Manila Ocean Park

Something's missing in the title! It should be, "The di-matuloy-tuloy Manila Ocean Park lakwatcha" Kung kailan malapit ang pupuntahan, di naman matuloy-tuloy! We had around 3-5 reschedules just for this! We are 7 in the group kaya din siguro medyo mahirap pagtagpuin ang sched.

We bought a 399 promo last August 2011 from http://www.ensogo.com.ph/ which includes three attractions, the Oceanarium, the Sea Lion Show and the Musical Fountain Show. The voucher will be expiring on the last day of Feb 2012 and as always we decided to just avail it near the last day.

The good thing about purchasing it online aside from the big discount we got is that we didn't have to fall in line in the ticketing section which would be super hassle since it was a Sunday. Daming tao! We immediately proceed to the reservation area, just need to sign some stuffs and had our tickets without hassle.

 all for 399 :)

Can you see the not-so-organized line to the Oceanarium? 

We arrived past 1pm and decided to have the Oceanarium first.

 Pajama Cardinalfish

They don't move that much. As in nakaganyan lang sila.

 crabs

Stonefish

Snowflake Moray Eel / Starry Moray Eel

The tunnel which I didn't really appreciate. The picture says it all!

Para akong nakipaggitgitan sa Divisoria!

 Black tip shark

 Albino ba tong shark na to? Hihi.

White tip shark

Yes, hindi lang naman bata ang pumapasyal sa MOP. Pati isip bata :))

Since very disappointing ng tunnel, sa picture na naman kami nagenjoy. I have this mini tripod na sinet-up namin sa lapag para kita ang Stingrays sa ceiling. :) 

 The regular tripod we have

And the my mini tripod na nakakatakot kasi sa dami ng tao hindi imposibleng masipa at tumilapon anytime :))

4:30pm, we watched the Sea Lion Show. As usual, muntik na namang kaming malate because upon the exit of the Oceanarium, ang dami dadaanan at napapapicture kami anywhere. 

 Jampacked!!

This is just on my right side, the other half is also full!

And since we're late we just seated in the stairs exactly in the middle which was a nice decision! 

 Elka was the lucky guest to have a close encounter with the Sea Lion

Kiss♥

Sarap, ang lansa! :)))

After the Sea Lion Show, we again needed to fall in line for the 6pm Musical Fountain Show.

Not oh so amazing. Maybe because we watched the 6pm show and medyo maliwanag pa.

 Falling Starfish, Shooting Starfish and Rising Starfish

Maybe we'll be back for the Trails to Antarctica and Seriland!

Shout out to group buying sites! More promos! Hehe!

Other photos are from Elka and Rence :)

Manila Ocean Park

http://www.manilaoceanpark.com/

Chinx♥

Luglugan: Pancit Malabon Festival

Even before I started blogging, I'm already a fan of some travel blogs and my favorite part of their blogs are those bongga festivals they were able to witness. I actually tried to book a flight to Cebu for Sinulog Festival early next year, but failed! Better luck next time. :) And I realized, we have this Luglugan Festival in Malabon, I don't need to go to other places and spend a lot.

It is now the 8th year of the said festival which is a project of Congresswoman Jaye Lacson-Noel and is yearly organized by Malabon M. E.T.R.O (Medical Emergency Transport and Rescue Organization) headed by Jojo Flores and overall organizer this year si Jonjon Santos.

Year 2009, Luglugan Festival was recognized as the Best Tourism Event for food category of the Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines (ATOP)

 Drums and Lyre c/o Councilor Ian Borja

Valenzuela Marching band c/o Mayor Sherwin Gatchalian

Higantes from Angono, Rizal

Selected students of Malabon National High School 

And of course, the highlight of the event is the giant Pancit Bilao measuring 15 feet in diameter, divided into 4 triangular trays, with almost 90 kilos of noodles. Four different Pancit-makers in Malabon were given each tray to fill in.

A tray was given to my grandmother. She has been doing this for the festival for a few years already. 

(c) Jay-jay Cruz

(c) Jay-jay Cruz

(c) Jay-jay Cruz

Good thing my cousin took some photos because I was in somewhere :)

The view of the giant bilao before the parade started. Succeeded in trying to catch the truck with the giant bilao. Checked! 4 tray completed.

Clockwise from upper left: Nanay's ; Rosy's ; Zeny's(my grandmom's) ; Roy's 

Thanks to Miggy Santos for taking these pictures for me :)
(Enough for these pictures. Nakakagutom!!)

Time to eat. :))
They provided 7000 paper plates for distribution but others were very ready and brought their own plastic bags and bowls, approximately 8000 people were fed.

Anong sinabi ng lalagyan niyo sa hawak ni Congresswoman? Iseserve pa yata sa catering yung hiningi! :))

Congresswoman Jaye Lacson-Noel, serving the Pancit Malabon

I think there was a program after this.

See you on the 9th year! :)

Natawa ako sa pagkakapose ko dito. :))

After the parade, the Higantes were set aside. and it's time to have some pictures....

 Badtrip kasi, daming nagpapapicture sa 4 na higantes at hindi kami makasingit. Since hindi naman namin habol magkaroon ng picture sa 4 na higantes (kadamutan begins), pinatalikod namin yung dalawa habang nagkakagulo yung iba sa isang side. Wise. :)

Chinx♥