God’s plan is better than mine

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“God’s plan for us is always greater and beautiful than ours.”

I just proved this quotation today, a day before my last day in the permanent post that I dream of for eight years. Yes, you read it right. I am leaving the post I planned to have in the entire years of my professional life. Let me tell you the story of my struggles…

I started my professional race two weeks after I graduated Bachelor of Arts in Development Communication at Central Luzon State University (CLSU). It was April 2009 when a hopeful “probinsyana” went in Makati with her friends to look for a job. I can recall how sad I am when all of my friends successfully had their first job while I took the road back to our province with a very low self-confidence. I can still hear the words of my very disappointed mother when I reached home.

I don’t know how long I stayed at my bed losing hope to find a job. Then one day I saw myself in Cabanatuan City applying in all establishments with the sign “hiring!” Until a BPO Company rang my phone for an interview, the interviewer bought me in La Fortuna College (the owner the BPO also owned the college.) Luckily they hired me, but not as BPO Agent but as secretary of the Vice President of the college. I stayed there for three months and then left for Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech).

The happiest days of my professional career happen in PHilMech. I was able to visit different places as contracted Technical Writer for their projects. I always quote that place as “home-like workplace.” But even I was happy at most of my stay in PHilMech, I still dream of a permanent position that the agency can’t provide. They do not have a permanent post to offer for their hundred contracted staffs, and that includes me. Because of that, I started my plan to have a permanent post in the government.

In 2014, I enrolled Certificate of Teaching in CLSU-Open University. I studied online while working at PHilMech. And when I reached the time that I need to have my practice teaching, I filed a resignation in PHilMech and took a big step to finish my second course. After finishing my two months of practice teaching, I again applied in PHilMech and stayed there while having my review in Carl Balita Review Center for my Licensure Examination. I worked during weekdays and had my weekend for a review so I can surely pass the board exam for teachers. I never rested for my dream permanent post.

While waiting for a chance in Department of Education, I enrolled Master of Arts in English major in Applied Linguistics in Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology (NEUST), I studied on Saturdays and work at PHilMech in weekdays.

Everything was part of my plan to get my way in the Department of Education. The road I took was never easy. I was a mother-student-worker at that time. You can ever consider me “single mom” then because my husband was in Taiwan, working.

Praying for my dream “permanent post” I told God, “Let me pass the board, let me be a teacher so that I can guide my future students on the right path.” Yes, my advocacy as a teacher was never to be the most intelligent and outstanding teacher, my goal is to be God’s servant so that I can tell my students who are in their middle adolescent to never commit premarital affairs or never become aggressive in love.

June 2017, finally, after battling in “ranking procedures” of DepEd, I was hired as Teacher II for Senior High School Department of Carmen National High School.

God gave me my dream post! He was not able to say “NO” with my deal. I am very happy. After eight years, I had the most stable job in our country; I become a public school teacher.

My plan works and I am the happiest.

Fulfilling my deal with God, I created a slogan for my students, and it says, “Minutes of Ecstasy, Forever in Hell.” This is to remind them that there are things that will make them feel happy for a short period of time but may lead to something bad that may ruin their future.

The catch: God’s plan.

I took a very difficult road to have my dream permanent post just to drop it for a much better plan that God created for my me ( for my whole family.)

I am leaving my post for a greener pasture in Canada. My husband successfully became a provincial nominee of Nova Scotia in Canada and I became his dependent together with our kids. And last September (2018) we received our working visa that pushes me to resign on my post. And yes tomorrow, November 23, 2018, I will drop my entire plan to let God move for my future. Believe me; His plan is better than us.

Everyone is asking me why I am leaving my dream post, here is my answer. I am choosing God’s plan for me and my family because His plan is better than mine.

And yes, I am choosing a complete family for my children knowing that I can always find a new “stable” job somewhere.

As God said in Proverbs 19:21, "You can make many plans, but the Lord's purpose (for you) will prevail." 

My God gave me an assurance that He has a better plan for me. This is Ma’am Gladys May Zamora-Carganilla, Teacher II, signing-off. 

Teacher’s Journey: My first year in teaching profession

Teaching is a noble profession.

This is the most popular description I know about teaching even before I choose to be one. Teaching requires work of heart. It requires passion because it will quench all your sanity at once. Teaching will make you cry, cry hard, and cry hardest. But beyond those challenges, it will reward you of love, hundreds, thousands and billions of love from your students.

