Wanderlust Diary

I recently discovered a show that will give insight regarding how to survive if you get stuck in the “wild” or outside the usual path of our travels. I thought this was just a boring show like that of some Discovery channel shows.

The interesting part in the show was seeing Bear Grylls (who is a dashing host who was once a part of British Special force) eat anything on his path cooked or even fresh! Ugh..I would shriek in disgust but I guess he will take the challenge to make this show really believable. He drank his own urine, eat a fresh sheep heart, bugs, snakes…all those gross stuff. Wow!

At least somehow I felt educated how to survive even though I only watched it on TV. Interestingly, Will Farrell also joined him in one episode, it was hilarious! I saw that Ben Stiller will also join him in a future episode, can’t wait to watch!

Recalling my last visit to Macau, I can’t help but notice how huge hotels encompass this small city. My friend was the one who booked our hotel online. There are a lot of reputable online hotel booking sites like Agoda, Asiarooms, etc! I have booked really good deals from them rather than going through very expensive tour agency rates. Anyway, we stayed at Hotel Sintra that time, it was very convenient for us since it was a 10-minute walk to Senado Square.

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Boys over Flowers wannabe??

Well, we were passing by the Avenue of Stars one beautiful night in HongKong. A full moon that encompassed the skyline along the coast of Tsim Sha Tsui, a perfect night to watch the Symphony of Lights of Hongkong buildings (around 8 p.m. daily). Avenue of stars is actually similar to Hollywood’s but this is prettier as you can see the famous skyline. I never got to look for Jacky Chan’s star or Andy Lau’s.

Anyway, we walked from the mall connecting to the Avenue of stars…passing by the huge planetarium nearby. TST seems small because the streets are narrow, but if you are not used to walking…(well, good thing we were, shopping rats that we are)..you will feel tired after walking around from the MTR to the riverside. It is located across the majestic Peninsula Hotel.

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Not quite the same as the local Halo halo famous here in the Philippines, Singapore has its own version of a cooling treat.   Though this is also a shared dessert treat famous also in Malaysia, anyone knows what ice kacang is!   It is mainly ice with jelly and beans served with different kinds of colorful syrups.

We bought a serving once in Food Republic in Sentosa because I couldn’t intro to my small brothers any fave dessert in Singapore.  Honestly, even after working here for almost a year, it was also my first time.

Though it’s nothing compared to Halo Halo (which I feel is the best! Razon’s hmmm), I still find it quite refreshing in a hot hot summer day in Singapore.   I also like Lychee drink (filled with ice shavings) at Kopitiam!

This is my favorite place to relax…somewhere peaceful, and beautiful.  A place where the fine sands ultimately won’t burn your feet even on a hot scourging day…Boracay!

This time around, I was a tour guide of Boracay for my friends who visited from Singapore.  I wasn’t at ease because I wasn’t able to plan anything at all.  We were almost bumped off our flight because we were 10mintues late from Cebu Pacific’s 45mins before flight time limit.  Well, good thing we were lucky this time (not the time I went Cebu though…&$%&#!!!) .

Good thing it was a smooth flight to Caticlan, no delays…no unfortunately accidents.  Our first lunch was in Aria, located near the beachfront of D’Mall.  Time flies so slow in this paradise and even my tourist friends noticed too.

After a sumptuous Italian lunch, we headed back to our hotel to lounge around as it is usually high tide until around 3.  Staying at Station 1 is more advantageous since it still has an ample shore even at high tide.  It was a long walk back so we ought to ride in the usual tricycle (Php 50 a ride for 4 ppl..not that cheap but more convenient because when I kept count how long, it took us more than 20 minutes to walk from D’Mall to Station 1).

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I had a strange dream when I was young, that I saw some old ruined Church in a big open space.  It seemed so real that time that it left me bothered the whole time.  In one fateful channel surfing moment, my thumb suddenly stopped in some travel channel that featured this European-ish place in Asia called Macau!  I heard this before…long before Jetstar and Air Asia started its cheap flight to that place.  I had an inkling that it was near Hong Kong.  Seeing all those wonderful articles about it, I was itching to visit and experience the Portuguese culture mixed in China.  It was a longing that I learned to suppress till last year.

My friends were planning for trip from Singapore, after cancelling out places we were not interested in, we end up choosing somewhere that is near our shopping destination (Hong Kong).  Macau was a first time thing for us.  I certainly had some researching done before going there.  We had limited time in Macau thus we had to limit our tours.

Senado Sqaure was the most famous as it also connects very near to St Paul’s Cathedral (which is the old ruins of a Church which burnt down during a typhoon a century ago).

We tried quaint restaurants along the area (which was served by a lot of Filipinos, wasn’t surprised by this because Macau is really near Philippines).  The friendly servants gave a lot of advises to make our trip worth it (like those free hotel hopping through their shuttles, free taste of egg tarts along the way to St. Paul’s Cathedral).

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