Enjoying MongKok's Noodles

Lissa and I just got back to our hotel. We enjoyed strolling along Mong Kok's busy street. We watched some performances and those amazing photographers. 

Lissa watching 2 singers (a male and a female duet a Chinese song) under G2000 sign in Mong Kok, Hong Kong

A photographer directing his subjects or customers for a photo shoot!

After a long walk and buying (it's more of haggling) stuff for our colleagues. Lissa and I decided to have our dinner at New Forrest where we ate the following dishes:

Dinner's READY! DIG IN!

Lissa:

Lissa's first Mong Kok meal... Yum!

She had a baked creamy and cheesy pork rice with a cold authentic lemon ice tea on the side.

Mine:

I said spicy and it was really spicy! Yey! Yummy as well, the soup is really good!

I had a spicy Hong Kong noodles with breaded pork chop and an Iced Coffee.

Our meals totaled 100HKD. We are trying to save as much we are under budget... :)

I'll keep you posted guys!

What's Coming this June 26th...?

Paramount released their payoff trailer for their next coming film - TRANSFORMER IV (based on Hasbro) even there has been negative comments from the previous Transformers: Dark of the Moon, it was announced last February 13, 2012:

If you're an avid fan of Transformer from it's old cartoon series to the HD cinematography and animation or visual effect - film, above trailer video is for you. The payoff trailer is for the upcoming TRANSFORMERS: Age of Extinction movie of Paramount which will be shown in Cinemas this coming June 26th.

TRANSFORMERS: Age of Extinction movie will premiere in Indonesia/Philippines this coming June 25, 2014 and will be shown in the US on the 26th of June. The movie is again directed by Michael Bay and executive produced by Stephen Spielberg with a budget of $165M.

Before watching this movie with your movie-buddy or your girlfriend/boyfriend, friends, and/or family you might want to look back at the previous Transformer movies:

The first Transformers was premiered in Sydney last June 12, 2007 which runs for about 144 minutes hitting box office of $709M. It was aired in US on the 3rd of July on the same year.

The second Transformers movie (TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen) was released in United Kingdom last June 19, 2009 which running 149 minutes and was released in US on the 24th of June, 2009. It earned about $836M from its budget of $200M.

The third and most controversial Transformers movie has premiered in Moscow, Russia last 23rd of June, 2011 with the length of 154 mins. It was shown in US six (6) days after. TRANSFORMERS: Dark of the Moon was the highest grosser as of all Transformers movie earning $1.123B as of this time.

Let us see if Transformer 3 will be topped by this coming Transformers: Age of the Extinct.


Happy watching and reading! Enjoy your Saturday!

Message From an Old Friend... (Sagada?!?)

An old friend message me in Facebook saying how he enjoyed reading my blog post. I thank him for that and then he asked me if I have any idea about Sagada! Well bro you got me there and this article will hopefully help you out. "Iyayi na co no maco camo sa Sagada! hehehe"

My Sagada trip started when Ikhay and Jonathan asked me to join their tour. It was a tour with GAFA and to tell you guys Kuya Frederick our driver is really fun to be with even he always stays in the van to take a nap (hahaha... laglag). So like anybody who will be going to Sagada for the first time and does not want to take any hassle of commuting and have everything scheduled for you, I would suggest you get this a tour like this one we've got. (I'm not promoting GAFA guys, it's just they are the one who served as our host).

The tour costs around Php 5,000.00+ per head for 13 pax inclusive of the fare, food, and tour package. This might have changed as we had our tour last year of February. So James if you are thinking of going to Sagada, try to consider this (a friendly reminder... lolz)

Pick up point is at Trinoma, I don't know if there's another pick up point and we drove 10 hours to Benguet and about 11-12 hours to Sagada. In Benguet you'll be stop for a short time to have breakfast, photo shoot with the en famous Banawe Rice Terraces as your background, check out some Bulul, and feel the breeze of the Mountain Province then you will be led to uphill-downhill-zigzag drive to Sagada.

Following were included in the package:

• Drive along Sagada
• Extreme or Basic Spelunking (I will tell you about this on the next post)
• Hike at the rice terraces back and forth to Bumud-ok Falls
• See some locals and their tradition
• Eat at Salt & Pepper
• Taste a delectable yogurt (put some strawberries in or wild mountain berries! mangoes too)
•  Enjoy rebound of sounds in the Echo Valley
• See the hanging coffins
• See the only museum in the town
• Enjoy eating Lemon Pie and Egg Pie too
• Get frozen while watching Sunrise at Katilpan
• Enjoy the scenic view Mountain Province can showcase

Hope this gives you a little idea pare koy about Sagada. I will be writing a different article of the whole Sagada feel with photos too.

Mi-quit Tamana Bolinao! Part 2

After eating a full breakfast we head off to Picucubuan just to see the port then moved to Guiguiwanen where I introduced yellowish sand which is like “Polvoron” as per my co-travelers. The sand was really fine but the Guiguiwanen beach which we once enjoyed swimming on when we were kids, no longer looked like the same. The old Marinara bar is no longer there but the view is still as scenic as it was see the vast blue ocean. There were some fish pens at the right side but all in all it is still a great view. 

Then we walked far left to see the Subor or Bukal (Spring) where we found some kids swimming and a lady washing her clothes. After which we climbed up Fatima Hill and saw more of the view from an overlooking. Then walked more toward east and found two (2) lighthouses which are smaller than usual. I remember there was only one (1) lighthouse (parola) before which concluded the other one was a new working lighthouse.

We stroll back to UP Marine Science Institute to supposedly see some giant clams but we failed as the UPMSI’s team is at UP Diliman having their school activity. Nonetheless we were advised to have a boat ride to Silaqui Island for Php 600.00 by the security guard whom my tourists agreed to pass.

I took them to my Uncle’s resort – El Pescador or The Fisherman resort. It was midday and the sun hurts our skin so bad so we decided to go back to my Aunt’s house (supposedly the restaurant – Mitoshi) to have our lunch but we came too early so we had some halo-halo (with fresh ripe mangoes which Bolinao also is famed of) to beat the heat for Php 20.00 only. Had some laugh moments during the waiting period and we were called for our lunch with crabs, grilled Parrot Fish, and Siganid Fish in Cashew Meat Stew. These flavours were all been missed since childhood and it brings back memories of picking ripe cashew fruits and of course keeping the seeds aside for roasting.

Where the Movie - THE BEACH was Shot...

I never thought I was able to step in to one of Leonardo di Carpio's movie - The Beach.

The Beach movie was a film of Danny Boyle which is an adventure drama based from Alex Garland's book with the same title. The book came out in 1996 while the movie was shown in cinemas in 2000. 

We went to Phuket and this is one on our To-Go list last October 2012. We joined a group tourists which toured Mayabay and swam in its clear waters where Leonardo Di Carpio swam too.

Vannie and Ronnie were my travel mates on this Ko Phi Phi Island.

Maya Bay View from our speedboat.

tour and was pretty much enjoyed a quick tour of the area. I just browse my Facebook account and found this picture in my Instagram link which I forgot my log on credentials so I'm trying to retrieve as much picture as I can and share them with you guys.

Tip:

When your boat docked at Mayabay; enjoy, swim, take as much photos, run along the shore, and swim more. Why because you'll never gonna stay there for long if you have joined a tour group.

I will give you more details on my Phuket tour at some other time. I will try to show our tour package as well so you will be have an idea of the whole tour.