We had so many activities lined up last September to celebrate 6 years of being together – too many, in this post alone, already a hundred! (hehe. sorry, corny).

(Check out “Six. Still a Perfect Mix. Nothing to Fix.” for a rundown of the month-long activities.)

One of them was visiting The Hundred Islands. We have been looking for the perfect time for this field trip and finally be able to cross this off our Magagandang Tanawin list of places. It was just in the most opportune time that Yza had to open a Payless Store in Robinsons Place Pangasinan around mid-September – the stars aligned nicely!

"Can't count the years on one hand, that we've been together..."




First line pa lang, jackpot na. This song just perfectly describes where our relationship is now so we decided to cover this for our 6th anniversary post.

And yes, we are still into each other. Even after all this time. <3

Chinese takeout for two on a rainy Sunday. <3


xoxo,
Yza

Cleaned up my phone and found some photos I haven't posted. A lot of them were from the random dinners and lunches E and I had. Sharing a couple of places we liked. :)

Bamm
This little restaurant at The Collective serves German sausages and is a good place to chill on a Friday night. It's right beside the more famous Wingman. We've already eaten dinner (we went to The Collective to get mochi ice cream!) but I was craving for something salty, so we popped in and ordered one of their best sellers, the Currywurst. It would probably have been great with beer, but we don't really drink much, so we had Mountain Dew instead. :P

A lot has changed since our last cover 10 months ago (I can't believe it has been that long, what happened to U.S.??). I had my long hair finally cut (8 months ago) after almost 2 years of not going to a barber shop or a salon while Yza also started sporting bangs for more than 6 months now. Also, Yza transferred to a new apartment which made her really happy -- she now has the luxury to design and decorate her own room as she pleases.

After our Caramoan weekend, the girls and Mar flew to Cebu straight from Legaspi. E and I didn't book bus tickets to Manila yet, so we figured we could make a quick visit to the famous Cagsawa Ruins and experience the Mayon volcano as seen in postcards.

This being a Y and E blog, I hope it's okay if I use up a bit of space talking about my bestest group of friends. After all, we probably would not be together had these girls not been as supportive as they were. As the brilliant Spice Girls say, "If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends."  So there.

My bestfriends and I are so different, our lives just took flight in various directions after we graduated from high school. We were never clingy people, so after college, we each pursued what we  (thought we) wanted. No peer pressure, just each one going after their interests/hopes and dreams. One went to nursing school hoping (and still hoping) to work abroad, one took up medical technology with dreams of becoming a doctor, one took up management in the best university in Cebu (biased girl here, what can I say?), another one studied to be an accountant (and is now our ticket to the quickest bank transactions!), another one studied sports science (we ended up as dorm mates in UP), while I went on to major in broadcast communication. Talk about diverse. We all went to different schools, save for me and Erika who both went to UP Diliman - but with courses that are outrageously different, we hardly saw each other even then.

A week before Stacy's opened a branch in Bonifacio Global City, Yza and I spontaneously drove all the way to QC on the night of the May 13 elections -- I guess to celebrate exercising our right to vote, if that’s still worth celebrating these days. hihi. =)

Yza has always wanted to eat at Stacy's. She saw photos of the place some time ago and was so excited to see it in person. I, on the other hand, didn't know what to expect (never bothered to look at the photos. hehe). I just know it as a “cute-sy cute-sy place” according to Yza’s vocabulary.