Not your ordinary cliche

Summer is hot. We are in a tropical country so it sucks. I spent my summer watching movies and when I say movies, the good ones. I'm not a jerk who just watches the latest releases and definitely I am not that kind of JERK who watches a movie because my friend says it's AWESOME. I always refer to Rotten Tomatoes and top critics. I am the type of movie fan that prefer "For a Few Dollars more" than Mission Impossible, Star Wars than Transformers, and Dawn of the Dead(1978) than Dawn of the Dead(2004). Yes, I love old films but that doesn't mean I hate modern films. I just cherish classic masterpieces. Modern films are great but most of them just wears out in a short amount of time. 

Wow! It's been a year or two since my last blog post. Well now I am bored and I'm getting back since there is an amount of streaming ideas running through my mind. I think I will start posting tomorrow. I'm just not in the mood. I'll think of another idea to post tomorrow.

For every religion, we follow certain traditions and rules that usually based on transcripts, words passed by the family, and  most importantly, holy books. For instance, Muslims have Koran, and for Christians there is The Bible. As a catholic myself, The Bible really helped me on my way through life and I think most of us really does. So basically, We are required to follow all the teachings in The Bible. Now as life being challenging, there are rules in The Bible that is very hard to follow like the popular issues of Birth Control. This issue lasts for eternity since we are living in a third world country. We have our proper reasons why families use birth control methods and their reasons were reasonable. Besides Birth Control, did you know that there are more things that the Bible fans that is unbelievable? Did you know that the Bible forbids us for wearing gold and having round haircuts? Here's a link for more details http://www.bspcn.com/2009/06/23/11-things-the-bible-bans-but-you-do-anyway/.

Now let's try to think this over and let's do a history lesson. The Bible was written by humans. It's a collection of God's teachings and stories in the past. When you are writing something freely, what's that thing that you use 80% of the time? It's Opinion. So when The Bible was written, it's possible that opinions was also shared. It doesn't end just there, it was also translated many times and we have different versions .Don't get me wrong, I'm not questioning on how The Bible was made but why does it need to have different versions? do they change things? Isn't that immoral?

So maybe your asking what my point is because you're thinking I'm getting ridiculous?  The Bible didn't came from heaven like a meteor and that's it like it's a guide on how to live life. The Bible should be absorbed but we should not take seriously every word of it. I do believe God would give us how to deal with life. If all the things in The Bible is a complete guide through life, life would be easy because you have a "Perfect Guide" making life non-sense. It's like reading poetic quotes, metaphoric statements, and meaningful songs that you should not take literally. Always look out of the box. 

If you're mind is one sided, you may think I'm a douche-bag who thinks what I say is always true and you may consider me a church hater. I'm actually a devoted Catholic myself. I praise God and Jesus and my faith is stronger than you thought. I'm just trying to be open minded and I just want to share how I see things..  As I said, you can comment anything you want and I won't take it on you. Just Remember, NOTHING is perfect. 

Last Wednesday (July 7, 2010 to be exact) was my birthday and it was my Nineteenth. Me and my college friends played basketball and we had this mini tournament going on. Anyway, One of my friend quoted "Ohh so you are 19 years old. Well I'm afraid to turn 19 because it's a year away from leaving your teenage shoes." For a few seconds, all my teenage moments flashed into my eyes like doing fast forward while watching movies. He has a point tough and my nerves struck realizing that I'm getting old. After those shit, I smiled and said "Well, it's gonna suck that I'm turning into an adult but look on the bright side, just like what Ms. Chokesondick said in South Park, Life is about moving forward". 

Life is too fast especially when you are enjoying every second of it. It will only take 365 days and I'm entering door 20, the journey to being an adult. Makes me cry thinking all of the good and bad times I had these past years and how I miss those precious memories like if they are tangible, they would be on my room standing like trophies.  All I think about now is that life is offering me more challenges that I know I could take and more memories to be cherished in the far future.

For all my friends, relatives, and my parents, I'm thanking you all for being a part of my life and definitely you played a great role in molding me into a great human being though I'm not that perfectly mold but fuck that nobody is perfect anyway. Thanks for all those people who greeted me and by the way, my wish will be more moments to spend for all my love ones. 








P.S.: Thanks God for a life that is well worth :)

Wow! it's been months since I've been here and I'm happy to be back. I won't discuss the reason because it's tragic and everyone knows it. Well anyway, I may be hurt but I know to myself that it would be healed. So for the topic I will discuss something about this degree I'm taking up so let's start shall we?

