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Life has its way of painting colors out of the ashes. It has a beautiful way of singing good songs out of broken melodies. There's always good things in the middle of wrong because God has never failed to make surprises when we think everything has turned out to be a mess.

😂 Driving lesson here in Oz on a 60km/hr speed limit with a non aussie instructor hihi! I'll be good at this soon, following the lane, braking gently and other stuff haha!

Our first time to try out dubsmash 😂 Not bad! Haha! #Random #LunchBreak #Colleagues

Exactly a year from now, where would I be? Mmmmm....

Each morning is a miracle of life and hope... Another chance to try out our plans and to correct our mistakes. Another moment to forgive, to say sorry, to say thank you, to express I care for you and to say I love you! Let other people feel and see Jesus in us...

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” ~ Clifton Fadiman #KeyChainsFromFriends #FlagPatchesForMyBackpack #StarbucksMugCollection #AddictedToTravelling #ItchyFeet #Wanderlust

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Enough of Himalayas. These kids just made my day. Opted to take a 4x4 ride instead of walking for another 4hrs and glad to have passed by their village before we bid goodbye to the mountains. I❤️Nepal #WheresTheGoodInGoodbye #FujiXE2

#fujixe2 #wheresthegoodingoodbye

Trip of a lifetime: Nepal

You can find below the live blogging from our Nepal trip (: The photos were uploaded after our trip since tumblr mobile is not capable of doing so.

(Written on Feb 18, 2015 4PM Nepal time)  It’s been my dream to travel around the world and Nepal is top in the list of my must-visit-countries. Today, the Nepal dream has been realized, all glory to God (:

I’ve saved up for this trip for quite a long time(like my 13th mo bonus haha) and it’s all worth it(so far). It’s our 4th day in Nepal and my heart is breaking knowing that we’re going to leave in 3days time and we haven’t yet seen the Himalayas mountain ranges :( 

Anyway, here’s the highlight of our trip.

First day(feb16): - we ate Momo, its Nepal’s famous food. I love it. I’m eating it everyday since I got here - we had a Kathmandu City tour

Second day(feb17): Early morning flight to Pokhara. The flight got delayed for an hour because of the weather. I guess it’s zero visibility again. - we did paragliding. The flight was good but I feel like it’s just “okay” for me since I’ve already tried Skydiving in Dubai :P  - we started the 4 day trek.

Our guide changed our itinerary since he is a bit worried that we couldn’t make it :P ..So we opted to take the easier route.  - we stayed at Dhampus, the temperature was about 5-7•C, tolerable heehee! I was wearing a very thick down jacket :P

Third day(feb18): - our 2nd day trek. From Dhampus, we walked about 4hours until we stopped for a lunch break, THANK GOD!!! Then we walked for an hour to reach our destination which is here in Landruk. My knees are so sore right now I dont think I can still walk tomorrow.  We got caught up in the rain while on our final one hour trek, I was soaking wet because my trek pants is not waterproof :(  

Time check: 420pm local time. We are just literally chilling and waiting for dinner at 6pm. Temperature: 11•C -Pictures to follow, tumblr mobile can’t upload :(

------------ (Written on Feb 21, 2015 756am Nepal time, currently listening to Thinking out loud by Ed Sheeren :P)

Fourth day(feb 19): - 3rd day trek. We set off at around 10am. Walked for 3hrs. Had our lunch at 1pm. We ate pizza and spaghetti, western food this time (:

Usually we'll have Dhal bat and momo, it's their local Nepalese food and I like it. Ghandruk is already very near from our lunch place and we walked for only around 20min. The sky was not clear so we were not able to see part of Himalayas again :(

We reached early at around 330pm so we had a lot of time to kill until our dinner hihi! I strolled around the village with my Fuji x-e2 camera and took a lot of portraits of Nepal faces.

Fifth day(feb 20): It's our last day of trek :(( My heart's breaking knowing that we have to already say goodbye to the mountains. But at the same time excited to go back to the city for hot shower haha! We were not able to shower for 3 consecutive days due to the fact that it's really very cold and the hot showers are not working.

We were supposed to walk for at least 5hrs to reach to our destination where a car will be waiting for us to take us to Pokhara. And then we opted to take a 4x4 ride instead of walking for another 4hrs.

To summarize, our last day trek was only an hour ^_____^ We reached Pokhara at around 1pm. Had our lunch (curry chucken rice and grilled fish, we finished it up to the last grand of rice, strawberry lassi and banana crepe for dessert)

We went out at around 430pm just to see the places nearby our hotel(Pokhara Eco Resort).

