Starring: Alvin, CCM, Parx, Dingdong, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Maki and My Dear
With the special participation of: My Dear's brother-in-law
After my last day of training last Friday, I had to go back from Makati to Katipunan, to prepare my things, and then they picked me up and headed to Nueva Vizcaya, all courtesy of Alvin. (Thanks! I super enjoyed!) Banaue was, of course, in our itinerary, but a lot of things happened way beyond our expectations. =)
Our first stop, as Alvin would insist, is the DOUBLE HAPPINESS place where we could all pee and stretch. Thanks to the super driver Maki (may impit sa dulo dapat, kung hindi ‘di ka in sa Nueva), we were able to reach the kapilya just on time. Without toothbrushing or even hilamos, they just changed clothes and went straight to the church. I didn’t join them of course, because I was so sleepy and I didn’t bring clothes for worship. I just stayed in the van and tried to get some sleep but Mr. Smith’s phone kept on alarming (tama b un, alarming?) so I was up every ten minutes. Geesh!
Right after the worship service, we had breakfast at Alvin’s place. Yummy ang breakfast, nilagang talbos ng sayote at talbos ng ampalaya, and papaitan! Plus saging siyempre, di pwedeng mawala un. Buti na lang di pa luto ang sinangag na salagubang, kasalukuyan pa lang tinatanggalan ng pakpak ang mga wlang kalaban-laban na salagubang pagdating namin. We slept for about an hour or so, (basta ako tulog agad, imagine I was up from 7 am Friday till almost 10 am Saturday).
Sinundo namin si Ate Rona on our way to Banaue, but before that, we passed by this store called G&B, where they specialize in buko of all sorts, fresh buko juice na ikaw mismo ang magtitimpla, bibiyakin lng nila, hot and yummy buko pie, ...nilagang buko, adobong buko, afritadang buko (of course I am just kidding, but if you know someone who cooks those, text me asap hahaha). We all had a great time, super busog, you could even ask Dingdong dahil may take-out pa siya). That’s when we started having ‘downloading’ (poo-poo) problems. Mr. Smith downloaded right there sa G&B, Parx was supposed to download right after him but ugh, barado ang toilet bowl, ewwww. Parx was disappointed, stomach hurting and all, we went to pick up Ate Rona and her many baons. We just waited for Parx to download and some picture taking sa likod ng bahay nila Ate Rona dahil, wow, bonggang-bongga ang rice field, daig ang wallpaper ng Windows XP. Ate Rona’s brother-in-law joined us, too, so that somebody else could drive while the super driver Maki is catching some sleep.
On the first to second hour of our trip to Banaue, everything was going well, we had pictures taken sa ilalim ng arko ng WELCOME TO BANAUE, pang-friendster, hehe. More pictures were taken in Viewpoint where you could see the famous Banaue Rice Te-Ray-ses (as Alvin would say it). All of us had free caps courtesy of those UP students who interviewed us for their thesis. So it was smooth-sailing, minus the pictures with the Igorots because it was drizzling, so wag nang magtaka kung bakit wala kaming pictures with the natives although sabi nga ni Mrs. Smith, may kasama naman kaming native (beep!beep!Maki!). Then it rained, so we had to run for shelter, went back to the van and scouted for a place where we could consume our baons. And we just ended up eating in the van, right next to the Banaue Town Hall. Sarap ng baon, we had adobong (taba ng) baboy, tinapang bangus, adobo sa gata na bibe (di ko ata ‘to tinikman), talbos ng kamote, kamatis at bagoong. Wow! Dami kong nakain kaya ayun, downloading problems n nman. Huhu. And while we were eating, surprise, Rica Peralejo passed by to attend a gathering at the Banaue Town Hall. Of course we didn’t want to miss this opportunity (hahaha showbiz), so we waited for her for just a few minutes and had our pictures taken (minus Mrs. Smith dahil hawak niya lahat ng Tupperware at kaserola…sorrryyyy, wag k na magtampo, si Rica lng nman yan, buti sana kung si Jolina, hahaha).
…to be continued
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