From my previous two stories last night (this & this), why am I all of a sudden in an airport hotel? Why am I not home? Ah its like this, I promised a night-out with friends, eh I was to depart today noontime.
So, we decided to have it at Waterfront Mactan - after I literally just dumped my labada from Tacloban, and grabbed a few things to wear going Indonesia via Singapore. Hectic but hopefully fun Christmas!
I will tell more about those in my succeeding stories. As for now...
Here I was again (about to checkout) from this hotel that I call a "no frills luxury". Yes me ganun!
The ultimate in convenience if you were departing from Cebu Airport the following day! I took the two pictures above while waiting for my turn to be checked-out. The colors, music and mood is Christmas!
Ah my most notable note about this holiday mode and mood, would be from last night. Here's a video:
We loved listening to those three kids playing Christmas Music. Tastefully, non-obtrusive live sounds to set the character for the holiday season, as if coming from a piped-in recorded music. Magaling!
I'm writing this at the boarding gate! Okay, boarding na.., leshgo!
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...
Hey, I’m not done just yet on this last Bohol tour! I promised I will have my take on Tubigon, right? So here I go to cap this series… What is/was there to see at Tubigon’s town center for me? Nothing much really, if you based everything from the world wide web. All I encountered on the net were bits ‘n pieces of this and that. Nothing that would describe for me what to expect inside the town’s center. Hey, even their very own government’s website just lists sandbars, caves, rivers and beach resorts at their tourism page. Did that mean Tubigon’s town center had nothing for me the tourist who always wants to start at center of town? Well, deep in me I said ‘that’s just impossible. I am sure there will be many things worth my while at this town’s center’. And, I will stand on this… I was never wrong and here I go! Municipal Hall. Its not big, but it sits in its olden glory. Or that’s what it seems to me anyway. If ever this building may have seen some sprucing up, I will still say it ret...
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