For the record, if not for the killer cab that dashed us 12 kilometers in 5 blinks, we could have missed the check-in counter, missed the plane, missed Macau, then burned our bags.

Nothing was for sure when we realized how close we were to missing our first free international flight. The bother came due to So Myeong's and Patrik's international card application (per mandate for foreign students exiting the country). There was so much to loathe about that day. But we chose to love. Blah! So instead of wasting our time grumbling over the things that happened, we chose to think about the things we missed to plan out for Macau.

For a year, more or less, I've made best of friends with two of the guys I had never imagined to travel with. And magnetizing us were the free plane tickets we won from a backpacking challenge then called Juan For Fun (and I quote, "Thank you Cebu Pacific). On the last 2 months of that exploit, we realized that nothing good ever happens past 12 midnight abroad, that window seats are more important than friendship, and that bad experiences make good stories. MAKES A BETTER PERSON TOO. CAPS LOCK, BOLD, FONT SIZE...12pt. And please... I didn't travel the world...not yet. Rather, I've traveled through space and time..........

...............zones.

Now let's start over, shall we? The one with the free tickets.

Screenshot from our audition video.
It all started with a tagged post on Facebook about Cebu Pacific’s Juan For Fun. Since then, everything was never the same. We had two failed attempts of making our audition video, and our final output was way behind the others in terms of quality. But we didn’t lose hope. If it weren’t for our guts to try, we wouldn’t have gotten in. I guess my picks for teammates clicked, and the chemistry of an Iranian, Korean, and Filipino worked well on screen with the panelist.

As many of the frequent readers of this blog may have not known (since I haven't blogged it here), I joined a backpacking adventure last year free of charge. It was a competition hosted by Cebu Pacific. Together with my team, we traveled around Philippines for 7 days all for free! This year, the same backpacking challenge is back for an even more exciting twist. They're having an international destination in their itinerary! Watch the video to know the mechanics! :)