http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/TinNiE/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from TinNiE en-us Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:41:31 +0000 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:41:31 +0000 It was warm and humid just like the previous dayshellipI reluctantly got up from bed took a bath and sluggishly ate my breakfast. Though I woke up feeling a little bit down I definitely donrsquot want to spend my last day moping around. I spent most of the morning lounging at the reception area thinking of which places I could still manage to visit before my flight later in the evening. I http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Chinatown/blog-453599.html EnglandThe photos Sunset and Shhhhhhhh were taken during a walk at a reservoir in Macclesfield. One of our coworkers had invited us to their house and was trying to show us a real Christmas Tree.We passed by the Cemetery on our way to buy Ginger bread on a rainy day at Grasmere.o o o Chinese TerritoryYellow for me is a happy color. There were lots of tiny Yellow Flowers at HK's Ocean Park.We fi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Metromanila/blog-451317.html I still remember how my Dad used to tell us how he hates riding small propeller passenger planes and I wasnrsquot expecting that I was gonna ride one today. I could hear the engine roaring outside during the entire flight and the plane making a clumsy stomp when we finally landed at the Busuanga Airport. The flight wasnrsquot too bad thanks to the good weather but Irsquod still rather ride http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Palawan/Coron/blog-446551.html We were just having a great time singing Karaoke last Friday. A few of my colleagues and I were celebrating the third year since we all met at the programming boot camp and I was also anticipating the arrival of my baby nephew from the province the next day. It was a rainy week but I was oblivious of any storm coming.My older brother w his family an aunt w my little cousin and another cousin http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Luzon/Metro-Manila/Pasig-City/blog-440993.html It has been a lovely extended weekend for me and a couple of my coworkers snorkeling island hopping skim boarding drinking cocktails eating lots of food and simply just enjoying the cold evening breeze by the shore. This was the best time to once again take the much needed break from work. I was actually here almost at the same time last year.We were originally to arrive at Caticlan Airport http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Boracay/blog-439389.html I was supposed to meet Keith yesterday after office hours but I got myself into the Night Safari tour which ended up late so we had to postpone it for today. It was unexpectedly still quiet in the hostel at 700 in the morning so I was able to enjoy a 30minute shower. I went to stroll around to see the neighborhood and to try to look for a place where I can eat rice because I haven't had any sinc http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/blog-432698.html PreTravel BluesThis might become one of many future solo trips or this might turn out to be an experience that will make me forget about the idea of traveling alone. Irsquove been trying to motivate myself in the past days to make myself an itinerary or plan a more organized trip hellip in vain. I had been feeling too down to even want to do anything and I even thought of just cancelling th http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Kampong-Glam/blog-431258.html Their hair colors were mostly blond. Although I see quite a diversity of races majority of the people I bump unto are fair skinned bluegreenlight brown eyed. They speak in a familiar language but in a different accent that was lovely to listen to but totally hard to comprehend. Yes I would struggle whenever I had to talk to my British coworkers. I had to listen intently look straight at the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-Manchester/Manchester/blog-409742.html We arrived at CAMSUR Water Sports Complex CWC at around 800 in the evening. It is located at the Provincial Capitol Complex at Pili Camarines Sur more or less 30 minutes drive from Naga City. It is a water sports park designed for wakeboarding wake skating and waterskiing. We were so excited about thisMarkrsquos TitaAunt Racquel made the arrangements prior to our arrival so we went stra http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Camarines-Sur/Naga-City/Pili/blog-409341.html Happy Independence Day The Philippines still got a long long way to go to know the real meaning of nationalism. Donrsquot worry I wonrsquot be writing anything about my frustrations and all that I just wanted to say that Irsquom proud to be a Filipino anyway hellip always will be. And besides the public holiday gave us this long weekend which we intend to spend away from the chaotic ci http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Albay/Legaspi-City/blog-409337.html In our search for something exciting to do during the long weekend we ended signing up for a trek to Mt. Pinatubo. Itrsquos this time again that I had to wake up very early 1.30 A.M. for this one and do the 10 stages of getting out of the bed.Stage 1 to 9 the clock alarms and I snooze for 5 more minutesStage 10 the clock alarms for the 10th time and finally I got up.The group met up at o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Tarlac-Province/blog-396471.html Hanno would usually plan out of town trips to make sure we donrsquot just stay in bed and get bored in our apartments during the weekends and Cathryn had to be dragged along driving for us.aw. They would usually take us out of Manchester on the weekends to show us how beautiful the rest of England isIrsquove been hearing about Lake District from my colleagues who have been planning to go http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Lake-District/blog-392916.html I loved attending kindergarten because I get to eat free champoradosweet chocolate rice porridge adored wearing our pink uniform take afternoon naps do fun activities sleep during lessons and skip classes whenever I want to. The crayons fascinated me most my parents couldnrsquot afford luxury so they could only buy me the 8 pieces Crayola set. I would see my classmates owning 16 pcs. or t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/blog-390223.html First halfDay ... I am proudly becoming a pro on catching the last minute schedules. We were just on time for the 1300 Ferry schedule from Macau to Kowloon. We were running again and I had to show the apologetic face to the rest of the passengers when we finally boarded hidden meaning IT'S NOT OUR FAULT THEY LET US IN.It's such a gloomy day ... I don't like it it makes me sad it was rai http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/Kowloon/blog-388742.html PreMacauEventsJust another we will miss the flight scare feels like crying just the thought of ita.k.a huhuhu i don't want to waste PHP9000Of course we still made it to the Airport we were the last ones to board. Just to be informed that our flight will be delayed for 30 minutes. Our plane finally took off at around 830ish. It was just a small plane just as small as the ones used http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Macau/Macau/blog-387873.html Thanks to Manong Manuel for buying our tickets back to Cebu. Our Ferry was scheduled to leave Tagbilaran City at 530 PM. Just an FYI therersquos a sort of Korean invasion going on in the Philippines right now from Korean soap operas Korean singers Korean actors to Korean Tourists everywhere I go there they are lots of lsquoem at the pier. I definitely donrsquot have anything against http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Cebu/blog-386742.html Cramming Thatrsquos what wersquore good at. We didnrsquot start booking for our accommodation and Ferry tickets until yesterday. The Ferries to our main Bohol destination Tagbilaran City were all fully booked and the hotels were giving us a hard time too we were able to sort that out by paying more than what we budgeted and taking an alternative route to Tubigon Bohol. Straight from wor http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Bohol/blog-386739.html Irsquove just realized that Irsquove said yes to all weekend out of town invites in the previous three weekends and for the next two weeks to come dear me Irsquom feeling slightly exhausted now. But hey I got very good reasons why Irsquove been acting like a ldquoYes Girlrdquo Sheeesh Irsquod have to slow down and check the weekly planner next time.It was an early Saturday for http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Tagaytay/blog-384275.html A coworker forwarded an email talking about a floating library called MV Doulos. I then read about it found it interesting and decided that I wanted to check it out. I was able to make one friend who i knew loves books tag along. The ship was at a pier in Manila. We live at the Metropolitan area and the part where the ship is docked was unfamiliar to us. We found our way with the help of sev http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Manila/blog-379690.html The week prior to this trip had been stressful and I was already tired to begin with. We went to yet another out of town trip the main destination was Baguio then La Union to try surfing Me wanting this so bad more than anyone else I think.We went to the bus station to buy tickets but we were not able to anticipate the number of people going out of town for the long weekend. Monday was a pub http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/La-Union/San-Fernando/blog-379400.html