Summer Daydreams

It is summer once again and I need another getaway. Somebody take me here!!! CHOS.

Cenoti-Ik-Kil at Yucatan

Lake Titilaka Lodge at Peru

Taj Exotica Resort and Spa at Maldives

Underwater Museum at Cancun

Six Senses Yao Noi at Thailand

Raine Antoine Turns 10

Last Friday, I got a txt message from Raine Antoine around noon time which was something like, "Hi T-tye! Happy birthday to me!" And I was like, "Oh my God I am a terrible aunt!" Hahah. I always forget birthdays darn it! Maybe it's perfect time for celebrators to actually inform everyone that it's their birthday right? I mean, it would save us from a lot of making reminders in our phones. :-p

Anyway, his parents decided to celebrate it on a weekend. Unfortunately, none of my family members in Sibulan was available. So as usual, I had to represent the Sibulan party alone. I had my usual rants that Friday evening and maybe it was because of pity that Sinta decided to travel with me! Yay! And at the very last minute, guess who joined in? 

Angerae! LaaganI

Ayungon Municipal Hall

The only tourist attraction in Ayungon: The Camel. Joke.

 

Rizal monument

Sendong Victims Relief Operations

I had the chance to join the DYWC (local radio station)  team do their 3rd leg of relief operations to the Sendong victims yesterday. They have been all around the affected areas the past few weeks and this time, their next destination was Valencia. Now infrastructure-and-property-wise, the said town had the largest damage in the whole of Negros Oriental. You will see why in my next pictures (I hope they do justice though)

At the DYWC station getting all the goods to the truck

On our way

So I made this very amateur map (thanks to Google Map btw) just to let everyone check out our route. The pink one is the original road you take going to Palinpinon to Caidiocan to Malaunay and so on and so forth. Since typhoon Sendong hit the area, the roads aren't passable until now and that's why we needed to take the alternate road via San Antonio, Sibulan (the one in blue). It's not very accurate though, but you get the idea right? It's a whole different route from another side of the map. 

It was my first time to see how it looked like a month after the horrible typhoon so I was a little bit excited (and a little bit worried too) to see how the place is now.

And so we arrived to Brgy. Caidiocan... 

Caidiocan Brgy Hall

This is where some of the affected families are staying.

This was supposedly some sort of a covered court. This is what was left.

Still full of soil piled up from the heavy rain. They were still getting some of it out when we arrived.

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