Because we flew to Singapore with Cebu Pacific Air, we landed at the Budget Terminal of the Changi Airport. This is the same terminal that low-cost carriers Seair and Tiger Airways use. Unlike the other terminals in Singapore, the Budget Terminal is relatively less impressive but still great and probably better than any terminal we have here. It has everything [...]

Airphil Express and Cebu Pacific Air flights, domestic and international, fly in and out of NAIA Terminal 3. If you’ve flown out of the country before, then you’re probably familiar with the whole pre-flight thingamajing. But if it’s your first time,  read on as I discuss in detail the whole check-in and boarding processes so you could breeze through them. One [...]

I just arrived from a trip to Singapore with my mom. It wasn’t my first time to visit Singapore. I attended an international blogging event in Singapore in 2009 and toured a little while I was there. This made preparing the itinerary for my second Singapore trip a lot less difficult. I already had an idea about what I wanted [...]

Frankly, our Tacloban-Marabut trip is probably the most unfortunate of all of my trips. It wasn’t because of the place — Tacloban and Palo, Leyte and Marabut, Samar are awesomely beautiful places. It was the rain. Although from the very beginning we knew it would be a “wet” trip because the weather forecast said so, we still, somehow, hoped for [...]

Many times, I consider the rain a friend. It helps me think. It makes me feel. It brings inspiration and brings back memories. But during our City Tour, the rain was a complete and utter b*tch. All it did was pour when we were exploring the great outdoors and stop when we were indoors. And then, when we were back [...]

The biggest buzzkill in our Tacloban-Marabut trip was the rain. On our third day — when we were scheduled to tour Tacloban City — it rained the hardest. So hard that we had to spend a couple of hours more at Caluwayan Beach Resort until it became a bit tolerable. When it did, we rode a van to Tacloban City. [...]

Canceled. That was the fate of our plan of visiting the Sohoton Natural Bridge National Park in Basey, Samar. The Basey Tourism Office said it would be too dangerous to travel up the river to the park. The river current was too strong, they said. You see, the park was somewhere inland and the river provides the best access to [...]

It was still dark when our Cebu Pacific Air flight landed at the Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport (Tacloban Airport). Quickly we walked through the baggage claim area all the way out of the airport to the parking lot where taxi drivers stood in a straight line while waiting for passengers. Yes, I swear it was a straight line, LOL. Because [...]

Continuous heavy rains had caused landslides and floods in Leyte, Southern Leyte and Samar. It was the first week of February and we were worried — more like scared, to be honest — about our scheduled trip to Tacloban. “Is it safe? Are we sure we want to do this? Are we still going?” We started throwing these questions on [...]

I have a confession to make. When we were planning this trip, we weren’t really that hot about it. It’s just that Airphil Express launched a P150 sale and the only destination with available seats for the dates we wanted was Bacolod. Blindly, we booked it. To be honest, the only thing I knew about Negros Occidental before this trip [...]

The night before, we asked Arvee, a Punta Bulata staff, to talk to three habal-habal drivers to pick us up at 5:30am the following day. At exactly 5:30 am, our habal-habal rides were at Punta Bulata waiting for us. The problem was, we had just woken up. The exhaustion from the Danjugan Trip the day before got the better of [...]

I was planning on just devoting one post about Danjugan Island but it seems like I enjoyed my stay so much that a single post cannot contain everything I have to say about our experience. Just explaining why this island is one-of-a-kind made my previous entry too lengthy. So here’s the continuation and on this post, I’ll write about the [...]

There was a knock on the door. It was Arvee, a Punta Bulata staff, informing us that the boat had just arrived, ready to pick us up. “Are you sure it’s safe to go now?” The rain seemed to be getting heavier and the waves stronger. Honestly, my two friends Celine and Ronnie and I had been having second thoughts. [...]

Hidden 156 kilometers south of Bacolod City, Punta Bulata White Beach Resort and Spa is a tropical paradise in Cauayan, Negros Occidental. Cauayan is the municipality just before Sipalay City, which is also very well-known for white beaches. It’s 4 hours away from the city center of Bacolod. You might be asking, “Why do I have to travel 4 hours [...]

There was a drunk man speaking Mandarin seated in front of us while waiting at the Ceres Liner South Terminal and he was talking to us, to my friend Celine in particular. The man didn’t look Chinese at all but he kept on uttering Mandarin phrases. Apparently, the drunk man thought Celine was Chinese and he must have been enamored [...]