College, just hearing the word makes high school students excited and present college students puke. College and challenge just comes together just like hard bosses in video games where the defining moment of your life is on the line. In the movies, we see college as a joke era l where girls in mini skirts, party, drugs, and having a good time exist but in reality, it's the time where your nose bleeds literally. 

As a college student, I take B.S. Information and Communication Technology. I'm proud to say that I am an IT student. I know it's not Law, Nursing, Accountancy, Engineering or other courses that has "respect" spelled all over it but little do  they know how hard it is. Some think of IT as an easy course considering you just have to sit your ass on the computer the whole day so for the slacker , they think this course would be easy though at first I taught this also would be easy but holy sh!t!! It's totally hard. When people I asked about your course and you said IT, they won't be impress though I can't blame them because IT became popular just about less than 10 years ago I think (correct me If am wrong). In a time where technology is used every microsecond of our time, there's no doubt that IT jobs are spreading like a virus. 

So for all High School Students out there, all I can say that IT is not a 'just' course. If you think you have good analytic knowledge then maybe this course is for you. Your love for video games doesn't help on doing well though it can somewhat be helpful. Information technology is a 4 year course educationally but it's a lifetime study in reality because technology tend to update every second. Programming is fun, making animations is cool but Creating systems is like playing Nintendo Wii with your mouth while balancing a printer in your head.




Dedicated to all High school students who would take up IT and of course my Beloved section BIT, we're going to make this. We are all graduating 2012!!... 

I know my title seems to be weird, but of course I assure you that after you read this whole thing, you will understand what I am talking about.


Me, You, and Everyone, what is the similarity? Yes I know it's all pronouns don't be a douche bag. The similarity is  they are referring to People. Yes that simple. I made a post about how people differ? Now I am going to discuss our similarities. We may all be different in characteristics, talents, personalities, and etc. but of course there are similarities in a group of people and I'm talking about millions of group. 

Most of the time, we felt sad seeing our friends walloping in pain. Of course they are those people you shared happy moments so it's a bad image to see your friends crying but despite that negative picture, Aren't you happy that you have friends who care for people? they cry because they care and they love. A simple example will be a breakup. Imagine if your friend just doesn't care about the incident. Think of your friend saying "Who cares? there are a lot of girls out there?". It may seem convincing that he's not suffering which is good on your part but the fact that he/she didn't care is definitely not nice. In life, sometimes our negative aspects produce a positive image of ourselves. The twists in life are so unique that it's so interesting to scan. The common adjectives that we describe to people are good and bad. Schindler, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and  Andres Bonifacio are all good people. Hitler, Stallin, Mao Zedong, Osama Bin Laden, and Idi Amin are bad people. That's our common judgment. What we don't know is that a human being is not a person if he is good or bad alone. Good People have bad characteristics too and Bad People have good beliefs too. Hitler may be an abomination but he did that because of his bad experiences when he was a kid and he CARES. Though he did resort to a bad idea which is revenge, at least there is this small light of goodness inside him. Thomas Aquinas, the great Italian Priest, was once a womanizer.


I just want to point out that a normal human being should not be judged by good or bad hence "nobody is perfect". People have good AND bad characteristics. It's just the matter of amount of good and bad that we call a person good or bad which results to a worse situations like Discrimination and Prejudice. People are like batteries, they're consist of positive and negative charge (Sorry for being corny :p). Let's stop the discrimination of good and bad people! Let's help those people who are more of a bad than good to raise their good side :)

May 10, 2010 will be the election date and a new president will sit at the throne of Malacanang. As I see it, no matter who's your bet, no one will bring the Philippine economy out of poverty. It's just a matter of who will slow down the poverty in this country. You see, there are too many politicians competing for President. That image just shows how hungry the filipinos are for power. In America, there only exist two political parties and if their dictators told them they are not capable of being in the position, then they accept the truth. Here, the truth is bullshit. 


It brings my piss to a boil when people are always complaining how the government is corrupt and shit. They always blame the government because they are poor or in filipino saying "Isang kahig isang tuka". From everybody's prospective, yes it is true that government officials are corrupt and here is the transitive logic.

