Manila Bulletin’s Picture Perfect: Featuring my own photo

For the second time around, my interest in travel photography is featured in Manila Bulletin’s Picture Perfect 18 June 2013 issue. Raffy Paredes chose one of my photos entitled, Waterlily and he wrote as quoted below:

“Photographer and travel blogger Reymos (
http://etravelworld.blogspot.com/
) sent in the photo titled “Waterlily.” He writes: “This picture was taken inside the Grand Palace (Bangkok) in one of the flower pots inside the palace. Using the macro feature of my Sony Cybershot camera, I was able to capture the texture of the leaves and the flower itself.” Reymos was the first president of the 3Di Photo Club organized under the FPPF program last 2004. The club was featured in this column in 2007.”

My first travel post was published in August 2005 on the same Tuesday special section of MB, entitled – There’s a place like home down under. The article was my experiences travelling in key cities of Australia.

BookTrailers 101: Dan Brown’s Inferno and Carlos Ruiz’s The Prisoner of Heaven

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Sea of clouds at Mt Pulag (Benguet)

THE SECOND HIGHEST MOUNTAIN in the Philippines, Mt Pulag is a popular summer destination nowadays, not only for mountain climbers but for nature’s lovers. With an affordable packaged deal I was able to join my officemates and discovered this natural park in the northern tip of the country.

With long hours of trips (bus, jeepneys) and treks (almost 4.5 hours), I witnessed one of the magical scenes in Mt Pulag – maybe only in this mountain – the sea of clouds at the early hours of the morning as the sun rises in the horizon. Reaching the summit is the ultimate finale of the climb as my eyes saw the calmness of the clouds on top of Mt Pulag. As the cold breeze touches my face, indeed standing tall on top of the summit is having the feeling to be “free” in the presence of God’s creation.

Welcome to my eWorld…

Hello to my eWorld!

Well, this is not my first created blog but whatever journals written here will complement with my existing blogs powered by other free websites. Basically, this site will serve as the mother portal of all my personal accounts for easy management – updating, uploading and sharing.

My existing sites feature my interest in photography, travel, reading and writing or something worth exploring. In relation to photograhy, I included some of the images taken during my travels or just simply interesting places that capture my eyes through my digital camera.

In terms of moving around the globe, I joined several travel sites to share my experiences and provide assistance to other travellers making their future trips memorable and enjoyable, and be able to explore stunning places around the world. I also included my interest in writing reviews with my membership to ciao and dooyoo. Finally, my other accounts from free websites.

For quick links of these pages, just click the subheadings listed or the thumbnails images below:

My World : This section simply focuses on my fascination of Mother Earth – how we could protect and conserve its natural beauty for future generations. This also covers my academic world as an engineer, planner, manager and or an ordinary human being (social and spiritual being).

Travel Blog: Provides a list of my travel journals with images

Trivago: A travel site which I am getting extra income for posting of images, reviews and other travel info

Consumer site: Highlights my membership with dooyoo and ciao where I post reviews of products and services, anything that I want to share with the rest of the consumers worldwide

Atbp: Provides a space for my personal interests and hobbies, something worth exploring

Hope you enjoy reading my blog and please come again and I am happy to receive your comments. Again, click the photo thumbnails below for direct links to the rest of my blog pages. Best REYgards!

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I am also featuring some of my favourite films, musicals and other events…  Im a film and musical fanatic, and Im sure you will be excited to find out more of these fascinating productions. Well, I have dedicated blog links on these categories to explore and be my guest.

 

Heroes is an awesome TV series and I do watch it regularly. I have the complete season’s DVD copies (1-3 series), including magazines relating to this phenominal production. I love the characters, including the actors/actresses that portrayed their roles! Watch out for the 5th season to be premiered on 21 September 2010!

Im enjoying watching the first season of the newest US tv series, GLEE. The arrangements of the songs are brilliant. For the second offering, Im quite curious on what this TV series will offer to the viewers worldwide especially that our very own Filipino sensational young singer, CHARICE PEMPENGCO will be one of the new casts in the sitcom as an (international) Filipino exchange student. September 21, 2010 is the premiere date of Season 2…

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ONE YEAR AND ONE MONTH PAST…after finally settling back in the Philippines. Nothing to complain but so far sooooo good with my life right now. It is not a smooth-sailing life but I am happy and fulfilled! My current work provides me the luxury to travel in the country. Being part of a group of technical people working so hard to ensure our environment is well-guarded from any man-made activities is worth keeping. This is not new to me, but the challenge is to come-up with a study that will not only encourage big investments in the Philippines but also ensure that the impacted communities will benefit in the projects, particularly the indigenous people.

On the other hand, few months ago, I was diagnosed with a multi-level disc desiccation – a common problem that affects the discs located in the neck.  This health condition is not life-threatening but the way my first doctor disclosed my condition, it was a shocking revelation! My first reaction is I am going to be paralyzed – I will be hopeless and it was a 360 degrees-life changing realization! God is merciful and now I am getting better after a series of therapies and of course the moral and spiritual support from family and friends. It will take months to fully recover or maybe it will be there forever, but it is not something to fear about! At least having second and third opinions of my neck problem, it provided me a peace of mind that I will not be spending thousands of pesos to implant a titanium material between two discs, not to mention other expenses such doctor’s fees, medication and rehabilitation.

Until now, I am still in the “state of denial” – thinking that I am healthy, strong and this will not happen to me! But reflecting on it, sometimes we feel that nothing worse will come in our way and it is impossible that this problem will strike us… we are unguarded and to the point that we are feel helpless and the good things we have done are not good enough to save us! This is not the end… God is there for me and He will always remind me to take this a challenge to be a better person to others, a better brother to my siblings, a better son to my parents.

Picturesque of Batangas at dawn

Taken during the early morning hours in Batangas City near the fuel refinery plant of Shell.

Now accepting: Australia Awards Scholarships Applicants til 30 April 2013

ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR ASPIRING FILIPINOS to undertake postgraduate studies in Australian colleges and universities.  If you want to make a difference in your professional career, and to gain new leadership and technical skills to help build your community, region or country, then this is your chance to be selected and be part of a new generation of Filipinos to study in Australia next year.

AustraliaAwards provides grants to qualified applicants to pursue Masters and PhD degrees  in the following areas of study: mining and mining-related, climate change, disaster risk reduction and management, governance, basic education, etc.

For additional information click the image below or contact the Australia Awards Secretariat at: (02) 6389686 or email: secretariat@australiaawards.ph.