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Our travel dates booked were December 26, 2013 to January 4, 2014. That’s one whole week of we-don’t-know-where-to-go trip! A little over 4 weeks before then, we decided to surprise-visit Rodz’ mom in Jakarta so we booked cheap KL- Jakarta flights and vice versa, leaving a few days to roam around in Penang, Malaysia when we fly back to Kuala Lumpur.

Travelling from Baguio City to Jakarta then to Yogyakarta was a huge adventure. It is one of the most tiring and longest trip we’ve ever had! Upon arriving in Jakarta after two flights came our problem: Rodz’ mom is back in the Philippines for the holidays! O-M-G! Lesson number 1: Do not plan surprises like this. Haha! We eventually had to tell her we were in Jakarta while she was back in Manila. She told us she’s yet to get back on the 30th of December. So right there and then, we had to think of other travel plans: and what we chose was to take a 9-hour train  to Yogyakarta until she’s back. It was around 7 in the evening when we arrived at the Train Station via a bus ride from the airport.

We were expecting things to not go so smoothly. After all, this was all unplanned. We were new to the spontaneity. The next train available was around 7AM in the morning and we had no choice but to take it. That was like 12 hours of waiting! We thought of checking in to a nearby Inn so we roamed around the area carrying our backpacks but to no avail. They were all beyond our budget and we didn’t find it practical to rent a room for a night of sleep. We then went back to the train station, bought ourselves evening snacks and did what other waiting passengers were doing: sleep on the chairs and newspapers on the floor!

I’d be fooling myself if I said I had a good night’s sleep. I DID NOT. It was a first for me to sleep with strangers watching as well as stink so bad because of almost 2 days of no-shower ever since  we traveled from Baguio. There was only 1 fan inside the open-air station and I was sweating like a pig then! But what choice did we have? I managed to sleep on and off while Rodz was sleeping so comfortably! Share me your sleep-anywhere-skills please? :(( Then came morning and I was so happy to have survived the night! Ha!

Just when I thought I can finally rest as the train moves to our destination, we actually forgot to buy snacks for the 9-hour train ride. Haha! On top of that, our seats were not so comfortable. Huhu. They were economy seats, after all. We had a short stop in one of the stations and Rodz was able to manage to buy us bread and water for the rest of the trip. Ahhh my savior! Halfway along the ride was the only time I was able to snooze. Thank God!

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Arriving in Yogyakarta was like a sweet dream after a nightmare. FINAAAALLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYY! But the torture was not yet over! We still had to look for a good place to stay at! We were so tired and we wanted to take a shower immediately so bad that we endured almost an hour of walking around looking for a good place to stay at. Rodz finally found us a good deal! An affordable comfy room with a Swimming Pool bonus! YESSS! Jackpot!

After all that we encountered, we wrapped up the day with short walks to the historic neighboring street Malioboro, quick dip to the pool and a good Indonesian Cuisine dinner.

Malioboro Street

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Right after our Malioboro Street visit, we met a kind local (an elementary teacher whose name I forgot) who brought us to a Batik Workshop where we’d be able to see Batiks being made as well as other artworks by locals. He also taught us a few Indonesian words, one of which that got stuck in our minds was “Jalan Jalan” literally translated to “Walking Walking”.

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We woke up early the next morning to get ready to D.I.Y.-visit the beautiful temples of Borobudur and Prambanan. This time, we were able to experience our first reverse auto-rickshaw ride. Hihi! *TIP: Bring your school I.D.s! Entrance fees and Admission fees to both Temples will save you a lot if you avail the Student Discount. Luckily, we brought our Old College I.D.s then!*

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First Stop: Borobudur, a Unesco World Heritage known as the biggest Buddhist Temple in the world. The crowd during our visit was massive! We have barely taken decent photos because it was all flocked with locals and tourists. It was a holiday, after all. But even with all the people around, the beauty of the temple still stood out. It was beyond splendid giving off a strange charm with all its domes and statues. Rodz and I took our time to go around the whole temple, sat down for a while and eventually bid goodbye to the beautiful treasure. This was officially our first out-of-the-country Temple-visit together and I can still remember how happy and dreamy I was being able to see it up close! :)

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We stopped by for a quick late lunch and proceeded to our next destination: Prambanan Temple, another Unesco World Heritage! We had quite a hard time travelling to the temple because buses were limited and we were with a lot of people going to the same direction. It was already late afternoon when we reached the temple – which luckily was actually the best time to visit it! The beautiful Hindu temple was in all angles, so picture-perfect by itself. But add the setting sun and it becomes one of the most romantic scenery one could ever witness!