Government= Corrupt
Government=Filipinos
therefore
Filipinos = Corrupt


So you get that? You can't blame the government because we and I mean we are all products of corruption.
Each of us had made a mistake of being corrupt. Just for being an ordinary student here is an example. Remember those school fees? like your field trip fees? it may cost up to 700 but instead you will ask your parents it's 1000. Plain and simple and I tell you corruption grows faster than mongo seeds.


I just hope that the next president will be less corrupt (because I know whoever takes position will still fuck the government) and people will improve themselves to become a true filipino. I don't disgust the filipinos and obviously I am a Filipino Myself. I just don't want bad things to happen. Rememeber the Maguindanao Massacre? Hunger for Power can kill. This weapon is more fatal than guns and daggers because it destroys our inner self. Just like Corruption.


Core + Rupure = Corrupt.


Core being the center it means referring to our hearts. Rupture meaning an explosion. hence Corruption, a heart explosion.

I was watching Attach of the Show this morning ( btw, if you don't have an idea about AOTS, it's a techno-television show where it features relatively gadgets, internet videos and stuff. In short, it's all about technology.) and I was laughing my lungs out when it featured some funny web videos. They have a sitcom where they feature 5 funny Youtube or Break videos and it cracks me all the time. Enough of those, I did brought Attach of the Show in this topic because they actually featured this new invention by Honda which is a Unicycle that saves your breath and sweat from walking and running. I can say it's another marvelous invention after a genius work like Asimo, hell, today he is able to run through his robotic legs, what a robot. Anyway, this Unicycle is called the Honda U3-X and it is inspired by those Segway mini-vehicles where you can just stand on it and it can run like a motorcycle. Well, almost since it cannot run as fast a Ducati or a Harley Davidson. 


Honda U3-X resembles exactly like a Unicycle and it keeps your feet away from the road by just sitting on it and letting your hands work using the buttons (or I forgot if it uses a remote) to reach your destination. Thinking of  the technology Honda is capable of just explains how technology upgrades every year.


What baffles me is the fact that it affects to people negatively when it comes to laziness. The device might be great but when it comes to usefulness, it just drains out and it really does not qualify to be a need. While I was watching it, I remember the scene from Disney's Pixar film Wall-E. You know where the people who descended from Earth lived in this giant spaceship and everybody is flat obese. It's funny that they just sit their asses on those remote control chairs and anything they wanted would be on their side in just a button away. The wackiest part is when these two guys were talking each other via their Hologram Monitor with a webcam I think, thanks to the high tech moving chairs, while they are actually a centimeter away. Just looking beside his buddy makes it difficult for both of them. 


My thoughts about this device: It's not mandatory for us and it should be just for show. Well actually it is because they said they will never release it to the public which is a good decision from Honda. Many Earthlings are suffering from obesity, what more if such invention will be commercialized. You may ask "So you know it's for show, so what's the point?". Well my point is that the possibility of such event like that Wall-E clip exist on a small percentage which is still on a threat. Technology is unexpected and with technology, anything is possible and I even expect teleportation, flying cars, and other unexpected ficition-movie inspired stuff to pop in the time line. I just hope Asimo and Aibo is there to save us, just like Wall-E and Eve :) ......

For the third fucking time, my blog had been a ghost town, that's sucks. But it's okay, I had been busy in the past few weeks due to the requirements and exams. At last! it's finally over. I'm still crossing my fingers on my Calculus and Accounting exams. It's 12:15 midnight while I'm writing this post and my hands are itchy for more ideas in this blog.

I'm just wondering why did the summer heat started so early. When the clock strikes at 9:00 am, this country is being grilled. These are the days when you take a bath 2-3 times a day, you crave for ice-cream or halo-halo, and of course your imagination flying through beaches. Summer is so much fun because:

1.) It's vacaton!!! what the heck? everyone loves and deserves a damn vacation. Where you can do anything whatever you want!

2.) As I said, cold treats. :)

3.) You can spend time with your family!

4.) Staying late at night to play games, hangout with friends, and for me, to write on this blog.

5.) Your friends are always available for parties, bondings, and etc.


Now for some unnecessary reason, I hate summer because:

1.) Intense Heat... such a beast!

2.) No allowance means no money... good luck finding those summer jobs!

3.) Since you are vacant, household chores will be your best friend... or rival.

4.) 1:00pm - 3:00pm is boring...

5.) Stupid Children will be everywhere!


Just some of my frustrations. This is some sign that I'm going to be posting my thoughts as often as possible. Of course boredom will strike and many interesting things will happen this summer. Still, I'm a bit confused on some things and I have some minor problems. Phew, talk about stress.

