Summer Escapade Part 2

Summer Escapade Part 2

Yes! Nobody does it better but Summer! And may i add the phrase.. “last na ‘to ha…” because my summer escapade stories does not end yet in Puerto Galera… but in the best place to spend your summer. This is my last summer musings for this year but this is my best summer so far. If you like my Puerto Galera adventure this next summer getaway will make you salivate to go there! So stay tuned… as I tell you on my next post about my adventure in a place where summer seems never end… Boracay!

Puerto Galera: Rated-PG Summer

I know this is a very late post… but I want to share you my rated “PG” Summer 2008. Rated “PG” as in rated as - Puerto Galera! My vacation there happened last March and its one of the most unforgettable summer I had… If you want tips on how to spend a budget summer here, feel free to email me or leave a comment. I am glad to make a reply.

Below is the 3-day chronicle of my whole stay in the one of the top tourist destination in our country that popularly dubs itself as “simply paradise…”
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March 28 - A Rated-PG Summer
It’s a great start of summer adventure to head in one of the top 10 summer destination of the country - Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro. It is one hell of a plan to make this summer vacation happen because we’ve been planning this trip since December with my friends. Now, everything comes in fruition. Waking up two in the morning, we catch a shuttle to Batangas pier to ride the earliest ferry trip to WhiteBeach , Puerto Galera. White Beach it is, as the sand is ivory white and clean! We arrived their, 8 in the morning together with a whole bunch of other summer lovers. The place is easy on access. Hotels are near the beach front likewise also the bars and restaurants around. And with my wackiest friends around what do you expect? Frolicking under the sun and water with our shades and never-ending creating memories through the lens of my newest Canon IXUS (actually I bought it last December but this is the first travel capture of my cam). One of my favorite pictures was an accidental silhouette shot of my whole body shadowing against the sun. We did sun bathing just like any other tourist who wants a relaxing feel of the sea. And of course swim by the beach! It’s amazing how hot the place is yet the water is cold.

Approaching White Beach, Puerto Galera.

Sun, sea, sand... and shades!

Enjoying White Beach at Puerto Galera.

Puerto Galera experience is an awesome trip with your friends.

 By the afternoon, we started our next water activity – riding the Banana Boat! There is a thrill feeling with few scariness of anticipation before riding it knowing stories from my friends (they’ve been there before) how this banana shape floating boat goes to the middle of the sea and plunges you in the open water once it goes in action. It is being tug by a speed boat as it goes in the open water. And to add thrill of excitement we were tug and plunge two times in the sea! It was my first experience! And it is only me who is virgin in that experience as my friends have rode it in their past visit. I felt scared and panicked on the first plunge because I felt I was plunged so deep in the water that I might drown. I panicked once we were in the open water! Though we have a vest you have to imagine we are in the open water. It is deep and a shark might be choosing his dinner for that day! Good thing my friends calm me down. And though the vest is there I still kept on threading so as not to drown. It is also hard to climbed back to the boat once you are in the water. But you will float even you don’t do threading. On the third attempt the speedboat driver did not succeed to plunge us. They really intend to do it! We also got around the island – seeing caves and other landscapes of Puerto Galera. For twenty minutes, it was over and we headed to the shore – exhausted but happy.

Ray of summer...

Jump!

The fun and exhilarating banana boat ride!

Our first fall from Banana boat ride!

Beach party is next! After we had an enough rest from the exhausting water activity at 10pm, we headed out of our room to join the beach party. It is the start of nightlife on Puerto Galera as we go clubbing and drink around. What makes this nightlife a unique experience is you can lay a blanket on the beach sand and now you can either lounge, drink, share stories with your friends, groove to sounds of the bar or lay on the blanket and wonder in the star studded sky. It is there I got a first taste of Galera’s famous drink – Mindoro sling. It tastes a strong gin with the sweetness of a pomelo and pineapple juice and hints of rhum and lambanog which every island clubbers will like. Most of the crowd stays in the beach sand to drink and party rather than be in the bars’ area. Whenever the bar plays a wild disco song, the bars’ friendly, attentive and transvestite waitresses dances together in a choreograph manner which drew the crowds attention. Some groups goes dancing in the music. I can’t remember how many glasses I’ve drink but we stayed until 2 am when everyone started to go back to their rooms.

