Philippine Blog Awards

Finalist to the Philippine Blog Awards, SaGGAs made it to the travel Category along with Lemon Pie House of Business category.

The Awards night was held at PETA-PHINMA Theater New Manila Quezon City of October 9, 2009.

Not expecting the blog making it to the finals, my sisters skipped their Classes and Project activities to accompany me for the night.

mga feeling cool.. up for a picture before attending the event.

It was the first for all of us to join such event, an activity that is outrageously exciting, joyful, and totally awesome.

@left: Me & Debra out for pictures @right: Debra and Kimberly on suspended diet mode.

Making our way to the entrance, we were greeted by the organizers with warmth and offered with incredibly satisfying food. I wished we could have arrived there earlier... hahahaha

Owww Yeahh!!! that would be ever Wonderful Gareth

After eating, visiting booths, collecting freebies, and meeting other bloggers, the awards activity finally started.

@left: Checking the Goodies @right: Kim feel na feel

We totally enjoyed every bit of that evening as beautiful and handsome people hit the stage with humor and short presentations for the awards.

@left: amm i forgot her name but she rocks @right: mr. smith giving the awards.

SaGGAs and LPH did not make it to number 1 but the recognition to finals was enough to fuel the flame for improvement and continuation.

@left: the Awardees of PBA @right: our ride to the One Blogging Nation

We did not only attend the night for our blogs but represented the IGOROTS in Trends of the World wide web.

We dedicate this feature to our Kailyans who were victims of the Typhoon Pepeng.

Spelunking Attire

What is the best Attire for the Spelunking activity?

Top photo: (Maricel R.) Left: (Rulan C.) Right: (Carol)

From the photos above, what do they have in common?

• Beautiful (check)
• Neat looking (check)
• hotties (check)
• athletic (check)

Not actually the answers we’re looking for, it’s about their attire.

All of emm are in leggings/tights/spandex right?

why?

• It gives the lower body easy movement and flexibility.
• creates a secondary skin to your legs reducing the risk from scratches
• easily dries up when soaked wet, and helps keep the body warm
• maintains a lovely figured image of your selves in photos.

*note: select the tougher garment when deciding to wear leggings because some rocks are sharp enough to tear your pants once you sat on it. An alternative is to wear a short pant over the leggings.

Photo sent by ms. Nulada Ma Theresa

@left: Bernade A. @right: Discover asia clients ? ?

Other options:

• jog pants – this is maybe very helpful to protect your skin from possible scratches but might get heavy once soaked wet.

@left: Kimberly L @right: Lea in the middle

• Short pants – makes movement easy and you look pretty much lovelier looking on photos, but, not as effective as long pants that protect your body from possible scratches.

@left: photo by Dianne @right: ammm???

For upper body

• any shirt can do.
• easy dry shirts are advised.
• avoid using whites because of stains.

For MEN:
Any short pants can do however; we also would want to be incredibly amazing, neat and athletic looking in photo right?
So here are some suggestions:

• cycling shorts/trunks

• above the knee shorts ex. football shorts

For the upper body:

• body fit shirts
• sleeveless shirts
• easy dry shirts

FOOTWEAR

Many tourists consider hiking sandals as the best footwear for the spelunking activity. Not actually right. Spelunking is quite different from Hiking.


What’s the best then?

• Water shoe – the idea is to establish a good grip on the limestone rocks inside the cave. The flexibility of the rubber in the shoe adopts the contour of the rock in the cave trail and easily dries up when wet.

But if you don’t have it, don’t bother buying one. Instead use an:

• Ordinary Slippers/tong/flip flops – there are other parts of the cave that walking barefooted is actually best, so for easier carriage and practicality, get the simplest one you can find. Notice that most of the subjects in the photos are barefooted.

• Croc or clog type slippers – would also be functional enough to protect the feet from scratches and gives a comfortable feeling while making it to the cave trail.

Other things you can use:

• gloves – although not necessary, gloves can protect you from sharp rocks and in contact from mud and guano

• head lamp – very very helpful if you have one of your own, always have them turned off when pausing for a picture though but don’t bother buying one if you don’t have them. The guides have their own lamps to illuminate your path well.