tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92741362024-03-14T00:59:01.043+08:00enlightened owrangeaka NAKILATANUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger829125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-85806675287109680812016-09-26T20:32:00.001+08:002016-09-26T21:47:55.298+08:00[Day 4] Bukidnon-CDO: All-for-1 3-in-1This day we're supposed to move to Pangantocan, Bukidnon. It's 2 or 3 towns away from Valencia, around 70Km travel. We're supposed to be joining a trail run, Kalatungan Ridge Ultimate Run, on Saturday morning. <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lESfYyKWFWM/V-kajzXmHPI/AAAAAAAAosg/SwEm90WhVQ8/s640/blogger-image-256871389.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lESfYyKWFWM/V-kajzXmHPI/AAAAAAAAosg/SwEm90WhVQ8/s640/blogger-image-256871389.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>But Mark's swollen achilles worsened. I could actually just leave him at Valencia while I go on with the race but we're "all-for-one-one-for-all 3-in-1" so we decided to "move on" to CDO. </div><div><br></div><div>Our last breakfast at Valencia was at their Painitan. I guess because of the renovation of their public market, their painitan's kinda affected. It was the "loneliest" painitan I'd been to. :(</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WAfCwtZzno4/V-kal-vPrMI/AAAAAAAAosk/qU5fXvklC2Y/s640/blogger-image-59024771.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WAfCwtZzno4/V-kal-vPrMI/AAAAAAAAosk/qU5fXvklC2Y/s640/blogger-image-59024771.jpg"></a></div>Tailoring shops are like everywhere in Valencia.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nmTLd_e9iAE/V-kanxXHnKI/AAAAAAAAoso/mlmEvHdr9Ks/s640/blogger-image--518701143.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nmTLd_e9iAE/V-kanxXHnKI/AAAAAAAAoso/mlmEvHdr9Ks/s640/blogger-image--518701143.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">really just wanted to stay in Bukidnon, but to enjoy the place, we really need Mark's foot to be not in pain. You know, trails are everywhere waiting to be explored. It's like rubbing salt to the wound to be surrounded with beautiful mountains, and you can't do any thing about it.</span></div><div><br></div><div>So off we moved to a place with taxi. :) CDO is probably the city in Mindanao that I have been to most so I was really not much looking forward to it. Plus, I feel that CDO feels like Cebu (so much feels in this sentence).</div><div><br></div><div>I was craving for "prow-ven" before leaving Valencia but I did not get any before boarding the bus. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OmlpKtzGuZo/V-kjAeslCsI/AAAAAAAAos8/7-1lpNM0h68/s640/blogger-image--183728820.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OmlpKtzGuZo/V-kjAeslCsI/AAAAAAAAos8/7-1lpNM0h68/s640/blogger-image--183728820.jpg"></a></div>This mushroom turned greasy at Circa in CDO satisfied that craving. Thinking about it, CDO is now an exciting destination. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w1uNOYuoeqI/V-kawhbo9uI/AAAAAAAAoss/8pUCBV9Nch8/s640/blogger-image-932133602.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w1uNOYuoeqI/V-kawhbo9uI/AAAAAAAAoss/8pUCBV9Nch8/s640/blogger-image-932133602.jpg"></a></div>One of the reasons why i was hesitant to move to CDO because we're bound to just go on a food trip especially when we're staying in Red Planet (Tune hotel before), which is surrounded by mallssss. </div><div><br></div><div>I cannot describe how disappointed I was with not being able to join the trail run. So to make up for it, I signed up to whatever upcoming fun run I came across in CDO, even if it was as "corny" as me. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jKglQ7w-hcs/V-klTWnybbI/AAAAAAAAotI/uNTyDOEsX2U/s640/blogger-image-650733678.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jKglQ7w-hcs/V-klTWnybbI/AAAAAAAAotI/uNTyDOEsX2U/s640/blogger-image-650733678.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Angst pabebe</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HYJH_8aOHyQ/V-kjCkTVzeI/AAAAAAAAotA/3dOqiBDxSjk/s640/blogger-image-1676663909.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HYJH_8aOHyQ/V-kjCkTVzeI/AAAAAAAAotA/3dOqiBDxSjk/s640/blogger-image-1676663909.jpg"></a></div>Arriving in CDO this day, I could claim that I got to cross Mindanao from south to north. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-31209655070825708272016-09-24T16:06:00.001+08:002016-09-24T21:36:50.396+08:00[Day 3] Valencia, Bukidnon 2016: Years-Worth of Throwback PhotosBeing in the middle of very big mountains, grand plans are waiting! First on itinerary was jog to Musuan Peak from the Valencia town proper we're staying then back. Breakfast, then visit / chill at Lake Apo. It's going to be a LAKE TO SUMMIT DAY!!!<div><br></div><div>I was awaken at 2am with the gushing of water from the faucet at the bathroom. It was Mark trying to "ice" his "achilles tendonitis." Of all the times that it showed up, it happened when we were surrounded with trails and natures where it would require a lot of time on foot. Yes, his foot decided to swell when we arrived in Mindanao. @.@ How convenient!?!?</div><div><br></div><div>So no jogging happened but we tried to take it literally one step at a time, until his foot could no longer take it. </div><div><br></div><div>We still proceeded with Lake Apo. Mindanao people really love to name their places "Apo" like Mt. Apo, and then this Lake Apo. It's claim to fame is that it's the cleanest lake in Philippines.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AOGTHlFeaKk/V-Y9U098HkI/AAAAAAAAoqs/xLfBKrw4vP4/s640/blogger-image--1700724850.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AOGTHlFeaKk/V-Y9U098HkI/AAAAAAAAoqs/xLfBKrw4vP4/s640/blogger-image--1700724850.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AOGTHlFeaKk/V-Y9U098HkI/AAAAAAAAoqs/xLfBKrw4vP4/s640/blogger-image--1700724850.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-saonJRbhtPc/V-Y9XNj-gEI/AAAAAAAAoqw/hECo0bNaPZA/s640/blogger-image-1758906431.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-saonJRbhtPc/V-Y9XNj-gEI/AAAAAAAAoqw/hECo0bNaPZA/s640/blogger-image-1758906431.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If you're not into swimming, there's nothing much here. If I had to do it again, I would trek it from the highway to the lake to make it more enjoyable. But here are some ways you can entertain yourself:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Buy home-made delicacies from the women who seem to be the caretakers of the lake. You can also ask them to cook meals for you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iz1A8xCJQb0/V-Y9ZCo38lI/AAAAAAAAoq0/Kp7ZF7fo6fc/s640/blogger-image--2122428961.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iz1A8xCJQb0/V-Y9ZCo38lI/AAAAAAAAoq0/Kp7ZF7fo6fc/s640/blogger-image--2122428961.jpg"></a></div></div>Rent this floating cottage. P300+ if you want to be towed around the lake. Lesser price like P100 if you just want to sit on it.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1ybByZKIXnI/V-ZOIqxiXNI/AAAAAAAAoro/MIGCK8cKkSc/s640/blogger-image--861783906.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1ybByZKIXnI/V-ZOIqxiXNI/AAAAAAAAoro/MIGCK8cKkSc/s640/blogger-image--861783906.jpg"></a></div>Then you can take all kinds of photos for 1-year supply of instagram posts and throwbacks. </div><div><br></div><div>One photo for my crochet instagram account.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k1OlONHL2CI/V-ZOFqKdxYI/AAAAAAAAork/YF-hLN4pzAI/s640/blogger-image--461892253.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k1OlONHL2CI/V-ZOFqKdxYI/AAAAAAAAork/YF-hLN4pzAI/s640/blogger-image--461892253.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Then another 1 for my "running" account, My one and only yoga pose. Credit to the #instagramhusband who was able to take this pose which I was probably able to hold for 1 secondsss.<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k1OlONHL2CI/V-ZOFqKdxYI/AAAAAAAAork/YF-hLN4pzAI/s640/blogger-image--461892253.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4pgRBKJ13OQ/V-Y90obtkYI/AAAAAAAAorI/Wq5GTTNpC9o/s640/blogger-image--997388670.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4pgRBKJ13OQ/V-Y90obtkYI/AAAAAAAAorI/Wq5GTTNpC9o/s640/blogger-image--997388670.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Lunch time, we moved out from the Lake Apo. This time, Mark really looks in more pain.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oB-Xq9_Wjf8/V-aBZL7kxiI/AAAAAAAAosI/_CEk4n5_4UM/s640/blogger-image--1239884966.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oB-Xq9_Wjf8/V-aBZL7kxiI/AAAAAAAAosI/_CEk4n5_4UM/s640/blogger-image--1239884966.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Musuan Peak plan became blurry. But we just thought we could just wing it out. And, it's really hard to miss it because it's that one "sore thumb" standing out in Valencia like always calling you to visit her.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I84SL5PdPK8/V-Y9vBN3DUI/AAAAAAAAorA/Jdhoanhx02U/s640/blogger-image--75773323.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I84SL5PdPK8/V-Y9vBN3DUI/AAAAAAAAorA/Jdhoanhx02U/s640/blogger-image--75773323.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After few steps, Mark gave up. I was sad to leave him behind.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HCFk2MY-4HU/V-Y9bMrsXDI/AAAAAAAAoq4/LC8D4U4ktBg/s640/blogger-image-1113517640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HCFk2MY-4HU/V-Y9bMrsXDI/AAAAAAAAoq4/LC8D4U4ktBg/s640/blogger-image-1113517640.jpg"></a></div>But most of all, i was saddest because no one can take yet another 1-year supply of look-at-me-now photos. :( </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dKvbluRxdxk/V-ZOKqb_iVI/AAAAAAAAors/4Y2Qjv0WhoY/s640/blogger-image--1618729010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dKvbluRxdxk/V-ZOKqb_iVI/AAAAAAAAors/4Y2Qjv0WhoY/s640/blogger-image--1618729010.jpg"></a></div>Musuan Peak is actually a quick trek. It's level of "difficulty or ease" is like Mt. Manunggal in Cebu when you start trekking it from highway (only it's shorter. I think out-and-back is 5Km or less.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Some random photos I took along the way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But first let me take a #selfie!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aLAnPc-RX1Y/V-Y8R0We_UI/AAAAAAAAoqk/aewduvnCb6A/s640/blogger-image-22677158.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aLAnPc-RX1Y/V-Y8R0We_UI/AAAAAAAAoqk/aewduvnCb6A/s640/blogger-image-22677158.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G46tXD2SPlU/V-Y9xnkxTdI/AAAAAAAAorE/bMMLEn9YmuU/s640/blogger-image-1427189301.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G46tXD2SPlU/V-Y9xnkxTdI/AAAAAAAAorE/bMMLEn9YmuU/s640/blogger-image-1427189301.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G46tXD2SPlU/V-Y9xnkxTdI/AAAAAAAAorE/bMMLEn9YmuU/s640/blogger-image-1427189301.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mDFkJ4Ndw-Q/V-Y8OAUINrI/AAAAAAAAoqg/i5hRRAnMnUM/s640/blogger-image--2137247317.