A Long Queue

I was at the Department of Foreign Affairs or DFA this afternoon for my passport renewal. Over a week ago I registered online for a renewal that was dated April 12. I originally signed up online and got April 18 schedule which was the earliest appointment if you registered for their Mega Mall branch. Since this schedule was quite late for me, I took the appointment on the earlier dated April 12 but this time it is on their main branch at the Macapagal Avenue in Paranaque. I left the house at 1:30pm, for I was scheduled on a 5:30 p.m appointment.

There was a long queue for both passport application and renewal and it took me about 3 hours to finish the whole process. Super long line and exhausting that made me felt that I was already hungry.

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Ben

I miss Michael Jackson and I am a huge fan of him. Aside from his songs like One Day In Your Life, Heal the World, etc., one of my favorite song is "Ben", from the same movie title BEN.The song is about complete loneliness. This is such a sad song. I recorded a cover version in the wee hours of the morning. So here's my cover version:

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When Someone Gives You A Cold Shoulder

If you are sensitive enough you can really feel when a person is giving you a cold shoulder, whether a person is online or in front of you. Being a sensitive, it may or may not be advantage to a person who can feel the energy, especially when he or she does not know how to moderate or control it. It becomes disadvantage when the energy is negative because you can really feel it.

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This is actual a sort of predicament on my part, not because I'm emotional type of a person. I can easily sense someone who is negative, because the energy is so powerful. I can sense if a person is a bit upset and the worst is when a person has a cold shoulder. It's hard to control though that I tried to surround myself with anything that is positive, and think positive.

And I wonder why some of these people are cold to you, or is it just because I am not of the same caliber as them? Or because I am not in their soul group? Was they suppose to propagate goodness to oneness? That's why I am starting to feel disappointed big time, especially to some people who I look up to, respect, believe and admire. They seemed to be discriminating. These are some of the people who deliver the message of goodness but it seems they don't practice what they preach. They seemed to do that for their own interest only. That's it, I just want to be honest with what I feel.

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My First Pre-Nuptial Shots

We went to Baras, Rizal yester for the pre-nuptial shots. This has been decided by the couple who will get married by next month. First we went to Palo Alto in Baras but unfortunately the falls did not yield some water due to summer. We had taken few photos there. After 30 minutes of spending our time there, we went to The Garden, it is a subdivision but the guard did not allow us to enter the subdivision where fields of flowers are located, for we have no permit in order to allow us to take some shots.

Baras, Rizal is about an hour from Sta. Lucia Mall in Marcos High Way but we went straight to Cogeo, Antipolo as short cut going to Baras.

This was my first pre-nuptial shot since I have never done this before and hopefully will get more wedding photo projects.

The fun part of this photo shoot is how to direct the couple and I advised them just to have some fun and not to be conscious about their shots. That it's good if we can do some candid shots, not thinking there was a camera in front of them. It should look natural and just to enjoy that moment.

Aside from the pre-nuptial shots, I will try a little bit of glamour or fashion outdoor shots with the models which is slated by weekend. Just at least giving myself a try, I will have to do this outdoor glam shots.

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What Makes Your Travel Experience Enjoyable?

If your passion is traveling to different places, I'm sure that you like every moments of your journey to be memorable. You love to rusticate because each place offers a unique experience, aside from the learning you have gotten from you trips. To some, it doesn't matter how expensive it is to travel as long as they enjoyed the trip with less or without hassle of what is going to happen.

Traveling doesn't have to be expensive as long as you want it and you can stretch out your budget without worrying where to get the funds out of your tight budget. That is why it is very important to plan out your trip and make sure that you'll have everything get covered by your budget. It is always best to best to project how how much you are going to spend, just before you get to the places that you are planning for. And extra cash should be allocated in case you have an emergency.

But what makes your travel memorable? I am just only sharing what I have experienced and each one of us has a unique travel experience. When I travel, I always want it to be done alone. But it doesn't mean that I won't enjoy it. What matters most is your experience, whether you are with your friends or alone.

There are things that are property to your traveling experience that you want to bring it with you. For me it is so important to bring your camera, and if you don't have one, your cellular phone camera might work. This is to record the places that you have been and sooner these photos will remind you about your traveling experience.

