i went fishing this weekend in batangas
I'm sitting smugly in the passenger seat of our car, it's roughly 3pm and i'm wondering whether my decision to spend the weekend with my father, 3 uncles and a 30 year old cousin was a good one or not. We're coasting down tagaytay on the road to batangas. i'm about to nod my head and dream of blue elephants and dancing hippos when out of nowhere, a policeman comes tearing down the middle stripe of the highway...standing on his bike . i naturally am jolted out of my lethargy with a resounding "whoooooa, what was that about?" apparently, my dad and my uncles over in the expedition in front of us saw something i hadn't, because they pull sharply over to the side of the road. 10 seconds later, a police car comes rushing towards us, followed by 2 ambulances and a convoy of assorted government vehicles, all in OUR lane. My tinge of wonder is quickly replaced by some i-need-to-know-now as i hurriedly get out of the car and onto the road to see what sort of fucked up politician requires the use of BOTH lanes. my questions are answered by the next ambulance, which bore the crest of the SEA games. the vague shape i had been staring at for a while quickly turned into about 8 bikers, all concentrated on their task at hand. i quickly manage a "GO PHILIPPINES! die thailand" before they pass by.
after the entourage passes, we get back in our cars and go on our way. about 10 minutes later, we pass a smaller convoy containing a second pack of riders, and 5 minutes after that, a long straggler. haha. wawa naman.
so there, that was my first brush with live international sports. haha. yeah, go philippines.
anyway, when we got to batangas, all i had in mind was rest and relaxation. that apparently wasn't what i had coming as there was a brownout about 3 minutes after we got down from the cars. what made it worse was that our millio...no, billionaire of a next-door neighbor had a huge fucking generator that he used to power his aircons, lights, and get this - SEARCH LIGHTS AND RADAR. yes, i am dead serious. our next door neighbor there had a fucking radar which he used, i believe, to detect incoming water craft. not to mention two huge monster mutts that looked like they were big enough to be fed people. yeah, it was beachfront. his monster-of-a-yacht was parked about 200 meters from the shore, and he was spending millions upon millions on landmovers and tractors and dump trucks just to dig a channel on the ocean floor from his yacht to the shore JUST so his yacht could reach the shore. damn. damn. damn. damn. and ad infinitum.
on the OTHER lot next to us, on the other hand, stood the house that marina (yes, the tv series) was filmed in. hahaha. the cave of dugong was there too. but i'm not interested in seeing the set of marina...unless claudine barretto is there.
anyway, the power was still out, so we passed the night by playing pusoy dos. that lasted the whole night so i was only able to squeeze in about an hour or so of sleep before i was shaken awake by my dad at 4am to get ready for fishing. as it was my first time to go fishing in the sea, i really was not expecting to catch anything at all. but lo and behold, i snagged me about 5 small fish. 1 lapu-lapu, 1 mameng, and three others i can't remember. the others caught a shitload, well enough at least to get us all full.
we left this morning at around 7am so we could make it back to church in time. all in all, it was quite a good experience, definitely something i'd readily do again.
too bad i had no camera with me though. the sunsets on the beachfront were exquisite.