Dine at GILIGAN's Restaurant

Burp*ops! exactly what our tummies expressed in awe to the food we savoured! :D

It's been 2 months since the last pigged out-installment happen and I missed that! haha . When all payments has been settled, we venture to another food trip .. to GILIGAN's Restaurant at SM Lanang Sky Garden. To avoid swiping too much on Charm's credit card, we should look for restos that offer 'Group Meals' or 'good for..' meals etc. I'm not a fan of going to malls so I don't have any idea of Giligan. Hazel my workmate just found it out in the internet while checking restos in the city. Since the restaurant offers 'good for 6' meals and we are just five to wolf down (Kai, Charm, Jezz, Hazel and me) well, it's already enough for gastronomic cravings :D

GILIGAN's located at the edge part of the Sky Garden. It can easily be distinguish since it looks like inside a ship. I wonder if the owner is a seafarer itself?  hehe..Oh! It's Hazel's first time to come with us, so we need to make it special for her. Weeeee :D

Hazel, remembering Elixer uyyy hehehe

Fast forward to 4pm that day, excited to punch out DTR haha.. everyone's hungry since no snack was made :D We opted to have early dinner since Kai will have an appointment at 7pm. We were there a little too early and the place has no diners yet. (Solong solo?) haha . We are so noisy inside like bullying one another and backstabbing someone! haha JOKE! and oh, ate who is the waitress smiles with us too LOL!

We ordered S12 group meal + unli rice (to add php54). It was sumptuous and scrumptious! We enjoyed eating while chitchatting and laughing! So, let me share photo opp moments now. Enjoy!

The Heavy Eaters, este the DINERS pala haha!

Drooling is FREE haha :D NUM NUM NUM

It's a wrap! How can these lovely creations devour these foods and just left it like this? ahahaha.. The waitress uttered .. ' pwede ko na tong i dish out mam?' LOL! 'No miss.. we need refill! ' haha

So? The verdict?? Will I come back again here? Definitely! :D Most important here is were able to enjoy the companion and laughed till our hearts bursts! haha . For more information about Giligan's Restaurant, you can visit their website here http://giligansrestaurant.com/site/index.html. BON APPETIT!

Living life to the Fullest

Ysay ♥

Dahilayan Adventure Park Trip

At last!! can I scream more?? AT LAASSST!!!! hehe
Knowing the adventure finder and adrenaline lover me, I couldn't get myself relax when we went in Bukidnon. A road trip with my workmates was amazing and so, conquering Dahilayan Adventure Park was a terrific experienced. Another errand was crushed out on my bucket list - happy me ^.^

A 24 hour ++ travel happened last Independence day, where it's holiday bebe! Everyone's free and kicking hehe.Meet up place was outside the office at 2am! Time wasn't strictly followed since everyone came late (including me. Blimey! ). We had couple of stop overs for photo opps, of course we don't want to missed some good sites enroute to Bukidnon ^.^

It was around 8am when we arrived at the park. An overwhelming sunny day and cool wind approached us. Jacket's a sure thing unless, your have high tolerance to cold . We rented a cottage worth php 200 since we have lots of things and foods to put out from the van. After arranging everything, photo-op moments started around the park. Let me share ya these... :)

Well dolls, the highlight for this adventure is the famous "DROPZONE". Even before this travel was planned by our company, I already dreamt for this ride to happen. This dropzone is much similar to the "Plunge" of Bohol that drops and do some pendulum swing (which I also dream of doing in the future,still crossing fingers for this). The Dropzone having the height of 120feet, could be on "singles" or "tandem". Single could shell you out php 500 and for tandem is php750. Since I already booked Charm, my workmate to be my partner in the ride, we only paid php 375 each (save yeah!) Charm and I decided to ride on Dropzone and flying gizzard  (php250) but at last part , we decided to change latter into Rope Course, thank God we are allowed to do so :) .

