Gone but Will Never be Forgotten

Loosing someone is never easy. Especially one of your big family member. It's hard to say goodbye or until we meet again to someone we love and waiting for our souls to be called to the heaven. We never know how long we could live. Maybe in months, 5 years, 10 years from now or may be longer than that. We never know. We just have to live or our life to the fullest and making lots of memory to people around us so when we're gone, we will never really gone because the memories we've made still remains in the heart of others. 

Til we meet again, tita. Thank you for being the most wonderful gift from God. Your memories will remain here in our hearts. 

November

November is really rough month for me. From having a mini semester break in Ilocos, went to Ilocos tour, celebrating all souls day at the cemetery and many more. I will never forget this month. Besides all of the things I've said above, my Aunt just passed away last November 17. I lost another member of the Andres family, whom I love 2nd from my mom. I am hoping that everything will get better and no more sadness by next year.

1. The view going to my Aunt's house in Tangid // 2. Went to Kapurpurawan // 3. Went to beautiful white sand beach, Pagudpud // 4. The view going to Vigan

5 & 6. The lovers at Baluarte zoo // 7 & 8. Another beautiful animals at Baluarte zoo

9. Visited grandparents on All Souls's Day // 10. My cousin's car perfume, Coco Chanel // 11. Ate the best carrot cake in town by La Preciosa // 12. Celebrating Baptism with Lechon and been eating a lot

13. Becoming a mentor in life to my cousin // 14. Eating a lot with him // 15. Becoming a bad girl with her // 16. Heart to heart talk with her // 17. Can't get over with his magic trick // 18. Kissing and cuddling with my little cousin.

19. Did self nail art and got hena // 20. Take out some foods from Mocy's Diner // 21. Absent for 9 days for my Auntie's funeral // 22. Stayed beside on my auntie's body for a short time.

Sorry for the bad quality pictures. All of the pictures above was taken from my camera phone and filtered on instagram (@fhiaharjanto). Have a great month readers. 

Life is a Beach

 

  I'm sure it's been more than two years I haven't go the beach. I prefer mountains than the beach. But when I reached Pagudpud for our 3rd destination on our 2nd day Ilocos tour, I suddenly fell in love with the beach. 3 hours drive to be there, we stayed at  Hanna's. Can you see the perfect view of the white sand beach on the first picture? It's good to be at Pagudpud not on a peak season so it was not that crowded. I am not a type of person who feel confident with by body type, so I brought with me my stripes bikini and see through top on my hand carry bag. We took some photos of Pagudpud and I am excited to share more photos on my next photo diary post!

Gone With the Wind

 

2nd stop for our day 2 Ilocos tour was Bangui Windmills, which located in Bangui, Ilocos Norte. It's a source of electricity for people in Ilocos Norte. Giving renewable power to the entire province really helps people who lives around. Bangui Windmills just one hour away from Laoag if you drive with your private cars. It was amazing to be able to see the giant windmills that you will never see in the city. You can even see  the windmills from the main road in Bangui. We stop by for a while there and took some pictures. There's also some souvenirs store which sell miniature windmills and accessories like bracelets. It was an unforgettable experience.  

Floral Meets Galaxy

Day 2 Ilocos tour started at Kapurpurawan. We were going to the north this time since our day 1 Ilocos tour  was going to the south. We drove around 1 1/2 hours to get there and when we get there, I was surprised that to get there, we had to take long drive from the entrance and we had to walk long way down to get there with intense heat (it was around 12 noon). But the heat was not stop us to take the chance to take some outfit shots. I will be posting more pictures from our day 2 Ilocos tour soon.
 Have a great week.

Photodiary: Ilocos Tour Day 1

       

Vigan, Baluarte zoo, Paoay church and ended at Paoay lake. They were amazing. From vintage city to nature to religion that's what we had for our first day Ilocos tour. For the love of photography, I took some pictures from our tour. Its around more than 200 pictures on my camera, not from Dash camera yet. 2 1/2 hours drive to Vigan then exploring the vintage city with full of handmade souvenirs just made me wanna buy all of them. Then we drove to Baluarte zoo with free entrance fee. We looked around with mini kalesa where you can give any amount to the driver. Then Paoay or St. Agustine church which I've told that with beautiful garden on it. Then Paoay lake is a fantastic legend in Ilocos (make sure google about it to know more story). We had so much fun on this tour. Will blog about our second day soon.