Sept 2 - Friday  

Sept 3 - Saturday    

Sept 4 - Sunday    

06:00am    Wake up call. Prep to leave.

07:30am    Leave Island

08:30am    Expected arrival at Palompon Eco-Tourism Office. Breakfast and shower. The Eco-

                  Tourism office allows tourists to use their showers for free

09:30am    Walk to the Van Terminal and look for vans going to Ormoc. 

                  Fare is Php120. Travel time is 1.5 to 2 hours. 

11:30am    Arrival in Ormoc. Look for vans going to Naval. Fare is Php130. Travel time is 2 hours.

01:30pm    Get off van terminal and look for jeep going to Kawayan. 

                  Fare is Php30. However, there was no jeep at the time so we arranged for a 

                  multicab to take us directly to Agta Beach Resort. We paid Php50 each. 

                  Travel time is around 30 minutes

02:00pm    Arrival at Agta Beach Resort. Ordered lunch. Cooking too a long time. 

                  Settled in our rooms while waiting for the food.

03:30pm    Off to Ulan-Ulan Falls via multicab arranged with Agta Beach Resort. 

                  Paid Php1500 for 8 people. Travel time is around 30 minutes to the jump off point 

                  and then it was a 20-minute trek to the falls.

                  Drop by grocery and bakery to buy breakfast for the next day

05:30pm    Travel back to Agta Beach Resort.

06:00pm    Order food. Shower.

07:00pm    Dinner

                  Overnight

Sept 5 - Monday 

05:00am     Wake up call. Quick breakfast

06:00am     Meet Agta Beach owner Melo to take us on a short drive to the other side of the beach 

                   to board the boat for the island hopping. We paid Php3500 for 8 pax.

06:30am     Off to Sambawan Island. Travel time: 45 minutes to 1 hour. Entrance fee: Php100.

09:00am     Leave Sambawan Island. proceed to Dalutan Island (entrance fee: Php20)  

                   and pass by Capinyahan Island on the way back to Agta Beach Resort

10:30am     Prep to leave resort. Take a bath. Early lunch.

12:00nn      Checkout. Hired same multicab who took us to Ulan-Ulan falls to bring us 

                   to the Van Terminal. Paid Php500 for 8pax.

12:30pm    Ride van going to Tacloban City. Fare is Php130. Travel time is 3 hours.

03:30pm    Arrival in Tacloban City. Check-in at GoHotels. Leave things. Have snacks at Robinson's

05:00pm    Back to hotel. Freshen up. Nap.

07:30pm    Ride jeep bound for Gaisano/Savemore, fare 8 pesos. Walk to Ocho Seafood and Grill

09:00pm    Head back to GoHotels. Spend the night.

Sept 6 - Tuesday

06:00am    Wake-up call. Breakfast. Prep for city tour c/o Kuya Tisoy's van. Paid 1500, 8 pax.

                  Contact numbers: 09060812688 / 09474696184

07:00am    Start of tour. Visit the following: San Juanico Bridge, McArthur Landing, M/V Eva, 

                  Jocelyn Memorial, Sto, Nino Church

10:00am    Back to GoHotels. Prep for checkout.

11:00am    Checkout. Head to Hukad (G/F Robinson's Mall) for lunch

12:00pm    Off to Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport. Taxi to airport is 150 pesos.

01:40pm    Flight from Tacloban to Manila

Last Friday, I ordered a Romoss 20,000 mAh powerbank and a set of Smatree batteries for my SJCam 5000+ from Lazada. Since a majority of their items are sold at retail prices as well, I thought online shopping was the way to go. Honestly, though, I'm just really lazy to go out and buy the items myself. Ang traffic kaya, all day, every day.

Anyway, I like that Lazada now has automated texts letting me know about the status of my orders and when I can expect to receive them. So last Saturday, apart from the automated texts, I also received a call from the delivery guy letting me know that he was on his way to deliver my item and later on, he also texted me that he was nearby so I was able to come out and wait for him in front of our gate. Talk about efficiency!

The only peeve I had was that I only received the powerbank and not the action cam batteries. Apparently, Lazada does not have the option to group orders together so my other item will have to be delivered at a different date. More on this in a separate post.

I didn't expect the Romoss powerbank to be so huge! Haha. I already have a 10,000 mAh Yoobao powerbank that I usually use when I travel but this is usually passed along other family members when they need to leave the house and forget to charge their gadgets. So I thought of getting a new one since it was also on sale at Php999 only.

Here's how it looked like compared to my old Yoobao powerbank:




Pros:

• It charges quicker than when my phone is charging via the charging dock/cable 
• It turns off automatically after the phone is charged at 100%, which makes overcharging a non-issue
• It has 2 outgoing usb ports so you can charge 2 gadgets at a time 
• 20,000 mAh charging power 
• Backlit LCD shows the % of charging power left. Backlight also dims after a 5 seconds 
• When unplugging the usb charging connector, the LCD display will be turned off after 1 minute.
• Came with a free canvas gadget pouch (not for the powerbank -it's too small and may fit a 5" screen mobile phone instead)

Cons:

• It is waaay heavier than Yoobao but has twice the charging capacity.
• The glass on the LCD screen is made of cheap material that scratches very easily. 
• Charging time takes  approximately 13 hours after device is fully emptied
• It is bulky

 To those of you interested in getting this powerbank, you can purchase it HERE.

Helloooo it's meee.. 


I want you to know that I sang that in my best Adele voice.
So, hi blogger. I'm back (hopefully for good). 

I've had so many blogs. It's crazy (I'm crazy). The last episode of my fickle-mindedness was very recent and it entailed switching from blogger to wordpress to wix, and now back to blogger. I was quite happy with the wix blog for a while until I realized that the developers had no plans of including a notification feature for when you get comments on your posts. What is a blog without interaction? Also, my google ads were not showing and uploading of photos was too tedious. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

As a disclaimer, I will be posting things from the past because I will be migrating everything I had on wix onto this. There's not a lot of posts so I assume it won't take that long. But please bear with me as I use every once of my strength to get up in the morning and do it.  Just kidding. I have bouts of laziness but hopefully I get things up and running soon.