Life of fashion, culture and adventure

My next blog is supposedly about our adventure blast in Coron, Palawan. But before I give you the good part of the journey, let me tell you a warning about an airline's way of handling canceled flights situation.  Our flights last June 7, 2012, inbound Coron, DVO-MNL & MNL-USU were both okay. Although our MNL-USU seemed to be a bit scary for some of the passengers. I was mostly asleep within the flight time, but was already awake when the pilot announced he cannot see the runway and will try to go around. Next thing I know, we have landed and the instant that we did, most of the passengers were loudly clapping and cheering for gladness. I asked Labsy if the flight was bumpy, and he said yes, so I thought, "Thank God" we've safely arrived. Some of the passengers even took pictures with the Captain and congratulated him and his Co-Pilot for a job well done. Well, I'll be telling you about our great and not so great times in Coron next time, but for now, let...

Some of my blog entries were about my adventure trips. Often, if not all were the story of myself who have been in awe with the beauty of the place and the hospitality of its people. This includes my birthplace, Davao City. When I was a child, my mom would take me and my brothers to all the events, Araw ng Davao (every March 16) and Kadayawan (usually third weekend of August, this year is August 21). It has been a while since the last time I participated on the celebration, yell on the streets and take pictures of the outstanding moments of the event. So, this year, I told myself, I'll be walking on the main streets of Davao and experience Kadayawan once again, and so I did! After fulfilling and sweating-all-day along the street, it gave birth to a wish. I wished I could be witness to the street dances of all festivals in the Philippines and make it the next trend on my blog posts-Philippine Festivals and Culture. Today I was searching for the first festival I might be interes...

Skywalking Our last sea trip before going home is the 6-hour Dumaguete-Cebu via Cokaliong's MV Filipinas Iloilo ( http://www.cokaliongshipping.com ). We got the Saturday midnight trip so we would just spend the night and sleep on it. We got the Tourist bunks for Php 600.00. Rommel deposited his ID for three sets of beddings we could use. So we freshen up, setup our beds and as early as 10:30 PM, an hour and a half before the ship departed Dumaguete Port, I was enjoying my sweet dreams. :D Approaching Cebu December 19, 2010 morning came and "hello.... Cebu!!". We prep our selves, returned the borrowed beddings and went outside to take a view as we approached the port for our official arrival in Cebu. As the vessel approached the port, we saw some natives asking for "limus" from the passengers as they used their "bangka" (small boat) to get near the ship and beg for something. Begging I saw one boat that almost sank and so with the kid that ...

The 3rd of the three-part-story would be this... Our Manila stop-over before goin' home to Davao a fter Baguio and Subic escapade.   Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines. It was Alden, Em-em, Hilda and Judith's first time to visit Manila. So even with the little time that we have left, we managed to experience a little taste of Manila. When we arrived in Manila from Subic, we just went to our dorm for a quick cleanup and then went out for a late night comedy bar happenings... We then went straight to Quezon Ave. for Alan K's Klownz comedy bar, where their main set then was Ate Gay. It was a fun evening, everyone had a great time laughing out loud on every joke and punch lines thrown on stage. Then we went back to our dorm with a smile up to our ears and funny memories we can take home with. The following day (Oct 25, 2010), was Em, Alden, Judith and Hilda's day to go home, back to Davao. But before going to the airport, we went to Manila Cath...