Mt. Yangbew (Tawang, La Trinidad, Benguet) (NOTE: This is an article published in my other blogging site (click here and here) and reposted here with some revisions. Check out for more here) https://steemit.com/ocd-resteem/@leeart/ulog-48-mt-yangbew-revisited-again-with-video https://steemit.com/landscapephotography/@leeart/clouds-at-mt-yangbew-landscapephotography https://steemit.com/@leeart We used to hike to this place pre-pandemic but haven't done so since COVID hit. I'm…
A Glimpse of Baguio City Public Market *(Note: This has been published in my other blogging site (click* *here**) and reposted here with revisions. Contents including photos are mine unless specified otherwise.)* https://steemit.com/actifit/@leeart/actifit-leeart-20200101t012541833z ****WARNING: CONTAINS PHOTOS OF SLAUGHTERED/BUTCHERED ANIMALS AND FRESH CUT MEAT IN COLOR. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION.**** It was still dark when I accompanied my sister to the city market.…
Sadanga: A taste of a wedding Someone from noise.cash talked about her home, Sadanga. This made me want to share this article that I have posted in another site (click here) and I am sharing it here now with some revisions. All contents and photos are mine. https://steemit.com/travelfeed/@leeart/a-glimpse-of-sadanga-mountain-province I was invited to my friend's wedding to their hometown, Sadanga in Mountain Province. It was my first time to visit the place and I have no…
Compassion In time of Pandemic This is my first time joining the writing prompt by @JonicaBradley. So here is my attempt at this. August 2020. It was a rainy night. Me and my brother were at our apartment. We just had our dinner and we were all relaxing that night. While browsing through his social media account, my brother's friend chatted him asking what color was our family house. He chatted him back. His friend then replied: "I think your house is on fire." We didn't…
Visiting Jones, Isabela Two years ago, we traveled to the hometown of my partner's mom to visit his ailing grandmother. This article was published in my other blog site (click here) and reposted here. All contents are mine. https://steemit.com/ocd-resteem/@leeart/ulog-52-jones-isabela-rural-scenery-with-video Taking a break from work and the city life, our itchy feet took us to one of the rural municipalities of Isabela, which is Jones. Isabela is an 8-hour travel by bus…
Cheers to the weekend! It's another weekend! How do you plan to spend your weekend? Note that these are excerpts from blogs that I have posted in other sites (click here, here here and here. Check me out here for more) I am not in anyway affiliated to these brands nor am I an expert on these things. Also, I am not encouraging you to drink. https://steemit.com/beersaturday/@leeart/blonde-ale-at-bistro-lokal-gxjwfop6 https://steemit.com/tasteem/@leeart/tasteem-48e52f…
When the street is a canvas There is one activity in the city that I miss and that is the street art. Literally, the pavement is a free-for-all blank page for anyone to draw on. Let met take you back two years ago when there was no pandemic yet. I imagine you can still remember how that feels like? We are all free to roam and we do the things that we want without restrictions, without masks or face shields, without worrying about getting infected. Let us go for a stroll up…
A short time in Bangkok @RyanInSiam asked me about my experience in Bangkok. I gave a brief summary on the top of my head the places I have been to while we were in Bangkok. I had to dig up my old blogs from other site so I can share it here with you (click here). Most of the photos were taken from my video clips. Here is a peek of Bangkok. https://www.bitlanders.com/blogs/blog-23-bangkok-break/2635472 It was November 2014 when we went to Bangkok, Thailand. After coming from…
Who knows how to do whole body massage? I will pay you BCH. I badly needed a full body massage. Whenever we are stressed or tired, a full body massage is a perfect solution sometimes. Today, I just had one of those tiring days from work and I wanted to go for a massage. However, massage service or spa service is one of the businesses still not allowed to operate here in our city. Are spa/massage centers open your area? This takes me back to those days when we can just go to…
Do you have a Chinese Temple in your area? Have you visited it? In one of my walks, it led me to one of the tourist spots here in our city. Let me take you down memory lane again. My original article was posted two years ago. Since I am here most of the time, I would like to share this post here with you as well. My first memory of this place was in my elementary days (first grade I think) during a city tour that our school organized. This was one of the places we visited…
If you want to eat somewhere right now, where would you go? Here goes my first food blog here in read. There is one restaurant that I have been once or twice that I have wished I should have gone more frequently. That place is called Anidu Cordilleran Bistro. I have been seeing this in my fb feed and have added it to my list. We did go to their original location but I was not able to document that experience. Anidu Cordilleran Bistro *Anidu* is a Cordilleran term for warming…
Today, I did... The lead image was taken in Dasol, Pangasinan. I was editing photos in Canva yesterday for my blog and saw the photos that I uploaded there. I forgot all about those. I was using Canva two years ago and stopped when I stopped blogging. Now that I am here in read, I think I will be using it again. I went to bed last night and woke up earlier this morning with the intent of doing more here in read and noise. I haven't been in noise since the other day I think.…
