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While in GenSan this past weekend, I was able to do something that I had not done before. I stayed in Paradise, I stayed at Sarangani Highlands! I had visited Sarangani Highlands many times in the past, but they never had a hotel there before, so I had never stayed overnight at Sarangani Highlands. Sarangani… [Continue Reading]
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Yes, indeed, MindanaoBob was on the road again this past weekend, along with his trusty sidekicks, Feyma and Aaron. We had a great time attending the Socsksargen Blogfest 2.0 in General Santos City this past weekend. I will be writing several articles about the trip, different aspects of the trip which are unrelated. Today, I… [Continue Reading]
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Want to get together with me next weekend? Well, if you are in the General Santos City area, or can get there by next weekend, it’s a great chance to do just that! Today, I wish to announce that I will be speaking at the Blogfest Soccsksargen 2.0 event, which will be held in General… [Continue Reading]
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Oh yes, for the nth time a traffic topic from a different writer.. me! I hate traffic! I really, really do. I get all cranky and I cuss. All my tardiness from work is due to traffic reasons (or defective MRT). Let’s face it, traffic is synonymous to Philippine. And because the holiday season has… [Continue Reading]
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Now I am sure that people are wondering why this Gen San Resident is making the journey all the way to Palawan from the comfort of his home, well, it’s quite simple, I was invited there along with my wife by the JCI’s (Junior Chamber International) as the Guest of Honor during the launching of their Artificial… [Continue Reading]
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Weeee! I have always wanted to visit Bacolod for the Masskara Festival but I never really had the opportunity. It had been planned but most plans didn’t push through. I’m a bit pasaway ‘coz I’m drafting this post here in the pla…
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Fly and Sail Day 1 – Arriving in Singapore is a post from: Batang Yagit
Fly and Sail Day 1 – Arriving in Singapore is a post from: Batang Yagit I already started the Airphil Express’ Fly and Sail series with my first post about going …
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Fragrance Hotel is a post from: Batang Yagit
Fragrance Hotel is a post from: Batang Yagit It’s kinda fun (and cute) that Fragrance Hotel welcomed us with this cute little bear. Fragrance Hotel in Segile Road is Air Philippines’ partner hotel for the Singapore-Star Cruise Virgo familiarization tour. From Changi, a coach service took us to our hotel. Fragrance hotel is one of [...]
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Going back to Singapore is a post from: Batang Yagit
Going back to Singapore is a post from: Batang Yagit Yey! I’m flying again to Singapore! I’m kinda excited for this trip since this will be the first time that I’ll be doing a cruise. Yay! From Singapore, we will be boarding the Star Cruise Virgo en route to Malaysia. I’m not sure though of [...]
Here is a cool video of an eleven-hour flight from San Francisco to Paris collapsed into an awesome two minutes. The aurora lights make the video more striking. The flier thanked the crew of Air France for being extra accommodating, making the shoot p…
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Celebrating birthday in Singapore is a post from: Batang Yagit
Celebrating birthday in Singapore is a post from: Batang Yagit When I was in college, it has become a habit to always celebrate my birthday out of town. I have spent birthdays in Tagaytay, Baguio, Manila, Boracay or wherever but Davao. This year, I’ll be spending my birthday in Singapore. Yey! Thanks to last year’s [...]
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My best friend Tommy and I share the same birth date 13 July, albeit we were born on different years. We had at one time sailed together as Merchant Seaman, I retired and Tommy is still sailing. Every year he tries to be home in the Philippines for his birthday and we usually celebrate it [...]
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From MindanaoBob: Yesterday, Brian King sent me a link to a video that he put together to share with some friends back in the States. I enjoyed the video and asked Brian if it would be OK to share it with LiP readers, to which he readily said “go ahead,” so here it is. As [...]
I was in Singapore on two occasions in a span of a month this summer. The first one was for the inaugural Southeast Asian Film Festival where Limbunan was invited as its closing film. I flew in four weeks later for the Asia On The Edge Conference.
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Wow here’s a news flash we lost our power, pretty standard for Buklidnon I guess happens at least once or twice a month sometimes for 5-6 hours but usually only lasts for about 3 hours but it keeps the bill low. But it does interrupt the internet and everything while there is no lights Oh [...]
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On Mothers Day, the 8th of May this year some would say that lightning did strike twice in the same place as a rather large ship, a Bulk Carrier managed to run aground at around 8pm in broad daylight in just about in the same spot as the Mystery Ship the Golden Akine did a couple [...]
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Well, here it is — a couple of months since my last article. Plenty of water under the bridge, so to speak. I’m able to put together a few paragraphs right now, so I’ll zip one up. Thanks to all you dear readers who have inquired about me. It feels good to have LiP family [...]
This month marks three years writing for LiP. Recently, my life has gotten very complicated, with many pressures on my time. As many of you have possibly noticed, I have been somewhat late in responding to comments, inquiries, and questions posed to me by readers of this site. There were big changes at the company [...]
In March, President Aquino signed the open skies order, allowing foreign airlines more rights to travel to, from, and within the Philippines. Probably the biggest beneficiary of this order will be Air Asia, the discount Malaysian airline, and this is important news for people living here. Why? Air Asia is one of the few airlines [...]
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Enough of this back to the subject at hand, we stayed in the hotel again that day eating from the room service menu. Then we left a wake up call for 430 am. my god I was tired but up we were got all packed, called for the porter and went to the airport. Once [...]
Food and the colors of Pahiyas is a post from: Batang Yagit
Food and the colors of Pahiyas is a post from: Batang Yagit Pahiyas Festival is an annual celebration of the people in Lucban, Quezon. The festival, which usually happens every 15th of May, is a thanksgiving for the year’s good harvest. The locales decorate their houses with colorful kiping, crops, fruits and vegetables. It’s also [...]
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On Sunday April 24th at 3am my wife Ellie and the kids joined a group going to Bukidnon to attend a birthday and Ellie was going to look and see if there were any young people who would be interested in working at Cambridge Farm as we are a bit short of staff. The party [...]
On-board the USS Carl Vinson is a post from: Batang Yagit
On-board the USS Carl Vinson is a post from: Batang Yagit It was like a dream come true for a kid who dreamed of boarding an air craft carrier filled with high-grade military war planes. And it sure was when I boarded the USS Carl Vinson this evening. This was not the first time that [...]
