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Filed under travel
I just checked my Lakbayan grade again after so long, and I was surprised to see that I have been promoted! I used to be only a C last year, from being a C- three years ago. It’s not easy pulling up scores in Lakyaban, so my few trips this year must have pulled a lot of weight. 
Next on the bucket list: Baguio-Sagada (it’s embarrassing to admit but yes, I haven’t been there), Mindoro, Samar-Leyte, Siargao, and the Zamboanga peninsula. A friend is inviting me to tag along with him and immerse with the Mangyans in Mindoro, and my Trippers friends are planning a long road trip to Samar next summer, so yay!
There are still so many places I want to see, and so many things I want to do. I want to explore Asia next, the backpacker way. I really really want to go backpacking. I’ve been travelling for awhile now, but I was always just a tourist, the kind who goes to the usual places that people go to, takes photos, and buys souvenir items to take home. Something changed this year, though. I’m bored with resorts. I now prefer to sleep in a tent, to get myself dirty, to be inconvenienced. Still, backpacking needs funding because I’d have to leave my life behind for awhile.
Kaya universe, pahinging pera please!
Filed under beach, events, travel
The Maribago Bluewater Beach Resort wasn’t what I expected–it exceeded my expectations! I didn’t expect us to be treated like that, and I didn’t expect the event to be as well-planned as that either. I thought it was just another beach resort. My bad.
First, when I got to our meeting place at SM Cebu, Agnes greeted me with that big smile on her face and hang an ID on my neck. I said, “Oh, there’s an ID?”
That was just the beginning of surprises. The resort’s PR person, Ruben Licera himself, was there to greet us. The resort sent vans to pick us up, and we were more than happy to hop in. When we got there, we were greeted by Guest Service Officers who met us with white shell necklaces and this tasty lemon beverage:
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Filed under beach, blogging, events, travel
Just when I thought that my summer escapades are over, here comes the Maribago Bluewater Beach Resort offering a special summer blowout for all bloggers in Cebu. Hooray!
I started the summer early, so when March rolled around, I was already very burned (and I don’t burn easily). I promised that my Bantayan Island getaway last March, where I burned my skin, would be my last, but I just couldn’t let this pass. It’s free, plus I get to spend time with my CBS family, whom I’d be missing soon. Besides, I haven’t been to the Maribago Bluewater Beach Resort.
There will be fun and games and prizes awaiting, and I hear a lucky blogger will win a gift certificate for an overnight stay at the resort. I hope I am that lucky blogger! 
Bloggers also get to dine and witness a cultural presentation at their Allegro Restaurant.
If you’re a blogger from Cebu and want to tag along, leave a message. You may also visit the Maribago Bluewater Blog.
Filed under Photohunt, beach, travel
My feeble attempt at catching the sunset in Bantayan Island, Cebu. This is purple, right?
Filed under Photohunt, beach, travel
Hooray! I am back in the blogosphere and in PhotoHunt! 
I celebrate my comeback with my favorite element—fire. This is a bonfire we lit on a weekend getaway to a beach in San Remigio, a town on the northern tip of Cebu which boasts of having the longest shoreline in the island province. It takes around three hours to get there from the city. I made the mistake of eating a rather heavy breakfast before we hit the road, so on the way there my stomach felt funny. I puked twice on the road. It was embarrassing, but all in all the trip was great because I was with great company.
San Remigio is also a great diving spot, but I was such a coward that I didn’t try it even though I really, really wanted to. The diving instructor said I need to learn to swim first before I should try diving (maybe because he didn’t want to be responsible for me).
Believe it or not, I grew up in a coastal city and the beach is my favorite place to be, but I have not learned to swim after all these years. No one taught me to swim when I was a kid, and I think the fear grew bigger as I grew older. Now I wonder if it is still possible for someone in her early twenties to learn such a basic skill?
