saturday may 10, 2008
while we were cuddling in bed, minds blank..
me: do you want to go to macau?
b: but i don't have money for the ferry
me: don't worry, we'll use my 'kupit' money
b: ok. let's go.
tawag lang kay annie... and then we're off to macau! yey! we boarded the next available ferry 30 mins after the conversation above. 30 mins involved brushing our teeth, getting our camera gears, packing two nights of clothes, and buying dinner at mcdonalds. don't you just love impulsive travels?
of all the coincidences, we were beside one pinay in the ferry. we talked throughout the journey without asking for names. and the following day, we saw her with her husband in a cathedral in macau!
pinoys are everywhere, you cannot help it! sooner we pinoys shall rule the world! yeba!
we met annie at the newly built venetian hotel-resort. grabe ang arrive ng hotel na ito... it was listed as third in the world with regards to the land area occupied by a single establishment. as in mahihilo ka sa laki. oh well, that's just me.. im not really fond of luxurious indoor stuff. i lived in makati for more two years and i still couldn't roam around glorietta alone. give me tattered map of a weird jungle and i can navigate my way, but not a mall please. not even supermarkets! haha! i'll do a separate post on venetian. we really wanted an outdoor pic of venetian. we saw some photos in the net and they were really spectacular. too bad it was raining real hard when we arrived, so we had to go to annie's home. it was quite late anyway.
we saw tito pol (annie's dad) having his midnight snack when we arrived. he was the first male adult (tatay age) to meet b. sa sobrang laki nya uurong talaga dila mo. he was joking that if b takes me for a fool, he'll have him get killed by different groups that he knows. the usual pagbabanta ng tatay stuff. what a gentle giant?! i really love the salvador clan. they were all like: o ilang beses ka namin hinihintay. ilang beses mo sinabi na dadating ka pero last minute nagbaback out ka sabi ni gheeya (annie's nickname). i had to make a litany of the reasons why i couldn't go. they missed me for almost a year! don't you just love pinoy families? they welcome new peeps and they are sincere in doing it!
buti na lang may dala akong ferrero for tita lileth (mother's day the following day) so extra bait nila samin. grabe, lamon kung lamon! tinapa, sugpo, pinakbet, basta pinoy food, meron! yey! nakailang balik kame ng kain! at syempre mawawala ba ang karaoke sa tahanang pinoy? syempre may magic sing habang nag-iinuman. at itong boypren kong pangarap maging rakista, talagang nagpasikat! lalo tuloy akong na-in love.. hehe.. as in dagdag kilig points talaga kapag kumakanta sya. iba talaga ang dating. feel na feel...
oh, and we went for a mass, too! basta naman sa salvador clan, kain ka lang ng kain, pero pag oras ng misa, walang excuse. kailangang pumunta. they wouldn't ask you if you want to go to mass, they'd ask you when you're going to mass. first time i was with b inside a church. we'll do it again.
then finally we were able to do what we went there for! taking photos of course! starting at ten in the evening! so we moved around the plaza and the nearby casinos. grabe, nakakapagod ang magdala ng camera, tripod, at 10 kilo ng laman sa tyan. we were dead tired after 4 hours! we even spent around 15 mins lying on the benches and we were so tempted to sleep at the streets. together with the homeless people and beggars! we really didn't have the energy to go home! but we got our last string of energy and walked home. pagdating, gutom lang pala kami! we just raided the ref and then we're alive again! ang sarap ng leftover pizza!
di man halatang namiss ko ang magkwento! every detail talaga e!
osyasya, here are the photos:
ang aking signature backshot! haha! grabe talaga dito, nanginginig ang tuhod ko!
that's b, trying to be dramatic. nyehe..
that's annie, looking dashing
a hotel in the casino strip
casino lisboa.. grabe no, di kaya nila naiisip ung sinasayang nilang electricity every second? ang liwanag talaga e!
empire hotel. yabangan kame ni b sa shots namen.. he was like: may lindol ba kagabi? bakit tabingi? boo bf! boo!
the bronze statue near the ruins! yey!
here's b taking a photo of the reflection of the ruins on one window infront of it
nice blue building that you can see from the top
we had to walk up to get a 360 view of macau
grand lisboa. it isn't grand for nothing
st paul's ruins. it's even more spectacular at night
cathedral that you'll find before the ruins
wynn casino
our favourite shot! yey! macau bridge!
and you can compare the largo do senado from 10pm to 2am on a sunday!
flocked with people
setting a-la 28 days later
then we're off to fisherman's wharf the following day. the heat was extremely scorching that we resorted going back to hk after an hour of taking photos
colourful houses
flamingos inside the babylon casino hotel
replica of colosseum
at syempre, b's in love. yey! 10 seconds na walang hingahan. hehe...
