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Thanks to Expressways!  Particularly SCTEX and TPLEX, our trip last Saturday (10-10-2015) to the Summer Capital of the Philippines only took us about 4 hours!  Toll fees cost us about PhP 500.00 from Subic to Urdaneta, Pangasinan.  TPLEX, Urdaneta Exit Bladder Break at the TPLEX Urdaneta Exit It's our little lakwatsera's first trip to Baguio, and I'm sure it's not going to be the last:-D  She is a real trooper!  No hassles whatsoever during the trip.  Our group managed to visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Manaoag, to pray for the safe trip and thanksgiving for all the blessings. Visit to our Lady of Manaoag with Nanay We had a quick stop over for lunch at a Bulaluhan before finally going to Baguio.  We stayed overnight at the Hotel 45.  While waiting for the availability of a Family room... Nanay and Baby Mikee's first time in Baguio Dinner is served! Ate Kathleen turned seventeen on October 10, Sagrada Famil...

Day 4 (August 24, 2015) KL, Malaysia to Clark, Philippines We started our last day in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia very early!  Woke up at 4:30 A.M. as our morning flight back to Clark is scheduled at 9:00 A.M.  Although we already checked in on line at KLIA2 on Saturday, the said airport is still an hour's drive away from our hotel.  The good thing is that Metro Hotel again adjusted the availability of their Cafe an hour earlier at 6AM.  We have also arranged our transportation, a van from the hotel to take us to the airport at MYR 20 each! Not bad. We were rolling from the hotel at 6:30 AM... Thank you and Goodbye Metro Hotel! Till we meet again, KL! We reached the airport ahead of schedule.  However, we were again on some kinda' amazing race show as the boarding gate is tooooo far and the airport was huuuuuggeeee!!! Hehehehehe! Nevertheless, we made it at the boarding gate on time.  Boarded and waited for clearance as the weather in t...

CEBU-BOHOL ADVENTURE J une20-23, 2014 Warning:  A "backlog" blog post, over one (1) year in the making :-D FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2014 (CLARK-CEBU) Arrival in Cebu City Since our flight to Cebu is scheduled at 8:40 PM, our group managed to report for work on Friday and went straight to Clark Airport after quitting time.  We arrived at Clark a little past 6PM, thanks to Subic Clark Tarlac Expressway! We traveled light, hence, we have no luggage for check-in.  We had no hassle checking in except for one of our friend who forgot her ID!  Tips for lakwatseras and lakwatseros, always bring a Valid Identification Card when traveling, it definitely saves time and effort:-)  Anyways, the good thing is that the Customer Representative from Cebu Pacific considered the digital copy of ID shown by our friend. Our flight departed on time and we arrived in Cebu at 10:05 PM.  One of our friends arranged transportation to pick us up from the airport to tak...

(Day )August 23, 2015 Whole Day City Tour - Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is the Capital City of Malaysia, its current population is 28 Million.  Malay is the national language but English is widely spoken.  Malaysians also speak various languages and dialects.  Another blooper from our group: we assumed that the meaning of "Selamat Detang" is "Thank You" since "Salamat" in Filipino means "Thanks".  "Selamat Detang Malaysia" actually means "Welcome to Malaysia!" Our Sunday started with buffet breakfast at Metro Hotel to prepare for our whole day KL CITY tour.  We have a D-I-Y Itinerary for the City Tour which looks like this:-)   SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2015(MALAYSIA) - KL City Tour 4:00   AM                 CALL TIME (PREPARATION, BREAKFAST) 5:OO AM                  JUMP OFF TIME ...