happy feet

i noticed i like taking photos of my feet. as if my feet are pretty. hahaha anyway, it's nice to see the plethora of footwear or non-footwear i tend to wear :)

(i also saw it on sh** white girls do. hahaha)

mis-matched socks from my sistah from anutha mista Nina

loafers

pink enamel

white sand

hiking shoes

rain boots

nude wedges

sunny yellow sneaks

my favorite runners

tsinelas

gold sperrys

strappy sandals 

gravity

Gravity is a popular title for a song, ya? I am absolutely in love with these two. A staple on my playlist.

Gravity by Sara Bareilles

Gravity by John Mayer

one fine (sun)day

{disclaimer: long photo post :)}

Before the crazy weather started and cool (read, not rainy) afternoons were still present, my friends and I went for a run/skate/tambay on a Sunday. We drove to UP Diliman and ran a few rounds of the acad oval since it's closed to traffic on Sundays. A nice chill day, capped off by an impromptu dinner!

portraits and such by the awesome stealth photographer Charlie Gomez who joined us that day :)

Charlie

Nina of chandelierbythesea.blogspot.com showing us that flexibility is the key

Joncybabycakes (bananapancaketrail.com) served as our body guard.
THE ONLY GUY WOULD SKATE WEARING HIS PRADA SHOES.

we ran into our good friend interior designer James Razo also! No actually, he literally ran into us! Hahaha Nina and I were semi-panicking when this guy was charging towards us.

a little bit of stretching

I dunno what's funny...

#whatiwore

{nike free runs, leggings with zippers from people are people, ipod Nano nike + app!}

After, we wanted to go to Sogbu for dinner, but unfortunately they were closed that day! Pffft. So we decided to take our chance and went to Van Gogh is Bipolar along Maginhawa St. They're usually by reservation only but we were lucky that they were able to accommodate us!

chech out Van Gogh is Bipolar on facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/vgibipolar

Nina so pretty!!! chandelierbythesea.blogspot.com

BAM!

Joncy's angry bird

photos below are from nina's instagram feed. follow her! @nina_santamaria on instagram!

Till our next random Sunday out!

bubble

#whatiwore

{Dress, sandbox; ring, junk studio; lips, maybelline}

Pulag 2.0

my brother and I went up to Mt. Pulag in 2010 and we both have been wanting to go back! It's really a check on the bucket list type of thing and we wanted our dad - the promotor of the dela paz advenchas - to experience it too.

Finally, we were able to go again last May 26-28. :)

We took Tito Dwaki's pick-up from Manila to Baguio then eventually to Mt. Pulag Ranger Station.

We started our climb the next day and made it to camp just in time before the light rain
and extreme cold came!





We bunkered in our tent and froze a bit but we were able to have a nice dinner of instant noodles, some tuna sandwich and my instant tinapa flavored sardines. not bad! The next day, we woke up at 3am to start the assault to the summit so we can watch the sunrise from the peak.

And wow, was it gorgeous.
















my feet, on top of Luzon's highest peak :)


After about an hour and a half, we headed back down to our camp to have breakfast.





the boys heating water for our coffee. aaaah...sarap!

We then headed to Baguio to get some ube jam before the long but nice drive back to Manila.





Till next time Mt. Pulag!! :)



Recently, more and more climbers are going up the mountain and when we were briefed at the DENR office, the park rangers said that we were lucky we went up on a weekday but if we were climbing on a weekend, it is best to make a reservation before heading up to Pulag since the mountain cannot handle so many people. The summit can accommodate about 100people, but they get almost 300 climbers on a weekend!


To make a reservation,
call Mering of DENR Mt. Pulag
09196315402