9 WINS.... & LOSSES

UB, AJ, Sarah and I just got home from Baguio earlier this evening. It took us four hours
to drive from Baguio to Bambang via the dusty Ambuklao Road. I wished I
had a cam to snap some pics of the ongoing work up there. They are
really doing a nice job except for the talks I've heard that the road
construction should have been finished by now. I have heard that there
were three construction companies who were contracted to build equal
length of the road from Aritao to Baguio so it would be completed
relatively at the same time, but it seems that the only contractor who
kept his word was the one who was assigned to do the Aritao-Kayapa
Central end of the road. In the past, a ride from Bambang to Kayapa
Central would take two hours, give or take a few minutes; but
yesterday, it took us less than an hour because they really did a good
job at paving the road. I dream for the day when I can just swing by
Baguio early in the morning, spend 5 hours of shopping in the Baguio
and back to Vizcaya in no time. CAVDEAL and SATRAP, please hurry up! :)

Oops,
I was suppose to talk about my Scrabble Tournament experience but I had
to get that road-thing out of my mind first. Anyway, I had a fun time
at the tourney although I did not win any prize. My goal was to at
least win 50% of my game and that's exactly what I got. I did not do so
bad actually. hehehe!!! I even defeated the second-seeded player in the whole
country although he ended up winning the 3rd or 4th prize. (It was an
accident really! He probably had bad tiles and was a bit too confident
cuz he was playing a newcomer.) The champion who took home a 15K-peso
grand prize was a lady from down South. We played 18 games in two days--10
last Saturday and 8 last Sunday. Boyy, was my mind got fried and
toasted in there!

That's it... we weren't able to see any of the
Panagbenga Festivities cuz we were huddled in this Wolfson Hall in the
Baguio Country Club for two days trying to outwit our opponents. What a
game! But I did enjoy walking up and down Session road yesterday with
the open market. Oh, those little booths with pretty pretty flowers!!!
We bought nice hats for my mom (which she did not
appreciate...grrrrrr:), my sis and for myself. I wished we had more time
to just stroll around and enjoy the trafficless Session road. ('Goodness,
those gigantic cement posts they built in the BGH area!!! What were they thinking!?!! I know it's for this flyover thing but
really, it looks so UGLYY!)