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well-rested

Haha! Finally got a good 11 hours of sleep! I’ve never shut my eyes like this in a very long time, even on weekends which are my days off. It feels good to wake up not feeling groggy and cranky for a change.

I’m trying to reply to commentators who have questions regarding the trips that I’ve been to such as in Pandanon island, Camotes island or our Skywalk Adventure. It’s nice to help out and give information to people who are also travelling. According to my friend, this is our way of helping out cause there are times when we also need help and blogging has been able to provide that venue for finding details that are indeed useful.

How we got to Caramoan

Come South, CamSur!
June 12-16, 2009

Just a guide on how we got to Camarines Sur.I created this entry to help out fellow bloggers/readers who have plans to go to this part of the country. We’re a bunch of cheapskates and we want to make sure we get the cheapest rates there are so we wouldn’t spend as much in the Caramoan islands. This is just a series of entries that I’ll be posting one by one.

From Cebu, we booked flights to Manila in advance because of a promo fare from Philippine airlines, I got stranded too when we exchanged our etickets to boarding passes because my flight was scheduled 4 hours later. Bummer.

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Got stranded at the airport, again. Good thing there were SmartBro computer kiosks for me to surf the four wasted hours away.

Anyway in Manila, we went to bus station in Araneta Cubao, in front Ali Mall. My colleagues already bought tickets when they went ahead. They went to the Isarog Bus Liners because we specifically wanted to ride the Lazy Boy Seats because we wanted to have a good rest during the eight-hour travel. Yep, you heard it right, it’s an eight-hour trip from Manila to Naga. We haven’t slept that day or the day before that because we just got back from our office job. Call center kasi.

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Bus station in Araneta Cubao

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Isarog Bus Liner Schedule

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Lazy Boy and the toilet!

It was great that we got to recline our seats and have foot rests. Lazy boy talaga ang dating. It wasn’t that much of a bumpy ride compared to when we went back from Naga to Manila. Just make sure that your seats are in the middle of the bus. At least there weren’t that many stopovers because the Isarog Bus Liner that we were in had a built-in bathroom that you can just take a leak inside.

When we arrived in Naga, around 3:30am, we got some seats at the Naga terminal so we could get some breakfast. I got sick so I bought some noodle soup to warm my stomach. We asked some people where the terminal is for those who were planing to go to Sabang Port (port going to the Caramoan). The people informed us that it’s just a short distance from the bus terminal.

It’s actually just beside SM Naga so for those people who haven’t prepared their stuff to bring can buy at SM once they’re open. Talk about convenience.

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warming my stomach, jeep

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SM Naga is just beside the terminal, couldn’t wait for it to be open

We were at the jeep when it left around 5:30am, the trip was 2 hours long when we got to the Sabang Port. We had to wait for us to get settled because we got confused of where to go since the locales suddenly tried to convince us to use one of their pump boats at P2000 so we can go directly to Guijalo port. Of course, we didn’t have enough money and we were trying to look for the normal ride going to Guijalo. At P120 per person, we waited for the main ride to depart which was about 8:30am.

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signing the manifesto just in case

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Yes, they will carry you to the boat.

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slumdog millionaire? auto flush

Note: Please do prepare yourself to be carried by the locales (at 5 bucks) to take you to the boat. They don’t really have a docking area and unless you want to get wet for 2 hours during the travel beside other dry people, it’s best to pay the 5 bucks and let them carry you. But we gave the carriers 50 bucks for four of us including our luggage just because we felt that they were good to us.

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kid and his banca

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Yeah, that’s the boat. haha

We arrived around 10:30am at the Guijalo port and we looked for Kuya Jay (our contact tour guide) who was actually waiting for us since 6:30am! We rode a tricycle going to the town proper so we could go to the Villa Juliana Inn, where we were staying. Of all the inns/hotels, Vill Juliana Inn has the best rate at 500 bucks per night which is good for 4 persons, we decided to stay there. Whoa, we only paid 125 pesos per night! hehe. When you get to the place, just make sure that you get some blankets and towels if you didn’t bring some. I guess they didn’t give it to us because we didn’t ask. Toinks. Also, you can ask for a tariff of the rates of the tricycle rides as well as the pump boat rides where you can get the agreed rates for island hopping.

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Villa Juliana Inn! – They were all yellow

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Villa Juliana room rate – P500 per night (good for 4 persons), air-conditioned rooms are from P750-P800.

Before we went island hopping, we dropped by the Lutong Bahay which is a carenderia/eatery where we had lunch. It was a long travel and we were all hungry.

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Lutong Bahay, where we usually ate. It’s just a carenderia but meals cost around 35-45 pesos plus the 10 pesos for the rice. Manila price bah?

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riding at the top of the tryke, bumpy ride.