"No two people are the same", that's what all of us know and it's true that all human beings are different from each other. Though we are different, there are people with similarities that's why the word friend was invented. Today, Similarity is not mandatory to have friends because all you need is a nice attitude and spirit. With our differences, we enjoy the grace and majestic art that we called friendship. Because of our differences, we learn so many things, we laugh at things, we can express our inner feelings, and etc.

Like in friendship perhaps, we are happy seeing the things that they can do. We love to witness their uniqueness over us, most of the shy people does it. Some people love to express themselves in a speech, interest, or the blog way, those are for the active ones. See, I mentioned two types of people, the shy and the active ones. Imagine all people are shy or everyone is active. I just don't want to imagine it because it might just be boring or something. You know a group of friends is just like a culinary dish, it is made out of different ingredients that try to balance the taste of the food and the result, a chef's masterpiece. Try to make dumplings with one ingredient? like just meat or just flour? that's like one lonely person. The combination of people makes happy moments, great experiences, and compacted bond.

Let's make this the other way around, how about those people that you don't like or simply your enemies? how about those arrogant people you hate or those people who thinks they are superior? It's all about hate. People tend to hate and we can never avoid those people that have the traits that you spit out. Stupid, cocky, bully, violent, pervert, irritating, and so on, we curse them, just because we are different. They are made for us too not to be hated but for you to be motivated. Remember your arrogant classmate who thinks he's the smartest? it makes your blood boil that you want to prove he is not and that motivates you to be an intelligent person. Those teachers and parents who keeps nagging you to study or clean your room, it gives you so much pain hearing their voice that you want them to shut up and there you go,reading for the exams and room cleaned. Just like a Durian Fruit, it smells so stinky but hey, it tastes like heaven.

All these things I say about each of us being unique is a masterpiece from God. He crafted each and every one of us differently for us to be successful, happy, and to be contented with life itself. I admire Him for doing that that's why I am so happy and content. He is not just a supreme being, He is an artist. An artist because He molded zillions of masterpieces who set foot in this spherical object made of soil. Let us give importance to this thing that we notice rarely. If you admire people, places, animals, my blog (hope so), and everything else, it is nice but make sure you admire Him first.

I hate it when I'm walking with Pedestrian Smokers! I don't care if you want to pollute your lungs and kill yourself but please do it on a smoking area or something besides there are many people out there who have diseases and you don't want to be the suspect. It's obvious that I am not a smoker but that doesn't mean I hate all smokers out there in fact most of my friends are smokers and none of them can persuade me to put that cigarette butt between my lips. Since I was a kid, I really hated that dreadful smoke when it goes through my nose and I really swore to myself that I won't be doing it and I'm glad I'm keeping that promise to myself.

I really just hate it like when I'm on the way to school, then a fucker with a smoke will breath his gaseous vomit then the wind will blow at my direction, Result: A sour face of mine. Please, smoke those sticks of death somewhere. Seriously, I hate the scent of smoke and I don't know why most of the people smoke. Well, who am I to put rules like that in this country so why am I complaining? the government has the power to put this miserable rule out of this hellhole. Wait, I think government officials are smokers too so maybe no one will agree with me, except the Department of Health I think.

Bottom line, don't smoke on public areas! Please fuckers! I have a life to live. When you smoke, kill yourselves with a knife, don't be a suicide bomber!

After all these tiring schoolwork and an enjoyable vacation, I left this precious blog in my basement. Sorry "What's in my mind?" blog, I will try to update you again regularly. So here I am still the same and I still want to share whatever I want. Anyway, these past weeks that I left this blog hanging, I am addicted to my new Nintendo Wii. For those people who lacks video game awareness, it's a video game console that lets you experience the game. The controller is like a remote control for the Television and yes it's wireless. Often, the games offered to Wii lets you swing, shake, or jerk your controller for your game to be played., Like for instance the game is about a sword fight, you will hold your controller like a sword and swing it then the sensor will detect the motion you are doing. fun eh?




