Gonna get so FAT
too many haters on facebook, so i'll just blog from good ol' changing booth about vacation times :)
I woke up in vancouver at about 6:00am because dad needed to drive me to the airport before he went to work. That left me with about 6 hours to burn before my flight takes off at 1pm in the afternoon. I ended up making friends with a lady named Jen who works as a dishwasher @ the whitespot for $10/hr. She had to commute all the way to surrey so she was an hour early for her shift. She hates it, and one day she's going to save up for her own van and start a cleaning buisness. Hopefully she gets the job cleaning at VIA rail, that way she can actually have a chance to see something and not be stuck in the city all the time. I hope Jen gets a break soon. She looks like she's mid 40's and has a crooked nose and wart on her face like a witch. Really nice though, I shared my ipod charger for her so she could watch youtube on her ipod touch.
I ended up checking in at 930 when the ticket booths opened. I met another person named Edmond, who stayed in Vancouver for about a year studying English @ douglas college. It was his first time flying by himself, as I assume his parents helped him at ICN (Icheon international airport?) to fly over here. I showed him how to use the electronic e-ticket machines and we both waited in like until 9:45 to check our bags. We were first in line, and by the time we got checked in, there was about 20 people waiting in line behind us. Unfortunately, his checked bags were overweight, and he had to go pay some more money. I never ended up seeing him at the gates when I boarded the plane. I really hope he got there in time, as it would suck if his shit got flown over and he missed his flight..
the flight to korea was pretty uneventful. I flew with Korea Air and I gotta say, the service was really really good. I was surprised they kept giving me free booze and wine the whole trip haha. I made myself a bibibap for lunch and ate some beef dish for dinner. I got a chance to read 3/4 through American Psycho, giving me some awkward boners at certain points. That booked is fucked up, ill have to find some time to finish it on this trip lolol.
Landed in Seoul pretty much on time, and walked around the airport a little bit. LOTTTS of high end shops, and lots of really good looking people. I started to imagine which girls had plastic surgery done, because everyone there looks so plastic. I ended up eating this tuna kimchi soup with rice @ the food court, and drank an asahi. The whole thing cost me $15 which made me go :(
I had a chance to check my mail, and turns out carmen was running late, and her checked baggage was overweight too. She made last call for boarding and was waiting somewhere in china, before being flown to Manila. She was afraid she'd have to stay in Manila for a long time, as one of her transfers was changed. so instead of an hour wait for me it might be 4-5 hour wait in the airport.
Flying from Korea to Manila was uneventful, and i passed in and out a couple of times and watched a few movies. We finally landed and I had to make it through immigration and pick up my luggage. As I walked towards the carosel I saw a really really good looking girl on the other side of customs. Turns out it was carmie and i was like daaayum gonna hit that later woo woo in my head. ahhaha ANYWAYS, it took another 30 minutes for my bag to finally pop out as I assume my bag was at the VERY VERY back seeing as I was the first one to check my shit @ vancouver.
I pass through customs and drop my stuff and Carmen and I hold each other for a few minutes :) it was one of the best hugs i've ever had. We made our way to the free shuttle service to connect to terminal 3 in Manila international. It took probably 15 minutes to get there, and we stopped by terminal 2 and 4 before our stop. Terminal 2 was really nice, but terminal 4 was a peice of shiiit. it was so sketchy lol.. when we arrived to terminal 3 it was much better.
IT was about 12:30am local time and we had to get some rest. I watched our stuff for most of it while carmen curled up on my lap and snoozed.. I think i've been awake for close to 34 hours now and I'm not sure why i'm not sleepy... we end up going upstairs to go check our luggage and it's 5am. There are like 300 people in line. I wly as like.. what. the. fuck.
it took about 45 minutes of navigating to finally reach the check in booth, and we managed to pay $80 to get carmens really big bag checked in. I'm really glad because we were initially going to keep it at a luggage storage facility in the terminal, and it would be such a pain in the ass to go get it and stuff. I'd rather pay... Carmen said her mom's saying of "If it's a problem that money can solve, it's not a problem". I like that saying, although you need money or else your fucked haha :)
We fly towards caticlan in a crazy bi-propeller plane. We land and walk over to the small terminal in Boracay and we see two guys dressed in red gowns with a black sign with gold words saying "Shangri-La". They welcome us and gather our bags and shuttle us off to the staging area of the dock. Walking into the staging area was kinda like 'woah this is pretty sweet'. they served us juice and told us to sit on these big lounge chairs while they got the speed boat ready.
i've got some video of the speed boat ride, it was pretty fricken sweet. the wake from the speedboat (cause it was going so fast) would make such big waves, pretty much owning all the little sail boats and dingies that we passed.
We arrive to the Shangri-la and explored and ate and napped by the beach and the pool for a little bit, and we decided not to do too much as I was pretty fucked in the head at this point. I started feeling really dizzy and hazy and needed to sleep ASAP.
sleeping at night was pretty bad and had to take some tylenols.. i woke up this morning feeling much better. I think i slept for a solid 8 hours and fit in a 2 hour nap here and there. Can't wait to go exploring today and buy some cheap tanktops and shorts. Can't wait to eat a of yummy food.
Hopefully i'll have some more interesting things to write later.
