Sarangani Bay Festival 2012

I've been hearing about Sarangani Bay Festival for the past few years and get really excited to go everytime but it was only this year that I got the chance to. It is dubbed as the Biggest Beach Festival in Mindanao and who am I to miss it!

The venue, Gumasa Beach in Glan Sarangani, is just about an hour away from General Santos City. Off to the lovely white sand beaches of Gumasa (The Little Boracay of Mindanao)!

People. Clouds. Ocean. Watermelon. Colors. And the happy me.

I was with the Three Musketeers. Or the Three Blind Mice . Or Alvin and the Chipmunks and I'm Brittany (the lady Chipmunk).. Tsk! So hard to think of an alternative name because we're really seven in the group and we call ourselves The Pugad Baboy Family! Nice one huh! :) Couldn't really remember how the young high school minds came up with such a smart name considering that everyone was as thin as a toothpick except for one or two. Oopss... Whoever they are I won't mention already (..for friendship's sake). But it turned out that after long years (by long I mean more than a decade. Omg! Has it been that long?), the rest lived up to our name. Everyone seemed to look babolicious already except me. :) 

We were there not to really party. Big events happen during the night. We just wanted to have a glimpse of the festivities. And the main goal was to have a BIG talk over a BIG lunch. But we ended up having only pizza and chocolate shakes. And the "melting" ice cream.

We had the BIG talk though. A lot to catch up! Guimo and Kuya Edgar even "cried" upon the realization of not having seen each other after their college graduation (That's a little more than 6 years already).

I always love going out with these crazy and hilarious people. The geeky high school boys turned into successful and more geeky men. Haha! I should have just written successful and responsible but my gosh! Most of the time they talked about energy - from generation, transmission, distribution. The status of frequent brown outs in Mindanao and how it was supposed to or will be addressed. The longest and widest rivers in the world. Machines. Chemicals. And all! Whew! And I was like "Really? Amazing!" With not-so-obvious attempts of diverting the topic to American Idol and Avengers so I could somehow relate. : ) They would respond a little then would go back to energy again! Tsk! Engineers! Chemist!

Crazy people become crazier! And happier!

The Never-Perfect Jump shots.

Pugad Forever : )

We miss having you here Harvey, Borj, and Luvvy. See you in Singapore. Haha!

I also had my moments : ) 

* Thanks for some of the photos guys.

Pretty Blog

I'm currently obsessed at adding cutie little thingy on my blog. And I got everything from Shabbyblogs. Their designs don't seem shabby to me. They're all pretty! I like everything they have!

Amazing Monday: Buttons Up

What's up for buttons? Here are amazingly lovely pieces I found from craftstylish. Aren't they so pretty? I'm not so crafty enough to do something like this so I just look at them and be mesmerized. : ) Simply  amazing! :)

                                        

Iloilo Delicacies

Capiz feels like my second home though I've only visited few times my lifetime. It's as if half of who I am is defined by what is there. It's always a joy to see my aunts, cousins, niece and my grandma. Discovering my mother's roots is discovering mine, too. My fondest childhood memories are those which were spent there.

Part of our family visited my mother's homeland Capiz weeks ago. By part I mean just my father, my mother and my youngest brother. I didn't go because I had work. It's been three years since the family's visit. The last time it was me and my other brother who went with the parents. 

When they arrived I knew what to expect. Food! My favorites! Pinasugbo. Barquillos. Biscocho. Bukayo. Otap. Piaya. ... and more! (All from Iloilo - a neighboring province of Capiz.)

Thank you so much Aunts for still spoiling us just like when we were kids!

See you in October Lola and Chin-chin and cousins! : )

P.S. My lola's house is 3 hours away from Iloilo. It is the easiest access point from Gensan to Capiz.

If I Ain't Got You

I heard my brother singing this again and again the whole week. I got curious why he was so into it and watched the video with him.

This is from The Voice's episode. I'm not really very familiar about the show but this man here (the slimmer one) really got the voice! He has a very good version of Alicia Keys' If I Ain't Got You.