What makes it more fun is that Nintendo recreate their game masterpieces into this magical console like Super Mario bros., Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Punch-Out and more. Like for instance, they released another sequel for the Super Mario Bros. Series entitled "New Super Mario Bros. Wii" which is fun to play because it lets you play 4 players at once. Yes you are reading it right, four players at once. Well, if you have 4 controllers then you can have a pop-corn video game party every day. I beat this game but damn It's so fucking difficult, seriously. I finished this game within this week but I consider it the week of frustration. The stages were not meant for children because it takes endurance, patience, skills, and tranquilizer(well, to calm yourself so you cannot throw your Wii Console out the window). But that's what the games are meant for, the Challenge. If you beat a stage, you will have this distinctive light feeling that you are a gaming expert.



My final verdict:

Nintendo Wii is revoltutionary, Shigeru Miyamoto really is the genius when it comes to video games. They made this as a competitor to PS3 and Xbox 360 though Nintendo WIi graphics are no match for the former 2. It may have a weak graphic system but hey, it's a brand new idea and well you gotta love that gaming EXPERIENCE. So I will give this console a 9.5/10

I'm a talkative guy. Anything I want to share whether it's non-sense or not, it just comes out of my mouth like an unstoppable horde of bulls. Since I'm writing a blog, why not share it right? Maybe I will share this kind of post every now and then even though I know people don't really care but anyway here it goes.





What is my internet homepage?

Well, my home page is Yahoo!. I'm not really a fanatic of all thousands of Yahoo apps out there in fact I usually visit Yahoo! groups, Yahoo! mail, and Yahoo! messenger only. So why Yahoo.com? Well, I just want to be updated to the latest news. When an important event happens, in just about 19 seconds it's already on Yahoo. When I double click that FireFox icon, I am already staring at that blank page waiting to load and then poof! an updated news for me. Not only it shares the latest info but even facts and tips like in health for example and even geography which really is a fine topic for me.








Which internet browser do I prefer?

Well, I love using Mozilla Firefox because it's simple, fast, and easy to use. Other browsers like Google Chrome, Opera, and Internet Explorer is are okay but I prefer simplicity over quality.









What is my favorite drink(aside from water)?

I love Soya milk, Fresh Milk, Lemonade, Grape juice, Grand Matador brandy, and stuff but my favorite drink is going to be Fresh Milk, Nestle Fresh Milk to be exact. I usually sleep late at night and Fresh Milk is my best friend during those lonely nights especially if I have a problem. It's like I'm crying beside that mug of Milk and a few sip will calm me down.







What is my favorite sleeping position?

Starfish position is my favorite. Just like a starfish lying on the sand, your hands at your side and your legs pointing downward. There are times that it's very hard for me to sleep and for those situations, I go for the side position facing at my left hugging my hot dog South Park pillow.



I can't think of anything more now. I'll try to think more next time.





P.S.

Dedicated to all people who don't care!

It's Christmas vacation yet again and we had few experiences on our professors last November and the half of december. I think it's time for me to review again all the professors though I won't review some because some retained and I won't review them anymore because I already did. So for the reviews:

Operating Systems - Well, he is indeed a good professor and I really learned a lot. He is a low tempered professor and he really does make exams well. He is cool.

Integral Calculus - I won't rant on her skills because she is good but she has a low volume voice. Imagine your television is on a volume 1 even with her Lapel mic. Anyway, let her pass.

Moral Theology - (review done in the previous post)

Principles of Marketing - Do you know the pokemon Clefairy? well they have the same physical structure and she is as well as harmless. It's like everything you do related to her topic is right. Lot's of activities, and I gotta love that candy prize.

Graphics and Multimedia Systems - Every meeting, I always notice his attire and that is the retro styled fashion polo tucked in his pants with a leather belt. I just hate the self study method. He teaches flash so he just put Instructions in MS Word format in every pc on the lab and there you go. Talk about hassle free professors.

Database 2 - (review done)

Object Oriented Programming - (review done but I still had ERRORS)

Research applications and methods - She's a hardworking prof and so hardworking that she's never been absent, completes the one and a half hour meeting, and of course a quiz every meeting. At least, not much of a problem.

Fundamentals of Accounting Part2 - Let's save the worst for last and if my first accounting was good, this one was the grandmommy of all motherfuckin terror prof. She discusses fast like a bullet train and she insults each and every one of us like we are ingrates. I wish I would pass this subject and I wish there is a rehabilitation center for profs like her.


That's about it and these are the reasons why I didn't have a lot of updates.


P.S. : Dedicated to all my Blockmates in San Beda especially to Chay Villacorta for nagging me everyday to make this review, those students under those professors, and to the professors of course.