And so we travelled going to Paniman where we were about to start out island hopping adventure–>After 13 hours worth of travelling. sheesh.

Again the prices:
Manila to Naga: P850 pesos (8 hours) – bus with lazy boy seats
Naga to Sabang Port: P80 (2 hours) – jeepney
Sabang Port to Guijalo Port: P120 (2 hours) – pumpboat
Guilajo Port to Town Proper: P100 – tricycle
Villa Juliana room rate – P500 per night (good for 4 persons)

Contact details of the Bus for booking (book in advance!)
Cubao Booking Office
Araneta Center Bus Terminal (Ali-Mall)
Telephone numbers +63 02 9133551 or +63 02 4383916

Naga City Booking Office
Naga City Central Bus Terminal
Telephone numbers +63 54 4738804 or +63 54 8117764

Megan on a bike

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Seeing Megan Fox onscreen I heard a number of gasps from the audience and you’d think that it was already enough. But no, Michael Bay and the rest of the crew had to throw in the cool transformations of the autobots and the decepticons, hilarious antics of the mother and the sidekicks including some of the machines plus the great action sequences.

From Apocalypto to The Matrix to Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider, though there were segments that were just noticeable, I couldn’t help but be amazed at how far the CGI effects have come. Of course, Megan Fox was the cherry on top.

I can’t really describe it as much, but I’m glad to have watched the movie onscreen. Sulit!

print screen

Don’t have anything better to do, I just have a number (a whole lot!) of pictures in my disk drive that I want to start editing and creating works but I don’t seem to have the patience or the orderliness to think about how I would conceptualize the albums to a particular theme. Sheesh. This is just a test for me since I’m still starting out with making collages. Right now, this is my wallpaper. I’m just really happy that I got an XP installed already!

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and so i blog about the obvious

And I blog about Michael ‘Jacko’ Jackson. Everybody’s been talking about him and no matter how I think I know I’m not affected, I look back when I was a kid and my pop used to play songs, collect laser discs of his concerts and realized how people go agog just to catch Michael in action. Though it’s obvious what he turned out to be, we still can’t deny how much he has contributed in music. He was a total performer who really gave his all in entertaining his fans which makes him iconic, short slacks and all.

Everybody’s playing his songs now as a tribute, even my colleagues keep on talking about it. It just took me a couple of days before it really sank in.

–Wow, can’t believe I’m talking about current entertainment. haha

our trip to CamSur

I’m done with uploading the pics from our trip but I’m too tired to even post a write up about it. Will be dedicating more time when it’s my day off. For now, I’m just posting a teaser of our Camarines Sur Adventure last June 12-16, 2009.

Manila, Naga, Sabang, Caramoan, Matukad, Lahos, Cotivas, Manlawi, Sabitang Laya, CamSur Watersports Complex (CWC) -> All the way from Cebu; so many places, so little time.

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med terms

I’m not really an expert when it comes to medical terms as I’m definitely not fluent in the language of doctors and nurses. Though I’m not really afraid of blood and all, I think I’d drown myself with the words that these medical professionals use. One of the things that fascinate me would be babies and how they are born. When the umbilical cord is being cut during the delivery, I used to squint in pain, thinking that it would hurt because it would be useless again. However, I just found out that it can also be put to good use because over 12,000 umbilical cord blood stem cell transfers happen in order to treat about 75 different conditions.
Cryo-Cell is offering a great discount for those families to keep their baby cord’s blood for storage in the future. Never knew this could be quite useful.

I actually have friends who are graduates of these medical fields, whether it be nursing, biology, med school, nutrition and dietetics etc. and it’s really amazing to see them grow in their fields. I don’t really think I’ll survive if I were put into these courses. It’s nice to be able to help people out and making other people well. But I’ll just probably leave it to the experts.

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got my hp laptop back!

and I finally have an XP Professional installed in it! I had the IT guys work on it since I’m really not that technically resourceful in looking for drivers and hotfixes to solve the problem. Plus I don’t have that much time or patience to really go through with the process of installing by downgrading from a Vista to an XP. Also, those people at the hp service center in SM Cebu weren’t really helpful. I don’t even want to visit the place anymore because of the horrible customer service that I received.

Might wonder why I went with an XP instead of having to get the latest version which is Windows 7? Obviously since the latter is on the beta period and I don’t want to start messing on a new system especially when the machine is a laptop wherein parts are costly and usually goes kaput whenever the whole thing crashes. I don’t want to bother, so long as I’m done with the Vista sluggishness.

I’ll have to work on it and check if bugs are present but I’m pretty much confident that I won’t have any problem. In return, I treated them out to a bucket meal from KFC here in IT Park, the first time I ever bought a bucket meal. haha. It’s the least I could do too, considering the fees that come with having to go through tech support for software.

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