Beautiful Bicol: Bagasbas Beach x Around Daet

Finally set foot in the beautiful Bicol region! *confetti* The beau hails from Daet, Camarines Norte so it's just fitting that the first stop of this whole trip is his hometown~

From Manila, we rode a night bus to Daet via Superlines (Php 720/person), traveled for eight hours, and arrived a little after four o'clock in the morning. We went straight to the beau's family house, which by the way, is up for rent on Airbnb. Here is the link.

This reminds me of the trees with crystals at the Venetian Glass Museum in Hakone~

Beautiful and well-maintained... plus beautiful souls for hosts! What more can you ask for?

After unpacking and some siesta, we visited the beau's family's old prawn hatchery in Mercedes and ate fresh coconuts (buko)! Yummmm!

This is the only decent photo I have because I looove buko so much that I downed mine in a snap! Also, it's so hard to get/eat one in Tokyo so I seized the given chance lol!

We then headed to Bagasbas Beach  which is becoming more famous nowadays. Of course I didn't dare miss it!

Look at that~

Hello from the beau and I ✌︎✌︎

Messy hair don't care heh~

What I did miss though, was getting some Earl's Burger! Next time, maybe~

We then headed home to rest and prep for the beau's birthday dinner. His godmother was kind enough to host it in her gorgeous house yay!

Food! Foooood! 

*burp* lol

So yeah, that was my first day in Bicol and I wouldn't want to have it any other way! Tune in for the next part of this Beautiful Bicol series... hint: sun, white sand, blue waters~ *wink*

Karuizawa Days

Been wanting to visit Karuizawa for the longest time. For some reason, my preschool/kinder students always bring home omiyage/souvenirs from that place... one of my conversation students owns a rest house in the area... that's enough for me to want to check what the little area in Nagano is all about. Off I went two weekends ago. The beau tagged along, of course. 

No itinerary...
Just three days and two nights of nature, onsen, food, and good company~

Hope you enjoyed this photolog of what transpired during our very chill Karuizawa trip! We literally just ate, slept, and breathed nature in! Sometimes, it doesn't hurt to take a break from our usual busy lives and just breathe.

Life, Lately: I'm Still Alive

Hola!

I know I haven't been updating this memory compendium lately. If updating this is my life job, I'd instantly get fired. But as much as I want to write here more often, work and life in general have been giving me daily headaches and an awful roller coaster ride of emotions that I am left feeling semi-crippled, figuratively. Too many things to do, so little time - what a cliché.

I've been trying to find some time to share my past travels and whatnot with you all, for almost half of my travels for the past year are currently rotting in the darkest and deepest chambers of my equally rotten laptop. Got lots of stories to share but at this point I've forgotten most of them. I could use some memory gap meds, really haha. 

Buttttt, I'm writing now aboard the train back home just to let you guys know that I made it to 2017! I'm still alive! Hurrah!

To address me being a lazy blogger, here's a first for this year - a life update and something to make me feel less guilty of not putting this portal into its proper use!

Bear with me, yes? ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

Spent the eve and the first few hours of 2017 in Kyoto Station! 
A different post on my Kansai trip, soon!

First date with the beau and well, first purikura of the year! *wink*

Long weekend in Niigata - heaven! Stayed for three days and had a blast chilling - literally chilling 'cos of the -°C. It didn't come as a surprise that I did have a blast just chilling around because the past year was hectic. Those Niigata days were probably the most chill I've ever been since life "pushed" me to be a "proper" adult! And hey, this is the most number of "chill" I've written in a paragraph haha!

Impulsive hair chop! *_*

Round 1 Spo-cha with friends - that day when six hours of playtime weren't enough!
We tried almost all of the games and even played basketball and badminton (located at the building's rooftop) in 1°C with only our sweaters on! Had to literally run around and move for some body heat haha!

And last but not the least, LSS for an old Japanese song I could barely sing better yet understand! This song made me drag my beau to a karaoke place just for me to try and practice singing it for hours! Guess what? Still couldn't sing it but on a lighter note, that was a good practice for reading Japanese! *wink*

So yeah, these and work kept me busy during the first half of January! Can't wait for the days to unfold and surprise me (in a good way, I hope)!

How did the first days of 2017 go for you? Good, I hope!
 Let's do our best on the coming days, yes? ♥

P.S. This is also the first entry for my Life, Lately series, which I plan to write once or twice a month. I hope I could pull off this little project of mine! Wish me luck!