Thursday, April 3, 2014

Beach-ation time!

Jayr's favorite playground is the beach. He will never grow tired of having sand between his toes, sun on his skin and sea salt in his hair so what perfect place to celebrate his birthday than in Boracay. 

Aerial shot of the island

Boracay is of the most famous beaches in the world and so it is only fitting that we see for ourselves if it really does live up to its “top record”.

 
My very postcard-esque picture of Station 2

I'm lucky to have captured this because I really love it.

another "stalkery" pic of some kids having fun in Bulabog beach

As always we make thorough research of the place to get the most out of the island as possible. With the help of the tour-guide we met on our first day we managed to get a fun-filled 8 day beach-ation.

 Ready for Island Hopping!

 Safety first, esp. when you don't know how to swim... like me!

Bromance with our tour-guide


 Inside the cave with what looks like a giant tooth. 
No one in there was able to tell to me what it really is!



And as with our other trips, he always have something in-store for me to enjoy and this time by booking the Para-sailing because he knew I wanted to try that so finally I can get it off my Bucket list 



The island is truly fantastic the powdery white sand, the pristine blue water and especially the very warm and welcoming people. We will definitely go back there! 

*Special thank you for our tour guide Reynon for being so helpful with the kind of activities we wanted to do. He really did make sure that we enjoy ourselves and that we get the best prices. 

If you plan to go to Boracay and in need of a tour guide, leave me a message and I will forward Reynon's contact no. :)

P.S more pictures posted in my Facebook page. 

jCel♥


Thursday, February 20, 2014

[Book-It!] Diary ng Panget experience

I normally don’t conform to trends and such unless they are books. So when people started talking about this tagalog book, I knew I had to go search for it online because I won’t be flying back to the Philippines just to get my hands on it. In any case, I got lucky and found the free eBook.

Mahirap maging maganda
Bawat galaw mo tinitignan nila.
Magkamali ka, hindi makakatakas sa kanilang mga mata.
Ang mahirap pa, pag gusto mong mangulangot kahit patago...
Hindi mo magawa.

I don’t usually read tagalog books, actually scratch that, I NEVER read tagalog books so I was a bit nervous about how I was going to survive reading without my nose bleeding. But upon reading I’m happy to find that the novel is a hybrid of Tagalog and English. There were a lot of grammatical errors which would normally annoy me but this time I didn't let it get in the way so I happily read my way through the end.

I didn’t expect anything going into the book so I wasn’t that surprise to find the story predictable and dim. Jayr got a glimpse of a page of it and said it was rubbish but I was thoroughly entertained that I finished reading it in only 3 days. It was such an easy and mindless read which I think we need from time to time. These are the kind of books you would be reading during vacations or in the beach. Because it’s not so taxing plus characters are really funny.

I’m now in the hunt for book 2 and I don’t think my Tagalog reads will stop here. Feel free to let me know if you know any books of the likes.


Til next time,

jCel