my happy snaps tales begins in the famous city of London, home of Princes William and Harry... our flight from Vancouver to London took 9 hours, it was the longest 9 hours of my life... we landed at Gatwick airport and we still had to take a 30 minute train to London Bridge station and from there we walked towards Borough High St. and reached our hostel, St. Christoper's Inn.

i've never been in a dorm type of setting place before, but this trip required me to be open minded and i could not afford to get a private room. as soon as we got settled, me and van rushed out to Borough High St. and ventured the city of London. As any crazy tourist would do on their first day, we took the Tube.

The London Underground, "The Tube", is so much better than the Skytrain at Vancouver. The stations were sometimes across each other and all the must-see places were quite accessible. We rode the tube all night long, no pun intended, so much so that we got into the wrong connection a couple of times. Hey, I think even Londoners get lost at their own Tube. We did pretty well for a first time Tube commuter.

As we were enjoying going round and round the Tube, we suddenly realized that we had not eaten anything since we landed at Gatwick airport. By this time, we had not eaten since we landed at Gatwick airport.

When we got back at our hostel, low and behold, it was cheap beer night at the pub below... ofcourse we can't pass on that. After seeing the very attractive advertising, we forgot our hunger and ordered a pint of beer. After several pints of beer, we realized that it karaoke night and weird guy came up to me and told me i was next. I must have been really drunk cause I found myself holding the mic and singing "Ironic" by Alanis Morisette. It was a blast though. A great prelude on what was to come.

the limbo and all that it entails...

Have you ever felt like you were born to follow a cobblestone pathway and just wanted to feel dirt in between your toes? Have you ever felt like waking up every morning and feeling like it was yesterday? Have you ever felt like dragging your feet to the same place every single minute?

That was me in 2004 during my last months in college. I was almost done with my program but I still wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life. I was in this deep limbo, neither wanting to be here nor there. No direction, nada.

Luckily, I wasn't alone with this dilemna. My high school friend, Van was sharing the same sentiments in life. We would always be talking about being some place different from Vancouver, or for me, different from the Philippines. We talked about it constantly and incessantly until we decided that travelling to Europe would be a great way to find our place in the world.

At this point, Van was already busy with her career as a Marketing person at company in Vancouver. On the other hand, I was busy with finishing with my school and working for a Physiotherapy clinic, doing all sorts of things. It was incredibly different from what I wanted my life to be. Nevertheless, I still sticked with it since I thought it was an easy way to earn money for our trip.

To make the long story short, we quit our jobs and left Vancouver on June 2005. Thus, the beginning of my happy snaps tales.

Finally... I found a home...

I've decided that blogger will be my online home to park my photos, comments, journal entries and my blah blah blahs in life...