Welcome to the newest section of my blog!! :)

So recently I've decided to not make this blog travel-exclusive anymore. It's pretty lame to maintain a travel blog when there's nothing to blog about, really. I'm not the type who travels on a regular basis anyways. Not enough funds :|

And since I'm in love with just about anything that's edible, a food section is a natural addendum. I actually eat more than I travel. Or more than I exercise (I know, I know). I don't splurge on clothes or shoes as much as I do on food. So, uhm, yeah :|

Today, Toto and I decided to have some homemade kebab. I love Persian food and anything that has bell pepper on it. The ingredients are not hard to find and we're already tired of fried food so we're excited to do our very own version of kebab! *cue MasterChef opening music*

I've been checking every single career test on the net since last week. That's because earlier this month I have again been attacked by this thing called quarter-life crisis. I dunno if such a thing even exists. But one article in The Guardian sums up everything that I am right now - young, insecure and depressed.

That articles says there are four phases of a quarter-life crisis (okay I can't believe I'm actually listing them down):

Phase 1, defined by feeling "locked in" to a job or relationship, or both. "It's an illusory sense of being trapped," said Robinson. "You can leave but you feel you can't."

Since the start of 2012, I have been planning to abandon my job as a reports analyst in a multinational shipping company. It does sound like a perfect job with all the overflowing benefits and over-the-top salary and stuff, but it's not. It's just a brand and I hate what I do in the office. It's repetitive and boring. But for some odd reason I can't even submit a freakin' letter of resignation. I'm just very vocal about it, telling everyone that I'll be resigning soon but can't even muster the courage to write that damn letter. I don't think it's me chickening out. It's just that if I resign, I don't know what to do after and where to go. Last May I wrote my nanay and tatay a very heartfelt (but stupid) letter telling them I wanna leave the corporate world because I just want to stay at home and take care of my dogs. Naturally they were shouting at me when they called telling me how stupid I was to even think of such an idea. They were so angry that I felt like they would disown me if I continue with my plan. K, fine. At first I was so defensive and all, but later on I realized that they're absolutely correct. Even though I hate my job, it's plain stupid to stay at home and fend for the dogs all throughout my life. 

This is part 5 of the series I'm writing for our Coron trip. You may check the other posts here:
CORONicles Day 1: Touchdown Coron
CORONicles Day 2: Coron Island Loop Tour
CORONicles Day 3: Malcapuya Loop Tour
CORONicles Day 4: What Should've Been An Awesome Calumbuyan Tour

June 03, 2012

Alas, it was time for us to leave this paradise and go back to the metro. I honestly wanted to stay just for the Calumbuyan Tour. But it was time to go home :'(

After the fun in the sun, it's time to face math! So, how much did our 5D/4N Coron trip cost? Itinerary and expenses after the jump.

This is part 4 of the series I'm writing for our Coron trip. You may check the other posts here:
CORONicles Day 1: Touchdown Coron
CORONicles Day 2: Coron Island Loop Tour
CORONicles Day 3: Malcapuya Loop Tour
CORONicles Day 5: Wrap Up and Post-Travel Accounting

June 02, 2012, Saturday

07:00AM
It was raining. Hard. Like thunderstorms and lightning. Cats and dogs. Chickens and eggs. Wait, whuuuut? At least you get the point, it was not the best time to go island hopping.

This morning Ms. Gigi told us to wait for the rain to stop before we head to the wharf. Calumbuyan is far from Coron town, more or less 2 hours by boat. It would be too dangerous for us to continue the tour with this kind of weather, especially that we had a 2 year-old kid in the group. I was begging Papa Jesus to stop the rain so we could go to Calumbuyan. After two days in the sea, we still hadn't had enough. We wanted moooooaaar.

This is part 3 of the series I'm writing for our Coron trip. You may check the other posts here:
CORONicles Day 1: Touchdown Coron
CORONicles Day 2: Coron Island Loop Tour
CORONicles Day 4: What Should've Been An Awesome Calumbuyan Tour
CORONicles Day 5: Wrap Up and Post-Travel Accounting

June 01, 2012 , Friday

07:00AM
After a tiring but fulfilling hike on the first day and an "intro" tour on the second, we were excited as hell to see what else Coron had to offer. It didn't help that I've seen Coron three years ago because I was still the most excited among the bunch :)) I was fidgety the whole morning and couldn't wait for for the others to finish breakfast.