I forgot to share the experience I or we had during our Hong Kong travel last July 3-5, 2010. We had to grab the Cebu Pac promo which had to be daparted from Clark Pampanga at Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA), the fare costed for more or less 6K each, exclusive of course of the travel and terminal fee amounting to P2,200 and P600 respectively.
Our first time at DMIA, we had to walk from the airport to the plane, maybe we need to don motorcycle jacket, it was hot! I recalled, one of the grandfys that we happened to chat for wee moment told us, “lalakad pa tayo sa disyerto” , I did not get what he used to convey, and then, I realized what was it when we left the airport and saw the plane that we need to reach.
We left the country on July 3, 2010, departure was smooth, and had my unwittingly moment, I have shared it in my prior post, it was about the P80 coffee I ordered at the plane, thought it was served for free, poor me I had my expensive coffee in the air! The travel lasted for forty-five minutes, and when we were getting lower and the altitude was not that high, I felt I was riding a roller coaster due to the high turbulence made, it was tough, bad and quite disppointing, my first time that way. I have not experienced it during my flight to and from Utah. Fortunately, this bad and turbulent experience was replaced by an amazing pilot who made our flight back to Philippines on July 5, 2010 - landing at DMIA smoothly, no turbulence. In fact, the passengers clapped to surprised and amazement, experiencing a smooth landing back to Clark Pampanga. Just wish all flights are like that A job well done, a pilot worth a loud of applause, but I was so again so bad that I did not know his name, anyway, I still want to express my amazement!
I find photography interesting, but have no SLR to do it just yet. Meanwhile, I am enjoying the digicam to take photos and sometimes luckily I got some nice shots, in my own opinion) Here are those.
Just around our home
I want to learn photography , i think and i feel it’s in my blood :-)
Do you have an idea how to make a corporate bulletin board? Well, if you find it hard making one, i’ll help you, it’s just easy, a matter of creativity and teamwork is all you need.
We at ACS had this activity of bulletin-making contest, this was triggered because we transferred from 7th Floor to 8th Floor and as a welcome part to our new suite, each team were asked to create bulletin board, has to be creative as possible. At first, we hardly found anything to make, no concept had been formulated yet, until finally, ideas of every person in our team - the CSG Accounting Support (formerly known as Utah Team ), started with a plane and then ideas went on and flowing. And we had the fruit, see pictures below. Not only our team had this creative mind and brought out the kiddy traits on us, the rest of the team had shared and showed their abilities to make impressive, awesome and artistic bulletin boards. See the rest of the boards below, perhaps this will help you make one for your team too!
CSG Accounting Support Bulletin Board
General Accounting and Dallas Billing Team
Financial Reporting, Timekeeping, Payroll and GSG Billing Team
Columbia and Norcross Team
That’s all, actually there are five other boards that were not captured here. These boards were judged according to the criteria that only the judges knew how to pick winners, they were not announced during the ribbon cutting which happened this 30th of September, to be fair to everybody, and prizes were not given to the winners, the management decided to give or to donate the money to the victims of typhoon Ondoy, not bad, charity prevails and we all agreed to their decision, that in our own little ways, we somehow help those who are in dire need.
Going back to the boards, as you may see, one person is always present in the photos, and not to wonder, that’s the author, that’s me! I have to be there..
Wanna know what were the materials we used?
- scrap designers (looks like mat)
- downloaded pictures from clip art.com to be patched in the mountain
- styro foam
- paint and paint brush
- stickers
- etc…
There are lots of available materials to choose from, just work with your creative mind and you’ll have an amazing result.
One of the best weekends that we had here in Utah was when we went to Lagoon Park. Since i am that excited about this post, here is the climax of that day. We tried a scary and frightening SKYCOASTer and had our three minute swing or better to say, flying above 150 ft. Nice and an awesome experience! I was very reluctant at first when Karen encourage me to join her and Paul in this very “risky” ride, and then as we walked our way, they finally had me nodded.
Scary wasn’t it? And we had to motivate Arnel and Dina to try the same, and we encouraged them well.
Prior to this scary skycoaster, there were 11 more rides that we rode in, starting with the light ones as a warm up. It was my first time to go to the amusement park like this, i’ve never tried yet in the philippines as I need to earn first before going. And fortunately i had a chance to experience it here in Utah. The folloeing photos are the different rides that we’d tries, of course you will not see us there because we, six people were riding in the same rides simultaneously and no one was left to take us photos while we were on the rides. So what i did was to capture those rides and post them here.
wow, it seems scary, my eyes were about to pop out!! but i am smiling and look at the background, seems somebody is operating the scary stuff inside..