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mDFkJ4Ndw-Q/V-Y8OAUINrI/AAAAAAAAoqg/i5hRRAnMnUM/s640/blogger-image--2137247317.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mDFkJ4Ndw-Q/V-Y8OAUINrI/AAAAAAAAoqg/i5hRRAnMnUM/s640/blogger-image--2137247317.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oC5WJJFmmSk/V-aBWah7DPI/AAAAAAAAosE/VHFkBvRqfFI/s640/blogger-image-975530189.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oC5WJJFmmSk/V-aBWah7DPI/AAAAAAAAosE/VHFkBvRqfFI/s640/blogger-image-975530189.jpg"></a></div></div></div>Ended this day with a meal at Manna x Quail. It's Mark's favorite, and so to make him happy, we had dinner there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Their coffee is good. It deserves to be drunk(sp?) BLACK! :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7t43WpvOm6k/V-aBcJDITQI/AAAAAAAAosM/SzKO8lu4e2k/s640/blogger-image--1800384196.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7t43WpvOm6k/V-aBcJDITQI/AAAAAAAAosM/SzKO8lu4e2k/s640/blogger-image--1800384196.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q3CfT-LnB6M/V-aBSxEouoI/AAAAAAAAosA/MWM0b_3rIbw/s640/blogger-image--583897877.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q3CfT-LnB6M/V-aBSxEouoI/AAAAAAAAosA/MWM0b_3rIbw/s640/blogger-image--583897877.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-71016831171075071512016-09-23T13:26:00.001+08:002016-09-23T13:34:08.621+08:00[Day 2] DVO x Bukidnon 2016: LayoverI wanted to leave Davao for Valencia, Bukidnon at lunch time so I could attend a friend yoga teacher's class but the OC Mark wanted to very early because delays and such might happen with our bus trip to Valencia. Like duh, So much about being a "backpacker" and carefree.<div><br></div><div>So I bargained for visiting the merkado for the Painitan before heading to the bus terminal. Painitan is my thing lately when visiting new places. It started with the Dumaguete Painitan.</div><div><br></div><div>Davao's Bangkerohan Market has the biggest Painitan center I've been to. It has stalls after stalls of similar looking Painitan that it's kinda hard to find the one you're looking for a first-timer.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6GD4kaMI8BM/V-S8rrEE2HI/AAAAAAAAopY/3PMp1gxGnH0/s640/blogger-image-238223320.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6GD4kaMI8BM/V-S8rrEE2HI/AAAAAAAAopY/3PMp1gxGnH0/s640/blogger-image-238223320.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We went to Del Mar Painitan because it's the internet celebrity. :) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NkWdcLdaNXg/V-S8x1RHR-I/AAAAAAAAopk/Fv8hkY2eUbQ/s640/blogger-image--434138960.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NkWdcLdaNXg/V-S8x1RHR-I/AAAAAAAAopk/Fv8hkY2eUbQ/s640/blogger-image--434138960.jpg"></a></div>I just have to say though that Bohol has still the tastiest sikwate / tsokolate for me! <br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6GD4kaMI8BM/V-S8rrEE2HI/AAAAAAAAopY/3PMp1gxGnH0/s640/blogger-image-238223320.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9vN7tN8mTWE/V-S8aOVGhpI/AAAAAAAAopM/FSehTsESUws/s640/blogger-image-1546069000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9vN7tN8mTWE/V-S8aOVGhpI/AAAAAAAAopM/FSehTsESUws/s640/blogger-image-1546069000.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9vN7tN8mTWE/V-S8aOVGhpI/AAAAAAAAopM/FSehTsESUws/s640/blogger-image-1546069000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S45LA1za0Ww/V-S8f9k8D6I/AAAAAAAAopQ/2zk39kMCZJ0/s640/blogger-image-1275605103.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S45LA1za0Ww/V-S8f9k8D6I/AAAAAAAAopQ/2zk39kMCZJ0/s640/blogger-image-1275605103.jpg"></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tA2GYX2734Y/V-S8vj4RDHI/AAAAAAAAopg/nNdFw7F7jpU/s640/blogger-image-737478922.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tA2GYX2734Y/V-S8vj4RDHI/AAAAAAAAopg/nNdFw7F7jpU/s640/blogger-image-737478922.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Then it was a 5-hour bus ride to Valencia, Bukidnon. We rode the DVO-CDO bus.<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Owkei, I admit that I was ignorant when I imagined a wild wild west kind of scenario with this trip. But Except for sitting for 5 hours, views of greens and mountains, occassional bus stops, it was pretty uneventful.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IxLgbNB_KlM/V-S88mfg5FI/AAAAAAAAop4/hIV2fVAiqbU/s640/blogger-image--1278699664.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IxLgbNB_KlM/V-S88mfg5FI/AAAAAAAAop4/hIV2fVAiqbU/s640/blogger-image--1278699664.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Most of the passengers were senior lolo and lolas. Based on their conversation, they're going home to Ipil, Zamboanga. So after they'd land in CDO, they would then be hopping to another bus trip to Zamboanga. They're the original travel bloggers minus the internet. With them are bagful of food and Royal Tru Orange. :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Quarantine</i>. Every time you enter Bukidnon, they always let you get down and pass this wet carpet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OBJITxryDAs/V-S8pd9ZT0I/AAAAAAAAopU/se5CUKljzGc/s640/blogger-image--1150802980.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OBJITxryDAs/V-S8pd9ZT0I/AAAAAAAAopU/se5CUKljzGc/s640/blogger-image--1150802980.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Food trips</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZJGQRBZN4k4/V-S80GJtpiI/AAAAAAAAopo/u-Msh21dZB8/s640/blogger-image--674215735.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZJGQRBZN4k4/V-S80GJtpiI/AAAAAAAAopo/u-Msh21dZB8/s640/blogger-image--674215735.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Veggies in this part of the archipelago are extra crunchy and freshier!<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZJGQRBZN4k4/V-S80GJtpiI/AAAAAAAAopo/u-Msh21dZB8/s640/blogger-image--674215735.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LRR6tOfIBLc/V-S82YqqZlI/AAAAAAAAops/RzvDe7mr8bM/s640/blogger-image--242493764.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LRR6tOfIBLc/V-S82YqqZlI/AAAAAAAAops/RzvDe7mr8bM/s640/blogger-image--242493764.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LRR6tOfIBLc/V-S82YqqZlI/AAAAAAAAops/RzvDe7mr8bM/s640/blogger-image--242493764.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sLBHZUeDQlk/V-S84XpEkRI/AAAAAAAAopw/rGq5LsCV72o/s640/blogger-image--1464918148.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sLBHZUeDQlk/V-S84XpEkRI/AAAAAAAAopw/rGq5LsCV72o/s640/blogger-image--1464918148.jpg"></a></div></div></div>And THIS! Thanks to the DIL! :) Next to durian coffee, this is the closest thing I'll eat Durian. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SF9Kf1aQ1c0/V-S8YAyQaFI/AAAAAAAAopI/TNMr5Po97VI/s640/blogger-image-262408396.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SF9Kf1aQ1c0/V-S8YAyQaFI/AAAAAAAAopI/TNMr5Po97VI/s640/blogger-image-262408396.jpg"></a></div><br></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Arrived past 2pm in Valencia, and we had a quick go-around of the city. We were able to pass by this city 3 years ago when we visited Malaybalay, and it seems to be just a busier city this time, more mall construction, subdivision, and cars. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And this Manna X Quail has decent coffee. :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LTAEvfeG3Lg/V-S8tsFZORI/AAAAAAAAopc/Qd9FPV53pvU/s640/blogger-image--376782360.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LTAEvfeG3Lg/V-S8tsFZORI/AAAAAAAAopc/Qd9FPV53pvU/s640/blogger-image--376782360.jpg"></a></div>And I love their restroom, it's bigger than our house!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ne92AarNGHk/V-S86j0AmCI/AAAAAAAAop0/nhGsIrGPjtw/s640/blogger-image-754514827.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ne92AarNGHk/V-S86j0AmCI/AAAAAAAAop0/nhGsIrGPjtw/s640/blogger-image-754514827.jpg"></a></div>We had dinner at Chesper, the most recommended eatery of Motorela drivers.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vuxNjTtC8TU/V-S8T8LQ2_I/AAAAAAAAopA/qPxnSBETKVg/s640/blogger-image-618196312.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vuxNjTtC8TU/V-S8T8LQ2_I/AAAAAAAAopA/qPxnSBETKVg/s640/blogger-image-618196312.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It has all the lights, and people of Bukidnon.<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vuxNjTtC8TU/V-S8T8LQ2_I/AAAAAAAAopA/qPxnSBETKVg/s640/blogger-image-618196312.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--3HGlOavyss/V-S8VxHOrlI/AAAAAAAAopE/b-6sJm46Su4/s640/blogger-image--2060706058.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--3HGlOavyss/V-S8VxHOrlI/AAAAAAAAopE/b-6sJm46Su4/s640/blogger-image--2060706058.jpg"></a></div></div> I ordered RM, Remeber Me, for its name. I think it's the equivalent of lansiao of Cebu.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EDM_AW1v92w/V-S8QtK5ELI/AAAAAAAAoo8/7DNPx7XgDlk/s640/blogger-image-783422037.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EDM_AW1v92w/V-S8QtK5ELI/AAAAAAAAoo8/7DNPx7XgDlk/s640/blogger-image-783422037.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A nice dish to end our first day in Valencia, Bukidnon: REMEMBER ME.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></div><br></div><div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-672323316971673812016-09-20T22:34:00.001+08:002016-09-20T22:36:35.952+08:00Davao 2016: I & My Daughter-in-LawMeet my daughter-in-law, @ariannechan! :)<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XatThtjBySA/V-FI8lriSbI/AAAAAAAAojk/3KhxDI2DWo0/s640/blogger-image-954213970.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XatThtjBySA/V-FI8lriSbI/AAAAAAAAojk/3KhxDI2DWo0/s640/blogger-image-954213970.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XatThtjBySA/V-FI8lriSbI/AAAAAAAAojk/3KhxDI2DWo0/s640/blogger-image-954213970.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dO1eIj1rvI0/V-FI-2CKjtI/AAAAAAAAojo/TEWZHEiifuI/s640/blogger-image--1506803734.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dO1eIj1rvI0/V-FI-2CKjtI/AAAAAAAAojo/TEWZHEiifuI/s640/blogger-image--1506803734.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">With our age gap, It's kinda weird why we know each other. :) And so it's one of the reasons why I ❤️ Davao. I really don't mind being transplanted here. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">---</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">First time to arrive in Davao at night time. And, it was the same after-office-hours busy streets as before as if nothing happened just few weeks ago.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Twinning...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--p3ZCg8kP5c/V-FJa4wAcNI/AAAAAAAAoj0/gzqEC2lD-W8/s640/blogger-image-1829084352.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--p3ZCg8kP5c/V-FJa4wAcNI/AAAAAAAAoj0/gzqEC2lD-W8/s640/blogger-image-1829084352.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--p3ZCg8kP5c/V-FJa4wAcNI/AAAAAAAAoj0/gzqEC2lD-W8/s640/blogger-image-1829084352.