For everything else, there’s mastercard.
Gawad Kalinga was AWESOME.
Oh did I write it with a full stop? Wait, that’s wrong.
Gawad Kalinga was AWESOME!!!
Alright! 
If there is one prominent change that occurred during this 6-day trip, it would be reflected on my skin complexion. HAHAHAHAHAHA you might want to observe, as you skim through the photos, how my skin transformed from light brown, to golden brown, and finally to nalaka skin. Good thing it’s going back to normal now. XD
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First day!
Arrival, Lunch at Chicken House, Negros Showroom, tour around Bacolod, met the awesome kids at GK ERH Village!
Second day!
First day of manual labour; made our own cement mixture, divided ourselves and plastered the hollow block walls with cement in two different houses. FUN!!
Third Day!
I guess we did a really horrible job at plastering the walls with cement, so they made us dig the ground and collect soil to level part of the land some 100 meters away. damn. Tiring, but AWESOME FUN! Plus, dinner at some awesome restaurant courtesy of Ricky’s relatives who came all the way from Iloilo. I LOVE FILIPINO FOOD.
Fourth Day!
More digging, and PAINTING! Painted two houses, one with blue, and the other one with yellow. More digging and carrying soil. haha. FUN!
Fifth Day!
Tour around Bacolod! Went to a farm, to an ancestral house that was transformed into a museum, etc etc. Singapore Night in the evening! BALUT EATING CHALLENGE!! MWAHAHAHAHA.. Jamming sessions till 3am in the morning! AMAAAAYYYZENG
Sixth Day!
BYE BYE BACOLOD, PHILIPPINES! ):
AWESOME EXPERIENCE MAN.
All of us really had an amazing time, and are looking forward to come back. To those who did not go for some reason, and are still interested, there’s always next year (:
Now I can say that
I am a GK Advocate!
I was supposed to post this last week, but OH WELL! Who cares?! :D
I stole hundreds of pacepook (as Joey calls it) photos from Gabriel and Jose.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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INCENDO TRAINING DAY @ Mr. Wong’s House
What did I do? Fun Fun Sexy Fun.
Meeting Training Barbecue Ice Cream Pizza Food Dance dance revolution Dishwashing Jokes Being spastic Camwhoring
INCENDO 2009
What did I do? I was a facil, and a part-time dancer. LOL
AWESOME week it was.
Jose’s CNY Party
What did I do? performed with XES, 75% attendance only. LOL
SJII CULTURAL CARNIVAL 2009
What did I do? I sang a Pinoy kundiman song.
Weijie played the guitar, Sandra pretended she was my girlfriend’s mum, and Sunshine pretended that she was my girlfriend, and took a shot at singing a pinoy song with me! Awesome right. Oh, guess what. I’m the only Pinoy among us. Haha
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I actually uploaded so much more!
I feel like an accomplished thief. HAHA. If one can do this in an online game, I would’ve already leveled myself up a hundred times.
GAWAD KALINGA in a few hours!
In conclusion: even more photos when I get back!
Shall be away from here for a week.
See ya soon.
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by the way, gawad kalinga was awesome.
Shall blog about it when all photos are uploaded.
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As I was walking up the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today.
I wish, I wish he’d go away.
~Hugh Mearns
Windows Live Writer is awesome.
Damn. I’m actually typing this post using
Windows Live Writer.
I can actually see how it’s gonna look like on my blog while typing this awesome post!
SEE WHAT I MEAN??
This is so fahkeng AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!!!!!!! oooooooooohhh!!!
MWHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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This school term is finally coming to an end – whew – after 20 weeks or so of non-stop IB madness. By right, everyone in Grade 12 should have died already, but since we’re so cool people we’re still alive. Nevertheless, we somehow have acquired unique – whatchamacallit? – zombie-like attributes now, given the fact that we have not slept much for 20 consecutive weeks. Well, I absolutely have no idea why the school decided to merge two terms together. It was like twenty weeks of non-stop schooling. The grade 12s have been running to and fro almost everyday, like some insanely busy workaholic apparitions carrying stacks of research papers and internal assessments, chasing teachers who appear to be sadistically enjoying seeing them with gargantuan charcoal-coloured panda eyes, half-asleep, half-awake, no one really knows, desperately trying to catch up with a million deadlines. It was basically capital punishment at its most beguiling and dissimulating level, masked under what is conceivably the most humane form of torture possible, school. IB!
Although I love the IB (and the school! )
sense the masochistic aura oozing MWAHAHAHAHAHA
somehow, the long school term has made me sick and tired of doing work. It was simply too draggy. Tsk.
Now, everyone feels like
“NAH DUN WANT TO DO ANY MORE WORK LAH TOO TIRED ALREADY”
“SCREW IT LAH”
“CAN DO TOMORROW, I GOT FREE PERIOD”
“HEY CAN I BORROW YOUR HOMEWORK?!”
“I DON’T WANT TO GO FOR FRENCH…”
“WTH, I NEED 2 SKIP LUNCH, GTG DO MY HW. BRB. TTYL!”
“I’M SORRY… UMMM… MRS HAMMOND CAN I SUBMIT MY ENGLISH HOMEWORK AFTER SCHOOL?”
And because of that the quality of my IB work is starting to plummet in a similar fashion to an old man who’s beginning to lose his libido as he gets older. SAD! ):
On a happy note,
GAWAD KALINGA IN SEVEN MORE DAYS!
see you Bacolod!
Lapit na lang gid… magkinitaay na gid kita! Kung pwede lang ko maglakat subong, subong na gid ko naglakat!
ROFLMAO!
GK Proposal.
All you need is to listen to a reliable personal recount.
It simply makes you want to join their noble cause.
It wrenches your heart to know your fellowmen are deeply suffering while you are enjoying your life in Singapore.
And it touches your heart to know that there are people who have gone great lengths and sacrifices in order to help others.
I hope that SOME of my classmates will really take interest in this project, because, in my own opinion, it’s worth going for it.
We need student participation.
But more importantly, most importantly, in a school like mine, we need the interest of the parents. You parents are just so hard to convince that the most of the Philippine Islands are SAFE.
Why don’t you go with us in December and see for yourselves. You can chaperon your little kids (:
rowlandanthony
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