We went to Phewa lake, if the weather is clear you should be able to see the snow mountains but unfortunately we were not able to see it :( But we enjoyed watching people paddling and rowing all over the lake. We ate fish and chips at the lake side while reading "I am Malala" book. On our way home, we were able to pass by a lot of clothing/souvenir shops and guess what? We spent 5000Rupees, its like 100sgd for books(yea we love books), souvenirs and stuff.

It was around 730pm when we finished our shopping galore, so we decided to eat dinner(we chose only fried rice and fried chicken since we've already spent our money for shopping hihi). We went to a reggae restobar(Mutsashala?), they had a live band, we requested "Rude" by Magic! but we left before we heard it because I need to take a dump, dang! Haha)

Sixth day(feb 21, today) We had our early breakfast at 630am since we have to catch our bus to Kathmandu at 730am. The bus will take us to Kathmandu for 7hr trip :( If everything is okay, we should reach at 3pm in Kathmandu.

By the way, since we dont have enough budget already, we stole 2 hard boiled eggs (not really, just bringing it instead of eating it there :D) from the hotel for our lunch hahaha! Yea that poor - but rich in memories woot!

Tata for now.. Im going to read "I am Malala" again

Life is not just about always winning over a lot of things. It is about seeing God in every person we meet and every situation we are in. It is about using our life to touch someone else's life. For in the end we are judged not of our self fulfillment but how our intentions were done in responding to God's purpose.

Mat you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life. on Flickr.

It's not Easter, it's Christmas! :P on Flickr.

My first solo travel to land of smiles - Taiwan!

So I had my itinerary all plotted out only to change it last minute. So what! I'm alone, my time is flexible and I can do whatever and whenever I want. Perks of travelling solo :P

This was originally my itinerary:

Day 1: Taipei City

- Taipei 101 at sunset - Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall, Martyr's Shrine - Taipei Zoo

Day 2: Hualien

- Taroko Gorge (Eternal Spring Shrine) - Chi Hsing Beach, Hualien Stone Sculptural Park and a marble factory - Sheep Farm (This is a mistake, sheep farm is very far from Hualien so it's not possible to visit these two places in one day. Unless you are driving though)

Day 3: Pingxi Railway

- Jingtong Old Street / Xiaozi Shan (Little Mount. Huangshan) / Pingi old street / Shifen Old Street / Shifen Giant Waterfall.

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And then the amazing twist of event. Thanks to the hostel receptionist Jenny for helping me plot out my itinerary according to my convenience.

Basically, these are the places that I went to:

Shilin Night Market (I arrived in the evening and my hostel was just nearby the Market so I went there to check it out)

Day 1 Pingxi Line - (we were not able to stop by other stations but Shifen because it was raining and we don't have much time.) Taipei 101(This is after my Pingxi tour)

Day 2 Hualien (Taroko gorge, Chi Hsing Beach)

Day 3 Hike to Golden Mountain - (?.. It's 1hr bus ride from Keelung, northern part of Taiwan)

And oh, I met a lot of people too. On my way to Pingxi, I met Haring from mainland China who became my companion for the who Pingxi trip.

On my second day, I met Nini and her hubby. They became our interpreter for the whole Hualien tour because our tour guide only speaks Mandarin :P

On my third day, I went on a mountain hike with Windy, my couch surfing host.

Overall, I had a great time in Taiwan and I actually left my heart in there!

Pictures.. pictures...

Woke up to this. Home. Blessed.

Right.... ^_^ Playing around with photo editor app on my iPhone6. To be honest, I dont really know how to take photos of food. I thought that I have an eye for photography until I tried shooting food. I really find it so complicated yet it looks so simple to just look at other's food photography. So for my photo to not look so awkward, I've added some touch to it which is the quote (: Does it look better? Hihi! Photo taken: Coffee Club, Singapore

We can learn a lot from trees: they're always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward - Everett Mamor on Flickr.

"Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional" Do you have those type of friends where when you are together you just can't stop laughing? Like them being around will make you high like you're trippin? But dont worry we dont do drugs haha! Anyway, this happened inside Singapore's mall toilet :P We were quite amazed with the mirror's infinity effect, we made fun out of it and later decided to play a music and record everything. This is just a teaser teehee! The video was taken using gopro and because the file is large we cant transfer it to our phones :P And oh, nobody's inside the toilet but us. We would never do such acts that could stain the already stained reputation of the Philippines, so relax! (: #laughwhileyoustillhaveteeth

2014 Highlights (WIP)

1. Traveled UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Fujairah)

- Skydived at Dubai (video here)