Every time I hit the power button on the remote, 75% of the time I see the barbaric massacre of Maguindanao and hear the sorrow of the Mangudadatu family. It was not just a massacre; it’s a tragic event that will be remembered in Philippine History. With this event, the Philippines is recorded to be the most dangerous country in the world.

So it all started when Esmael Mangudadatu, vice mayor of Bulalan, Maguindanao, came up with the idea of running as governor against Andal Amapatuan Jr., the present governor of Maguindanao, in the 2010 elections. Esmael Mangudadatu was threatened by Gov. Ampatuan so his wife, sisters, media, and others will file the candidacy because of the fear to be killed by the henchmen of Ampatuan. But that was not stopped the evil minions. The Convoy were blocked and brought to a concealed area and there they were all massacred barbarically including some innocent casualties that were mistakenly picked as part of the convoy. Or wait I think I was mistaken, everybody is innocent.

It was a disgrace like the massacre was not so human as if it is ordered by Satan. Slaughtering all innocent people barbarically and then burying in earth’s soil just for power? And to make things worse, these muslim murderers diabolically killed their own people. It was so hard to imagine. I saw some uncensored pics of the victims and it will make everyone kill the Ampatuans. Almost 50 were identified and found so mainly 50 families were suffering. Their beloved loveones torn apart, their faces were unrecognizable, deformed, and their bodies were like butchered animals. I don’t need to enumerate all the wrong things they have done because I think everybody knows.

The Massacre affected every Filipinos on earth not because we are declared as 2^nd dangerous country on earth but for the fact that such people existed and here they are in the Philippines. It started in the Power, then the corruption and then the thirst for more power and so on. It’s a poisonous endless cycle and as time goes, it gets worse. Where is being a human? Where is Religion? Where is unity? Where is Love? Where is everything? Good luck for finding those in that situation because there only exist one thing in that event and that is hell.

They betrayed their religion, brothers, and themselves. Innocent muslims were being discriminated because of such events. Filipinos were being discriminated by other countries.

But the most affected in this situation is Esmael Mangudadatu and the relatives of all the victims because seeing all your love ones battered like wild animals, it’s a torture.

I hope that will be the last of such event will happen.

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I have been so busy these past few weeks due to the hectic second semester schedule for my 2nd year of college. My class starts at 9:00 am Monday and Thursday and 7:30 am for Tuesday and Friday while my everyday dissmissal is 6:00 pm. Cool huh? Morning to evening, dusk till dawn, from Hawaii to New Zealand (taking the long path), from head to toe, from Single-celled animals to a human being, and etc. You got the point and sorry for the long wait.

After the extravagant tour, we decided to just relax for our 3rd day and try to appreciate Panglao more. Man, I love the white sand and the sound of minimal waves from the beach. It makes you want to go back over and over again. Our Morning, again, was greeted by another batch of breakfast buffet and it sure does the same excellent cooking job. We went to the same table and I waited for an hour or two and then it's time for more beach madness. We soaked ourselves in the salty waters of Panglao and we appreciated the magnificent beauty of the clean underwaters, fresh ocean air, and the breath-taking views around. I insisted the heat of the sun because I believed that moment was memorable so why not take a dark remembrance all through my body. My aunt and my grandmother did not took a vial of sunlight. They really hate to have a dark skin which made me taught they may have the descendants of Dracula. Anyway, before lunch I took a shower for some Seafood Lunch Fest. We ate this rare fish in "sinigang" and I just took in some food like a bottomless pit because it's delicous. When the sun reached the extreme hot temprature, I took a dip in the pool instead so I can swim and workout a bit. The beach is not deep enough for you to do your breaststroke, freestyle, and butterfly even in High Tide so I took a couple of rounds to stretch my dead muscles and brittle bones. Me and my uncle took some Brandy shots in that evening considered as a celebration for our last night. (Para sa mga Pilipino, ginawa ko lang sosy yung Brandy ha. FYI, Matador un. :) )








