Last Sunday, August 26, me and my brother together with my cousin, went to Taipei to witness the game of our very own Philippine team (Smart-Gilas) versus the USA at the34th William Jones Cup Basketball Tournament. But before we go on the venue of the said event, we roamed the city first. We visited the Taipei Bus Station, yes, the bus station. Unlike the ordinary bus station, it is located inside a Shopping Mall, including the ticketing area.

I. Thou shalt love and honour the Earth for it blesses

thy life and governs thy survival.

II. Thou shalt keep each day sacred to the Earth and

celebrate the turning of its seasons.

III. Thou shalt not hold thyself above other living

things nor drive them to extinction.

IV. Thou shalt give thanks for thy food, to the creatures

and plants that nourish thee.

V. Thou shalt educate thy offspring for multitudes of people

are a blessing unto the Earth when we live in harmony.

VI. Thou shall not kill, nor waste Earth's riches upon

weapons of war.

VII. Thou shalt not pursue profit at the Earth's expense

but strive to restore its damaged majesty.

VIII. Thou shalt not hide from thyself or others the

consequences of thy actions upon the Earth.

IX. Thou shalt not steal from future generations by

impoverishing or poisoning the Earth.

X. Thou shalt consume material goods in moderation so all

may share the Earth's bounty."

Ansabe ng mga fastfood chain sa Sandwich na to?

At anu naman kaya ang sabi ng footlong dito. Lol!

Marami ang nagreklamo, marami rin ang nag-enjoy at bilang pruweba heto sila.

"huummmmm!, ka-boring naman! ano bang ginagawa ko dito, at ano ba itong ginagawa namin, pinaparada kami! para ano? huh! para ibenta? mamaaaa!"

Mga samu't saring kwento ng buhay at pakikipagsapalaran. Mga bagay na pinuproblema at bumabagabag sa mura kong puso't isipan. Mga balita at katotohanang nagpapadumi sa malinis na singlinis ng batis at banayad kong katawan. Mga ala-ala ng nakalipas na siyang nagpapatibay at nagpapahumindig ng aking tunay na pagkatao. Kung ang ibang news ay over a week ago na, sori naman, kasi ngayon ko lang sila nabasa. At oo, ako na ang caveman. Kaya, heto na sila... you have 1 minute to read this, and your timer starts now!!! Oh! wait you can start the reading with this lines, "Here's what you missed on me(it must be the same tune as the voice over on glee episodes or else ayokooo naaa![kris aquino style])" hehehe!

-Meta World Peace delivered a thunderous cheap elbow into the ear of James Harden, sending Harden to the court in obvious pain.

-Attended a Mass.

-FPJ died....teka matagal na yun ah. I mean, FPJ's daughter, Lovi dont want to have love scene with Bembol. (Maybe because she's still virgin. Lol!).

-Nanood ng walang kwentang palabas sa TV kahapon, Tatlong Baraha ang title. Anak ng tinapa, Filmfest entry pala ito.

Ok, seriously, no matter what you did, what you recieved and no matter how life is hard on you, still be thankful for everything and count it as blessings because some people, wants what you are having now...

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The last time I hiked a mountain was when i'm in college and I was 17 then. Mt. Maculot is the first mountain I hiked, well, second actually to my place in Batangas. In our barangay we have this so-called mountain full of Java plum or duhat, some cashews & other unknown trees that bears edible fruit, actually part ata siya ng Tagaytay ridge and three peaks din siya. When I was a kid, me and my kins always went up there to gather plums and some fruits that is unknown to me but can be eaten. At the top of that mountain you can glanced the Taal Basilica at the south, the Balayan Bay at the west, the Batangas Electric & Calaca Old Cemetery at the North and a vast coconut trees on the east. I remember those old times na nagpapaunahan kami sa pag-akyat sa first peak kahit na medyo rocky ang daan hanggang makarating ng 3rd peak and then sisigaw ng ubod lakas, as if na maririnig ang boses namin sa buong Lemery. Also we put marked on a Java plum tree para next year, we knew where and whats tree, bore the sweetest 'duhat' and cashew na rin. I dont know why in that part of the mountain only Java plum & cashew tree dominates the entire range, kung meron mang Mango or Santol, ravine ang babagsakan mo kapag nahulog ka. Also at that mountain, I took glanced for the very first time what the Hollies & Tobacco look liked. As a growing kid, we always went up there every summer. And the feeling, for a kid, just HAPPY because we had a plenty of fruits in our baskets to share with.

