On our last day in Hong Kong, our itinerary included a visit to the scenic, Tang Dynasty-style influenced garden in Diamond Hill, Kowloon.
Picturesquely designed with hills, water features, trees, rocks and wooden structures, the Nan Lian Garden (南蓮園池) is a Chinese Classical Garden with an area of 3.5 hectares. Continue reading
Luck was really with us, for even though the promo tickets that we’ve bought from Cebu Pacific to Hong Kong were booked 3 months in advance, we were surprised to know that the dates we’ve chosen included the date for this one awaited concert – Jason Mraz “TOUR is a four letter word” Concert in hong Kong. Continue reading
Disneyland here I come! 
Finally a realization of one of my childhood dreams (that I guess almost all of us had). Hong Kong Disneyland has that positively addicting charm that effortlessly draws the young and equally attracts the young-at-hearts! It’s a Nirvana for family bonding, food indulgence and lots of fun!
Disney Entrance
Ngong Ping 360 is destined to be one of Hong Kong’s “must see” attractions. Preserving the natural ecological environment and features of the Ngong Ping area and converging the custom and culture of the Lantau Island, Ngong Ping 360 is sure to refresh your body and enlighten your mind, as soon as you step on the Cable Car.
After weeks of resting my itchy toes, finally it’s time for adventuroj to journey into another adventure again. This time we’ll be on our way to Hong Kong! Thanks to another piso fare from CebPac, for traveling need not be expensive (as a matter of fact we’ve challenged ourselves to be on a 10K-peso budget for this travel. Let’s see in the end if we’ve met this goal).
So to start our adventure, below is a sample itinerary that I’ve made months prior to our travel. Hopefully this will also be of help to you. Continue reading
Zoobic Safari is one attraction you will find at Subic Bay Freeport’s Forest Adventure Park. Embracing a 25 hectare land – local and foreign guests can expect an astonishing sight of diverse exotic animals roaming and frolicking in their natural habitat. It features a wide range of habitats present in the forest due to the terrain, presence of streams and fringing grasslands. These represent the major habitats for varied exotic animals featured in Zoobic Safari Forest Adventure Park. Continue reading
On my second adventure at Subic, I made sure to visit the Ocean Adventure (which I haven’t been to in my previous visit). And so below is my chronicle of the event that took place. Continue reading
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Today is Black Saturday, (in Latin, Sabbatum Sanctum), the ‘day of the entombed Christ’, is the Lord’s day of rest, for on that day Christ’s body lay in His tomb.
Ideally, Holy Saturday should be the quietest day of the year. It is a day of suspense between two worlds, that of darkness, sin and death, and that of the Resurrection and the restoration of the Light of the World.
Tonight we’ll be celebrating the night vigil of Easter that signifies Christ’s passage from the dead to the living by the liturgy. This begins in darkness (sin, death) and is enlightened by the fire and the candle representing Lumen Christi — the Light of Christ — just as the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, the community of believers, is led from spiritual darkness to the light of His truth. Christ’s baptism, which our own baptism imitates, is represented during the liturgy by the blessing of the water of baptism by immersing (“burying”) the candle representing His Body into the font.
It is with this premise that we’ve arrived at today’s Holy Saturday reflection. Continue reading
Friday of Holy Week has been traditionally called Good Friday or Holy Friday. On this day, the church commemorates Jesus’ arrest, his trial, crucifixion and suffering, death, and burial. This is said to be the day that Jesus died and left us in this physical world. Some devotees even believed that physical activities that may put one’s safety at risk such as driving or even allowing the kids to play outside are not allowed today for Christ is not there to guide us.
Given these beliefs, we could say that man on this day is left alone, with his master away there’s nobody to watch upon him; in short man can be said to be free.
This is the type of freedom that we’ll be talking about today in relation to our “Free”day special. Continue reading
The Adventures of AdventuRoj! 