Ondoy drowns Vermont Park

photo by flydaniel

September 26, 2009 – Typhoon Ondoy hits Manila, Rizal, Marikina, Pasig and other parts of the Metro. This photo was taken afternoon September 27, 2009 the day after Ondoy’s devastating flood drowned Vermont Park. The flood rised so high up to the point that the spikes are the only left seen on our gate. Three of our near neighbors evacuated on our 2nd floor to save little children, some of their assets and even a dog. This is the first time and the worst tragedy that ever happened to our village, on the brighter side, Ondoy created a tighter bond between Albany Extension neighbors. We’re all happy everyone in the street survived!

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Waling-Waling beachfront

photo by flydaniel

4th Monthsary at Boracay (yeah, cheesy title)

photo by stranger

A 3 days/2 nights vacation with my lovely girlfriend at Waling-Waling Resort in Boracay (September 23-25). We find the weather perfect…yeah, seriously! We plan to go back for another fun & longer stay, and next time we’re gonna go get some tasty lobster!

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Sea of Clouds on the way to Kalibo

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Way Past Bedtime Productions

photo by Alexander Oracion

Unang Burda

Artist: Engel Lucas (photos by Engel Lucas)

This is my first tattoo. We mixed 3 hanya masks (face, headdress, and colors)  from 3 different tattoo magazines. This is what came out…. and because it looks aztec to me, i named it Ateth (ang labo.. hehe)

Flydaniel INKED.

Artist: Engel Lucas (Dutdutan '07-'08 3rd place)

got my first tat! finished at 4AM. sorry honey, you stayed up late coz of this. i love you

Batulao Descent

“flyninja” photo by Marco Perreras

We did a night trek and took the “new trail” to  Mt. Batulao’s summit on July 4, 2009. This photo was taken the day after, while going back to the jump-off point (EverCrest). The trek down was freakin’ hot since Batulao is carpeted with cogon grass and it doesn’t have trees to shade mountaineers on trail. The structure of the mountain is stunning!

P.S.   Lance Kaye Valle welcome to Hardcore Mountaineers!

Anawangin Cove

The sands in Anawangin Cove are said to be volcanic white sands from Mt. Pinatubo’s eruption .

Photo by flydaniel

According to locals of San Antonio, Zambales, they call that little island Susong Dalaga which means a maiden’s breast. I then asked: ‘Where’s the nipple?’

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Pundaquit Summit

Sandwiched by two islands (Capones & Camara)

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Ivan is back from the US and Jeka just celebrated her birthday – two good reasons to do a Hardcore climb! We didn’t hire a guide that’s why we got lost in Mt. Pundaquit. We can’t find a god damn trail so we pioneered a hardcore trail that stretched the supposed-to-be 3 to 4 hour climb to a long 8 hour exploratory trek. 70% of the trail we took up to the summit is streaming water, the remaining 30% is bamboo. Our emergency camp is dope! NO TENTS! Pointed rocks are scattered along the area leaving no spots for pitching tents. We’re like “find your own comfortable spot” haha! We’re   so thankful it didn’t rain though internet weather forecast predicted “A thunderstorm or two” in Zamables.  We reached Anawangin Cove the next day. The place was GREAT! But I’m a bit disappointed we didn’t get to visit Capones Island which is included on our side trip because the itinerary has been RUINED. We plan to come back to the cove via Mt. Balingkilat next time btw

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