What a holiday!

I just about got back from an approximate 2 week holiday from Philippines, and despite my unwillingness to go before - as seen in my past posts - I really enjoyed myself. Now, whether this be because I set myself up for a lot of disappointment so that anything would impress me, I don’t know - but the important thing is I feel like I had fun LOL. I really miss it in fact. I miss the attitude of the people, the weather (I’m not a fan of the summer as many people will know - really - I probably piss everyone off with the amount of complaining I do in the summer LOL… but that’s the summer in England: it feels so dirty. For some reason, as polluted as Philippines is, the hotness doesn’t feel as unpleasant as it does over here :S), the noise, the travel, the food, my family & friends, the malls, the TV shows that I got hooked on, the random chickens on the road… almost everything! 2 weeks really wasn’t enough there, and to make it even shorter, our trip was delayed by 2 whole days because of the damn strikes in Paris and bad service by Air France/China Southern. I don’t want to bore you with all of that stuff though - we’re talking about Philippines here, not the journeys to and from! 

There were just a few things that I didn’t really like in Fili. First of all, there’s this crazy obsession with being light-skinned, and being skinny & I was unfortunately able to experience this first-handedly since I’m not the darkest of filipinos (nor am I the lightest of filipinos - but there we go) and I’m not exactly size 0! Let’s start with the whole weight issue. I know for myself that I’ve put on a lot of weight in the past 2 years - and have gone up 2 (sadly, almost 3) dress sizes within that time! So obviously, my new shape/size might come as a shock to people who haven’t seen me in a while (7 years for those in Fili) but I don’t need telling - I really don’t! Some people were just so unnecessarily rude in Philippines - it’s unbelievable - I mean I know, some people over there can be brutally honest.. but this was just :|….. I have no words!

One of my aunties came to visit with my cousins and the first thing she said was ‘OMG, you’re so fat!!!’ - nevermind the whole ‘Hi! How have you been? It’s so good to see you!’ - that bit wasn’t there at all! At first, I let it slip, because I expected some brutal honesty from some people anyway, but then she kept pushing it on: later on she’d say, ‘At least your cousins are all slim! How did you get so fat?’ and then, to my cousins, ‘How is the present you got her going to fit her when she’s so fat?’ … even though it did fit me when I tried it on :@. Then, another day, one of my aunties walked into the house and asked me how many months pregnant I am! And when I told her I wasn’t, she gave a disgusted look and said ‘OMG, really? You’re so big!’. Way to boost my confidence up, guys. *clap*. On the other hand, people did say that I was ‘really pretty’, which was nice to hear - just because they managed to look past my weight, and because no one really says it anyway, haha!! But I don’t know whether this was because of my skin tone or not! Ahh well. Like I said, it was nice to hear XD. 

It’s definitely good to be back home though, but I can’t wait for the next holiday to Philippines! Hopefully next time it’ll be a month long, and hopefully it won’t be too long until then! :) Sorry about the briefness of this. I have so, so much to say but don’t want to scare you off with a 2000-word long post haha. I have some pictures to share - and when I do share them, I’ll probably share some more stories… if I can even remember - but I lost the USB cable for my phone - so until Amazon send over the new one I ordered, take care of yourselves, my dear readers (if there are any readers at all :P haha!)