The Southern Raid

Snokelling with fish feeding - Boljoon, Cebu

Whale Shark Watching - Oslob, Cebu

 The Waters of Santander, Cebu

  Kawasan Falls - Badian, Cebu

 Busy Beach of Moalboal, Cebu

 Milk Station - Barili Cebu

High Contrast Images w/ PS CS4

High contrast B/W with PS CS4



His name is "Kidlat" as in Lightning. He's an amazing hunter; hunts like a lightning. :p

Festivities - Cebu

The Sinulog Festival 2011

The face of this festival








One of the Festival Queens of this years Sinulog Festival - Cebu takes a gaze at my camera.

Eggless Leche Flan

“The way to a woman’s heart is through her stomach”. I would want to give you a way to her stomach first especially if your woman is a vegetarian. So here is a leche flan that is just perfect and delightful without the slime of eggs.

Eggless Leche Flan

1 can condensed milk

1 can evap milk

1 stick gulaman (preferably yellow)

4 tsb vanilla

11/2c water

For syrup

1c sugar

1/2 c water

1. Preparing the syrup: in a saucepan, boil sugar and add water until little thick. Pour syrup in leche flan or baking pan. Set aside.

2. Pour condensed milk and evap milk in a pot (preferably cast iron to avoid scorching). Add vanilla. Boil.

3. In a separate pan, boil one stick gulaman in 1 1/2c water. Strain and pour into the boiling milk-vanilla mixture. Stir constantly. Remove from heat.

4. Pour mixture over syrup-lined pan. Allow to set. When cooled, invert pan and serve.

There you go a tasty leche flan without egg giving some chicks one step on their journey of breathing in the surface of the Earth.

More of Filipino vegetarian diet at the book Gulay: by Nona Lema available in bookstores nationwide.

Can you Imagine That?

Scientist Freeze Water with Heat! Now that's hot or cool!?

Imagine water freezing solid. That's one unusual thing scientist now find water is capable of.

Popular belief contends that water freezes at 320F (00C). Surprisngly if water lies in a smooth bottle and is free of any dust, it can stay liquid down to minus 40degrees fareinheit in what's called "supercooled form"(really!). The dust and rough surfaces that water is normally found in contact with in nature can serve as kernels around which ice crystal form.

Now (tadaa) researcher Igor Lubomirsky at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and his collegues have discovered another way to control the freezing point of water - what are called quasi-amorphous pyroelectric thin films. These surfaces change thier electrical charge depending on their temperature.

When pyroelectric surfaces are postively charged water becomes easier to freeze, and when they become negatively charge it becomes harder to freeze.

Positively charged surfaces inspire supercooled water to freeze from bottom up, while negatively charged surfaces caused it to frezze from top to down. This has likelyto do with how water molecules orient themselves - the negatively charged oxygen atoms in water molecules naturally point toward positively charged surfaces, while the reverse is tru with hydrogen atoms.

(So what!?Now the application)

The ability to better control the freezing temperature of supercooled water could be critical for a variety of applications, including survival of cooled-blooded animals, the cryopreservation of cells and tissues(hmmm), the protection of crops from freezing and the ability to understand and trigger cloud formation.

http://livescience.com/

Panoramic Cebu

One of Cebu's famous landmark is the historic lighthouse at Bagacay Point in the northern town of Liloan Cebu. It was built in 1904 through General William Howard Taft. The tower is 72 feet tall and emits light which reaches up to 17 nautical miles. This tower is an American inspired colonial architechture which is one the remnants of American Colonialism in the country.

*Photo taken at 6:30 Pm

Dine Cebu! Part II

How does it feel to dine at the top of the mountain? If you don't know the answer, try to have a visit at Mr. A restaurant. They offer great food and a great and serene place.

Getting there: 10-15 minutes by taxi

Dine Cebu!

Filipino food is best for Filipinos and recommended for non-Filipinos, have it at the Mesa Restaurant only at the Terraces Ayala Center Cebu.

They can offer you authentic modern Filipino cuisine at an affordable price.

Kaon na ta!