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RjXcs8rQwLM/V-FJcqy8YqI/AAAAAAAAoj4/64-VAOkiplE/s640/blogger-image-1617859136.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RjXcs8rQwLM/V-FJcqy8YqI/AAAAAAAAoj4/64-VAOkiplE/s640/blogger-image-1617859136.jpg"></a></div></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Anyhow, this is a quick overnight stay, as we'll leave early tomorrow for Bukidnon. :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We had dinner at Little Nam, a Vietnamese resto. It's located near the BPO center of the city together with other small quaint restos in some sort of a complex / strip.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And, I committed a major food blogger faux pas when I forgot to take a photo of the guicon. @.@</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_3fyhe_2OfU/V-FJC2XhuII/AAAAAAAAojw/CdqYxnyJP-A/s640/blogger-image-1645435628.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_3fyhe_2OfU/V-FJC2XhuII/AAAAAAAAojw/CdqYxnyJP-A/s640/blogger-image-1645435628.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e0natwvkMCU/V-FJA43ClnI/AAAAAAAAojs/QAf3ahYacOA/s640/blogger-image-1736170764.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e0natwvkMCU/V-FJA43ClnI/AAAAAAAAojs/QAf3ahYacOA/s640/blogger-image-1736170764.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-72628139990316787452016-08-21T18:34:00.001+08:002016-08-21T19:00:13.403+08:00Belayer: The Other Half of a Crag Climber<div>I'm Clueless to the climbing sport, I solely trust on the referrals of friends of people who can help migi. And I'm very thankful to always being led to wonderful people: Yahman, JJ, Dodong, and other staff in Vertigo Gym.</div><div><br></div><div>Then earlier today (<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Not counting the "root climbing" in Danao, Bohol last summer), Migi had his 1st outdoor rock climbing experience. And, <b>I</b></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> learned that though climbing is a solo sport, a very big part of </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the success, and most of all the fun of the journey (and above all things - your safety), is of the "belayer." </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></b></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Big thanks to <b>Enie Yonson</b>, who was referred by friends and internet, for making Migi want more of it! :) (Though, I'm not sure with the others :).)</span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9D5qxq0C3C0/V7mGDKBocZI/AAAAAAAAny8/ASLM-Oa1fko/s640/blogger-image-317396828.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Spot me!)<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cZ8qBQfECrY/V6HpV1vUSYI/AAAAAAAAnoI/g7XQiZ_X03g/s640/blogger-image-862537208.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cZ8qBQfECrY/V6HpV1vUSYI/AAAAAAAAnoI/g7XQiZ_X03g/s640/blogger-image-862537208.jpg"></a></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Among all the sports that Migi get into, it's the climbing that I have the chance to get more involve as he needs to be "chaperoned" in going to the gym. So </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Last weekend's Vertigo Cup climbing competition was my first time to see Migi competes. Though, he joins tournament / competition from time to time, I never got to witness any of them. So I don't really know what happens when there's a competition, and what to do.</span></div><div><br></div><div>So Here are my "soccer mom" lessons from that climbing event:</div><div><br></div><div>1. To be a mother or a father? </div><div><br></div><div>I read somewhere that kids who are raised by mothers tend to be less aggressive because mother, by nature, are more protective and more forgiving. I don't know how true is this but being a mother, yes, I am more forgiving and less pushy.</div><div><br></div><div>I noticed that Migi has high tolerance for pain, and I think this is somehow what gives him advantage in sports. (I remember that he once chipped off his toenail in a tennis game. He did not complain until I saw it the following day that it's falling off. Gross! I brought him to ER where a surgeon cleaned it up.) So I know that when he started voicing out that he's in pain, I know that it was real pain. Plus he was already climbing for more than 2 hours, which he's not used to. His climbing sessions usually end in 2hrs.</div><div><br></div><div>SO SHOULD I PUSH OR GIVE HIM A PAT ON HIS BACK for a good job, and go home?!? </div><div><br></div><div>The mother in me just really want to pack things up, and then feed him his favorite dimsum. It was just some silly competition after all. </div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, I could hear Mark's voice saying "Maayo gali wala ka gipanganak sa panahon sa gubat."</div><div><br></div><div>It's probably a disservice to Migi if I would not let him push one more time. So I let my ALPHA female ruled, turned cold-hearted and tell him "you are still alive. You rest then try one more route." :)</div><div><br></div><div>2. If being a mother or a father would not work, bring in SUGAR.</div><div><br></div><div>Being a first time "soccer mom," I did not anticipate the "down" times. I did not know how to cheer up the boy, how to aid his discomforts. </div><div><br></div><div>Thankfully, I remembered my being a support crew in long-distance races. When people is down, just pump them with sugar! :) </div><div><br></div><div>So when he felt tired, I buy sprite. When he complained of painful hands, I distract him with tab gadget since I had no liniment.</div><div><br></div><div>3. It's you against the wall, the scorecard, and most of all YOU.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5_6lfMry4aU/V6HuX8TlVYI/AAAAAAAAnoY/0DgTti0UZPk/s640/blogger-image--498248259.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5_6lfMry4aU/V6HuX8TlVYI/AAAAAAAAnoY/0DgTti0UZPk/s640/blogger-image--498248259.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>Migi usually comes home with a medal from his competitions, tennis / table tennis / chess / archery, but I always thought it's a fluke. I mean there are not really a lot of kids who play chess, right? He might just be the one joining thus the medals.</div><div><br></div><div>But I kinda underestimated him. He is competitive in a way that he did not put much attention to any other climbers. He was mainly concerned with the wall, the routes, and his score card. </div><div><br></div><div>Day 1 of competition was that there were 12 or 16 routes to climb. And they were given 4 hours to climb as many of the routes. Scores of each route depends on difficulty level. Day 2 was only 1 route for everyone to climb (each category has their own route) for limited time. So in a way, climbing competition is kinda design to make you focus on your own scorecard than anybody else's. </div><div><br></div><div>When he got his score card, he said something like "I come here to compete with all the routes!"</div><div><br></div><div>So when he started to wear out and wanted to quit, and reasoned out because the other participants were also getting tired, I would just remind him that he's competing with the routes on the wall and not with the "tired climbers". Somehow, it would trick him to try one more route. </div><div>----</div><div>I really do hope that that attitude was not a fluke. And, I hope we or others would not influence him to think otherwise. :)</div><div><br></div><div>Anyhow, I'm thankful to climbing as it finally gave me the chance to be a "soccer mom." </div><div><br></div><div>On a serious note, I'm thankful to climbing as it was my chance to learn more about my 1st bebeboy. He was only 4-month old when I got pregnant again so it has always been so hard to give him my full attention since he was a baby. Until he got old and being the eldest, there's a feeling in me that he can always find a way to survive so he's always like the low priority when it comes to who needs looking after. So among my kids, he is that one who would take more time before I can connect with him or get into.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-drxwwQSFlDU/V6HuZvMml9I/AAAAAAAAnoc/Yjd8eNjz5Fs/s640/blogger-image-1820942474.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-drxwwQSFlDU/V6HuZvMml9I/AAAAAAAAnoc/Yjd8eNjz5Fs/s640/blogger-image-1820942474.jpg"></a></div><br></div></div><div>Photos of Day 2 from Mark's cam:</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RJu7kd8rtTQ/V6Hubd4vk2I/AAAAAAAAnog/YgvS8CoCu8c/s640/blogger-image-678446585.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RJu7kd8rtTQ/V6Hubd4vk2I/AAAAAAAAnog/YgvS8CoCu8c/s640/blogger-image-678446585.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RJu7kd8rtTQ/V6Hubd4vk2I/AAAAAAAAnog/YgvS8CoCu8c/s640/blogger-image-678446585.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PWiFC7mPeUc/V6HufOJsd6I/AAAAAAAAnoo/TJjjY8oM2Zg/s640/blogger-image-380884268.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PWiFC7mPeUc/V6HufOJsd6I/AAAAAAAAnoo/TJjjY8oM2Zg/s640/blogger-image-380884268.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PWiFC7mPeUc/V6HufOJsd6I/AAAAAAAAnoo/TJjjY8oM2Zg/s640/blogger-image-380884268.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5EVal3W-vmY/V6HudSYTOtI/AAAAAAAAnok/WOg8VJhI22s/s640/blogger-image--455174624.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5EVal3W-vmY/V6HudSYTOtI/AAAAAAAAnok/WOg8VJhI22s/s640/blogger-image--455174624.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">(Let me gloat that among all the climbers in all categories, he's the only one who "tap up," being able to reach the "finish line" of the route.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eYnO1BSJMTc/V6HwYRC3NyI/AAAAAAAAno4/LJnTaz5pPQs/s640/blogger-image-846036560.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eYnO1BSJMTc/V6HwYRC3NyI/AAAAAAAAno4/LJnTaz5pPQs/s640/blogger-image-846036560.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">(With his 8-12 category mates Sam & Mozart. 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Anyhow, I got hooked with hooking yarns that I missed a week or 2 of posting here. I kinda tend to have a personality that when I like something, I'm going to put on a "repeat mode" until I have enough of it, I want to puke. When I like a dish, I'm going to have it over and over again until just the thought of it makes me want to puke. I guess this is human nature, right?<br />
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So last week of June, I picked up the crochet hook, and finished what my mother started. Then, it never stops from there.<br />
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In July, I made a yoga mat bag for a friend from the leftover yarns I have on hand. I had to make this quick, in 3 days because she's leaving for Manila to pursue her PhD. =)<br />
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I hate the color combination because I think it's too "kiddie" for a PhD career woman. Of course, being a "psychology" professor, she was all praises for it.
