Pressure IN LOVE

Journal No.2

Love has killed more than any other disease.

 - Rumpelsliltskin

Yet, many still want to be a victim.

This past few days, I feel like being cooked inside a pressure cooker. I'm not stating about the weather but I wish I could, it's about the people who pressure me be in love instantly. To have a magical fairy tale like everyone else in the family. I'm not in a hurry, I believe someone is meant for me and one day without even realizing he'll just stand in front me loving me passionately. Hopeless romantic am I? Yeah, I know right. But these pressures their putting me into is sometimes getting its toll. Recently, their matchmaking me with people I dont know playing cupid and stuff. Isn't it annoying?

Afternoon Taxi Issues

Journal No.1

How would you feel when your own fellow countrymen did bamboozled acts?

Defensive?

Angry?

Or perhaps dissappointed?

PINO Restaurant

"Don't expect life to serve you what you expect. Just enjoy the buffet."

- Manoj Vaz

PINO restaurant at Wilson Street, Lahug

Pino is an adjective used to express admiration. "Pino" may refer as a pleasing personality as in "pinong ugali" (fine or refined manners); impressive craftmanship as in "pinong burda" (fine embroidery); or impeccable preference as in "pinong panlasa" (fine or delicate taste buds).

If you're looking for a fine dining experience of Filipino dishes at the city - then Pino restaurant is what you're looking for. The restaurant has a nice Hispanic ambiance that would make you feel like dining during the colonial period. From the interior design to its intricate facade and beautiful chandeliers suspended on the ceiling; all screams style and elegance. Wait till you taste the wide array of sumptuous Filipino foods and your dining will be complete.

LARSIAN Cebu

"When it's brown it's cooking; when it's black it's done."

- BARBECUE

HUNGRY in CEBU? Grab a stick of barbecue at Larsian.

Larsian is a barbecue square-type strip with numerous stalls located at Fuente Osmeña. It is a bazaar of eateries that is a perfect place to experience Cebu's best barbecues. It's not a fancy restaurant that most foreigners would think about but are stalls of barbecue lined up around the perimeter of the place. Since it's located at Fuente Osmeña Circle, it's really accessible to jeepneys and taxis. 

LARSIAN on peak hours. DAMING TAO!!

BARIKATA Ramen Bar

Do noodles end their prayers with "RAMEN"?

BARIKATA at I.T Park Lahug

BARIKATA means "very hard" in English. This is use to state that you want your ramen noodles to be "very hard" in solidity, therefore the noodle was only boiled under a number of seconds to achieve the correct hardness. Hence, the name of the restaurant was taken from.

RAMEN 101:

Ramen is a noodle in soup dish which was originally made in China into Japan when the country open its border to Meiji Restoration. The word "Ra" means pulled (into) while "Men" means noodles. That's how the noodles were made in the old days, a single lump of dough was manually stretched and folded a dozens of times till it formed a bunch of thin noodles.

Ramen has mainly four types according to the broths being used; tonkotsu (pork bone), shoyu (soy sauce), shio (salt) and miso (fermented bean paste). Barikata is on tonkotsu based ramen.

BON ODORI FESTIVAL 2015

過去は未来によって変えられる。

"The past can be changed by the future."

 -Yoshiki Hayashi

Japan and Philippines had come a long way in the history. From the time Japan conquered Philippines to Second World War up until our friendship with Japan now. Indeed Yoshiki-san is right "The past can be changed by the future". Even if we have negative encounters with Japan before it didn't become a hindrance to make amends and become friends today and hopefully until the near future. 

One way of continuing the friendship and connection we have with Japan. Bon Odori Festival in Cebu was made. It started last year and successfully it continued this year. This festival aims to let both Filipino and Japanese people experience the cultural exchange between these two countries.

Bon Odori, simply means Bon dance; a style of dancing performed during Obon. Originally a Nenbutsu folk dance to welcome the spirits of the dead, the style of celebration varies in many aspects from region to region. Each region has a local dance, as well as different music. The music can be songs specifically pertinent to the spiritual message to Obon, or local min'yo folk songs. Consequently, the Bon dance will look and sound different from region to region. The way in which the dance is performed is also different in each region, though the typical Bon dance involves people lining up in a circle around a high wooden scaffold made especially for the festival called a yagura. -Bon Odori; Wikipedia

Dalaguete, Cebu: Osmeña Peak

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."

-Edmund Hillary

NOTE: Sorry to tell you in advance but this trip of mine happened years ago. Even though the gap years is a bit big I still want to share my experience there while I'm still blogging. Hope you like it.

The geography:

Osmeña Peak is located in the Municipality of Dalaguete in the province of Cebu. The peak is approximately 1,000 meters above sea level making it the highest peak in the island of Cebu.

The peak is part of the Mantalungon mountain ranges, which is unique from other mountain ranges in the Philippines because of its multiple jagged hills grouped together that overlook and stretch as far as the Badian shorelines. The highest of these hills is the Osmeña Peak named in honor of the famous Osmeña clan in Cebu. 

The visual appearance of the Mantalungon range is almost similar in form to the Chocolate Hills of Bohol but the peaks of the ranges are thinner, sharper-pointed and rocky. Unlike the Chocolate Hills, the peaks of the Mantalungon ranges cluster are quite near to each other and give the impression of being formed from rocks that have survived through time.

The Travel Journey: