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Peace + Quiet

I just don’t wanna live this way cause lately were up all night…
All I want is a little peace and quiet
- The Rifles

A sneak peek of heaven and eggs, uhrm, heaven on earth, i mean.

Photo cred to Cedric Valera

A couple of weeks back my friends and I decided to steal a one weekend getaway in Anawangin Cove in Zambales. Ced has been there with his photog and travel enthusiast friends. He told us that we would love the place as well. Jage, Irene and I don’t need much convincing to go. They’ve seen the photos Ced took while I just needed a quick getaway. My pasty color is resurfacing, an indicator that I needed to be seen by the sun.

I had already brought in my bag to the office one night before our actual getaway. My officemates were asking me where the hell will I go again. It’s funny that by now they are used to me bringing stuff in the office and heading somewhere far away from Manila a few hours after. So there, even before our clock hit 6am, I grabbed my bag and started walking towards our usual meeting place, a petrol station along Julia Vargas in Ortigas which was just a few walk away from our building.

It was unusual for Ced to be late, well he was a little late and we were a little early, woohoo for us. But all was well as we loaded up the car and made our way to the highly praised Anawangin Cove in Zambales.

I wasn’t able to view all the photos in Ced’s site so I really had no idea where we are going. But to my head, they are all the same, sand, sea and sun. No problem there for me. Besides, it isn’t my first time to set camp by the beach. With that in my head and my sleeping time violated, I took the back seat and started to lull myself under Jage’s caring.

A few hours later we were already in Pampanga where we had breakfast. With my monstrous appetite, I just ordered for the heck of ordering. Not one food suits the other, fried chicken, local noodle dish, hot choco and a cheeseburger. It was all on a haze. I ate then went back to sleep. It was when I woke up the second time that I realized I was yucky. Haha.

By the second time I woke up we were already somewhere in the vicinity of Zambales and by now it was a pretty familiar place for us to go. I knew exactly the route, the every turns.  Now I was so excited to see Anawangin, partly because I was so looking forward in sleeping under the stars and by the beach.

We parked in a resort in the mainland island and took a boat that will take us to the cove. Nearing the place, I saw a stretch of white sand, a few campers and to my surprise, pine trees! There were pine trees! One area of the cove where lined with tents already and we found problem with that because we were.. uhm, discriminating people, haha, kidding! We were a noisy gang of four and we may interrupt their weekend.

We found a neat camp spot underneath four pine trees. We were in between the river and the sea. We set our camp and claimed our domain. Our kitchen was quaint, our receiving area is huge, and our bathroom is way even bigger! Haha. We had our lunch after setting up the camp and rested. And prepared for dinner afterwards.

Work has been a source of stress lately. Big Boss is calling us to work at ungodly hours; worst reporting in different times was driving me crazy. The past weeks my work hours are causing me headache. But as soon as I took a seat in front of the waters, I just wanted to wash away my troubles. I sat there thinking of nothing not knowing what is there for me the next weeks ahead.

But for just one night, I washed my worries aside and I was able to breathe. I wanted my worries, both with my family and my work to go away so badly. I sat there and waited for the stars. A few minutes later Ced and Jage joined me. Ced took photos while Jage and I started to talk. We laughed, we talked, we made jokes and we were sitting underneath millions of stars. I missed my friends so much and everything that night was just perfect…

Except that we do not have a shot glass with us, so we just took a swig on the long neck brandy we had, which by the way was a bad idea. *winks*