I'm Back

Hey to all my friends here. I apologize for not updating and posting new in this page and for those who leave me messages, because i did not make time to reply. I was kinda busy for the past weeks cause my boyfriend visited me here in Philippines. Now I'm back and will update my site soon. For now, I will share you some photos taken from the weeks i am gone.

with my cousin's daughter

watching street dancing

at maria cristina falls

at carnaval before watching "wall of death" with my relatives(above)

watching kasadya showdown at city hall (below)

Story from Bukidnon

Just got home from the trip to Bukidnon. I'm deadly tired for the whole weekend travel. I expected to be just at Malaybalay City for the "pamalaye" as what my friend told me. But then, we end up at one remote baranggay of Pangantucan municipality.

From Iligan City we travelled 2 hours to Cagayan de Oro terminal at Bulua and went to Agora terminal because we can only take bus to Bukidnon from there. We arrived at Malaybalay City after more than 3 hours of travelled. And stayed at the aunt of my friend's cousin house for the night as planned.


And then the next day we woke up early as 5 am to get ready again for a trip to where we really need to go. We travelled for almost 3 hours from Malaybalay City to Pangantucan, and another 2 hours to the barangay where the girl's place for this "pamalaye" located.


And for this 2 hours of travel we only rode a single motorcycle for there's no other choice, their roads there are uncemented. I almost can't get out from the motorcycle when we arrived the place. My legs are shaking for the very long trip and because was not comfy riding motorcycle in a very rough road.



It was the very hard trip i ever had. I just thank God we got back home safely and the "pamalaye" went out fine. I promised myself that i won't ever go back there again. Even my friend said she's having a second thought of attending the wedding of her cousin this October.

Way to Tinago Falls

Attached video was taken last February 25, 2008 on our way down to Tinago Falls when my boyfriend visited here in Philippines...Hope you will enjoy...

The Tinago Falls is one of the main tourist attractions in Iligan, a city known as the City of Majestic Waterfalls. Tinago is a Filipino word meaning "hidden", the falls being hidden in a deep ravine. Trekking to the falls requires approximately 500 descending steps called the winding staircase. It is said that Tinago Falls is a sanctuary for weary souls seeking to commune with nature. The trip to the falls actually exposes you to a variety of wildlife. Today, the trail is refurbished into a wildlife park hosting different species of wild animals.
The falls is approximately 240-feet high, its very cold waters cascading beautifully into a deep and calm basin-like pool which appears like a blue-colored lagoon. Under the falls is a small cave where people can enter and listen to the rumbling waters. The foot of the falls is a very ideal place for swimming. The place also has man-made swimming pools for children. It is truly a majestic place that resounds an atmosphere of serenity, a perfect escape from the noisy metropolitan.

History of my birth place (ILIGAN CITY)

Iligan City History...
Pedro Manook, a protégé of Legaspi, with his men from the already Christianized Dapitan in Zamboanga, intended to seize the settlement. Manook and his men were remarkable fighters and in no time subdued the settlement. Those who refused subjugation, especially the Maranaos, took to the hills. This marked the establishment of the first Christian settlement in the fabled land of the Maranaos, with the “iligan” or “ilihan” as the springboard of the initials efforts to Christianize Lanao.The year suggested was 1557 or 1609, reckoning from the year the Recollects, the first of the Missionaries that came, were assigned to Iligan. The Jesuits followed in 1939.After the demise of Manook, his son-in-law Gonzalo Maglinte and grandson Pedro Cabilin, whose mother was supposed to be the legendary Maria Uray, carried on with his zeal and courage. Their tenacity withstood the onslaught of the Muslim natives to regain the lost settlement. Iligan in the ear became the staging points of the long and futile efforts of the Spanish Commander Francisco de Atienza and Fray A. Agustin de San Pedro of the “El Padre Capitan” to Christianize and colonize Lanao.The futility of their efforts and the abandonment of Dansalan as a Spanish fort strengthened the position of Iligan as a Christian bastion which accounts for its pre-dominantly Christian population up to the present.After the defeat of the Spaniards in the hands of the Americans, a certain Captain Smith came to Iligan in 1900 with a flotilla of war ships to assert American might and authority. The coming of the Americans ushered in the era of closer Christian–Muslim relationships under an atmosphere of tolerance and co-existence. It calmed resistance to duly constituted authorities as well as hostilities among Filipino brothers whom at the time were divided by different ideological and religious persuasions in the area. Westernization started to be felt.The Japanese forces occupied Iligan on May 25, 1942 until October 4, 1944 when they finally moved out in the wake of the advancing liberation forces.All through these years the “iligan” was not only the humble coastal trading settlement, the “ilihan” that was the safeplace from marauders, the springboard of the initial efforts to Christianize and colonize Lanao, the home of the Christian-Maranao and multi-ethnical prototype with its own breed of brave and outstanding sons and daughters, but the gateway to the fabled land of the Maranaos.