It had been one of those LMS trips except that the original cast wasn't complete. Nevertheless, it was just as fun because additional characters were added in the person of Eljoie,Charmine,Joclyn and Chengkai.

We've marked August 6-10, 2010 in our calendars as early as March. We've booked our flights, made our reservations and looked forward to that once-just-a-dream trip to boracay. Moreso, we would be visiting Iloilo and Bacolod too.

As always, we just slept about a couple of hours before the alarm clock (bechay) sounded. It was time to wash up and get to the airport. At the airport we met Charmine and Joclyn. Cameras started to flash away as we took our breakfast at one of the airport cafes.

Landed at Iloilo airport at around 7am and were enthralled by "bullet" jeeps (thank you chingkee)... we've never seen anything as long as those jeepneys that plied the outskirts and highways of iloilo. they were long enough that it would take awhile before it'd fade away from one's sight even if they'd be running more than a hundred miles per hour. that was how long they were! amazing! we really had a good time remarking on that unfamiliarity.

The van we rode on dropped us off at the SM Traveler's Lounge. It was a good thing that the ATM was inside that lounge. We got to buy promo tickets for Bacolod. We got our going-back tickets for free. Not such a bad deal for a budget trip,right? Anyway, we had to wait around two hours for the mall to open. It was raining quite hard and we were thankful to the hopia and piyaya from Biscocho Hauz. We just ate the time away. Thanks for the treat chingkee.

We had lunch at Sbarro (yummy!). But not after we amused the guard near the cinema with our picture-taking session! Headed off to the port bound for Bacolod around 2pm, i think. Adrian worked on his Public Relations skills and got us a free van ride and 3 huge boxes of ensaymada from his former supervisor.

Charmine's rich tita fetched us at the Bacolod Port and dropped us off at the BAcolod Pensionne Plaza. There, Chingkee's surprise welcome gift bombarded us and sent the whole front desk in chaos (that's exaggeration of course!). It turned out that her chatmate in Taiwan (who's from bacolod) called up the hotel and arranged for flowers and chocolates as her welcome present. So sweet! We ended up having pictorials for that chocolates and flowers inside our hotel room.

After having barbecue for dinner, Charmine and I, with Joclyn went to Mariam's party where we had chocolate cake and spaghetti, and of course, meet up with old high school classmates, neneng, joyce, and yam. WE left the others to fend for themselves. We just met up with them after an hour. We all ended up at a videoke bar where we sang our hearts out!

Going back to the hotel was the most exciting part. We walked and what a walk indeed! I think that the last time I walked that far was during our SAgada Caving Day. We didn't notice how long it took us to walk but we did notice how stinky Bacolod's streets were. The plaza smelled like Gensan's market during nightime, when all the garbage were about to be collected. That was the same smell. And we noticed that male locals just pee anywhere. It wasn't a very good impression. It was about midnight when we finally arrived at the hotel.

The following morning, we checked out and transferred our things to Charmine's Aunt's house. Then we droved off to SM City BAcolod to meet Eljoie. We had lunch at Max's. Thanks Elj. It was another burp-day! Then, Eljoie, Joclyn, Charmine, and I headed off to Charmine's Aunt's house to prepare for Yam's Wedding while the others were left to shop the day away.

Yam's wedding was a blast! We also got to visit The Ruins. It was a historical mansion which was set on fire by filipinos to prevent the japanese from occupying it during WW2. It was a good location for the coolest photo shoot ever! (feeling model!).

We caught up with the others at around 10pm. Despite being full at the wedding dinner, the partying/dancing left us hungry so we ordered chicken barbecue and ate like we've not eaten the whole night. (lol)... We decided to go videok-eing again. The bar was just across the street,anyway. We had such much fun. Well, until pay-time arrives. haha! Just imagine everyone having quite a longer than necessary time to pull out money for the "amot"... But when Joclyn offered to pay the bill, the money on the table disappeared like magic. Mao na tong ginatawag nga kung magbayad, pina-luya.Kung libre, pina-abtik! hahaha!

The following morning, we set off for BORACAY!