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Then, it was some sort of an ultramarathon doing this "Big bag" for Leah, the birthday girl. When I saw the pattern at first time, it was her in my mind. She likes bags, and she has a thing for big bags as big as her.
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In between, I'm trying to squeeze in making small crochet items like this cat butt coaster. I'm planning to give this to Kapehan Ceferina, because their coffee drinkers are cat-lovers. =) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kapehanceferina/">(Directions in going to Kapehan Ceferina here >>.)</a>
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I realized that I prefer big crochet projects that will get me hooking until I wanted to puke watching yarns after yarns. Then, I get out from it and survive. It's like that high of running meaningless long runs. I'd hate it, but then I wanna do it again.<br />
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So last for July is yet another yoga mat bag for a yoga teacher friend, Caren. She wanted yellow and black originally. I may not be good at color combination, but I know that it would look like a pedestrian lane. So we decided on a blue and yellow color combination. But I chose dark blue which almost looks like black. Thus the finished product still looks like close to pedestrian lane. Anyhow, my friend can use it to create PEDESTRIAN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN to drivers. =)<br />
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And, oh, this is the first crochet project that I did not fully rely on a design pattern. I found exactly like this on pinterest but the method she used was "tapestry" or something like that, and I found it complicated and used a lot of yarns. So I kind of pick here and there patterns, and just hook it along the way.<br />
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That will probably be the last yoga mat bag I'm going to crochet because I don't really see what's the use of yoga mat bags. =) But if you're going to pay me to make one or at least buy the yarns, I would be happy to do so!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-87160346975017989902016-07-11T18:53:00.001+08:002016-07-11T19:08:28.673+08:00My Bouts with DePressIonI found this on my news feed today:<div><br></div><div>"...<span style="text-align: justify; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">DOH Secretary Paulyn Jean Rosell-Ubial who is a staunch advocate of mental health assured the audience and the media that, “This time, mental health programs will be prioritized. For many years, it has been in the backseat and now many Filipinos are suffering silently from the stigma and disabling effects of mental health conditions.” (From wheninmanila.com)</span><div><span style="text-align: justify; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">------</span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It reminds me of about one of the topics my friends and I talked about recently.</span></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The discussion was about depression when I arrived at a get-together with friends. And so I went to tell them that I was seeing ropes to tie around my neck and hang myself when I had the worst depression episode. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Having experienced "depression" kinda feels like a badge of honor to me, except that I could not display and show it off around. I mean it's like going to war, and somehow be able to come out alive from it.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">On a serious note, yes, depression is real. Before that, I used to think depressed people are just "emo's;" or it's something like 1st world problems. It's like "hello, there's greater problem like hunger and war than you being gloomy just because you can afford it." (And I guess this reaction from unknowing people drives the depressed people deeper into their depression.)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Until it hit me. I don't know how it goes with other people but to me depression was like "drowning in a cyclone; however I tried to rise up, I was pulled down." It can get to the point that I felt tired to be constantly pulling myself up that sometimes how I wished it would just literally drown me. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The thing was I just had Mateo at that time, plus the 2 older kids. I could not wallow in it. I need to be functional. I need to look happy. I was aftaid to rub it on my kids that I forced myself to be happy. That feeling of having that that sadness eating you in the insides but you have to be all smiles and cheerleader on the outside; it's crazy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">It was probably a case of post-partum depression. I tried very hard to wing it, but there were times that it would really gnaw into the very inside of me that I could not get hold of it. I was desperate of finding a psych doctor or any thing of their equal because I felt I already need to take meds just so I could at least get a grip, to not totally lose it. I was afraid that I would snap. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I could not run to my friends because they did not understand why I was depressed. They would keep on telling me that I have kids and family, and thankfully was/is blessed, "why would I be sad?!?" Getting this kind of feedback and comment from friends would drive me more into depression, of feeling guilty of why I could not be grateful of the life I had. So it was like getting depressed of on top of</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">why I was depressed, of why I could not be thankful, of why I could not help myself, of why I was so f@cking weak!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I guess my depression was also because having yet another baby plus 2 more toddlers, I felt like I was stuck while everyone was moving forward. Most of friends were still single, and busy with their career while <b>my daughter drew me as the woman at home who was always waiting</b> -- waiting for them to come home from school, waiting for the father from work. At least she did not drew a tree with a rope beside the house.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Depression can sometimes be numbing that sometimes I would slap myself just so I could at least feel pain. Feeling pain is better than feeling depressed, or not feeling at all. There's that invisible itch of numbness that I did not know how to reach it, and so I would end up slapping / pinching myself.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Funny that when I finally found a mom who experienced post-partum depression forgot the name of the meds she took. How more depressing it was?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">So you get an idea why drug / gambling addicts may be depressed people. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Of how I did get out of my depression?!? It was violent, and Mark would probably deny it. Mark and I went into a bruising fight. I was probably at that numbest with that invisible itch that I needed to reach so I annoyed him (It was probably my way of asking that needed help.) to the point that we hit each other. We had that cheap plastic rack which we got hold of. Took it apart, and use the "poles" to fence each other. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">It's embarrasing to say that I got out of it looking like a physically battered wife. But I welcome the pain over that sh!t feeling of depression.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Anyhow, to cut the story short, it somehow got Mark's attention that something was really wrong with me. It also got my attention. So we kind of work on it.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Then I guess the lesson I get from it is that MY HAPPINESS IS MY RESPONSIBILITY. IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE, YOU DO NOT BURDEN THAT SOMEONE OF YOUR HAPPINNESS. Of course, it would be a bonus if that someone can give that happiness or that "you complete me." In short, the best thing you can do to your love one is to self-fulfill your own happiness and it will rub on them. But Of course, sometimes, you need that help.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">So yes, it will be really nice to have that depression hotline however 1st world pain it may sound. I would have definitely use it. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-37880982604054949052016-07-04T18:31:00.001+08:002016-07-04T21:38:19.410+08:00Keyword: Professional BloggerAccording to my google ads, I have earned much enough clicks to qualify as a PROFESSIONAL BLOGGER. <div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">So from now on, I am going to act like a legit PRO BLOGGER. I will fake it; I will make it.</span><div><div><br></div><div><i>Which photo should I post on my instagram for my <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">#OOTD #fashionblogger?</span></i></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Perfect chest-out</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9PxbDjdtJHE/V3o660u8kqI/AAAAAAAAnNM/7lnR1UbKiZI/s640/blogger-image-107946745.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9PxbDjdtJHE/V3o660u8kqI/AAAAAAAAnNM/7lnR1UbKiZI/s640/blogger-image-107946745.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Too much bent<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9PxbDjdtJHE/V3o660u8kqI/AAAAAAAAnNM/7lnR1UbKiZI/s640/blogger-image-107946745.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bcQkMxgbeWc/V3o63Ur6l0I/AAAAAAAAnNE/zZsz9xWaI-k/s640/blogger-image--744847811.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bcQkMxgbeWc/V3o63Ur6l0I/AAAAAAAAnNE/zZsz9xWaI-k/s640/blogger-image--744847811.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Look candid! (The photographer was already annoyed.)<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bcQkMxgbeWc/V3o63Ur6l0I/AAAAAAAAnNE/zZsz9xWaI-k/s640/blogger-image--744847811.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ynOroBG6pq8/V3o65LbSN6I/AAAAAAAAnNI/o7u6jHaGOnk/s640/blogger-image--663594766.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ynOroBG6pq8/V3o65LbSN6I/AAAAAAAAnNI/o7u6jHaGOnk/s640/blogger-image--663594766.jpg"></a></div></div></div><br></div><div><i>Check-in to some fancy place that makes producing 500-word-insert-keywords-thrice article<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> such a fancy job. </span></i></div><div><br></div><div>My office for today! Coffee shop is out, co-working space is in. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aK-djTt0MNE/V3pC4tuvHII/AAAAAAAAnNc/3nBEDvtNZ4U/s640/blogger-image-807168923.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aK-djTt0MNE/V3pC4tuvHII/AAAAAAAAnNc/3nBEDvtNZ4U/s640/blogger-image-807168923.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And, the thing that will legitimize me as a legit BLOGGER -- CAMERA. </i>Never mind that I only know the "automatic" setting nor could figure where is the flash as long as I dangle a camera. This will put me in the upper echeleon of legit bloggers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rp_NvtShDlY/V3pFrbMHShI/AAAAAAAAnNo/SWw0apxHlE0/s640/blogger-image-55322965.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rp_NvtShDlY/V3pFrbMHShI/AAAAAAAAnNo/SWw0apxHlE0/s640/blogger-image-55322965.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Then, the events. Legit bloggers are always busy hopping from one fancy event to another. They're in demand.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This, I need to work harder. I really do not get invited to fancy events for lifestyle / fashion / travel media / bloggers. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I mostly get invites to running / triathlon media presscons, where most of the time I'm the only "blogger" (because they don't really know what label they should give me) while the rest are legit sports writers / journalists and photographers from different media outlets. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Running / triathlon events presscons are straight to the point: discussion, short Q&A, photo ops, snacks/food, dismissed. If you've been to 1 sports presscon, it's basically all the same content. Then sports writers are also pretty straightforward kind of people -- beat their submission deadline. There's no #fashionblogger poses or chika2x kind of intermissions. Sports presscons are not exactly the fancy kind of media event.