Ten years after my first visit to this wonderful amusement park, I set off on a wacky trip with some equally wacky and
fun-loving classmates from AIM.
These fellow MM classmates had enough of serious work and were serious themselves in getting some good clean fun before graduation.
- Dec 5, '06 12:51 AM
These fellow MM classmates had enough of serious work and were serious themselves in getting some good clean fun before graduation.
- Dec 5, '06 12:51 AM
kaiyen70 wrote on Dec 5, ’06
ReplyDeletecuh888 said – one thing I like about this little roller coaster is that it unexpectedly goes backwards..hehehe
ohweeee! i’m in! =D
bananaking69 wrote on Dec 5, ’06
ReplyDeleteWhat’s the deal here, do you pay at the entrance gate and all the rides are free? Or do you pay at the gate, then pay for individual rides? In the 70s at Disneyland, there was an entrance fee and then you purchase a book of tickets marked A, B, C or buy individual tickets for each ride. Rides weree classified according to letters. Later on they changed their policy and decided on a Disney Pass which you pay at the gate and good for all the rides.
gwiz wrote on Dec 5, ’06
ReplyDeleteThere are three kinds of EK tickets: a) entrance only, no rides; b) entrance plus carousel and kiddie rides only; c) entrance plus all rides and all but two attractions (the two for which you pay extra: 3D theater & paintball).
bananaking69 wrote on Dec 6, ’06
ReplyDeleteMagkano ang price ng mga ito? Affordable ba ng mga masang Pilipino?
hugzone wrote on Dec 6, ’06
ReplyDeleteThe prices are kinda stiff for ‘masang Pilipino’. But having been there a couple of times, I have noticed a big change in in the ‘kind’ of people who go there. Where before, you’d notice mostly ‘perfumed crowd’ or ‘establshed’ families, now you’d see families on their way up. Mahahalata naman sa kanilang pananamit at pananalita. My hunch is that these are new middle class. This pleases me because it only indicates that there are blocks of families that are moving from need. Now they go for what they want.
bananaking69 wrote on Dec 6, ’06
ReplyDeletehugzone said – Mahahalata naman sa kanilang pananamit
Sadly, this is the reality in the Philippines. Over here, we’re quite fortunate because everyone wears basically the same clothes, and therefore your net worth (Trump’s favorite words) is difficult to figure out. Also, people don;t really care what you wear and you can get away with practically anything, walang papansin.
gwiz wrote on Dec 6, ’06
ReplyDeleteMore than an emerging middle class, I think it is the OFW money that is sending folks to have EK fun, hehe.
gwiz wrote on Dec 6, ’06
ReplyDeletecuh888 said – the last time we did this with Sir B’s fellow classmates, you guys were not around…discount! hehehe
Yup, I think we just brought you guys there and came back near closing time. We had a family affair at that time yata. Sige, let us schedule another EK trip – Boboy should be able to cadge some complimentary passes from his client. Yoohoo, hugzone! =)
bananaking69 wrote on Dec 6, '06
ReplyDeleteThat's right gwiz, I read that $14B will be remitted this year. Talking about OFWs, in my volunteer work as an immigrant mentor, I get to know a lot of Pinoy (OFW) caregivers who are here on a two-year contract, after which they can apply for immigrant status.They have a lot of stories to tell and I'll post their photos on Multiply soon.
hugzone wrote on Dec 7, ’06
ReplyDeleteThe OFWs are THE emerging middle class, faster than the employees and even junior execs in Makati. There is even a business prognosis that they will be the new enterpreneurs. Where once they sent money to be spent for the basics, now they leverage them for businesses.
I did not mean this on a perjorative light. Part of my self-training as a writer and director is observing people. I am able to build stories, for instance, from the how a young woman behaves in a dinner table with a bald man. Or the way a teenager carries a new Nike while riding a jeepney. And on and on. The Zobels for example couldn’t care less if they wore plain white t-shirt for a happy new year bash. The “lesser” ones would have qualms. This probably has something to do with how far one has gone around. The true rich can reverse snobbery.
gwiz wrote on Dec 7, '06
ReplyDeleteTalagang Mabuhay ang OFW! They are the real saviors of the Philippine economy. Unfortunately, the social costs are also high – motherless children, lonely wives/husbands, materialistic teens, broken marriages, and so on. There is a subtle changing in Filipino mores and values. It is a good thing, though, that both government and civil society (especially the church) are aware of this and are making a lot of effort to address the problems.
I believe in the church's (by church, I do not mean just Catholic or Christian. I mean all religions) efforts – because, in the final analysis, spiritual grounding is what will make things right.
Sorry, Bobs, hebigat na naman ba? =p
cyfunk wrote on Dec 8, ’06
ReplyDeleteyou know, I see how, with Filipinos everywhere in the world, grabe kung gaano kagaling ang Pinoy, kahit ano ang gawin. Meron ding bulok, pero generally, a FIlipino is always a gift wherever he goes. As in!
So when I do something good and they ask me what my nationality is, I so proudly say, “I am a Filipino” and never to forget to beamingly smile.
cyfunk wrote on Dec 8, '06
ReplyDeletekayo ang nagsara ng EK???!!!
i second that! kudos bnnking!
hugzone wrote on Dec 10, ’06
ReplyDeletecyfunk said
give the kids “gifts of memories”
This is true cyfunk. Fond memories. These are whats going to keep them going in times of trials and doubts. I just hope, too, that we gave the kids enough of these as ammunition in life.
gwiz wrote on Dec 10, '06
ReplyDeletecyfunk said - "gifts of memories"
Yup, the best gift we can give our children and ourselves. Hugz and I, early on in our family life, strived to give this. Hehe, blessing in disguise that we didn't have the material affluence to cloud our judgment.
It is a long-running joke of the family: "my gift to you: (Tatay, Nanay, Kuya, Diko, Ate, Sangko, Bunsong Leon) is Luuuvvvv!". In fact, now that they are all grown up and that we are empty-nesters, the kids are the ones who regularly (and often) initiate "bonding time" as they call it of the "sticky band" as they call our family.
hugzone wrote on Nov 13, ’09
ReplyDeleteGanito sila noon, paano na ngayon?
bilog pa ang cheeks mo dito Cat.
On pa ba ang Ganesh at Trinh?
hugzone wrote on Nov 13, ’09
ReplyDeletecyfunk said – kayo ang nagsara ng EK???!!!
According to the Indians who stayed 10 months in the Philippines, this was the best day that they had in the country.
cyfunk wrote on Dec 8, '06, edited on Dec 8, '06
ReplyDeleteDuring those first times when Glenn's job would take him away on business trips, he would always bring home "pasalubong." It pacified everyone's sense of loss, kids and parent alike. But it caused me to step back and see the whole picture, exactly as you, gwiz, described it. So Glenn and I thought of something - instead of him buying or bringing home stuff, he could save the money and we would use it to give the kids "gifts of memories" by spending on trips and activities together that would encourage us to talk, experience what it is to be family. Long after, the kids still talk about all these till now and no one can take this away from them, or us. Somehow, this perspective has led us to where we are now - though far from home, we are truly "home with one another" as a family. It is really a gift. In this day and age of being able to communicate in real time, we who are all affected by this new wave of OFWs have to think up of ways to beat the adverse effects, re-think it and make it all work. Once again, "life is not solved, it is managed."
pasensha na rin, ha, hebigat din. hehehe