Several months ago, Karen and I decided to go on to a trip to Jagna, Bohol. It’s to visit her relatives whom she hadn’t met since 4 years ago. I was supposed to go with her 4 years ago but to some unfortunate events. But now, I got to go wth her! :)
So! Here are some little pictures that I have been trying to take with great accuracy to explain what Jagna, Bohol is in my perspective. I don’t usually include myself in the picture because I am unintersting compared to the great scenery, culture, food, and experiences here in Jagna.
A Google maps of where Jagna is:
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We arrived at the port of Tagbilaran which is approximately 64KM away from Jagna. It is the only City of Bohol. about 20KM from here will be the entrance to Carmen - Where you get to view the famous Chocolate Hills of Bohol.
Where is Tagbilaran?
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While leaving Tagbilaran City, we almost forgot about the Blood Compact site. For more information about the site, try checking out http://www.bohol-philippines.com/blood-compact-site.html
As we were nearing Jagna, we noticed that there is a structure that’s overlooking the sea.
We arrived at home. They call this house “Balay Dako” or “Big House”. This is an old house where a lot of Karen’s relatives used to visit and live in. Now, there are only a couple of people currently living in the house.
This is their front yard
The other view of the yard:
After arriving at the house, we visited one of Karen’s relative who’s just approximately 1 city block away. We had to trek some hills with medium vegetation though.
Later, we got held by another relative of Karen’s who’s about 5 city block away from where we were. We just had to treck about 200 meters of medium level elevation.
Here is a view of their place:
We stayed there until sunrise:
The view of the sunrise from their door-less entrance: 
A cricket just happened to be hanging out with me:
The sunrise with the tent:
View of the sunrise if you’re a bug:
After some few moments with Karen’s relatives, we decided to go explore more of the island. We tried heading off to Anda, which is roughly 43KM from Jagna. one of Karen’s relatives went there and told us about the white beach. Anda is basically a town with several white beach resorts, several sea caves, a turtle hatchery, marine sactuary and most of all, a tourist spot (Which we really did not know until we arrived there).
While going to Anda, we had to ride the road going up, but when we were at the crest of the road, this was the view:
The entrance to Anda which surprise us:
Where is Anda?
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When we were trying to find the white beach resort we came upon a beach we thought that was it. Much to our confusion; we were astounded with what we came across.
The sea water here is ridiculously clear!!
Awesome landscape!
Some rooms that you can rent for PHP 5,000 or USD 120 per night.
By now, we’re really asking ourselve if the entrance and the usage is free. What kind of thinking is that??!! Of course there’s a fee!! While thinking and trying to look for a person in charge of charing people of entrance fees, we stayed in a cottage for about 5 mins.
The cliffs from the cottage view. Okay this is the last one from this beach, because we were approached by a very nice woman that the entrance is not free and we can pay PHP 100 or USD 2.40 per head. The cottage is not free too! We did not ask anymore because it seems tha thte entrance is already expensive enough. May I sit on the sand instead? Haha, joke! Okay, she let us away with no charges at all as long as we didn’t intend to stay for very long (It’s politely saying that you have to leave immediately). Lucky for us, I got to foursquare it, and we got to take a lot of pics before leaving! :)
One last time, and we had to get back home because it was getting late. So we went to another beach. This time we made sure that it was a public place where we don’t have to pay anything to just go look around and stuff.
More cliffs with caves!
The other side of the beach:
Look at how clear it is!!!
While going back, we stumbled upon a batch of baby pineapples!!
Stay tuned! I am still on my Workcation and I will be updating everyday! :)
Whenever I think about Shakespeare; he reminds me about how I am deeply inspired to drive through problems despite the sheer feeling of impossibility of the task. The idea is that when you already see your foe right in front of you and there’s only one way to defeat it and you’re not even sure if your plan would work. Seems impossible right? But you still have the 1% of chance if don’t do anything, so don’t waste it.
Inspiration and determination, these two words describe how Shakespeare impacts the way I live my life. I had 1% before. It goes way back when I started work as a normal data entry job kind of person. I go all of my days entering in data for people to profit upon, and I was stuck in a time where I cannot go out and look for alternatives.
One day, everything stopped. I was out of work for 1 month as I scrambled to look for another one. I got one but eventually discarded it after I realized that I was literally working while hating the job. The journey started there.
