10.19.09
davao take 2
i hate attending weddings. okay, i don’t hate the ceremony itself, it’s the dressing up part that i loathe. good thing i’ve friends who know very well or at least are very tolerant of my inability to conform with the dress code for this occasion. so on october 31, 2009 – saturday, me and three other friends are flying to davao to attend a wedding – a Muslim ceremony at that. apart from this being a good excuse to hop on a plane, i’m actually excited to observe a traditional Muslim wedding ceremony.
so yeah, already got tickets for the trip a week before. as for our accommodation, well, yam, ley, and line are taking care of it and the other details.
anyway, 2004 – i think – was the first time i’ve stepped on davaoland. at that time, my visit was hosted by my college friend peachi. i had a grand tour then. for this trip, i’m looking forward to us four finding our own way as we explore this part of mindanao. hopefully, we’ll have the whole of sunday to sightsee on our own. hmm, we can hardly expect our friend ram to tour us – read: not a good way to spend honeymoon! hehe…
p.s. it’s so unfortunate that we learned of the nov. 2 holiday too late. had we known there’s no work on that monday, we wouldn’t have gotten the first flight out to cebu.
09.18.09
singapore preview
hmm… okay, it’s been more than two weeks since i wrote about traveling to singapore on impulse. friends have asked me about the pictures of the trip. well, as you know i’m super tapulan. thus, i’ve never really found the time and energy to blog about it. anyway, leylander of mycebuphotoblog is anything like me. he owns the traveling cow fondly called “satchmo.” his beloved “satchmo” actually came with us during that trip. as i said, ley is anything like me, thus, he’s way faster at uploading satchmo’s pictures of the trip than my tapulan self.
so, do visit ley’s mycebuphotoblog site. as dennis and i played host to the luckiest cow on earth, the places satchmo had been to were the same places we actually stepped on. this travel post of satchmo in singapore can generally serve as a preview of that trip.
line of gastronomicadventures was also as quick as i was not. line, as her blogname suggests, spoke of the food adventures we’ve had in singapore. okay, correction – the lack of adventure! hehe, as she mentioned in her blog, i’m not very adventurous when it comes to exposing my palate, thus, chow time at the city of the merlion was at famous food chains! pathetic, i know [LOL!]
thanks ley and line for sharing our little singapore trip to your numerous readers!!!
09.14.09
camiguin: finally!!!
back in 2003, i got myself boat tickets for cagayan de oro city to see the gardens of malasag. right after i checked-in at my hotel, i immediately hopped on a taxi and went to see the place. that done on my very first day, i was left with nothing to do. as i was a newbie traveler then, i didn’t prepare an itinerary. i thought i’d head to camiguin before leaving for davao on the 3rd day of my vacation. however, i let fear got the better of me. hehe, at that time, riding on small boats or ferries scare the hell out of me.
now, early march of this year, john and i got tickets for CDO. he had some business to take care there and i sorta was tagging along. when john informed me that the person he was supposed to meet up in cdo couldn’t make it and ergo, no point of him going, i told myself that i didn’t want to waste good tickets. i’d just head to camiguin on my own instead [this time, i was no longer a scaredycat with regards to traveling by ferries, hehe]. unfortunately, on the day i was to fly to CDO, i was burning with fever. thus, imagine my frustration when my plan to go to camiguin was foiled for the 2nd time.
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08.29.09
singapore on impulse
yeah. an impulse. but to heck with financial consequences, hehe…
i’m flying to singapore tonight even if i’ll be several pesos poorer by the time the ber month kicks in. all i know, the decision i made to fly to singapore with dennis, one of my officemates, just last thursday felt right and great albeit reckless, impulsive, illogical… well, who says i’m an ordinary person who shuns impulsiveness???… i guess turning the big THREE ZERO does something to a person. i just don’t want to let life pass me by.
i’ll figure out the monetary consequences once we’re back in cebu on tuesday…
i guess, happy trip to us… it’d be interesting as we don’t have a planned itinerary….
07.19.09
ayala museum
back in december 2008, i plotted to have the ayala museum as one of my destinations in my itinerary. unfortunately, on the only day that the museum was open [december 27, 2008], i failed to visit the place as then we were busy scouring the different bus terminals of manila to secure tickets for banaue, which wasn’t a success as there were too many of us for a limited number of seats. so instead of banaue, we just decided to go to sagada instead. when we returned to manila from sagada, i couldn’t quell the urge to visit the ayala museum. so when jacky’s mom guided us around manila and brought us to glorietta, i convinced juliet and jacky to at least swing by the closed museum. pity.
