type exams, long lectures and rationalizations. Thank God! :)

To start this, I'm going to show two pictures, and please for all haters out there? Deal with it. There's nothing wrong in showing the fruit of your labor. And yes, I'm still on the process, so stop sour graping and better start to have a healthier lifestyle. OKAY? :)

You are born to stand out, always remember that.

Got this idea from Saab Magalona's blog post regarding Anti-Bully campaign. :)

Before I post my pictures, I want to tell a short recap of my past. I was a fat little girl way back, I used to be this chubby girl walking around my school and grab all the foods I want. (I am serious about this). I just started to lose weight when I was in my mid third year high school, and since then my weight was on lose-gain basis. Literally, I am that ugly duckling during those times, (tan complexion? pimples?) name it! I experienced all of those. HAHA!

So here it is. (Hindi to evolution ng man, evolution ata ng baboy)

I was like this before.

I was teased with this  "pa-cute" pose.

Say hi to your new gym instructor. ( I am laughing so hard now, HAHAHA! )

Every step in reaching the Peak

April 22, 2012.

All first-time hikers. 


My father was the one who insisted in "why not try Mt.Batulao in Batangas?". We had two guides for that day, Kuya Gilbert and Kuya Eric, who were office mates of my mother (which I should be thanking them so BAD, that because without them, I will not survived this day. HAHA!). Call time at 4 am, as usual I was late plus carried only 1 1/2 hours of sleep. Partly, I was so dizzy at the start of the trail. We started at around 5:30 in the morning, as we went along, I started to loosen up and started to appreciate every view that we passed by. All you can feel was the serenity of the place and the fresh breeze of air blowing by your face. 


Mt. Batulao have 10 peaks to go through, and every peak we had able to surpass was surely a big challenge of sweat, motivation and sacrifices to reach the top. Fresh buko juice, Mountain Dew and Halo-Halo were the all time favorites in every stop over. So imagine how the people struggled for a living in going up and down to earn money. And I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to the people living there for their warm welcomes and great hospitality to all hikers. :)


As promised by our guides, the view will never fail you and make your sacrifices all worth it. (Amen to this, the view was a 10.) The trail was our competitor that day. First, I slipped down and had this big mark of bruise at my right knee, not to mention I can't count how many times I slipped the entire time. And lastly, my mom and my little sister Isay gave up at the peak 8 (Boo? :)) you should be sorry guys for not completing the whole 10).


We reached peak 10, at around eight in the morning. And man, the feeling was so awesome. The view and the feelings of fulfillment were all mixed up in my brain. The feeling was indescribable, I promise. :) 


But the total challenge for me was the intense heat that day, plus the trail in going down the peak. IT WAS NOT EASY, and yes from that moment, I promised myself never to hike again. HAHA! (Yes, seriously.)


I gave up in going down, thus renting a horse of a resident to be my buddy was my only choice to finish the trail. And surely, I want to hug that horse for saving me in slipping and struggling my way down. The whole Mt. Batulao experience created a big impact to me. As a first timer, I never imagined myself to finish it (with the help of that horse, of course! haha.) and gained this wonderful experience that surely I WILL TREASURE my lifetime. It was all worth it, even with the muscle cramps the day after. :) 

FIRST SHOT. No signs of tiredness. :)))

Bound North

As my family started our Holy Week, we traveled all the way to Tarlac to celebrate with the Our Lady of Manaoag for the Palm Sunday. A lot of devotees were there, praying and welcoming Christ, which I must conclude that other nations should be seeing how Filipinos value our religion and how we pay tribute to all those blessings we are receiving to our Loving God. :">

Cause, WE Nurse the World

April 15, 2012 one of the most important event of my entire college life.

Been down for a while, transferred school and missed my friends. A lot of coping abilities, but I am very much proud of myself that even I struggled for one semester with the new environment and new faces, I still managed to love my now Alma Mater, Manila Doctors College or rather Manila Tytana Colleges.

Thankful to the experiences, the joy, the trials and most especially, to the people I now treasure from the two years I stayed in Madocs. I will be forever Lasallian, and also a proud Madocian, or better yet a Tytan.

To all those people who became part of my college life, I am blessed to meet you guys. I love you for making my college life worth it, and at most a memorable one. :">

And most importantly to my ever supporting family, that always been my inspiration all throughout. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH guys. I will never gone this far without you. <3

I can still stand up, no matter what.

Fixing myself now, and trying my best to complete my broken puzzle again. 

That will be my self-goal now, as I struggled to be whole again. To be whole not only to be a better me, but also find the lost Patty, that once gave everything to the that man, that gave me the reason to be this strong. Fighting back for the one you love, will always be a big irony to me. Once you fight back, there's no turning back, you should be prepared for all those things that may happen. But I guessed, I believed before that no matter what happened, I will still be the princess for him, that girl that he will be fighting for. 


What crazy about love is, you keep on using your heart and never gave your brain to control you, and instead of hurting, tells you to "STOP, MOVE ON". I hope that it will be easy to move-on in just a simple click, but as I walked to my journey of being a dumb ass for this man, I still can feel those pains, why ever I did something to fight for my feelings for this undeserving man. Undeserving for all those efforts to made him feel that I am here, I will always be here for you, to love, care and support you. 

Pounds, I wanna lose you.

