As a Davaoeño, vacation in a more progressive city like Manila is so expensive. Of course you will consider the fare, transportation, places to go, the food, and of course a convenient place to stay in. And as a traveler who is looking for a cheaper alternative, top of the list is to  look for a hotel that fits the budget!

Last month my blogger friends from Cebu, Iloilo and Cagayan De Oro went to Manila to attend a blogger event. Fortunately, we were referred to stay at the  Jupiter Suites Hotel in Makati City. We were surprised because the location of the hotel is near Glorietta, Manila Ocean Park, and other nice places to go in Makati.

(the room)

Upon entering the hotel, you will meet nice employees and give you a form to fill up. I was also glad to see the room rates because it was cheaper than I thought considering it’s in Makati. They have lots of facilities and services offer such as free breakfast, 24 hours security, free internet access in the room, printing, free newspaper, butler service, laundry service, standby generator and a lot more.

(the Comfort Room/Tiolet)

And in my room, it was so clean and complete. It had colored cable T.V., NDD/IDD telephone service, air-conditioning, closets, a big comfort room with bath tub. You couldn’t ask for more!

You can hardly a find cheaper  Makati hotel with free internet like Jupiter Suites. In addition to wifi access, each room has an internet connection service using your network cable!  So your surfing will be so fast and not crappy. I was able to watch multiple videos in YouTube while chatting with my friends and  even uploading pictures in Facebook. Yeah so fast right?   And if you don’t like to bring your laptop, there are also PCs downstairs that is available for you to use at an hourly rate.

If you want to budget travel in Makati City, go for Jupiter Suites and trust me, it’s all worth it! Plus you can save more money in your trip.

Also, watch this video – I Love Makati by JayL Aquino where he featured Jupiter Suites as a perfect hotel for you to stay in Makati.

Fore more information:

Address: 102 Jupiter St. Bel- Air Village, Makati City
Telephone: (632) 890-5044 to 50
Email: frontdesk@jupiterarns.com

Room Rates
Standard Suites - PHp 2,980
Deluxe Suites – Php 3, 580
Family Suites – Php 4, 580
(Rates inclusive of taxes)

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Last May 26, 2010 the 8  bloggers from Iloilo, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro and Davao were invited to attend the launching of The Search for the Toughest Jobs Philippines brought to you by Department of Labor and Employment and Alaxan held at DOLE building, Intramuros Manila.

This search would a give chance to the Filipino workers out there and tell  the whole world why your job is the most toughest that you are proud of. We may consider our job as the toughest but all jobs are considered not easy and you must perform a hard work so that you can surely achieve a lot of things. And now it’s the time to showcase your job! They may think your job is easy and not cool ? Then, prove to them they’re wrong and join the search!

The Search for the Toughest Jobs in the Philippines is open to all Filipino local and overseas workers.

To join:

1. Register to the website it is www.toughjobsphilippines.com
2. Upload  your picture
3. And post your reason why you have the toughest job among all.

It is open from May 26, 2010 up to August 21, 2010. And the one who gets the most number of votes online will get those amazing prizes. Wow! Join now!

And if you don’t want to join, you can also Vote for the Toughest Jobs in the Philippines entry.

Alaxan really makes a big deal to all Filipino workers, and Alaxan pain relievers is a good take when we feel body and muscle pains and also other pains like dysmenorrheal, toothache and headache that would disturb us while we are working. I who really works hard for a living, I easily get body pains and headaches due to stress and lack of sleep, but I took Alaxan everytime it strikes  me and  in just a few minutes  it’s gone , it really helps me more productive each day. Watch this video for more explanation:

And as a blogger, you may say that it is easy because we  are just sitting and can blog wherever we want at home or at the cafe, but this job is not as easy as you thought, you can never be a blogger if you don’t have a reader and you don’t have a knowledge and the latest updates in the blogging sphere, you are not just a writer but also a marketer of your own blog to have a reader. You must also find interesting topics that would surely interest most of the people and the topics that many searched like foods, restaurants, fashion and places. Also you are also a photographer because you can’t just use other pictures by just grabbing , as much as possible you must provide your own images, and must continue posting everyday and promote your blog anywhere to increase your readers and rank in Google.

