Saturday, Jan 28, 2006

I had to take another shower this morning because I didn’t wash my hair last night. I had to suffer through another cold shower!! I started to get ready afterwards. Didi said Mergine called earlier saying she would pass on the Baguio trip which made Didi back out of it as well. Pareng Nasty, Bane and myself went. That was around 10:30 am. Nasty took us to his farm in Bulacan (check out pictures). We got there at past 11. It was a pretty cool set up he has over there complete with a small rice farm, a few fish ponds with bangus and tilapia, a small piggery, some chickens, ducks, a goat and about 3 dogs. He has 2 caretakers doing everything from farming, maintaining the fishponds and the household. We got there, Jon one of the caretakers was barbecuing chicken which smells good. Pareng Nasty smelled it too so we decided to have lunch over there and join Jon and Jerry. They have a few coconut trees with buko so Jerry climbed up one of them and picked several buko which I pigged out on after lunch. After lunch we left at around 2 for Baguio. I dozed off on the road and when I woke up we were already in Mabalacat. Several Tarlac and Pangasinan towns zipped by.

Tarlac:
Bamban; Capas; Concepcion; (this is where Hacienda Luisita is located and I noticed a huge statue of Ninoy going down the plane) Tarlac City; Gerona; Paniqui; Moncada and San Manuel.

Pangasinan;
Carmen; Rosales; Urdaneta; Villasis; Pozurobio; Sison.

After Pangasinan’s last town is the start of Baguio’s zig zag at the infamous Kennon Road. About half an hour to 45 minutes later we were at the house. This is a house owned by Pareng Nasty’s compadre and it’s where all of his friends to stay in anytime they’re in Baguio. There’s a couple (Ronnie and Vilma) who takes care of it. (he’s the one who accompanied me to church and SM this morning). It was around the low 50’s, Pareng Nasty loaned me a light sweat shirt. We unloaded our stuff, parked the car and we took a taxi to have dinner at Balajadia – small hole in the wall restaurant that serves pretty good Filipino dishes. They ordered bulalo and pancit and I had chop suey and kalderetang kambing. Afterwards Pareng Nasty called a lawyer friend who’s a former councilman in the area. He took us to this place (I forget the name) for videoke. There’s no one singing when we got there. I immediately signed up for 6 songs. None of the gang wanted to try. After my last set we headed on home. We hit the sack at around 11.