Kumusta Na!

hollallaa.. im back. so how’s everybody? hope everything is fine. my god i have been away for quite long. how many days ba? i can’t even count by my fingers na. let see… but i’ve been here last week but things just get busy and busier everyday. i have this company check-up and all so i need to detoxify first. (nagtangal ng latak!)

well i have been to that far far south mindanao! yes! i’ve been there and that’s the reason behind why i missing everything! but my stay was really awesome!. (i was just amazed of ellai “southern landscape” it was so beautiful kasi). so together with few trusted dearly friends I’ve been to cagayan de oro city, to davao city, to sindangan zamboanga del norte and ramon magsaysay zamboanga del sur. Nilibot ko no! actually I wasn’t there to have fun and all they have this project impact assessment thing so we went there to work for it. it just happened that we got the ticket half it cost for some secret reasons. (boyfriend ko kasi yong may-ari!) tadah!!! i went there first. straight to the airport I check in at 5:30 AM but my flight was scheduled at 8:40 (excited?) nope! inagahan ko talaga baka kasi may tumawag at pabalikin ako sa office. so armed with that plastic money called credit card we explore the south for different personal intention but most of the reasons were for their projects and also for my preparation of entering again to the graduate studies. (yes tatapusin ko na ang aking MIS! soon.) at sympre mag relax sa zamboanga? (hello?)but it was so awesome! at pinayagan naman ako ni mom! so take a look on the following shots!

hello cdo:)from the airport i don’t even know which way to go because i’ve never been there at nauna ko sa kanila sa CDO and i have my very first task to look for a hotel whatever it cost. people are so friendly they kept on smiling to you but the main and major problem is that they don’t speak tagalog that much so we couldn’t understand each other. thanks god there’s a very kind lady guard who look for a cab for me (sad to say i didn’t memorized her name but thank you so much for such favor i salute you for that!) i thought lingo is the worst problem of that day but to my dismay all hotels are fully booked all ready. thanks god mang jerry the cab driver is so patient that he waited for me and helped me look for another hotel. we’ve searched every hotel until he remember the one along Don A Velez street the VIP hotel. so we went there crossing our fingers na sana there’s a vacant room pa. and thanks god room 319 is available!


thank you so much mang jerry for helping me find room 319. its such an awesome hotel. by the way mang jerry’s taxi is an altis! in CDO lahat ng cab ay pabungahan. pabagohan at palinisan at pabilisan and take note so cheap ang bayad ikaw na lang ang bahalang magdagdag sa kanila. maybe they have this city ordinance with regards to the cab fare. i wont tell you how much pumunta ka din ng cdo ! (hahahha)

and then i explore the city of golden friendship. how? this way:


because i don’t know where to go and mang jerry is no where to find i decided to take another cab. nagpaikot-ikot lang kami. and then i felt boredom so i decided na bumaba ng cab at maglakad. i followed some students from xavier university. at marami akong napuntahan. first stop ko yong Gaisano main. so nakilala ko na din sa wakas si don stephen sy. tapos sa mga malls na nadon syempre. maliban sa cab mas masayang sumakay sa motorella. i hardly remember that motorcycle turned into a cab name i thought it was motorolla! five pesos lang ang bayad. famous sa CDO ang cogon market. mayron dong store ng first class levis jeans. galing pong thailand. so make sure na yong nabibili natin sa mall ay di galing ng cogon market. i bought several for my family at 500 pesos each and believe me it so original. (pano naman kasi gumastos ka kaya sa air fare ticket mo papunta at pabalik syempre yong bibilhin mong maong in 500 magiging twenty times ang price pag sa mindanao mo binili no!)

 

there really is nothing quite like rafting trip on Cagayan de Oro River. The stretch from Barangay Dansolihon to the city provides you with strikingly beautiful panoramic view of the river rocky walls, untouched vegetation and the sight of the resting haven of monkeys.