My first taste of the famous Mindoro sling.

March 29 – One with nature.
I woke up at 10 am. We quickly dressed ourselves as today we go on an island hopping. The trip on a hired pump boat is quite far from White Beach as we go hopping around the island. We explore the natural sites of Puerto Galera including seeing a cave and palm groove picnic ground. Capturing moments never stop. I am in awe in the breathtaking sceneries of the island while feeling the relaxing breeze of sea air. We headed our way on the Coral Garden where we did snorkeling. This is my summer of all first! It is my first time to go snorkeling as my friends have try it before. Again there are was thrill feeling! Because the first time I submerged my face on the water the view of the fishes and corals are very near! It seems you can hold it by any chance but yet we are told that is 10 feet deep. Katuy, one of my friends threw breads on the water that made fish feed and swam around us. Its amazing that they were not afraid in near human contact! Then we hired a smaller pump boat to tug us around the coral garden. It is one with nature experience as I marvel to the colorful corals, fishes and other sea creatures that I saw in that coral garden. Fishes were green and violet. Corals of different kinds were there – there is even an egg-shaped coral that is big as a dinosaur egg! There are also group of sea urchins with their black stinging thorns and its watchful single orange eye. I also saw what the books says the threat to corals the - crown-of-thorns – a kind of starfish. But the best remembered under the sea creature I saw is the big blue starfish that lies in the coral seabed. The only thing I can do after seeing that since I can’t talk with the air tube in my mouth is a hand sign of “OK” to my friend, Katuy whose beside me during the snorkel. I am amaze by the beauty under the sea! That was one of the best experience I had in Puerto Galera. It cemented my summer vacation as one that I won’t forget. I don’t want to be sound religious but the experience made me thank God for creating this wonderful world. It was really an unforgettable experience to see the beauty of the marine world.

Island hopping time at Puerto Galera

Snorkeling at Coral Garden.

Enjoying the best of island hopping in Puerto Galera.

My first time to experience snorkeling.

 After that we were bought to a secluded cove that can only be reach via outrigger boat. Though there are few people around (they also tourist visiting the islands), it still looks secluded as the cove of white sand beach stretch to a 1 kilometer I think. Despite the heat of the sun, we walk towards west end of the cove. I let some of friends go ahead so I can take pictures around. It’s the perfect place to take pictures as there are almost no people around and makes you think that you own the beach. On western end there are coral stone formations that some were partly submerge to the sea. It was also another perfect spot to get take pictures. The coral stones are perfectly place to get pictures some were tall that friends even climb up just to have a photo with it. There is also one snap shot that were all looking at the sea – a reminiscent of one scene in a hit TV series “Lost”. After resting and admiring the seascape we went back to the boat and bought us back to the White Beach.

Our feets in Sarong...

Last night party at Puerto Galera.

Our last night started on another sand party. It was also our last happy hour in the island. We made the most out of it (we went back at 4am in our room!). Aside from drinking and clubbing in our last nightlife in the island we added fun when one of my friend, Kisses, make a dare to get to know other people by approaching them intently make that person introduce to us as if to make friends in our circle. It was a “nakakahiya” at first but it was fun getting to know other people right?

Its definitely fun if you spend a summer with barkada in Puerto Galera.

Sun-worshippers!

Last splash of summer in PG.

March 30 – Last summer hurray!

We plan to get out of the island by 12noon, but there is an instinct says to us to extend our stay for a while as if we don’t want to leave Puerto Galrera right away. We had a long discussions with my friends like if we were gonna visit a falls there and leave later, we have to pay additional fees for hotel extension coz check out is at 12nn, etc.. But we ended up leaving for the last trip to Batangas pier at 4pm.

