Once Upon a Time in Wonder Island

October 09, 2010, Saturday, I was forced not to attend my class to accompany my friends in Wonder Island. Jen asked me to join them and been contacting me three weeks prior to that date. And she got my yes last Saturday :-)

Came October 9, I woke up early than usual class day, I need to as I will be travelling from Pasay to Calamba, I had two hours travel in mind. I left Pasay at 6:30 in the morning and was expecting to arrive Calamba Laguna at 8-8:30. While on the bus, I took a nap and was surprised I was already in Turbina at about 7:15 am, OMG I did not know it was that fast. I had to take my breakfast first in McDonalds Waltermart to awaken my drowsy mind so I can enjoy my lamyerda. I texted Wayne that I was already in the tryst and so she had to leave earlier because of me. She came in on time and we went to Llanas Supermarket Calamba to meet Jen and Jonas. Before 9:00 am, they reached the supermarket and we left for Aplaya.

From Llanas to Aplaya, it took us 15 minutes by tricycle ride worth Php80.00. Then we finally reached the port, the boarding area of Wonder Island Resort. We were transferred from the port to the island by the boat, and the travelling hour was 3 to 5 minutes (aalog-alog ang boat because we're six passengers only). The transfer from and to port and island is inclusive in the package we had.

We left the port past 9 am and were excited to reach the Wonder Island, and have some fun.

As we were travelling, our humble minds and sights enjoyed the beauty and wonders of nature - of the lake, as if we were having our expensive cruise and we need to make things jovial  and enjoy everything we see up to the very least and single cents we paid for our cruise. (as if as if as if)

We really were enjoying the travel though it was for five minutes only. 

I wish I have a good camera to capture every moment more beautiful.

And we finally got there, I made my friend the model of the welcome streamer ;-)

We arrived at Wonder Island (i forgot) 10am, the staff served us the am snack which is also inclusive in the day tour package we booked. By the way, the day tour package was amounting to Php840.00 per person. This includes the am/pm snack, lunch, use of the facility, of the entire pools and the picnic umbrella. They do not allow to bring our own food.

AM snack, chicken sandwich and iced tea, served right away when we reached the island.

The following are the ameneties Wonder Island offers you. If you are a nature-lover, you will love this place, but if not, you'll end up dissatisfied. We enjoyed the place as much as I enjoyed being with my Nikkoshi friends again.

The picnic umbrellas

Adult's pool

Hotel's view

Another adult's pool - 6 ft

A kubo which is nice to stay with, costs P3k

Activity area up the resort

A nice view at the reception area

And  benches to relax with while sight-seeing the whole of Calamba

BTW: Lunch was served at 12nn, viands were chopsuey, fried tilapia tinola and bananas - big serving though.

We decided to finish this memorable moment at 3pm, but because the boat was at the port waiting for a family who will be staying at the resort at night, we were not able to leave at 3, but at 4pm. Late that we discovered that we can stay at the back of the boat to feel the breeze of the air and enjoy the cruise. That was the highlight of our tour.

We enjoyed the boat ride, we reached the port, and then Jen annouced "s***t, nakalimutan ko yung basang damit namin ni jonas" Ahaha, we thought everything will be okay, nakarating na kami at lahat sa port and the boat needs to wait for another passenger para makabalik sa resort. We waited for an hour for those forgotten plastic wet clothes, :-) to pay for this palpak moment, jen bought penoy for the four of us..

That was the day tour we had at Wonder Island, we enjoyed it.

We had a whole day package 8am to 5pm which includes boat transfer, use of swimming pools, use of picnic umbrellas/picnic huts, set meal exclusive of drinks, for Php840.00

It would cost Php756  and Php730 for kids and senior citizens respectively.

Wonder Island also has overnight package, for inquiries and booking, you may contact their office in these telephone nos, (049) 545-1766/(049) 545-6491/(049) 545-6492 Manila line (02) 520-8556.

The resort is a nice place for team building, family gathering, reunions, wedding at the yacht, friends' get together and many more.

Till then,

My First on October First

Today is October 1, 2010 and here is my balderdash post.

I thought being in a relationship is just like an ordinary thing, you don't care a lot, but then I realized it isn't. I honestly say that I had my first relationship at the age of 29, and take note, it's an LDR. Who would believe that I will fall in love through the net, that I survive being apart from him. I am used to having no one beside me, this is why I endure getting into an LDR relationship. Every day we communicate, phone call, SMS and chat. My relationship with him is opened to my family, my mother knows of him well, my two brother do, so well with my father. I make sure that I have no secrets when it comes to this kind of relationship, especially to my mother. So we will be on our fourth month now, and counting.

But, just like any other relationship, trials, tampuhan and LQ cannot be averted, we've gone through that a lot. Petty things, yet I still feel insensitive and irrational, perhaps, I truly love him that's why. I got jealous when he talks to someone other than me, I doubted his feelings for me and I got pissed when he doesn't text me, truly petty aren't they? That's how I realized that it's not easy getting inloved (and I spelled involved as inlove) into this kind of relationship. I am just so lucky that I have understanding, patient, kind and loving partner. I sometimes tell him, kapag nagsawa ka na sa mga katopakan ko, sabihin mo lang at I will be willing to let go of you. That's how dramatic dhynnes is. Just last night, I had one of the craziest moments duh, a topak just because I was thinking he was talking to someone else and ignored me, yun pala, his server was slow and can't IM'ed me. He had his sumpong too, and left me. When I got home (I was at the office), I couldn't get to sleep thinking of what happened to us, and then I texted him Tnx po sa lahat lahat ha, pwede mo na po balik sa single yung status mo. Tomorrow na lang po ako pagpasok ko, pasensya na po. It seemed easy for me to end our relationship. Then he called me, I couldn't answered well, I was crying, we talked and fixed it. And everything was settled. Hayyyyy, pano na lang kung hindi sya, pano na lang kung pinatulan nya yung text ko? All of a sudden, mawawala yung isang taong I asked from Him ng matagal.

For those of you who has a relationship like mine, learn a lesson from my story, take care of your partner, try to understand every situation you have and listen to each other. Talk about the misunderstanding and fix it right away, don't let it pass by doing nothing, it will make the situation worst.

Ay humaba na, nag emote na ko... Happy October everyone! Merry Christmas! God bless you and us!

Till then,