Travel Confessions: Down the Memory Lane

October 25, 2012 7 Comments

Thank you so much

Carolyn

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Carol gives us our daily reflection in her blog where you would read and at the same you’d have the chance to listen to her very own warm and soothing voice. Awesome, isn’t it? 🙂

She is one of my haiku lovers in For The Love Of Haiku, music lovers in Music Passion, art game players in my Art Game, an author too in the Toothsome Story Game. Yes! Carol is a Versatile Blogger. I am sure you would love her. You would discover that she dances too with her K and there are more to learn about this genuine and beautiful lady. I invite you all guys to visit her world.

So Carol has tagged me to write about my travels, to confess whatever my little heart’s desire, and then this is so fun because I tag anyone of you reading this and if you would like to share with us your travels, please feel free to do so by following these easy rules.

Post a photo (or photos) and description(s) of your confession(s) in a new post.
Tweet your post with hashtag #TravelConfession and follow/tweet @Traveling9to5
Tag 3-5 other travelers you’d love to see confess and tag them on Twitter.

Okay I love to travel a lot and to travel around the world is my heart desire… And if given the chance to travel to the moon or even to Mars I would love to do so 🙂 hahaha

Here are my travels:

Asia

Philippines:

Hong Kong

China- Shenzhen- a great place to start your discovery of China.

Taiwan

Singapore

United States Of America

Las Vegas

Kansas

Chicago

Denver

New York, N.Y. (Manhattan, Bayside Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Long Island)

New Jersey

Georgia

Atlanta

San Francisco

Los Angeles

Corona, California

Palm Spring

San Diego

Hawaii, Honolulu

Europe

Paris, Center and West France

Belgium, Brussels

Middle East

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Jeddah, Riyadh, Hail, Abha)

United Arab Emirated, Dubai

Bahrain

Qatar

Lebanon, Beirut

Syria, Damascus, Aleppo

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You will see some of my travels by clicking:

Jest or J.E.S.T.

(J) Journeys, (E) Excitements or adventures, various (S) Sites or places I visited, and different kinds of people or (T) Taxpayers who I met in my life.
I will add more posts about my travel in the future, especially those countries I have just mentioned above because most of the photos from my past travel are all kept in an album. I have yet to scan some of them so that I can share them here with you 🙂

Anyways in this post I will share with you one of my very latest travels.

La Rochelle, West France

To read more about this City, click here.

I will have more travel confessions to make in the following days or weeks or in the future to come because I would love to visit more countries in Europe, to see the Beautiful Canada, to dance with Carol in her lovely homeland Australia ( I really wish this 🙂 hahaha) and to feel the freezing Alaska. ONE DAY 🙂

But you could peek on my past travels already by cliciking here. Enjoy 🙂

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Filed Under: Holiday, JEST, Life, Places, Travel Tagged With: Abha, artgame, Hong Kong, Jeddah, New York City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Staten Island, Tag (metadata), TravelConfession, Twitter, United States

My First Shooting…

August 1, 2012 17 Comments

It’s Ramadan ( Holy Month) by the way here in the OC (not the Order of Canada, but just a name I invented to call this country, hahaha)

Anyways during Holy Month, my work starts from 9:30pm to 3am.

And so last night before I went to work, I did a “try-out” with my new Canon SLR.

I want to share them here with you 🙂

Just let me know how I did it, hahaha

I took these shots below with a moving car, so I thought I’d click on one of those “sports feature” of my cam in the menu.

A Water Fountain Along Al-Hambra Street, Jeddah

This colorful water fountain is surrounded with lights which change its color every 2 or 3 second so it is fun to see especially at night….

This one is a Prayer Place

It was so fun to shoot. I admit I need to learn more on how to use my new cam.

I created a new blog by the way to share my future shots with you.

So I invite you guys to feel free to follow my journey in the world of pictures here:

I Shoot I Zoom A Sassy Shot

I don’t have anything yet in this blog but it will be available soon.

I expect you all guys to be there with me too. Merci! xoxo

Filed Under: Photography, Photos, Places Tagged With: Allah, fast, Islam, Jeddah, Muslim, Quran, Ramadan, Religion and Spirituality

Creative Chaos Award

March 7, 2012 16 Comments

Welcome to the Creative Chaos Award! This award is for those who think outside the norm…And the designer of this award came from I’m not just weird…

So brace yourself for the following requirements below: 1. You must tell 3 completely weird things about your habits. If you claim to have no weird habits, you’re lying and we’ll have to send an investigative team for further analysis.

