With special thanks to hosts Leanne Florendo and Aimil Sarmiento plus generous invites from Jaja Rama and April Rama, my summer didn’t just end up at beach resorts but at Formo, too!
The last Caribbean Party I’ve been to that was held at a bar was at The Site in Cagayan de Oro where they, too, placed white sand all over the venue. Tiki torches and small palm trees added much to the beachy-feel of the place making you feel like you are just partying at the beach minus um, the ocean! Last May 22, the Havaianas Urban Beach Party was just like it and more! The sand sculpture was my favorite.
There was Capoeira and fire dancing, of course. The place was draped in layers of white and Detalia Aurora was ambience found in chic furniture! Formo was really transformed that night.
Your very own summer soiree couldn’t pass up the chance to be with the cesses and of course, enjoy the overflowing Mojitos, Tribo Manila, and our Havaianas flip-floats!
April Rama of Formo and Clint Potestas from Sunstar Cebu. I got to talk to Clint for a while. Turns out that lifestyle writer of Sunstar Cebu doesn’t drink too! Haha. Cheers, Clint! Again, fun is an understatement that night. Thanks Big Seed Media, Formo, Leanne and Aimil. ?
See full review here of the Havaianas Urban Beach Party.
I have a new love and he comes in fur glory!
Isn’t he the cutest? We took him out to JY Square Mall in Lahug one night. He absolutely loved the attention.
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Been busy with this. Click on photo.
I didn’t realize how stressful it is to update all of your networks online – sometimes they just take too much of my time that I no longer get to do things that I love. For one, shopping at the mall. Second, shopping at the mall. Haha. I guess this came to my attention when my friend told me she was selling makeup and I went, “Oh, I’d love to look!” Then she handed me a glossy catalog. “One month to pay, Tin.” You can forget about using testers and trying on dresses from now on. Thank you Paypal and um, Avon?
We got a dog by the way which makes life messier but sweet. I hope my internet at home will be up soon. My pending photos are driving me nuts. Oh, listen to me. I’m not even making sense. I’m just writing this at random and pulling off threads from my thoughts. See? That didn’t even sound right. But I’m good. I’m hanging and having a good time. I’m in love and innocent and loving being a Libran. Just bookmark this site and you will forever be in my heart.
A pescetarian, thanks to a friend who corrected me after I said fishtarian, is what I became when someone dictates that you eat anything but meat on holy week. That someone happens to be my mother whom I forever cast my undying love and devotion to until the day I die.
My entire family was here last week and before I could go ‘Yey, great vacation!’, I was reminded of how strict and religious they are. It wasn’t that long that I conditioned myself to a week long solitude on reflection that is bordered on a conviction it was a great idea for them to come over despite the fact that I will be missing this huge thing in Bantayan Island for holy week.
Holy Thursday last week, I arrived at the port of Tagbilaran at 8am by Oceanjet Fastcraft. They have this promo going on that only charges P300 for your roundtrip going to Bohol and back. Very cheap, yes and almost all fast crafts that go to Bohol travel at the same number of hours. Thanks to my friend, Melgrace, for telling me about their promo fares. J
The resort had a driver to pick me up who was carrying the resort’s banner on his chest. I went up to him and told him in hasty English that I wanted to claim my parent’s seat number at the ticketing counter and would he be kind enough to wait for me. He said, “Yis ma’am, I will wet here.” Wink.
My parents were already at Sherwood when I arrived fifteen minutes from the pier. The place was breathtaking!
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One of the islands that I have always wanted to conquer in the Cebu-Visayas Region is Camotes Island among others and it is just sad that we only got to stay there overnight. When friends decided to go there on a Sunday, you have no choice but to get back the next day because your work after all is your priority. Well, we have to grow up sometime. Wink.
Given that the whole trip going to the island takes about 3 hours the most, the group was already up at 4am Sunday morning and hopped on the first public vehicle we saw that would take us to Danao Terminal. A small ferry then crossed all the way to the whatever Ocean and brought us to the province of Camotes.