New weighing scale at home. Three months of on-off dieting. Then 110 lbs flashed to my eyes. (From 130lbs) :""> But still, I'm still 5lbs overweight. And from other DBW calculator, I'm still 10lbs overweight. (?) So I should be now befriend-ing the gym after class, and continue to my diet but I hope it will be healthier diet this time. Hopefully, flatter tummy, curvier waist plus slimmer face, arms, legs next time. HAHA! :) 

Why can't I have her body, plus her abs? :)))

Easy Pha-Max in Can

Curiosity, the main reason of buying these four (4) Easy Pha-max in can at 7-11. I had received many good reviews upon wheatgrass benefits,that pushed me to try this product. It is a cleansing drink, so why not? One can for P49 (Pesos), not bad at all for the benefits it will give to my system.

BE A BETTER ONE

As I am browsing my old posts in my tumbr account. I stumbled into this post which I wrote months ago. Can't help to remenisce and appreciate all the love of my friends during this time. And now? All I can say is, I become more mature and stronger adult today. :)

People tend to change or even leave, but friends do stay. I experienced to be loved and to be broken. But, I chose to be strong and keep myself busy for the past few days.

I chose to listen to them, conquer my fears and fight for a change of heart. I am trying to loosen up, to keep my worries behind, and just trust Him for everything. I prayed, I cried, but everything turns out to be well when your friends are there to catch your worries and sadness.

I am thankful really. I really don’t expect these two much attention from them. But one things for sure, I learned. I learned from my mistakes. I trusted someone, but willing to teach myself to overcome these things. It will be difficult, I know. But I have friends, friends that are been there through thick and thin. Friends that had supported me all throughout. 

You know who you are guys, I thank you so much for these. You had given me words of wisdom for me to live for. I love you guys. Everything you had done for me these past few days, will always be treasured. :”)

Le Chics

No attendance for the seminar, so headed to Makati to meet my super missed girls. As usual, I'm so late again (be surprised if I was the early bird during these times!) HAHA! Met them first at Forever21. Strolled at Glorietta, processed Frances' Mac (but sorry fail to get your Mac at Apple this time. :P), Chatime, then ate in Kenny then waited for the two other chicks, Paola and Rona. Traveled all the way to Mcdo near St. Dominic College in Cavite, and had an unforgettable encounter with a conductor of Erjohn and Almark bus. Met their thesis' statistician, and have our usual photo vanity. HAHA!

Grilled Cheese Trio

As usual, I'm so lazy to cook and literally craving for something salty last Saturday. So what's my routine when these kind of situations came? Go to the my nearest 7-11 store. HAHA! I should be buying my usual tuna cheese sandwich, but I saw this triangular shaped sandwich. So out of curiosity, tried it and well it's now my favorite food to buy at 7-11! :D

CHINESE? Not really.

I'll just be re-posting this entry from my tumblr account. chedinepau.tumblr.com ( go follow guys! :D ). It was last Sunday, and I was so lazy during my review, so ditching my afternoon session was my goal  just to go with my mother to Divisoria to buy stuffs for fiesta and leave my boring lecturer. Ate in Chicboy then Moonleaf after, it's Sunday so I can eat whatever I want. HAHA! :))


So here it goes.

ER rotation

For the first two weeks of 2012, our group had our rotation in Manila Doctors Hospital - Emergency room handled by Mr. Rochi Benito. Our group was divided to two groups then sharing special areas ER plus ICU. As for my group,we were assigned in ER along with Ye, Nix, Resma plus Robin (congrats to your one day attendance) HAHA!


Stressful and exciting. Two words I can describe my rotation. I don't know how these ER nurses and doctors handle this room, with full of perseverance and action to answer to every chief complaint of patients every now and then as the pressure constantly urge up when that ER door opens and patients go and seek for treatments.


So here are some pictures we had, when we were too benign and got nothing to do, but to click that shutter button. HAHA!

How 2011 Made Me.

As I am typing this new post, I can't help to smile with every steps I made last year. Those times, I tried, experienced something for the first time, and the lessons I treasured from them. Observing myself, I never thought I can be this “Patricia” that evolved to something more mature, stronger and a better one.

2011 became my 5k running marathon, given me the chance to run all through times of enjoyment, tiredness, thirst, falling out, having a bruise, learning to stand up and finally surpassing that finish line. I often asked myself, why not do it? Try new things, as it may turn out well, or maybe not but at least you will learn something.

First things first? I colored my hair for the first time in late January. Out of curiousity, then it turned out to be a failure. Then colored it again that fortunately resulted good. I tried to groom my jungle eyebrows, which I disobyed my mother when she told us never to touch blade nor a tweezor and try fixing our eyebrows. (but, thread was used on my eyebrows mother. HAHA!). I became semi anorexic/bulimic during this year. I struggled to achieved that body. I usually strave myself, then binge eating, drank teas to make me defecate (but I am constipated FYI), and what's worse? I even tried purging (which I never will try again, seriously I felt my body is struggling during that event). Thankfully I surpass all of these, but I can't cancel the tea (constipation gets on my nerves everytime, sorry to say that). I tried something else to loosen these fats, learned how to avoid unhealthy foods little by little, include sit-ups in my everyday, and seriously drinking A LOT of water. Fortunately I became more confident in my weight today, and blushing everytime people will give compliments about loosing those pounds. AMEN to that! :)

Pau Reunion

As a part of tradition, we usually celebrate our New Year in Ulat with my other relatives. Potluck in foods, then games, drinking session, plus giving of aguinaldos. Heard mass at Lourdes in Tagaytay. Struggled in traffic. Ate in Yellow Cab. Freeze in Tagaytay's air conditioner.

Just a photo album from yesterday.

Welcoming 2012

I just slept the whole day of December 31, plus I ate only apples during that day (?). We started our Media Noche earlier again, then I slept again after eating. HAHA! Thank you for my younger sibling for joining me in our sleeping quest before 2011 ends. :) Had our welcoming 2012 portion, and my usual jumping during new year hoping for my 5'8 ft. dream height.