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We were already hungry by the time we got back to town so we indulged ourselves to Hawker food from the carts near our guesthouse. Indonesian Satay sold be street vendors is still my favorite Indonesian food up to date! ;)

Third and last day in Yogyakarta before we get back to Jakarta to meet up with Rodz’ mom! For this day, we decided to visit  the Water Castle (Tamansari). This was a Royal Garden of the sultanate of Yogyakarta. We also learned from a kind local about the garden being the “playground” of his concubines. This is where they sang, danced, and entertained the Sultan. It is now a bit old and rusty but it still has not lost its charm. You can easily imagine the beautiful women lively dancing through happy music right in the pool!

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A delicious late lunch at Legion Garden Restaurant concluded our Yogyakarta adventure. I admit I wasn’t ready to leave! We wanted to stay longer but we already pre-bought train tickets back to Jakarta so we couldn’t really stay even if we wanted to. :( We bought a few snacks, went straight to the train station and nine hours later, we were already back in Jakarta.

Jakarta, honestly, didn’t leave that much mark in me aside from our food trips with Rodz’ mom. It was just like Manila but there were only buses and overpriced rickshaws for transportation. We spent two nights in Jakarta and hung out with Rodz’ mom, who by the way took us on an amazing and filling food tour during our stay! Yay! If it weren’t for her, we would’ve just bummed out in the Hotel the whole time. Haha!

For our 2-day stay in Jakarta, she brought us to Cold Stone Creamery, Pizza Marzano, Starbucks, Sushi Tei, Fat Burger, Tokyo Belly, Fook Yew and Pizza E Birra. We were really grateful that she was there to take us around! (Thank you Tita Lelet for treating us to lots of good food and for the fun times despite you being busy at work!) :)

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We also celebrated New Year’s eve during this time and participated in the countdown and fireworks at the center town of Jakarta! It was a memorable night I can still clearly remember since it was our first time celebrating New Year’s eve together outside the Philippines. :)

January 1, 2014, our Indonesia trip was over and we flew to Kuala Lumpur for the second half of our first Backpacking travel together! (On a separate post. hihi)

We would definitely be back to visit more of Indonesia! Bali soon, hopefully! :)

5D/4N Estimated Budget for two in PHP (Based on our experience last 2013-2014)

Flights CRK-Kuala Lumpur-CRK via AirAsia: FREE (we won it from a contest)

Flights KL-Jakarta-KL 2800php

Airport Tax Philippines: 3240php

Airport Tax Indonesia: 1300php

*Starting February 2015, tax is already included in tickets flying out from Jakarta

2-night stay at Bladok Guesthouse Yogyakarta: 2000php

2-night stay at Amaris Hotel Jakarta: FREE (Rodz’ mom paid for it hihi)

Food in Yogyakarta only (Restaurants, Cafes, Streetfood): 1500php

Admission Fees (Temples & Tamansari): 1500php

Train Fares to and from Yogyakarta: 3000php

If you have plans of visiting Yogyakarta from Kuala Lumpur, AirAsia flies directly from KL to Yogyakarta. This was a mistake we did because we already booked our KL-Jakarta Flights way before we planned on going to Yogyakarta.

Bus rides from and to Airport: 600php

TOTAL: 15,940 php for two pax

Grand Total for Indonesia and Malaysia 9D/8N trip:  To be Updated

***Please note that this is based on our personal experience. Although we do backpacking, there are times when we would flashpack and spend more on accommodation, food or airfare for comfort. We didn’t yet know AirBnB during this time! We don’t always choose the cheapest so we’re pretty sure you could do this so much cheaper than we did!

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As usual, since it was summer, it was hot; it was much hotter in Macau as compared to HK. Due to concerns of not being able to get back to HK the next day due to a lot of people buying Macau-HK tickets, we bought our return tickets in advance.

We then rode the public bus going to our hotel and unfortunately got down on the wrong bus stop as we struggled to understand the portuguese-chinese street names. Misadventure number one! We were sweating like pigs when we arrived at our hotel Pousada De Mong Ha, my favorite hotel up to date.