If I were to chose people and their professions that are worth nominating in that site would be the farmers who works hard whole day  for more than 8 hours who mostly professionals worked and who is responsible for growing crops, raising and breeding livestock, poultry and other animals and marketing farm products for the millions of people to eat.  They may not be compensated well but they really deserved to be appreciated and be known by everybody.

We must remember that we must be proud and happy to our job no matter the salaries, the description, the place the most important is we serve the people and that we heroes in our country. Be proud Filipino! And let us support each one of us!

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Last March 29, 2010 Me and my boyfriend went  Island Hopping with the ICT Davao lead by Mr. Ber Barriga, We were just strangers and anonymous to the group, we’re like gate crashers. In any reason, we just want experienced how enjoy island hopping would be and to dive without any completing requirements such as trainings and medical check-ups (Men! I hate that!). I will just divide my experiences in every Island we went to and first let me tell you about our scuba diving experienced.

We dive at Babu Santa Beach Resort – a venue for Lunch, Coral Garden (swimming/snorkeling/kayaking/). There were also lots of Island Hopping boats near to us.

Me and Mon were first timers in this activity, I was so scared because it really needs oxygen under. Upon wearing the suit, I was really shaking, shaking to death and wanted to back out, but our good trainer was really guarding us for almost 40 minutes, he also toured us and took pictures and video for souvenirs (it’s included in the package).  I was really amazed by the beauty under the water, the colorful and alive corals and the different kinds of fishes. I also touched the corals that are allowed to touch and it’s different very extraordinary!. One way or another, I was also having hard time breathing because of my Asthma.

Overall experience, it is 100% but it would be my first and last, can’t take inhale exhale but I enjoyed it so much!

By the way, the rate for Island Hoping package excluded the Scuba Diving (Optional not required to all passengers), so additional Php 800.00 per person including the mini training, suits, needed accessories, pictures/videos in a CD and assistance.

PHOTO SPAM:

me and Carlo (the trainer )

me and Nemo

me and boyfriend dating under water

Video:

Stay tune for my next drama posts , I mean adventure posts!

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The Callbox Software Development Team (Iloilo and Davao) had their Team Building with the Davao IT Tech Support Team at Seagull Mountain Resort  located at Buda (Davao-Bukidnon Road). It is a 1 and ½ day fun exploring the resort to foster to foster awareness of the team spirit and to reinforce commitment to the team’s shared goals and objectives. We rented 1 small campsite (750) for two girls and 1 big campsite (1,200) for 5 boys.

Last April 10, 2010 the team, at 6 am after shift we had our breakfast at McDonalds then back to office to get our monthly incentive. Then we rode on Joe’s car headed to Budda, it is a 1 ½ hour trip and you can experience the very cold temperature of the place. At the campsite, we ate our breakfast, and then we rode on a tour car heading down to the Seagull Falls. We then jumped to the pool to get ourselves wet because we were all did not take a bath yet.  Then without changing a dried clothes, we headed to the mountain and tour around the resort, we enjoyed taking pictures and amazed on the place. We saw the big crucifixion at the end part of the place. It is the best place for solemn and retreat. Even though the temperature was so very cold, we manage to tour around the place while wet (Oh my God I still can’t imagine!)  Because we were having fun not to mention Sir Karlo was reading a Bob Ong’ book.

Then after the tour, we took our clean bath at the clean comfort room and stayed in our campsite, some of the boys were already sleeping while the others invaded our campsite and we played UNO, yet we were having fun , because it is not a mind game, it is a game  that requires presence of mind. Then, after that some prepare the Dinner and we all ate. Afterwards, we all stayed in the guys’ campsite watching “The Ninja Assasin” movie on Joe’s laptop while drinking 2 sets of Gin + Green Lime, then we all sleep out of tiresome no sleep day.

On the morning 5:00 am we can already feel the very cold temperature as if we were in the refrigerator. Then at 6:30 am we took our breakfast and bought a Native Hot Choco in the Cafeteria.  And lastly we packed our things headed to the car and leave Seagull Moutain Resort.

It was the best place for Team Building, retreat, family outing and etc.

PHOTO SPAMMING:

Golf course.

very nice view

stairs down to campsite

headed down to the waterfalls

waterfalls

the pool at the top near the falls.

Joe, me and Beltran

All

hahaha.. FAIL!

the campsites

Thanks for reading!

Photo by: Regi V. Guardialao aka “Stoic”

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