Excerpts for the Travel Log PART THREE

DAY 3 - Oct. 19

Just got news - I flunked my majors this sem. Chem 17 and Math 53. Not that it really matters. For me, as long as I don't get kicked out of my college, anything's OK. Hell, it's better to have it flunked than pass it without me understanding the subject. I'll just take them again next sem.

It's not as if it's the end of the world for me when I flunk my classes. I'm in UP - it's understandable. Have the smartest from Ateneo or Lasalle come study in UP and expect to have him cry like a baby for having a grade of 5.0 in Basic Algebra. That's life in UP.

I know, I know, I should be responsible. But this is the only thought that makes me live up to life in UP.

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I didn't do much today - helped out in selling at our store, and played frisbee outside. Yes, got mine at Nike last Sunday for a whopping 395 bucks, but it was well worth it. Hope I can have Janette and the guys play wit' me when I get back.

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Everyday it seems that my vocabulary is totally being challened. Days of having to hear and speak (or try to speak) Bisaya makes you have the Visayan accent. My ghulay! Oh well. Expect me to be speaking in Coño English when I get back. Haha.

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This afternoon mom and I went to Maasin for some quick shopping. Imagine going for a quick one-hour shopping spree at Baguio coming from Las Piñas on half a day without any other stopover hehe. The trip lasts for more or less 3 hours from Hilongos to Maasin and back, riding for what seemed to be miles of winding road uphill and downhill with ABSOLUTELY NO TRAFFIC! AI! It's annoying though that the ride seemed to be longer than our whole stay there. Leche.

I had so much fun riding to Maasin! The rural farmlands and the stunning beachsides are absolutely wonderful to look at. With that trip I was able to conceptualize on a possible Dicta License video haha. Promise I'll share this one to the guys when I get back.

The road to Maasin was a wonderful sight. For an hour you'd be driving uphill and downhill through a series of curves (or, shall we say, "corners") going wildly from left to right across sceneries of astounding beauty! It's truly a shame I don't have my camera. There's this corner (an S-curve) that goes slightly to the right then followed by a sharp left-turner. Kinda reminiscent of that infamous S-curve of Akagi in Initial D First Stage (1st cd, 1st chapter). Shiyet I want to have my own car! I'm gonna conquer this one for sure.