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  • Thank you!!!

    Superluwi Sarangaya Netro — The Philippines is beyond grateful. #TulongPH#YolandaPH

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    Amazing artwork and thank you to all wonderful people who offered their help…May the suffering of all those affected by typhoon ” Yolanda” ends shortly.

    jamilamimi

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea

    From Red sea to dead sea and to refreshing sights of Philippines sea.

  • Weekly photo challenge: the world through your eyes

    ” A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away” – Eudora Welty 

    Since i started blogging and have a camera of my own, these are the places I have been to.. From Philippines to Saudi Arabia to Jordan, Atlanta,Boston,Seattle and to Switzerland.

  • Weekly photo challenge: Everyday Life

    Making of “Walis tingting” a native broom sticks made of palm leaf ribs used daily in cleaning houses in remote area of Katanghawan Island in Caramoan, Camarines Sur, Philippines.

    With the advent of technology where there’s a lot of modern cleaning items like vacuum or rakes on sale, I wonder if this is still popular in city houses. For this man, it’s a way of daily life whether it’s for his own use or for sale in the nearby island.

  • Coffee and Cream Adventures continues with sweet spices: Nurture Spa Village

    After Tugawe rendezvous,we arrived Manila at an early hour of 6:00 am. We got our new bag of clothes and off to Nurture Spa Village in Tagaytay City.When children are already grown up, it is not easy to decide where to go. Each one has each own interest, unlike when they were young, take them to any places, give them toys, ice cream, chocolates and cakes, they squeeze you with hug and kisses.Now?? a lot of choices, take them to movie (what kind?), food (what type?)shopping (where?)places (with whom?)Pictures(NO!) etc..lol!Run out of ideas? you bet!

    Anyhow,i thought about Spa! yes, why not?, would it be great having  bodymassage in one place? Relaxation en grande! Unfortunately, it was raining so hard that we were not able to tour around Tagaytay, nothing much to do and having body and facial massage is just right at the moment. YES??? NO to my youngest son, he said ” I don’t wanna be touch”, it took us awhile to convinced him, at least facial and foot spa will do for now. So, here’s our adventure in pictures:

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  • Coffee and Cream, goes to … Tugawe Island Cove Resort (honeymoon 101)

    Coffee and cream? Yes, that’s how my mom used to call us, “Kape at gatas” whenever she looks at my husband of 28 years. Being married for that long years doesn’t give us a credit as a perfect couple. Like other couples we have the ups and down of marriage and as my friend puts it, we should believe in the sanctity of marriage, no matter what situation you are in. To rekindle the romance, we decided to go to an island for our “honeymoon 101”, so; here we go…the perfect place for honeymooners and the enemies alike.

    shores of Tugawe cove

    Tugawe island cove resort is in Caramoan, Camarines Sur. We travelled by plane (1hr and 10 min) from Manila to Virac, Catanduanes, and then by land (1 hour) to Codon port

    Codon port

    where we were fetched by Blanca, our super butler in a small boat of Tugawe resort,

    Tugawe boat with Blanca- our super butler

    around 45 min from Codon to Tugawe. We were greeted by staffs politely and were ushered to our Cabana with welcome drink of ice tea in a pitcher.

    Cabana-front balcony view

    The place was amazingly clean, refreshing and so serene, aha! I told my husband, I can shout, curse…Let it all out and no one would even care and he said the same but with more love and affection that he can do whatever he wants (wink! you know what I mean).

    first day upon checked -in

    We are both beyond our golden years and we’re glad we came when our knees are still in good condition otherwise we would just be happy in our cabana balcony looking at the blue sky and the clear ocean.

    infinity pool

    Going uphill to the infinity pool and up more to eat in the restaurant was a bit troublesome but worth every step. The foods are fairly great considering the remoteness of the area.

    lighthouse

    We went up more to see the lighthouse which is still under construction, the place is unbelievably awesome.

    Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow -James M. Burrie

    Though there was no spectacular sunset, there was rainbow, I just wished I had a better camera to begin with but I think my canon point and shoot did fairly well.

    my first red wine

    At night, the lights at the pool and the sea breeze was so romantic to say “I do” once more, but they said don’t commit the same mistake, so we didn’t (hehehehe), nevertheless, my husband with the help of the staff gathered some fresh flowers and open a bottle of red wine to celebrate a never-ending story of love, hate and affection. Whoooh oh la Ia…I bet at one point reading my blog, I can see a smile on your face. Perfect evening for an imperfect couple equals a happy ending. Achhinnng!

    People are not perfect… very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they’ve had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
    Patricia Hewitt

    The following morning, after breakfast we went island hopping, as usual Blanca (with Pay mario and pito) were there to guide and help us to have a whole day of fun and made sure everything was in… like kayak, snorkels, table and umbrella and of course

    picnic a lacarte (bicol style)

    the foods were wrapped in banana leaves, different drinks in cooler with ice ohhh Blanca you made our day!thank you so much.

    katanghawan island

    First stop: Katanghawan island, 30 minutes boat ride from Tugawe, a part of the island serves as a venue  to shoot TV episodes of “survivor US”, white sands, clear blue sky and sea, snorkeling, fresh coconut drink. 

    Clear blue
    tinago island

    2nd stop: Tinago island, 40 min from Katanghawan. As the name implies “tinago”meaning “hidden” marvelous island surrounded by rocks and green mountains.

    Kayaking

    A perfect place to camp for a couple who love nature. We did Kayaking, swimming and ate our “baon”packed lunch. The next time we come around, oh yes, we would love to come back again with full camping gear and a charcoal for grilling a freshly catch fish of the day!

    fine sand, clear water so perfect!
    tayak lake

    3rd stop: Tayak lake 30 min from Tinago island. We hiked for about 15 minutes from the shore lines and walla! from blue water to green water, amazing Tayak lake!

    Pitugo bay

    4th stop: Pitogo bay, as i ran out of camera battery, i also ran out of words to describe the hidden paradise of Caramoan islands.

    stones lines the shores

    In here, instead of white fine sand, piles of smooth-edged white and red-black stones line the shores as if, it was purposely laid out. Remarkable beauty of nature!

    this photo was taken with iphone4

    Oh before i forget, let me introduce Kevin the great horn-bill of Tugawe, coincidentally same name of my youngest son.

    Kevin- the great Horn bill

    On the way back to Manila, the weather was not that great so we have to re-route,it took us about an hour by boat to reach the nearest town from Tugawe,

    3 in one, not an easy ride to up and down the hill and zigzag road

    another 40 min motorbike ride to Guihalo port,

    2 hrs in ferry-boat

    2 hrs ferry-boat trip to Naga and another 9 hrs bus ride to Manila. Would i take this trip again?Oh yes! an adventure of a lifetime, Thank you coffee and cream, let’s drink to that, Cheers!

    Herzon(Supervisor) and Blanca (butler) Thank you so much!

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  • Thank you! Cathay Pacific Airways

     Cathay Pacific Airways, “we always go the extra miles to make you feel special” indeed, you made our flight special, My son and I were travelling from Philippines to Jeddah, K.S.A via Hongkong, during check -in, I handed out my gold card (AA advantage),and got a “ruby’ tag on our ticket.When I handed my boarding pass, the officer -in-charge said” Hello Dr. Suarez welcome, we found an upgrade for you …business class..what a surprised but what about my son? Yes, Mr Suarez welcome on board 🙂 cool!

    business class seats

    To the staff of CX902 Nov11-12, 2011 thank you so much, good service…Well done!

    seat can be reclined all the way

    Hopefully, i can always travel like this! 🙂 huh! in my dreams…oh well, i wish!

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