saturday mini-break

sonia's garden in tagaytay was worth the 3-hour travel from marikina, and was everything i expected it to be and more. i will not attempt to describe the place, as i might not give it justice. so here are the pictures. enjoy!

here's my lunch (sonia's serve eat-all-you can salad, pasta, and desserts). i had three servings of this salad...i was famished! we had lunch at 2:30 :(

i love this door in the garden. this door leads to the outside garden.

one of the many chandeliers all over the restaurant. i want this in my house too!

the pink rose on our table.

after our late lunch at sonia's we had coffee at starbucks somewhere in tagaytay, then crashed my friend's officemate's birthday party in cavite. it was an amazing day spent mostly on the road driving in very bad weather. it was silly of us, really, to have braved the rains just to have lunch out of town. but like i said, it was all worth it!

ilocos trip

i finally had the chance to do some color corrections on the pictures i took from my recent ilocos trip. here are some better-looking shots.

the photo above was taken at blue lagoon in pagudpud. it is the lush-est beach i've even been to, and it kinda reminds of that, well, blue lagoon movie from the 80's. too bad we didn't swim on this beach as we went to this place on the day we planned to visit other towns and tourist-y spots.

here's from a pottery making shop in vigan city.


teeny-weeny weed found along the shores of saud beach, pagudpud. this pic was taken before sunset hence the amber glow and the shadows.

at vigan heritage village. it's actually a long street lined with turn of the century houses. some inahabited, some turned into shops.

windmills of bangui. it looked alien-esque don't you think?