Foot and Fire

Ugggh, I was making this blog entry on Roosevelt Island while in the train from New York to Hamilton, New Jersey and I was not able to SAAAAAAVE it. Okay, let me try it the second time and see if it can be sweeter.  So what's special about this island? Well, I rather choose this over TIMES SQUARE at night with all blazing neon lights and crowds of tourists and locals alike. We call that Tita moment in the Philippines (imagine an auntie sleeping early and no noise please pleas)! Roosevelt Island was formerly a location for an insane asylum and a chickenpox hospital. Now it houses a couple of well-kept charming parks. One awesome reason to come here is because it can be accessed by riding a tramway or cable car which is part of the metrocard or the public transportation system. Part of my unlimited rides!  Upon going down the cable car, one can walk briskly or leisurely through a tree-lined boulevard overlooking the Manhattan skyline. At the entry towards th...

My parents had a blast watching the breathtaking view of the Marapara and Kanlaon mountains and greeneries while sitting in the coffee area of La Vista Highlands in San Carlos City. *** The view of the mountains first enticed the owner Architect Albert Garbanzos  to buy and develop the property as he likened what he saw to Mt. Fuji of Japan.  According to the story, the original owner of the land  sold the 24 hectare property to him because of his good purpose of developing it into a resort and of preserving at least 10 percent of the land by planting trees. However, that is only half of the story because the original owners felt good about him and  it was as if the "diwata" or a mountain fairy has already told them whom to sell the land to.   (Continue below) *** This is what we came for. Although the sun is up at nine o'clock in the morning,  the breeze coming from the mountains was cool and refreshing. *** To fin...