During my first school year as teacher, I was an adviser for thirty three (33) lovable students. Thirty three diamonds with different brightness, twelve (12) males and twenty-one (21) females. I handled five sections every semesters, I handled hundreds of students in total.

When you are a teacher in the Philippines, your job description is not just to teach. You have to deal with bunch of paper works. There are times that you will choose if you will attend your class or will finish your other task. But honestly, most of the time we have to choose the papers rather than our students…and that shocked me so much on my first year.

I posted once on my Facebook, “I love teaching when it only requires me to teach,” and that was very true and personal to me. That post was misunderstood by others. But should I explain to them why I posted it? I know I don’t because that’s what my heart says while my mind was accepting the reality.

There were times that I was hurt of situations. For example, when my Principal texted me this, “…I think this is the 2^nd project assigned to Mrs. Carganilla which again without positive result. Nagkataon naman…?” I felt that she was implying that I am incompetent to chair activities in school. My ego was hurt. I replied her long message that I hope I did not. Clearing all the mess, she told me that the text message was a challenged on my part. And I feel sorry that I interpreted her message that way. I hope the mirror was not broken so we can really fix things.

But that was just a portion of a whole. What hurt me most was when my students choose a wrong path. I felt so bad when three of my students got pregnant. My 16 years old male student confessed that his girlfriend was pregnant; I was the first adult to know the fact. Of course, as an adviser, I told them to say it with their parents. But I understand that they were not able to say it for months. And when finally they did, one of my 17 years old female student suddenly stop going to school. The reason? The same thing. She was pregnant by his boyfriend. And it doesn’t stop in that news, because another female student chooses to live in the house of her boyfriend, who is another, a male student of mine because she just hated her own mother and to live in their own house. And when the month of May came, another student confessed that she was 6 months pregnant, asking help because she wanted to enroll on the next semester given her situation. The news hurt me so much. It seems I am not doing enough.

Life of a teacher is very challenging. It sucks sometimes. Teaching itself, I mean sharing of knowledge is easy but dealing with the issues will test your sanity.

But what makes me happy in the whole year? The surprises of my students during teacher’s day, birthday day and Valentine’s Day. There were times that I am asking myself? Did I do something good to deserve their love? Oh well…that I don’t know.

Another was my student’s achievements. I was so happy to see most of them doing their best to reach their goals. I was happy with their friendship, with the love that binded them as classmates. I love to see them supporting each other, and enjoying their senior high school years. As if they really came from my womb.

Favorites? That I don’t have. But honestly I trusted some of them better than other, but I am not considering them as my favorites. It maybe sound not so real, but I love them all. I accepted them all knowing their strengths and weaknesses. They are lovable children, and they are my children.

I am not closing my doors to other opportunities outside this profession but I know that with the ups and down of my first school year, I believe I can stay longer. So, as long as there are students who will listen and need me, I will be a teacher.

I am a newbie teacher, shocked of the kind of work I accepted but I’m starting to love this profession with all my heart and soul.

<Written: May 16, 2018>

I love Sunset

My photo during the sunset. (c) husband

“You know when a person is very sad, they love sunset.”  I disagree not just because I picked it in the four corner games last week, but because I really disagree.

I love sunset personally. One of its colors is my favorite (orange), and it really looks beautiful and therapeutic to me especially when I am seeing it on a beach or on the top of the mountain with my husband.

I believe that when a sad person saw the sunset, its therapeutic scene will fade all the sadness. Its beauty will make that person happy.

Sunset may mean the end of the day but it also signals the proximity of the new day.  As the saying says, “every sunset, is an opportunity to reset.” So how can someone be so sad if he or she has the opportunity to reset her life?  Sunset is an opportunity to start a new life.  It gives hope.

Sunset. I always dream to be still with my husband when I reached the sunset of my life. How sweet it is to imagine that we will grow old together, playing with our granddaughters and grandsons. Reached our golden wedding anniversary and exchange bows in the beach while the sun is setting. Not everyone can experience that. A sad person will never dream of that.

I just can’t connect sadness to sunset because its darkness still has light. And if there still light, there is hope and happiness.  To further explained it I goggled something about it and here what the study says: “Being “attuned” to the natural beauty of sunsets can improve a person’s emotional well-being, according to the study from the University of California at Berkley. Just being in the presence of something beautiful can make you feel better and more connected to yourself and your emotions. And not only will watching sunsets make you feel better emotionally, it’ll also help you be a better person to others. A similar study by the same researcher, Jia Wei Zhang, found that those same emotions that improve your personal well-being were also found to cause people to be more generous (sites.psu.edu).”

