The Best of Pampanga

July 15, 2011

It was a Friday night, when all of us (Luzil, Mark and I) decided to go to Mark’s hometown, Sta. Rita Pampanga. Not only we wanted to explore the place but it’s also a celebration of Mark’s regularization at work.

We left the office around 7pm and luckily caught a bus at Estrella, making it more convenient for us travel wise. Getting there was Php 130. It was roughly 10pm when we reached Sta. Rita but never got bored because of the alien movie karate we watched during the trip. It was hilarious yet corny. We bought some pork and chicken barbeque for our late dinner and ended up buying a bottle of Emperador Light in Ministop.

We reached Mark’s house and greeted Jojo (brother) and KC (brother’s girlfriend).
So here’s what happened:
Friday Night – Upon getting to his place, we ate Nilaga, barbeque and rice. And had some chitchats and drunk Emperador Light. Met Georgia and two little kittens which were adopted (yellow color) and picked from street (black color)
Saturday – We woke around 10am and did some grocery in the market. I committed myself to do the cooking stuff. My lists were: Chopsuey in Oyster sauce, Chicken with Mushroom/Peas Sauce, Tilapia. Sorry guys, I haven’t calculated my expenses for I don’t count my change. We didn’t cook the rest of the food because Mark’s kuya bought some food from fiesta. It was a sumptuous meal, Kaldereta, Chopsuey, Menudo, to name a few. After dinner, we had karaoke at their house until 4pm. After belting our hearts out during singing, we decided to go for a little swimming at Villa Alfredo Resort. Villa Alfredo resort is located Baliti, San Fernando Pampanga and for more details you may view them at http://www.villafredos.com/. It was around 9pm, we reached back home after fetching KC in Floridablanca, Pampanga. I cooked fried chicken with mushroom and peas sauce which was good for our dinner because some of us were really hungry by that time. You thought that we ended up sleeping after eating, but no, we still headed to Angeles, Pampanga for some enjoyable and happy music. We went to Wishing Well which was so a great place to unwind because the bar offers good music and voice from two bands which caters two different genres of music, one upbeat and the other is mellow. This was or this is my LIFE… Slept around 3:30pm after some
Sunday – woke up really late this time around, I think it was 11pm. Rushed to the kitchen to fry tilapia for our lunch. Had small talks and tease from Mark, anyways, had named him as Johnson, watched ASAP rocks, packed things and starting to get the feeling of going back to reality. Before leaving the house, we ate cassava cake which was so delectable; it just melts in your mouth. Bought some pasalubong, uraro (arrow cookies) , turones de kasoy, and ever famous chicharong may laman which costs around Php 130.

I guess it made us hard to leave such a memorable place who gave us wonderful time. We had lots of stops.
First Stop – Pasalubong and Ihiwan store. Mark’s girlfriend was craving for Chicharon, Chicken Ass.
Second Stop – San Guillermo Church in Bacolor. Upon seeing the sunken church caused by lahar, it was very inspiring to see how they rebuilt the church. Half of the church was covered with lahar when Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991. The second serves to be the entrance now of the church, there were a lot of paintings, pictures of the old church, relics of saints, statues of Mama Mary and Jesus, paintings, and had known that this was the church used during tapings of Santino in May Bukas Pa. Truly religious at its work.
Third Stop – Razon’s Restaurant. We had to stop in here because of their delicious Halo Halo. It costs around Php 60 each. The price was cheap compared to the tasteful bliss of eating it. It feels like you are eating sherbet with sweet decadence.
Fourth Stop – Last but not the least Pampanga’s Best Store. Mark had to buy tocino for his team as a treat for them. Prices are very reasonable. For more information you can check them at http://www.pampangasbest.com.ph/

Though the trip was tiring, we definitely enjoyed ourselves, who would dare to say not… just kidding…