Algarve on a Budget

Perfect for beach breaks, the Algarve is the ultimate place to chill out and relax. It’s got a beach for every occasion - family-friendly bays with safe shallow shores, secluded coves, and long stretches of sand that were simply made for sunbathing.

Although not to everyone’s taste, if you want to save money on your holiday to the Algarve, one of the best ways to do this is to book an all inclusive style hotel. Not only will your breakfast, lunch and dinner be provided as part of the cost - often served as a buffet to offer the best choice - you will also have snacks and drinks included too, which makes Portugal all inclusive holidays a sensible option that’s bound to save you a small fortune.

It may be more expensive at the time of booking but there are several ways around this. Book early and look for discounted upgrades to all inclusive, and shop around between tour operators (as well as direct with the hotels) to see if you can get it cheaper anywhere else. It may take some searching but it’s usually worth the effort. Or, consider a late deal and save a significant chunk off the whole cost of your holiday by booking as close to the departure date as possible.

Take Thomas Cook for instance. As one of the most well-known and long-established tour operators in the UK market, they certainly know how it’s done and you’ll find plenty of bargain Thomas Cook holidays on offer across the full package spectrum.

Or for an entirely different experience, book a scheduled flight and find your own self-catering apartment away from the main tourist hotspots. Shop in the local markets or grocery shops and cook your own meals - it’s a great way of saving money on eating out plus you get to experience a side of Portugal that many visitors bypass completely.

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Discovering the Beauty of Kawa-Kawa Falls

It is really true that nature gives you a very relaxing feeling specially when you are on a stressful week. One of place that I really love to go where I can be with mother nature is the Kawa-Kawa Falls. Kawa-kawa falls derives it name from the visayan word Kawa which means Wok. The falls has a wok-like pool that measures about 15 feet in height.

 The fall is located at Brgy. Bitaogan, San Isidro, Davao Oriental. Before you arrive to the place, you need to cross 3 small rivers and a very rocky road. You can take a motorcycle or a car in order to reach it. But base on my experience, it is better to travel via motorcycle because the road is very rocky and its near the cliff which make 4 wheel car hard to drive.

You can really say that the place is not yet visited by many people. But there's no need to worry on where you can put your things and have your lunch and snacks since there are small huts and cottages built there. What's more amazing of the falls is that you can drink it. That's how clean the place is.

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Trip to the Southern Part of Davao Oriental

October last year, me and my friends decided to go to Parola or Light house at Cape San Agustin. I really thought it would be easy to travel on that place. But I was wrong. So far, it was the hardest trip that I ever had in my whole life. There were many hills we crossed just to get to that place. In the middle of our journey to parola, a heavy rain suddenly fall. It made our route a little bit difficult to pass. 

After 6 hours of travel, we finally arrive to our destination, the Cape of San Agustin. This area is the south part of  Davao Oriental. It was said that there was a priest who jump in this cape because he was been chased by the tribe who lives in this place while he was spreading christian learning. That is why it was called Cape of San Agustin.Other rumors said that this is the hiding place of the bandits and they also hide their treasures here. 

In this cape stands 2 old parola that has never been used for years. There's a new tower that has been built within the cape. I'm not sure if what is the used of the newly built tower over there. We tried to go down to the cape and we take our lunch there. The waves are strong since the sea is part of the Pacific Ocean. 

The place there is very nice especially if you want to relax and unwind. Unfortunately, the weather is not good  that is why we just stay there about an hour and left the place

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Happy Easter Sunday at Blue Bless Beach Resort!

Sunday, April 8 2012- The Christian celebration that the Lord Jesus Christ has risen from the dead. This celebration is commonly known as Easter Sunday. This day marks the new beginning of life, and most of the families goes to the beach as their sign of celebration that the Lord has come to life again. I together with my friends planned already to go beach at this day and we decided to go  Blue Bless Beach Resort since its their grand opening. 

Blue Bless Beach Resort is one of the new tourist spot in Mati City. It is located at Sitio Pitugo, Barangay Bobon, City of Mati. It is under developed beach resort but rest assure that the resort will satisfy your stay and gives you a great vacation experience. The blue and clear water gives them a great time to enjoy swimming. They have a 2 separate convenience store which is easy for you to buy the things and foods that you need. What's good with it is that the price is not too expensive. They also have a resto bar for you to hang out with. 

They do have different types of cottages for you to choose from. Below are the rental fee for cottages and room:

Small Cottage- Php 350.00

Large Cottage- Php 500.00

Room- Php 1,500.00(Not sure)

Since it is far from the city, it gives you a very relaxing ambiance. This could be a good place to be relaxed and release all stress from a hard day work.

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Will Escapade: The Reborn

While i'm trying to kill the time and waiting for my work, it suddenly popped out in my mind to visit the blog that I managed. Five months have passed and I haven't write anything about it. While reading my older post, it suddenly bring back to my memories the days when I visited the place that I featured here in my blog. I said to myself that I should start writing again. What makes me motivate why I want to write and make this an active blog again,are the comments of the people who visits my site. It makes me happy to see them interacting in my blog. 

