Okay sooo my 14 and a half year old laptop is in deep deep coma. I was so excited to post my 1st ever DINAGYANG experience last month but due to the critical condition of my laptop my posts will be posted til my laptop wakes up . Sadly, as much as I would like to post those photos now, I can’t. I can’t even open my external since it is also under respiratory treatment…
I am sad.. Very sad.. 😥
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Here’s another late upload! Somewhere in Cantil, Janiuay. 🙂
Because… sometimes, I believe that my frog face just gets in the way of a good photo… Here are some of the photos that I was talking about in my previous post about Damires Hills…
RON, FEATHERWEIGHT
While Ron had decent shots.. Here’s what I had.. (-__-)
FAIL, This would have been OKAY if it wasn’t for that darn stiff look. (T__T)FAIL face.. FAIL… FAIL.. FAIL!FAIL, Cropped my face. Couldn’t even explain how my face looked like. Hahahah.
I’m done, I need to lose weight in order for me to carry myself.
This year, I wanna be FEATHERWEIGHT! Hahaha. 🙂
Gaah.. It’s really nice to see this resort improve as we visit! 🙂
Last time, while I was fixing photos and Ron was doing his layers for the resort’s 4th anniversary poster we saw old photos of the resort and may I say that the place has really improved! From just the cottages to 2 big pools to (Kiddie&Adult) ziplines and trampolines! And this year.. they had just finished their ATV route!
This was supposed to be posted last year but due to some “weird events” this IS a super late upload. 🙂
The last food that we tried last year was their Calamares and Lawas.
The Calamares was good but the LAWAS was the best! At first I didn’t know what it was because in our dialect LAWAS means BODY and I for one wasn’t comfortable eating a BODY (Hahaha) but joking aside… This was beyond my expectations!
This tasted like nilaga or bulalo but wasn’t nilaga or bulalo! (I have no idea how to explain it) When you go to Damires please do try this…
Mr. Donkey Monkey
Lawas
Since we were so full we decided to take a walk and see the view in one of the open cottages …
Great Pathway
Nothing but fresh air
Fresh Air
Trying my “NAHULOG PISO KO” pose
While we waited for all the Damires peeps to prepare for their get-together party we decided to.. TAKE OVER DAMIRES HILLS. (Nah, I’m just kidding, wahaha) We went around and saw this log near the pool and decided to have our picture taken with that log (I have no idea how to say this but yes a bit vain but not insane) but basically we just sat on the log. (Thanks a log! Log! ) Get it? (PUN INTENDED, so punny!) 😀 Anyway…
Lovinthelog
Lovinthelog
Lovinthelog
Peek-a-boo! I see you!
Peek-a-boo! I see you!
Peek-a-boo! I see you!
Twinthelog
Twinthelog
Twinthelog
Twinthelog
Twinthelog
After our little photo shoot we saw some of the Damires crew setting up long tables and placing banana leaves on top of the tables. They told us that this was for tonight’s boodle fight. (PS. I have never seen a boodle fight table this long! Haha) 🙂
Ron together with Khlea and the rest of the Damires Staff
Ron together with Khlea and the rest of the Damires Staff
Ron together with Khlea and the rest of the Damires Staff
Ron inspects the boodle table
Ron inspects
Ron & I then accompanied Khlea to her place for her to change (see some of my failed jump shots *weight issues* here, later!) Back to our topic… Aah!…
So we went back to Damires and was just in time for the crew’s last game before dinner… “PALO-SEBO“. (Palo-Sebo: commonly played during Fiestas) (Objective: to be the first person to reach the prize at the top of the pole)
It was really fun watching them, but what If girls were made to play this game? Hah! That would even be more exciting! Hahaha! 😀
Everybody heads to the boodle fight table! Good game guys!
Food food food glorious food!
Food food food glorious food!
Food food food glorious food!
Food food food glorious food!
Food food food glorious food!
Food food food glorious food!
Food food food glorious food!
Nothing beats eating with your bare hands! 🙂
Belated Happy 4th Anniversary Damires Hills! 🙂
Last year was crazy… Great opportunities swallowed by my newly found frenemy.. “Depression” (and may I say.. Depressionsucks!Thou shall not give in!) 🙂
This year (finally!).. for the first time I have bought a planner! I have been visiting National Bookstore (several times) to decide on which planner I would buy. (Now I know how my friends feel when they get all giddy and all for a planner) from IT’S-JUST-A-PLANNER-to-IT’S-A-PLANNER! feeling. (Yes, that feeling!) I sit corrected. Haha.
