Mt. BatuLove
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Sandra Tom Chowking Edsa-Taft
Mitch Nikk Nasugbu, Batangas
Moja Jot Evercrest
Irene Pam Mt. Batulao
Summit of Mt. Batulao
No.1 GOLDEN RULE when you’re in a Mountain so nobody gets hurt. Follow and you’ll be safe.
"LEAVE NOTHING BUT FOOTPRINTS, TAKE NOTHING BUT PICTURES & KILL NOTHING BUT TIME"
One destination. One goal. One group of friends. Non stop pick up lines. A perfect weather for never ending laughter. This is a story about the taste of the summit, a Mt. Batulao experience.
October 24, 2011 was the date when the journey of love and friendship started. This is the day to accomplish the mission to assault the summit of Mt. Batulao in Nasugbu, Batangas. Chowking (Edsa-Taft) is the meeting place of a group of people who loves to travel and to climb mountains and they called themselves as Brgy. Tibay. Actually some of the members are first time climber, Nikk is a semi-professional mountain climber he’s the only one who has more experience in hiking, he’s just now starting to climb major mountains. Their group really likes to climb and hike a mountain so they decided to form a group that will assault the summit of any mountain they love to hike. They are very adventurous group.
Around nine in the morning, Nikk was the first who came into the meeting place. Nikk sent a group message to his colleagues asking “Where are you guys? I am already here at Chowking”. He’s been waiting for almost 30 minutes until Moja and Jot came in at the meeting place. They are still waiting for others to come in. Tom arrived at almost 10am and next to him is Sandra who came from a long ride from Caloocan. Sandra is the reason why this adventure made possible. She is the mastermind of this exciting adventure. After an hour of waiting for those who are late, finally Mitch, Irene and his boyfriend Pam came in. Their journey starts as they walk through the bus terminal and waiting for the bus that trip to Nasugbu, Batangas. While waiting for the bus, Tom and Mitch went to Jollibee and bought eight pieces of YUM burger. Mitch asks Tom “Do we have enough water?”, “Yes” said Tom “Nikk brought 6 liters of water, I have 3 liters and Jot got 1 liter, I think that’s enough for all of us, but if you still want to buy more water that will be good”. Mitch bought a liter of mineral water at 711. Irene and Pam came in too at 711 they were looking for finger foods (pulutan). “Let’s buy more liquor” Mitch said. “Me and Nikk brought some liquor” Tom said. “Okay I’ll add GSM Blue and packs of orange juice” Mitch said. “Okay let’s go” Sandra said, as their bus arrived. Around 11am when they left the terminal, everybody was excited.
While riding on a bus going to Nasugbu, Batangas everybody eats their lunch. Everybody’s eating, laughing, and enjoying inside the bus. After they ate, it’s sleeping time. Almost two hours of bus ride before they got into the starting point. Everybody’s preparing, warm up, and change their clothes as they are too excited to reach the summit of Mt. Batulao. And they now officially start their journey as they start walking and walking. They need to pass the barrio of Kalyawan to officially start the trail. “Are we there yet?” Tom joked and everybody’s laughed as they start joking around while walking. The trek takes them into the barrio road which narrows after a couple of kilometers into a path surrounded by grasses. It’s best to bring water and snacks since it takes about 2 hours to get to the foot of Mt. Batulao. This is also because they stop often for photo opportunities. The path is a narrow pathway that meanders up and down hills moving closer to Camp. They are now reaching the first peak. First peak, first stop. Everybody takes rest for awhile as they’re viewing the summit of Mt. Batulao. As they continue walking, a lot of ups and downs along their way. “Wait, let’s take a rest for a while” Moja said. They are walking for almost an hour and Moja is getting weary, Moja looks fatty that’s why she is too fast to get exhausted. While they are resting, a couple of children came to them and asked them if they want to help them to get reached up to the summit. These children were working at their young age just to have money to go to school. “Ate, Kuya hatid na namin kayo, wampipti lang po” they keep asking the group if they want or need help, but unfortunately they refused the offer of the children instead they gave the children some foods like candy and chocolate. “Let’s go” Nikk said, after resting about 10 minutes, they continue walking again going to peak number two. Stop again at second peak. “Told you guys, there’s Mountain Dew here on the mountain and Halo-halo” Nikk stated. Everyone’s thirsty and each of them get one bottle of mountain dew. “Whoah, this bottle is refreshing” Pam said. “It’s still cold and refreshing even though it’s on the mountain” Mitch said. “Hahaha” everybody’s laughing. Just drinking one bottle of Mountain Dew they regain their energy. As they walk they passed already third and fourth peak. At the fourth peak, there is a part of the trail that you need to slide. Moja, Irene, and Sandra enjoyed this part. Peak number five, there’s a cottage, perfect place to rest after a long walk. Also at peak number there’s another store of Mountain Dew and Halo-halo. Five more peaks they need to pass just to reach the summit. Peak number six. Irene keeps on capturing their precious moment while walking on the mountain. Mitch and Sandra also take photos. “Group picture” Irene said. “Smile” told by Sandra. Peak number seven, they are walking almost two hours, they started to walk at around three in the afternoon. The next peak, number eight, that’s the camp where they can stay and build their tents. As they reached the eighth peak, again they stopped. They think if they still want to continue walking or stay at eighth peak and build their tents. Nikk and Tom have a conversation about this matter. “What would be our decision Tom?” Asked by Nikk. “Let’s assault the summit” Tom said. And the decision is final. They keep on walking and attempted to assault the summit. Entering peak number nine, this is the part where the trail is too hard or easy to say that this is the critical point. Critical point because at this peak they need to face the wall as they need to surpass the trail of peak ninth. “Yes, we are now at the tenth peak” Tom said. They reached now the 10th peak. “Last peak that would be the summit” Nikk said.
It was already sunset when they reached the summit of Mt. Batulao. While they are enjoying the breathtaking 360˚ view of the summit and feeling the fresh air from the top of the mountain, it is the time now to fix and assemble their tents. This is the hard part of their journey aside from the critical point that they surpassed, this also critical for them. Fixing and assembling tents on the summit while the wind is too strong and cold is very a big problem.
The sun is starting to fade and the place begins to dark. Their flashlights are the only source of their lights. It is very challenging for them to assemble their tents in this kind of situation. While the night is beginning to start, they still need to assemble their three tents. Jot, Pam, Nikk, and Tom helps one another to assemble Nikk’s tent. The calvary of the group starts when they cannot assemble the tent of Sandra. It almost 8pm when they finally finished assembling their tents, unfortunately they didn’t fix and assemble the tent of Sandra because it yielded. They just made Sandra’s tent as a storage room. After hours of fixing their tents, they are all hungry and ready to eat. “It’s too cold” Moja said. “The cold reaches up to the bone” Jot stated. Coldness is another problem of the group, as Brgy. Tibay, they need to be strong.
Passed eight in the evening when they totally prepared their supper. Everyone is hungry and can’t wait to eat. Sandra leads the prayer before they start to eat. After thanking and praying, they started to eat. “Let’s eat” Tom said. After eating they are now preparing to drink liquor, it’s a perfect time to drink liquor because of the weather that is too cold. Brgy. Tibay in drinking session. Sound trip. Laugh trip. Storytelling. Sharing feelings. These are what they are doing the entire night at the summit. Around twelve in the midnight, Moja and Mitch fall asleep same as Irene and Pam. Nikk, Jot, Tom and Sandra were left drinking. Taking pictures, laughing, sound tripping and still drinking. “I’ll take a nap” Nikk said. Then Jot also followed Nikk to take a nap. Only Sandra and Tom left drinking outside the tent. One-on-one drinking marathon. Sandra puts her head on the shoulder of Tom. They’re just talking and talking. There are not totally drunk. All of a sudden, Sandra starts to kiss Tom on his lips. Tom was shocked of what is happening. Sandra and Tom are a long time friend they’re very close to each other. Tom has a feeling to Sandra, but he keeps on hiding it. Without knowing Sandra start to fall in love to Tom, that’s why she kissed Tom on his lips.