Submitted to Reading Class. :)

The cry of Minalungao

You cemented my limestone, throw garbage everywhere, and build concrete structure on my facade, you ruined my natural beauty. I am crying for help.

Limestone were cemented. Photo by thelostkids.ph

Few years back, I am a natural beauty. I provide breath taking view of Penaranda River bordered by towering limestone walls on both sides. But what did you do? You cemented my limestone to create stairs going to another part of me. You don’t know how million years before my limestone were formed. You hurt me and left me crying. 

 I am a 2,018-hectare protected landscape located in General Tinio, Nueva Ecija. The local government considers me as one of the few remaining natural environments in Central Luzon. You promise to preserve my natural beauty and to protect me from exploitation on 1967, and then you called me Minalungao National Park. What happen after then? Can’t you see I’m dying?

My visitors throw garbage on me. Swim on my body of water so you can see. Walk on my dead limestone to see that awful garbage everywhere. Come climb on my towering mountain. Can you see what I am saying? In your every step, you see garbage, but you don’t care. And today you are building hotels that further ruined me. My child, I don’t know if I can ever recover soon. I am nearly dead.

Let your drone fly to see my aerial view. Is those “development” added beauty? No my child. I am better without them.

I am begging. Save me. Don’t leave me helplessly. I am better years back. Stop exploiting me. I am Minalungao, I am crying and feeling sorry for myself. 

I wrote this article as a requirement for my Structure of English class. I reported the Basic Structure of the Paragraph and at the end of my report, Dr. Angel Pangilinan of NEUST-Graduate School asked me to write a paragraph about Minalungao. That's why this article is very short as it compose the topic sentence, supporting sentence and the concluding sentence. 

          At first, I think that I have to promote the Minalungao but out of love, I came out with this short paragraph hoping that my "kababayan" in Papaya (Gen.Tinio, Nueva Ecija) realize what we are about to lose. This is not the kind of development that I will be proud of. This place is far better before, I hope our leaders realize that. Let us save Minalungao. 

Road trip: Biyaheng Nueva Ecija

      It was sunny day of June 27, 2016, me and my husband was so exhausted emotionally because of personal problem. I am confined in our bed the whole morning and decided not to go in my work to rest. It seems that I don't want to do any that day. When finally I decided to leave the comfort of my bed. I saw my husband thinking deeply about our problem. We really feel bad at that moment but such mood suddenly change when I said, "Let's go out. Let us have road trip today?"

     Without hesitation he agreed to go for a road trip and since we only have half day we decided to just go around Nueva Ecija. Our problem is where in Nueva Ecija should we go. With the help of social media, I came across the FB page, Biyaheng Nueva Ecija, we are very thankful of that page because we were able to have an itinerary in an instant. Where do you think we go? 

     Well before that, I want you to know our golden rules while on road trip:

1. No facebook or other social media.(Well I really believe that this rule is really just for me.)According to my husband, this is to avoid interruption and for us to enjoy the scenery on the way. 
2. Focus on our way. 
3. Capture memories. Many photos, much better.
4. Enjoy...as in "bawal ang KJ!"

     After internalizing the rules we rode on our blue car and enjoyed our itinerary to find tranquility. 

     At 12:00 noon we left home and drive going to Palayan. We have a quick stop in Shell in Crossing, Cabanatuan City to gas up and to buy some foods and drinks that we can bring. 

    We reached Aulo Lake at 1:30pm. We really don't know the way going to the lake so we used GPS to locate it. 

Don't be bother with the rough road, because the scenery will help you forget all your problems. 

Scenery going to Aulo Lake, Palayan City. 

The majestic Aulo Lake. 

Here are our pictures at the lake. 

       After enjoying the beautiful scenery of Aulo Lake we looked for Hilltop Resort, also in Palayan City but the place was not budget friendly and recommended only for group and over night outing. 

      At 2:30pm we found our self traversing the road going to Gabaldon to visit the Dupinga River as a replacement to Hilltop Resort. But when we reached Dupinga River, the water was too brown to swim-on so we looked for resort in Gabaldon. Here are the pictures that we captured along the way. 

Dupinga River was gone...Just kidding, there are still little
 water flowing on it. 

 
       At 3:00pm we reached the Leivy Lance Resort in Gabaldon. This is actually not the nearest but we choose this one since we already visited the famous Stone 8 resort many times. It was our first time in Leivy Lance, and luckily there was no visitor during that time except us. So we were able to swim solely in the pool and that was very refreshing.