It has breathtaking rapids that provides the more adventurous with thrills and challenges of rapids intervals not less than 10 – 15 minutes of each other. Cagayan de Oro river has everything that makes for a memorable experience with awesome roar and power of water cascading over rocks and boulders.

HINDI PA TAPOS. ANTOK NA KO.

mayrong friday market night sa cdo. all roads leading to the city park are closed. yong papuntang xavier university. lahat ng roads don. north, east, west, south i forgot kasi yong names eh. dahil mayrong mga stalls and tables sa gitna ng kalsada. pumili ka ng food na gusto mong kainin dahil mura lang yong food. lahat makikita mo don. inasal na manok, nilagang manok, steamed na manok, pritong manok lahat ng pwedeng maging luto ng manok nandon. syempre available din ang mga seafoods but im not into that mamamatay ako dyan. while eating maaliw ka sa music ng live band na sobrang galing talaga o kaya naman watch ka ng movie sa big screen sa tapat ng plaza. at pag sawa kana mag ukay-ukay ka dahil madaming ukay-ukay don. o kaya naman hanap ka ng mga imported na batik at malong dami – dami din dun and they are accepting visa! problema yong tagalog dahil dyak maawatan man gid di tayo magkaintindihan. chavakano at visaya man eh.

i bring with me my notebook and guess what yong buong syodad ay wifi! isipin mo they are using 802.11n network. wow! (hey elay maybe lahat ng city sa Mindanao ay naka wifi) so i look for a more comfortable place. i decided to go back to the hotel and guess what mang jerry is there and he takes me back to the hotel. and my friends are there na waiting for me because we are going to have our dinner sa labas and the dawn after that we went to Davao na!.

and so mang jerry take us to davao city after 6 hours long drive i get to see nanz again. my bestfriend our bestfriend. and i am so happy because she’s doing really good. so i can’t just display here photos while i am in davao. so very confidential. sorry, sorry i cant tell you any single detail about her.

then late afternoon the day after that we go back to CDO again. at eight we travel around cdo. and we met there my friend’s thesis adviser. she teaches in xavier too. don sya nag hibernate dahil pasaway daw ang kayang boyfriend. for two and a half days we studied project impact assessment its process, methods and techniques the hows and the whys and the what and then the teacher brings us to the far far zamboanga and the rest ay history.

then we go back to CDO to get our things at habulin ang flight pabalik over staying na ako sa mindanao. pero nahabol ko naman yong flight ko pabalik. kaya lang daming clouds at yong captain sabi nya in 10 minutes lalanding na kaya lang i checked my watch hello tatlong 10 minutes na kaya di pa rin tayo bumababa niloloko mo ba ako halos dalawang oras na tayo sa taas ah nahihilo na ko saiyo. pero enjoy yong clouds sa tagal ko ng nagtravel that day ko lang na-experienced yong napakaraming sobrang daming clouds! at lumampas na naman yong 10 minutes at nasa taas pa din kami niloloko mo talaga ako captain marcelo! binaba mo nga kami kaya lang bakit dito pa sa napakalayo kailangan pa naming mag bus.

ok im tired dahil ang tagal namin sa taas dahil napakaraming clouds. tapos ang tagal mag landing ng airplane at ala una na hapon. sumakay pa ng bus papuntang terminal nagkahiwahiwalay ang mga bagahe ko at ang tagal ko silang nahanap. inabot pa ako siguro ng kalahating oras sa loob ng terminal buti na lang di pono yong elevator kaya madali ako nakalabas at thanks god tito papa is there!

we went to the mall and we took lunch. after that we went to the bookstore. but unfortunately out of stock si coraline. and so we decided to go to the main branch. and thanks god there are two copies left. so i take 1 and tito papa took the other so wala na naman out of stock na naman. and there’s this mrs. frisby and i feel in love with her story. so i get one. and then my cousin call me up asking for pasalubong. and so i get home by 7 o’clock. the rest is history.