In the morning we end went to our last swimming and take more pictures in the island. We savor our last hours there by relaxing under the shades of palm trees while eating halo-halo. I also get the chance to buy souvenirs around as the place around is flock by numerous stores of souvenir items. From shirts, accessories, shades, key chains, pouches… most of them are cheap so you can have the best item memoirs of Puerto Galera.

By 3pm we get ready for a long return trip to Batangas pier and another long trip to our hometown in Cavite City. After surfing the souvenir stores I headed to the outrigger ferry and bid goodbye to Puerto Galera. The ocean waves were strong and our ferry had a battle with the currents. It was one unforgettable because its kinda wild ride like turbulence where everything is moving - a reminiscent of the Banana Boat we had. I think we arrive at the pier around pass 5pm. Our van was waiting there and we had a long travel ride to Cavite City for 3 hours (that includes the shortcut). I am exhausted from the whole long trip. We arrive at 9pm. There are things I regret to do but overall I am satisfied that so much memories happened to me this summer. Sharing it with my friends is a plus. I won’t forget this summer. I think I’m going to return there but for that time I slept that night with smile on my face.

Sweet Temptation

Sweet Temptation

You are irrisistible
From the deeper place of Blue
I cannot resist looking at you
It seems a sin to miss your visage in my eyes

Looking at you put me in lorn ponder
It was impossible to resist your charm
It waters my eyes in hidden harm
Now, all I see from my sight is a pool of love

My feelings torn inside me
The passions collide in me
Wild abandon inside of me
This is what I fear; I fall in the cliff of your love

Everything was just from a look
And suddenly love poison me, suddenly as rainfall
It makes me move beyond my control
All I desire now is to follow you from my sight

I cannot fight this feeling
I'm becoming weak at this seduction
Would I resist this love back on a sudden run?
Or would I slip in this sweet temptation

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This is the last and third of my Victoria's Secret series trilogy poems written in July 11, 2006. Its all about resisting a tempting love but one can't help byt fall to it. Now the speaker can't decide if he will resist it or let himself fall to it.

I wanna hear your comments/reactions... Pls, pls, pls, put a comment about this poem.

Last hurray...

Its almost 24 hours from now and its already 2008! We only have a 1 day to go to say goodbye to 2007. But before 2008... there are so many "best things" that happened to me this year. I have so many "whereabouts" and "eventus" just this 2007. I've met a lot of people and made a lot of friends. I've been in 3 jobs in one year (not to mention of different fields each and not so much related to my psych course). I experience a lot of situation that challenges me as a person. And I learned a lot this year from those experiences and people I've met. Well, thanks for being part of my year 2007... you're now part of my history. Thanks for making me a new me!

2008... Mmm... Next year I'm "routing" on other things like making "merry things" in my love-life coz since I've been very focused on getting a stable job. And I'm looking forward to work in an airline company. But anyway its a long 365 days and a lot of things may happen. But one thing is for sure I'm going to travel a lot! Now that I've bought a digicam Canon Ixus and after a year of no travel as in dry hopping. This year I'm gonna make sure that I will travel! travel! travel!

Happy New Year bloggers!

November Update

November Update

Hello bloggers!

It's been a "while" again since my last post and there has been a lot of "swingarounds" I've been to for the last 2 months of my absence here. But the major event happened to me lately was I've recently hired as a Travel Consultant at Anscor-Casto Travel Corporation ( a company owned by Andres N. Soriano - a prominent business mogul in the country).

But before we go to the details... my ticket to this "stardom" was when I decided to go on a training course titled "Introduction to Travel World" in Aug.-Sept. for a fee of 10,000PHP! Read 10,000PHP... I paid for that course to learn an airline reservation system named Amadeus. But aside from learning that system, it was also a crash course in tourism where aside from learning the system we also discussed subjects in travel geography, documentation and customer service. It is also similar to taking a role of a travel agent.

