Cebu Pacific Zamboanga Promo

Cebu Pacific is offering a Php888 go-lite promo good for travel from December 1, 2009 to February 28, 2010. This domestic seat sale runs from October 24 to 27 only.

They’re calling this the So Fare, So Good promo. All flights are sold at Php888 one way. Here are the domestic routes:

Manila to Zamboanga (and vice versa)
Cebu to Clark (and vice versa)
Cebu to Zamboanga (and vice versa)
Davao to Zamboanga (and vice versa)

There’s also an international seat sale. Here are the routes and prices:

Php999
Clark to Bangkok (and vice versa)
Clark to Macau (and vice versa)
Clark to Hong Kong (and vice versa)
Clark to Singapore (and vice versa)

Php2499
Manila to Incheon (and vice versa)
Cebu to Busan (and vice versa)
Cebu to Incheon (and vice versa)

Php2599
Manila to Osaka

And the last piece of good news is: if you’re traveling from Clark to Hong Kong, Macau, Bangkok or Singapore (or vice versa), you get 30 kilos free baggage allowance! To book a flight, just visit their website or call the Cebu Pacific hotline numbers (02)7020-888 or (032)230-8888.

Philippine Airlines, Inc., also known as PAL, is the premiere and official airlines of the Philippines. PAL operates from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Manila and from the Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Cebu.

PAL was founded on February 26, 1941 and started operating on March 15, 1941.

Philippine Airlines serves flights from the Philippines to the United States (San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Honolulu), Canada (Vancouver), Australia (Melbourne and Sydney), the Middle East (Doha, Dubai, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi), China (Hong Kong, Macau, Xiamen, Beijing, Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh), South Korea (Seoul and Busan), Japan (Fukuoka, Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka), Taiwan (Taipei) and South East Asia (Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Bandar Seri Bagawan, Kota Kinabalu and Guam).

Philippine Airlines’ domestic destinations include:

• Laoag
• Tuguegarao
• Cauayan
• San Jose
• Busuanga
• Puerta Princesa
• Caticlan
• Kalibo
• Roxas
• Iloilo
• Bacolod
• Cebu
• Tagbilaran
• Dumaguete
• Dipolog
• Ozamiz
• Zamboanga
• Cotabato
• Davao
• General Santos
• Butuan
• Cagayan de Oro
• Surigao
• Ormoc
• Tacloban
• Calbayog
• Catarman
• Legaspi
• Virac
• Naga

Nanobook, netbook, UMPC, it goes by many names. I call it a mini laptop.

My mom just bought an Astone UMPC laptop for herself for Christmas and it’s soooo tiny! She’s not a geek like me (or anything remotely close!) and she only wants the thing so she can bring it with her when she goes to Hong Kong early next year for some important meeting (in case she has to show a Powerpoint presentation).

For such a small package (230×171×29.4mm and a monitor of only 7 inches) and such a low price (P12,000 or less than $300) it packs quite a punch. It has a LAN port, wifi, a webcam, a card reader, bluetooth (Hey! Even my HP laptop doesn’t have that!), and even a touchscreen!

You’d think a little toy like this would only contain around 8gb of space or less like the Asus EEE PC, but no, this thing actually has 60 gigs of hard disk space and a computer memory of1 gig RAM. Yes, it’s running comfortably on Windows XP and can handle the whole Microsoft suite and then some. None of that complicated Linux stuff. (My mom would freak!)

So this is my latest tech tip for travelers. If you want to bring a laptop while going around the world, it’s best to keep it light (the Astone weighs only 0.97kg) and thrifty (in case it gets lost or broken!). The caveat of course is that the keyboard is cramped and the best resolution is WVGA 800×480 but, do you really care, when you’re otherwise occupied in sampling the wonders of the world?

The 2009 Endeavour Awards opened on April 9, 2008 and will close on July 31, 2008.

Awards for international applicants include:

• Postgraduate Awards
• Endeavour Postgraduate Awards (2 – 3 yrs)
• Endeavour Europe Awards (4 mos – 1 yr)
• Research Awards
• Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellowships (4 – 6 mos)
• Endeavour Research Fellowships (4 – 6 mos)
• International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS)
• Vocational Education and Training Awards
• Endeavour Vocational Education and Training (VET) Awards (1 – 2.5 yrs)
• Executive Awards
• Endeavour Executive Awards (1 – 4 mos)

Participating countries include:

We were supposed to go on a fun picnic by the river, my friends and I. We hadn’t seen each other in a while. I don’t talk much about my friends, but I am really quite fond of them, and very proud of their achievements.

Chris, my bestest friend in high school, very friendly and honest, is now a civil engineer. He graduated at the top of his class and topped one of his licensure exams. I am so proud of him, and all I wish is for him to achieve all his dreams.

Katrina, bright, bubbly and always chatty, is an economist by profession, traveller by heart. She has been all over Europe and is now working nearer home, in Hong Kong. I have not seen her for years and it is she I miss the most.

Brian, my most vulnerable friend, is the experimenter. He refuses to follow rules, craves taboos, has the most number of friends, and loves attention; but to me he seems as though he is really just looking for himself. Maybe he has found what he has been searching for now.

Donnel, ever the funnyman and sidekick, has always been a friend throughout high school and college. But now he’s the star to his Leila, and though his moments with us and few and far between, he always manages to make his presence felt – especially at the most important times. Between his new job responsibilities and the love of his life – I think he’s in a very happy place.

Raquel, the friend I’ve known the longest but at times I feel as though I know the least, has the smoothest exterior that sometimes I cannot see the troubles brimming underneath – until she explodes. She is a workaholic for HP, and sometimes loves too much for her own good.

And Jotie, the friend with the sharp tongue, uses words to mask vulnerabilities. Unlike Brian, I think he is still searching for himself. But he has a set of good friends who will always be there for him, through thick and thin.

These are my best friends, the persons who know me best of all. They remind me that wherever I am, though at times I feel so alone and lonely, that they’re always there for me.

Okay enough of the nostalgia. Hehehe.

Anyways. We were supposed to have a fun picnic by the Pasonanca river, the prettier and cleanest river in Zamboanga. It should be, since it’s the source of our sweet-tasting water. Why it’s sweet-tasting I would rather not wonder. Hehehe.

Usually the Pasonanca river is very clean, perfect for bathing. A lot of people come for picnics or mountain climbing or trekking or just hanging out with friends. It had been quite rainy the past few weeks and so there was a lot of running water, which I thought was perfect for our outing.

Unfortunately, there had been a bit too much rain, because when we got there, we found out that not only was the water *not* clean, it was also running too fast to be safe for bathing, to the point of dragging big fallen logs in record speed!

We surmised that a natural dam might have been broken, maybe there was a bit of an avalanche, and so the flood of soil and logs. In any case, the picnic was a disaster. Fortunately my friends weren’t *that* mad at me for insisting we go, hehe. They were very sporty about it, and we chose to trek along still and we did manage to have a picnic somewhere along the way – just no bathing.

Still, it was a fun trip all in all.