STARBUCKS AND ME AT CAMP JOHN HAY, BAGUIO CITY

TALE OF STARBUCKS HERE AND THERE (part 3)

(if you were reading this, please trail back to the first parts) 

it is located towards the golf club pass the nearby export depot
and  Carlo's pizza. in between Cantinetta and waffle's place

..so very True, if you're guess is CAMP JOHN HAY, BAGUIO CITY - this has been the first store i'd been out of the 14 featured branches in the Starbucks 2011 Planner, and true too, that, going there wasn't easy for a first timer like me, with no idea as to where the place can be found, therefore, i had a lot of mis-turns and mis-steps in an about one hour of hike from the entrance of Camp John Hay to the coffee shop. it is an undulated more than two (2) kilometers expanse. And thanks for the chilly weather in Baguio, it spared me from dehydration.

What's so special with this trudge, is that, it's happening on APRIL FOOLS DAY, and because i am a FOOL i made myself a blot here at CAMP JOHN HAY, STARBUCKS.

  

Enjoying the long walk

it's such a long way up to my destination but i
even manage to pose for an emo mode in a while

it seems like an endless walk and almost at the verge of losing hope in finding starbucks, so i took another stop-over in here, got some rest and asked if  starbucks does exists in the woods?

the lady i've asked told me to just keep walkin'
and enjoy the journey, you're  almost there..(she's right 1.5km more up and hilly and in an awesome pace and i'm there)

whew! after an hour of leisure walking with slip - ups and doubts as to 
what road to head on , finally @ cottage 661

what a blissful place to spend an idle afternoon, chat nonchalantly and,
take time to get in touch with the inner you... 

and to my surprise! here's a perk for this visit.. this is a free taste to a product they are about to launch, and i'm so sorry, i forgot what was it..weeh! =)
 i can say, This quest is recorded to be more than extraordinary aside from it is being the first to find in the trace, there is more  in the core of being here. (and for those who would ask why, i say: go, see and feel it yourself...)

...and don't ever forget to take a memorabilia with you,
for the recollection of memoirs, LATER...  

...and again for the record, I JUST HAD THE MOST UNFORGETTABLE APRIL FOOLS IN THE 32 YEARS of my being.

 LEARNED VIRTUE : "PERSEVERANCE" yes, i've almost abandoned the mission if not of my insistence, that, indeed, there is Starbucks out of this woods, chum too is hopeless and petulant of my idea in finding starbucks here. DETERMINATION AND POSSIBILITIES too can aid you to satiate your endeavor to a HAPPY JOURNEY!

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whew! indeed, a journey....guess again the next destination..?
there's more in  store, so please keep on reading....

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**** i just have to highlight the place i've been for a more evident recording****

1.6750 = Ayala Avenue, Makati City
2.Cebu Ayala = Cebu CIty
3.Camp john hay = Baguio City == APRIL FOOLS DAY
4.Lipa = Lipa City, Batangas
5. Solenad = Sta. Rosa City, Laguna
6.Boracay = Boracay
7.Corinthian Hills = Quezon City
8.Katipunan = Quezon City
9.Intramuros = Manila
10.SM Sky Garden = Northedsa, Quezon City
11.Bacolod = Bacolod City
12.Jupiter = Makati City
13.Tagaytay = Tagaytay City
14.32nd and 7th = Global City, Makati City

STARBUCKS, THE 2011 PLANNER AND ME...

The 2011 Planner features 14 Starbucks stores, giving customers a feel of Starbucks as their "third place". The 14 branches include:

1.6750 = Ayala Avenue, Makati City
2.Cebu Ayala = Cebu CIty
3.Camp john hay = Baguio City
4.Lipa = Lipa City, Batangas
5. Solenad = Sta. Rosa City, Laguna
6.Boracay = Boracay
7.Corinthian Hills = Quezon City
8.Katipunan = Quezon City
9.Intramuros = Manila
10.SM Sky Garden = Northedsa, Quezon City
11.Bacolod = Bacolod City
12.Jupiter = Makati City
13.Tagaytay = Tagaytay City
14.32nd and 7th = Global City, Makati City

So, what’s that got to do with my story?

Like I’ve said I love coffee and hanging out at coffee shops and starbucks is one, plus my innate liking to trek so the tale has begun, I told myself I have a yearlong age to trip the 14 branches. That’s got to be the goal for this year.

Well, among the fourteen “Solenad” was the only store I’d been for my entire starbucks experience, that was, sometime in June the previous year as my post birthday revelry. To date I’d seen seven (7) of the stores and has another seven (7) for the chase.

I say again, please bear with me and read on, as I relate every detail of my quest to Starbucks here and there … I promise, you’ll be entertained, you’ll learn lessons from the experience and you might as well get inspired to do the same to break the routine and try to explore new things with an end more than fun. HAPPY JOURNEY…:)

(the 2011 planner and me)


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P.S.
Could you guess when and where I begun keeping record? and i tell you, it's not easy to get there, i've had a lot of slip-ups as to map reading and directional ability but the experience is worthy to note.

Please, follow on to my next blog…..


ADDENDUM:

(just for the record, this has been my very first memory of goin' to Starbucks, that was in Megamall early June 2007, courtesy of my friend Zerline as her post birthday treat for me..)

Something New In My Life - stephen bishop

morning comes marks a new day to step on wards..
unlike with the past two mornings i started my day with a beep
but today, i would rather begin it with a shush
it's Saturday and i choose not to dash, it's just that my eyes seem to jut,
that was last night whimpers with my indigo...

was it? or was it the dream that i built which i know it would never come true...
and now, i wanted something new...