With the influence of liquor, both of them, Sandra and Tom start to make love to each other despite of the coldness of their surroundings. They keep on kissing to each other. Tom still can’t believe of what’s happening. “It’s like a fantasy” Tom said. “I thought it only happens on romantic movies and fantasy” Tom’s added. Tom really can’t believe in what they are doing. “Don’t you ever think that it’s going to be happened?” Sandra asked Tom. “I never think it’s going to be happened like this”. Sandra kissed Tom. Tom hugged tight on Sandra while kissing her. As their kissing on each other, they lie down and look to the stars. “It’s like a fairy tale” Tom said. Tom thinks that scene is only happening only in the movies, but he was wrong, it can and possibly happen in real life. “Look, there’s a shooting star” Tom said. “Make a wish” said Sandra. “I don’t need to, because I already have it” Tom said. “Why?” Asked Sandra. “Because I already have her beside me, and that’s you Sandra” Tom stated. “My wish has been granted and I am very thankful that I’ve got you here sitting beside me” Tom continues saying sweet words to Sandra. They keep on kissing, “I love you Sandra” Tom said, “I love you too” Sandra answered. They keep on kissing and hugging in the middle of coldness. While lying, Sandra and Tom sharing thoughts with each other. As their surroundings very quiet and calm they keep on making love. The coldness didn’t stop the hot and warm love of the two of them. It feels like while they are kissing, there’s a flame around them that keep them warm. Looks like nobody can’t stop the love affair of both of them. Holding hands, hugging, kissing, and caressing to each other are the usual activities of lovers. That night, that particular day starts the love story of Sandra and Tom. The destiny puts them together. Their fate brought them and made them love each other. “I love you so much Sandra” Tom said. “I love you too Tom” Sandra answered back. Sandra.
As we close our eyes
Touch our lips
Our memories, reminisce
Your spirit remains no silence
Your spirit remains in my heart so deep
Our kiss that touch the sky
And brought us in the land so high
You're the missing piece that I want to find
And put into my garden of memories
Probably the day and night to be with you
Is my longest and happiest moment that I will treasure
No magic words, no tricks
It started with a kiss
As we kiss
And the weather's getting colder
It doesn't matter as we hug and kiss smoother
Thanks to the Supreme Higher who has the power
This is the perfect moment to say that I love you
Tom shared a poem to Sandra. He dedicated it to her. He made it while they are in the middle of sharing love with each other. He is very inspired by that time. That’s the completion of their journey. That’s the story, a love story made it happened at the summit of Mt. Batulao. Friendship and Love, what makes them in common? Destiny brought them together. Love never fails.
END (^_^)
Sandra Tom Chowking Edsa-Taft
Mitch Nikk Nasugbu, Batangas
Moja Jot Evercrest
Irene Pam Mt. Batulao
Summit of Mt. Batulao
No.1 GOLDEN RULE when you’re in a Mountain so nobody gets hurt. Follow and you’ll be safe.
"LEAVE NOTHING BUT FOOTPRINTS, TAKE NOTHING BUT PICTURES & KILL NOTHING BUT TIME"
One destination. One goal. One group of friends. Non stop pick up lines. A perfect weather for never ending laughter. This is a story about the taste of the summit, a Mt. Batulao experience.
October 24, 2011 was the date when the journey of love and friendship started. This is the day to accomplish the mission to assault the summit of Mt. Batulao in Nasugbu, Batangas. Chowking (Edsa-Taft) is the meeting place of a group of people who loves to travel and to climb mountains and they called themselves as Brgy. Tibay. Actually some of the members are first time climber, Nikk is a semi-professional mountain climber he’s the only one who has more experience in hiking, he’s just now starting to climb major mountains. Their group really likes to climb and hike a mountain so they decided to form a group that will assault the summit of any mountain they love to hike. They are very adventurous group.
Around nine in the morning, Nikk was the first who came into the meeting place. Nikk sent a group message to his colleagues asking “Where are you guys? I am already here at Chowking”. He’s been waiting for almost 30 minutes until Moja and Jot came in at the meeting place. They are still waiting for others to come in. Tom arrived at almost 10am and next to him is Sandra who came from a long ride from Caloocan. Sandra is the reason why this adventure made possible. She is the mastermind of this exciting adventure. After an hour of waiting for those who are late, finally Mitch, Irene and his boyfriend Pam came in. Their journey starts as they walk through the bus terminal and waiting for the bus that trip to Nasugbu, Batangas. While waiting for the bus, Tom and Mitch went to Jollibee and bought eight pieces of YUM burger. Mitch asks Tom “Do we have enough water?”, “Yes” said Tom “Nikk brought 6 liters of water, I have 3 liters and Jot got 1 liter, I think that’s enough for all of us, but if you still want to buy more water that will be good”. Mitch bought a liter of mineral water at 711. Irene and Pam came in too at 711 they were looking for finger foods (pulutan). “Let’s buy more liquor” Mitch said. “Me and Nikk brought some liquor” Tom said. “Okay I’ll add GSM Blue and packs of orange juice” Mitch said. “Okay let’s go” Sandra said, as their bus arrived. Around 11am when they left the terminal, everybody was excited.