Pousada De Mong Ha is my most memorable and favorite experience in Macau. The interiors and set-up boasted Portuguese culture, designs and artworks. It was undoubtedly love at first sight!

Right after checking in, we walked around the nearby streets and eventually proceeded to Senado Square, a very beautiful European-ish setting with a lot of shops and restaurants and took a short walk.

Oh and by the way, it was August 27th, our 3rd anniversary together! Hihi. We went back to the hotel to freshen up and to my surprise, Rodz prepared a beautiful set of dress and sandals on the bed right after I showered! Who would have thought these beauties have been hiding in our baggage all this time?! Haha! It’s hard to pull off a surprise on me since I easily get suspicious but he actually got me on that! Rewards for effort! ;)

It was almost night time when we arrived in Taipa, the casino-full part of Macau. After visiting a few other casinos, we went straight to the infamous Venetian Macau, and damn was it gorgeous! It wasn’t an exact replica – the fake skies gave it away *wink* but it was still as magical as the real one (not that I’ve been there) haha! I was still 20 that time so I wasn’t able to get inside the casino. Huhu too bad!

After long walks of getting around, we got hungry so we decided to leave and eat dinner at a nearby restaurant named Restaurante Galo, which we assumed was translated as “Chicken Restaurant” in English. The interior was full of Chickens (which Rodz loved very much haha!) and other vintage trinkets.

We ended the night (ab)using the hotel’s facilities and freebies. Hihi. Oh that was one of the most incredible and comfiest sleep I’ve had in my life! Zzzzzzzzz.

Did I already tell you that buffet breakfast is one of the few things that wake us up early in the morning? Haha! Yesssss! Buffet breakfast! The meal of the day we always look forward to whenever we check in on hotels/hostels with free breakfasts! YUUUUUMMM!!! Their selection was huge! I was even surprised to see yogurt in there! It was a first! :)

This was our second and last day in Macau. So before we went out to stroll, we already checked out of our hotel and just left our luggage in their storage area. Under the overly beaming sunlight, we found our way to St. Paul’s Ruins.

We then realized that a trip to Macau is never complete without a visit to Lord Stow’s Bakery where the famous egg tarts are! We rode the local bus for almost 45minutes! We didn’t know it was this long to get there. :/ But behollllldddddd! We were able to get ourselves boxes of these freshly baked magical treats <3

Sooooo this is where our Macau misadventure starts! We went back to the city proper and again rode the bus for almost an hour. We even had the time to stop by in shops to check out Rilakkuma items! We went back to the hotel to pick up our bags and waited for a local bus to get us to the Ferry Station. We still had more than an hour so we were relaxing!

Then came the bus; we realized that we miscalculated the travel time. The bus kept on picking up and dropping passengers and we were starting to feel uneasy. We were still about 30 minutes away from the station and we only had less than 30minutes before boarding time! Whoaaaaaa! Panic! I hurriedly went down to a nearby bus stop and decided that we take a taxi instead! But we immediately realized it was a bad move when one, two, three….. six taxis that we hailed did not understand where we wanted to go! Huhu. This is why I don’t like you, Macau! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Yup, the ferry that we were supposed to ride left us about 10 minutes before we finally got a ride and arrived at the station. :/ I admit I felt really bad that night! It was one unfortunate (and very memorable LOL) way of ending our Macau trip.

Did I regret it happening? Yes definitely! We wasted so much money! Huhu. But the experience was definitely unforgettable! Haha! Until now, my mother brings up this story whenever we talk about our travels, this story might even reach our future grandchildren! We learned our lesson and vowed for it to never happen again! So expect us to always show up an hour or two earlier than the supposed to be check-in time/boarding of any pre-booked bus, plane or boat ride!

Have you ever had that feeling of wanting to go to the beach, but you can’t? No, not that you can’t. You just decided not to; because you’re not even left with a choice! That’s kinda how my summer 2016 felt.

I did go to the beach, weeks before summer. I went on a Solo Trip alone at a nearby surf town. It was fun; but that short fun marked the beginning and the end of my beach-y summer.