To let our mixed emotions let go of our bodies, cause it makes me freaking scared already, we first ride on dropzone. It's not crowded on the place when we made the ride, so it's not hesitant for us to get so noisy with all our screams and shouts as we are about to get higher and higher and dropped in just a blink of an eye. I even cried because of being scared (yes I cried on the dropzone lol!). We are swinged how many times until we finally go on still , hays thank God. Acrophobia is my other petpeeve cause it will make my knees jelly! :(  I had to fight that nuisance and to make sure that dropzone will be an epic event for me, and so it was... :)
Of course, we need evidence for this ride... we had our certificates!! ^.^

After that shaking moments with the Dropzone, we went on the humble Rope Course ^.^ oh I think the Humble-but unfriendly rope course haha. At the first look, the Rope course is very quite and very easy. When I tried it, it was out I think of! Totally different! It was two levels, and during the first level my knees on jelly again. There was a moment I'm about to surrender still on the first level (boo!) Thank God for the coaches/cheerer below - the audiences that helped us to overcome the obtacles hehe. You know, after seeing us they bought tickets and they tried it also! haha
I was afraid, I confessed it.. so, I did not tried anymore the second level. I just let Charmil made it to the end! wooo.. I'm so proud of you spidy girl! hehe

Yeah baby! my energy that  day was drained! hehe.. but I did not regretted it.. :) Since Cagayan de Oro is just 1-2 hours away from Bukidnon, we made a side trip to the city. We did not stayed long there but our van encountered a problem so the driver fixed it first :(. To kill time we walked around the city and bought VANDEP Pastel for pasalubong :)

At Camp Philips Bukidnon

We got to go at around 5pm already and this time, I've been looking forward to doozing off but couldn't. We are seated at the colum next to the driver's seat. We are five and it's been difficult to sleep since we are like sardines :( The following columns anyway, are lucky enough, cause they have enough space to shut their eyes. I only take forty winks which I complained because I need a DEEP sleep dolls! lol

Going back Davao was scary since it was really dark and heavy rain poured the way :( There's also a man just pop out in the middle of the road that scares the hell out of us! hehe gee..Anyhow, pretty enough to know that dinner could be on our way home, we just stopped at Malaybalay, Bukidnon to pig in. We make sure that the beloved driver is on his sound mind and full tummy to drive us to home.. SAFE! :)
It was 12mn that we finally got to Davao City proper. I got home at 1am and sleep to think I still have 7am duty at morning hehe . Whatta day! It was a wrap! Thanks Meno family ♥♥

Living Life to the Fullest!

Ysay

Thoughts II (Super Late Post)

As I was checking my drafts, Ive found this out. I was not able to published it. (Super Late) Anyhow, this is about my schoolmate in college who is shot dead. This post expresses how I've felt that time and not being convince of our justice system.


DEATH - The state of being dead, termination of LIFE. 

To tell you honestly, I was afraid of death. Death cannot be anymore revived if its already your time. I was afraid to die young, I was afraid to let go of this world, I was afraid to let go of my human body, I was really afraid. To the fact that you can only live once so make the most out of it! I had this post because of an event that made me think what life really is. My batch mate in college died yesterday, she was hold-upped by two guys riding  a motorcycle and suffered multiple gun shots that cause her untimely death. I was shocked , saddened and get angry with the news. I was thinking she was sick so I asked my friend "bakit namatay eh mukha namang healthy nun" but my friend said  she was killed by that two f*** individuals! Goosebumps and tears developed, even at this time I'm writing this post. There is still an effect of the event. I was talking to my friend Joann and we shared common thoughts with this. Marj died so young in a brutal way! Why do they need to shot her? Kung pede naman sana takutin lang ng baril, cause in the report Marj refused to surrender her bag that prompt the suspects to shot her. It was inhumane and it wasn't been that really good, it will never be! I don't want to die that way, who would want it in the first place? Being a nurse is an effort job already and we are treated that way?? NO WAY! Marj would be indelible to her family, her friends and even to me who is not her close friend. She will always be remembered :( 

Crimes in our city are getting higher, its getting worst! The city isn't that safe anymore. I don't know if I still can call this city a LIVABLE one. Seems that our government or our police are getting stubborn and lax on what they should really be doing. Procrastinating on things they MUST be working on! I can't blame myself but to be angry, why does everyone needs to be so selfish on others life? In the first place no one is allowed to take ones life - only God can do that. Those suspects are heartless, kung pede lang sana tadtarin katawan nila at ipakain sa aso! but, we have our laws, we need to abide on the system  that I'm pretty much sure isn't working well , a slow justice system they say. Why did I say so?? You can only attain justice if your rich, or hear suspect guilty after 1 or 2 decades , or worst part maybe acquitted. I've heard alot of cases that has never been resolved so, in other words I don't have trust on our "JUSTICE SYSTEM".