The primary reason why I did take this 10,000 worth course is because I want to establish a career in the airline industry and if not becoming an airline employee, a travel agent would the closest job I have to take. Desperate? Yes... I don't want to waste time working on job not related to the career that I really want. And a career I'm not really enjoying and satisfied. And so why take other jobs like HR and Data Encoder when in the end I'll fall back to the airline industry. And that is to become a reservation agent, ticketing representative, customer service agent, etc. or other airline career. Aside from that, another reason is Amadeus Mktg Phils promises a job referrals when you pass their 90% rate in the course - which I gladly got 96%!

By the way, during my "stint" at Amadeus Corporate University I've met a lot of friends through my classmates whom I share with the same interest - Travel. I already missed them even its just a one-week training we bonded much already, even my training specialists, Mam Rachel who is a very good trainor.

As a Travel Consultant... basically what we do are doing travel arrangement to our clients like doing flight reservation and ticketing as well as giving the best fare possible that the client needs. Sometimes we do assist in travel docs., but now I'm a trainee for the meantime to be a professional travel consultant (naks!) hehehe...

Actually, one of the reasons that motivated me to pursue a career in travel is my passion and huge interests in travel - which I really like. I love going places. I love swinging around in learning cultures and other countries. Plus travel and airline industry are overlapping in terms of career so its really good for my goals and it is really an exciting career for me.

I'm glad that everything turn out smooth in my career shift. Though, I encounter some adjustment, I easily get along with it.

But the horrible truth (I'm not scaring you, hehehe) is... this is just a temporary job for me. I will still pursue a job in the airline industry. Sad to say, I'm just going to make this my training ground, gain all experiences, skills and trainings I need to equip me for the job that I really want. Hopefully this will be my first and last work on travel agency. I'm planning to stay only up to 8 months to 1 year, then after that I'm going to fly away... But right now I'm happy with my job as a proby and I'm happy with what I'm doing right now.

So there are my "musings"... what a month I've been!

Victoria's Secret Series: Romantic Wish

Romantic Wish

How I wish were so in love,
Pouring affection to each other in sweet delight,
Caressing in sweet moment,
All I desire this was heaven sent,

How I wish we were lovers
Sharing each day together
I won’t spend a day without you
So I won’t be in space of blue,

How I wish we are kissing
And holding hands while smelling amber romance
We could walk together in vanilla lace
Or we could solely gone pure seduction in someplace

How I wish we were in romance
And very true from our feelings to our pondering
I will love you the way I know what love is
Feel this love I send through my blow of kiss

How I wish you are mine
So we could savor this love I have dream
Romances I’ve always wish to happen
But how long I will wish? How soon is when?


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Weeks have become months! I told that in my last post that the next series poem will come in the following weeks and now its September! Though busy working on my job, this is the second of my Victoria's Secret poems which I wrote in July 5, 2006. Well, as the title speaks for itself so does the message it says... but the common denominator is that everything is romantic and romance is all over but read the last line... how I long will wish? If you like this poem or any reactions to say, tell me right away. Have a nice blogging day!

Victoria's Secret Series: Endless Love

Endless Love

Forever is all I desire to hear,
And it is what my heart utters in cheer,
Forever is a place I want to stay
And so in this place I shall dwell in bliss

Everlasting my love will be
For this is the promise of love I plea
In my heart this will hold true
For you gave me the same true love I hope for

My love will surpass even death
Because it will live in death
This love I give is eternal
It won’t be simply forgotten nor neglect.

Even death comes to avenge by mistral
The love I pour won't lost in death of eternal
For the happiness I feel in this love is ethereal passion
And the felicity I found in this love surpasses the boundaries of earthly bliss.

My love will always be with you
This holds in my heart and mind in true
This will be my vow of love
Love that will be... always... forever... endless...
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I'm back! After a long absence (again!?!), here I present to you one of my Victoria's Secret Poem Trilogy Series written in July 3, 2006 entitled "Endless Love". It is actually one of the cologne flavors of Victoria Secret's line products... the flavor titles were so catchy that it inspired me to write poems about it. I intended to write this poem to make readers feel and picture what "great and endless love" is? Did I achieve it? Feel free to write your comments below about the poem and stay tune in the coming weeks as I complete this Victoria's Secret Poem Series.