Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Cagayan River Rafting

Grateful for the 3-day ASEAN Summit holidays in Metro Manila, I flew to Cagayan de Oro City with Alma Mariano assisting, to conduct the Ring-fencing and business planning workshop sponsored by DILG.

After the tiresome 3-day workshop, the training team took a break and ventured into one of our common bucketlist - the river rafting.


Thursday, November 2, 2017

Go Back to Malaysia

Auntie Myrna and I have an extended trip. From Luang Prabang, we flew to Malaysia to join the Go Family in their tour of Malaysia.

Johor Bahru City
Legoland Hotel
Due to the very long queue for immigration clearance in KLIA, we missed the Malaysian Airlines flight to Johor Bahru at 2PM. We passed through the immigration at barely 2PM but we still have to take to train to get to the other airport. So we decided to rather take the bus and reached JB at sundown. We reunited with Rose, Ruth, Jun and the kids at Legoland Park.



Legoland is basically for kids, but we enjoyed the new section of the park, the Water Park. We stayed at the hotel from Nov 2 to 3 before heading back to Kuala Lumpur.

The fun of building Lego bricks starts at the Hotel Lobby


Even the Dining area, from plates to furnitures is made of Lego Building Blocks


Singapore City
Singapore is just a bridge away from JB. Auntie Myrna and myself skipped the second day in Legoland to cross the border to Singapore. It was my nth time in SG, so it's no longer exciting. It was second visit for Auntie Myrna who claimed that she was not able to go around on her first step. So I played the tourguide for her.

With only a day to spare, we have not reached as much destinations to cover. I showed her the areas around Marina, Vivo City Mall, and the Bugis Station.

Some snapshots in Marina Bay area

A moment at Bugis

Snack time at Vivo City Mall


Jun and Ruth hired a family van to drive to KL on Nov 3. We reached Mandarin Oriental Hotel in the afternoon and stayed there until Nov 5. To tour around the city, we patronized the Hop on Hop off Bus Tour. Since it was raining the whole time we were there, we only checked the National Museum, the Royal Palace, and the Petronas Twin Tower.


Since we stayed within the KLCC area, a pose with Petronas Twin Tower is at our disposal



We got a free day to be away from kids. So we four went to visit the Batu Cave taking the city trains





Even the visit to the Royal Palace, the kids won't enjoy. But still we pulled a nice family picture.

Ruth and Jun with baby Shiloh at the Museum

Inside our Mandarin Oriental Hotel accommodation