Friday, July 31, 2009

The Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines experience

I'm forever grateful I had the chance to step my feet in the island of Mactan, Cebu, finally! It was a dream come true since the plane I rode last 2006 only dropped by on the airport for few minutes.

The conference I attended for three days was held in the Crown Regency Suites Mactan Hotel Cebu, Maximo Patalinghug Jr. Ave. Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, Philippines. Nice venue and good food! The waitress, servers and the front desk officers are friendly and accomodating.

I enjoyed the conference and listening to the different speakers broaden my mind about things in life. At the end of the conference, I had a chance to take pictures of the venue and so here are the images......

This is the entrance of the hotel. I took the photo from the inside of the vicinity.



This are the different Villas inside the vicinity.



This is the swimming pool taken from the stairs going there.


This is the swimming pool taken from the top.


This is the view at the top.



The Lapu-Lapu shrine is a 20-meter bronze statue in Punta EngaƱo, Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines, erected in honor of Datu Lapu-Lapu, a native chieftain who defeated Spanish soldiers, and Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of Mactan on 1521.

From Crown Regency Suites Mactan, we rode a taxi going toward the shrine of Lapulapu as stated above around 20-30 minutes. You can take a jeepney also if you want. We choose the taxi since the rain is fast approaching, so we hurriedly ask the taxi driver to get us to the site asap. We arrived and the photos below are the images we took.

The front view of Lapulapu's monument.


This is the left side view of Lapulapu's Monument.

This is the right side view of Lapulapu's Monument.



We just stayed around 15-20 minutes in the site since the rain is fast approaching. By the way, there is no entrance fee in the site. Only a donation box. There are souvenir shops around. No chance to check them out since we hurriedly went to catch our last flight home.

These pictures are all taken only in Mactan Island. No time to go to the downtown Cebu, due to the time of our flight. For more about Cebu just click the word. Have a nice day....

Thursday, July 30, 2009

My Fishy Fishy


Since, I had arrived my everyday chores was cleaning the house, cooking, arranging stuff, typing topics, and feeding our pet fishes.

The kinds of fishes we have are the St. Peter's fish (tilapia), and catfish (hito). By the way, we have a fishpond in our backyard, a man-made one. Since the area we are living is water prone, when it rain hard the water all go to the fishpond which supplies their habitat. I wonder what will happen when the rainy seasons are over.

I enjoyed seeing the St. Peter's fish eat their food. They swam to the water surface and they eat their food like gulping water. I stay at a distance not to scare them, cause if they see humans or other moving things they swam beneath the pond. The catfish has a different personality too. They rarely surface the water, they only surface when it rains. Saw one of them crawl out of the pond like a snake, a bit creepy, but they'll return back to the pond afterwards. The St. Peter's fish and Catfish don't share a pond. The two kinds have their separate pond.

The purpose of our fishes are for amusement, when they grow big enough, then for food, of course. These kinds of fishes are less maintenance and easy to take care.

However, make sure no cats are playing around or near the pond, since cats likes to eat fishes...:)

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

To Marry is in the Air

My friend, Kuya Jay is going to ask his fiance's parents for her hand in marriage. Kuya Jay is the third friend of mine at present who decided to marry. My other friends, Kuya Liam will be next year, and Ate Rona this year. The three of them are 25 years old and above. Pretty age to marry, I think.

Upon learning, Kuya Jay's wedding plans. I was ecstatic! Reasons are; he decided not to end a bachelor forever, he is in his proper age to marry, and lastly, he already found "the one" God had given him.

In Filipino culture, "Pamanhikan" is a pre-wedding where the families of both the groom and bride meet and plan all the wedding details.

Honestly, I'm excited to their big day! Since they will be making a vow with their respective spouse-to-be, "for better and for worst, in richer and poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do they part." A covenant they will make in front of their witnesses and to God! A covenant I know Kuya Jay, Kuya Liam, and Ate Rona will keep.

To the three of you, the fact that you are all entering matrimony, and your single days are about to end.lol. I wish you cheers and toast of joy and love to your marriage life ahead.

PS. Don't forget to send me your invitations. ^^,

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