For the past few month, many things happened. I visited lots of places that I have not yet visited before. I will write later some of the places where I have been.

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Live Streaming! Software Freedom Day Celebration!

The University of Southeastern Philippines is celebrating Software Freedom Day! This celebration happens every month of September where it recognize  the use of free and opensource software.

The program are as Follows:

1:00pm- 1:35pm A Student Experience with Open Source Tools: Inaki Narciso(finished)

1:35pm- 2:00pm FOSS for IT Education: Kristine Mae Adlaon(finished)

2:00pm-2:35pm Firefox Add on: Nathaniel  Jayme(finished)

2:35pm-3:00pm Mobile Application Development with Andriod: Charles Pino (finished)

3:00pm-3:15pm Online conferencing with Big Blue Button: Holden Hao(finished)
3:40pm-4:00pm  Supercharging the LAMP platform: Atty. Samuel Matunog


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Catch as live here:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sfd-2011

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Disney Live! Mickey’s Music Festival

Mickey Mouse and his band of friends, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy will be performing in a music mash-up of mega proportions  as Disney Live! comes to Manila and Cebu City for the first time with its newest stage show Mickey’s Music Festival.  Concert goers will hear greatest hits from the blockbuster movies, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story remixed to rock, pop, reggae, hip-hop, jazz and country, among other jams.  Produced by Feld Entertainment, Disney Live! Mickey’s Music Festival brings the biggest concert experience to hit live family entertainment. This show is presented in the Philippines by Vivre Fort Entertainment Inc., Guess Kids and Fox International Channels.  

 “One song can touch millions of people around the world and Disney has been at the beat of this concept for years by making music a main ingredient of storytelling.In Disney Live! Mickey’s Music Festival we are celebrating with the Disney characters to a soundtrack of the latest sounds and chart-topping hits. We want our guests to walk away with lasting memories and singing these unforgettable melodies long after they leave the show.”  -said Producer and CEO of Feld Entertainment Kenneth Feld.

Disney Live! Mickey’s Music Festival, featuring an all star line-up of more than 25 Disney characters,   begins with audiences watching a state-of-the-art video projection of the frenzy backstage which spills onto the stage as Mickey welcomes guests to his concert tour.  Soon thereafter, they will be transported to a new world of hip hop beats, dizzying acrobatics, flying carpets and magical transformations with Aladdin, Jasmine and Genie.  Underwater is where the crowd will meet up with Ariel, Sebastian and their nautical pals to groove to the reggae rhythm. And, family and friends will stomp to the beat as Woody, Buzz and Jessie teach them how to boogie rodeo-style.  Anyone can be a member of the band as giant-sized balloons fall from the ceiling in one scene and then in the next, Disney characters are dancing in the aisles.    

“We’ve created an environment where audience members will be able to connect with the Disney stars.Within each concert moment are elements of personal interaction and they will be harmonizing, dancing, laughing and having an outrageously good time with the characters right there in their city.”-said Alana Feld, Producer and Executive Vice President of Feld Entertainment

  

Disney Live! Mickey’s Music Festival was built with a global audience in mind and a goal of being as universal as its featured music.  The father-daughter production team, Kenneth Feld and Alana Feld, has hand selected award-winning creative talents whose credits span from working with Madonna to winning a Latin Grammy®  Award to designing hundreds of costumes for Disney theme park shows: 

• Director/Choreographer Fred Tallaksen is the award-winning choreographer of Madonna’s “Sorry” video and the finale of her Confessions World Tour.  In 2008, he earned a Latin Grammy® in the Best Video category for Juanes’s “Me Enamora.” Tallaksen was also skating choreographer for “Austin Powers III-Goldmember”

• Writer Jeremy Desmon’s credits include The Girl in the Frame, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie & Other Storybooks and Curious George Live! He received the 2007 Kleban Award for excellence in Musical Theatre Bookwriting, and is also a recipient of the Dramatists Guild's Jonathan Larson Fellowship

• Scenic Designer Rick Papineau is the vice president of Scenic Elements at Feld Entertainment and is credited for leading the creation of life-like versions of the characters from Disney/Pixar’s Cars that move on ice for Disney On Ice presents Worlds of Fantasy

• Costume Designer Cynthia Nordstrom designed costumes for more than 15 original dance shows in Downtown Disney from 1996 until 1999 and is credited for designing costumes for Disney On Ice presents Worlds of Fantasy

• Lighting Designer Sam Doty is eager to work on his second Disney Live! show after Disney Live! Mickey’s Rockin’ Road Show put him in the spotlight

• Music Director Stan Beard has arranged and written the musical score for numerous domestic and international Disney On Ice productions; has worked in the recording studio with such luminaries as Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra

Disney Live! Mickey’s Music Festival is set to be staged this year at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel from September 23-25 and at the Smart Araneta Coliseum from October 5-9. For Manila shows, tickets are exclusively available at Ticketnet (911-5555) located in SM Department stores and at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. For Cebu shows, tickets can be purchased at SM Tickets (032-231-3876) located in SM Cinemas, Waterfront Cebu City Hotel (032-232-6888) and at Ayala Center Cebu. For more details, visit www.disneylive.com.ph or call Vivre Fort Entertainment at (02) 470 6956.