07.14.09
a whirlwind day
2:45 a.m.
my phone ringing…
3:05 a.m.
text message: vet???
me: i’m up, i’m up, i’m up… paligo.a sa ko kadali please para makamata ko sakto…
3:30 a.m
drizzling. woke up the driver of a tricycle parked in front of the gate of genesis as we were unable to call for a cab. we had the driver drop us off at mactan doctor’s hospital as we eyed a parked taxi. hailed the cab and off we headed to mactan international airport.
4:03 a.m.
had ourselves checked in.
4:47 a.m.
our plane bound for manila took off.
5:46 a.m.
we touched down at the ninoy aquino international airport terminal 3. we got down through the rear door so we could take pix of the plane.
07.10.09
another wasted ticket??? – nope
darn.
a friend and i have tickets for manila tomorrow.
yet, i’m nursing a bad cold and a nasty headache 14 hours before our flight. not to mention an upset stomach.
will this be another foiled travel experience?
we’ll see.
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july 12, 2009
our tickets didn’t go down the drain after all.
he rang my phone sometime 2:30 A.M.yish yesterday. just enough time for me to get a quick shower and a few minutes after, he came knocking at my door and we’re set to go to mactan international airport.
will post pictures as soon as he’d give me copies of them..
06.14.09
tagaytay april 2006
PAUNAWA: as to why so late a post..
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April 7 2006
Andy’s Room at nearby Picnic Groove
Tagaytay City
spent the early morning at carmona. jen’s aunt prepared breakfast for us. jen and her ‘nay prepared for their trip to batangas, while i prepared an overnight pack for my solo trip to tagaytay. around 9, jen’s brother in-law picked us up. jen and her ‘nay were to attend her niece’s kindergarten graduation. thus, jen’s in-law robert drove them to batangas and dropped me off somewhere in tagaytay.
cavite april 2006
PAUNAWA: an explanation of why so late a post…
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April 6, 2006
Cebu Pacific Flight 5J560
ha. got to the airport at 5:45 A.M. to those who don’t know me, early morning isn’t exactly my time of day. got a slight tolerable headache when i hopped on a taxi. what do i expect? i barely had sleep. subjected myself to two days of sleep deprivation in order to turn in the last two remaining sets that my boss expects of me. the night before, i had to hastily write love letters to chin and yam, as well as to team philippines, to give last minute instructions. left the office hungry at a little past eleven o’clock. oh yeah, forgot to grab dinner as i was bent on finishing my end of the deal before i leave. got home around twelve midnight. remembered that i didn’t have dinner, raided the kitchen only to realize that I still have not packed for my trip.
seat 17 D — worst seat ever… i sure didn’t fancy looking at the plane’s wings…
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old travel news
pardon me but my next few posts will all be reposts of my past travel accounts. see, one fateful day i had a moment and decided to delete my friendster account. during that moment, i didn’t think of my travel accounts as i was only bent on deleting the account so i wont have the urge to further blog about what i came to label then was my sorry existence. well, during my trip to manila last week – i realized i wanted to have access to my little history. i’ve to be fair to life and i know my life isn’t all ramblings about my beautiful uterus and heartaches… there are so many happy memories too. [although i've to admit that i'm writing again today to delude myself that i'm not feeling any pain from my pelvic area, hehehe]
anyway, as i said i could no longer access my friendster account but i did manage to find my blog posts [incidentally, i read a post sometime back that google or any pages where you upload pix don’t normally delete the pix immediately from their database. thus, though your account is already dead – if you are patient enough to search for them, you could actually do so. i did try the trick and LO…. i found my blog posts, only now i cant access them since my friendster account’s been canceled….
so bear with my little case of nostalgia…
there's no special reason for the name except the love of putting my foot in front of the other until i'm breathless. traveling is a new found love for me. though i'm not blessed with beautiful-looking feet, i've gotten the habit of taking photos of my feet every time i set foot on lands outside of my beloved cebu. THANKS FOR VISITING!!! leave me a note or two. send it to vetlongwalks@yahoo.com or drop me a comment here. would love to hear from you!
BE WARNED: i'm no seasoned traveler nor a professional travel writer. contents here are purely accounts of my own travel experience.
[photo taken @ the palawan butterfly garden - feb.08]
-chocolate hills [carmen bohol]
-underground river palawan
-dapdap beach [anda bohol]
-el nido, palawan
-club fort med [boljoon, cebu]
-murcia, negros occidental
-dumaguete, negros oriental
-taal volcano [view from tagaytay]
-sunset in cavite