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But, hey, they're cool! :)</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SGgmygiXhg4/V3pHIal52cI/AAAAAAAAnN4/LiK7IvRdxB0/s640/blogger-image--499364115.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SGgmygiXhg4/V3pHIal52cI/AAAAAAAAnN4/LiK7IvRdxB0/s640/blogger-image--499364115.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So while waiting for my break to up to that celebrity blogger level, let me work on my photography skills.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ayw8AcwTqLE/V3pHGzAe5HI/AAAAAAAAnN0/yLUKwZkgz7s/s640/blogger-image-395402908.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ayw8AcwTqLE/V3pHGzAe5HI/AAAAAAAAnN0/yLUKwZkgz7s/s640/blogger-image-395402908.jpg"></a></div>Don't forget to like, follow, share me! </div><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-74442102970830351712016-06-29T17:58:00.001+08:002016-06-30T09:35:32.941+08:00#coffeesnob StruggleFirst you become a snob to instant coffee.<div><br></div><div>Then you become a snob to big-chain coffee shops.</div><div><br></div><div>Then you start brewing your own.</div><div><br></div><div>Then you become a snob to packed pre-grounded beans.</div><div><br></div><div>Then you become too picky on the beans' roasting dates. Seeing a month-old beans can make you cry.</div><div><br></div><div>It's probably kinda like life. The more you go deeper, the harder to find depth. And you kinda feel that every thing, deep or shallow, are all equal like for nothing.</div><div><br></div><div>I guess it's best to stop the coffee snobbery level at Starbucks.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2509hZkqOxY/V3OcZHic76I/AAAAAAAAnMY/b8i9jpQFn1U/s640/blogger-image--1906032586.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2509hZkqOxY/V3OcZHic76I/AAAAAAAAnMY/b8i9jpQFn1U/s640/blogger-image--1906032586.jpg"></a></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></div><br></div><div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-39277238113956625362016-06-25T09:13:00.001+08:002016-07-29T08:53:39.303+08:00Of Life, Death, & Tangled YarnsFinally, this blanket crochet project of my mother is done. <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4ueeDxJCZPM/V23av2X8ZGI/AAAAAAAAnLw/r3Uyz3cRnHM/s640/blogger-image-1332968435.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4ueeDxJCZPM/V23av2X8ZGI/AAAAAAAAnLw/r3Uyz3cRnHM/s640/blogger-image-1332968435.jpg"></a></div></div><div>Probably 6 months before her terminal diagnosis, she got into crocheting again. I could remember when I was small, she hooked a lot. She would make small pieces of table accessories to dresses for me, which I did not like to wear because it's kinda heavy.<div><br></div><div>When Karla of @damgocebu (check IG) started making dreamcatchers sometime in 2014, I remembered my nanay's crochet hobby. So I bought some materials for her, printed out patterns. Then, she started working on blankets for my kids. She had done one for Margaret and Mateo. She just had started for Miguel, but was never able to progress much because she's feeling all sorts of "not-feeling" well. That's when we got the diagnosis.</div><div><br></div><div>When the diagnosis came out, probably to cope up with it, she said that she would just go home and finished Migi's blanket. But she got weaker and weaker. It was painful to see her getting frustrated of not being able to even hold the hook. So we promised her that I would finish it in case when she really needed to "rest."</div><div><br></div><div>So slowly I took over the project. I begged her many times to pick an easier pattern because the pattern looks complicated (I'm a very beginner.). But she refused because Migi chose the pattern, and she kept saying that it's an easy pattern. How could I say no to a very sick person?!?</div><div><br></div><div>Anyhow, I took it as a way for me to take my mind off from the sad situation -- my own coping too. Then I stopped when she got so "balisa" (needy and probably in much pain). </div><div><br></div><div>Then I continued working on it again after she finally went into eternal rest to take my mind off from the recent happenings.</div><div><br></div><div>Then I stopped working on it again because I feel "grief" looking at the yarns. I stored it away from my sight.</div><div><br></div><div>Then, my uncle Ambo was back from Africa (He's OFW working in Africa for 4months then home for a month then back again.). He was here when Nanay passed away. They were saying she was waiting for him; she passed away a day before his flight back to Africa, and so he had to cancel his flight to attend the interment.</div><div><br></div><div>So seeing my uncle, it means it's been 4 months already. How time flies.</div><div><br></div><div>Somehow, I should finish it already. We kinda need to move on. </div><div><br></div><div><i>(That all-yellow patch somewhere in the center is what my nanay started.)</i></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gLSMPHP0tZ0/V23dXtiA_HI/AAAAAAAAnL8/cZ4EI1p0sBo/s640/blogger-image--710081934.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gLSMPHP0tZ0/V23dXtiA_HI/AAAAAAAAnL8/cZ4EI1p0sBo/s640/blogger-image--710081934.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Thank you for this, nanay! It's a beautiful symbol from you about life, love, and maybe death. </div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-51364582712711103612016-06-23T16:19:00.001+08:002016-06-27T13:12:23.560+08:00[SG Day 6] Boredwalk<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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I took the Changi Boardwalk to go to the hawker instead of the bus to take a look of the boardwalk. Duh! </div>
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Boats for Pulau Ubin Island are in Changi, beside the hawker. If you want to see a different kind of SG, Pulau Ubin it is.</div>
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My last chicken rice for this trip.</div>
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We're supposed to go biking at the East Coast Park in the afternoon with Mark's cousin and his wife, Cindy. But plan got canceled, and so we ended up in Dutch Colony coffee place.<br />
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<i>(So much love... I have so many photos of train PDAs. I find it sweet actually.)</i></div>
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We got down at Tampines MRT station because it has a bus interchange station, which means there would be a lot of people, which would mean there would be a lot of food choices.<br />
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<i>It's easy to differentiate the Indian food.</i><br />
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We were seated a bit near to a Muslim family. That's when I noticed how important for the girls to really cover their hair because the brothers kept teasing the girl, while she tried to fix her burqa so as to hide all her hair.<br />
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That mundane daily life of the people living in the places I visited has always been something I wanted to experience but it's just that hard to capture them in a short time you stay in it. I really wanted to feel how it is to be there behind all the department of tourism marketing, and instagram drool-worthy photos. </div>
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So on this day while Mark was in seminar, I decided to have my own seminar. Kidding! I attended some kind of a knitting session. I was going to be an AUNTIE of Singapore.</div>
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I was so happy to be riding a train for the very first time on my own alone self! It was like a "Eat, Pray, Love" moment for me! Being able to make it in on my own getting the right bus to the right train station to the right train carriage was Achievement unlocked. </div>
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So I snapped a selfie of myself inside the train, and was on the process of bragging it on the worldwideweb <b>"insert amazing moment caption #blessed FIRST TRAIN RIDE BY MY OWN AT AGE ?!?!?." </b></div>
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And I stopped midway of posting that historical train ride selfie, when I was like what, <b>FIRST TRAIN RIDE AT AGE OF 35?!?</b> 35?!? 35?!? Really 35?!? Dafuq 35?!? Do I get it right?!? Is it really 35?!?</div>
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Remembering the kids riding buses alone, is being able to ride the train alone at a bit old age makes me less of a person?!?</div>
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<i>The Old 3rd Wave and New 3rd Wave Coffee Culture Side-by-Side: </i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Tiong Hoe Specialty Coffee</span><br />
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But first things first, FOOD. We went to Chinatown Hawker, which is like in every list of top 101 hawkers of SG, which happens to be read by 101 tourists. It was not really that crowded when we're there, but the few popular stalls had long queues. Plus there were a lot of tourists like us who were like walking around clueless trying to make sense of what to eat. So it kinda felt awkward.</div>
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Being not a local, I honestly cannot tell which nasi lemak or laksa or chicken rice is better or not so I'd just pick any stall that looks convenient to me. So thing is I might just go to a NOT popular hawker center, where I can leisurely be clueless.<br />
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We then went inside People's Park Mall. It was quite a maze inside. You can find so many things that it makes harder to find what you're looking for. </div>
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Chinatown can be touristy on the outside, but once I get into the insides of it, somehow, I need a bit of local knowledge. <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> There are teas, massage parlors, eatery, and all kind of butingtings. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">It's like going downtown Cebu; the few popular are Sto Nino Church, Fort San Pedro but if you want to get something from </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Manalili or Carbon, it's a bit tricky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Thankfully, we got thru the day all just about <b>find-ing</b>, and not buying. @.@</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-9458000449292882332016-06-02T23:42:00.001+08:002016-06-04T17:26:39.254+08:00[SG Day 1] Itinerary: Live Like a Local<div>05/30/16</div><div><br></div>This time in coming to SG, I told Mark we should be like that airbnb ad, live like the local.<div><br></div><div>But before any thing else, let me have my chicken rice & kopi. This has became some sort of my ritual upon arriving in SG, the very first thing we do is to get down a train station w/ Anana's (it's like a fastfood for chicken rice, kopi, and some streetfood-ish kind of fingerfoods.). It's a way of getting into the Singapore vibes: hearing the hard-to-get accent of the staff, adjusting the tastebuds (the 1st time I got here, their food made me realized how "american" our taste can be), & getting a "price" benchmark for your spending splurge.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aw45DxF-pDk/V1BTwg3-yhI/AAAAAAAAmvI/Pmjpo0BT3cA/s640/blogger-image--1624109813.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aw45DxF-pDk/V1BTwg3-yhI/AAAAAAAAmvI/Pmjpo0BT3cA/s640/blogger-image--1624109813.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aw45DxF-pDk/V1BTwg3-yhI/AAAAAAAAmvI/Pmjpo0BT3cA/s640/blogger-image--1624109813.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RgPfIyu5bnc/V1BTyieWirI/AAAAAAAAmvQ/0QWnx1J6vt8/s640/blogger-image-1376910866.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RgPfIyu5bnc/V1BTyieWirI/AAAAAAAAmvQ/0QWnx1J6vt8/s640/blogger-image-1376910866.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Get another drink from that usual SG juice store, "tambay" at the bus station just to soak yourself more into the new place. #char</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pI-u5I0Q_i4/V1BTuBxETtI/AAAAAAAAmvA/X-Te_qWDxXM/s640/blogger-image-2027461840.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pI-u5I0Q_i4/V1BTuBxETtI/AAAAAAAAmvA/X-Te_qWDxXM/s640/blogger-image-2027461840.