Five Essential Travel Accessories

Posted on July 31st, 2010 by Temujin.
Categories: My Philippines, Travel Insights, Travel Gears.

Whenever we travel there are essential travel accessories that we should not forget to bring. Each person have their own personal preferences but these are the ones for me.

1. Pressure Reducing Ear Plugs

Whenever I travel on an airplane I always suffer ear pain. Often after the plane lands I always end up with a fever. Recently, I have discovered that there is a travel gear that can help me solve this problem - Pressure Reducing Ear Plugs. This can help regulate the pressure in your ear whenever you are inside a plane. There are even ear plugs that don’t block sounds.

2. Money Belt or Belt Bags. Great for keeping cash and valuable documents like passport, credit cards, and ATM cards. Make sure to buy waterproof.

3. Packing Cubes. Great for keeping your luggage items organized. Imagine needing to dig your digital camera in your luggage and you can’t remember where you placed it. How about digging for your toothbrush or shaver.

Packing Cubes can save you the trouble.

4. Digital Camera. You can’t just go without taking pictures of the wonderful place you are traveling.

5. Travel Adaptor and Voltage Converter. These two are important so that you can be sure that you can charge your cellphone, camera, laptop, and other gadgets. The voltage converter is important if you are traveling to another country where the standard voltage is different.


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The Best Months to Explore the Philippines

Posted on July 2nd, 2010 by Temujin.
Categories: My Philippines, Travel Insights.

When you are traveling in the Philippines, one of the things you have to watch for is the weather. There are only two seasons in a tropical country like the Philippines - that is the rainy and dry seasons.

The rainy season is heaviest during the months of July up to October. It can be dangerous to travel during these months especially if you are going to be mountaineering or spelunking. It can also be dangerous to visit waterfalls and rivers.

As the gateway to the Pacific Ocean, the country is often visited by powerful typhoons. Flash floods and landslide is a common occurrence during these months.

The best months to explore the Philippines therefore is during the months starting November until June. The months of March to May are the best months to view the scenic spots in the Philippines in their full grandeur.


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More Bee Facts

Posted on February 14th, 2007 by seaciel.
Categories: Travel Insights.

What do the male bees do?

That was my hanging question on my previous post.

We all learned ( if you read my previous post) that all worker bees are female bees which

perform different tasks to support the queen and the beehive.

Let’s learn about the male bees, this is easy.
In a colony of 50,000 to 60,000, 10% of the bees are males bees, also known as the drones.
They come from an unfertilized egg, and have no stinger.
They do not feed themselves. They are fed on demand by workers.
They bum around, the only time they’re busy is during mating season. The queen needs them,

not just one but up to a dozen of drone in over a 1-2 day period of mating flights.

After mating they die.
Don’t ask me why.

Speaking of death, queen bee’s life span is about 3 to 5 years while a worker honeybee works

to death up to 40-45 days.

I have high respect for the worker honeybees, they work mainly for others. Not just for

their colony but also for us.
They are the only insects that produce food for humans.
Royal Jelly, Bee Propolis, Bee Pollen, those were the food available for human consumption.

They all contains necessary nutrients for human survival. No wonder some Bible characters loves to eat bee foods. It is also praised in the book (Proverbs 24:13).

Remember super Samson, God gave him an extra-ordinary strength. I know it’s in the hair, but

it can also be in the food :) He must be fond of eating bee foods, coz there’s a story where

he scooped out and ate bee foods  from the lion’s carcass, the same lion which he tore with his bare hands.

Maybe rich amount of bee pollen flowed in Samson’s veins. :)
Bee pollen increases energy levels, rejuvenates your body, and stimulates organs and glands.

Try it.


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Learn From The Bees

Posted on February 8th, 2007 by seaciel.
Categories: Travel Insights.

It was my second time to visit a bee farm, the first was in Malacca, Malaysia, where I first tasted pure honey from a beehive. The recent one was in Bohol, where I first saw a queen bee emerges from a hive of 50,000 honeybees who give way to her highness as she walks down the beehive. What a sweet treat!

