CDO, Bukidnon, Camiguin, Iligan - FEB 2012

With Carl, Marlon, and April

Bukidnon tour c/o a local tour company. Zipline at Dahilayan Adventure Park in Bukidnon

Passed through Del Monte farms in Bukidnon.

Iligan day tour was, again, from a local tour company. A van fetched us from the hotel and took us on a road trip to Iligan. Tour included Ms. Cristina Falls, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Tinago Falls.

CDO food trip included dinner at Bigby's Cafe and Restaurant (nice decor and good food), Kagay-anon restaurant (ordered an ostrich dish) . Attendad mass at Cagayan De Oro Cathedral. Stayed at Victoria Suites, no elevator but has free wifi and is at city center.

White Water Rafting at CDO

Rode on an Oceanjet to Camiguin. Stayed at Bahay Bakasyunan.

Went to Ardent Hot Spring, White Island, Mantigue Island Nature Park, Katibawasan Falls, Guiob Church Ruins, Sunken Cemetery, Soda Swimming Pool. Bought lunch at J&A Fishpen.

Snorkeling at Mantigue Island

Summer MAY 2011 : Singapore and Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

Enjoyed a cross-country trip with Dianne, Apple, Kath, Fred, Hazel, Stan, and Pam.

Met Hazel and Fred at Kota Kinabalu on May 6. We stayed at King Park hotel.

Itinerary included white water rafting at Kiulu River, located in the Tampuruli district and Kinabalu Park and Poring Hot Spring tour at Mt. Kinabalu. The tour was with EXOTIC ADVENTURE . Frankly, it was fun because of the company and not the actual tours. The rafting was tamer compared to our CDO rafting and the hot spring was a disappointment. Poring Hot Spring had small tiled pools with faucets. Not the nature-like pools we were expecting.

It was the island hopping tour that redeemed the Kota Kinabalu trip. Manukan island had lots of activities to offer, including a costly underwater "scuba diving" activity.

And the beach was very nice, with it's white sand and calm waters. Boracay sand is still whiter and finer, though.

A short flight afterwards and we were in Singapore! Stayed at Traveller's Inn which had a common restroom but was clean and nice enough for our short stay. Being near Lavender's MRT station was a plus as well.

Universal Studio's The Mummy Returns ride was so fun that we had to take the ride twice.

Labor Day Weekend outing

I and a bunch of people coordinated with Travel Factor to arrange a Cagayan de oro-Camiguin trip last May 1-4, 2009.

Day 1

Flight to Cagayan de Oro at 8:30am. Landed at CDO airport around 10am. Took a 2hours drive to port Benino in Misamis Oriental to take a roro to Camiguin port. Then another 45 mins jeepney ride to Golden Sunset Beach Resort.

We were at the resort around 3pm. Off we go to White Island for some beach bumming and photo op.





Day 2

Camiguin day tour.

1st stop is the Vjandep main shop near the parola.

Next is the Katibawasan Falls. The water was too cold for the girls to take a dip.






Lunch and snorkeling were at Mantigue Island. This is a great snorkeling site if it weren't for the fact that we had only a short time to snorkel, our life vests were horrendous, it was cloudy, and the waves were big!



We enjoyed the most the Ardent water spring with one of the spring having a temp of 39 degrees Celsius!

Some picture taking in the old church and sunken cemetery to cap our day trip.

And dinner at Pizza Luna.

Day 3

Back to Cagayan de Oro for our white water rafting and zipline activities. Winner ang rafting! It was the highlight of the whole trip!








Day 4

Ikot ikot sa Limketkai mall for pasalubong and lunch at Kagayanon. Had ostrich (yum yum!) for lunch and sizzling bulalo!

We were back at NAIA Terminal 3 by 6pm.

Ilocandia 2008

Visited Ilocos on Oct. 18-19. It was a short but fun trip. Our group consisted of me, Carl, Marlon, Carl's officemates and their friends. Our bus to Pagudpud was 4 hours delayed and so our schedule went bust! But we still had a lot of fun.

We stayed at the popular Polaris beach resort in Saud. We also rented the van for our trips on that resort.

We visited the following places during the trip:

Patapat bridge



Blue Lagoon




Kabigan falls




Cape Bojeador



Bangui Windmills




And Vigan!



Total budget was around 3,500 per person.

Singapore 2008: Day 3 - Fun with Rock Band

Day 3 was a rainy, wet Sunday so we opted to stay home (I mean Jet, Hazel, and Fred's home) for some Rock Band fun!

Singapore 2008: Day 2 - Orchard Road

Jet, Dianne, and I met Fred and Hazel at Lucky Plaza for lunch. We ate at a popular food stop called Jologs. Here, pinoys can eat their fave Filipino food.

Ater eating a hearty lunch, Dianne and I went aroun Orchard Road to look at the expensive shops. We also dropped by Konikuniya to buy a manga for my officemate Pao. While browsing, I saw a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows worth SGD 9.90!!! I immediatle bought a copy! Yay!!!

We also visited Chinatown. While eating at Smith Street ...




we saw this sign from one of the shops ....




Panalo! Hahaha.


Some nice pics of our running around Chinatown.






We also saw a perfume shop inside the mall in Chinatown where they sell cheap perfumes. Dianne was able to buy the perfume she had been looking for for quite some time now there and it was very cheap! About 50% off!



The Singapore pips then treated us to dinner in one of the street hawker joints. We met the Cookies (Jenny and Lord) and, of course!, took more pics.