If you have a blog, I'm sure you want to write your experience. With the photos that you have, you would want to post it in your blog. And I am sure also that you have a Facebook account so that you want to post these photos in your Facebook wall. You can write notes on it and describe how your traveling experience was.

These are just some of the tools that you want to consider when traveling and course the experience itself is the most important aspect in your trip.

In your traveling experience, some hassles are unavoidable. If the room you have gotten did not meet your expectations, that should nos suppose to affect your travel experience. Rooms are just rooms but the life of your enjoyment is outside the corners of a room.

Your dining experience is part of your traveling package just make sure that you are prepared something that your stomach might ruin your trips. Choosing the right foods of what you are about to eat and you need to be extra careful on that especially the place where you take your foods.

Planning what spots you want to go when you are already in your travel destination comes first so this is why, you need to organize your itinerary so that you won't miss anything that is a tourist spot otherwise if you miss it, then chances are, it might have spoiled your travel experience. It may possibly affect your entire trip. Ask the local which parts of the place are tourist attraction and they could help you for that.

I am not into activities. I am just to experience what the place has to offer. Some people might want to have sporting activities as part of their traveling package. I usually want to see the scenery why I want to go to places. Nature works best for me like beaches, mountains and forests. So indulging to see the scenery are my needs why I want to go out and travel, take pictures and write my experience in my blog.

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The Parade Of Beauties

This afternoon, I watched the parade of beauties at the Araneta Center in Cubao. There were 50 contestants for this year competing for the Binibining Pilipinas crown slated this April 14, 2013 live at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. Leading the parade are the reigning queens with Janine Tugonon, first runner up at the recent Miss Universe Pageant held at Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States.

All the contestants are wearing a fiesta costume, and each of them are riding at the Porsche parading around the Araneta Center. They were all stunning and it's hard to choose who is going to win the title at the upcoming final night. I think this is also the 50th anniversary celebration of Binibining Pilipinas.

Who do you think will be crowned? We will find out the answer next week.

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Traveling, Backpacking and Blogging

My experience about traveling to different destinations helped me a lot to learn more about the places, people, foods and just a bit of the culture. It also helped me to sort out where to stay and to eat foods. Likewise, the experience may be differ from person to person, depending on their preferences. Throughout my travel, the learning process was inevitable, as it was part of the packages when you go to your preferred destination. When traveling is your passion, everything may come easy as you go along. You'll get comfortable with what you do, especially when you plan ahead of time before you go to a particular place. Any course of action that should commence depends on your plans, and planning is the most vital part before you get to see these places.

Traveling comes with backpacking and usually you may find yourself alone when you go to different places. This is to experience what you think you can share to others so they may also know what to do  then they come to visit some places. But in my case, I have researched a lot over the internet through one's blog and that served as a tip for me what to do in the place, what to bring, and what are the do's and don't when you go to a certain part of the place. Yes, I did some researches and my experience itself was a trial and error. Anything you have done in the past you can alter it on your next stop.

And what comes along with traveling, backpacking is to blog what has transpired during your visit to a place. Blogging may not be applicable to some, but in my case I have my own blog that is why I write anything that I have gained out of my travel. Your camera is your tool to take a lot of pictures to some of your interesting experience and it is through your photos that people will be able to relate your traveling experience.

With blogging, you help people with what you have experienced. Likewise in this blog that I have, I love when people make a comment and make sure I answer them with what I already know.

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Aspiring to Become International Travel Blogger

I have this aspiration to become an international travel blogger. My interest in blogging came in the year 2006 when I purchased this domain and it all started as fun. A year after, I was not able to renew the domain and somebody got this domain. In the year 2009, that was actually July, I was able to re-claim this domain and that was when I was staying in California. It was more on personal blogging though, and I did not start right away as travel blogging. Traveling has been my cup of tea since then, the time when blogging doesn't exist yet. Before, I used to write my personal notes on my small notebook as part of my diary. Yes. I've been traveling a lot since then and photography was already my passion although I did not have my own camera yet. I love to collect some of my travel photos, got tons of them but unfortunately most of them was destroyed by typhoon Ondoy in 2009.