2. You must tell why you look at the “glass half full” scenario and ask “what? No coffee?”

3. Complete any one of the following essay questions:

A. You find yourself in a desolate place when your car breaks down. You have no cell phone service, no Walmart (I know, GASP, right?), and only a candy bar for food. It is 150 miles to the closest town. What color are your pants and why?

B. You find yourself having to ride an elevator quite frequently. How do you pass the time to show off your creativity?

4. Then you are to nominate 5 random people.

5. Make sure to show proper gratitude to the person who nominated you whether that is to shower them with gifts, prizes, and cash or to see that they are put into a clown costume and photographed for internet mocking.

6. Make sure to post the award somewhere other than the underside of the toilet seat.

Okay, here are my answers:

1. My 3 habits:

I’m a coffee drinker. I love coffee and I want it hot. So I kept adding hot water in it and then coffee and so on and on, hahahhaha
I am always online. I work in Jeddah so I get to see Vincent after 3 months or sometimes 6 months.. so we sleep together with our web cab on every night and my Skype is always on everyday, even in my dental clinic so anytime of the day my kids and Vincent will just pop up to say hi to me, so it’s like we are together everyday except via air or web…Weird isn’t it?
I wear long black dress (known as Abaya) whenever I am in public places. My life here in Jeddah is not normal. Although Jeddah now is somewhat open in comparison to other cities in Saudi Arabia, it’s still a must to always wear black when you are outside or in the public places. The good thing is that I can expose my hair and face because I am not a Muslim but in some cities in Saudi Arabia you have to cover your face. Or else men here who rarely see women will eat you alive… hahahha

2. A ‘glass half-full’ scenario… I see life in my own universe differently 🙂

3. I choose B. I might take the stairways sometimes to break the monotony and to burn some extra calories too.

4. My nominees are:

Androgoth A Ghoulishly Exciting Read…

His blog is creepy and full of wickedness but Andro is one of my sweet buddies here in Blog-sphere. I know he wouldn’t like this but I am nominating him still for this award so that all of you would dare give a visit to his blog and see for yourself that he deserved this award too.

The Obamacrat

By the title of his blog itself you can already tell that his blog is unique and one of a kind. Curious already? Well, then go ahead check him out!

TANIAJESSICASMITH

Visit her one of a kind world in pictures.

Things I Think I Thunk, pt. l

You wanna meet my four buddies- Buck, Cuda, Snoop and Ziggy? Well you better check their master. He sure has a lot to tell you about.

Well, this one… I really don’t know where he came from but he likes Toothsome very much. And tha’s the only thing that makes him so brilliant about… Ya, he is so smart that I want to whack him 🙂 It’s a must that you pay him a visit!

5. I thank Cindy

One Mind Many Detours

For nominating me with this award. I believe she is the master mind behind of all of these awards.

ssshhh...she is one of them...

6. Done… I prefer to even flush it down… LOL by Toothsome

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Awards Tagged With: awards, Coffee, Creative Chaos Award, Jeddah, Mobile phone, Saudi Arabia, Skype, Toilet seat, Walmart

Kreative Blogger Award

January 26, 2012 22 Comments

Kreative Blogger Awards

If you like some Spiritual Lift this is the blog you want to visit:

while those who seek “The Journey,not destination” I suggest you visit this blog:

I thank Jean for my second Kreative Blogger Award and Bianca for my third Kreative Blogger Award! Those two bloggers above are just awesome. Feel free to visit them 🙂

Thank you so much girls!

Now for the rules of this award:

1. Share ten (10) things no one (meaning the blogging community) know about yourself.

Here goes:

I cannot swim but I float and was able to finish my Open Sea Scuba Dive Course– A Risk Worth Taking
I hate Ortho-Wire Bending when I was a Dental Student but I ended up an Orthodontist…
I dreamed to be a model when I was little and when I was seventeen years old I was discovered to do some commercial modelling and even qualified to do some Hollywood commercials when I sent a picture of me to one Hollywood Agency…but failed to do so because I chose to continue my studies in Dentistry… plus my older sister told me that I won’t be young and beautiful forever because all of us grow old… but even until now that dream is still open to me though… hehehehe
I live and work in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia …
English is my second language. Aside from my native language Tagalog, I also speak Arabic, a little of Spanish and French…
I was 15 years old when I started to do Hatha Yoga… amazingly I could always feel that my body thirsts for it, which I feel so guilty nowadays because I don’t do it now regularly.
I have the ability to undergo Out Of Body Experience (OBE). I discovered this gift when I was 12 years old.
I wish to start writing my first book and to be published one day 🙂
I roller blades and ice skates.
I met my True and Last Love and Forever Lover via Game sites…