Danao Terminal
terminal fee that cheap huh?
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Last Sunday when my beau was invited to his close friend’s baby’s christening, it was just natural that he would tag me along. (Hello, party!) Unfortunately, his friend is also friends with the ex. Now let’s call the ex Padfoot (you’ll understand why). Padfoot went to the friend who was having the baptismal party and said that it might not be a good idea to bring me along because she is still not over him blah blah and if I were coming she wouldn’t go at all and the people who are going to the party, too, might feel sorry for her blah blah and she is going to be embarrassed blah blah.
For the love of the Lord in Christ, this is not her party. She is not the host and she will never be one. My text message to her that day didn’t merit a reply but I’m not expecting any either because number one, the text message is in English and number two, I said everything that I needed to say: This is not your party and it is unfair of you to make **** choose between you and my boyfriend. How could you think of yourself when clearly this is all about the baby and not you.
Maybe she thinks she has enough star quality to hoard sympathy from the people. Sweetheart, they don’t care. My friend who was one of the godfathers at that party even asked, “Who is she?” He laughed after he found out who you were. See? You don’t stamp your mark on anyone’s brain registry.
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FOOD-OLOGY
1. What is your salad dressing of choice? HATE SAGBOT SO I SAYING NONE.
2. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? GOLDEN COWRIE, CEBU
3. What food could you eat for 2 weeks straight and not get sick of? CRABS
4. What are your pizza toppings of choice? PEPPERONI AND LOTS OF MOZARELLA
5. What do you like to put on your toast? GARLICTECHNOLOGY
1. How many television sets are in your house? IN CEBU, ONE.
2. What color cell phone do you have? RED, ORANGE and SILVER.
3. Do you own a laptop? A DESKTOP. HIHI.
4. Do you own a ps3? WHAT FOR. NO.
5. What kind of cellphone do you have? A SAMSUNG, A CINGULAR PANTECH AND A SONY ERICKSON
BIOLOGY
1. Are you right-handed or left-handed? RIGHT
2. Have you ever had anything removed from your body? MY CLOTHES
3. Have you ever had any surgery? NONE
4. How much do you weigh? NOT SURE 40 SOMETHING KILOS
5. How tall are you? TALLER THAN A HOBBIT BUT SHORTER THAN MY BOYFRIEND
BULLCRAPOLOGY
1. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? NO. WHERE’S THE FUN IN THAT.
2. If you could change your name, what would you change it to? SOME PORN STAR BUNNY NAME LIKE NICOLE. HAHA I KID.
3. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000? NO.
4. How often do you fart in a day? I DON’T COUNT?
5. When was the last time you ate something raw? YESTERDAY, SOME OF MOM’s KINILAW.
6. How many pairs of flip flops do you own? THREE
7. Last time you had a run-in with the cops? DIVISORIA MCDO CAR TOWED BECAUSE OF NIGHTCAFE
8. Last person you talked to? MY BOSS
9. Last person you hugged? MY DAD AW SOB.
10. Last person you said “f*** you to? THAT’s A BAD WORD.
FAVORITOLOGY
1. Favorite season? SUMMER
2. Favorite holiday? CHRISTMAS
3. Favorite day of the week? MONDAYS
4. Favorite month? OCTOBER! MY MONTH
5. Favorite brand of chocolate?
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//updated with photos
Last weekend, when my friends from work decided to conquer Cagayan de Oro, I told them to check out the white water rafting adventure because after the flood, they can “raft” their way to Limketkai, Opol beaches or Gaisano City. Of course it was a bad joke but they did arrive in Cagayan de Oro on the same day I did and yours truly felt it was my compunction to show them around.
Photo at Del Monte Clubhouse, Cawayanon Bukidnon. Cawayanon is a 35 minute drive from Puerto, Cagayan de Oro.
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