Fireworks Display

Hi! I have few photos that I took during the Bituon han Leyte Pageant Night..

This is the fireworks display in RTR Plaza after the winner was announced..

I consider this nice since I am not a professional photographer..

 

 

 

Sangyaw Festival 2010

 

Sangyaw Festival was founded by the Former First Lady Imelda Marcos during the reign Marcos. It was first held the 1970s but was cancelled 1987 when the reign of the Marco’s ended. It was revived in 2008 thru the effort of the mayor in the Tacloban City.

Sangyaw is one of the Festival celebrated in Tacloban City annually aside from the Pintados Kasadyaan Festival.  Sangyaw is a waray – waray language which means “to herald news”.

It is usually held on the 29th of June after the Pintados Kasadyaan Festival which is celebrated on the 27th of June and before the City Fiesta which is on the 30th of June.

Here are some of the photos that I took during the Sangyaw Festival Parade and the Grand Presentation…

       

There are also some Local Celebrities who joins the parade… Here some of the Local Celebrities…

Tom Mott

Dingdong Dantes

The trophies are displayed on the left side of the stage during the Grand Presentation Balyuan Amphitheater….

I also took some of the photographers who were taking their perfect shot.. Good thing to know that some of them is not a local from Tacloban and they only came to witness the event…

Furthermore, I am looking forward for a better event next year.. most especially I hope that they can control the crowd because it was really overcrowded that I forcedly went out and was not able to finish watching the presentation because of the crowdedness… 

Pintados Kasadyaan Festival 2010

Pintados Kasadyaan Festival is annually celebrated in the whole Leyte…
The parade is usually held in the roads of Tacloban City near business centre during 29th of June but already changed to 27th of June to accommodate another Festival named Sangyaw Festival..
The grand presentation will usually be in Leyte Sports Development Center (LSDC) or commonly known as Grandstand which the Province of Leyte Governor and his mother is always present and other guests (Politicians, Celebrities, and foreign guests)..
Here are some of the photos that I took during the event..
The Parade..
    

The Grand Presentation..
       The Champion … “Boyugan”

Todays event was the most exciting and most of the performers performed well I hope there will still be some improvements on how they manage the expectators because I even experienced to be pushed by some of the locals because of the very crowded place..

Trying to be a good photographer

Hey! I bought a digital camera and it’s not the DSLR it is only a typical handy digital camera last April 2010 in Singapore, it’s Canon Powershot A495 that cost me around S$199.

I took some photos that make interesting for me and I want you to see it and comment on what can you say about this.

Here are some of the photos:..

This are the photos which I consider good photos taken by me.

ROBOT!!

please let me decide what will I do to my life mom. Don’t control my future! Don’t control my happiness! You do not even know what can make me happy, for how many years I’ve been following you all the time. Let me decide of my own.

I am already 20 years old I know what is right and wrong, supposedly parents at this age of their children are only there to advice not to dictate..

I am not happy with my life anymore I want to go out of this place and find a new place that makes me happy, that makes me satisfy.

Mom I know already my limitations. Please let me decide of my own.

I don’t know what am I going to do with this situation. I am already a college graduate and I want to go out of this jail and find my own happiness, I want to discover my own self.. I want to be me, not because she want to…

I feel like I am a prisoner! I am not hoping already that she will still change because I am already tired of hoping and always understands the situation. I want to be me already. I want to be who am I.

The Lost Phone

It was already my second day in Manila, we (my elder sister and I together with her four years old daughter) decided to go to Quiapo church and to SM North Edsa after going to church.




We were very careful when we went to Quiapo church because of the bad experiences of the people who already went there, such as shoplifting, holdup and etc. It takes us about 30 to 45 minutes inside the church since we attended the mass but we weren’t able to catch it from the beginning. So, after church we headed already to SM North Edsa. I thought that going there will only take 30 to 40 minutes, but I was wrong, it took us almost 1 hour and 45 minutes to go there.



