this is never going to end

yet another invitation to yet another launch.

I'm pretty tired from all the partying. Especially since once you do make it out, you know everyone and you still linger on to the same small talk over and over again.

i think i'm going through a quarter life crisis.

crashing

to my luck the pc has gotten a virus and crashed. At least my laptop was out of sight, but now I'm in charge to fix the ever so reliable pc. Hate to say to all pc users.. but the operating system and the firewall that "protects" the comp - pretty lousy. How could this happen, a worm, a virus, a crash. Well now that I've reformatted the computer I feel better but of course.. My mother doesn't know where she put the motherboard utilities cd.. so it's basically just stuck at some set up mode.
I had to file taxes the other day and the IRS partnered with really great companies! E-file! At first I was determined to do it on my own, follow the instructions even called the IRS long distance but at the end, I came out negative. Went on ahead and used these guys and I was done in about 10 minutes. Never felt so .. grown up.

lots of things on my plate for the next couple of months and I dont know which way to go.

lahar lahar!!!

Mt. Pinatubo.
say what? according to wikipedia, Mt. Pinatubo is an active volcano (which is really quite ditzy of me cause I thought it went back to being dormant) (yes sometimes... i am a ditz).

Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano located north of Manila. Before 1991, the mountain was inconspicuous and heavily eroded.
It was covered in dense forest which supported a population of several thousand indigenous people, the Aeta, who had fled to the mountains from the lowlands when the Spanish conquered the Philippines in 1565.

The volcano's eruption in June 1991 came after 635 years of dormancy, and produced the largest and most violent terrestrial eruption of the 20th century. Successful predictions of the onset of the climactic eruption led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from the surrounding areas, saving many lives, but as the surrounding areas were severely damaged by pyroclastic flows, ash deposits, and later, lahars caused by rainwater remobilising earlier volcanic deposits, thousands of houses were destroyed.
Thank you wikipedia.

I was 8 years old (I thought I was about 10) but I do remember that even though this volcano was miles and miles away... We still got ash deposits in our house in Metro Manila. We didn't have school for the longest time and we were constantly covering our furniture and cleaning cause of the ash deposits.

Saturday 4am we headed north. We drove for 2 hours and reached our destination and our mission in front of us.

Trekking Mt. Pinatubo after 17 years its erupted was half eerie. We rode a 4 x 4 for about 2 hours then trekked going to the crate for 2 hours. The fruit of our hard earned labor? Swimming at the crate!

The next day we went to our friend joyce's farm where she grows calamansi and one cool thing about it too.. she still had a historical place from world war 2. The kamikaze cave. On her land of calamansi, she has one of the last remaining still intact kamikaze cave sights used during the Japanese war. Also on her land were U.S. barricades that were used still intact we didn't even notice it at first of the camouflage. Intense!

A mix of history, a mix of devastation, and a mix of adventure. We couldn't ask for anything more.

Next up.. mountain biking down south! ;)