easter

after arriving from stakili, fatigue strikes in. thankful we arrive in one piece. i got a little cocky behind the wheels earlier. jing, my other half volunteered to drive but no, not today, lady. happy to see the dogs still alive and kicking and was all the more delighted to know that the automatic switch my best-bud, earl installed days ago working seamlessly. took a short nap.

later, vicky cooked up something familiar. mixed-up whatever left overs we had, add a little spices here, salt and pepper there (whatever's in the fridge) and voila! shanghai rice. the left-overs we had at the beach: shanghai rice! yum! ate a lot forgetting that it was 10pm and i'm suppose to sleep early coz tomorrow's another beach. since i can't sleep, scary stories at discovery channel caught my fancy. thought it'll make me drowsy. it didn't help. slept 2am. good job noldy!

sunday.

nothing to prepare, i guess. woke-up a little late, 8am. after finishing-up with our little chores, we hopped-in and go. arrived at portofino around 9am. a lot of the b.r. peps, there already. i was still reeking full from eating that darn shanghai thing. decided it was all swimming time for me and neil. could use some serious digestion here. i couldn't care less about the others... sorry guys.

after burnin' a lot of skin, went back to our cottage. still had a handful of food left, thank you. had a few drinks here and there. the b.r. employees were having a great time (i hope) with our resident guitar virtuoso, nigel who took good care of the music coz we had none... lots of chit-chat, jokes, etc. - no offense.

we top the day with the banana ride. think it costs us a whopping 2,500/hour. charged to b.r. not bad ey for all the adrenaline rush and fun. i lost my precious shades when sarsy, our designated "ace" driver, took a hard turn and got us all rollin' with the sudden change of direction. won't be fun without us tumbling down... my freakin' shades was way, way down there so deep and dark that free diving to get it back is next to impossible. where the hell are those scubasureros when you need them the most, huh?? kevin lost his too. it was stupid wearing it out there, anyway... considering we are gonna fall, eventually. lesson learn the hard way (again!!!). and who can forget vincent losing his balls er shorts and everything after we rolled. glad i didn't see those shiny little thing...hahaha! sarsy did after vince climb back to that "easy-to-tumble" banana ride. what's that cio, you're gonna be havin' flashback of that "thing" for forty-five days?? creepy.

went home and crash into our sala floor with neil (yes, we have a makeshift bed in there and no, i didn't make it to the room eventhough my wife's driving). i've never been so exhausted like that (unless i hit the gym "wall to wall") in my whole life! exagerrated, huh?

well, those were the happy days.

reality check: back to work.