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The sunset was kinda pretty when we rode down to the Macritchie area, where we we're staying for few nights. I love that area because of trees. I don't know what part oF SG is that place.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n7P2c7PEkoE/V1BT0d4x5kI/AAAAAAAAmvY/668W4ZHdamw/s640/blogger-image--1135497239.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n7P2c7PEkoE/V1BT0d4x5kI/AAAAAAAAmvY/668W4ZHdamw/s640/blogger-image--1135497239.jpg"></a></div>After unloading all our stuff, I now thought that officially we'd now act live like local SG. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>So first thing we did was find a grocery because we're going to have our breakfast at "home" because we're "local.</b>" (On hindsight, I think "hawker" is probably how local actually do their breakfast.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The first grocery store we chanced upon was Cold Storage.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--4Th5gnI6ns/V1JMq-D_lwI/AAAAAAAAmvs/FYRhg-jhL1g/s640/blogger-image--2136378255.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--4Th5gnI6ns/V1JMq-D_lwI/AAAAAAAAmvs/FYRhg-jhL1g/s640/blogger-image--2136378255.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And the first few things that greeted me were:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Bananas and mangoes from Philippines. @.@ Talking about being local.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G6V66IpwQdA/V1JMtz5usOI/AAAAAAAAmv8/I9ibYPcqo_s/s640/blogger-image-633501903.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G6V66IpwQdA/V1JMtz5usOI/AAAAAAAAmv8/I9ibYPcqo_s/s640/blogger-image-633501903.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G6V66IpwQdA/V1JMtz5usOI/AAAAAAAAmv8/I9ibYPcqo_s/s640/blogger-image-633501903.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nZdcudJTkzw/V1JMsfrBDuI/AAAAAAAAmv0/BlC2LfCW56I/s640/blogger-image--1265826650.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nZdcudJTkzw/V1JMsfrBDuI/AAAAAAAAmv0/BlC2LfCW56I/s640/blogger-image--1265826650.jpg"></a></div></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The bananas and mangoes were kinda giving me some cognitive dissonance. Aside from the price, actually more than their prices, they kinda look sad. They're kinda pale and anemic; not the usual so loudly yellow sunshiny back at home. I mean do locals here really pay that price for these sad looking bananas and mangoes?!? Because definitely back in Cebu, I'm not even going to pay attention to it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Deciding to be local for the bananas and mangoes was HARD</b> like choosing a PH president hard. But char lang. I can actually just <b>afford</b> 1 tomato (the left bottom ones); no, not even that one.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-huI-l33ijW8/V1JRAqmO5RI/AAAAAAAAmwI/yd5dJ0jbOIA/s640/blogger-image-1118911284.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-huI-l33ijW8/V1JRAqmO5RI/AAAAAAAAmwI/yd5dJ0jbOIA/s640/blogger-image-1118911284.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I texted Mark's cousin-in-law living here, who happens to be my grader schoolmate, and complained about the bananas. And she replied that it's because I went to Cold Storage, which is like Rustan's back at home. Ooooppsss, I cannot afford to be burgis local in SG. @.@</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So we ended up buying fake fruits, the jams, just like how we are:<b> fake locals</b>. @.@ </div></div></div><br></div></div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-49334855231075762842016-05-26T10:47:00.001+08:002016-05-26T10:53:00.135+08:00Postcards from Compostela Public MarketWe went to Compostela weeks ago for the family day event in our subdivision, which was held at Boardwalk. Boardwalk is located like 300M away from the public market. <div><br></div><div>So I went to the market to see if I had some luck finding some fresh fish for ceviche aka "kinilaw," something to perfectly go along with our grilled pork steak aka "sinugbang baboy." </div><div><br></div><div>Compostela Public Market is quite a small market but something unique about it is it's located near the sea like duh. :)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DzYXoHJKK0o/V0Zjfd_JP4I/AAAAAAAAmt4/qXsK-3NUMco/s640/blogger-image--1846290902.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DzYXoHJKK0o/V0Zjfd_JP4I/AAAAAAAAmt4/qXsK-3NUMco/s640/blogger-image--1846290902.jpg"></a></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nt6D86tcUi8/V0ZjnHbsroI/AAAAAAAAmt8/AK2X1JnCxz8/s640/blogger-image-1616470034.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nt6D86tcUi8/V0ZjnHbsroI/AAAAAAAAmt8/AK2X1JnCxz8/s640/blogger-image-1616470034.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nt6D86tcUi8/V0ZjnHbsroI/AAAAAAAAmt8/AK2X1JnCxz8/s640/blogger-image-1616470034.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SXkrvFqZW1M/V0ZjdS4voKI/AAAAAAAAmt0/a0sxwq3dDlI/s640/blogger-image-543938476.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SXkrvFqZW1M/V0ZjdS4voKI/AAAAAAAAmt0/a0sxwq3dDlI/s640/blogger-image-543938476.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SXkrvFqZW1M/V0ZjdS4voKI/AAAAAAAAmt0/a0sxwq3dDlI/s640/blogger-image-543938476.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9jnC0wWCl8Y/V0ZjpXPc3sI/AAAAAAAAmuA/L6QrW-LYYpo/s640/blogger-image-1706917884.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9jnC0wWCl8Y/V0ZjpXPc3sI/AAAAAAAAmuA/L6QrW-LYYpo/s640/blogger-image-1706917884.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9jnC0wWCl8Y/V0ZjpXPc3sI/AAAAAAAAmuA/L6QrW-LYYpo/s640/blogger-image-1706917884.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GROYPD1pa10/V0ZjabZm-xI/AAAAAAAAmtw/RniPqpZ-GXU/s640/blogger-image-349571303.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GROYPD1pa10/V0ZjabZm-xI/AAAAAAAAmtw/RniPqpZ-GXU/s640/blogger-image-349571303.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GROYPD1pa10/V0ZjabZm-xI/AAAAAAAAmtw/RniPqpZ-GXU/s640/blogger-image-349571303.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zGYYFHZyG8E/V0ZkGo2YQlI/AAAAAAAAmuM/K-8cRxltHpE/s640/blogger-image-1029951264.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zGYYFHZyG8E/V0ZkGo2YQlI/AAAAAAAAmuM/K-8cRxltHpE/s640/blogger-image-1029951264.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zGYYFHZyG8E/V0ZkGo2YQlI/AAAAAAAAmuM/K-8cRxltHpE/s640/blogger-image-1029951264.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LXg1lsMVu-Q/V0ZkE3UXhjI/AAAAAAAAmuI/fcy4-DHZwxA/s640/blogger-image--1579292936.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LXg1lsMVu-Q/V0ZkE3UXhjI/AAAAAAAAmuI/fcy4-DHZwxA/s640/blogger-image--1579292936.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After getting all the ceviche ingredients, I looked for a "painitan." I was in another good luck when they still have "sikwate" (chocolate drink) and "puto" (sticky rice cake or something.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R-_ALUbLzPk/V0Zk-Q6KlzI/AAAAAAAAmuU/DfNHchhTcXs/s640/blogger-image--1288052706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R-_ALUbLzPk/V0Zk-Q6KlzI/AAAAAAAAmuU/DfNHchhTcXs/s640/blogger-image--1288052706.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R-_ALUbLzPk/V0Zk-Q6KlzI/AAAAAAAAmuU/DfNHchhTcXs/s640/blogger-image--1288052706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TfUd9GC1VYk/V0ZlALiOkMI/AAAAAAAAmuY/ptbwh6f9nVM/s640/blogger-image-1970811815.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TfUd9GC1VYk/V0ZlALiOkMI/AAAAAAAAmuY/ptbwh6f9nVM/s640/blogger-image-1970811815.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R-_ALUbLzPk/V0Zk-Q6KlzI/AAAAAAAAmuU/DfNHchhTcXs/s640/blogger-image--1288052706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9Q5E5aXUZLk/V0ZlCa0paDI/AAAAAAAAmuc/W9Q4XUtqfQA/s640/blogger-image-1737859866.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9Q5E5aXUZLk/V0ZlCa0paDI/AAAAAAAAmuc/W9Q4XUtqfQA/s640/blogger-image-1737859866.jpg"></a></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-9226002666504719622016-05-21T10:23:00.001+08:002016-05-21T10:34:57.630+08:00United Colors in CebuI thought I went to the wrong venue when the lounge of waterfront were full of women in burqa. I was invited by a friend to his graduation in Waterfront so I was expecting like people in casual or formal dresses; but seeing the women in burqa, I thought I might be in a Muslim wedding. Then, I snapped at myself of how my "cultural" exposure can be so narrow.<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yM3ucMehEI8/Vz_Gs4QsNRI/AAAAAAAAms0/pJxCUXNjIsk/s640/blogger-image-307027391.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yM3ucMehEI8/Vz_Gs4QsNRI/AAAAAAAAms0/pJxCUXNjIsk/s640/blogger-image-307027391.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yM3ucMehEI8/Vz_Gs4QsNRI/AAAAAAAAms0/pJxCUXNjIsk/s640/blogger-image-307027391.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VCnzjaOBuLE/Vz_GpsHagAI/AAAAAAAAmss/FW3kMGZWOPU/s640/blogger-image--1993079740.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VCnzjaOBuLE/Vz_GpsHagAI/AAAAAAAAmss/FW3kMGZWOPU/s640/blogger-image--1993079740.jpg"></a></div></div><br></div><div>So I then realized that the college of medicine of SWU is quite a mix of different people: there were a lot from Mindanao, then Arab, African, and in the India area countries. It was somehow my first time here in Cebu to be a Christian, I feel like I was a minority. It was weird that I could remember my few Muslim friends, and this is probably how it is to be like them in this majorly Christian country.</div><div><br></div><div><i>(Feeling the odd one out in the row of women in burqa.)</i></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CPmP9mYLsm8/Vz_IY64xFxI/AAAAAAAAmtQ/lYVybekbLDw/s640/blogger-image-1896762664.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CPmP9mYLsm8/Vz_IY64xFxI/AAAAAAAAmtQ/lYVybekbLDw/s640/blogger-image-1896762664.jpg"></a></div></div><div>But though Christian was somehow a minority, the school still had a baccalaureate Roman Catholic mass. That was weirder. @.@</div><div><br></div><div>All the time during the event, I could not help but to keep looking around. I was just amazed looking at different burqa styles.</div><div><br></div><div>There were women in beaded accessorized burqas. They're probably a royalty? </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tvke0Hpvuow/Vz_GrWc4VaI/AAAAAAAAmsw/MCfaLLoZ048/s640/blogger-image-1731957993.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tvke0Hpvuow/Vz_GrWc4VaI/AAAAAAAAmsw/MCfaLLoZ048/s640/blogger-image-1731957993.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Then on the other side are women in all-black dress and burqas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z4Y7ejo4WME/Vz_GnxjH8LI/AAAAAAAAmso/bmNKxDZVIuY/s640/blogger-image-189307236.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z4Y7ejo4WME/Vz_GnxjH8LI/AAAAAAAAmso/bmNKxDZVIuY/s640/blogger-image-189307236.jpg"></a></div><i>(My photos are really bad as I was "stalking" mode.)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And burqas in different shades...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--NlukRVGxVs/Vz_GiIRj8MI/AAAAAAAAmsc/l0Q08QPIv44/s640/blogger-image--1569010804.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--NlukRVGxVs/Vz_GiIRj8MI/AAAAAAAAmsc/l0Q08QPIv44/s640/blogger-image--1569010804.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--NlukRVGxVs/Vz_GiIRj8MI/AAAAAAAAmsc/l0Q08QPIv44/s640/blogger-image--1569010804.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></i></span><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sE5o50Ej93c/Vz_GlLtNI7I/AAAAAAAAmsk/Xq7VAu9mtW4/s640/blogger-image-1036521463.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sE5o50Ej93c/Vz_GlLtNI7I/AAAAAAAAmsk/Xq7VAu9mtW4/s640/blogger-image-1036521463.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sE5o50Ej93c/Vz_GlLtNI7I/AAAAAAAAmsk/Xq7VAu9mtW4/s640/blogger-image-1036521463.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></i></span><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NioBWsnRJAE/Vz_GjvCbrsI/AAAAAAAAmsg/P9jLcM4EnKs/s640/blogger-image-1501349372.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NioBWsnRJAE/Vz_GjvCbrsI/AAAAAAAAmsg/P9jLcM4EnKs/s640/blogger-image-1501349372.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NioBWsnRJAE/Vz_GjvCbrsI/AAAAAAAAmsg/P9jLcM4EnKs/s640/blogger-image-1501349372.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></i></span><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GMxib1andSU/Vz_ITlwQKeI/AAAAAAAAmtE/3GqZCFXvPGw/s640/blogger-image-1231040829.