Learning is Fun

I got new certificate for Social and Business Events Management.

It is nice to go back to school and refresh brain.  It is not that I have not attended previous training, in fact my previous career as a cabin crew required yearly review and training.   I was excited meeting new people and gaining new knowledge.  

  

I remember when I took the lesson on Significance of Touch Therapy, a Swedish massage in 2005 there was number of students, this time we are only three.   Anyway, training will be more focus on three of us however it is more fun when meeting more faces. 

I achieved my expectation in learning the know how to put up an event either for LOL – Labor-of-Love (free of charge for family but not encourage ☺) and business wise.  

2 Days Training on : Social and Business Events Management

Training school :  Negoskwela Quezon City

Facilitator: Allan Hilary Orgas

Classmates:  Princess Regio and Josie Panaligan

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Mt. Samat National Shrine, Bataan

It was one fine day, woke up inspired and looking forward in spending the day by myself.  I want to  be on a zenith  to embrace the solitude of the loving nature.  

You know the feeling when you are up there and looking at the bottom?  It feels like everything on earth is just so small. The thing that bothers us is just a dot size, maybe just a dust that will disappear in wind.  Let it go.  Do not worry, just dance with the wind, like the wind, we feel its presence but doesn't stay.  It was my birthday, that's a gift to myself.  I want her to feel good and feel lighter.  Just be you.  I love myself. 

Mt. Samat is located in Balanga, Bataan.  It's the nearest high location and it was my first time to travel to Bataan.   I am excited to do something for the first time (again) to let my feet take me away. 

Are you ready?  I am ready.

I traveled by bus from SM Pampanga, any bus with Balanga sign will do.  I got into the First North Luzon Bus  to Balanga - Victory Bus Terminnal for P99 pesos fare and took me an hour and 40 minutes travel.    Then took a trike to take me to Balanga Terminal, the driver was charging me P20 pesos, I object saying I thought it's only P10 pesos ( I read it from a blog), and driver agreed. The trike did not run far.  You know what,  I could have just walk that distance of more or less a 100 meters.  Would be nicer if he just pointed me the location.  Well, anyway, I understand that he was trying to make a living, but!!!  That's  what happen when you don't know the area.  Take note of that…that's a lesson.

Then from Balanga terminal take a jeepney to "Cabog-cabog".  Tell the driver to Mt. Samat, the fare is P18 pesos. The driver will drop you off at the foot of Mt. Samat where trikes are waiting for passengers. 

Trike to Mt. Samat charges P100 pesos per head one way and P200 pesos for two way.   The trike will run with 2 passengers before it will go to Mt. Samat.  Since I was by myself I had to pay double, P400 pesos to go and back. 

The entrance fee was P30 pesos with an access to the lift to the museum on top of the cross, however the lift was not serviceable for many months, that's according to the guard.   Anyway the shrine was open from 8:00 am till 5pm.

Happy birthday to me

Mt. Samat National Shrine also known in Tagalog as Dambana ng Kagitingan or Shrine of Valor.   It is situated in Barangay Diwa, Pilar, Balanga, Bataan. 

I am blessed to see you and feel nature

The Battle of Bataan

The memorial was built to honor the Filipino and American soldiers who fought during World War II against the Japanese Army in 1942.

The Shrine was completed and inaugurated in 1970 during the time of President Marcos.

A fulfilled day.
Thank you.

Mt. Samat National Shrine

Barangay Diwa, Pilar, Balanga, 

Bataan, Philippines

February 10, 2017

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When Gardening Goes Nuts

Mag-tanim ay hindi biro (farming is no joke) is a farmers' song, which tells how difficult it is for farmers who were hunchback the entire day of planting.  

This song turn out to be so real and literally farming is no joke for someone who knows nothing about planting.   

This is when gardening goes nuts. 

I thought it would be nice to have a small plot in adjacent vacant lot. A little greenery would add life.   A week spent in cleaning and removing the grass in the making of the small plot.

I remember my mom buying plants that are placed in a small black plastic with mixed of soil and palay husks. 

So I purchased 2 sacks of palay husks from the rice mill and mixed it on the soil that I prepared.  

After a few days…ta-da!  

What an odd surprised!  There are many, as in many, many tiny green spikes and sneaking out from the soil.  Keeps on growing taller day by day.  There's more and denser than normal grass. 

The palay leaves keeps on growing and that required more time and effort in removing it, simply by pulling them just doesn't work.  Will I harvest more palay this time?   I laughed at myself for what a toinks! toinks! (think of your own words) I  have done.  

It is funny how I learned from this :). 

Well, now that kept me busy, removing the palay young leaves before they get even taller as that will be much harder to remove.

I was curious though whether they will bear palay :).  

What do you think?

  

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