Moving on, when I was 17, I joined a group of mountaineers 'kuno' in our barangay and our baptism of fire to show our trailing skills is to be at Mt. Maculot. One of my reasons why I joined is that, to proved if that mountain really had had a gigantic lice that can eat you to death.  I remembered kasi my childhood days, whenever my mom wanted to clean up my head by pulling lice out of  it and I when refused, she always said that, "those lice in my head will flew me off to that mountain and will be eaten up by an enormous lice." She also made up stories that made me believed why that mountain called Maculot. (Siya na ang storyteller!). The time we came in Cuenca where I can saw that mountain in 'malapitan', I was amazed on how beautiful it is and realized how huge it is compared to what we usually hiked back when we were kids. And there's something more, it is enchanting. Theres part of that mountain when you look it, it calls you. (oo, and I felt it). Well the first time I've been there, at the top, the feeling was AMAZING and exhilarating combined. The feeling how majestic & amazing our planet is? How blessed we are, for having this things? "All things Bright and Beautiful", sabi nga sa isang poem nung elementary ako. You know the feeling when you succeeded in one goal after so many hindrances and problems you've encountered? Ganun ang feeling! Yung feeling of being proud after of all the circumstances! Iba pala talaga yung feeling ng #justcurious lang at ng #mayembraced sa environment. Lol!

That Maculot experience was the first and the last hiked for me because of the fast paced life i've been through, since I took college seriously. Until February of last year & this year. I managed to joined with my co-workers. And this time outside the Philippines naman, to a place where I worked as an OFW. Me and some of the Filipino's went to Mt. He Huan. It is not just an ordinary mountain but a snowy one. Yes! this mountain is a tourist spot here specially during winter and also known as the 'snow mountain' of the Central region of Taiwan. In this mountain I felt for the very first time the taste of ice snow, playing snowballs with friends & how to live with snow. My short stint to live, in a snowy places felt horrendous and COLD but still BEAUTIFUL.

Adele's 'SET FIRE TO THE RAIN'

Hehehe. 

Ang sikreto ni Legolas at Aragorn ng Lord of the Ring Trilogy.


Ibubunyag.


Ang totoong namamagitan sa kanila.

At sa pamamagitan ng mga mata ni Legolas at ngiti ni Aragorn.........

ALAM  NAAA!!!!!!!

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HAPPY VALENTINES!!!

from 

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Balentayms na at the same time NEW YEAR na naman, at kung tatanungin mo ako kung bakit....oww come on! alam mo na ibig kong sabihin, 'wag kang tanga! lol. Dahil busy na naman sila sa pagpapaputok este pagapaparamdam ng kanilang pagmamahal sa isa't isa at dumarami rin ang nagiging miyembro ng 'AMPALAYA Anonymous' sa araw na ito, heto ang 7 walang kwentang mga kantang pangValentine na inimbento ko pa sa loob ng Laboratory ni Dexter kasama si DORA at ang mahiwagang Matsing (ngayon ko lang nalaman na may relasyon pala si Dora at Dexter kaya pala mahilig silang magexplore at pinalitan na ang pangalan ng Lab ni Dexter kani-kanina lang, ito ngayon ay Dexter LaDORAtory. #fail). 

Here's my seven lists.

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HAPPY VALENTINES

Be Loved. Be Happy. Be Safe. 

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Every 15th day of the Lunar year, Chinese people celebrates the Mid-Autumn or the Lantern Festival wherein a hundred colorful figures are lighted as a lanterns. But before that, a kicked off was celebrated via SKY LANTERN or the KONGMING lantern festival. In this festival, an airborne paper lanterns having a waxy flammable material inside were lighted and threw up in the air, the flame heats the air inside the lantern, thus lowering its density causing the lantern to rise. The sky lantern is only airborne for as long as the flame inside stays alight, after which the lanterns sinks back to the ground. According to history sky lanterns are used as a signalling device or spy blimp in warfare during WWII. This is also called as a balloon munitions.

Moving on to the present time, this sky lanterns was modified and considered as one of the Chinese festivities. And it is celebrated before the Mid-Autumn or the most commonly known as Lantern Festival (note: Lantern Festival & Sky Lantern are different). In this sky lantern celebration, everyone can joined by making or buying paper lanterns in different colors. If in history, it is used as for warfare, now it is used to send messages & wishes to God and yes also as a signal device or for giving hope to find someone who is lost somewhere, just like in the movie "TANGLED". 

In Taiwan, this annual event was scheduled into 4 different days  starting from Jan26 followed on Jan 28, Feb 4 & the final highlight on the night of Feb 6 at Shi Fen, PingXi District, New Taipei City. 

This is a once-a-year event that you don't wanna missed and luckily last Feb. 6, I, together with my friends are so blessed to witness this wonderful & amazing Chinese/Taiwanese culture. We managed to endulged (endulged talaga ginamit! lol) this once in lifetime event by taking on-leave vacation, unnoticed. Hehehe.

Before we get into the place where the event is kicking off, we traveled almost two hours up north. From our place in Hukou Township we traveled by a local train, one & half hours to Taipei City. Then from Taipei City, we spent one more hour  also by train going to Rui Fang, then half an hour more from Rui Fang to Shi Fen Station, where the coal mining area is located, the place where the 1600 lanterns are to be released.