While riding on a bus going to Nasugbu, Batangas everybody eats their lunch. Everybody’s eating, laughing, and enjoying inside the bus. After they ate, it’s sleeping time. Almost two hours of bus ride before they got into the starting point. Everybody’s preparing, warm up, and change their clothes as they are too excited to reach the summit of Mt. Batulao. And they now officially start their journey as they start walking and walking. They need to pass the barrio of Kalyawan to officially start the trail. “Are we there yet?” Tom joked and everybody’s laughed as they start joking around while walking. The trek takes them into the barrio road which narrows after a couple of kilometers into a path surrounded by grasses. It’s best to bring water and snacks since it takes about 2 hours to get to the foot of Mt. Batulao. This is also because they stop often for photo opportunities. The path is a narrow pathway that meanders up and down hills moving closer to Camp. They are now reaching the first peak. First peak, first stop. Everybody takes rest for awhile as they’re viewing the summit of Mt. Batulao. As they continue walking, a lot of ups and downs along their way. “Wait, let’s take a rest for a while” Moja said. They are walking for almost an hour and Moja is getting weary, Moja looks fatty that’s why she is too fast to get exhausted. While they are resting, a couple of children came to them and asked them if they want to help them to get reached up to the summit. These children were working at their young age just to have money to go to school. “Ate, Kuya hatid na namin kayo, wampipti lang po” they keep asking the group if they want or need help, but unfortunately they refused the offer of the children instead they gave the children some foods like candy and chocolate. “Let’s go” Nikk said, after resting about 10 minutes, they continue walking again going to peak number two. Stop again at second peak. “Told you guys, there’s Mountain Dew here on the mountain and Halo-halo” Nikk stated. Everyone’s thirsty and each of them get one bottle of mountain dew. “Whoah, this bottle is refreshing” Pam said. “It’s still cold and refreshing even though it’s on the mountain” Mitch said. “Hahaha” everybody’s laughing. Just drinking one bottle of Mountain Dew they regain their energy. As they walk they passed already third and fourth peak. At the fourth peak, there is a part of the trail that you need to slide. Moja, Irene, and Sandra enjoyed this part. Peak number five, there’s a cottage, perfect place to rest after a long walk. Also at peak number there’s another store of Mountain Dew and Halo-halo. Five more peaks they need to pass just to reach the summit. Peak number six. Irene keeps on capturing their precious moment while walking on the mountain. Mitch and Sandra also take photos. “Group picture” Irene said. “Smile” told by Sandra. Peak number seven, they are walking almost two hours, they started to walk at around three in the afternoon. The next peak, number eight, that’s the camp where they can stay and build their tents. As they reached the eighth peak, again they stopped. They think if they still want to continue walking or stay at eighth peak and build their tents. Nikk and Tom have a conversation about this matter. “What would be our decision Tom?” Asked by Nikk. “Let’s assault the summit” Tom said. And the decision is final. They keep on walking and attempted to assault the summit. Entering peak number nine, this is the part where the trail is too hard or easy to say that this is the critical point. Critical point because at this peak they need to face the wall as they need to surpass the trail of peak ninth. “Yes, we are now at the tenth peak” Tom said. They reached now the 10th peak. “Last peak that would be the summit” Nikk said.
It was already sunset when they reached the summit of Mt. Batulao. While they are enjoying the breathtaking 360˚ view of the summit and feeling the fresh air from the top of the mountain, it is the time now to fix and assemble their tents. This is the hard part of their journey aside from the critical point that they surpassed, this also critical for them. Fixing and assembling tents on the summit while the wind is too strong and cold is very a big problem.
