July 14 – 15 was scheduled to be our training climb at Mount Batulao in Nasugbu, Batangas, this is in preparation to our Mount Amuyao Expedition (Barlig – Batad traverse) which is scheduled on July 25 – 28. This climb was originally scheduled mid-June but the weather was not cooperative, thus we are forced to cancel. Incoming search terms:mount batulao trailis is advisable to have...

The loud alarm woke me up, it was 4:30AM of March 31st. Usually I will be annoyed of the sound of my alarm clock, but this time, it’s a different feeling. This will be the day that I will re-visit Pico de Loro. Incoming search terms:pico de loropico de loro 2012pico de loro mountain climbingpico de loro fallspico de loro day tourpico de loro ternate cavitepico de loro reviewpico de loro mountain...

The second typhoon for this year entered the Philippine area of responsibility last Tuesday, and she came big time! I woke up Wednesday morning (around 3AM) when my electric fan stopped running (yeah, brown out!) and with the loud whirling sound. That ended my good night sleep. By 5AM, my cellphone alerted me, it’s time to prepare for another day in school, with no electricity and low water...

For the past 3 days, we experienced the escalating scheduled brown-out, on Tuesday (April 5) the power was cut-off from 12NN to 1PM, Wednesday it was a 2 hour power interruption from 12NN to 2PM and yesterday it was a grueling 3 hours brown-out. Earlier today, I checked the Meralco schedule and learned that it’s gonna be a 2 hour brown-out which was (supposed) to happen from 9-11 in the morning,...

Here’s another late post, the SEO Philippines community had our summer getaway last March 13 (a day after I met fellow bloggers at Greenbelt 3), it’s an overnight swimming at Kalipayan Resort & Hotel in Dasmariñas, Cavite. Incoming search terms:kalipayan resort dasmarinasresort dasmarinas cavitesummer getaway

Unlike 5 months ago when traveling to Manila was part of my day job, today was different, I started hating the long travel time and the El Niño heat adds up to it’s inconvenience. Since my tenure in a Quezon City ended, I seldom go to Manila, the last time I went to Manila was when I covered the Chinese New Year celebration in Binondo. Today, I was forced to go to Makati because of a...