When we were already there I decided to eat first, I saw Chowking (Filipino – Chinese Restaurant) nearby when we were walking so we decided to eat there for around 20 to 25 minutes, after eating we already went to department store to buy something to wear but while we were heading to department store my elder sister realized that her mobile phone that was borrowed to me was missing, she try to find it first to her shoulder bag and pockets in her jeans but she can’t find it so she decided to go back to where we ate, we went back to Chowking to look for it, she went back to the table were we seat and ask some of the staff in the Restaurant but no one knows about it and no one can find about it.



My elder sister said sorry to me since we can’t find the mobile phone, I told her it’s okay since it was only S$45.00 when I bought it in Singapore when I did my on the job training.

I will be crying if my mobile phone will be lost since I bought it five times the price of the lost mobile phone.



I don’t know why of all place at that time she lost her phone in the mall. Imagine we went already to Quiapo church which I describe it as one of the most dangerous place in Manila but we didn’t lost anything, when we went to SM North Edsa which we were confident that we were safe since we were already inside the mall but I was wrong since the mobile phone of my elder sister was lost inside the mall. So it comes up into my mind that there is no safe place in Manila even inside the mall already, or maybe I am just acting like this since I only came from Singapore and it was only my second day in Manila after I arrived from Singapore.



Maybe my decision is right, that I rather work in Cebu than in Manila because it is less dangerous than in Manila. Since I already experience going to Cebu for about two weeks but nothing happens to me, but in Manila, I only stayed there for two days and I already experienced a bad things during my stay in Manila.

Going Back!

It was already 0035hrs on 9th of June 2010 when I depart Singapore after six months of training in a five star hotel. Finally I will see my family already.


The only question right now – What will I do in the school?, after my school, where will I look for a job?, who will I ask for any information about job seeking?.. Though I already have experienced working as a full time employee I haven’t been experience looking or seeking for a job for myself, sigh!, I still cannot imagine myself for being independent already... Am I be able to look for a job of my own?, Am I capable of the stress in seeking for a job? Sigh!

But looking forward in a bright side of it, I know I’m still capable of leaving and seeking the job of my own. Because to come to think of it, since I managed to go to Singapore independently I know I capable of managing my future..

Sigh!.. I hope that my future will be brighter.. But I know it will still depend on myself on how I make it better… I know that God will always give me strength and I know he is always guiding me in all my decisions in life..

Being a BELLMAN

One of the hotel staff in a hotel in front office department is a bellman.

When you we say bellman, what comes into our mind? – is the one that carry bags from the guest, guiding the guest going to the room.

Is this position too small in this department?

I just observe while I was rendering my internship in one of the 5 star hotel in Singapore that they are treating bellman as one of the idiot guys who only work for a money and not by a career, or their attitude is only like this because we are Filipino.

I ask one of the concierge in the hotel which I render my internship that why is it that even if I am doing the right thing the DM (Duty Manager) is always mad at me, he want me to feel like I am an idiot person who don’t know how to work in this industry. You know what he told me?, he told me that maybe because you are a Filipino that’s why he is treating you like you don’t know what you are doing.

I studied for four years in Tourism and Hotel and Restaurant Management, I render my internship in different establishments in my hometown before I come to Singapore, yes I did not study in a prestigious international school for hospitality industry but the knowledge that I have learned from my institution was very helpful in my internship in Singapore.

I am not the only one who experience this kind of treatment in the hotel because my co-trainees who’s a Filipino also is experiencing this kind of treatment to some of the hotel staff, well not all of them but most of them.

Yes Singapore has many prostitute girls and gays that unfortunately my countrymen which we say they doesn’t have a good and descent job. But it is too discriminating in my part that they are generalizing the whole Filipino as idiots and low class persons.

I hope that this kind of mentality of some of the locals and foreign workers in Singapore will be change I hope that they will soon wake up and see Filipino staffs as good and professional to work with.

Because living in Singapore with this kind of discrimination is a very bad moment in my part.

Singapore Experience

Travelling Singapore - well it's fun to travel to other country esppecially like me that this is my first to time to travel outside of my country lucky we have the opportunity to render our on the job training in other countries such is U.S. and Singapore..