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GMxib1andSU/Vz_ITlwQKeI/AAAAAAAAmtE/3GqZCFXvPGw/s640/blogger-image-1231040829.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="font-style: italic; clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Dl1_Kf-HycU/Vz_IWBSvHPI/AAAAAAAAmtI/3J-xiep7Za0/s640/blogger-image-1136645803.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Dl1_Kf-HycU/Vz_IWBSvHPI/AAAAAAAAmtI/3J-xiep7Za0/s640/blogger-image-1136645803.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They were a different kind of fancy. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>Congrats again, Jossy. I knew him first in the tech startup scene, then he gave me a glimpse into their Nigerian / Kenyan and his other homies running team, and then now he finally's done with his medical school.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NFYZuwpo94I/Vz_IXWMg20I/AAAAAAAAmtM/5DIV9dhJaUI/s640/blogger-image--212805456.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NFYZuwpo94I/Vz_IXWMg20I/AAAAAAAAmtM/5DIV9dhJaUI/s640/blogger-image--212805456.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hopefully, I'd also be invited to his neurosurgeon specialization graduation... keeping my fingers crossed, it will be in London. @.@ That would also be another kind of fancy. :)</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-58177481270157012672016-05-19T16:56:00.001+08:002016-05-20T16:20:49.587+08:00Makati: PMS or True Colors?!?I was excited about going to Makati but PMS (pre-menstrual shurva) hit me big time. When I played this Carol Banawa song throughout the flight, and tears rolling down my eyes for no reason, God help me! <div><br></div><div>It felt like I then hated everything. I kinda snapped at Mark in front of the staff at Wildflour. He ordered matcha tea, and I was scolding him because I was just damn sure that he would not like it and the staff was staring at us. And, Mark looked like he wanted to be swallowed by the earth. @.@ </div><div><br></div><div>So looking back now at that popular tita's of manila-ish cafe Wildflour, I'm not sure if I don't like it because I was having PMS when I went there or maybe it's really an overrated place. </div><div><br></div><div>And, most of all, I hate all the "mug shot" photos taken by Mark. </div><div><br></div><div>And why this so fancy restaurant is most popular for their cronuts?!? It's like why would people waste money dumping sugar on their mitochondria and that sweet matcha milk tea in this gedemit fancy expensive restaurant?!? I WANT VEGAN SHAWARMA!!! </div><div><br></div><div>So that's PMS for me. (It got me thinking That I could probably come up with a very interesting food / resto review when I'm on PMS.)</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7zbXJYTxMp4/Vz2BpNLyoHI/AAAAAAAAmq8/D_LpUWiDvXg/s640/blogger-image--1000338660.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7zbXJYTxMp4/Vz2BpNLyoHI/AAAAAAAAmq8/D_LpUWiDvXg/s640/blogger-image--1000338660.jpg"></a></div>We had lunch courtesy of Chay at a Japanese resto. It's so unremarkable, i don't remember the name. (This is PMS still talking.)</div><div><br></div><div>Another meltdown was This was before election, and for the first time I had this drama discourse of my disappointments of the government inside Toby's cafe. I was ready to cry for P*T*NG INA NA GOBYERNO ITO, HINDI MAN LANG MAKABIGAY NG INSTAGRAM-WORTHY NA PUBLIC MARKET! Hindi na sana kailangan ako magpunta ng Toby's o Wildflour, pwede na sa Painitan na lang sana! Pang puto lang naman talaga ang beauty ko, hindi cronuts! </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ECYuXTvlNIE/Vz2LKMGyunI/AAAAAAAAmrQ/FAnneyiHLLc/s640/blogger-image--437659713.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ECYuXTvlNIE/Vz2LKMGyunI/AAAAAAAAmrQ/FAnneyiHLLc/s640/blogger-image--437659713.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">PMS really sucks or was it really my true colors?!? @.@ </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Anyhow, dinner went well at this highly recommended sushi place by Chay (I forgot the name.). It was my 1st time to be in where it felt those sushi resto in Japanese documentary movies. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QNnjvLQA2F4/Vz2LIjvBSjI/AAAAAAAAmrM/Zeyahmj2Oc0/s640/blogger-image--1239099706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QNnjvLQA2F4/Vz2LIjvBSjI/AAAAAAAAmrM/Zeyahmj2Oc0/s640/blogger-image--1239099706.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QNnjvLQA2F4/Vz2LIjvBSjI/AAAAAAAAmrM/Zeyahmj2Oc0/s640/blogger-image--1239099706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-41Yx-kUEF0s/Vz2LLSCLT4I/AAAAAAAAmrU/BnFCV1lOMgQ/s640/blogger-image-633649806.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-41Yx-kUEF0s/Vz2LLSCLT4I/AAAAAAAAmrU/BnFCV1lOMgQ/s640/blogger-image-633649806.jpg"></a></div></div>After dinner, I enjoyed the startup talks held at the Acceler8, a (hip) coworking space. More details here <a href="https://mobile.facebook.com/events/1726143457664313?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A3%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&aref=3" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">https://mobile.facebook.com/events/1726143457664313?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A3%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&aref=3</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">John Bailon talking about their bitcoin-based product.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_7aQQcx-0m0/Vz2N-swVm3I/AAAAAAAAmrs/CXagbRYfqZU/s640/blogger-image-1483959055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_7aQQcx-0m0/Vz2N-swVm3I/AAAAAAAAmrs/CXagbRYfqZU/s640/blogger-image-1483959055.jpg"></a></div>Mylene Magleo of Paynamics</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tnYm9kXINXY/Vz2N9G6EjkI/AAAAAAAAmro/dY1uMb1Q1xk/s640/blogger-image-2039813251.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tnYm9kXINXY/Vz2N9G6EjkI/AAAAAAAAmro/dY1uMb1Q1xk/s640/blogger-image-2039813251.jpg"></a></div>Magellan Fetalino of AUDEEN</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IALQv2qmb9Y/Vz2N4n5CSgI/AAAAAAAAmrg/4G7uhbuiE2Q/s640/blogger-image--1545176610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IALQv2qmb9Y/Vz2N4n5CSgI/AAAAAAAAmrg/4G7uhbuiE2Q/s640/blogger-image--1545176610.jpg"></a></div>Salarium guy was also there to share quick update.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kC_MQ65j-h4/Vz2N6Q6SidI/AAAAAAAAmrk/jpsGjaxPbSY/s640/blogger-image--1981230285.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kC_MQ65j-h4/Vz2N6Q6SidI/AAAAAAAAmrk/jpsGjaxPbSY/s640/blogger-image--1981230285.jpg"></a></div>And i was happy to see Brian Tan Seng at the event. One of the few people tech people I would bump on both tech events, and running events. He's a 100 miler ultramarathon runner, and he's coffee geek!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It was somehow a perfect end of the day. We went to 98 Labs, office of Brian, somewhere nearby the Acceler8, and had cupsss of coffee!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BnCQEIeTSeg/Vz2PgEDfVyI/AAAAAAAAmr4/3JTU9egB1Xs/s640/blogger-image--720845564.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BnCQEIeTSeg/Vz2PgEDfVyI/AAAAAAAAmr4/3JTU9egB1Xs/s640/blogger-image--720845564.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The following day, <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">we did not go home without getting goi con, mini shawarma.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4ZcyoX_fqhI/Vz2PhRCDSXI/AAAAAAAAmr8/qTbVzrCpWFo/s640/blogger-image-1736788383.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4ZcyoX_fqhI/Vz2PhRCDSXI/AAAAAAAAmr8/qTbVzrCpWFo/s640/blogger-image-1736788383.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This #bebeboy, thru PMS and true colors...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uE9LPefbFmg/Vz2RQvkMJ4I/AAAAAAAAmsI/_EvMMdUKUUc/s640/blogger-image-983946137.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uE9LPefbFmg/Vz2RQvkMJ4I/AAAAAAAAmsI/_EvMMdUKUUc/s640/blogger-image-983946137.jpg"></a></div><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-26252859363619859722016-05-17T17:54:00.001+08:002016-05-18T10:53:57.011+08:00Postcards from Taboan Market<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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This was my first time to be inside the Taboan Public Market, the famous pasalubong center of Cebu especially for its dried fish. Before, it was Nong Nardo who I ran to when I needed "bulad" for pasalubong because he has a lot of suki in Taboan.</div>
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I went more around the market before making any purchase. I always find "Merkado" (public market) to be fascinating. I felt every thing in it is instagram-worthy because there's just so much color, character, life, and that certain kind of smell which smells of no-BS hardwork.<br />
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Then I stumbled upon a "painitan" (i dunno if it's the equivalent of a cafe) inside the market. After experiencing the painitan in Dumaguete, I'm getting more curious about our "painitan culture" like hashtag #painitancrawl. :)<br />
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The painitan owner also offered me tips on where to and what to around Taboan Public Market.<br />
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So protip 1 from the Manang, basically all the dried fish in Taboan are the same. If you want a bit of a lower price, get your dried fish inside the market where the sellers have no stalls. </div>
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Protip 2: Mondays are when the fresh supplies arrived.</div>
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So I ended up buying from this shop as referred by the friend of the friend of the Manang painitan. :)</div>
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And as protip from Manang Tableya, legit pure cacao tablea melts so keep them in a cold temperature. :)<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-36172186377569559372016-05-16T13:36:00.002+08:002016-05-16T13:36:36.778+08:00[April, 2016] Popcorn & Stories 1After attending the launching of <a href="http://www.owrange.com/2016/04/pizza-and-pansitpoetry-date.html">Pansitpoetry</a> of Karla Quimsing (you can order via email kquisming@gmail.com or at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kapehanceferina/?fref=ts">Kapehan Ceferina</a>), we were inspired to do something about writing. So I thought of doing something like the Balakhak poetry reading and Storyteller Night at <a href="http://happygaraje.com/">Happy Garaje.</a> We're going to write our own story then share it at the end of the month. But the willing participants were just Meg and I.<br />
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Happy that we're able to make it in our first edition last April. And when the boys saw the popcorn and mountain dew, they're now interested to be part of it. But they said that it should be Doritos and mountain dew next time.<br />
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So my story was <b>"What's the password?"</b> as read by Meg, please see video.<br />
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Below is Meg's story, copied as is from her notes.<br />
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<b>Title: The <span class="il">Penguin</span> that wanted to fly.....</b><br />
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It was a cold winter day and a snowstorm was coming, And so the <span class="il">Penguins</span> around the area were scared, so they quickly went inside a cave that they found, but one of the mother <span class="il">Penguins</span> was struggling to get inside as she was pregnant. The father <span class="il">penguin</span> was helping the mother <span class="il">penguin</span> as she struggled to walk, as the snowstorm got nearer. The <span class="il">Penguins</span> waiting on the cave for the mother and father <span class="il">Penguins</span> was starting to get impatient, but the parent <span class="il">Penguins</span> were successful. And so the other <span class="il">Penguins</span> made fire while the others went to cover the cave, while the mother <span class="il">penguin</span> went to sit near the fire to warm up. It started to get nightfall, and one by one the <span class="il">Penguins</span>
got tired and went to look for a good area for each of them to sleep.
