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Archive for August, 2007

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The Cebu Pacific Manila - Puerto Princesa 98-peso seat sale!

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

CebuPacific Air does another round of airfare promos. This time, the Manila to Puerto Princesa, Palwan flights have been increased by 50% and they’re offering a Php98 per seat sale today!
Popularity: 19% [?]

Popularity: 19% [?]

Sail Away! Riding with the Habagat Waves of Mactan Cebu

Friday, August 17th, 2007

It was definitely my first boat ride in Cebu and my first time meeting some strangers that would become my ultimate barkada in the Queen City. A balikbayan forumer came home and promised a treat that the forumers based in Cebu would never forget. Island hopping from Mactan Island to Olango Island and back and [...]

Popularity: 22% [?]

Waterfun at Lake Caliraya, Laguna

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Lake Caliraya is a man made lake, I think originally made by the Americans as a water reservoir to create electric power. Now it is a recreation area with couple of private homes around the lake and a resort: Caliraya Recreation Center Resort. We went there three years ago with some speed boat riding, masaya. [...]

Popularity: 23% [?]

From Quezon City to Batangas in a Breezy

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

One Saturday just last month, a supposed-to-be 2-hour drive to Batangas turned out to be one of the worst driving experience of my life. I live in a Quezon City apartment near UP and have a job in Eastwood, and every week I go home to Batangas and my family. There wasn’t much fuzz with that a year ago when SLEX was still not under “renovation,” but now, trying to go home at the same time of day as I did before makes me wish for the nth time I didn’t have to work in the city–but of course, I have to. So after that Saturday wherein I was caught up in traffic for 6 hours, I told myself something needs to be done and I just have to modify my travel habits to cope up with the current road situation. Now, after four weeks of experimentation, I might have just found my answers. For those people who has the same route(or at least parts of it) as I do and who wants to retain that pleasant driving experience they had right after learning how to drive and before discovering that the city is not the race track we imagine it to be: read on.

Popularity: 27% [?]