There is not much to say in the last day except it's a day of reminiscing or maybe a bit nostlagic. We are suppose to depart at 1:30 pm in Bohol so we fixed our carriages and stuff though we made a last dip in the beach. As you can see, My skin color was starting to burn like brownish red or something and it is totally burned charcoal black today. Well, I guess it's a part of a beach vacation and I actually liked it. After fixing some stuff, I went back to my favorite seat near the resto-bar. I rememebered everything from the departure of the plane, the quick dip at the beach, the tour, Chocolate hills, Tarsier, Panglao and everything went through my mind trying to tease me like saying "You should live here!". Anyway, riding the service van to the airport will give you this mixed feeling of sadness and excitement. Sadness because you will be leaving the paradise which is a rare scene in Luzon. Excitement because you want to see your family, friends, and others to tell all your experiences in the vacation. Riding the Plane on the way home, I realized so many things that every human should imagine. Seing Bohol, I can see the great marvey of God's creation. It's a masterpiece and actually it's just a small part of all the great works of God. God really is creative that you will feel the guilt on how you pollute nature on any way you can imagine. As the plane rises, My nostalgic moments are over and looking at the plane window leaving Bohol, I said to myself "I don't want to be the only one to enjoy this adventure. I want my family, friends, and relatives to experience this kind of vacation." That statement made me write this blog for you to be a part of my experience. I don't want to be selfish and to enjoy this myself. This is God's creation and it's for everyone and from this simple way of sharing my thoughts through blog, telling stories, and uploading pictures is my way of sharing my happiness. Thanks for reading a 3 part post of my vacation in Bohol. If you have the money and time, try to book your flight in Bohol. It's fun and relaxing. It's also a simple way for supporting the tourism in the Philippines.

Goodnight everybody and have a nice day!


P.S.


I had an Airplane ear arriving on NAIA.. man it hurts!!!!

Waking up at 6:00 am with a breakfast buffet is one of the greatest mornings I ever had and they have it in the resort. Well, it's not the buffet that you expect like fried turkey and roast beef. It's the regular breakfast but with a lot of choices and a delicious style of cooking. Got to love those tuna, scrambled egg, bread, watermelon, fried rice, and a coffee while watching the small waves on the beach. After being stuffed by our grand breakfast, our tour van will be running at 9:00 am so we took a bath and dressed up and we waited until 9 for our tour van. We just chilled out. My grandpa and grandma stayed in our room while my aunt, uncle, and me took pictures and I tried to appreciate the white sands of Panglao. No matter how I look at it, it's awesome.

So there we go, we moved out with the van with a tour guide and a screeching driver like those Jeepney drivers in Antipolo. Though in Bohol, it's a bit reasonable to be a mad driver because of the smooth roads and the traffic. In Manila, doing that thing is suicide. Anyway, the tour guide shared a lot of facts and information.

Bohol quick Facts

*Bohol is derived from the barrio of Bo-ol meaning "from the well".

*Bohol is the Hometown of Francisco Dagohoy who led athe longest revolt in the Philippines

*It was in Bohol when Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and Datu Sikatuna did the brotherly Blood-Compact.

*Bohol's Capital is Tagbilaran City.

*It is also the Hometown of Carlos P. Garcia, the 8th President of the Philippines. One municipality was named after him and it's an island in the North East of Bohol though he was born in Talibon.


Our first stop was the Chapel of Immaculate Concepcion in Baclayon. It's the oldest Chapel in Bohol. We took pictures inside and outside the chapel but we are prohibited in the musuem. It was really great that they preserved that structure. I rememebered in the musuem that it was actually scary not because of the environment but because of the wooden floors. It was in the upper floor of the Chapel and the wood was like creaking when you step on it like when you jump, you will fall. Just kidding but the creaking wood was true. So after that, we proceed to the Smallest Monkey in the world, The cute Tarsier. What we saw was some domesticated tarsier not some wild ones because according to the tourists, it's gonna be a tough chase if we want some wild ones. Tarsiers are small. Just the size of you regular pin cushion but with a long tail. Tarsiers are nocturnal meaning they are active during the night like Owls that's why some of them are drowsing when we got there. They are so cute you might want to steal them in your pockets. I also love how you feed them because they tend to close their eyes when they eat. Primarily, they eat insects like caterpillars and stuff. Their eyes are really big which is one of their assets I think. Haha. After some tarsier madness, we then go to the world famous Chocolate Hills located in Carmen 55 km from Tagbilaran City. We are not actually in the hills but we are on the view deck to see a thousands of hills surrounding you 360 degrees view like you are in the center. To get to the view deck, you have to climb this 214 stair steps I think but it's really well worth. These perfect cone shaped hills became a candidate for the new 7 wonders of the world and no doubt it should be. After some Chocolate hills madness, we are all hungry for lunch but before that, we took some pictures in the mahogany forrest on the way to Loboc. These trees were amazing and it really makes you feel you are in the forrests of North America. We just had some 5 minute relaxation mode. Then here we go, time for some lunch and another eat all you can restaurant on a floating boat in Loboc River. So relaxing and so good. It's so nice just sitting on the side of the boat looking at those nipa trees inhaling the fresh river breeze while eating some watermelon, So awesome. After the river cruise, we then proceed to the Clarin Ancestral House. The home of the first governor of Bohol. I just can't rememeber his first name but anyway one of his descendants became a senator of the Philippine Congress during the same time of Benigno Aquino Sr and Lorenzo Sumulong. The house was preserved by the Clarin Family and inside you will some old jars, furniture, old documentations of senator clarin, their tables, a door with a secret lock, and so much many stuff. After that, went to this souvenir shop and we bought some stuff and then going to the last stop, the Blood-Compact Shirine where you will see some statues in the exact same spot of the Blood-Compact of Legazpi and Sikatuna. That was the last spot so our van dropped us at the resort and we kicked back. It was an exhausting day but I enjoyed the trip. I learned many stuff and saw the marvey of God's creation and how people took care of it.


