Shainne Hostalero

Last touch for the year! Wooohooo! Sorry, couldn't get over the excitement my short travel brought. Looking back, I have started this year with a travel - to Baguio - and eventually ended it in... Baguio. Baguio has been that good serene place for me to explore but it is just recent that I got to explore lots of places there. Though I have not explored the place in its entirety still, I guess this has been a great start and a good spree to find the chance and the time to go back and traverse the place more next time. My good friend and former housemate ( parang PBB lang ) Emily hosted me for the past 3 days and 2 nights of my stay. She religiously heading back to Baguio whenever there's a long vacation because her relatives reside there. Lucky me that I got to stroll around the city with a local and a good friend, oh but of course. I went to Victory Liner in Cubao, Quezon City on a Christmas day to buy tickets in advance for the next-week travel. I left the bus station a...

Our family went to Baguio last January 1st and I must say that this was our first for this year (or in such a long time.) Often times these days, families get together when someone's sick or worst, someone faced death. It happened and perhaps this is our way of making up for the lost and wasted time.  My family, I can say, is crazy. We don't agree on much of the things like other families but I guess, sticking to it is the secret. Bound by different personalities, choices in life and beliefs, we kept it loud, clear, nonvocal yet true and fun. We were never showy but that does not mean we can never be. We've had way too many photos but these are my faves. Cousins who used to be babies are soon to be taller than me