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i guess i wanted something new in my life
a new key to fit a new door
to wake and see a different view in my life
the one i've been waiting for

dreams like everyone i've had a few in my life
who knew that this one would come true in my lfe
i knew the moment when you touched me
you touched me

you're like a sudden breeze that blew in my life
a new face, a new smile, new song
and now i know i wanted you in my life all along

i guess, i must have saved an empty place in my heart
for you to come and fill this space in my heart
that long before i said i loved you
i love you

whatever happens this is true in my life
when all the springs have come and gone
whatever dance i made or do in my life
whatever else that i may do in my life
you'll always be something new in my life
from now on

i know there always will be you in my life
from now on...

The TALE of STARBUCKS here and there...

Coffee? yes i love coffee and hanging out in coffee shops. Starbucks is one, and the tale of running to Starbucks different branches started sometime in November last year where me and my coffee buddies chilled out at Alimall branch, and the Planner 2011 was launched, the barista gave me two cards and to avail the planner I have to collect sticker and complete it before 2010 ends. I get interested having a planner for two (one to be gifted to my coffee buddy), and it was then where almost everyday i can be pretty found at starbucks.




and in just a month, i've got the planner, exactly the way i want it =))



and im so glad to have it, cause i know for one reason or two, starbucks has done a great part in my long and winding journey ...





a chronicle is about to be unwrapped...



and about to be untold...



..and each day i'll mark every leaf with a beautiful and unforgettable memories....


.and this has become my journal, it'll be with me wherever i may be and sooner or later, when i recollect, i'll just be turning each page to help me enliven great things that happened to me with the year 2011...



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Are you up to know how I stumbled to quest the Starbucks branches featured in the 2011 planner..? just keep posted on my next blogs, I’ll share the exciting escapade and misadventures I’ve been through just to keep record that I’ve been to that branch, I did it with an end more than fun. HAPPY JOURNEY!


P.S.
Please bear with me this is quite a history =))

a cup of coffee to cheer my day

beep......
it was just the bell ringing, a clue that there is a necessity to get up
if you can't get one hello, then just give it to yourself with a grin
the world is big anyway, and it has a lot to offer,
sure there is one for you
don't colonize with a love that is distant and obscure..!

here's your coffee to cheer your day.. =))

the girl who kept on stumbling my blog - Jennifer

JENNIFER, JEN. JENI. NOVEMBER RAIN, NORRAINE
the girl who lives next door, is "Mami Hazels" sister
who kept on stumbling on my personal blog account, and apparently posted comments only to realize she was using my personal account, that is because, she borrows "Pink Louisse or Pink L" (the name of my 13-inches cute and girly laptop), and managed to click on the explorers tab where i don't usually logged out my web accounts, oh, by the way she do encoding jobs and yours truly is kind enough to offer "Pink L" to make her jobs a lot easier, nonetheless, she gets interested with the blogs i wrote that she posted comments, and to make the story shorts, i made her own blog account, did some tutorial and told her that the other things are for her self-discovery...(she's interested in blogging too..)

she's tall, sweet, cute (naah!), with an eyes like that of the Indians
i call her "Ate Jen" and she's my regular follower...

(photo was seized at her FB album)




(while this is the very helpful "Pink L" with a desktop background of myself at peace with the world)


=)

surviving melancholy

beep....
a Hello message rouse her from the doze
lifted the window pane
only to see a morning so gloomy
there it comes rainy day...

she thought she won't survived
yesterday's melancholic mode
but thanks to music, letters and blogging
she endures...

today's another day to struggle indigo
but her sanguinity will remain
for there would be another hello tomorrow...
meanwhile, she'll settle for COFFEE! :)

Big Big World(with lyrics)

her eyes won't seems to say, how much tears it shed today
her smiles won't even tell she's hurting deep down in there..

she may not shown what's real with what she feels, and
she wished someone else would tell her
to feel better,
big girl...

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*Chorus*
I'm a big big girl
In a big big world
It's not a big big thing if u leave me
But I do do feel
That I do do will
Miss u much
Miss u much

*V1*
I can see the first leafs falling
It's all yellow and nice
It's so very cold outside
Like the way I'm feeling inside

*Chorus*
I'm a big big girl
In a big big world
It's not a big big thing if u leave me
But I do do feel
That I do do will
Miss u much
Miss u much

*V2*
Outside it's no raining
And tears are falling from my eyes
Why did it have to happen
Why did it all have to end

*Chorus*
I'm a big big girl
In a big big world
It's not a big big thing if u leave me
But I do do feel
That I do do will
Miss u much
Miss u much

*V3*
I have your arms around me
Warm like fire
But when I open my eyes......
Your gone

*Chorus*
I'm a big big girl
In a big big world
It's not a big big thing if u leave me
But I do do feel
That I do do will
Miss u much
Miss u much

*Repeat Chorus*

I'm a big big girl
In a big big world
It's not a big big thing
If u leave me
But I do
Feel I will
Miss u much
miss u much

HEALING

HEALING - i gently return to equilibrium, nurtured by my well-spring of patience and peace..

MY REFLECTION : i know i've made a lot of false move before by being impatient and impulsive, but through the years i have learned my lesson, lessons from those mistakes, mistakes that need not to be repeated, gladly, amidst the struggles, pains and heartaches, i've maintained my sensibility and humor, i haven't lost my sense of balance, and i learned the virtue of patience and serenity with my inner self.

i'm learning the art of letting go...

as i watched you sleep, i saw
..you are just like a god, sleeping an inch away from me..
can't help but freeze and stare..
familiarizing every contour on your face, as i might forget how it looks like as days go by
without you....

i am hearing the sounds of your breath, storing it in the deepest recess of my memory, so later, when i recollect..i would remember it was the sweetest music i've ever heard...

i love you so much baby,
but i'm letting you go
for in reality, i know we can never be ...

FOREVER..? we could only be
..FRIENDS..., that is