Ang huling kokak

The family went to Tagaytay. We fetched Auntie Madre from the convent to take her to lunch somewhere nearby. My sisters and I had a photo-op again. We could not resist taking pictures with the lush greenery as background. I loved it there. The whiff of fresh air and a view that is relaxing to the eyes. Everything's beautiful. It is just unfortunate for a tiny creature here on earth that he has become a statistic of a phenomenon we call roadkill~




The plan was to have lunch at Viewpoint but the elders insisted that we should go to RSM instead. After lunch, we went to Sonya's Garden just to look at the place. I liked it.



The cottages had an Old Manila feel. They give off a somewhat eerie feeling. Four-poster beds with immaculate white, clean sheets. Parang feeling mo anytime may lalabas na white lady.

During the trip, a family secret came out into the open. While walking around Sonya's Garden, we came across upside-down, lily-looking flowers. My daddy shared that whenever my lolo had asthma attacks, he would smoke those leaves which are known to the modern world as talampunay. Talampunay?? aka trumpets aka dungshroom?? E diba drugs yun?? Haha!!! :) Apparently, it was used as an alternative cure for asthma. It just happened that it also has a narcotic element akin to marijuana.


ang talampunay... bow!

The trip was fun though the trip back was horrendous. It took us 3 frickin' hours to reach Manila. I wasn't planning on going to the World Pyro Olympics but at the last minute, decided to go with Vicky and her boyfriend. We left the house at 8:15, reached Taft at 8:30. At this side of the city, traffic began to build up. We reached Taft corner Buendia at 9pm. Then someone sent my sister a text message saying that it would be better if we don't proceed anymore since there was only one fireworks exhibition left and traffic's really, really, really bad. We decided to turn around and just eat at McDo instead. It took us na hour to make a U-turn along Buendia. On normal circumstances, that would only take 5 minutes. Dahil lang sa fireworks...