That time when we went to Binanga Falls...again. July 15 was Cordillera Day. Although this is late, in celebration of the said day, let's take a hike to a waterfall in our town of La Trinidad called Binanga Falls. Remember that there are still restrictions so we can't travel anywhere just yet. This was a visit two years ago with my niblings and sister. **A bit of La Trinidad's History** *La Trinidad* is the capital of the province of Benguet here in northern Philippines. The…
My blood is black. Be a wise buyer. A weird title? Read on. Before anything else, bear in mind that I am not an expert or anything, unlike someone who is expert of a lot of things. I planned on writing as much information about coffee but this lots of reading had my head spinning I can't organize my thoughts lol! We all know that there are lots of studies and researches out there talking about the benefits and bad effects of coffee. But I am not going to talk about that.…
Cold or hot? Which one would you prefer? That's me on the lead image, braving the cold fresh water coming from the mountains. Let's take another virtual tour to one of the places here in the Cordilleras, particularly Barlig, Mt. Province. This is said to be the last forest fortress. Two years ago, our family decided to have a tour. This was our last travel together before my brother and family migrated someplace else. Sort of a send-off travel if you will. I posted this blog…
What did love make you do? What did love do to you? There are many kinds of love as we all know. Love to God. Love for yourself. Love for your family. Love for your friends. Love for the environment. Love for animals. Many of you have been talking about your reason for being here in read.cash is to earn so you have something to spend it with your loved ones or to yourself for self-improvement and development, to further your craft, your studies or buying what you want. I…
Not one, not two, but three Let's talk Japanese. Baguio City is historical in that it is here where the Japanese forces made their final surrender against the Americans in September 1945. There are now three torii here in the city. As per Wikipedia, torii is a symbol that you are now entering into a spiritual or sacred place. That is why you find them at the entrance of a shrine or within a shrine. They are found at the foot of mountains. We all know that mountains are said…
How did we afford to stay at a five-star resort Baguio Country Club is over 100-year-old club. Looking at how the place looked now, it's hard to imagine a one thatched-roof hut sitting on what used to be a cattle pasture. Now the club has 166 rooms with dozens of recreational facilities, function halls and dining areas. FROM PHP2,400.00 to MULTIMILLION PESOS The 32-hectare land owned by an Igorot chief, Mateo Carino, was sold for only PHP2,400.00. That's around $47.78 as of…
Dasol-ation Since we have had no chance to go to the beach since pandemic hit, I want to take you back when we went to a beach in Pangasinan. The first time was a spur of the moment kind of thing, as what usually happens when we want to go satisfy our gills. The nearest beach from where I live is about 2 hours travel. There was a time when we even went to one of the resorts there and we only have a few minutes to spare before the sun set. We spent a few hours there and then…
Hiya! Tigidig tigidig! Let's talk horsey, shall we? "Hiya" is a derivative from the word "heeyah" like what the cowboys used. "Tigidig tigidig" is the sound we refer to the a galloping horse. Our version of clippety-clop. "Kabayo" is the Filipino word for horse. "Kabalyo" is our term for it from the Spanish word "caballo." "Kuboy" is how we call the rider of a horse, a derivative from cowboy. It is also our term for someone who is not picky or choosy, someone who is always…
Quickie in Bali I was reading a post of @wilddreamings about getting lost only to discover wonderful things when I was reminded of our travel to Indonesia. I commented in her post about our experience in Yogyakarta where we didn't have a plan on our visit there. We just went out of our hotel and walked towards the direction of the shopping district, Malioboro. https://read.cash/@wilddreamings/why-cant-i-get-lost-88af8636#comments I will not talk about that (maybe in my next…
What Have I Gotten Into It had been a stormy, rainy day for the past days and weeks I thought the rain will not leave us. Today, the rain rested for a bit. This is what happens when *Habagat* comes. *Habagat* or Southwest Monsoon occurs around the months of June to September. Rain could be light to heavy. The worse part is when typhoon arrives, *Habagat* will intensify the storm and may even make it stay longer than it should. Landslides and floods are the common effect of…
"Siak dayta" I was thinking of making an article about food when I read TengoLoTodo's post earlier but decided against it when I was browsing through my photos. I decided to share some of that here. "Siak" is an Ilocano word meaning *me.* "Dayta" means *that*. "Siak dayta" means *That's me*. Ilocano is one of the major languages we speak here in the Cordilleras in addition to Kankana-ey, Ibaloy, English, Filipino, etc. What are your favorite "siak dayta" photos? It's…
Bulalayaw I read zolabundance2's article about rainbow which gave me an idea what to write today. https://read.cash/@zolabundance2/pleasant-surprises-a4eeab65 Here are some of the rainbows I took photos of that I wanted to share to you. You must have guessed by now that the title above means rainbow. *Bulalayaw* is an Ilocano word for rainbow. In Filipino, it is *bahaghari*. I didn't know that it is also called *bulalakaw* according to this site. What I know of *bulalakaw*…
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