Ocean Park Adventure

It has been 3 years begging manny to buy me passes to the Manile Ocean Park. He did not care a bit of how i feel or my need to see those animals in live, not on cable, pictures or on my plate. though he very well knows that I am so dying to see the fishes swimming.

He always have the reasons to extend the date further, the latest one, was that he wants us to wait for DSLR to really enjoy it.

 I just got lucky that the boss from where i work bought some tickets online for the team using his credit card, i got two, and i just bought it for 500p. it should be around 400 each i think, but since it was an online promo. i was estatic.

before we went to Manila Ocean Park we ate our lunch in ZAMNAM restaurant in malate manila. they serve mainly tausog delicacies -  Satti. but since I was hungry, I decided to eat chicken curry and some tausog desserts. I missed tausog delicacies - especially pastir and pianggang.

after pigging out we went to Robinson’s manila, just a couple of blocks away from where we eat. We roam around the mall, and thought of it like a city within the mall, on this particular mall however - it has many cultures. i can see different colours here, i even recognize where theyre from with their accents.

 they dont have this back home. We dont have enormous mall, that we can forget that this is just a mall not a city. We dont have options. and we rarely see different races here. So I was absorbing every little detail from then on like a sponge. realizing that this wont happen for a long– long… while.

then when we finished painitng the mall red - we rode a jeepney to roxas boulevard, and from there - we walked on foot, passing luneta park then the grandstand… feet already aching but i was so excited. i didnt care…

when we finally reached the place, i was  wide eyed and hopeful that this would be a great experience. I have been reading national geographics all my life, watching discovery channel too.. When I was younger, I can name animals more than my friends, and they got weird on me, as i got weird of them too. what? you dont know what sloth is? or whats the different between a beaver and a squirrel? a duck and a swan? c’mon! i was a geek, true…   still  is.