I found this through bloghopping through Vaes9. Lakbayan, a really cool web app that allows a user to briefly tick on the provinces that he’s visited and then produces this map of of visited places in our country. What’s cool is, it divides some large and touristy provinces like Palawan and, say, Oriental Mindoro, into sub-places so that when you say you’ve been to Puerto Princesa or Puerto Galera, you can’t claim to have been to the entire island of Palawan or Mindoro and thus won’t be credited for the whole province. Hehe.

It also uses different shades of blue to signify how much you’ve been to the province. The lightest shade means you’ve just passed through it. As you can see, I’ve passed through a lot of provinces, and stayed in a few here and there, thus a low lakbayan grade.

Hi there folks. This is the first time I am able to access the internet here in the US. It has really bothered me that I have been offline for more than a week and that I am inaccessible by cell phone since I was unable to activate my network’s international roaming service. There is this nagging feeling that something might be happening back home that I am missing or stuff that I have to do but am not able to, and other such worries. It sucks having those feelings and thoughts once in a while, especially when I’m trying to have a good time here.

I don’t intend to start blogging about the trip now. There’s just too much info and pictures, and we’re not done yet. I will probably start them in installment once we get back home in a week.

I am sorry if I won’t be able to reply to emails and comments in a while. I checked on them a few moments back and there’s just too many to answer in such a short time that I am able to go online. I will get back to them , also when we get back home. Hm, well, I also have to take care of my enrollment and other matters I left behind first. See you, all.