Blue Coral outing with long time friends

After much planning, Carl, Marlon, Abi and I were able to finally settle to go to Blue Coral for our summer getaway this year.

We had several options since there are a lot of summer resorts along Laiya, San Juan, Batangas but we chose Blue Coral since it has beach front property and swimming pools.

Our trip started with a bus ride from the bus terminal in Buendia. We rode a Lucena bound bus at Php 108 each. We alighted at the Candelaria town and took a jeepney ride to San Juan at Php 18 each. Another jeepney ride after that to Barrio Hugom at Php 30. The jeepney passes through the gates of Blue Coral.

We availed of the day tour buffet offered by the resort. It costs us Php 800 each. The buffet included lunch and merienda. The lunch was ok, not great but ok. The merienda was a disappointment. They served just sandwiches. I liked the food in La Luz, another beach long Laiya, better.

On our way home, we had some trouble getting a jeepney ride from Blue Coral. We rode a tricycle instead. The tricycle ride costs us Php 150! Highway robbery indeed! And this is not even up to San Juan town. This is just to the nearest jeepney terminal that will take us to San Juan town. After that, we took a van to Lipa City. This costs us Php 60 each. There were a lot of people in the Lipa bus terminal and we had to shove our way in a bus back to Buendia.

Here are some of our pictures.

AIU-RP Team Building 2008: San Pablo Laguna

This year's AIU-RP Team Building was held at Casa San Pablo at Laguna. It wasn't what I was expecting since the 2 previous team buildings involved more physical activities while this year's team building was more introspective. It was ok but I prefer the previous team building activities.

Here are some of our pics:

Summer 2008: Puerto Galera

My friend Carl was jealous of her officemates who had been touring the country for the past months that she invited us to go to Puerto Galera as soon as she cam home from Japan. And so we were in Galera from April 5 to 7.

We stayed at the Buenalynne's Beach Resort along the White Beach stretch. We stayed there for 2 nights and it was pretty good considering the location and the price. It's a beach front resort and our 2 nights stay costs us Php 3,500 per night. It had 2 double size beds with a/c and a private toilet. We rented an extra mattress for 500 for the 2 nights for 2 of my cousins who came with us. Our party was Carl, Marlon (Carl's hubby), Dianne, Emond, Kuya Dondel, and of course me!








We rode the banana boat at Php 200 per person and we rented a motorized boat for our snorkeling at Php 2,000. The kuyas withe motorized boat made the trip more fun for us! They were a riot! They told us stories of the places we went to and they were funny guys who kidded with us during the trip. They even had a blue starfish that they asked us to have our pictures taken with. We were lucky to have hired them instead of the cheaper kuyas because not only did they brought us to the Coral Gardens where not most of the bankeros go to but they also made sure that we enjoyed our trip. Thanks kuyas!

We also tried the night life at Galera. The place was hopping at night! There were a lot of people in the bars and in the beach itself since the bars cannot accommodate all of the party goers. We tried the Mindoro Sling of Galera and it really has a punch (pun intended)! On our 2nd night, we opted to stay in our room and order the famous cocktail drink and play cards instead.






And of course, Puerto Galera trip is not complete without our tatoos!

Birthday treats

Long overdue post ... oh well.

August 8

I was supposed to treat nanay and Dianne for dinner but the storm put a damper on our plans.

August 9

I was gonna treat a few friends of mine from AIU-RP on this night but Fred and Stan decided to do the honors instead. Hehehe. Thanks guys! For more info and pics, go to Jen's post about it.

August 10

Froilan and I treated our teammates some Pizza Hut pizza and KFC chicken for merienda. Froilan and I shared the same birth date so we decided to team up for the blow out.

August 11

I invited my high school friends (Abi, Renee and Jaja) and Dianne to the Temple Bar in Greenbelt. Abi was feeling down that night but she was a good friend and tried her best to still have fun that night to not affect our mood.

August 12

I asked Tita Lita to cook her special Kare-kare for us and for my relatives. This is my treat for them.

August 17

The August Celebrants of AIU-RP treated the team for some merienda from Buddy's.

August 24

Cecile, Marvin, Froilan and I treated some of our closest friends from AIU-RP. We spent most of the night and part of the early hours of the next morning in Pier One at The Fort.

Chona and Winson's Wedding

Just came home from Chona and Winson's wedding.

Their Christian wedding as held at the Bonsai Garden at UP Diliman. Luckily, I was able to google the quickest way to get there so unlike my Solar friends, my mom and I didn't get lost.

It was a lovely wedding, even the drizzle right in the middle of the ceremony.

When we arrived there, Jack and his wife Iris was already there. Jay T. soon arrived after us. At ang lokong Jack at Jay, pinagtulungan ako! Sabi ba naman ba't daw gurl na ako ngayon?! Hehehe.

Jeng then arrived without Arne because Arne had to work today and will be coming in late.

Sir Empoy, Pia and Joven arrived just about when we were to march down the aisle.

And of course, here are some pictures. Pardon me if there are a lot of pics of me because I simply felt beautiful today! Hehehe. I know, I know, you might say that I am always beautiful but I was extra fine looking today ... in my humble opinion. :D

Di na maka-hintay bumaba ng kotse kaya nagsimula na magpa-picture.



Me and Jeng.



Me and Jack. Because some of the secondary sponsors were late, I suddenly became the sponsor for cord instead of just being a bridesmaid.



Me and Pia, my thesis partner.



With the newly weds, Chona and Winson



With Solar pips.



Pretty me and my pretty mom



At shempre, solo pic ko