Miguel Ambrosio

Planned ahead before our Boracay trip was to go to our friend’s new place at La Union. Then we heard about the Surf and Music fest by GoSurPH and that gave us another reason to push through.

Packed my stuff a couple of days before leaving Laguna. I tend to over pack on beach trips but I’m now finally getting used to packing. Yay for leaving my room at home.

Had a lot of first on this trip. First time to ride a bus going north. First 7-hour bus ride. First time in La Union.

We met a lot of people and made new friends with our short stay. All of my beach trips are unforgettable but this one is uncomparable.

And as usual, this post is a photo dump of our trip. Enjoy!

Yay! Boracay!

Some of my Ultimate team mates, ex-teammates, college friends and I went to Boracay for the Boracay Open 2013 last March 8. (Yeap, this is a long overdue post.) Some joined the tourney but most of us including me was there for the beach and to party… ha!

It was a first for the team to travel this far for a tournament. Every day and night spent in Boracay was unforgettable and worth it. It left me a vacay hangover for more than a week that’s why I’m just posting this now. I wish we could have stayed a little longer.

Since I’m too lazy to write everything, this post will be a summarized photo dump with captions of what we did in Boracay.

Have fun viewing!

Left Manila around 5am.

At daytime while the scorching hot sun is up and my friends are away to do activities, I just ate and watched the Boracay Open. I made sure I didn’t miss the action packed finals. There was a lot of neck and back breaking layouts. Congratulations to Boracay Dragons for winning Boracay Open for the 11th consecutive year! Undefeated!

Spent my weekend with buzzbie and friends at Nuvali’s Night-Sky Cinema. People placed picnic mats or just lay on the grass like the free summer movies done on NYC parks.

They had a giant inflatable slide for kids and a lot of food concessionaires. Even spotted friends selling food and stuff.

It was a great experience and I hope Nuvali will do this often :)

Fell in line for Fish and Chips!

Spent my long weekend with college friends. The guys who share the same birth month decided to celebrate it together at the beach.

We stayed at The Park - Real, Quezon. It’s just a three hour drive from Manila. We only stayed for two days because some of us have work on Sunday. Yeah, what a bummer. haha

Besides drinking gallons of beer we also had other activities. We played Ultimate, skimmed/surfed, and trekked Balagbag falls. I wasn’t able to take photos of us playing frisbee or surfing because we left our cameras on purpose. We had to cross a river to get to the surf spot, and the river gets very deep on high tides. It’s better to be safe than sorry! 

To sum it up, it’s a fun-and-booze-filled, action-packed, uber bitin weekend. I’ll be back at Real for more.

If you want to know more about The Park and Real Quezon, read Jed’s blog posts: The Pacific Recreation Kamp in Real, Quezon and Surf, Skim & Swim in Real Quezon

Jed (BiyaherongBarat) finding a spot to get a morning dose of ocean water

Balagbag Falls

Falls up-close

A wall decoration

Shades

Low tide

Official sports drink

Last Wednesday (November 28th) was Up Dharma Down’s Capacities album launch. One Esplanade was jam packed but since I was one of the early birds, I get to watch near the stage.

Getting a pre-order ticket was worth it because I got awesome UDD stuff! (See photos at the end part of this post.)

Armi wearing an all white like John Lennon’s suit on the Abbey Road cover

You know what’s cool about Capacites? Paul and Carlos playing synths!

UDD

Armi

Carlos

Album

Shirt

A skateboard competition sponsored/organized by Grind and Longboard Laguna was held at Solenad-Nuvali last Sunday, October 28th.The competition was divided into three categories; Slalom, Freestyle and Push Race.

My brother and a lot of skaters (groups and individuals) nearby and from different parts of the Metro went to Nuvali to compete.

Since we only live a few minutes away, (Literally, we’re 3 mins away even with traffic) I stayed there, walked under the sun, took a few photos and watched ‘til the end of the race.

Such a fun crowd. I hope there are more of this kind of activities near our place.