Things I learned from my free day Saturday

Lessons I've learned (or re-learned whichever the case may be) from my free day Saturday this weekend...

1. I'm not used to eating that much food...that fast! 
Goodness! I woke up early - after a late night Friday gimik night watching Wilson Philips @ MOA Arena  may I add - to make a quick phone call to the office and headed back to bed because IT IS A SATURDAY NO WORK DAY for me... then had to drag myself out of bed again around noon... 
Checked messages and tweets and spontaneously made arrangements with my new adventure buddy and while rushing through my lunch, was making final arrangements to head off to QC by 2pm?!... GAH! As in di ko ata nalasahan yun kinain ko! haha

2.  It is truly a memorable experience to find and meet new friends and acquaintances...
You never know where such encounters will take you... enough said

3.  There are still good taxi drivers
For the life of me, I've always been anxious whenever I ride a taxi...
Good thing that the taxi rides we took yesterday were uneventful so to speak and the cab drivers were nice too!

4.  My penchant for wearing anything La Sallle in The Ateneo had an exemption if my life depended on it! haha
Define Bonfire... yup! I was there!
and did I mention I was (unfortunately? whichever side you're on) wearing a La Salle shirt - my trip to Katipunan was a spur of the moment thing - really!
So since we were unable to make a side trip for me to buy a new shirt... I had to settle to wearing my jacket! In this heat?! You can just imagine, right?! 
And what luck... of course I'd see familiar faces in Ateneo... and of all people, I bumped into one of my current student haha

Me with Ymara - current SC president in school

5.  I CAN NOT stay up late a day before a scheduled run!
And here I was thinking whether or not I can do it one after the other! hahaha
When I arrived home this morning! I was hungry and downed a 2-pc chickenjoy - that is a sure sign that I'm really hungry! Stayed up for a couple of hours coz I was still on a high after the
impromptu adventures I had - one in Tomas Morato and the other in Katipunan!
And woke up with just a couple of hours of sleep to start my Sunday!
My body clock sucks bigtime! haha

nahiya at nadismaya

     I just attended this seminar/exhibit in a hotel in Makati wherein they convened school representatives from the UK.  Over lunch - may I just add that it was a free buffet lunch - I still got to mingle with the other counselors and university reps who were present.  When another counselor asked one of the reps, who was from Malaysia, if it was her first time in the Philippines, she answered yes and this led to her cringing experience with our taxi drivers! She related that she was billeted at a different cheaper hotel in Makati and had to take a taxi to the exhibit's venue which was also within Makati.  She hailed a taxi and the vehicle was a few meters and speeding away when the driver blurts out that he's charging her P500 for the fare! (Me: OMG!) She had no choice but to pay the fare (because she did not know any better)... What's more dumbfounding to hear is that the next taxi she rode in properly used the meter and charged her P70 for the same distance! GAH! 

     I was dismayed and disappointed after hearing about her experience! To use a better Filipino term - nainis talaga ako for her!... I was really controlling myself from uttering expletives! So I just ended up telling her that maybe next time before getting into the next taxi ask first whether the driver will use the meter or not... Now in retrospect I should have told her to take note of the taxi's plate number too the next time she visits the Philippines just in case history repeats itself and she gets unlucky again....