Sorry for the late post and it's a pleasure for me to share to everyone my experience in Bohol. Add Bohol in your vacation checklist and I will assure you it's well worth!

It was so many months ago that my aunt planned our vacation in Bohol and actually, we tried to fix our schedule because of the adjustment of vacation due to the storm Ondoy. We are supposed to get a 5 days and 4 nights vacation in Bohol but instead things get fucked up at the beginning of the flight. Our plane Departure is suppose to be 8:30 am in Cebu Pacific and they said we are suppose to be in the airport 2 hours or 1 hour before the flight but we had some minor problems that we arrived there 8:00 am but still 30 minutes left. I taught it was okay but then things get bad when Cebu Pacific didn't allowed us to board the plane. C'mon!!! where is the consideration on that?? They said we have to pay a penalty fee for us to board the plane AT 12:00nn. The fee was so expensive and other than the fucking penalty fee, we were suppose to buy new plane tickets for us to board. If we do that, our pocket money will be lacking for the vacation so just gone home and my aunt decided to fly the next day not in Cebu Pacific but Philippine Airlines or usually called PAL. Our tickets cost almost the same with Cebu Pacific but PAL is a little bit more expenisive but not too high difference.

After the traumatic experience, they decided to go to the airport very early that we waited 2 hours for departure. Our plane was departing at 8:30 am (again) and we were at the airport 6:30. After a 2 hour nap, we boarded the plane and wooooohh it was my first time to ride the plane. I was a bit excited but then after the plane took off, it was just like riding the Bus being thrown by the Hulk. While I was in the flight, the stewards in PAL gave us snacks like cookies, peanuts, and a choice of your drinks like water, coffee, or tea.


After an hour of flight, we were at Tagbilaran City, the city of friendship and the capital city of Bohol. It was awesome to breath some provincal fresh air. The hotel van picked us up from the airport and a 45 minute trip to airport, we arrived at the Dumaluan Hotel and Beach Resort. On the way to Dumaluan, the traffic in Bohol was extraordinarily smooth. It will never happen in Manila. The 45 minute trip in Bohol is a 2 hour drive in Manila. Also the surroundings in Bohol is too much rural. If you think provinces in Luzon like Bulacan, Pampanga, and Pangasinan are too rural, witnessing the environment in Bohol will make you think Luzon provinces are urban. Anyway, our location in Bohol is in the Southwest island though Tagbliliran City is not too far. We were in our room kicking back from the energy absorbing trip. My jaw dropped when I saw the white sand beach and it feels like I was in Boracay and maybe better. Later on we ate lunch and the seafoods were awesome. Then, the exhausting aura had been gone after that. The schedule of the trip was suppose to be the next day so we just swam at the beach and we just hanged out. I was expecting a night life like Boracay but then I saw a peaceful evening heck even the acoustic band is upt ot 10 pm. But then again, it's for the people who wants to rest and you may see how the people are concern about it. People in Bohol are kind and they really enjoy serving people even the waiters and waitressess.


After all, the first day nightmare was erased by the relaxing environment of Panglao, Bohol. It makes you want to come back in that place over and over again. Bohol may be just known for the Chocolate Hills and Tarsier, but in the future, these beaches may be the next Boracay.

Tomorrow I will post day 2, the day we gone through the landmarks of Bohol.