Outbreak Manila: Enchanted Kingdom

Last October 31, 2012 Asia had its first ever zombie run inside an amusement park. I don't know how much I've said this before but I really love zombies so when we first saw the teaser trailer for Outbreak Manila: Enchanted Kingdom, Zombieland came to my mind and I almost creamed my pants in delight. 

To prepare for this run which was held on halloween hehe, Twinkle and I evolved from our MMDA selves, went back through time and becometh people from the olden times. More specifically, the medieval period which we just took up in school last quarter hehe. We planned on going as the Powerpuff girls and the Professor but we lacked time in buying a decent PPG costume so we decided to just forget the whole theme thing and buy costumes on our own. 

But something happened, while I was browsing through the halloween costumes on sale, I came across a ton of nice costumes for only 500 pesos each! Long story short, I got the medieval velvet taray gown for Twinkle and this black witch dress thingy for myself. When I got home tho, I remembered that I had a sort of medieval looking dress in my closet so the idea of going as a medieval set was hatched. I returned my costume and in return got this set on sale. I can't really describe it since it looks like a cross between a female version of Christian Grey and an executioner and a gladiator and a medieval butcher. But the description in the bag thing says that it's a Scorpion Vixen so... let's stick with medieval executioner instead HAHA. 

The day of the run, we hung out at Twinkle's place, watched The Walking Dead's 3rd episode and hung out at high street. After walking around and stuff we went back to Twinkle's and dressed up wee. 

Twinkle m'lady, Bea the court jester, Nath the pirate who looks like a prince and me yay

Awesome live art!

I was expecting that a lot of people would be in costume since it IS halloween but although the number of people in costume was higher than in BGC, it still quite wasn't enough for me hehe.

At first I was expecting the run to be as easy as the one in BGC but maaaaan was I wrong! We died instantly when we came to the super infested plaza part. I swear it's like an endless wall of red-flag-hungry zombies huhu.

Pretty pretty

Since we were already dead, we just took our time and had fun hehe. Especially with the gorilla below. He's now my best friend hihi. We felt super duper giddy whenever random zombies would growl and compliment us on our costumes hahaha and in return we'd compliment the other pretty zombies as well hehe.

Super cool Sparta guy

The start.......................................of..........something........new......................?

Schmiderman schmiderman

After we crossed the finish line, we were approached by a few officials saying that we were eligible to win best in costume! They then took down our names, our costume description and took pictures of us. We were also told that the announcement would be at 10:30 pm, seeing that 10:30 was not that far away, we hung out for a while and roamed around a bit. We got sidetracked by the games and Nath tried to win prizes but alas we failed HAHA. After playing, we headed over to the huge tent and waited for the announcement. When the Sparta guy from our wave was announced we seriously thought we wouldn't have a chance then so we were quite disheartened but then another announcement came on and..............WE WON!! WEEEEEEEEEEE!! We got on stage and maaaaan did it feel good hihihi. 

I reallllllllllllly had a great time. That day was one for the books, I must say. I serrrrrrrrriouuuuuuuuuuusly can't wait for the next outbreak here in Manila!!!!!!

P.S. We used expired kodak disposable cameras that we bought for only 2 for P500 and I am so so so so so pleased with how they turned out hihi. Will definitely do this again next time!

Scientists In Motion, They Give You Their Devotion

It's that time of the year when our beloved school holds the annual Scientists In Motion for the opening of our Science Month. Since we are from Manila Science High School, every year the presentations just get weirder and weirder in a totally good way. Basically, each section (named after a scientist) brings back their scientist from the dead or in Townes' case, from the hospital or something haha, to talk about themselves for a bit and tell everyone what they contributed to the world of science as well as their most famous quote. 

I'm part of III - Calvin who was one of the 5 who proposed the Calvin Cycle. I didn't really pay much attention in last year's Biology class so I'm no expert in that hahaha. All we know is that it's part of the processes inside the plant and that there are light and dark reactions and so on and so forth. Since we almost fell asleep just by thinking about how boring it is, we decided to have fun and add zombies to the mix! 

Wee

Little by little, we hatched a plan quite parallel to that of Plants VS. Zombies. Mixed with a bit of some Michael Jackson goodness in the form of Thriller heehee!

After the first Friday mass, we ran to our homeroom (which is in the 4th floor btw huhu) and immediately slipped into our costumes and got our make up done. The most fun part about dressing up as a zombie is being utterly messy. Ughhh we had so much fun taking turns bloody-ing up each other and not to mention slathering our faces with Strawberry syrup!

l-r clockwise: Red Riding Hood Nona, Cadet Twinkle and Firefighter Maqui, Melvin Calvin Russ and me as some sort of cross between Wednesday from the Addams Family and a Sunday school teacher 

1-7 gurlz

Brand ambassador-ing

l-r. Lawrence, Kurt and Matthew. The plant boys yay

Squeezing in one last practice before we head off to the Amadome!

Marconi

With Ma'am Sao!

II - Millikan

II - Pauling

I really liked II - Rutherford's entrance herher

II - Urey

It was too bad I did not get to watch any of the performances by the 7th graders and that I only saw a portion of II - Rutherford's presentation. Thank jeebus I got to see the Juniors yay!

III - Berzelius

III - Burbank

III - Calvin; the plants' entrance wee

The 'uber' cool sunflowers

Russ doing his zombie thang

I seriously got goosies when I heard the first few strains of the theme song from The Walking Dead. Ahhhh all the feels in the world!! Finally crossed 'dress up as a zombie for realsies' off my bucket list!

Bad-ass plants!

Thriller-ing

Still Thriller-ing

Hands down my favorite shot

We dead

Ahhhhh we had such a good time. We seriously enjoyed every second we were performing huhu. So so cool that everyone was such good sports hihi.

l-r, top to bottom, clockwise: Fatima, Callado, Erik, Matthew, Chloe, Maqui, Sean, Chinee, me, Twinkle, Dana, PY, Pau, Nona and Gerald

III - Darwin

III - Hertz w/ Tj the dog hihi!

III - Linnaeus

III - Mendel

III - Ptolemy

IV - Copernicus

IV - Einstein

IV - Faraday

IV - Lawrence

Creeeeeepy zombie from IV - Townes

After doing our best to clean up the mess that we call ourselves, we went back to the Amadome sort of fresh-faced and with dripping hair!

Photo op with the Manalastad Twins yay

Sunflower boys

Reyther and Bea yayyyyyyy

The Aftermath

Nona still in character

 After loitering a bit, we went up to our homeroom and we were just about to relax and all when we were told that we were gonna have our Social Studies class..We checked our worksheets and had a quiz on the Rise of the Roman Empire since we're like the latest of all the lates in the world because we missed 2 weeks of meetings.

My sneakers heeeeehoooo

Erik's magnificent pants HAHA

 After Social Studies, we went down to the canteen to eat.

Best photographers/girls ever hehehehehe

Russ's baws face

 After hanging out, we went back to the homeroom for the nth time that day and fixed the banner because we decided to hang it in our homeroom wee. 

We then had a photo shoot with the banner because we were just so darn happy aaaaaaaaaand we weren't simply in the mood to use our noodles for serious business hehe.

Kurt

Scientists In Motion was a huge blast for real. I had so much fun and I really really feel gay about Calvin right now hehe. All the nights we stayed up til 7 just practicing and fooling around for were definitely worth it. We might be the partial winner for now, and I know winning would be the most amazing thing ever but (I'm about to go all cheesy gooey now) I'm so so happy already and I feel like I've already won hehe because hehe you guys hehe are my hehe classmates hehe. I love you III - Calvin hehe.