I received a text from Joann and this is what I've read "The news today reinforced the fact that life is darn too short".  Incredibly true! I always believe in an adage that we live life today, take chances and risks, be crazy because today is the oldest you've been and the youngest you'll ever be again. Lots of us doesn't enjoyed our life that much. Some of us drown ourselves to things that frustrate and stress us that we tend to forgot the essence of our life. We tend to forget even the smallest detail of ourselves. We hesitate to see our own value as a human (the simple ones) because we are lured by so much pressure this earth brings. I was thinking when I lay down in bed last night I asked myself, "In this moment of my life did I already attain what's my purpose?? Or like the others I was already out of myself? 

Living Life to the Fullest!

Ysay

Missing Worship

January 10, 2013

Hi there Lovely Dolls!

Last year, in the seven months out- of-work most are spent in church. Not to mention I'm part of our church's music team. I sing and dance for God and eventually, I learned to play some instruments in the long run. I'm happy that our church gave me "break" for music :) I may boast that my voice is wonderful and can dance well but, nothing else will be better when you used your voice and body to worship God. Right?

Now, Ive felt guilty inside. Ive been away in church for months now. To be honest, Ive been missing the days where my Spirit's on high, High in worshipping my God. I'm not doing anything "bad" as you may think now but my Spirtual life has becoming dry and I DON'T WANT IT TO HAPPEN. I don't want to think that my recent job is the culprit of this self-reproach issue, cause I can see that my work environment are good, nice and healthy. I've got workmates who are believers. The only thing that I can see as "not good" is my Sunday's booked for work and that may affect my  spiritual time. 

Don't get me wrong with the statement above. I respect our company, I respect my boss. =) 

... here's the THING

I think  this is God's challenge for me. I've realized that even if your away on church, that does not mean your gonna stop worshiping.  No its not. Distance does not matter to God, only TIME does matter to Him. The time you're going to spend for him. Time that you are going to read the Bible. Time for worshiping , praying and getting spirits high. Time for helping and encouraging others. Time for sharing His words. (Smells remorse here). There is just really time if you really want to and that hit me.

Maybe this is subtle to understand as of the moment. But you know what? I've been grateful that I'm having this feeling. So ironic it may be but this signifies that I'm craving for God and for His fire and holiness.  Lord keep the fire burning in my heart!

Have a great weekend . =) God Bless our hearts.

Living Life to the Fullest

Ysay ♥

IGACOS 2: Hagimit Falls

July 26,2012

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After the Monfort Bat Cave / Sanctuary experienced (here) we headed up to Hagimit Falls at Penaplata, IGACOS.

Again, we need to ride on a motorcycle grr.. a little longer travel, somehow the road was concrete so it was not butt aching. We paid php 60.00 from Bat Cave to Hagimit :). It was an admirable day and the sun was up and I'm sweating a little. So I'm just really excited to be in the place and to jump off the water :-) .

SOME STORES OUTSIDE

When we arrived at the place, were not anymore shocked. haha What I mean is that, the entrance fee wasn't that very pocket aching lol. Entrance fee was php 40.00 (the price I'm expecting). Anyhow if you want snacks to pig in, you can buy some on the stores outside. 

But before you can go to the falls itself (various ones present) you need to trek a little, don't worry its going down and concrete stairs are present. hehe I love the feeling of nature here. :) I love the greens, all are alive!

DORA, ESTE JOANN F. HEHE

WELCOME LADIES! :)

MY TWINS TIRED

Goofing around the place, we've noticed some bizzare formations and designs. So we let our cameras get busy! I'll let the pictures do the talking here ^.^

A BIT CREEPY PIC HERE

ETO NA MGA PARS AND MARS!

ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHOT :)  WHAT THEY CALL THE "HYDRO MASSAGE"

Anyhow the water that time wasn't pleasing to my eyes. I have doubts to dive in. The water's color seems extinct. (dead? meh ganun!) So I just spent time wetting myself and enjoying the hydro massage :) A body reviving massage from the motorcycle ride but, cause me at end HEADACHE!!!huhu. Somehow the scenery is great! I can sleep here the whole afternoon! LOL 

One thing that we noticed here is that, the place was divided into different resorts/owner. So you have choices where to stay and pick up cottages (necessary for your things) but you can swim anywhere you like. Mahal Forest Resort was our choice and we've paid the cheapest cottage (umbrella type one) of php 70.00 haha, inclusive used of shower room and any of their amenities.

THE UMBRELLA COTTAGE

 MAHAL'S  OWN EXIT- ONLY FOR THEIR GUESTS

THE TOP VIEW

AND WERE GOING HOME :)

From Hagimit to Home ?? HEADACHE is still present :(

Maybe because of my growling tummy that time. LOL

But, a day after Joann got skin rushes tsk2...

Living Life to the Fullest

MYQ ♥

IGACOS 1: Monfort Bat Cave / Sanctuary

July 24,2012

Since the plan for Gumasa didn't come to reality, me and Joann had our plan B, and this is our agenda :

WHAT : Monfort Bat Cave / Sanctuary and Hagimit Falls

WHEN : July 21, 2012

WHERE : Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS)

Since its weekend and to avoid rushing and queuing people, me and Joann met up at Magsaysay Park, Sta. Ana Davao City to wait for the bus going to IGACOS. Our first stop was Monfort Bat Cave at Brgy. Tambo Babak, IGACOS. The bus fare going to Babak proper was php 30.00 and from there to the Bat Cave is php 30.00 per person via motorcycle. Motorcycle is the commonly used transportation in the city so I have no choice but to ride on it though I was really scared haha.

THE ADVENTURE STARTS HERE! (ON THE MOTORCYCLE HUHU)

It was a bumpy ride en route to the site since the road was under construction. So it heightened more my anxiety riding the motorcycle and we didn't used helmet LOL. My butt and my legs was really stressed that time :( anyhow, not more than 20 minutes you'll be there. 

ENTRY ^.^

JUST ARRIVED- PAYING MOMENTS (SHOCKED MODE!! WHAT??!!)

Arriving and upon paying the entrance fee, we are really shocked because of the php 100.00 fee! Darn. We thought it was just php 40.00- 50.00 hays, we have no choice or else.. haha . They've increase since November last year due to lack of government support/ funds since it was a private property spot. Thank God, I brought extra cash huhu.

WITH TWIN SISSY JOANN F.!

Anyhow moving on, the place was big ( I never thought so ), and I was amazed to know that MBC/S is a Guiness Book record holder due to the number of  rousettus amplexicaudatus the kind of bat that stays there. 

Last 2006 the sanctuary was awarded and during that time the estimated number of bats was 1.8 million how much more now??! So how did they came up with that 1.8 million? According to Emerry one of the staff there, the way of getting that number was to count a number of bats in a one square meter multiply it to the total square area of the cave cool!  hahaha :) 

THE ENTRANCE TO BATMAN'S HIDING PLACE LOL

A LITTLE TREKKING

I was overwhelmed with what I saw! super dami nila! That little color black hanging in the walls of the cave give me goosebumps! LOL. eehh

 The place was noisy and smelly due to the bat's population and poos (that is used as fertilizers also) Though I really want to touch and hold that little batman but prohibited. 

However, sightseeing of bats is not the only activity we've done there. Because of the php 100.00 entrance fee that caught us off guard we made "sulit nalang" the payment. We took pictures galore, went on to the bat exhibit hall, chill time with Emerry who is very talkative and even got to see and know the owner Ms. Monfort, and of course enjoy the beauty of nature. 

THE JUMPSHOT TURNS OUT TO BE SERIES SHOT HAHA IKAW NA!

AT THE BAT EXHIBIT HALL

BABY BAT LOST IN THE C.R. 

IN AWE.. HOW BEAUTIFUL HAYS :)

:) After all the things we did here.. we now bid goodbye and went on to our next stop!

so, do you have any memories and experienced at Monfort Bat Sanctuary?

Please free to share at the box below :)

to be continued....for  Hagimit Falls

Living Life to the Fullest

Ysay