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Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on July 16, 2009

AFTER MY INITIATION with extreme adventure at the now-legendary trek of the Cebu Mountaineering Society on the trails of Mount Pangasugan in Baybay, Leyte in August 1992 I began to feel the inadequacy of my cheap converted day pack. It was just too small for my frame, too frail for my speed and too tight on storage space. Whereas, at that time, my fellow mountaineers carried on their backs bigger backpacks suited for this outdoor ...

months ago?
nah...

more like years ago!

for those "years ago" I have learned to be tough,
learned how " not to be swayed on by charms",
learned how to be on guard from those "sly" ones,
learned how to move and be on the watch.

Yes, I have become defensive.

It did not happen overnight. Nor over a span of months.
But years.. of pains, joys and trials.

What brought me thinking ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on July 11, 2009

THE 7 PRINCIPLES OF the Leave No Trace have taken the mountaineering and outdoor community here in the Philippines by storm and they have adopted these, to the letter, as their guiding maxims. Well, that is good. I myself would happily endorse it...if you are Caucasian or a westerner or just a plain urban creature who suddenly is fascinated by the outdoors.

Yes, why not? Don't westerners are pampered too much ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on July 1, 2009

THE FORTHCOMING TRIP to Mount Talinis in Negros Oriental on April 3 to 6, 2009 goaded the Cebu Mountaineering Society to consider training at the trails of Napo and Mount Babag, here in Cebu City's own backyard which they scheduled on March 8, 15 and 29. They tapped me and Boy Toledo to do the honors of preparing the itinerary of the training climb.


“Good morning Philippines! Wake up!” These words screamed ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blospot.com on June 16, 2009

SOMETIME LAST MAY 30, 2009, I was tasked by my employer to deliver a special package to the PAGCOR satellite casino inside Dakak Beach Resort in Dapitan City, Zamboanga del Norte. That dawn, from my home, I walked to the waterfront area of Cebu to join a queue and purchase a fastcraft ferry ticket, round trip, for Dapitan and back. The Ocean Fast Ferry ticketing office will open at five; their craft will leave at six. I was ...

Why is it that whenever I listen to songs from Joe Satriani, my feelings alternate between sadness and happiness (for want of a better word).

It's not so much as happiness, but tender emotions almost similar to being in love...

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I have mixed emotions about kids. I don't want any harm to happen to any of them, but I like them better when they're polite or sweet and not bratty.


A lot of girls would jump at the opportunity to hold a baby or talk to a kid because they're cute, chubby or whatnot. I don't. I do with puppies, though. Maybe it's because I believe kids should be full of glee and innocent wonder that when one of them misbehaves or says hurtful things, it destroys a part of me. Or maybe I'm ...