alive

I used to say that I'm stuck in a bubble where the real world is muted out and all I see are distorted colors and images or that life was a stream where I am merely floating and moving along where the current leads me.

I used to live inside my head but now i am happy to realize that I am finally living...in this space...in this time.

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Camp Sabros

I'm sure most of you by now have heard of Camp Sabros...the place in Kapatagan, Digos City,Davao del Sur with the longest zipline in the Philippines. My classmates and I went there last March 2. It was a 2 hours drive from Davao City and upon reaching Kapatagan, we hiked for about 20 minutes uphill to the site because only 4x4 vehicles can go there. There is no entrance fee and they have a mess hall there where you can eat. We only paid P150 for the zip since we zipped by 2, you pay P300 for a solo ride.The zip line is 380 meters long and the moment I saw the people ziplining, i wanted to go home and snuggle comfortably in my bed. As i mentioned and confessed several times before...I am a coward and i'm proud of being one. I can't exactly recall my reasons for being there...and what exactly happened but before i knew it i was headed home and i only have the below pictures to attest that i was actually there. Okay that's exaggerating...when it was my turn in the zipline...i saw nothing because i closed my eyes the entire time hehehe even during the return trip via the cable car. Now i'm not so sure about having the powers of flying because its so damn scary to be up there!

How to get there if one is commuting(adding this in response to Mark's Q)

Ride a bus to Digos then get off at the Terminal

Ride a jeep for Kapatagan or rent a motorcyle

Get off the Kapatagan Checkpoint

Walk to Camp Sabros(20 minutes)

The whole gang at the Entrance

We had to wait below the zip station for the rain to stop before we can zip

Ready...zip...go!

The Cable Car back

We conquered this mound!
Vids here

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inspired

Yesterday I got so pissed with someone that when I woke up this morning my mind was spurting quotes, here are some of them:

Sometimes inaction is the best course of action.

There are battles that you don't have to fight to win

Anyways, what happened was that i got into a verbal retort with a retard...yikes i'm even beginning to rhyme...I had this rare opportunity to have a conversation with a moron who passes himself of as a professional...someone who got no balls enough to admit that he made a mistake and denied saying the things that he said to me before. He made it sound like i'm the one who was at fault.He made me feel like I'm a complete idiot to have misunderstood what he said. I thought it was pointless to argue with him so i kept mum and besides we both know who's telling the truth. Gaba na lang jud!

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Buda... again

Last2x Saturday(Feb 9) a couple of officemates and I went to Buda and stayed their overnight. We rented a rest house at Island in the Sky and the main feature of the house was the fireplace...err truth be told it was the first fireplace that i came in contact with :-P It was that cold there to warrant a fireplace, I think the place is 4000 Meters Above Sea Level so that explains. Anyways, as usual i enjoyed the place and we revisited Seagull Resort and bathed at the man-made waterfalls even if I was freezing my ass off. I wish I could build a house there someday. Here are a couple of pics from that weekend:

The rest house we rented.

The fireplace and me


The whatchamacallit car that toured us all over Seagull Mountain Resort

The man-made waterfalls


The perfect ending ...dinner at Santander, "Hito-an sa Calinan"

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Tsinelas

I am a big fan of flip flops! It seems that I can't get enough of them. I buy them because they're comfortbale to wear but somewhere along the way collecting flip flops became a hobby because of those various designs available. It started with Havaianas and later on I learned to appreciate other brands from Brazil like Praia and Ipanema.Anyways, I was browsing through the Ipanema site and saw this design...

which is really...really... similar to this..

Don't you agree?

So the dilemma here is...what brand should I buy? hehehe Kidding aside, they are too much alike to ignore....you can hardly spot the difference and so i wondered what may have caused this because before each brand have their own unique designs/ trademark. Do they have the same desingers now? Industrial spying? Or maybe they are sister companies.. Mmmmm....

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Hating Dubai

Last Saturday I attended the despedida party of Laila and Grace, two of my closest friends at the office. Actually I was supposed to attend Pheng and Rhea’s Despedida party at samal on the same day but I opted to join the latter. All of them except rhea resigned from work because they will try their luck overseas..specifically at Dubai. I can no longer keep track of how many of my friends went to work at Dubai and those who plan to. That’s why I’m beginning to hate the place coz it’s taking my friends away from me L I feel really sad not to be able to spend time with my friends anymore but well there’s nothing I can do but accept their decisions and cope. I also talked to another friend who’ll be leaving for Australia this year and he asked me if I have plans to work abroad. I replied, Travel yes…but work no. I just can’t imagine myself working and living in another country with a different culture and lifestyle. I imagine how difficult the adjustment might be to work with foreigners..the language , culture gap and all. I am very much attached to my family and chose not to be away from them again. Yes I might be missing out some opportunites out there, to see new places and earn more and etc. but spending quality time with my family far outweighs those.
I wish to be reunited with those friends in Dubai and hope Dubai is taking good care of them but for now…I’m hating the place

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Cat Burglar

Last night when I was about to sleep, I heard some funny noises outside my window which is just beside my bed and so I peered into the blinds and guess who I saw...a cat burglar!

well not exactly burglar coz it's our pet cat ,Orange, but he wasn't supposed to be there. I tried to poke and push him away but he wouldn't budge. I tried flashing the flashlight directly on his eyes but nothing happened except that his eyes turned green.

I was tempted to throw water at him but I can't do that without getting my bed wet and so I let him be and we slept side by side...well sort of. And today I'm having a sneezing fit :-(

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My 2008 Predictions

.../resolutions/wishful thinking/positive thinking for myself :-)

I would have Shaun T’s chick assistant’s abs…hiphop abs yo!
My hair would grow longer which I just had cut short…really short by the way.
My toenails would recover…it suffered from a nail polish over dose.
I’ll ace my MBA classes
I’ll gain more online and offline friends.
I’ll finally meet Jae and perhaps Cheska in person :-D
I’ll own a PSP so I can play all thoooose games in a wider screen than my cellphone.
I’ll learn how to levitate after the yoga classes.
I’ll save some money.
My PPP career would flourish thanks to my guru (Carey)
My small business would flourish
I’ll watch more movies and series.
I’ll finally discover a book to replace the spot left by Harry Potter series
Blow would get a job (hahaha didn’t mean the way it came out )
I’ll travel more...i'll finally visit Camiguin and Panglao or even Hongkong.

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