 summerflingFemale Welcome!
I've always been fortunate enough that my parents took me in their travels. I've seen a lot of stuff that I'm definitely not taking for granted. This blog is one of the ways I'd like to preserve those experiences. A pity that I only thought of it now. Then again, it'd be hard to recall some of the places ten years ago...
Why Summer Fling?
It's been a long-running joke among me and my friends that when we'd go off to Europe (or some other 'exotic' locale), we'd find boys to have summer flings with. Alas, no such luck for me. Hence, this blog is my summer fling. Cheers!
About the Entries:
1. Dana's vocabulary is weird. I can use 'thingy' and 'acclimate' in the same sentence. I also often put in obscure slang, or not-so-obscure but non-globally friendly Filipino. If you can't understand me, don't worry. Even my friends don't :D
2. Dana has a potty mouth Ha. Take that, private school! If it helps, I mostly use foreign swear words. Unless I'm in that foreign swear word's country.
3. Dana's memory and hearing ain't all that accurate. And I'm studying to become a journalist. Great. Anyway, if someone sees something wrong about the facts here, just tell me and I'll be happy to correct it.
4. Babbling is one of Dana's favorite pastimes. I'm actually quite inane.
5. Don't mind Dana's bouts of peevishness. Quote Avenue Q: "Everyone's a little bit racist, sometimes. Doesn't mean I go around committing hate crimes..." Logically, I know it's stupid to prejudge or generalize. But hey, I'm often irrational. If it helps, I'm sorry about my episodes afterwards.:D
6. Dana is a nerd. I compulsively take notes. Sorry. Heck, the only reason my entries are long is because I want to use the copious notes. And, I wax poetic.
7. Dana will rip out the spleen of anyone who uses these pictures of her and her family without her consent and feed it to the live komodo dragons while owners of said spleens watch in agony as fire ants crawl all over their honey-smeared bodies. This is rather self explanatory.
Links:
DANA
Wikipedia--in case you want to know more about the countries...
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Friday, August 29, 2008
I haven't written lately, on this blog (and on many other blogs, to be honest). However, it doesn't mean that I've been sitting at home, twiddling my thumbs.
Here are the trips I've taken, which will be elaborated on when I have the time:
2007 Summer Vacation
Southeast Asia:
Bali, Indonesia
Christmas Vacation
Shanghai, China
It was a brief trip, but all of us were together. (Wow, Amazing.) While there wasn't much to see during the trip, there was a lot of shopping. I finally got to buy a trenchcoat!
We didn't travel much that summer, since all of us were busy. Kuya was working for his first job, I was going to practice my on-the-job traineeship, and Mikki enrolled for the summer vacation.
2008 Easter Holidays
Japan!
It was actually quite interesting, as it was the first summer my family and I spent somewhat apart. My brother went on a traineeship program and spent more than a month in London. Mom had to go to Australia to take care of family matters–originally, her plan was to take Risa somewhere, maybe Hawaii.
So it was just me, Mikki and Dad who went on the SRMO two-week-long bus road trip in Japan.
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