I’m starting this year fresh, fit and clean. How about you guys?
I went to church with my mom, meditated, went to the gym to inquire about Circuit Training, changed my shower head.. Hmm what else? Hah! This year will be an amazing year! It should! It will be!
I’m thinking of keeping my hair light brown (whatever color this is) for the whole year or try other dyes for this year. Gaah, can’t wait to share with you more of Iloilo this year. Got lots of plans for my blog this year. This year, this year, THIS YEAR WILL BE A GOOD ONE! (Rastaman vibrations, yeah! Positive! Gotta have a good vibe!) 🙂
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LET’S ALL HAVE A GOOD YEAR GUYS! :*
A few weeks ago I was invited to take pictures of the resort for their 4th anniversary and the day of their anniversary. So I called Ron out to go with me and stay the night at the resort along with my dear life partner Khlea who works there. (Hey bae! Hehe)
I will be posting the photos I took for Damires Hills on my “TRIPS TO JANIUAY” category (<– I will be inserting the link for the photos here later…)
Damires Hills is located at Brgy. Damires in Janiuay, Iloilo.
It’s just a 30-45 minute drive from the city.
There are 2 routes that I’ve driven through so far.. (curious if there are other routes I could take for fun! please comment or leave me a message if you’ve taken other routes besides these)
One is taking the road coming from Jaro Plaza off to follow the road to CPU (Central Philipppine University)Â to Ungka terminal to Janiuay.
While the other is my current favorite..
From SM City, Diversion Road going to the Airport but before entering the gates of the airport there is this other roadto the right that leads you to the road to CABATUAN, what’s nice about this route is since this road is near the airport you could see all the planes either taking off or landing a few miles away from you..
(plus the fields, ‘that’ one tree that looks like the tree from the “Wild thornberrys” and farm animals) Seeing the runway is the best thing to see at night especially when a plane is landing.
This week was awesome, there was a plane about to land and it was just right above the pick-up truck that I was driving! We were too happy about it that we didn’t have the time to get our camera! Haha.
So yeah, try taking this route one time and you’ll know what I mean.
But for those who wants to ride a JEEP going to Janiuay, You could take a jeep in TAGBAK TERMINAL which costs around P28
FROM TAGBAK TERMINAL
The earliest jeep goes around 6:00 AM
The last jeep at around 9:00 PM
FROM JANIUAY TO ILOILO
The earliest jeep goes around 4:30/5:00 AM
The last jeep at around 6:00 PM
When you reach the plaza you could ask where to get a TRICYCLE going to Damires it’s not that far from the plaza and take you about 5 mins or less to go there. The Plete or FARE for the Trike is P20/person
Khlea told me that you could ride a jeep that goes to BADIANGAN because the jeep’s route passes by the gates of DAMIRES HILLS.
(But I haven’t ridden that one yet)
The Badiangan jeep costs around P30
Photo credits to Ron Matthews Espinosa <– See him on my BLOGROLL page! 🙂
Hey-ho-hey guys! How have you guys been? (*put bags down, remove cap, brush back hair w/ right hand*) “I’M BAAAAAAAACK!” 🙂 Sorry for the long inactivity guys! The past 8 months was just crazy.. A lot of things happened this year both good and bad. Talk about a rollercoaster of emotions! The day before valentines day my dad passed away… I have grieved and I have cried a river in my bed but I know that crying was not gonna bring daddy back. I’ve lost faith in Jesus the day he died (but I’ve still been praying that prayer before meals though <– this, I find really funny) as months passed without my “FAITH IN GOD” people have been pushing me to go to church and then one day I did (with my friends) and then booom, tears began to fall and I started crying heavily alone sitting in that wooden pew in church then there I thought to myself that maybe I have just been running away from the thought that my dad had left us to go to a better place and to stop feeling the pain that he has been feeling for the past years. My dad was a religious man, so religious that I used to call him “FATHER” like the real father of the church. (Haha) but seriously he was. He would always tell everybody to go to church on Sundays and to keep praying or just give a little one-on-one time with Jesus. I know he always wanted me to keep my faith so that whatever crazy things I face, I’ll always have god with me. but aaanyways, knowing dad, I know he’s happier now that he is with his creator. 🙂 Okaaaay, EMO-ME is done now! Sorry for the 8 months of inactivity and I can’t wait to update y’all with all the GOOD things and events that is happening to me now!NEW LAYOUT! NEW CONTENT! I hope this makes it much easier for you guys to navigate on. (I am still working on some pages so It’ll be “UNDER-CONSTRUCTION” for now but I have placed linked-photo-posts on those pages, I swear I’m working on it! Haha)Update y’all very soon!Thanks for reading this post! – Aenri (aah-yen-ree)
