Philippine Travel Notes

This is Part 6 of the Sights & Scenes On My Iloilo To Cebu To Tacloban Flights. Pushback: Iloilo Okay, so we departed at 11:16AM. Yes, "departed" as in abante agad since this was a small plane on an empty tarmac. No need for a tow truck to push our plane away! By the way, there was something I noticced with our schedule, though I didn't bother much about it. My ticket said 1120H, the gate TV said 1140H, yet we left 1116H. Ta! Takeoff: Iloilo This meant I would be arriving in Cebu even ahead than I expected (1210H). Yey! 1118H the plane was already positioning for takeoff at Runway 02. Looking great! Thrills & Chills I was seated right-side window of the plane, and at 1123H, I was above Leganes . Directly below me (foreground of photo) are brackish aquaculture farms of UPV near the Jalaur River. Far right is Iloilo city proper. Ahead (middle of picture) is Guimaras. Not long after Skytreats were served. They had to rush, this is a quick flight ...

My Negros Oriental Tour: Kanlaon City Don’t get confused, Canlaon is sometimes written as Kanlaon by people who like to Filipinize things. That is similar to Caloocan being written as Kalookan and there are many other such ‘transliterations’ if we can call it that. Let’s first do the tongue twisters again… Canlaon or Kanlaon is pronounced like ‘can-la-on’ in the speed and accent the way you would say ‘cantaloupe’, not ‘canola’. Again this is the Philippines so the ‘can’ does not sound like the English word ‘can’, its more of ‘cun’. The ‘la’ sounds more like a ‘luh’ or the ‘la’ in ‘large’ and not ‘land’, it even sounds like the ‘lu’ in luggage. The last syllable ‘on’ is pronounced so, but not in a nasal but rather guttural way with rounded lips like the ‘on’ in ‘baboon’ (just shorten the vowel hehe). Actually, anyone can pronounce the syllables ‘can’, ‘la’ and ‘on’ the way American English speakers do, for in fact that is how faggots do it when they like exaggerating their pronunciazien...