September 2011

Browsing Date

Dong Abay at Chef Doy’s Gourmet Restaurant

Music By angkulet September 16, 2011 No Comments

Dong Abay and members of the band Coffeebreak Island arrived in Naga this morning via Penafrancia bus lines, and was promptly brought to their accommodations in CWC. I went to pick them up for our lunch at Chef Doy’s Gourmet Restaurant.

at Chef Doy's Gourmet Restaurant

We had sumptuous lunch and then coffee and beers after. We also met and had a bit of chit chat with chefs Doy and Che. It was one busog, and thereafter sleepy, afternoon.

I checked into FourSquare and ousted the mayor of Chef Doy’s, increasing my mayorships to 9. Hahaha. I don’t know why I’m saying that, it doesn’t really make sense, but what the heck! *winks!

Davao Downtown – Ponce Suites, Magsaysay Park, Jack’s Ridge, Matina Town Square

Davao By angkulet September 12, 2011 Tags: Davao, family, Jack's Ridge, Magsaysay Park, Matina Town Square, Ponce Suites, travel 1 Comment

Straight from the Pearl Farm Marina, our cab brought us to Ponce Suites in downtown Davao. H picked this place because he thought, being all artsy it was, I was going to love it. It was the weirdest place ever and quite scary to be sleeping in to tell the truth. Or maybe I was not in the proper mindset (I always say that to excuse myself.)

Nevertheless, we sampled their menu, had all our breakfasts at the penthouse resto and even spent some time hanging out, literally, really, as in literally, on a cage jutting out of the building’s top floor, with some drinks.

Breakfast at Ponce Suites

If it were not for its commercial purpose, Ponce Suites in Dona Vicenta Village, Davao City, could have been placed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most decorated establishment in the world…with artworks from a single artist. Here are a few words from PonceSuites.net about Kublai Ponce-Millan, one of the most prolific contemporary artists in the country.

Kublai Ponce-Millan, who created all these giant works, was born on July 8, 1974 in Cotabato City. He finished schooling at the University of the Philippines with a degree of Fine Arts. After which, he dedicated his life back in Mindanao, sculpting the culture from which, where which he grew up, as a human being and as a soul. The massive pieces magnify calm, passion and grief proportonately in the stone-grain finish accomplished with the five-year technique developed through various weathers accompaning their inceptions and growth, from steel and wiremesh underpinnings above and below ground, to the finishing of the last detail of the gesturing hand. – Click here for the source.

Miss Bicolandia Contestants – Photography by Gouldian Colours

Photography By angkulet September 11, 2011 Tags: fashion photography, Gouldian Colours, Miss Bicolandia No Comments

iTyphoon – an Android App

Technology By angkulet September 10, 2011 Tags: Android App, iTyphoon, Nueca Tech No Comments

With the iTyphoon application developed for Android platform by Nueva Technologies and launched last September 6, 2011, you can now get typhoon updates for FREE!

iTyphoon is a premium application that provides typhoon updates. It has four (4) screens: Details, Map, Reference, and Credits.

The Details screen:
1. HEADING (update number, current update date/time, next update date/time)
2. ICON (intensifying, weakening, steady)
3. SUMMARY (Philippine typhoon name, international typhoon name, current eye location, maximum windspeed, gustiness, area of responsibility, direction and speed, heading towards location)
4. BACKGROUND (no typhoon, over ocean, landfall)
5. NARRATIVE (descriptive behavior of the typhoon)
6. SIGNALS (Public Storm Signal Warnings issued by PAGASA (Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration)
7. DISTANCES (distances with respect to places of interest and popular destinations)
8. FORECAST (weather outlook for the next 2-5 days)

Screenshots (Typhoon Mina) - Details Screen (Update, Icon, Summary, Narrative, and Background)

Bicol Night at Wharf Galley Rock Cafe – September 17, 2011

Music, Wharf Galley Rock Cafe By angkulet September 10, 2011 Tags: Bicol Night, Bicolano artists, Dahon, Grains of Solitude, MonoAcid, music, Radioclyde, Wharf Galley Rock Cafe No Comments

Bicol Night at Wharf Galley Rock Cafe

IT’S HOT & SPICY ON SEPTEMBER 17!

Featuring:

DAHON
Genre: Rock, Blues, Alternative

Members:
Bola Morallo – vox
Philip Albia – Guitars, back-up vox
Jm Ursua – Bass, back-up vox
Kent Torres – Drums

Brothers in Arms
Gareth Somers-bass
Rj Sy-bass
Jayson Serano-drums
John Collao-drums
Duke Dadap-keys
Gigi Catolico-wrapper

Imprints by Dispatch Media at Cubao X – Sept 15, 2011

Cubao X, Travel By angkulet September 9, 2011 Tags: Cubao X, Dispatch Magazine, Dispatch Media, Imprints, travel, Travel Factor No Comments

DISPATCH MAGAZINE brings you IMPRINTS: Soul on Sole // A Travel Art Installation Event

‘IMPRINTS’ is an art installation and stop motion video screening of DISPATCH MAGAZINE’s roster of independent and alternative travelers’ favorite footwear. It is all about a traveler’s character and personality as defined by his favorite travel footwear; hence, his soul on sole: The places he go; the moments, his passions and experiences herewith.

Sept 15 / Cubao X / 7PM

Imprints by Dispatch Media

This event is brought to you by Dispatch Media with website at http://www.dispatchmagonline.com/

All That I Need Are Ze Boots

Movies, Wharf Galley Rock Cafe By angkulet September 9, 2011 No Comments

This… I dedicate to the people of Wharf Galley Rock Cafe and Naga City.

Pearl Farm Beach Resort, Davao, November 2006 – Part II

Davao By angkulet September 8, 2011 Tags: beach, Davao, family, Pearl Farm Beach Resort, travel No Comments

In the mornings, we headed to the resto for the breakfast buffet then went for a stroll or a swim or a nap. We didn’t really find a lot of things to do there other than what one would call “relax”. At one point we decided we we’re going to explore the island and headed for the resort gate to walk out and explore what’s beyond BUT we didn’t quite make it.

Pearl Farm Beach Resort, Davao, November 2006 – Part I

Davao By angkulet September 8, 2011 Tags: beach, Davao, family, Pear Farm Beach Resort, Pearl Farm Marina No Comments

My very first point-and-shoot camera, the very first waterproof camera that Pentax put out in the market back in 2005, was a gift from H. My very first digital SLR, bought in 2006, was a wedding present from H. The first photos taken with this camera, an Olympus E-500, were taken during our post-wedding trip to Davao two days after the wedding.

This is where I take a trip down memory lane, in my desire to look at how I was, at twenty-four years old, a very young bride and still fresh from my year spent living in El Nido where I spent days eating six times a day and getting a full 8-hours of sleep almost every night.

This is also where I take a trip down memory lane, in my desire to look at how the very first pictures we took, with our camera, bought just the day before, its manual we never really read, looked like.

The package we got at the Pearl Farm Beach Resort was at P18,000 for the two of us for a three-days and two-nights stay with all the meals included as well as boat transfers.

To get to the resort, all boat transfers are done at the Pearl Farm Marina.

Checking in and listing in for the transfer to Samal Island

Waiting for the transfer

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