It would have been much cooler if I had greeted everyone during Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Never even had the chance to post that Theater Camp that I was talking about, haha. My last post was on the 1st of November. Gaah, I should be updating this blog soon. (or like.. NOW)
Oh and I have reached a thousand visits here.. (1080 to be exact) — Thank you so much for visiting, reading and following! I hope I wouldn’t bore you with my posts! 😀
BELATED HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I HOPE YOU’VE STARTED YOUR YEAR RIGHT! THIS YEAR IS OURS, LET’S MAKE THE MOST OUT OF IT! – Aenri(Aah-Yen-Ree)
As I’ve told you before I’ve gone to a theater camp outside of our city for 3 days. On the way home we rode a non-air-conditioned bus. I sat by the window seat (I am a big sucker for window seats) It was about 1pm when we headed back to the city, so yep, I already knew that it was going to be hot and I mean HOT. Good thing the bus was going fast, so I thank the wind for keeping me alive inside the bus. Halfway home I fell asleep and one of my little manghods in our group (alex) told me that there was this one time where my head was already outside the window. (Well thank you for telling me afterwards but you could have woken me up, you know. Haha)
Anyway, when I woke up I was a bit shocked to see that “ze zun haz burnt my arm” Well, I’ve “unpacked” my things already but it’s still on ze floor, till now. (Lazy monkey) I’ll be posting some of our photos during the theater camp in a bit. 😀
Well, it was already 7AM and I have not slept yet. I got hungry, so I decided to make a cheese sandwich. — (But ofcourse I still ate some chips, some cup noodles and drank a pitcher of lemonade — Yes, I know. I have not been eating and sleeping properly this past few months, I promise to eat clean and sleep on time next month, again, I’m sorry) —
Anyway, I noticed that the upper part of the “Pandesal” was slipping together with the cheese melting towards the bottom of the toaster. SO WITHOUT USING MY BRAIN, I tried to fix the sandwich and tried moving it a bit closer to the toaster’s lid and then BAAAAM, my hand got burned.. (remembers pain *cries in agony*) (looks at wound *cries in agony*)
Our helper Tin-Tin offered me an Aloe Vera leaf. She told me to just rub the jelly part on my burnt skin and so I did.
I searched Mr. Google and asked him if there were any remedies I could do for my skin.. and I found out thaaaaat, ALOE VERA + BURNT SKIN = Soooooothiiiiing…
1.) I should have soaked the burnt part in cold water for 20 mins as soon as possible,  AND SO I DID…. – Never apply ice to your burnt skin, The extreme cold can further cause damage to the burn.
Cold Water
2. Pat the wound w/ a dry cloth and get your Aloe Vera. Break the Aloe Vera in the most fattest region so you could get a lot of those jelly-wellies..
Aloe Vera
3. Start treating! Rub the jelly-welly unto your burnt skin in a gentle motion. (You can put or apply as much aloe-jelly as you want to) (This felt so great, I could have finished the whole plant! Haha) – APPLY THE GEL TWICE A DAY FOR 2-3 DAYS, UNTIL IT IS NO LONGER PAINFUL
It’ll feel painful once the jelly has come off but it’ll be okay after a few minutes.. 😀
4. Look at your burnt skin, and tell yourself that it won’t leave a scar 😥 – Hopefully it won’t but they say that it usually does, but I hope not! (*fingers crossed*)
Burnt Skin
Please call your doctor if you think that it isn’t just a 1st-2nd degree burn..
Things could get pretty nasty if you won’t. \(-__-)/
Camera used: GE X500
– it was really hard taking a picture with this camera since it not friendly to those shaky hands (even just a bit)
though it takes good close-up photos when using a tripod (or when your really doing everything to stay still, haha)
Well, thank you for reading! Enjoy your day Bloggers, Phloggers and Awesome Readers!
– Aenri(Aah-Yen-Ree)
6 hours ago. iPhone 5 quality (Yep, no dslr todaaay) – Under the flyover/overpass.–(c) Quezzy Claire Pedregosa I haven’t posted any posts this month, so far it’s been boring and all I do now is eat, eat and EAT. Gaaah, but we’ll be going to a theater camp next next week, I can’t wait! (Soooo, That means I have something to post again soon!) 😀 Uuuuh, Okay.. I’ll sleep now. Goodnight Bloggers, Phlogger and Awesome readers! 😀 – Aenri (Aah-Yen-Ree)
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