                                             

Yummy Gensan: Burgers at Aunt Ludi's

Aunt Ludi is a bakeshop first of all. I first saw it in Koronadal City a month ago where I bought my first of its cinnamon bread that I brought home. As I was paying, I saw the big posters of their mouth-watering burgers and promised to taste those sometime in the future because I was already in a hurry to catch up with a bus. And the sales people there had a pretty good convincing power. So I really swore to be back! 

(By the way, the cinnamon bread was a star in my family's breakfast the next day.)

And the future is now! (Actually, the future that I mentioned above has become the past already as I am typing this post. Hehe..) Anyways, I happened to pass by a commercial building in Purok Malakas and was delighted when I saw Aunt Ludi's Bakeshoppe! And I was really craving for a burger that time! Really! I call it destiny! :)

Yes! Burgers finally!

One is the two-faced burger. So called because half of the bun has mustard sauce and the other half has the chicken bbq sauce. How clever the name huh?! The next one is the messy burger. So called because.... Can you guess why? Yes! It's messy! How smart of you to have guessed that! : ) It's their version of the Sloppy Joe thingy. Instead of the usual round patty, it has the chili con carne. Plus the potato chips on the side! Love!

What more do I love? The ambiance is so homey. It's pleasant. It's comfortable. It's cozy. A really nice place to hang out.
                                                           
Location:  Robinsons Place GenSan and J&G Propriedad Bldg, Nunez Street, Purok Malakas

Say Cheese!

We take so many photos of my niece Caela. We want to capture her every first, every inch of her growth, her every exciting achievement. We just can't have enough of  her cuteness. Oh babies! They're just adorable! And to add more to our obsession, I pushed my sister to take Caela to the studio and have her first official photo shoot. : )

Days before, we'd have a little practice. "Ready. One. Two. Three." Then she'd show her two lower front teeth and raise her tiny hands towards the ceiling. "Eyes eyes eyes to read a book by....Nose nose nose... Mouth mouth mouth..." Then she'd point to her eyes and nose and mouth. And she'd happily play around. Then we'd show Picachu and Pia (her toys) and she'd play around some more. Smart little baby! Ok. So we guessed she's ready for a picture picture. :)

Now, on her supposedly shining moment, she got sleepy. Then cried. Not the loud and screaming ones but those her trying-to-cry cries. So we still pursued the shoot. We opted to show her toys and sing her songs and she smiled for seconds then returned to trying to cry again. And these went again and again until the photographer said, "Ok. It's done." Good that she was so quick in taking pictures that we actually got few not-crying photos! Yey!

"C'mon now baby. Sorry for letting you do something we really wanted you to do even if it's against your sleeping will." So I hugged her and caressed her and she was alive and smiling and head-banging again! Oh no! This 10 month old little creature has tricked us! Maybe she wasn't really sleepy. Maybe she was just not comfortable with the lights and the flashes and all. 

But anyways, here's the cutest little creature on the planet! (I'm being a little biased here.)

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Atom on Cosmo :)

I placed three exclamation points after the post title but I deleted those in exchange of a smiley so it won't be very obvious that I'm soooo glad to see him featured in a magazine!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) Now I can't help it!

  

We all have people that we admire - our role models. I have so many women that I adore! Some of them I follow. But Atom is the only Filipino male celebrity that I look up to. Well, to me he's a celebrity. Not just the ordinary newsman that people don't sometimes notice on tv because they're more up to the news. But I don't blame them. He delivers news incredibly well, indeed.

You see. I've been a fan since his 5 and Up days (so long before) then his Breakfast, Y Speak days. And still following him until he got into news.

When I read his tweet that he's featured in Cosmo, I immediately searched Cosmo's website and looked for an article written about him. And I found this behind the scene thingy like a teaser to the article in Cosmo's April issue. I also found this pop quiz box which he answered in his own handwriting. 

             

I'm glad to know some of the other little things about him (like a normal fan is). Here's a trivia (which I'm sure my batchmates know). Alfonso Tomas Araullo graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Physics form the University of the Philippines Diliman. Isn't he smart? From Physics to Journalism. How can these fields be even related? Well, however! But you're doing a great job atom! Continue to be a model to the youth. (Giving him a message like he can read this. Hehe.)

P.S. I am a teacher. I have to be composed. :) So I tried to hide all the thrill in my sentences except in the first paragraph. Excuse me for that. I somehow had to express. :)