         

       We left the said resort at 4:00pm and we traversed the road going back home. We choose the long way so can have a quick stop in Tanawan, Laur. 

View from Tanawan, Laur.

      As you see we travel together and get lost in beautiful places of Nueva Ecija. By doing such thing we made memories together that will surely last for a lifetime and most specially, we found tranquility in our road trip. 

      With a peaceful heart we went home at 5:30pm. Surprisingly, the nature let us end the trip with this beautiful view. Yes, the sun was set to rest with our problems and we went home with so much love and grace from our Lord! 

      Remember guys, sometimes the road that we travel doesn't lead us to the destination that we hoped for. But if you can look back in the trip and smile, then it was worth it. Plan you road trip now and don't forget to start here in our beloved province, Nueva Ecija. 

The sunset on our way home. 

Every Child is Special: A Teacher's Review

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I came across this movie last Sunday, August 7, 2016, when our speaker during the review used parts of the movie as her motivation. And such motivation left me wondering and too curious about it. So yesterday, Monday,  August 8, 2016 I found myself searching and downloading the Indian movie Every Child is Special. 

Let me introduce you to the characters: 

Darsheel Safary- played the role of Ishaan Awasthi. 

Aamir Khan- Ram Shankar Nikumbh, Ishaan's Art Teacher

Tisca Chopra- Maya Awasthi, Ishaan's mother

Vipin Sharma- Nandkishore Awasthi, Ishaan's strict father

Sachet Engineer- Yohaan Awasthi, Ishaan's elder brother

Bugs Bhargava and Shankar Sachdev- teachers of Ishaan who always disgraced him but changed their attitudes when Ishaan already got high grades

I'll try to provide the summary on my own perspective.

Ishaan is an eight-year-old boy who is suffering from dyslexia, a reading disorder. 

He grew in a middle class family. He has strict successful father, a typical mother (a housewife), and a bright and scholarly kind of elder brother. 

In his school, Ishaan was always disgraced by his teachers because of his inability to read, the same reason why he always failed in all his exams. Her mother, Maya Awasthi, did her best to tutor Ishaan but like Ishaan's teacher, she failed. 

In his English class, Ishaan's teacher asked him to read a sentence but he was not able to because as he said, "the letters are dancing." 

No one knows that Ishaan is suffering in dyslexia. So when he failed in all of his subjects, his father, Nandkishore Awasthi, brought him in boarding schools to discipline him. And that brings fears and anxiety to Ishaan.

In boarding school, Ishaan also experienced the same treatment with the teachers. He was disgraced and bullied. Such thing changed when he met his art teacher, Ram Shankar. 

Mr.Ram Shankar is a volunteer in a foundation for special child. The first time he saw Ishaan, he knew that Ishaan is special. Shankar studied Ishaan's condition. He studied Ishaan's school works, went out of school to find answer, observed every child he met on the way, until he decided to visit Ishaan's home to look for Ishaan's school work in his former school. When Shankar saw all of Ishaan's works including his paintings, he found out that Ishaan's has dyslexia. He explained it to Nandkishore Awasthi by asking him to read chinese characters that the father don't know how to read. He also asked the parents of Ishaan to allow him to help Ishaan by means of tutorial. 

Back in school, Shankar explained the condition of Ishaan to the school principal and asked him to let him teach Ishaan. Allowed by both parent and principal,Shankar subsequently brings up the topic dyslexia in class and offered list of famous people who were dyslexic. In the end of his class, Shankar asked Ishaan to remain behind and revealed to him that he too experienced the same difficulties with dyslexia. He attempted to improved Ishaan's reading and writing by using remedial techniques developed by dyslexia specialist. From then, Ishaan developed his interest to mathematics and language. 

As the school will end, Shankar organized painting contest for the whole school. Everyone was invited. In that event, Ishaan painted the place where he was first applauded by his classmate in their art class. And hola, that painting won the first places seconded by the painting painted by Shankar. 

Ram Shankar painted Ishaan, the second place. 

Ishaan's painting, the place where he was
first applauded by his classmates. 

During the awarding of winners, Ishaan was too scared to stand up when the principal announced his name. But when her art teacher step out towards him, Ishaan stood up knowing that there is someone who will stood up for  him no matter what. As everyone raised up and applauded him (yes, including the school bullies and the teachers who disgraced him) he walks towards the center to received the award, then he run to his teacher to hug him. 

After that event, the progress was evident. World turned around for Ishaan and everyone started to like him. His parents was so proud of him and the same time very thankful to the teacher who never give up on Ishaan. 

