Eventscapade: This Means War

No. No. NO. I'm not trying to start an altercation with anyone this time. "This Means War" is actually a game night curated by DJ Euric and DJ Cmart at Rye every Wednesdays.

Poster care of yours truly. I'll also be the resident photographer every Wednesday so please, feel free to drop by!

Rye is located at 2F, Antel 2000 Bldg, Valero St., Makati City. 

Basically, from EDSA, take a right turn to Ayala Ave, go straight then turn right at Valero street, then immediately turn right again then right again. The building to your right (ang daming right, ano ba) should be Antel 2000 already.

The two bosses LMPK-ing as usual. 

Ah my favorite new drinking game! It's called the tower of Power, invented by DJ Euric himself. To know the mechanics, you have to go to This Means War on wednesdays so that DJ Euric can explain it to you himself.

The usual Karaoke round thats so damn funny to watch.

Oh hey! It's Wednesday today. Did I mention that the winning team for tonight gets Open bar for tonight? Drop Bye Rye later! I'll see you there!

Cravings.

I got hungry so I made pizza from scratch.

Egg for scale

Brb. Bye.

Recalculating: Nuvali/Tagaytay

Rai and I decided to have a spontaneous date in Tagaytay. Nothing special. We were just really bored. Since we've both been to Tagaytay and have seen almost everything there was to be seen and experienced, we dropped by Nuvali first.

It was probably 9 in the morning when we arrived. Apparently, the shops and restaurants around the area opened at 10 except for Starbucks. *Thank you, Starbucks. You really know the needs of your customers.* We got our regular drinks (if you must know, mine is: Venti Caramel Frappucino, Coffee based, Soy milk, with 1 tbsp cinnamon blended in, no whip.)

Once the shops were open, we took a long walk (we had to cross the street since Solenad was at the other side) and check out the shops. We gave up after 10 shops since most of them were still closed. When we got back to the lagoon area (or is it a lake? a pond??) we bought fish food (about Php15) and decided to go crazy with the Koi.

They may look nice now but...

THESE FISH ARE MONSTERS. I mean, they don't hurt people, but imagine falling in to this. Then again, this is milder compared to feeding Arapaimas at the Avilon Zoo.

AAAANYWAYYYYY

I'm not quite sure if Rai enjoyed the fish feeding or he was jus posing for the camera. Either way, he still has better photos with the fish than me. *This boy abuses the fact that his girlfriend is a photographer*

When we got to Tagaytay, we ate Bulalo for lunch at Green ATS. And I must say, their view is spectacular.

Pre-busog photo of Rai taking a photo of...

...Pre-busog me.

Well what else was there to do in Tagaytay? There were so many options yet most of them didn't really fit the bill. Sky Ranch? Nah too many people. Ilog Maria Bee Farm? We were just there a month ago. Puzzle Museum? No offense, but that's boring.

"Meh. Let's go to the zoo and kill time."

Rai: Oh hey. A tiger.

Me: PICTUUUUUREEE.

*PHILIPPINE FREEDOM INTENSIFIES*

Us by the smoking area of the zoo. We only had two couple photos that night (supposedly 3 but the photo in Sonya's garden was so blurry thanks to the attendant who was apparently too eager to leave and go home). This and the one with the tiger. The rest are either solo shots of Rai (I told you he's abusive.), animals, and landscapes.

Mr. Velasco photosynthesizing under the Tagaytay sun.

Special Thanks to Sunnies by Charlie for our shades!

Not in photo: Another special thanks to Sole Academy for our Adidas Tricot Running shoes.

AND THE HIGHLIGHT OF OUR NIGHT. We dropped by Sonya's Garden to have their Specialty Massage. Shiatsu and Swedish massages are about Php756 and their Specialty Massage is Php879.

Ohoho it looks tiny but the spa is actually enormous. Each cubicle has it's own shower room. And the shower room is relaxing as well. The windows are covered by a  built in waterfall and the shower tiles are actually small stones to massage your feet. It's crazy relaxing. Personally, this is my favorite spa in the Philippines.

After our ever so relaxing massage, we dropped by the Apothecary. Sonya's Garden specializes in products with activated carbon so I bought a few products. My favorite would be the "No Pores No Shine T-Zone Facial Booze".

Til my next adventure!

Eventscapade: UNLEASHED 5

The fifth instillment of the Unleashed Series was too much for anyone to handle. Even when everyone expected the rain, no one was prepared to get drenched by a storm. 

My cousin, Kurt, and I arrived at the venue at 12 noon. Why so early? Nauto kasi ako ni Mohit na 12 ng hapon call-time ko. Same shit happened in Unleashed 3 and 4 when Mohit asked me to arrive at 12 when I was actually needed at 2:30PM. HAW HAW VERY FUNNY, MO. NOT GONNA HAPPEN NEXT TIME.

Proud little munchkin of a cousin. It was his first major event so he was so excited to shoot. I'll post some of the photos that he took by the end of this entry.

Plastic

Okay so my boyfriend won a powerbank from one of the orgs in UP. It was great because he absolutely needs one since he always gets lowbatt. But Raymond keeps forgetting to  charge the powerbank, let alone bring it, so he gave it to me instead. He told me that the cable wasn't working anymore, which was fine because I have cables for my other powerbank.

When I tried charging it, none of my cables worked. Apparently, the ports sank down so none of the cables were able to reach it.

What it looks like from the outside. Pretty average. You wouldn't think that it's fake or not.

I was able to remove the cap and slide the whole thing down. I watched a xiaomi 5400 dismantle job on youtube and this one hardly looks like the one on the video. first of all, it should have screws to lock it in place.

Second, why is there masking tape? I'm preeettty sure that Xiaomi won't use masking tape on their powerbanks.

Third. Apparently the ports didn't sink, they fell out of place. The motherboard or whatever you call it (I'm an artist, not an engineer. Sorry for my illiteracy in electronics) kept falling out.

Anyway. I used electrical tape to stick that motherboard thing to the frame (again, my apologies for not knowing the right terms) so it won't fall out of place again. Then, I put it back in the case. I left out the cap so that I could charge it first.

Tadaaah. Trust me, my boyfriend's an engineer.

 Lol. That made no sense.

Anyway! This is probably the most worthless blog post ever.

Bye.

Hay Nako Globe.

I used to complain incessantly on my twitter about:

1. How bad my signal is
2. The unfair Fair Use Policy for Supersurf 
3. Their annoying flood of texts about me exceeding my Data Usage.
4. The incessant calls about paying my bill when I've already paid.
5. Etc etc etc.

Then the Insert-Name-Here of Globe would always ALWAYS reply even if I didn't tag globe.

Case in point: Here

Okay. Enough of that. Here's where the "fun" begins.