Ultimate Feel Good Day

This year was supposed to be the 3rd year that my mum and I will join Takbo Para Kay Kristo. Due to my dental woes, my mum was the only one who registered for the run. It was supposed to be my first ever 10k run but then the surgery happened and the days leading to the run was spent by me looking like hell and totally not fit to run. Today however, I was contemplating whether I should join as a bandit runner or whatever haha. In the end tho, I didn't join. Instead, my dad, my nephew Tiantian and I headed to the nearby mall while waiting for my mum to finish.

It's my mum's first ever night run!

This is my dad

That's how he looked while taking pictures hahahaha

My mum!

Im getting some serious 'The Mist' vibes hereeeeeeeeee

The PA system was announcing that registration was still open...I was so tempted but I was wearing my chucks huhuhuh

 We killed time at Festival. Looking for a place that could develop my pictures in an hour was futile. The swiftest they could do was 1 week erghhhh. So my dad and Tiantian ate a bit while I tried in vain to look for any issue of SFX while I was at Book Sale.

After eating, we headed to Octagon to buy a printer. Haha its so weird! We spent a few minutes installing our new printer and ta-da we were done. We went our separate ways after our time in Octagon. My dad went to Ace Hardware while Tiantian went to X-Site. I on the other hand visited my favorite shops hehe. It's too bad they were so far from each other. I went to Astrovision, Odyssey, National Bookstore, Power Books and other random stores that caught my eye. 

I really love this photo <3

After barely an hour, the three of us met up at Power Books since it was my dad's landmark as to where we parked our car. After a drought of new books, I finally bought myself a new book! It's called Zombiesque and it features 16 stories by different authors that revolve around how life would look like in the eyes of a flesh eating ghoul hehe. 

That's how the rest of my Saturday went. I must say after a week of my self-proclaimed house arrest, it really feels good to be around people again hehe.

P.S. Good news!!!! I can smile again!! I've had a hard time smiling after the surgery because the wound would still be too tender that I couldnt lift my upper lip, but now that it's quite okay, I can smile again. Maaaan it feels good to not feel like such a grouch anymore!

Acrophobia

I have a terrible fear of heights. Ask me to name my fears it would be heights first then deep water. I would totally cream my pants if the two were to be combined to make a colossal fear machine especially made for Gab. I seriously am terrified of heights. This one time we were in Ilocos I think, there was this huge lighthouse that you could go up in to see the whole island from, I only got halfway through the spiral staircase and throughout the whole ordeal, I had the staircase handle in a death grip. The last time we were in Subic, my parents decided to stop by this cliff thingy, looking back I realized that it seriously wasnt that high, its just that the rocks and crashing waves daunted me. I ended up crying after they asked me to have a picture near the edge. I cried and cried and sulked and sulked huhu. 

Now ten years after, we went back to Subic and headed to the Tree Top Adventure thingy on our 2nd day. I know this post is reaaaally late but here are a few embarrassing pictures of mine to make up for it haha. 

While listening to the briefing aka description of our deaths

You get to choose from an array of packages with different combinations of 'rides' that will suit your preference. I got Package G for Gab HAHA jk I got it since it had Superman (zipline thingy). Silver Surfer (pogo stick thingy) and the Interactive Free Fall. We first tried the Silver Surfer since it seemed pretty harmless..

Before

After

My legs were jello!!!! Needless to say I got a little shaky after the Silver Surfer, I swear people all the way from Manila could hear my screams

Next up was the Superman which basically is a zipline thingy where you get to pose like Superman. Big surprise tho was to find out that the guy manning the 'ride' was our old neighbor!! It was so cool. We didnt recognize him at first since he looked way different than he did before (I even had a tiny bit of a crush on him), after my parents took off, he asked us a bit of questions and when our parents arrived..BAM my dad was all 'Yeah, hey Ryan'. Hahaha too bad he got to see me flail and hold on to the ladder thingy for my dear life.

Well this picture seems awkward......................................................................

Me praying...

Still praying...

My death

Last activity for the day was the Interactive Free Fall. It's sort of like a rollercoaster with all the sudden drops that will leave your stomach 50 ft in the air. It repeats for about 4 times and maaaan did my tummy ache haha but out of the 3 it was surely the most chill and the easiest.

On Trees

I've always been a huge fan of zombies or anything related to them. So imagine my surprise when I first heard about Outbreak Manila! Outbreak Manila is patterned to the United States's Run For Your Lives. Basically, it's a 5 kilometer race with a few obstacles.....plus a buttload of ravenous zombies. You're given a belt with 3 flags symbolizing your lives which the infected would go gaga for.

Even the scorching sun, dirtied knees, and the depressing revelation that I will certainly not be a survivor in case of a zombie apocalypse did not ruin the event. Rather, they were what made it beyond fun! 

I dint bring the camera with me along the run in fear of it being dropped, and I was really hoping that it'd rain a bit so the course would be muddy. I did bring my film camera with me but I still gotsta have them developed hehe so.....here are pictures of......trees.