Our Club Manila East Adventure

Last Friday, our whole team went out for our team building. Yep you read it right, it was a FRIDAY. Imagine that instead of working 8 hours in the office we were treated a day off to swim, chat, play and eat.

The trip to CME took only less than an hour. We rented two cabanas for the team for only Php 2500 this is good for 5 pax. You would need to pay additional per head.

The place is clean; in fact so clean I drank a lot of water from the pool. Not on purpose of course, it was because of the Big Waves wooohooo. This is the first time I've encountered waves in the pool and it is all worth it. We enjoyed being slammed by the wave, especially when we were trying to reach the walls around 10 feet high like doing a slam-dunk.

You can also try their surfing lessons, quite expensive though that’s Php 1500 for 2 hours of lessons. My son would have loved it there too bad I did not bring them along I was worried he might get sick.

CME also has this high walls for diving, I would have loved to jump only that the water from the jumping areas is 14 feet yaiks, better sure than sorry I jumped only on the kiddie pool hahaha.

Hey, I almost forgot to mention the kid side in me and my teammates have never left as we went on to slide on their 3-loop slide. It was fun but the rush in sliding is not really that exhilarating I wish I could try a 60-degree free fall slide if there is any.

Here are some photos of the place. This is the way to the big waves where you can surf. On the left side you'll see the stable haha not for the horse its like a prison cell for people to secure their things ;)



A picture of a bridge, they seem to be fixing and still improving the facilities so we were not able to try swimming underneath this bridge.



Here are some shots of the pool and slide, on this side you could also kayak for free just go there early to avoid the long line.









I'm not quite sure I liked the weather during that day, as it was all so sunny, compared to some rains here in Manila. It would have been nicer if there were some rain while swimming.

For this final photo I got the concept from a friend where you take a static background and pose as many times and combine it in photoshop just avoid overlapping for easier cutting of the images.

Spiders, Bees, Flowers and more

When we were in Lao-ang we visited a place called Muntay. The place is filled with BUKO trees, we were deligthed to drink fresh buko juice.



While drinking juice we were also greeted by mosquitos and bees. Here is a shot of a spider feeding bees for miryenda.



And a hive of bees on a tree branch.



I was also able to try out a macro shot of this tiny flower.



And on our way home just took a shot of this barbershop sign

UNAY

We visited this beach twice imagine that?, since it is just a tricycle away from our place in Lao-ang.





Harvey enjoyed a lot and did not even mind the heat of the sun. So we did turn out like toast. Here is a pic of Harvey's toy boat.



And a pic of a tricycle in Laoang, I believe every province has there own style of tricycles in the Philippines.



And one of those lucky shots, I was able to shoot a rain drop woohoo, I have to post this ultra large hehe so you can see the droplet clearly.

Lao-ang Northern Samar Scenery

Its been a long and HAPPY Holy Week for me and my family. We got to go home to my wife's home town Lao-ang Northern Samar. The trip was so worth it as we were able to visit our family and at the same time have our Harvey enjoy the beach there.

During late afternoon I was able to shoot some of these shots and with the help of Lightroom was able to give some drama to it, here it is hope you like it.



I specially like this one with a fisherman on the right side.



I'll post more pics on my next post.

PIXEL PRO Inc a PHOTO SESSION

I was one o the lucky few who got invited in this Photo Session "Natural Lighting and Food & Portrait Photography" conducted by Master Mike Mariano. The event was sponsored by Pixel Pro Inc., they are a retail shop of a wide range of photographic equipments from point and shoots to digital SLRs, you can find Pixel Pro at V-359 3rd Floor, V-Mall Greenhills Shopping Center.

We got treated with a sumptous lunch courtesy of Dencio's, after the lecture we got to try out our newly acquired skills. I got to admit shooting foods freely is a lot more fun :). Here is my take on food phtography.

Two angle shot of a cantaloupe with orange and cherry:

Two shots of Water Melon combo:

A shot of Sizzling Pusit:
The ever healthy CRISPY PATA!!!

Aren't they YUMMY?

My Crocs adventure at the MegaTent

Whew!!!! I can't believe we made it, hehehe. Cookie read a blog from her friend BJAY about this MEGA CROCS sale upto 80% off at the MegaTent in Meralco Ave. Pasig City. I am person who doesn't really like crowds and I don't like traffic at all. My way to overcome all these is to set my expectations as early as possible, considering this is the last day of the sale. Just before going I already set my mind that we will go through a lot of traffic, we will go through miles and miles of lines before I can achieve my ultimate goal. That is owning my very first CROCS, I had to admit CROCS is quite expensive that is why this sale is worth all the drips and drips of salty waters leaving my body hahaha.

As expected, just in time upon arriving at the venue we were stuck in traffic. Geez, cars are not giving way so I suggested my family to go down while I park away from the venue. At last, I was able to park at the Exchange St., quite a walk to MegaTent. And just before arriving at the place rain started to pour, I could just imagine the situation of my family without any umbrella. Good thing, they were able to stay at a covered place. Now, comes the second part of the challenge the long line right before you could even reach the entrance of the tent. After, a barbeque and a soda and change in weather from rain to sunny. We were able to get in wooohooo. I immediately grabbed a plastic bag which is used to store everything your planning to buy just before lining in again to pay in the cashier.

We were grabbing CROCS left and right. The strategy (wooohooo finally was able to use this word) there was to get as much CROCS with your size as possible and when your done go to a corner and its time to fit, hehehe. After fitting and choosing the right pair its time for the 3rd challenge which is the snake like line to the cashier.

The line was sooooo looooong and with the air-condition not really working that much, you feel like you are in a desert. I started to feel dizzy, and I asked for water. Cookie was trying to give me Harvey's feeding bottle to just give it a sip. I decided, I'd rather faint here than people seeing me drink from a baby bottle bwehehehee. After a while, Cookie and my Sister finally decided to buy some drinks and at last just when I was about to lose hope ahhhhh Pepsiiiii. After a few more minutes it was my turn on the cashier at long last the finish line woohohoo, and then the 4th challenge, sir your total bill is Php++++, HUWAATT!!!! Php++++ wehehehe.

The overall experience was really not bad after all I got to spend time with my family, and not to mention spend a lot wahahaha, also was able to meet a lot of people (although I didn't really now them personally hehehe) and to achieve my ultimate goal that is to get my first pair of CROCS, here is a pic I got from the net. This CROCS is an Islander CROCS previously worth Php 2900, got this for only Php 840 quite the catch huh?


Ow!!! here is another one, hehehe I figured going through that line and traffic its not worth it buy just 1 pair bwahahaha. This is a venture canvas CROCS this was previously worth a whopping Php 3700, got this for only woooohooo Php 740.
I love my new CROCS and I think my wife and kid also love theres too ;).

Glimpse of Manila American Cemetery and Memorial

Yesterday, I got a chance to go to Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, the place was so nice and clean. I just had to shoot like crazy, I was in cloud nine because of the nice views all around.

Here is my take on the place. I plan to go back one of these days, because I only had less than 30 mins to shoot pictures. The place strictly closes at 5pm, for more info of the place click this link.

I highly recommend to come visit the place, for those interested in travelling and taking photos this is a great place to go. Ow did I mention the entrance is FREE.