Disney Live! Mickey’s Music Festival is also brought to you by Smart Araneta Coliseum, Waterfront Cebu City Hotel, Citibank, ABS-CBN, ABS-CBN Regional Group, Araneta Center, Gateway Cineplex 10, Alimall Cineplex 4, SM Cinemas, SM City Cebu, Discovery Suites, Renowed Sound and Various Production, MYX, Manila Bulletin, Businessworld, Sunstar, Cebu Daily News, Crossover 105.1, Power FM Cebu, Love Radio 97.9, Y101 Cebu, Alcordo Advertising, Greenworld LED Solutions and Manila Concert Scene. This event is for the benefit of Senyas Kamay Pilipinas.  

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The "-ber" Month:The sign that Christmas is Coming to Town

I was thinking a while if what is the best to write for my blog. And suddenly I heard a Christmas music. I wonder why my neighbor plays those kind of music and I just realize that it is already September 1. This day signifies that Christmas is coming now in the town and that is what I would like to write about now.

Christmas Day is my top favorite day in a year(second is New Year and third is my birthday, Etc....). Every time when the first "-ber" month arrives people always think that it is the start of Christmas. One of the common things that they usually do is greeting each other a "Merry Christmas". It really sounds good that somebody will tell you that. Another sign also that Christmas is really coming is that radio station starts to play Christmas song. Whenever I hear this kind of music it feels like I am refreshed and feels like you don't have a problem. It makes you jive and sing along with the songs.

Another sign that the first "-ber" month is the start of Christmas season is when you see children caroling in your house. Before I get irritated when they do a caroling in our house but I realize that is nice to see those children in front of you singing Christmas song and I sometimes laugh because their lyrics are wrong.

One of my favorite Christmas song is entitled Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson. But the video this is revived by Babyface and sounds more modernize.

Advance Merry Christmas to all. (P.S. Don't forget my Christmas  Gift.. LOL)

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My Top 3 Favorite Philippine Spot!

I have lots of places that I am planning to travel. But here are the top three places in the Philippines that I would like to visit:

Boracay Island.  Boracay is a great place to experience the beauty and adventure within the island. It has a powdery white sand beach which makes it famous. Aside of that, the Island have 20 scuba dive spot, restaurant and hotel which make it more famous. This would be a great spot to do scuba diving and snorkeling because it has a wide range or coral reefs and marine life forms.  

Mt Apo, Davao. Mount Apo is a place good for hiking and adventure. Along the way, you can see lots of plants but only a little bit of wildlife animals. What is really good at the top of the mountain is seeing the sunrise. After seeing it you can really say how beautiful the world is. Looking the view at the top of the mountain is really nice and awesome.

Palawan. Palawan is famous to be one of the Philippines well preserved island. It is composed of coral reefs, long white sand beaches  and clear blue sea waters which make it best among the rest.  Another thing is that the province has a wildlife sanctuary which is good for wildlife adventure. Palawan became famous around the world because it is nominated to be one of the new seven wonders of nature. Tubbataha Reef and Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park is the place that must not be missed when you are in Palawan. 

How I wish that I could go to this places soon.

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Safety Travelling Tips

There are things that you must consider when you travel to a places that is unfamiliar to you. Sometimes it’s a little bit risky to travel in these places since you don’t know this yet. These would sometimes lead to rape, robbery or could lead you to murder (I hope it would not). So before you go to the place that is strange to you be sure to check this travel tips to avoid trouble during your stay:

1. Before leaving your home, make sure that you leave contact information in case there’s an emergency to happen. 
2. Bring first aid kits and basic medicine. These are important things to bring for we do not know if there is an accident or you have been sick. At least you already have your first aid treatment. 
3. Bring a flashlight. A small one would be better. This would be a great help when you travel especially when you are visiting a town where street lights is not yet installed or you are in a dark places. 
4. Never bring and wear affluent materials.   Never bring gold necklaces, gold earrings or expensive jewelries that are easy to view. Bringing of these things can engage robbery. Better leave these at home for safety.
5. As much as possible bring only one or two credit cards. 
6.  For travelling women, never accept a drink from a strange man. If you can’t avoid it, make sure that you should keep an eye on the drinks at all time. 
7.  Never show your money in front of the public. 
8. Be familiar on the bus travel schedule and mode of transportation on the area so that you will know what you will ride. Make sure also that you know the place of the hotel or inn where you are staying. 
9. Always make an eye on your luggage until it is checked. 
10.  Make sure that you carry the important papers with you. Make sure you have a separate place in your luggage where you can place the important documents.

 It is very important that you are aware when you travel. Just be familiar with your surroundings and always tale control in every situation that come during your travel. In this way, you can have a safety trip on the place. And don’t forget to enjoy and discover the important spot on the place that you will visit. Have a safe travelling.

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