Worker Bees

From those visits I learned wonders from the bees.
Here are some amazing bee facts:

* Bees are best favored for pollinations among other insects.
* The Queen Bee is considered as the mother of all the bees in the hive.
There’s only one Queen bee in a hive of 50,000 to 60,000 honeybees that’s why it is difficult for beekeepers to find her.

* The Queen bee’s role is not to rule but to lay eggs. She’s an “egg laying machine” that can lay up 2,000 eggs per day. The size of her abdomen is longer than the worker bees surrounding her.

* The Queen Bee has a special food called Royal Jelly, a secretion from the glands of the nurse bees.

* All worker bees are females, and they are multi-tasking too (like us girls ;) .
There are cleaners who clean every cell of the hive.
There are nurse bees, the youngest ones who take care and feed the queen and other worker bees.

* Those who wakes up early in the morning to find nectar sources are the scout bees. If they found food, they’d would send signal to the field worker bees. They would dance or wag their tails and points to where the foods are (you’re smart jolibee:)
The field worker collects the nectar and deliver to the hive where other workers are busy making honey.

* If there are dead bees inside the hive, janitor or mortuary bees will carry them out.

* A worker bee can also become a strict security guard. They never sleep on duty, they always walks around the entrance (video coming up ;) .
No ID, No Entry.
The field worker bees’ ID is their odor.

Here’s a scenario:

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1st field worker coming in

Field worker 1: “Bzzzz…”
Guard 1: “BBBzzz…stop! NO ID, No Entry”

Field worker 1 shows her ID.
Guard 2: “Hmmmh… smells good”
then the guards checks on the worker’s bag if there are nectars.

Field worker 1: “Bzzzz, lotzzaa nectar ey”
Guards: “Exzzzellente! Come in.”

2nd field worker coming in
Guard 1: “BBBzzz…stop! NO ID, No Entry”

Field worker 2 shows her ID.
Guard 2: “Hmmmh… smells good”
then the guards checks on the worker’s bag if there are nectars.

Field worker 2: “ZZt..”
Guards: “No Nectar!!! You lazzzy bee, what did you do the whole day you…!
Depart!”

A field worker 3 in disguise coming in
Guard 1: “Bzzzz….bbbzzzniifff”
Guard 2: “I zzmelll zzomething beezzy”
NO ID , nO food…
Guard 1: “zzzwho are you trying to come inside our humble hive”
Field worker 3: “ah uhzzzz.”
Guard 2: “trying to zzsteal food huh”
Field Worker 3: “juzz visitng the queen… beebye…”

Guards: “Trespasser!!!”

Guard 1 presses the alert button.
Soldier bees come to the rescue and attack the trespasser.

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Again, these workers are female.
What do the male bees do?

Ahh bbbzzzzzz…

On my next post….

PS:
If you happen to know some bee facts.
Share it to us in the comment section.
Thankszzz!


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The Art of Travelling

Posted on January 18th, 2007 by seaciel.
Categories: Travel Insights.

I got this article and I want to share these insights with you…

Travel Lightly. You are not traveling for people to see you.

Travel Slowly. Take time to absorb the beauty and inspiration of a mountain or a cathedral.

Travel Expectantly. Every place you visit is like a surprise package to be opened. Untie the strings with an expectation of high adventure.

Travel Humbly. Visit people and places with reverence and respect for their traditions and ways of life.

Travel Gratefully. Show appreciation for the many things that are being done by others for your enjoyment and comfort.

Travel With an Open Mind. Leave your prejudices at home.

Travel With Curiosity. It is not how far you go but how deeply you go to the  mines of gold experience.

Travel Fearlessly. Banish worry and timidity, the world and its people belong to you just as you belong the world.

Travel Relaxed. Make up your mind to have a good time. Let go.

Travel Patiently. It takes time to understand others especially when there are barriers of language and custom; keep flexible and adaptable to all situations.

Travel With Spirit of World Citizen. You’ll discover that people are basically much the same the world around. Be an ambassador of goodwill to all people.


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