I love to blog when it comes to places, people, food and culture. And since I was into traveling and most of my blogs are my experiences in local travels, I want to expand my horizon to become an international travel blogger. It takes a lot of money though, and not a joke since I myself have experienced to travel locally. Even I have spent a lot, but the experience was worth it. And I have learned a lot from my travel experiences. It's fun at the same time educational.

Being a backpacker is something you always wanted to explore how you are gonna stay or live by all means in cost and effective way. I stayed to the hostels in New York and knew exactly was it's like to be. You also have the chance to mingle with different races and I have experienced how it feels like when you get to stay in the hostel people with different cultures.

Staying in New York was expensive that is why the choice is to backpack not to withstand how it's like to be, especially when you don't have your own room and the toilet is common.

So I am ready to explore by becoming an international travel blogger and hopefully I wanted to visit North, Central and South America, the Caribbean islands, Europe and Africa. Asia is just a neighbor so I dream to let my blogging begin in America.

I tried to blog my experience in Macao and that was in 2008 when I attended a trade show. Yes that was my first one to blog outside the country, then came in New York in 2009.

Well I want to claim it now, that I would become an international travel blogger and find sponsors for my blogging. I am keeping my fingers crossed.

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Passport Renewal

I went to Department of Foreign Affairs or DFA today for my passport renewal. I was surprised that they have moved to a new location in Macapagal avenue. Not sure where it is but at least it has given me an idea. I just set my appointment online via passport.com.ph for the date that I have to appear to DFA. But few weeks before this, I knew it already and I signed up for renewal and I got the date April 18 which was quite a long wait. This was the one I got when I signed up to their satellite office in SM Megamall. I learned today that they also have some offices where you can renew your passport aside from Megamall they have SM Manila and Robinson's Galleria. So I set another appointment from their main office in Macapagal.

I was quite tired and a bit pissed off upon knowing that you have to go to their new office in Macapagal that I thought that getting a passport was still in the same old building. The weather was so hot and I was not surprised that I got irritated with the outcome today wishing I never left home. So while on my way home, I went to the mall for my passport photo and had a chair massage from the blind masseur which made me quite better.

Anyway to get a passport or if you want to renew your passport, please follow this link www.passport.com.ph and you have to set an appointment before going to DFA, and that is for your own convenience too. Some dates of appointment are full, but you may also call their hotline number at  737-1000.

Make sure you know the requirements as listed on their website to avoid any inconvenience on your appointment.

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Couldn't Write Something

It's the second day of the month of April. Since this morning, I've been trying to figure out what to write in my blog and it seems that it left me clueless the whole day, and got some information overloaded. Maybe because I was thinking enough and lot's of emotional stresses going on with me the whole time. I was not busy at all except that I spend most of my time in my room surfing the net, reading my books or thinking some things to do for the next few days.

Unless I have some travel schedules so I can write something about the place in my blog, but traveling is quite restricted at this moment due to some reasons.

And as much as I can I did try my best not to be affected emotionally with the things that surrounds me, well at least avoid some of the negativity I am facing everyday, either in my house of whatever see things that I see in my Facebook walls. Sometimes even when I am surfing Facebook, I can also feel the vibes and the energy and it seem that I could also sense people who are seemed to be quite cold.

Yes I could sense some people who are quite cold, hehe anyway I don't really care that much.

So how am I feeling today? There's some few times today that I am a bit emotional but still I can manage it. Nothing to worry about, I am okay. :)

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Now In The Month Of April

We are now in the fourth month of the year 2013 and that is how the time flies so fast. Probably you may wonder that it passed the month when it was New Year when you celebrated that in January. I couldn't believe how fast it is that this will come to pass again. It is the fourth month and we are nearing the mid-year.

Another month of reminding me about my April where about last year. Still was in Biri Island and Marinduque the first and second week of the month April 2012. Then reminds me also with my friend we spent time together at Eastwood.

Then came in the last week of the month when I went to Tagaytay and Nasugbu, Batangas. In Nasugbu I spent just some few hours and then I went home. Reminds me about the bus going to Manila when there was no seats available I had to stand for four hours.

I have nothing to write a lot today, just a thought how I would spend my time for this month.

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