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We kicked start our first day with a late brunch in Maccha House, a green-tea specialized Cafe that serves everything green tea! I love matcha and being able to experience the joy of being in a matcha wonderland was full of bliss! We also enjoyed nomming on take-out sushi on sale at one of the MTR stations – which to our surprise was really good and fresh! Hong Kong is one of those not-so-budget-friendly countries in Asia so food was relatively costly and even a stick of hawker food will cost 8 HKD (around 1 USD).

Sushi Take-out

Maccha House

Sushi Take-out

Maccha House – traditional tea set

An avid rilakkuma lover that I am, an HK trip would not be complete without me shopping Rilakkuma goodies for my collection! So we searched for the Rilakkuma retail/wholesale shop hidden in an old building along a street in Hong Kong. Upon seeing all those Rilakkumas puking rainbows on me, I couldn’t help but want to buy everything. GAAAAAHHHHH. *sparkling eyes* Oh the heartbreak of not being able to take them all with me is just too much! *sobs*. I ended up buying only a Rilakkuma Album Set to put our Travel photos while Rodz bought me a really cute Rilakkuma ear headband (which a small kid in Ocean Park called “baobao” – more on this later hihi)!

Rilakkuma BaoBao!

Crane Machine!

It was getting darker when we decided to visit HK Avenue of the Stars. We looked for the star tiles of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow and of course my ultimate crush Donnie Yen of Ip Man (which we never found, sadly huhuhu)!

We spent the rest of the night meeting up with Kuya Herjohn, my big sister’s husband at Tequila Jacks where he works. We were very grateful to have been offered complimetary bottles of Stella Artois and Margarita all we want along with unlimited chips and the orgasmic Chicken wings and tacos! (Rodz still can’t get over their heavenly tartar garlic sauce hihi). Best night in Hong Kong, a night I would never forget, thanks to my sister and Kuya Herjohn! On our way back to the hotel, we came across an authentic Hong Kong hawker food stop and devoured all sorts of unknown street food; beef offal and beef tongue were my ultimate favorites. These were hawker food that I even craved of eating months and years after the trip. Haha!

So it’s Day 2 and we were scheduled to visit Ocean Park. We chose to visit Ocean Park over Disneyland because we were craving for extreme rides. Disneyland could wait! – is what we thought. But before we went to the park, we visited Kowloon Park, the HK Avenue of Comic Stars and took silly comic-ky photos! *heehee*

OCEAAAAANNN PAAARRRKKKKKKK!  Nope, it was more like a Panda Park! Pandas everywhere! A place my panda friend spiffypanda would reaaaaaally love! She was on my mind the whole time with all the pandas around! Getting around  the park was really hard because it was so hooooot! The sun, athough I loved it at times, was torture. After visiting Old Hong Kong, my favorite place in the park, we lined up to for the Cable car ride. I was nervous. I am afraid of heights and just the thought of it scared the hell out of me! Rodz didn’t tell me there were other ways to get to the other part of the park. I thought we had no other options but to ride the cable car so I had no choice but to ride it even if it was already beyond my courage limit. Huhuhu! I was sweating and trying to not faint upon seeing the view below the cars – but it wasn’t actually that bad. I tried not to think about it that much and focused on enjoying the view. Even before I realized it, we were already at the end point. *whew*. I was soooo excited upon seeing the rides. “I wanna ride this, I wanna ride that!” We first rode Hair Raiser, the biggest roller coaster in the park. Dang, that was so awesomeeeeee! It was this time when I saw the cute little kid who was pointing at my headband and called out to her mom “baobao! mommy, baobao!”. Only later did I find out its meaning!

After a whole afternoon of enjoying stuff in the park, we got hungry and decided to get back to town. We dropped by Hong Kong Times Square to check out their Gundam Special and took photos with their Gundam Statues. Since we were already in the area, we went straight to Miyazaki BBQ, a Japanese Buffet Resto that serves all sorts of Japanese dishes. *Gochisou-sama deshita!* – said our tummies full of sashimis, sushis and yakinikus. Ecstacy!

Day 3 and 4 were spent in Macau. A story I will tell on the next post! It was too adventurous to include here. Haha!

Day 4 in the evening and we were back in Hong Kong. We stopped by at Tequila Jack’s to say our goodbyes to Kuya Herjohn. And this time, again, he gave us more complimentary beers and margaritas! Hihi! Annnnd of course, another visit to my favorite Hawker food stall to complete our night.

On our fifth day, we started preparing our belongings to prepare for our evening flight. We spent the day eating extra-large bigger-than-my-face pizzas and at Charlie Brown Cafe. Mixed feelings because in a few hours, we will again be back to our hometown… and of course to reality where responsibilities were waiting. *Sigh.*

Hong Kong might not be my favorite but it is one of the most memorable. Its historic backgrounds might be scarred in the past like every other countries but still very beautiful. We wished to go back to Hong Kong, we knew we haven’t fully understood her on this trip. We knew our knowledge about her had question marks on it. We wished to go back – and our wish was granted after almost two years – only, it was just me along with my friends.

This trip, although one of the most memorable, is also one of the most heartbreaking because we lost all of our photos from this travel. I knoooooow, it is one of the saddest things that could happen. Fortunately though, we were able to save our Legoland MY and Universal Studios SG and a few other photos which we uploaded online. The rest of it? Gone with the dead hard drive. But wait, I am not writing this blog to mourn over the lost photos! I have written in our travel book what we did during Malaysia-Singapore days — both adventures and misadventures, and I am gonna share it here. Only few Instagram photos to reminisce the past with but we had a lot of great memorable experiences I still remember! Yay! (This is a narration/ summary of our trip back then. Don’t bother scrolling down if you don’t like reading long stories or details. Heehee!)

We panicked. It was our first international travel together; we arrived in DMIA Clark late and were almost not allowed to check in. Thankfully, everything went smoothly right after we dropped our luggage. Evening came and we arrived in KLIA 1, finally. After an hour of bus ride, we arrived in Kuala Lumpur Sentral, too.

Upon checking in on our Hostel in Chinatown (Petaling Jaya) at almost midnight, we went around Chinatown and grabbed ourselves yummy grilled and fried street food.

On our first day of sightseeing, we went around Chinatown again, rode (abused haha!) the free Rapid KL bus to Bukit Bintang and found ourselves wandering around Pavilion, Berjaya Times Square (indoor roller coaster ftw!), Sungei wang and eventually found ourselves eating inside a Toilet Bowl-themed restaurant. I knoooow. We ate Poop Ice Cream and Toilet-water flavored drinks. Ha! Just when we thought we were gonna end the day nicely, we actually rode on a wrong bus and got lost in the middle of where-the-f*ck-is-this street in KL. Fortunately, a local helped us find our way back and taught us which bus to ride (God bless you, dude!).

Morning came and we rode on a bus to Malacca, the historical heritage town of Malaysia. Oh that -it burns like seeing your ex with someone else- kind of hot weather. The sun was beaming at us and I could hear my fats evaporating (I do hope they did, though. lol).

Jonker Street wasn’t awake yet when we arrived so we went around other places in the city. But before that, we tried their famous Hoe-Kee chicken. YUM! We then visited old battle grounds, ships, churches until we can no longer go on and we eventually sat down inside a Cendol (Halo-Halo, Malaysia version) store inside a market, nomming on it like there was no tomorrow. Bad decision (not really!) came when we decided to try Malacca’s famous Laksa, a volcano-burning-hot noodle. I was able to tolerate it but adding the hot weather, Rodz was drenched and almost damaged his sweat glands. Hahaha!

We couldn’t wait for Jonker Street to get livelier (all shops open in the evening) so we still went on and searched if there was any cafe that was open at 4pm in the afternoon. Luckily, we stumbled upon an artsy cafe called Calanthe Art Cafe and ordered ourselves refreshments.

Evening came and OHHHHHHHHH-so-this-is-Jonker-Street-at-night excitement filled us with joy — and emptied our pockets. From Stingray fish dinner to weird-looking bottled drinks and local stuff shopping, we almost (by a strand of hair) missed our bus back to KL (again). By the time we realized, we were already back in KL.

Twelve Midnight when we arrived at the Bus Station. Okay, where are the buses? Where’s the train? “All public transportation will resume at 6:00 AM, lah. Please take the taxi for only 50 ringgit lah.” said the staff. WHAT? We only got 20 ringgit left on our pockets (we left the rest at the hotel), we were in the middle of nowhere, we didn’t want to spend that much for a taxi back to the hotel and we wanted to go sleep so baaad. Damn it! What choice did we have? Walk. Walk ourselves in the middle of the night till we reach the hostel which is around 10 kilometers away. Thanks to GPS, we were able to reach our destination halfway while trespassing on private paths, garbage dumpsites, no-sidewalk highways and getting questioned by Police Officers (whom we thought would give us a ride but didn’t. lol) and finally getting too tired to walk even further so we hailed a cab and got ourselves home. So much for saving 25 ringgit but we were still glad we walked.

