I Shall Return

Where did General Douglas McArthur land when he returned to the Philippines to set free the country from the Japanese invaders? It’s in the Imeldific island of Leyte! Where a park, formerly called the McArthur Park and now called the Leyte Landing Memorial, located at the Red Beach, Palo, Leyte.

After being exists in the province for more than 22 years, I just have been in the park on the 25th of March; this was my first ever meet-up with Gen. McArthur (my bad lol)

If you’re quite curious why it is called Red Beach, the beach’s color went brown to black — not red. The “red” in Red Beach doesn’t refer to the natural color of the sand, but its color after being drenched in blood.

Bitter Sweet February

This is my one and only blog post for the month of February.

Finally, February 2012 has finally blown right away. I feel so unlucky with this month: I got pressure on my job, was sick and broken hearted due to my emotions and no special someone to date on Valentine’s Day huhuhuhu.

Some of my friends told me that I’m so bitter. So what? I just can’t feel February. It started when  I was in high school, when I started to fall in love lol.

I am so thankful for my ever supportive friends for sweetening up my bitter life.

So here are some of the highlights of my February 2012:

Facebook 30 Day Photo Challenge: Accomplished!

I just accomplished my Facebook 30 Day Photo Challenge. It's pretty self explanatory, but basically days 1-30 there is a certain photo for that particular day and upload it on Facebook. This challenge is interesting and very inspiring. This is just a simple way to catalog each day in a different way.

I had a little difficulty completing this challenge because I’ve been so busy the past couple of days and sometimes I lose an idea on what pictures I should post that day. With all the challenges that I have joined either in Facebook or Tumblr, this is the first challenge that I completed. Such a nice feeling when you finish it. Now that I accomplished this, I got hooked to take another photo challenge. Watch out for that, I’ll blog it soon. But for now, take a look on the lists of my Facebook 30 Day Photo Challenge below, I hope you'll enjoy!

Viva Pit Senior! A Sinulog Festival Experience.

It’s all FIRST!

• First blog post of the year
• First time to travel without my parent’s accompany
• First time to land in the city of Cebu
• And first time to experience Sinulog Mardi Gras. Yay!

From Wiki, the Sinulog festival is one of the grandest and most colorful festivals in the Philippines with a very rich history. The main festival is held each year on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City to honor the Santo Niño, or the child Jesus, who used to be the patron saint of the whole province of Cebu (since in the Catholic faith Jesus is not a saint, but God). It is essentially a dance ritual which remembers the Filipino people’s pagan past and their acceptance of Christianity.

The festival features some the country’s most colorful displays of pomp and pageantry: participants garbed in bright-colored costumes dance to the rhythm of drums, trumpets, and native gongs. The streets are usually lined with vendors and pedestrians all wanting to witness the street-dancing.

“Sinulog, isyagit ug kusog. Pit Senior! Pit Senior! Tanan magsaulog!” this is the beat we can hear practically everywhere in Cebu and other neighboring provinces just after New Year. I decided to join in the fun as the Grand Mardi Gras is fast approaching!

Yay! I have my comfy slippers and shoes already! I am now prepared to experience Sinulog and ready for a looooooooooong walk around the city. This is great!

2012, Please be good to me.

Few hours to go and New Year 2012 will be here. With the advent of new year, a new era begins and with it comes new hopes and new possibilities. Every year teaches us some of life’s most important lessons, and with that learning we put our step forward into the new year.

May this new year bring many opportunities to our way, to explore every joy of life & may our resolutions for the days ahead stay firm, turning all our dreams into reality and all our efforts into great achievements.

Happy New Year to you & your loved ones!!!