5 hours before the travel, I went to the supermarket with my brother to buy our usual grocers. I bought my own stuff for the travel (since I don't like to sleep in the bus on my way to Manila) so I bought a strawberry flavoured energy drink, 2 energy cookies and strong mints to keep me awake. Unfortunately, none of them worked on me. I suddenly fell asleep after a stop over at Sison, Pangasinan and woke up when we're already in Balintawak.
Here we go, I thought, watching people get in the 23:30 bus going to Pasay, waiting for my uncle to come back because he went out of the station to make a call. I thought we're going to Manila at 23:30 but my uncle insists that we should take the 00:00 bus going there.
And this is me, being bored.
I haven't took much photos before getting here in the Philippine-Italian Association at 8:00AM in Makati City. It's in the same building where the Italian Embassy is. Well, a couple of randomness happened here, when we got in this office, there's a Filipino family also in the waiting area in front of the front desk, and the kid kinda pissed me off for a bit. He's too show off. Probably about 10 or 12 years old, showing off his iPhone and it's like he's rubbing it in my face that he has an iPhone because my phone is a localized... errr... my|phone. Yeah. That's the name of the brand, alright, with matching Philippine map decal on the back of my phone! Hell yeah! Not. *cough* Anyway, going back, we did a lot of translations here, well, not really a lot but a couple. Got my authenticated birth certificate translated into Italian then my parent's marriage contract. after we got the files, after lot of corrections fixed, we headed to the 6th floor where the Italian Embassy is. No photos because we had to leave our cellphones to the guard. My documents were legalized in 5 minutes (lmao when it's supposedly after 3 days) and left the building.
My uncle got worried looking at the money he took from grandma for my documents then he realized that he took a little. It's a good thing there's a Western Union at the other side of the road so we went there and asked my aunt to get a thousand pesos from grandma and send it. But then, my aunt's response took 2 hours and it was 11:30AM when we got that thousand pesos and that is our fare back to Baguio.
Random photo
Random photo #2
I'm bored. This is our 2 hour waiting time... and FINALLY! Got the money and we're going to the bus station near the embassy in Pasay!
A really old sign from the 50's or 60's. I noticed this when I was looking around while we're in the taxi on our way to the Bus Station in Pasay.
Just an old Japanese restaurant in Makati near Ayala center.
A marvel under construction. I have a feeling this is a condominium.
A closer look.
Going up to this flyover!
A billboard while we're on the flyover. Citibank ad on credit card designs.
Is this even legal in Manila? Smoking while driving? Are there any MMDA's around?
Haha! I was bored!
After that jeepney shot, we finally arrived in the bus station in Pasay and waited for the 13:00 trip to Baguio. Took a ticket for the both of us and boarded.
Rain outside when we got in the bus.
Just woke up from a nap...and we're still in Manila because of the heavy traffic in EDSA.
Skies.......°O° Below are the SCTEX-NLEX Sky pictures.
The next day, I managed to talk to my parents in Italy via Facebook +Skype thingy...their video call system (I honestly hate Facebook's system) while my brother plays Dragon City.
and this.
LOVE LOTS! ♥
Kari
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