Third day came. The day we jokingly dubbed as “The Journey to KL’s best Char Siew.” We had a hard time looking for it as we were not familiar with the bus routes and we weren’t sure what to take and where to get off but fortunately after probably an hour or more of travelling around, we eventually found it. Who would have known that KL’s best char siew lies on a first floor of a rundown building surrounded by apartments and condominiums? Toast and Roast is where it is! Getting lost was so worth it. Hands down, this is the best char siew we have tasted by far! Near Toast and Roast is a mall (whose name we forgot) where we experienced our first Maid Cafe at Tenshi no Cafe. Haha! It was new. We have tried other maid cafe events back at home but this is the first time we’re actually overpaying bucks for a simple flavored shaved ice to get a maid serve for us. The experience was authentic. And awkward. LOL. Dinner came and we experienced our first ever Arabian cuisine  dinner at Sahara Tent with a very gypsy interior I really love.

Jonker Street Melaka

Petronas Twin Towers KL

Jonker Street Melaka

Choco Coated grapes Melaka

Taiwan Waffles KL

Sahara Tent KL

Market KL

Twin Cone Ice Cream Melaka

Maid Cafe KL

Tbowl Restaurant KL

Hoe Kee Chicken Melaka

Night Market Hawker Food, KL

Rilakkuma Shop in Pavilion KL

Fourth day and we took a morning flight to Johor Bahru. Ohhh I still remember that Marry Brown breakfast we had at the airport and swore it to be the last one! Guuuh. Upon arrival to JB, we took public buses that will take us to Legoland, Malaysia – the first Legoland in Asia. Back then the park was still working-in-progress. The hotel was not yet built and the attractions weren’t yet as grand as today’s – but nevertheless it was still quite an experience seeing different landmarks and structures come to life with lego bricks. Evening came and we rode the bus back to the airport to redeem our bags from the lockers and head to Singapore by bus.

It was almost midnight when we reached Singapore. When we reached the immigration, we were shocked to find out that we will be brought in to their office. OMG OMG OMG. Will we be refused entry? Lots of random questions were popping up in our heads. In the office was another foreign woman whose luggage is currently being checked by officers. Then came our turn and we were asked where we were going to stay, until when will we be in Singapore, are we students and if we have any onward ticket until eventually they stamped our passports and let us in. Only later did we know that it is not so common for foreigners to cross borders by land and so they are stricter with the entry.

Phew. After that, we boarded a bus, got down to the street of our Hostel and checked in. The next day, we started hopping in and out of buses visiting different landmarks in the city. My favorite part was our Marina Bay Sands Chocolate Buffet Dinner (the most expensive dessert dinner we’ve ever had lol) in front of the infinity pool and with a view of the city. Ohhh the temptation to get into that pool was so strong!  We filled our hunger with different chocolate truffles, ice cream, chocolate cakes, bars and a lot of other things. I remember this night being so special because this was also the time when I checked my second semester grades online and I have passed all my subjects. Haha! Oh the relief!

Gardens by the bay, SG

31months @ Singapore

Chocolate Buffet Dinner at Marina Bay Sands

Chocolate Buffet Dinner at Marina Bay Sands

View from the top floor of Marina Bay Sands

We spent our whole second day in Singapore in Universal Studios Singapore riding roller coasters and other fun rides and watching shows. My personal favorite was the Transformers as well as the Battlestar Galactica (Both Human and Cylon rides).

Third day came (March 27, 2013) our 37 monthsary together and was also our last day in Singapore. We went around Clarke Quay, Chinatown, Orchard, Lucky Plaza, a bit of shopping and ended the trip with a Japanese Buffet in a restaurant whose name I forgot. Lol.

Last day of our trip. One we always call “end of dream”. Sigh. How can a week go by so fast whenever we’re on a trip? On this last day, we spent it on visiting Petronas Twin Towers and on going around chinatown shopping for souvenirs to bring to our families and friends at home. Just before we even realized it, we were already boarding the plane going back to the Philippines. Home. It has been a very wonderful dream. The start of all our foreign cultural cravings.