Wednesday, June 14, 2006

EK! :p

Current LSS:
"tan dan dan dan.. the magic is here. tan dan dan dan.. (i don't know, hehe) ..
at Enchanted Kingdom"

June 11. @ Enchanted Kingdom, Teng and Tal

a combination of:
The right date. The right place. The right company.
(the cure to anyone who feels that everything seems so wrong these days)

MAGIC. We say that something is magical when it escapes our eyes, our understanding, our logic. Magic doesn't exist in the real world, it is only possible in and through one's imagination.

And on June 11, i realized that magic indeed is in Enchanted Kingdom. (hay.. do i sound like an advertisement of the theme park? :p)

June 11, 2006. Exactly one year ago, I committed myself to someone (i believe) i love(d). Unfortunately, it didn't last for a year as i thought and wished then. For quite some time, I was in a magical world with him. But we lost grasp of it months ago.

BUT.. ya! (korean term for "hey" :p,) this entry isn't about a lost magical moment, but a found one.

we can create magic. we can do wonders. we can allow ourselves to be happy by flying and leaving behind everything that pull us down. even for just a day.

so... :) [ change of mood , haha]

You might think I am childish but a day at a theme park is still an enjoyable gimmick for me at this age, haha. The last time I was in Enchanted was years years ago (when the entrance fee is still 350, if i remember it correctly) with my family. Thank God to my beloved Globe they gave me two free tickets! :) And since the Weekend pass tickets are valid only until june 14, Tal and I had no other choice but to go there last Sunday.

Hmm.. tsk tsk, I actually don't know how to re-capture the experience in detail. but ok, i'll try.

Tal and I left the dorm at around 8 am (haha, excited), rode the LRT2 to Cubao, then the MRT to Ayala since Hannah, an officemate from Globe, told me that there are public transpo vehicles near Landmark Makati going straight to EK. So we knew then how we were going there BUT we still didn't know how we are getting back, and the prob was: we intended to go home real late because we wanted to of course, see the fireworks.

But thanks to the Pasyal Pinoy shuttle service (eeeww.. I sound like an ad again), because for P250, EK, here we can come and go. (haha, labo)

After the enjoyable around 30-min van ride ( 'enjoyable' because tal and i loved the aircon, tal loved the smell of the car - hmmm.. weird. haha, peace, tal), we arrived at EK around 10:20. Then we did what cam whores do - picture picture. Then we first rode the Flying Fiesta, which got us disappointed because it didn't give us the feel (then) that we were flying because it was flying low. haha, weird how i say it.

Then we rode Rialto but was disappointed again because the show then was blah.. haha, Hannah Barbera,SCooby shit, so childish (haha, look who's talking). The ride wasn't even scary.

Then.. the Space Shuttle. woah.. Not my first time to ride this but this time, I opened my eyes and saw the world upside down. Cool. After that, we walked around, canvassing for the cheapest lunch we could get - since we were on a tight budget, hehe.

REalizing the heat (humidity, oh well), we grabbed our shakes, then ate lunch after. And what follows after eating? Baboy reflex says it's sleep time. Tal was so sleepy, while i was bloated - stomach-heavy with that burger and fries i ate. I was feeling dizzy then and hot, so while Tal said she would take a power nap on one of the benches there (she wasn't thinking clearly, that time. haha, keber whoever sees there), I by myself rode the Flying Fiesta twice! And to be fair, the ride was much better than the first one. :) Of course, the wind made me cool a bit but after the ride,woaahh.. back to reality - goddamn heat..

I went to Tal who had her power nap already, but she still didnt look that 'powerful' (haha, the term) - energized, yet. i also was still feeling bloated. But we decided to walk around - like drained batteries being charged under the heat of the sun (and the air). We were so drained we couldn't even laugh, and we both knew what we wanted - a bed in an airconditioned room.

Thanks to RioGrande Rapids (the ride where you should expect to get wet) for getting us wet; and recharged! haha.. woohoo. Who cares walking around the park with wet hair, wet shirts (half-wet for me) and "you-think-i-peed-but-no!" wet pants, (and wet rubber shoes in tal's case)?! Not satisfied with that water ride, the next attraction we went to was Jungle Log Jam - the ride with no safety device, just an advice on a safety position (no head back, haha).

Then we spent the rest of the afternoon trying to ride all the rides - except those eggs and dinosaurs and mini-helicopter rides and pig rides for kids, ha!, and the swans. But we rode:

the RollerSkater (the "ah tapos na?" rollercoaster ride, duh);
the Anchor's Away (which Tal didnt ride. it wasnt as scary as before, though);
the Up Up Away (the "i want to be a filot" hot air balloon ride);
the Grand Carousel (with the fun music - sooo amazing you could dance to it, while riding the horsey - using any step :p);
the Dodgem bump cars (which according to an ale beside me while we were lining up - to her granddaughter "ah yan, hindi naman yan nakakatakot tulad ng bump cars") wow, thanks mother. I love your insight! [an insight, indeed!]

Drained again at around 5, we decided to go to a Mcdonalds in Walter Mart. Aircon plus to avail of their promo. Binged, then as we were to go back, we realized that it was raining real hard so we decided to stay a bit longer, walk around the mall.

We went inside the department store and came across those cool "Cool Basics" (see, i remember the brand) white shirts with very funny prints such as:

- "I am fungus. I am fungus. I am fungus. I am fungus" (in different fonts for variation, and pictured is a pink fungus; and below is an affirmation: OH yes!)

- If you want to see the rainbow, wait for the rain. (then below is a green frog saying "Hello?!" - haha, oo nga naman, so basic!)

- i'm dreaming (pictured in front is a healthy pink fish), then at the back, it says: "not dream" (pictured this time is the same fish, with no flesh. fish bone already. haha, ang kulit.)

We went back at EK around 7. I was still drizzling so we decided to ride those where we wouldnt get wet of course. (helllo?! as Froggie said) - the Grand CArousel, Dodgem) and when it stopped raining (but we didnt see a rainbow because it was night already - hello?! again, as Froggie would say) - we rode Up Up and Away; and Flyyy--ing Fiesta.

Afterwards, low batt again so we just watched those riding the Space Shuttle while waiting for the 9 pm fireworks.

Fireworks. then went home. rode a taxi. were home. took a shower. drank coffee. tal ate burger. then slept.

haha, isn't it obvious im getting drained writing this entry? okiedoks. i might edit this next time. Never mind the errors first. haha, i was just typing what came to mind.