The next day while they were sleeping the snowstorm begun around the
area, they were hiding. The <span class="il">Penguins</span> would have slept longer but some strange noise was coming inside the cave and so the <span class="il">Penguins</span> woke up, to look for the source of the noise. They found out the noise was coming from the mother <span class="il">penguin</span>, the mother <span class="il">penguin</span> was having her baby....... After a few hours, there were know a new <span class="il">penguin</span> in the pack and her name is Penny. The snowstorm was still raging on outside and the mother <span class="il">penguin</span>
was trying it's hard to warm her new born child. After a few days Penny
started to learn how to walk and do other stuffs. As the snowstorm
raged on, Penny learnt how to speak, understand others, and eat. As days
went by and the snowstorms didn't show any hint of stopping and the one
day it finally stopped. The <span class="il">Penguins</span> were relief to found out it was finally over and some of the <span class="il">Penguins</span> journeyed outside to see if it's safe enough to go outside, the <span class="il">Penguins</span>
that went outside finally came back and said that it's safe to go
outside know. One by one they went outside and finally Penny went
outside and the first thing she saw was a beautiful Albatrosses,
petrels and all kinds of beautiful birds flying over the shore, she
never knew animals can fly high up the sky and so she started to flap
her wings but she just can't fly and so she dashed to her parents and
asked them why they can't fly and her mother told her that it's just
what <span class="il">Penguins</span> are not allowed to do. Penny was
really disappointed but she made it a lifetime ambition of hers to fly
up the sky and flew with the other magnificent birds that she just saw
and travel the world using her big wings. And so she practiced and
practiced but she just can't fly, she even asked some birds in tips on
how to fly but the birds will just say <span class="il">Penguins</span> are not meant to fly, the other <span class="il">Penguins</span>
are not any help either they will say the same thing the birds would
always say. But she was determined to fly, and fly higher then any <span class="il">penguin</span> has been. Then years went and go but she was still determined to learn how to fly and she still hasn't stop her longtime wish. Until one faithful day the birds felt pity for the <span class="il">penguin</span>,
Penny, and so they made a plan to help Penny. They called Penny to a
small hill and told her to jump really high and so she did but what she
didn't know was that the birds hold onto her back using there scaly
feets and the birds flapped there wings and the little <span class="il">penguin</span>
was amazed and how amazing it felt to fly up in the sky, she felt she
was free from all of her burden, free from everything, she wished that
this day will never end, and all of the <span class="il">Penguins</span>
saw her, Penny, Fly high in the sky they couldn't believe it and her
parents were so proud that her lifetime wish came through and cheered
her on and she felt herself smile. But sadly after a few more minutes
the birds started to get tired so they landed and flew away before Penny
saw them and as they flew away the birds felt proud for helping Penny.
All of the <span class="il">Penguins</span> wanted to meet the only living <span class="il">penguin</span> that can fly. And from day onward she has become a legend. It became to an inspiration for other little <span class="il">Penguins</span> to learn how to fly too. And to this day the <span class="il">Penguins</span> are still finding new ways on flying for it has become an inspiration to <span class="il">Penguins</span> all over the word to finally use there wings and fly. THE END!!!!!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-12798151590036417692016-05-11T11:10:00.001+08:002016-05-11T11:13:29.161+08:00Summer Art Class: Expectation vs Reality<b>Expectation:</b> We got this wooden doll from Folk Fiction event of Happy Garaje x Ballista Games years ago. I think this was made by Johanna, the silent majority of Happy Garaje. We actually got 2 of these but the other one got misplaced or something.<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r_zoHbalObY/VzKioWJFz3I/AAAAAAAAmoU/Q-9aqOggPSY/s640/blogger-image--808476563.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r_zoHbalObY/VzKioWJFz3I/AAAAAAAAmoU/Q-9aqOggPSY/s640/blogger-image--808476563.jpg"></a></div><b>Reality:</b><br><div><br></div><div>Kids visited Happy Garaje studio last week. It was part of their summer art class in Artastic. And their activity was creating this wooden art.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Mati's</i></div><div><div class="separator" style="font-style: italic; clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UHYkIFcFwIQ/VzKikEhWT4I/AAAAAAAAmoI/3G6E5ZKW_V0/s640/blogger-image-250586784.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UHYkIFcFwIQ/VzKikEhWT4I/AAAAAAAAmoI/3G6E5ZKW_V0/s640/blogger-image-250586784.jpg"></a></div><i>Meg's </i><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2wMCjX5edlE/VzKillG6nNI/AAAAAAAAmoM/C6I0ihPWr8o/s640/blogger-image-2124710631.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2wMCjX5edlE/VzKillG6nNI/AAAAAAAAmoM/C6I0ihPWr8o/s640/blogger-image-2124710631.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="font-style: italic; clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2wMCjX5edlE/VzKillG6nNI/AAAAAAAAmoM/C6I0ihPWr8o/s640/blogger-image-2124710631.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zCuA-UwFNL0/VzKim1uKzmI/AAAAAAAAmoQ/cDVmoQU3uJk/s640/blogger-image-1191272536.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zCuA-UwFNL0/VzKim1uKzmI/AAAAAAAAmoQ/cDVmoQU3uJk/s640/blogger-image-1191272536.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="font-style: italic; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">That nagging feeling that summer art classes are "parent's trap." :) But it's a trap I'm happy just to be. </div></div></div><div><br></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9274136.post-24663078800624089812016-05-08T15:43:00.001+08:002016-05-08T16:15:19.598+08:00Kwentong Barbero<div>Mati was already throwing tantrums because he's feeling itchy and wanted to go home already after his haircut was done. But Migi's barber took so much time working on his haircut. </div><div><br></div><div>I was also getting a bit impatient because Whyever it took so long?! All boys' haircut are the same! And <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's just a P40 haircut! Whoever invest so much time on a P40-worth of service?!?</span></div><div><br></div><div>So I stood up, got nearer to Migi and the barber so I could give him my "impatient look" as to give him a clue to just cut it now na! </div><div><br></div><div><div>But he was so concentrated on making those eeny weeny careful cuts on my kid's hair to notice me. And then I realized that he was really putting a much sincere effort on a damn seemingly boring haircut. It was as if he was working on a piece of art. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8jPR-TJBOa4/Vy7uNXWppAI/AAAAAAAAmnY/11IScdjcAlM/s640/blogger-image--388920330.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8jPR-TJBOa4/Vy7uNXWppAI/AAAAAAAAmnY/11IScdjcAlM/s640/blogger-image--388920330.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's so touching to see a man who spent so much time and effort for a P40-worth of service on a random kid who showed up in their shop.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div>I felt ashamed, and so I retreated back to the plastic chair. This time, observing the people around, they no longer are RANDOM.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>On one side of the shop were<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> two men who looked like they are from the construction industry. They seem to be a father and son tandem. Seated on the "barber chair," they comb their long locks with their hands, looking at the mirror contemplating on how they wanted their hair to be done. The barbers approached them and they then proceeded to a serious discussion of how they wanted their hair to be done. It was as if it's a million-peso deal they're discussing.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--UklcdOkLuE/Vy7z44vvFuI/AAAAAAAAmns/Xm6V_TPh9f8/s640/blogger-image--581083806.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--UklcdOkLuE/Vy7z44vvFuI/AAAAAAAAmns/Xm6V_TPh9f8/s640/blogger-image--581083806.jpg"></a></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On another area was another barber painstakingly forming the bangs of his client. He trimmed it to a particular style, which he probably have done it a hundred times on this particular client. It looked like they have that special "suki" relationship. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>It's like what would happen to that client's hair if ever the barber will no longer be around?!?</b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iiAEjwVo4A4/Vy7z39FNvOI/AAAAAAAAmno/bwkLP_h_cig/s640/blogger-image-1849614829.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iiAEjwVo4A4/Vy7z39FNvOI/AAAAAAAAmno/bwkLP_h_cig/s640/blogger-image-1849614829.jpg"></font></a></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><b>What would happen to them if there will be a new president?</b></div><div><br></div><div>I wonder who could probably be the best president for them:</div><div><br></div><div> Who Can be the president be able to continue to provide an environment where men can get and barber service a decent P40 haircut? </div><div><br></div><div>Or maybe a president who can make the construction people still afford a P100 haircut? </div></div><div><br></div><div>Or maybe a president who can make the haircut be at P20 because the basic needs, social services, education, housing and other public services are so accessible and cheap that the barber can afford to have a more affordable service?</div><div><br></div><div>Or maybe a president who can make everyone afford a P100 haircut as well as provide basic needs, social / healtvhare services, and other public services to all demographics?</div><div><br></div><div>Or the very least for everyone to be able find ways to live decently however challenging it can be.</div><div><br></div><div>But at the end of the day, Filipinos are tough but are soft enough to be able to bend and blend with whatever is thrown at us.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0