Philippines Travel Diary | pichapau

Описание: a collection of snaps, videos, and polaroids of my short family trip back to my home country ✈️
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Hi! So, I just came back from a trip to the Philippines with my family and each year we go, I seem to end up coming back with new stories to tell. To be honest, I debated uploading and even making this video because a part of me says that it's just not enough "good" content. I didn't take enough videos or photos or anything like that because most of the time I didn't want the distraction of a camera. So what you just saw (or about to see), is of course a fraction of what happened during our vacation. I didn't ever think that I was going to upload most of my camera roll for the internet to see. But Youtube has been a fundamental part of my life, and no matter how mundane or insignificant the snaps I took may seem, I figured that this could be a chance for me to show you how I am in real life. I wanted you to see me unfiltered, not simply me when i'm camera happy but the person I am when I'm with the people I spend time with the most.

It took me 3 days to edit this video, compiling photos from the day we landed to the Philippines, (I remember feeling narcoleptic that entire day) to the last snap I took on my way back to Dubai.

I came back with stories to tell from the time we trekked in Taal Volcano and took photos by the stunning view with the comfy gloom of the weather. The time we snuck up an 8-storey high zip line beam at night and watched the little bright lights from above. The way we went crazy over the slides in a waterpark. The time when we lipsynced to Carly Rae Jepsen's Gimmie Love because it had such a sick beat and Nanay watched in confusion. And when it was all too good I had a breakdown at night and the day after that I watched the clouds dance with the wind while sipping chamomile tea and I realized that I didn't have enough time in this world to feel sad, or hollow. And how just right after that I asked Nanay to grab ice cream with me and she told me more stories about her times, and by the end of our conversation, I wanted to do so much for her and yet all I could do was listen. Of all the warm and mundane moments, I think the most heartbreaking ones would be when we came back "home", and it didn't feel like home. I felt like a visitor, like I always do and I felt stuck reminiscing about childhood, how much playing dodgeball made me so happy while looking at our backyard, and how much of it I couldn't get back. I don't really know where I'm trying to get at here. Maybe I just wanted to let you know how I felt during the times I took the photos in the video. To end this with a positive note- no matter how much the people and the places changed, it wasn't something that I could stop. It was something to marvel at, and that alone was enough for me.

Also, shoutout to my parents for without them this trip wouldn't have been possible.

Music by Gorgeous Bully- "Find a Home"
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