SEM BREAK NA DIBA?

So why not go here to SAN FRANCISCO??? I'll give you 10 good reasons why you should! :>

1. It's cooler. For a change, why not spend a week or two in this type of weather? The sun is warm and the wind is cool. Perfect, just perfect.

2. Ghirardelli Square. Love the chocolates, it's great for pasalubongs too! And did I mention their awesome ice cream sundaes??? There's a good reason why the cafe is always packed with people each and every time right?

3. Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39. Street musicians will never fail to impress you. The Ripley's believe it or not museum and 3D glass maze will awe you. We have a wax museum that features a hall of religions, the palace of living art (with a 3D Mona Lisa), a chamber of horrors and much much more!

4. Fun outdoor activities like biking across the Golden Gate Bridge or going for a self-driven tour via renting a small cute Go car (it tells you which streets to turn and what sites you are seeing while driving).

5. The city itself is beautiful. I'm having fun just walking along the streets and seeing different types of buildings; not to mention being able to work out your legs with all those steep hills (which can almost reach a 45 degree angle).

6. Shopping wonderland! Forever 21 has 3 floors and it is just across Gap which is humongous! H&M, Macy's, Victoria's Secret and Pink, Bloomingdales, Barneys, Ross and much much more! If you don't want to go out and shop, then just log on to any computer and do your shopping online! Your clothes (or whatever you bought) will just be delivered in your doorstep within a day or two. Fast, fun and easy.

7. No traffic. Easy public transportation system. Everyone abides by the rules. It's more of an inner-reflectiontype-personal benefit I guess, being able to experience the order of things (for OC people like me, haha!)

8. Awesome mouth-watering food. Big giant juicy burritos (Triple threat at Papalote's) and burgers - most  especially the famous In n Out burgers (which I have yet to try). How about the clam chowder everyone's talking about? Or having a different McDonald's menu (no spaghetti, no rice, no chicken, sorry guys)

9. Alcatraz. You can even spend the night there... if you dare. And why not a bay tour too? See the Golden Gate Bridge from another angle and circle around the notoriously known island. If not, then why not travel to other places like LA or Las Vegas or New York or Boston?

10. I'M HERE!!!!! :) :) :)

So grab your friends and family and book the next flight to SFO ok? Then tell me you're coming! haha!

Have a great break everyone! :)

THERE'S A WAR??

Ok, that was my initial reaction when I heard (yes, they were THAT loud) what seemed like fighter planes circling around San Francisco. And this went on with apparently no reason at all. O.o Turns out it was fleet week. And the Blue Angels are here! Everyone was excited but I didn't know what the hype was all about. Turns out the Blue Angels are the US Navy's flight demonstration squadron. They are suppose to be the best of the best of the best and they are going to have a show here. It was awesome how the planes dove straight down from the sky and would turn around and shoot straight up within a few seconds. And how 4 planes would move simultaneously like one body as shown in the video below. We were lucky to be able to see them just from our apartment. So there was no war afterall :P hehe. Thank goodness x.x 

Another funny thing happened just before we recorded that. I was in my room studying when all of a sudden our smoke detectors went off! I opened my door and the whole apartment was filled with smoke! I was scared like heck and I thought the apartment was burning! Turns out Moriah, Courtney's roommate left the oven on and burnt her toasts. We were fanning like crazy and opening all the windows of our room. People from across the street were looking at us and smoke was just coming out of our room everywhere. After 20 mins or so, the alarm stopped. Moriah got her toasts and they were as black as charcoal. 

hahaha! What a day!

WHAT'S UUUUP???

LOOOOONG TIME!!! Hello once again!!! haha! And no, I haven't been busy... at all!! I keep on thinking what I can do but I never thought about blogging x.x Anyway, here are some pictures from the past, oh, 3 weeks I guess? From shopping downtown to attending a free concert to riding the BART to Union City:

spotted while shopping downtown

union square

on top the the MACY's sign

with courtney. we had to wait about an hour to get in the cheesecake factory x.x

alice's now and zen fest. FREE concert at golden gate park! featuring Sara Bareilles, Plain White T's. Natasha Bedingfield, Five for Fighting and Ryan Star

natasha bedingfield

plain white T's. debuting their newest song

sarah bareilles

it was THIS hot in san francisco x.x 

happy birthday risaa!!! treating us with her homemade pizza!

union city eating sushi :P

with eriko and courtney

look at how big that is! and i finished it all! x.x

So it's currently the end of our fall break. Yup. I think we were the only school here who had such a thing. It was from October 9 'til yesterday. And what did I do? Nothing. Haha! I just studied for all my midterm exams which will be held on Thursday. 3 midterms on 3 subjects all in one day. huhu.. So please wish me luuuck!!!

Oh and congrats to the ATENEO BLUE EAGLES for the three-peat victory!
to all my friends there in ATENEO for completing their first sem! PARTY NA!!! or better yet...

COME HERE TO SAN FRANCISCO!!! HAHAHA!!!!

MABUHAY!

So my American house mate Courtney wanted us to make ginataan ('cause she said it was her favorite Filipino food, yeah, she has a Filipino boyfriend) so one Sunday afternoon, we hopped on a bus to an Asian market and bought ingredients for this endeavor. And TADA! here it is!!!

ok, so it's not purple, but it tastes the same, even creamier! :P

Courtney! 

Until the next cooking session :P

21

Tita Pining thought it would be proper for my 21st birthday to bring me to a casino. So off we were to Cache Creek Casino! We were there from 9PM until 3AM in the morning.

Tita gave me $20 as good luck money. I earned roughly $20 more in the slot machine but then gambled away $4.60 so this is what was left:

I get my own card and everything

So it is a popular belief back home that you can see the winning lottery number appear on the body of this fish. Look at it for a while and see if you see some numbers magically form :> If you win the lottery, don't forget me okay? :))

I see 7

Back at the dorm at around 5:00AM.
Very tiring day, but it was a different experience. :)

BUDDY BONDING!!!

In celebration of Jasmine and I's birthday :)
We had, get this, ADOBO Burritos at Papalote.

now look how mouth-wateringly awesome that is @.@

USF buddies plus friends

jasmine.me.evelyn

Until next time guys! :)

A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN

Presenting Ghirardelli Square's CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL!!!
That's right, CHOCOLATE, in FESTIVAL form :>
FESTIVITIES... with CHOCOLATES!
What more can you ask for???

So we paid $20 to have 15 free samples from any booth of our choice. There were A LOT and I mean, A-LOT of people. We had to line up for like 30+ minutes per booth x.x

first sample for the day: chocolate hazelnut brownie

We tried everything from chocolate-filled mini marshmallows, toffee bars, caramel pistachio popcorn and something called "skinny water" (which was a lot like our "Vit water" in the Philippines). But the Ghirardelli booth was still the best one ('cause we got sooo much chocolates from them, haha!).

towards the end of the day. my pockets are OVERFLOWING with chocolates :))

the richest chocolate drink on earth!!!

We also went inside the famous Ghirardelli cafe where they were selling sundaes and whatnot. There were too many people so we didn't get the chance to try some x.x Oh well, maybe next time! So we just took pictures inside:

the chocolate factory :>

mmm... smooth

After spending almost 2 hours going around, we decided to go home.

misc: the fog is coming. and so is a ghost ship O.O woo..

all my chocolate goodies :P

I WILL NOT GET FAT!

I WILL MOST ABSOLUTELY NOT GET FAT!