Big Cypress National Preserve : A Tour of the Wildside

 

Visits to parks like the Big Cypress National Preserve where there's a gator to your left, a gator to your right, an osprey overhead, and a heron right in front of you does a great job to remind me how lucky I am to be able to visit a country with so much biodiversity in addition to parks and preserves that ensure I'm not the last generation that gets to enjoy it.

The preserve is actually more like a swamp that is often called a park. It is a vast area being approximately 720,000 acres in size. The really big virgin cypress trees were cut down several years ago but the preserve maintained its name. The cypress swamp is sort of dry in the dry season and the rest of the year is a swamp.

The preserve also gets rather busy during hunting season. Rifle and bow hunting are allowed at different times of the year so you better check their web page for these seasons.

Marco Island : Sunset Tripping Along the Beach

Just checked in at the Marriott hotel in Marco Island, Florida Resort near Naples. Its a beautiful property with an amazing view of the beach and truly perfect for weekend getaways.This world-class resort is situated on three miles of pristine beachfront property and offers an exhilarating retreat from the ordinary.

Marco Island was originally named San Marco Island by Spanish explorers. It is is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States, located on an island by the same name in the Gulf of Mexico located at Southwest Florida's Gulf coast. It is graced with miles of white-sand beaches, luxurious real estate, beautiful year-round weather, sumptuous restaurants, fine shopping, dining, lively entertainment, attractions and plenty of recreational activities from boating and fishing, to golf and tennis, and more. All set amid the stunning subtropical beauty that is unique to Southwest Florida's Gulf coast.

Wat Buddharangsi : Hanging Around in a Thai Buddhist Temple

For the first weekend of 2013, let me share with you my trip in Homestead, Florida where my friends and I visited the Wat Buddharangsi - a Thai Buddhist Temple.

Wat Buddharangsi is located on five acres of property at the rural town of Homestead, a short drive from Miami, Florida. The Buddhist temple welcomes everyone who is interested or practices Buddhism. It serves not just as a religious function but also as a welcome center.

Entrance is free and the temple is open every day from 5 Am to 7 PM. Everyone is welcome to visit during those hours and talk with the monks.

B's Cupcakes : Sweets for my Tweets, Sugar for my Tummy

I would surely tweet right now, and every second and every day, until it goes trending #B'sCupcakes to let the world know about the heavenly sweets known as B's Cupcakes.

It's pure sweetness for my tummy all baked to perfection, and creatively designed by hand. You can see and feel the love that is given to create every piece of the mouth-watering cute and adorable cupcakes. My favorite was the vanilla flavor, ......and the chocolate flavor, ......and the.......actually every flavor was yum, yum, yum....so good!!!

What you see on the picture above is an empty box of B's Cupcake. It's empty because everyone in the family loved B's Cupcake so much that these cupcakes disappeared immediately the very first minute I placed them on the dining table.

Kingston Announces 1 TB USB Flash Drive

Can you say " I have 1 terabyte of storage in my pocket?"

Maybe not yet but soon you can!...... with the introduction of the world's largest capacity USB 3.0 Flash drive - a 1TB DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0! Very soon you can say "I have my whole world in my pocket, and a few more to spare for my friends!"

Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, announced the DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 USB Flash drive. DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 is the world's largest-capacity USB 3.0 Flash drive as it will be available in a 1TB capacity later in the first quarter of this year. It is shipping now in 512GB capacity. DT HyperX Predator 3.0 is the fastest USB 3.0 Flash drive in the Kingston family, with speeds of up to 240MB/s read and 160MB/s write. It has also achieved SuperSpeed USB 3.0 certification.


Capacities up to 1TB allow users to store their entire digital world on the DT HyperX Predator. This prestigious drive is compliant with next-generation USB 3.0 specifications and is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 systems. DT HyperX Predator offers superior quality in a high-end design and also features a custom Kingston key ring and HyperX Valet Keychain for added value.

More information here: http://www.kingston.com/us/company/press/article/6487

Chicken Charlie Starts the New Year with a Lot of Children's Smile

Wazzup Pilipinas!

I have a new chicken meal favorite and its called Chicken Charlie!

Just take a look at my souvenir that I brought home from the Virlanie Foundation. It may not look like much from afar, but when you look at it closer, you'll see that it has memorable writings on it. 

It says "Giving back the smile to street children", and this is highly sentimental because it will forever remind me of my experience with the kids of the Virlanie Foundation, and how generous Chicken Charlie was in organizing such a heart-warming event for the homeless, abandoned and abused youth.

The first kid that I met was "BJ", a young teenager who is also a member of the Virlanie choir. He said he will be graduating this March from elementary studies, and was so proud in telling me about it. Aside from singing, he said he also loves to dance with his friends at the foundation. Wow! such a talented kid - he can sing, dance, and tell a story so vibrant and hopeful of the future.

Airports in the Philippines : The Mystery That Is Digichive

The airports in the Philippines are among the worst in the world. Is that so?

There will always be a few cases of unpleasant bathrooms, lost or misplaced baggage, delayed flights, and the list goes on,  but these are the same problems that other airports in the world are also experiencing.

Well, If compared to the other airports I've been to, ours is not really that impressive.,,,,but I agree to the statement that you get to reach the bathroom quicker in Philippine airports as compared to the huge airports of other countries.

I've been to Bangkok, and I had the longest time reaching their toilets. I swear I almost went pee-pee on my pants....hahaha.

Mikey Bustos : Opo Pinoy Style (Filipino Oppa Gangnam Style)

Its about time Mikey Bustos came out with his own version of the Oppa Gangnam Style!

and it even contains a very surprise guest appearance of...Amalayer! Paula Jamie Salvosa!

Hahaha...Opo Pinoy Style! Watch the video and find the lyrics here:

PLDT Waives Tablet Fee For New TelPad Plans

Telecom firm Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) is making an aggressive push for the transformation of its landline service by offering to waive the device fee for its new TelPad plans, a unique offering that combines landline, Internet, and a tablet in one device and service.

Aside from the waived device fee — which used to cost customer a subsidised P5,500 fee for every subscription — the accompanying tablet has also been upgraded to feature a rebranded Huawei MediaPad S7 Lite, a 7-inch tablet that sports a 1.2GHz Cortex A8 processor, a bright WSVGA IPS display, and the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.


The PLDT TelPad is the Pangilinan-led telco’s attempt at transforming its languishing landline business, which in the recent decade had fallen by the wayside as newer communication options — including mobile phones and broadband Internet — had made landline phones irrelevant to most consumers.

By including a free tablet device with every subscription, Filipino families are given a low-cost ticket to owning their first tablet, which the kids can use for school and entertainment or be a handy work companion for parents. Plans start at P1,849, with speeds of up to 1.5 Mbps.

Source: http://www.interaksyon.com/infotech/free-tablet-pldt-waives-tablet-fee-for-new-telpad-subscribers

*Content and photo credit goes to InterAksyon.com

Ben Francia Will Be Sharing His Secret Again

Ben Francia, an Internet Marketing Consultant and Outsourcing Expert with 11 years experience in the Internet Industry is having another workshop on the 30th of January!

This is actually Ben Francia's second offering of the seminar/workshop 'The Secret to Getting Customers and Clients Online". The first one was a huge success and demands for a rerun were so high that Ben had to offer it once again.

Find out how he made a living using the Internet.Learn in this 3-hour Seminar Workshop his SECRET in Digital Marketing that allowed him to get Loyal Customers and Clients Online and earn a regular stable income that is more than enough to sustain his family and lifestyle.