i heart baguio!

and i've made a pact with myself (starting tonight) that i should go there every year.

next week (or the week after next), i will. most probably (sana walang kumontra). for work. excited ako! love the weather, love the pines, love the mornings and waking up to the scent of fresh mountain air. sana lang sa impending visit hindi ako saniban ng kung anong maligno (ayoko!) dahil magshushoot kami sa isang haunted place.

pagpunta namin don, sana sa project na to iba na ang job designation ko. pray pray! sana wag mabulilyaso!

happy na siguro ako sa ganitong buhay. happy-happy.

basta matupad lang ang pinramis sa kin. :-)

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diplomat hotel. awoooo.

naaalala ko nung unang punta ko ng baguio. 8 years old ako non. my most vivid memory was the view outside our window when i woke up on our first morning in the city--fog was so thick, i could hardly see the trees outside.

and then there was session road. one afternoon nabasa kami ng mama ko sa ulan (it was june) and i experienced my first "shiver"--literally, nangangatog ako. we walked the streets and there was this sidewalk stand selling inihaw na mais with butter dripping all over it. we bought two. sarap.

my second visit there would be more than a decade later, in 2004. a real estate trip, a quickie thingie. mas mahaba pa yung binyahe namin kesa nilagi namin dun. but that was when i realized na andami palang guwapo sa baguio. haha.

later that year, bumalik ako. for work. we were going to shoot N@sa@n k@ m@n. we stayed there for weeks. we shot in the mountains, at night. my most vivid memory was me sneaking out of the set for a moment to go to minesview park (it was just a walk away) to buy pasalubong. we had just been given our paychecks by that time. i bought the usual--peanut brittle, ube halaya, choco mallows--but it was a happy moment. because at that time i felt that i was spending money that was hard-earned.

in 2005, i went to Baguio on a whim, with a bunch of friends, for a getaway weekend. fantastic! we stayed at the Igorot Lodge. coffee, talks, boating at burnham's man-made lake, traversing a really creepy deserted road in Camp John Hay at midnight, "partying" with the artsykewlies of Pine City in "ohmygulay". i loved it. lalo kong minahal sina mich, ted, and monj (sana kasama namin si maryrose!) because of this trip.

2006, i got the chance to go back for the Baguio Bold Movie. haha. huwaw. lotsa memories. shooting a blow job scene in the mountains. the chalet-type of house we stayed in (beautiful!). a cemetary at sunset in the outskirts of the city (see top photo!). i especially loved this visit. it was memorable in so many ways.

and then last year's trip. walking along a really dark street on a drizzly night. eating jollibee, one-day-old, and tuknene in one sumptuous dinner. going to minesview to sit and watch the stars with someone you love. aww.

hay. sana matuloy talaga ang susunod kong baguio trip.