Later Days
I woke up in vancouver at about 6:00am because dad needed to drive me to the airport before he went to work. That left me with about 6 hours to burn before my flight takes off at 1pm in the afternoon. I ended up making friends with a lady named Jen who works as a dishwasher @ the whitespot for $10/hr. She had to commute all the way to surrey so she was an hour early for her shift. She hates it, and one day she's going to save up for her own van and start a cleaning buisness. Hopefully she gets the job cleaning at VIA rail, that way she can actually have a chance to see something and not be stuck in the city all the time. I hope Jen gets a break soon. She looks like she's mid 40's and has a crooked nose and wart on her face like a witch. Really nice though, I shared my ipod charger for her so she could watch youtube on her ipod touch.
I ended up checking in at 930 when the ticket booths opened. I met another person named Edmond, who stayed in Vancouver for about a year studying English @ douglas college. It was his first time flying by himself, as I assume his parents helped him at ICN (Icheon international airport?) to fly over here. I showed him how to use the electronic e-ticket machines and we both waited in like until 9:45 to check our bags. We were first in line, and by the time we got checked in, there was about 20 people waiting in line behind us. Unfortunately, his checked bags were overweight, and he had to go pay some more money. I never ended up seeing him at the gates when I boarded the plane. I really hope he got there in time, as it would suck if his shit got flown over and he missed his flight..
the flight to korea was pretty uneventful. I flew with Korea Air and I gotta say, the service was really really good. I was surprised they kept giving me free booze and wine the whole trip haha. I made myself a bibibap for lunch and ate some beef dish for dinner. I got a chance to read 3/4 through American Psycho, giving me some awkward boners at certain points. That booked is fucked up, ill have to find some time to finish it on this trip lolol.
Landed in Seoul pretty much on time, and walked around the airport a little bit. LOTTTS of high end shops, and lots of really good looking people. I started to imagine which girls had plastic surgery done, because everyone there looks so plastic. I ended up eating this tuna kimchi soup with rice @ the food court, and drank an asahi. The whole thing cost me $15 which made me go :(
I had a chance to check my mail, and turns out carmen was running late, and her checked baggage was overweight too. She made last call for boarding and was waiting somewhere in china, before being flown to Manila. She was afraid she'd have to stay in Manila for a long time, as one of her transfers was changed. so instead of an hour wait for me it might be 4-5 hour wait in the airport.
Flying from Korea to Manila was uneventful, and i passed in and out a couple of times and watched a few movies. We finally landed and I had to make it through immigration and pick up my luggage. As I walked towards the carosel I saw a really really good looking girl on the other side of customs. Turns out it was carmie and i was like daaayum gonna hit that later woo woo in my head. ahhaha ANYWAYS, it took another 30 minutes for my bag to finally pop out as I assume my bag was at the VERY VERY back seeing as I was the first one to check my shit @ vancouver.
I pass through customs and drop my stuff and Carmen and I hold each other for a few minutes :) it was one of the best hugs i've ever had. We made our way to the free shuttle service to connect to terminal 3 in Manila international. It took probably 15 minutes to get there, and we stopped by terminal 2 and 4 before our stop. Terminal 2 was really nice, but terminal 4 was a peice of shiiit. it was so sketchy lol.. when we arrived to terminal 3 it was much better.
IT was about 12:30am local time and we had to get some rest. I watched our stuff for most of it while carmen curled up on my lap and snoozed.. I think i've been awake for close to 34 hours now and I'm not sure why i'm not sleepy... we end up going upstairs to go check our luggage and it's 5am. There are like 300 people in line. I wly as like.. what. the. fuck.
it took about 45 minutes of navigating to finally reach the check in booth, and we managed to pay $80 to get carmens really big bag checked in. I'm really glad because we were initially going to keep it at a luggage storage facility in the terminal, and it would be such a pain in the ass to go get it and stuff. I'd rather pay... Carmen said her mom's saying of "If it's a problem that money can solve, it's not a problem". I like that saying, although you need money or else your fucked haha :)
We fly towards caticlan in a crazy bi-propeller plane. We land and walk over to the small terminal in Boracay and we see two guys dressed in red gowns with a black sign with gold words saying "Shangri-La". They welcome us and gather our bags and shuttle us off to the staging area of the dock. Walking into the staging area was kinda like 'woah this is pretty sweet'. they served us juice and told us to sit on these big lounge chairs while they got the speed boat ready.
i've got some video of the speed boat ride, it was pretty fricken sweet. the wake from the speedboat (cause it was going so fast) would make such big waves, pretty much owning all the little sail boats and dingies that we passed.
We arrive to the Shangri-la and explored and ate and napped by the beach and the pool for a little bit, and we decided not to do too much as I was pretty fucked in the head at this point. I started feeling really dizzy and hazy and needed to sleep ASAP.
sleeping at night was pretty bad and had to take some tylenols.. i woke up this morning feeling much better. I think i slept for a solid 8 hours and fit in a 2 hour nap here and there. Can't wait to go exploring today and buy some cheap tanktops and shorts. Can't wait to eat a of yummy food.
Hopefully i'll have some more interesting things to write later.
Later Days
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haha that was a hilarious read, jay. sounds like you're having fun, keep it up!
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