My Honda Bay Island Hopping Tour continued. After Starfish Island , Luli was our second island stop. As mentioned (and pictured from a distance) in my itinerary story , the name "Luli" is a contraction of 2 Tagalog words lubog (sink) and litaw (appear or float). Conjugated in the contemplative form, the two words can be joined to form a descriptive phrase, that's also the idiomatic expression "lulubog lilitaw". That expression describes this island's sandbar area that goes underwater ( lu bog) during a high tide, and visible ( li taw) at low tide. Saying "lulubog lilitaw island" is rather long, so they coined LuLi Island! Who are "they"? Well, the owners of the island, Jun and Cely Marcelo? See the signage below.., As you can see on the pic, we must have arrived when the tide was either halfway up or halfway down, because, the cottage and the feet of our tour guides were submerged in about knee-deep of the sea! But whether the ebb...
Readers should all be aware of this when going to Puerto Galera or any of the destinations en route to Batangas City! There is an anomaly that the bus company (or probably just their employees and without the management’s knowledge) has been perpetrating. Last February 25, 2005, being a holiday, I, together with three of my friends decided to go to Puerto Galera for a much needed weekend break. We decided to take a JAM/Tritran bus by reason of its station being conveniently located at EDSA near Kamuning which happens to be nearest our residences. This decision to take Tritran ruined our weekend! We were at the bus station as early as 5:30AM so we can take the 6AM trip. We happily rode on bus number 727, a yellow JAM liner. The aircon was great – even too cold and the bus was clean. It got readily full to capacity so we left by just about 5 minutes past 6AM. Upon departure, the “conduktor” distributed tickets without asking for our money yet. After he has given tickets to everyone, he c...
8:33AM this morning, amidst the throng and the din at NAIA Terminal 3, a Cebu Pacific employee walked up to me and asked if I had any luggage. I said "none", and she asked me about my flight details. I asked why (thinking she would direct me to a counter but..), she said "I will check you in sir"! And I said something like "ows?!" as I looked at that thing on her left hand - a tablet! So I gave my details, showed her my ID and she tapped on that thing, voila! That strip of paper came out from that other gadget hanging on her pocket - my boarding pass! Just like that. Yeah, ganun lang! I am no gadget freak, but, this was the first time I encountered such a thing - even if I travel almost every week - and yes, I was fascinated. Nice one, Lance! Nice one! ========================================== Click these numbers for a chronology of my notes: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 ...
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