summer leg three - lucena and luban, quezon province

Honestly, i am not too keen on the pahiyas festival in the province of Quezon, although we have relatives in my mother's side in the area that we could go to. This the is the first time if my memory serves me right that I personally got off the did the "little stop over" that we were just doing during the times that we were going to my mothers home town in bicol.

My mom didnt actually promised that we can go to alot of places since she spent her highschool years in lucena city and she said the place is a lot modern now. She also warned me before i leave that the houses are no longer decorated since the actual festival fell on a saturday and we will be arriving at saturday midnight. According to the old ritual, when the patron passes the street, the entire decorations should be removed without leaving anything behind.

Here are the few houses that won the decorating festival that was preserved probably for until sunday for the late visitors to see.

summer leg two - vigan ilocos sur

Despite many warnings about not going to alien places during the holy week especially on good friday, i still insisted to take a break from the metropolis and go laid back for a four day rest day.
We went via florida bus to vigan thursday night and arrived at early friday morning, and went home on sunday afternoon.
More blogs to follow. The picture was taken from the world heritage site of Calle Crisologo.

batangas virgin island

yep, it exist, in laiya batangas where we held our latest team building, try checking the facebook photos.

Laiya is one of the nicest beaches ive been and you can have all the fun with more than 50 percent savings in boracay island.

We had snorkling and fish feeding and the trip to the island and were offered buko by the natives.

I had a lot of fun on that weekend.

apple launches the ipad

i just viewed a video posted from a colleague in the office about the newest apple tablet

according to the CEO who launched it with a demo, it will be the best internet browsing experience anyone could have, and he said "its more intimate that a laptop". hmmm, i understand that he spends his entire life in the office making and doing business but i totally disagree by what he said about being intimate than a laptop.

well, the words are in time for the season.

you know it right?

happy 2010

will post some more later