The sun is starting to fade and the place begins to dark. Their flashlights are the only source of their lights. It is very challenging for them to assemble their tents in this kind of situation. While the night is beginning to start, they still need to assemble their three tents. Jot, Pam, Nikk, and Tom helps one another to assemble Nikk’s tent. The calvary of the group starts when they cannot assemble the tent of Sandra. It almost 8pm when they finally finished assembling their tents, unfortunately they didn’t fix and assemble the tent of Sandra because it yielded. They just made Sandra’s tent as a storage room. After hours of fixing their tents, they are all hungry and ready to eat. “It’s too cold” Moja said. “The cold reaches up to the bone” Jot stated. Coldness is another problem of the group, as Brgy. Tibay, they need to be strong.
Passed eight in the evening when they totally prepared their supper. Everyone is hungry and can’t wait to eat. Sandra leads the prayer before they start to eat. After thanking and praying, they started to eat. “Let’s eat” Tom said. After eating they are now preparing to drink liquor, it’s a perfect time to drink liquor because of the weather that is too cold. Brgy. Tibay in drinking session. Sound trip. Laugh trip. Storytelling. Sharing feelings. These are what they are doing the entire night at the summit. Around twelve in the midnight, Moja and Mitch fall asleep same as Irene and Pam. Nikk, Jot, Tom and Sandra were left drinking. Taking pictures, laughing, sound tripping and still drinking. “I’ll take a nap” Nikk said. Then Jot also followed Nikk to take a nap. Only Sandra and Tom left drinking outside the tent. One-on-one drinking marathon. Sandra puts her head on the shoulder of Tom. They’re just talking and talking. There are not totally drunk. All of a sudden, Sandra starts to kiss Tom on his lips. Tom was shocked of what is happening. Sandra and Tom are a long time friend they’re very close to each other. Tom has a feeling to Sandra, but he keeps on hiding it. Without knowing Sandra start to fall in love to Tom, that’s why she kissed Tom on his lips.
With the influence of liquor, both of them, Sandra and Tom start to make love to each other despite of the coldness of their surroundings. They keep on kissing to each other. Tom still can’t believe of what’s happening. “It’s like a fantasy” Tom said. “I thought it only happens on romantic movies and fantasy” Tom’s added. Tom really can’t believe in what they are doing. “Don’t you ever think that it’s going to be happened?” Sandra asked Tom. “I never think it’s going to be happened like this”. Sandra kissed Tom. Tom hugged tight on Sandra while kissing her. As their kissing on each other, they lie down and look to the stars. “It’s like a fairy tale” Tom said. Tom thinks that scene is only happening only in the movies, but he was wrong, it can and possibly happen in real life. “Look, there’s a shooting star” Tom said. “Make a wish” said Sandra. “I don’t need to, because I already have it” Tom said. “Why?” Asked Sandra. “Because I already have her beside me, and that’s you Sandra” Tom stated. “My wish has been granted and I am very thankful that I’ve got you here sitting beside me” Tom continues saying sweet words to Sandra. They keep on kissing, “I love you Sandra” Tom said, “I love you too” Sandra answered. They keep on kissing and hugging in the middle of coldness. While lying, Sandra and Tom sharing thoughts with each other. As their surroundings very quiet and calm they keep on making love. The coldness didn’t stop the hot and warm love of the two of them. It feels like while they are kissing, there’s a flame around them that keep them warm. Looks like nobody can’t stop the love affair of both of them. Holding hands, hugging, kissing, and caressing to each other are the usual activities of lovers. That night, that particular day starts the love story of Sandra and Tom. The destiny puts them together. Their fate brought them and made them love each other. “I love you so much Sandra” Tom said. “I love you too Tom” Sandra answered back. Sandra.
As we close our eyes
Touch our lips
Our memories, reminisce
Your spirit remains no silence
Your spirit remains in my heart so deep
Our kiss that touch the sky
And brought us in the land so high
You're the missing piece that I want to find
And put into my garden of memories
Probably the day and night to be with you
Is my longest and happiest moment that I will treasure
No magic words, no tricks
It started with a kiss
As we kiss
And the weather's getting colder
It doesn't matter as we hug and kiss smoother
Thanks to the Supreme Higher who has the power
This is the perfect moment to say that I love you
Tom shared a poem to Sandra. He dedicated it to her. He made it while they are in the middle of sharing love with each other. He is very inspired by that time. That’s the completion of their journey. That’s the story, a love story made it happened at the summit of Mt. Batulao. Friendship and Love, what makes them in common? Destiny brought them together. Love never fails.
END (^_^)