It’s still a week to go before Holy Week, but already so many people are taking advantage of the summer vacation to go on as many road trips as possible. In fact, tomorrow, we’ll be heading out on a road trip ourselves, as me and my photographer friends finally go on a full-blown photo trip in Zambales! Can’t wait. So will keep in mind these tips.
April 7, 2009 → The Top Ten Things To Do On A Road Trip
- Babyjen – Step 1: deactivate your flash. Step 2: take as many unflattering pictures of your sleeping carmates.
- Acer – Count how many dead cats and dogs roadkill there are along the way. Or rate how nice or ugly the welcome signs or archs and municipal halls of the towns you pass by.
- No name – Gawan ng kuwento at dialogue ang mga pedestrians.
- Hakunamatata – My mom used to pay me 1 peso per silver hair I plucked while we were in the car.
- Oracle – Magbunot ng buhok sa kilikili habang nakikinig kay Lady Gaga.
- Widower 55 – Along EDSA, everyone closes their eyes at the same time. After 15 minutes, everyone will guess where along EDSA they are. Nearest guess wins.
- Loipogi – We play pa-jologan ng kilalang That’s Entertainment alumni & laugh when we menti0n names like Brylle Mondejar, Bernard Allan, Cathy Mora, Manolet Ripol & the Alvir siblings.
- Astroboy – If we see a guy na nakatalikod, we shout “Pogi!” Pag tumingin at guwapo, we say “Naks!” Pero pag pangit, we say, “Kapal!”
- No name – Paramihan ng makitang buntis. Or paramihan ng makitang umiihi sa pader.
- Ginger – We give meaning to the 3 letters of plate numbers. Like PGF 347, means Philippine Gay Federation.
- Loipogi – We count the cars na kasalubong namin. Ang 17th car na makasalubong, soulmate mo.
- RC & Cess – Count 50 yellow cars. After the 50th yellow car, the first person you see wearing violet is your soulmate.
- Iklog- We wave at whoever we see. It’s cute because a lot of people actually wave back!
- Dru- We at the backseat pretend like we’re either 1) fighting or strangling each other or 2) wildly making out. Naloloka yung mga kasunod na cars!
- Dru – Open the car window and just look out. After half an hour, paitiman ng ilong.
- Dru – Once, I drew a face on my index finger and decided to make a digital short film in the car. It was a musical about a gay finger who can bend like a pretzel.
- T-Square – I measured the time between the kilometer markers. For every marker is 1km & then compute the speed of our car to see if it tallies with the speedometer. It does. Nerd!
- Midsis – Take time out to reflect during the Holy Week, look back at the year that passed and ask yourself: “Why do you constantly fail to enter the top 10?”
- Joeshred – Play the game: “Lick The Stickshift”.
- Prune Man – Get a frisbee and play catch with an adjacent car while moving, without getting into an accident.
- Forg – Kapag nakakita ng couple sa isang sasakyan, mag speculate ng issue kung bakit hindi sila nag-uusap.
- Loipogi – We bring a small white board. Kapag may cute sa daan o sa other cars, we dare our friends to show the board w/ the words: “ANG CUTE MO! 0918-*******”
- Loipogi – Paramihan ng makikitang bi-curious sa daan.
- Jonathan Vasquez – drink hot coffee with no cover on the cup.
- Ria – Bilangin ang makikitang simbahan ng Iglesia Ni Cristo. You’d be suprised that from Tandang Sora, QC to Tuguegarao, Cagayan, we counted 98 churches of the INC.