The Chocolate Hills of Bohol

Normally, I'd pair my Green Monday post with Mellow Yellow Monday, and I would pair Red Hot Mondays and Ruby Tuesday with Orange Tuesdays, but when I took this picture, I knew I had to pair Green with Red. :)

By the time we reached Chocolate Hills, my camera's battery was already about to die. It was a bad decision for me to go on a city tour with 25% battery juice and taking only 1 pair of spare batteries, which I still haven't tasted how long its power would take. Thankfully, my cell phone was fully charged by the start of the day, ensuring me that I could still take pictures to my heart's delight.

I was able to take pictures of the hills, but some pictures - including this one, was taken using my cell phone. Taking the stairs to the peak, I saw this group of hills with reddish plant on the foreground, and thinking it looked cute, I stopped for a picture.

There are so many legends as to how the hills were formed, but one thing's for sure: this nature's wonder is proudly Filipino! :)

From Two Festivals

Another two-in-one post for me this week... I guess I will be putting these two memes together from here on out, and if my last week's pictures were taken from one location, this week's pictures were taken from two festivals here in the Philippines.


This was taken from the Panagbenga Festival in Baguio City last February. These girls were waiting for their turn to perform. For three years now, I have been watching the festival's grand street parade, and next year, I hope to watch the float parade, too.

This, on the other hand was taken from the Pahiyas Festival in Quezon last May. It was one of the most colorful festivals I have seen, but because there were so many people packing the narrow streets of Lucban, it was quite difficult to take pictures, too. Even if we walked around for two hours, I wasn't able to take much pictures because of the clutters brought about by the people's heads. :)

Both From Colinas Verdes

Shengkay invited me to join her color-themed photo meme, so every Tuesdays, I am going to share orange / red pictures. This week, pictures I am sharing are both taken from Colinas Verdes, but pictures were taken on two different days.

This type of hibiscus always gets my attention because it's bigger than the normal hibiscus I see, and I love photographing it while it's not fully open yet. When I saw this, I immediately came near it to photograph it.

With lots of green trees and grasses, this red tree truly stands out. I don't know if those are its flowers or its leaves, but whatever it is, it's just so beautiful!

Seeing the pictures I took from Colinas Verdes made me miss jogging there. It's been so long since I last went there, and I do hope typhoons would take a break in visiting the country so I can go back jogging there and take new pictures.

My Scribble Partners

My share for Red Hot Mondays / Ruby Tuesdays are these scribble partners, which I received from attending blog events. The pen is from Scan Asia (distributor of President Cheese), I got from the Yummy Eats event. Personally, I love my pen to have thin writing because my handwriting depends on the pen I am using, and I like those thin ink pens so I won't use too much space. What made me stick with this pen is because it writes smoothly, and I don't have worry about pen caps anymore.

The small red notebook on the other hand was something I received when I attended the first Bloggers' Buffet at Carol's Texan 5. This notebook is something quite special to me because the cover of the notebook was made from genuine leather, and if I am not mistaken, it was Ms. Carol Chua, the owner of Carol's Texan 5 who personally sew the pages / paper of this notebook.

This pen and notebook are always in my bag since I received it, because I want to have some things to use whenever something came up that needs jotting down - like little events that matter, or new ideas, or new things discovered. I wrote my first words last Sunday, and now I am looking forward in filling this notebook with words about life and such.

*** Jenn ***

Datu Snoopy

I was cleaning the house this morning, and while wiping the Snoopy toys, I decided to take a picture of this particular toy.


This toy (along with the other 27 figurines) were something really memorable for the family, because we all went crazy scouting different McDonald's outlets just to buy their Happy Meals because we wanted to collect all 28 toys. It was a moment when we all could say we didn't want to eat their burger again because we had to eat a McDo burger multiple times a day, hahaha. But even if we were getting tired eating McDo burgers, we were happy when we were able to get the last batch of toys.

Of the 28 Snoopy figures wearing different national costumes, this is my favorite because this was the traditional Filipino costume. Well, not the typical costume I knew of, but this Snoopy is wearing the traditional "Datu" costume. People from the south part of the country wears this - if they are a Datu, of course.

*** Jenn ***

Oriental Blend Fruit Shake

There's no {A Photo} Challenge this week, so I decided to add a splash of color on my blog.

This was a year old picture I took at the La Mesa Eco Park when I went there for a photo walk with Nathalie. The first time I went there, I wasn't able to take much picture of the place because we went there for a pre-nup shoot (I was one of the kitty cat photographers). This time, I made sure I took pictures I could use for my travel blog, Where My Feet Took Me.

This was a very cute store. I do like how the main booth looked like the fruit shake cup - with straw at the roof, too! Very few fruits, but because there was no staff at the store, we weren't able to buy a cup of fruit shake to refresh ourselves.

In a place where there's mostly earth colors, this booth with bright red and yellow colors really stood out.

*** Jenn ***