I've been meaning to blog about my recent travels when I have time on the internet, but because of my being the biggest sloth in town, I always just end up browsing instead. To get back with my inexcusable absence, let me give you a glimpse of our Social Recreation fieldtrip to Mambukal Resort last February.

Some awesome silhouette shots by Gia while Jahno and I were doing ziplining.

I love Gia's precision in taking these photos. They're really pretty motion photos.

That's me and Jahno rowing. I didn't know how incredibly deep the waters were until I was on it. Imagine rowing on a two feet wide canoe over twelve feet deep water. Yikes.

That's Gia, Flora, and some other classmates rowing a four-seat version.

As for the events of my summer, well, so far there are.... none. I'm in Samar for my Lolo's funeral. It's such a sad reunion. The house feels different without him. I will be back soon though for my summer internship. I can't wait to share to you both my misadventures and adventures while in it. Have a good summer break, everyone!

Ladies and gents, the nineteen year old pose. Inspired by one of the bloggers I frequent the most, Rainy. I hope you don't mind me copying your pose in a fail attempt to look a little more decent in this post.

So today I just turned nineteen and I have a lot of people to thank for it. Thank you, most especially, to that person who made this day special by unexpectedly sending me a handwritten letter by mail and a package I will perhaps hold dearly in the nights to come; to the people who made me feel even more special by performing the Palmolive dance craze just because I requested for it; to the people who continue to make me feel special by telling me how better their days become just because I exist; to the family I am most proud of about my existence. Thank you, thank you. There are no words beautiful enough to even begin to explain how awesome my friends and family are. I love them so much it's severely abnormal.

I am beautiful. I am bold. I am sexy. I am smart. I am nineteen. But only because they exist - my friends and family. Without them, I am absolutely nothing.