Lakbay Philippines

In one of our excursions in Bantayan, a friend of mine was able to capture this beautiful sight: the sun was setting, and a dark cloud partially covered it. After a while, it seems that there was a weak area in the cloud that a single ray of sunlight penetrated through. It looked like Son Goku‘s came-hame wave.
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Tags: bus routes, Ro-Ro, ro-ro routes, roro routes, srnh, Strong Republic Nautical Highway, western nautical highway

Convergys Perks

Being an employee of Convergys Cebu, one gets to enjoy the company’s flamboyant display of wealth, literally and figuratively. I’m about to go five years this coming November, and I have been to three summer outings and about four Christmas parties, each event trying to outdo the previous one. Who gets to enjoy? The employees!

Last summer, Convergys Cebu held it’s summer parteyh! entitled Convergys Heat Wave in Maribago Blue Waters Resort. If I’m not mistaken, this was the second time that the event is held here. Second, in a row. To think this is an expensive place to rent, not to mention the number of people you’re going to entertain and feed.

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Tags: beach, beach bumming, cebu beach, cebu resort, cvg, cvg heat wave, lapu-lapu resort, mactan resort, Maribago blue waters resort

Manginabuhi sâ ta.

One of the frustrations I have had is when I engage in strenuous lakbays most especially climbing up mountains and those trekking activities. I can not seem to be prepared physically to involve myself on those arduous undertakings. I get to be mentally prepared, yes, but physically, I doubt. My legs would give way after perhaps three hours of walking and going up steep climbs. Even after an hour of walking, I will be catching my breath already. I do not have the endurance or stamina to complete the trek without getting very exhausted or fatigued.

Some Tips to be Fit For Travel

Although I am not a health guru or a health buff, I have some few general suggestions for myself. Feel free to apply it to yourself too. Lol.

1. Have a thorough exercise perhaps beginning 2 weeks prior from the trip.
2. Go on a diet! That would be a definite recommendation. Perhaps you can try an hCG diet, that could shave off some pounds that could wear you down.
3. Together with the hCG diet, eat fiber rich food, such as berries and green-leafy vegetables. My mouth waters upon the thought of caesar salad with all it’s crunchy lettuce and sweet tomatoes, coupled with fruits like oranges, apples, and strawberries. They are listed in the foods allowed on hcg diet so that trumps up my fitness program.
4. Do not eat three big meals as we Filipinos are wont to do. We eat breakfast, lunch, and then dinner. Try to eat a hearty breakfast, and then before lunch eat some sandwiches or anything that fills your stomach so that by lunch time you would not get hungry and gobble food as if you were starved. In the mid-afternoon you can eat another meal, and in the evening you can have a light supper. That would be five meals total in a day.

Did I miss out anything? Please feel free to give your additional inputs!

travel ban

Reports lately are saying that Hong Kong is issuing travel advisories for their nationals against traveling to the Philippines. This was right after the hostage-drama that resulted to the death of 7(?) of their citizens. They felt that the Philippine government, specially the National Police did not handle the crisis efficiently and effectively. Well that is an understatement if you look at the fact that the victims died as a result.

Will other countries follow suit in advising their citizens that Philippines is a dangerous place to travel? There are already travel advisories by the US government and other countries against their citizens in traveling in some parts of the Philippines especially in the Muslim Mindanao area.

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Tags: Hong Kong travel advisory, political effect of travel advisory, travel advisory against philippines

Cebu is experiencing scattered rainshowers, thunderstorms, and jejemons!

August, the Start of Habagat

I don’t quite understand when the shifts start, or whether there really is a definite time where the winds would replace each other.

So far, if you plan to travel to Cebu, it won’t be much of a hassle as of this month as the rains are scattered. Or what does scattered rainshowers really mean? Can we start dissecting weather reports while we’re at it?

Dissection Using A Rusting Scalpel

According to WikiAnswers, (apparently it’s not only me who has this dumb question), scattered rainshowers means rain may fall in certain parts of your area, and may not in others. It means to say, some of the rain likes to pour here in Lahug while it doesn’t like it in Labangon. I imagine them clouds bickering to each other, “Hey let’s go over to Lahug area, there’s plenty of space to play there!” and others would chide, “No don’t be silly, what would Labangon say if we don’t go there too?”

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Tags: weather update

Papers, papers, papers. And tons of papers.

Well that is Political Science is all about. You would have to elaborate on the epistemological and procedural discourses of theories that do not make sense to me, but makes sense to those erudite thinkers. Thanks to them, I am burdened in dissecting their mental crap and whatever inanities they have spewed for the last thousands of years.

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A momentary break in travel blogging. Let me rant.

Coupled with my seven AM to four AM work, I barely could rest and sleep. By five AM I am supposed to be asleep because by eight AM I should be up and be ready for a class by nine. By eleven either I will study or make assignments, or go back to sleep. By four in the afternoon I have another class, and go out by five-thirty. Will go directly home and take a bath, and then head for the office as work starts at seven PM.

Anyhow, school has been very unforgiving to me. The rigidity of UP education is driving me nuts, I already forgot how it was. Last class I attended was over four years ago!

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