The movie is really good. It teaches me to love the craft of "teaching." As a newbie teacher here are the list of learning that I listed down while watching the movie. 

1. Teacher can make or break a student. Like in the case of Ishaan,he was able to cope up with his sickness because of the help of his teacher. If no one stood-up for him, do you think the story will be the same? 

2.  Teacher should know their students because each of them are special. In professional education we always mentioned that "our students are diverse" with this we have to acknowledge that each of them have different learning abilities and each of them are special.

3. Talk to the parents. If you notice that there is something wrong with your student, have a hearth to inform the parents about it. 

4. Teachers need to go out and explore the world to find answers. Most of the teachers today are too busy in their classroom and that is the very reason why they are not able to find better answer to the problem of their students. Teachers should find time to go out. Remember experience is the best teacher. 

5. Always remember that the love of a mother is not enough, teacher should aided it. Teachers are said to be the second parent of their students. So like the heart of a mother, teacher should love their students to help them. 

6. Talk with your students with your heart. Explain to him how important he is, tell him that he can, tell him that he is special.

7. Appreciate the skills of your student. Teachers should find time to appreciate the skills of their students, always remember that every child is special, that he has special gift.  

8. Always fight/depend your students. Like what Shankar did to Ishaan, when the principal of the boarding school told the teacher to recommend Ishaan to enter school for "special children", Shankar told the principal to give Ishaan a chance because he believes that Ishaan is an average student. 

9. Help the student to overcome his weaknesses at all cost. Teachers should know how to do research. The world always have an answer on how to overcome certain weaknesses. 

10. Influence your co-teachers. Reality, not all teachers choose teaching because it is their passion. So influence them to love the craft of teaching, much better if you ask them to watch this movie.

11. Teachers, thanks your teacher who created impact to your life. Teachers created impact to their students. Remember that there is only one teacher that can influence and touch ones soul. 

12. Lastly, thanks every children and parents who shared their life to you.  

   

As a newbie teacher I am dreaming of having one student that will going to say this, "Ma'am you created impact into my life. I am a changed soul because of you."  Yes, I am so excited to influence one soul.

With this, I wanted to end this review by saying thank you to all the teachers who created impact to my life. I am a changed soul because of you. 

The majestic Mt.Pinatubo

"Love conquers all..."

As we conquered the majestic Mt.Pinatubo during the valentines day of 2016. The experience was extraordinary for me and my husband Nuel. It was our first time to go out together in this kind of adventure after seven years of being a couple.

Selfie at Mt.Pinatubo crater lake. 

Mt.Pinatubo renewed our relationship. 

Being married for four years our relationship seems just a typical husband and wife. We live to earn for our daily expenses. We go out in the mall with our kids, buy the stuffs that we need, then go home. We seldom date each other after our wedding. It seems boring, right? But don't get me wrong...we have a happy family, we just forget dating for a while and concentrate in our responsibilities as parents to our children.

Until such time that he went home from his three years contract in Taiwan. Before his homecoming, we been talking to go in Palawan with the kids. But because of practicality (again!) we decided to just buy a car for our family. Case settled, we cancelled the Palawan trip. And I honestly feel bad.

My husband know how outgoing I am. I know that he missed me so much. So in exchange to Palawan trip I decided to book Mt.Pinatubo trek for the two of us since it is more affordable and it will only require us one whole day.

Celebration of life,  love and success. 

Our Mt.Pinatubo adventure was celebration of life, love and success as I finished my Certificate in Teaching last February 12. I inquired the available slots of Mt.Pinatubo Adventure Phils. and their only available was February 14 (yehey instant valentines date for us!) And since my birthday is approaching (Febraury 17) our trip became triple celebration.

Knowing how much he loves me and with the "celebrations" that I mentioned above...I knew it, he said "YES" to me when I asked him to go with me in this adventure.

And so our adventure begins...

From Zaragoza, Nueva Ecija (his hometown) we rode a jeepney going to Capas, Tarlac.

Selfie at the jeepney. We are "selfie"couple you know :)

Since we are both first timer in Capas, we first looked for the meeting place that our coordinator told us, the Mcdo Capas Junction. Took quick snacks and looked  for nearest inn, hotel or resort that we can stay for the night of February 13. Luckily, few meters away from Mcdo, there is the VES Garden Resort...so instant "staycation" for us! Yipeee!

Our "love ko 'to" moment. 

How can we forget the villa number 5 of VES Garden Resort #love

We enjoyed the night of February 13 in the said resort. My husband had a quick gym routine in the VES Fitnes Center and right after he accompanied me in the pool area for night swimming. 

