Oohh...lots of photo to share!!! Had such a great time!!! Hmm...few words to summarise the whole trip: Great experience, Great company and Wonderful trip!
Day 1:
Travelling budget, so took Tiger Airways. It was my first time taking budget airline so did not know what to expect. It is good that we did not expect much cos there really isn't much provided by Tiger (not even mineral water)! Everything have to be paid for and one cup of drink cost like S$3 *shakes head*
The leg space for Tiger is pretty similar to Sahara (the airline I took to India) so it was bearable for me, considering it was only for 3 hours.
Once we got off the plane, we were stranded (for a few minutes) at Clark airport because we did not know how to get to our hotel. How exciting! Thankfully, there were different transport booths set up inside Clark airport lobby for 'lost' tourists (like us) who needs to get to different parts of manila. It took us 2.5 hours to get from Clark to our hotel, Kabanyan. If you have noticed, I did not mention any food throughout our travelling journey...so it was like 6 hours of no food and drinks for us until...
FOOD!!!! Our first lunch? dinner? for the day! We abandoned our suitcase and bags and ran out in searched for food. Thankfully, right beside our hotel there was a neighbourhood shopping mall so we were able to quench our thrist and fill our stomach! Guess how much is one plate of that? Less than $2 lah
Although Agu had a hard time chewing her beef (spot the irony?), still, we had a filling meal. Anyway we were too hungry to care about anything.
We felt too deprived so after not long later, we went to KFC to have our dinner cum supper...
One thing we realised is that Fillippinos enjoy eating RICE (I am so suitable for the country). Almost all food outlets include rice in their menu.
Day 2:
We decided to start exploring Manila on our own (of course we did engage a little help from the receptionist at Kabanyan). We told the receptionist that we wanted to go Rizal Park so he suggested taking the LRT service. The LRT service is pretty similar to the one in Singapore. Except that the 'doors closing' warning is not as alarming as ours, probably cos we were still not used to it!
We navigated our way and walked towards a direction where we thought would lead us to Rizal Park but...we arrived at Robinsons Shopping Mall instead.
Oh well....we, being flexible people were really willing to accept the changes that come our way...so we went in to SHOP!!!
Found some interesting shops there...
My friends went bonkers when they saw Bee Cheng Hiang in Manila. They were like squealing "They have mei zhen xiang here!! Must take photo!" I mean...ya, we see it a lot here in Singapore but in Manila, it is like rare but I think my friends are like over-reacting a little when they saw it.
Results of having too many retail stores: Lame brand names!
Went to experience their theatre. And look how interesting their tickets are...it looks like those coupons you will win when you play in Timezone (apparently nobody is concern about the model cos the green thing is the main focus...hee)
Day 3:
We, being the adventurous bunch, decided to try taking jeepneys to Mall of Asia (the biggest mall in Asia).
Jeepneys are like a mini non-aircon bus. Each jeepney will specify the place they will be travelling to (by the side). So once you spot a jeepney that goes to your destination, you will flag and climb on board.
Seriously, we look like miserable immigrants (with modern dressing) being transported to someplace where we dread.
Ok, maybe not, cos we arrived at Mall of Asia
Yipee!
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