The spider and the wild mouse, both are very frightening to ride with. Yung spider, as in like a spider web paikot-ikot and fast moving. And the wild mouse, high, fast moving and the way it turns to the other side, it’s like a mouse na napakalikot, seems like tatalsik kami from the upuan, that’s why i didn’t open my eyes while riding and i held the bars so tighly, feeling ko sobrang tatalsik ako at malalaglag sa upuan.
see, the wild mouse is really that fun, and one of my colleagues told me that after our adventure at Lagoon, he wasn’t able to catch a good sleep, he was like being awakened by a wild mouse as if he was still riding. Just like me, i even wasn’t able to sleep early because i felt i still was in the amusement park. Duh, a nice experience though.
And the unforgettable COLOSSUS ride with various upside down positions and two loops of 360 degrees, wheow, i managed to ride in it also, there was no turning back for all the ride kasi we were with Paul Dabell and we just went with the flow, whatever he preferred to ride, eventhough we’re scared. And, here at COLOSSUS, i lost my eyeglasses, it flew while i was riding, i couldn’t fixed it when i felt that it was about to fall because i was tightly holding the bars, i might fall if i didn’t do so. Huhuhu, my eyes were gone, but i did not regret it because i had a nice experience here.
showing the other side of the ride na naglaglag ng salamin ko… as i said, it was nice though!!
Another scary roller coaster, nakalimutan ko lang name and unfortunately, di maganda shot ko, some trees na nkaharang, this one, we thought this is sisiw, kind nakamulat pa kami ni dina, and hollering, woo, woo, sisiw!! That was when we were going up, and then ayan na, babaliktad din pala and super bilis, as the saying goes - never underestimate a person, just want to relate though!
You might think this is an easy one - the cable car, but again it wasn’t. It was a different feeling when you’re up high above the ground and then the car abruptly stops and swing you, mind you, it was dizziful. Well, since i was the one holding the camera and taking the pictures and videos, i had Paul Dabell and Leo Bueza in this picture..
Ang mga pagod naming paa at hindi pa nalilinisan for weeks..
And, need to have some ride that is so so and could bring out the kid in me! I think i will not be a good driver, i didn’t know how to run the BUMPER CAR, Karen didn’t join us here, so she became our camerawoman, and the resolution is not quiet good but the laugh is still there…. :-) see???
What i wasn’t able to take picture with is the BAT - another coaster wherein riders are hanged and then routed again in a fast run. Regret that i didn’t, my camera had to be kept in a locker before we rode COLOSSUS.
And right after the much-said colossus (and hindi synchronize neh), we had to take our heart, convinced ourselves to ride in WICKED - the yellow bar with straight upward and downward fall, waaaaaaaa, and wheow, w managed to ride that and as usual closed eyes, tightly holding the bars and hollered out loud!! And dahil po pikit mata ko, tuloy ako sa sigaw kasi to ease the fear that i had, sigaw pa rin ako until my colleauge told me, “Hoy tapos na!” nyek :-), hiya naman ako i was still screaming end na pala. And here are the WICKED photos of WICKED…
And i hadn’t imagine that i will be riding those kinds of coasters!! Ang maganda kasi, my colleauges were really game, besides, di naman nila kami aayain dun if they knew na di namin kaya..
And - featuring the photos of rides na hindi na namin pinatos..
Free Fall - si Leo and Paul lang sumakay.
ferris wheel - don’t want to try this anymore kasi i had a phobia na, when i was seven years old and my first time to ride that with ate neneth, worst experience, my cousin had to holler and asked to operator to stop the ferris wheel coz i really was feeling so dizzy and bad. When i stepped out of ny seat, i almost collapsed! and i cant imagine myself riding sa ganito kalaking huh??
don’t know the name - thanks karen for the ffg photos!
One of the scariest - two persons inside the round thing and have to be thrown up like a sling shot then turning upside down!!
And kuha ko, jeje… Enjoying the view while riding the cable car…
We actually had the niciest, awesome and incredible experience in the SKYCOASTER, a flying experience that i won’t forget. I will make a separate post, though i had the video here…
I had my expensive coffee in the air! The travel lasted for forty-five minutes, and when we were getting lower and the altitude was not that high, I felt I was riding a roller coaster due to the high turbulence made, it was tough, bad and quite disppointing, my first time that way. I have not experienced it during my flight to and from Utah. Fortunately, this bad and turbulent experience was replaced by an amazing pilot who made our flight back to Philippines on July 5, 2010 - landing at DMIA smoothly, no turbulence. In fact, the passengers clapped to surprised and amazement, experiencing a smooth landing back to Clark Pampanga. Just wish all flights are like that 
A job well done, a pilot worth a loud of applause, but I was so again so bad that I did not know his name, anyway, I still want to express my amazement!