My hubby during his gym routine. 

Me at the poolside. 

We highly recommend the place for short stay before your Pinatubo adventure. 

The adventure

We're ready at 3am of February 14 for our Mt.Pinatubo crater lake adventure. From VES we walked going to the Mcdo  Capas Junction and waited for our service going to Sta.Juliana, Capas Tarlac. Since we are only joiners, we joined the team and registered at 4am in DENR station at Sta.Juliana. 

We were grouped by five in Kuya Danny's home, signed necessary permit and documents. And there you go, we experienced the bumpy ride in 4x4 from DENR station to the Mt.Pinatubo. 

The 2 hours 4x4 bumpy ride was really fun. It's like a racing of 4x4, everyone wants to go first. And since we have the "most astig driver" all the water splashes to us as we traverse the way going to Mt.Pinatubo crater lake. I can't stop my self to said "wow! astig mo kuya!" every time our service go down and up in the road. 

Since we left the DENR office at 5am, we did not see the view going to the crater, but when the sun shines...wow, the place was really amazing! Parang wala ako sa Pilipinas. 

Our service.

The amazing view going up to the crater. 

From the point where the 4x4 need to wait for us, we traverse the rocky way going to the first rest station for one hour. Don't ask me how many time I fell because of the slippery rocks...hahaha many times dear since there are waters flowing all the way. And it became really funny when you saw your husband laughing at you and counting how many times you fall. Ohhh so ungentle-man hubby! I almost ruined my note 3! hahaha But still enjoyed it. 

On our way, we met Aetas and have some "selfie" with them. The aeta kids greeted us with their cute smiles. We gave them food as reward...I wish I was able to bring books and clothes for them, but I will next time. Please bring some when you visit.

The aeta kids are so cute when they said "selfie!"

Hmmm...when I saw this sign, I screamed and said "What? our trek will just start here? One hour na tayong naglalakad kuya." So, our guide explained that before all the 4x4 was able to reach this point but because of soil erosion, the way going up here was ruined. And that explain why the sign seems wrong. 

Sign in the rest station. 

From the rest station we trek, 20 minutes, because we're senior citizen (as the sign said), going up to the majestic crater lake of Mt.Pinatubo. The way up is easy...although you have to be careful and watch your step because of  slippery rocks. 

The trek from the 4x4 station up to the crater lake was literally leg breaking but it was easier compared to my Mt.Pico de Loro experienced. 

With our co-passenger in the 4x4, we actually don't know them personally but we took this as our remembrance as a team. 

Us in the welcome signage od Mt.Pinatubo Crater Lake. 

Since our teammates were all extremist we were able to come first (among the other group/tourist) in the crater lake. We have this opportunity to take photos without any photo bomber in the background. The other guest was not able get clear photos from the welcome signage because many groups had arrived and busy taking photos in the background. 

There you go...finally we arrived in the majestic, amazing, beautiful crater lake of Mt.Pinatubo. The place was really "beautiful disaster" as mentioned in the movie of KatNiel, Crazy Beautiful You. 

All the weary was gone just by looking at the beautiful scenery of Mt.Pinatubo crater lake. This valentines date was the best so far. This advance birthday celebration is really amazing. This graduation gift is really wow...thank you G!

Even the Mt.Pinatubo crater lake is in hearth shape. 

Few of our pictures in the crater lake. 

If you would ask me the activities that you can do while at the crater lake...hmmm, you can have sort of "kulitan' with your partner (the usual us) or the gang (if your with barkada). But the things that we really did are, have some picnic in the side of the crater and afterwards, think how lucky we are to witness this paint like scenery and imagine how it exploded years back. Imagine, all the beauty that we saw was a product of that volcanic eruption years back. Tragedy that resulted to this beautiful scenery. Indeed a beautiful disaster!

Our picnic kind of date in the Mt.Pinatubo crater lake. 

Experiencing Mt.Pinatubo together was an amazing experience for us. It marks another chapter of our relationship as husband and wife. During that very moment, we already planned our next adventure, this time his birthday climb. May God permits that to happen. 

That moment together will always be cherished as we conquers another page of our married life. He will be forever my partner...'till our next adventure hon! Thanks God for this wonderful experience. 

If you want to experience the Mt.Pinatubo, look for Mt.Pinatubo Adventure Phils. for hassle free booking of your adventure. 

'till my next climb! 

My "YOLO" pose at the Mt.Pinatubo crater lake.