The first time I came here was very hard for me because I was really adjusting with the time and stress in the job. After two weeks I have alrready adjust with the time, pressure and stress in the job and how fast the time rotates in Singapore.

I find the country as one of the busiest that I have known. But a lot enjoyable.

As of this time as what I have observed, Singapore is focusing a lot in making there country as one of the tourist attraction in the world. They have constructed buildings, fun rides, and casino in the country.

Attractions and Destinations - well they do have a lot:

1. The Merlion statue which is near the Fullerton Hotel. If you want the tallest one - that will be in Sentosa which is 2 to 3 times taller and larger than the one near Fullerton Hotel.

2. Fun rides, beaches and 1st built casino in the country in Sentosa. They actually have already 2 casinos here, which is the other one is Marina Bay Sands Casino which is nearer in the city center than the Casino in Sentosa.

3. Jurong Bird Park, Singapore Zoo and Night Safari.

4. Singapore Flyer - which is the biggest Ferris Wheel.

Well do have more attractions to fit in to this blog...

Souvenirs - if you are looking for souvenirs from singapore, you can actually find it in some of the selected malls. But if you wanna look for the complete one and you want to select a wide variety of souvenirs you'll gonna find it at Chinatown they do have a wide selection of souvenirs. Jewelries are not also hard to find because it is also in Chinatown, well if your looking for a good one.

Shopping!, Shopping! - well!, the famous place to that is the Orchard Road which has many big malls in it which sells a wide variety of expensive branded things such as PRADA, LUIS VUITTON, GUCCI, TIMEX, FERRARI, DOLCE & GABANNA, DIOR, BURBERRY, SEPHORA, VALENTINO, etc.

If you are a Techy person, it's not also hard to find here some of the latest gadgets that the world have, the newest to that is the IPAD TOUCH which has been released to public in singapore last march.

Not bad huh!, well if you are super rich, why don't visit singapore only just to shop. lol!

I will come back to Singapore definitely!

What a nice sunset!

While I was smoking outside of my dorm, I saw a ray of the sun from the wall of our dorm and its seems like it has a bit different in color it was red - orange in color and it somewhat like unusual for me to see that kind of color of the sunset though that was already my second time to see that kind of color of the sun. So I take photo of it from the fourth floor of our dorm and always like seeing it because of the good view in the sky with that kind of color of the sun.

I like what I saw that afternoon it somewhat like keeping away all of my stress. I just love nature at that day.

Two Weeks Left

Two weeks left from now and I will be going back home to Philippines. I will really miss my experience here in Singapore. Going back to my first day in Singapore - I was terribly nervous since this is my first time to go out of the country, but luckily I have my classmates who are also here at that time who helps me adapt to the country and be confident about my self.

Back before when I was just a student of Leyte  Normal University I was dreaming to have the opportunity to travel to other country  to have/render my on the job training, my mom don't want me actually to go out of the country because of security purposes and lack of funds, but I insisted and convinced her to let me go for a better future.

I was actually once dreamed to be in U.S. but when I saw how much will I spend before going there so I say no to myself and decide to go to other place that I can afford. I don't have actually a money of my own I am very dependent to my mom in case of any financial problems though my mom also doesn't have that much money.

When I already chooses Singapore I immediately told my mom about this but she doesn't want me to go because of lack of funds, so what I did was to tell to other persons that are close to us to convince my mom to let me go and we will find a to search for the money.

So I was already able to come to Singapore and already helping my mom in her financial problem and I am not already very dependent to her anymore, I can already be called as independent person and not mama's boy.

But of course I love my mom, but there will be a time that we have to think for our future because our parents is not always there to help us.

I don't have actually a dad anymore since when I was in a pre-school, he died because of heart attack. But I do not consider it as one of my disadvantages or there is something lacking in my life because I know my dad is always watching me wherever I go.

Now that I will be going back to my hometown I will be paying all the necessary payments in school and taking all my documents that is necessary when applying for a job and of course after that I will be already looking for a job that's qualified for me and of course where I am happy with it.

So this is the start of a very long dream I hope that I can find a good job with a good salary of course.