One day, I received a job offer from a pretty much start-up company called “The LaC Project”. I was given the offer but I refused to do an interview through Skype video. I almost lost the offer because I was not comfortable facing someone via a video chat (yes, I am an introvert). But then I was given a chance and I knew that that was the only single chance and I had to take care of that 1% of chance.
Okay, fast forwarding some things. I got to join the start-up company but I was not on full time. I was hired as a part time employee. I knew then that if I try to help this small company grow, then we can grow together, plus, what they do is like a treat for me. I loved working with them. Eventually, I earned a position where I get to decide on things and steer where the company would be heading, too.
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers” – King Henry V
Making the story short, I was faced with a very difficult problem of unemployment. Making things worse, I wanted to have a work that I love doing, bringing my chance to 1%. Luckily, I was offered a job on a work that I love doing. I worked hard to help bring the company stand on its own feet. I got to a position where I get to do more awesome things.
That company is Misfit, Inc. and the essence is: us versus the world’s problems, bringing each problem down, one at a time. We had to fight battles where our foes immensely outnumber and outgun us, but we always prevail.
Happy Birthday Shakespeare!! Misfit, Inc. wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you.
taking a break for a while…
Last year was a crazy year that ended with the last quarter with 10X more crazy work. It ended well and we were proud!
I just got the misfit package that AJ sent to me by Misfit, Inc.
AJ told me that he’d be giving me an iPad2 within last year, and wow, he did! :D
Here is the overall package that won’t even fit in a camera shot! :D I haven’t received this so much awesome stuff before, and Misfit, Inc. just did that.
Thank you Misfit, Inc.! Me Gusta!!
So, here’s the breakdown:
2 Phones (HTC Dream [T-mobile G1] and a Google Nexus One)
2 Books (Romeo and Juliet, and Othello - straight from Stratfor upon Avon - Shakespeare’s birthplace)
A pair of apperian shoes - a customized converse shoes (Apperian only gave these to the first 50 employees, and yes I am quite lucky that I got a pair :P )
A Domo Shirt!!! :D Thank you AJ, Melissa, Misfit, Inc.! :D
A freshbooks prefessional shirt (This is so much my favorite that I reserve wearing this on the days I gusta)
Box.net’s No Sharepoint Shirt (There were so much stuff that I forgot to take a picture of this)
A Kodak Zx3 waterproof Playsport Camera
A Manhattan Portage bag and Pouch
The last but but not the least, the iPad2 (it’s got my name on it - me gusta)!
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I could never express myself clearly to anybody, but there is one part of literature that I value a lot for explaining a lot of human feelings to the world. What’s there more to explain when you’ve got Shakespeare’s literature to explain what you really feel.
Today is Shakespeare’s Birthday. I celebrate his life, time, and works through sharing with you what, where, and how I’ve experience Shakespeare in my life. We are having a huge event in honor of Shakespeare in Happy Birthday Shakespeare.
While I was in high school, hearing about Shakespeare gave me all the intimidation I needed to fear learning his literature. As a person who really has quite a little to say to anyone, this certainly made me walk away from it. When we started our lessons in Shakespeare, there was this one teacher who inspired me to learn and understand the writings; how to feel, move, say and act it.
During the classroom times, our teacher Ralph Cicero, enthusiastically speaks several lines of Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets and books to the class. What interested me the most is how my teacher portrayed the feelings passed through the writings. One piece that you can feel the feelings from Shakespeare’s literature is through the Sonnets.
Although sonnet line “Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?” has been used so many times, but it literally explains quite a lot of your feelings to someone whom you admire, love or like. How else can you look for something to describe how you feel but through that line?
How can you express anger and vengeance but through Shakespeare’s Macbeth? A line from Macbeth would be “Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.” Anger is greatly portrayed on such story that the imagery used alone explains all how vengeance is horrid and at the same time amazingly clear in Macbeth.
Having all these to say, it’s inspiring to think that you’ve got Shakespeare’s literature to back you up. Having remembered all these, I couldn’t have learned all about Shakespeare without my enthusiastic teacher and the ever so intriguing lines from Shakespeare.
Now, I am in a company who is really enthusiastic and crazy about Shakespeare that we incorporate him into our works. Shakespeare, I salute you! Happy Birthday!! :)