Cebu Tour Day 3: Jewelpico, Bigfoot, IAFT, and Gardenia

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First Stop: Breakfast Buffet

Pardon me if I can't remember the place where we had breakfast and for not taking any pictures. The breakfast was not something memorable as the food was nothing extraordinary. Also, I was busy thinking about our unfinished AIS paper which is due that afternoon.

Second Stop: Jewelpico

Jewelpico is a company that manufactures and export pearl products and stuffs.

Thrid Stop:Bigfoot Studios

Call me ignorant, but this is actually the first time I have ever heard of Bigfoot, so it makes no impact to me or whatsoever that the Smallville Travel and Tours emphasized that we are so 'privileged' to have been granted the permission to tour the studio.

A 20ft pool. Whoah.

I couldn't get nicer photos because everywhere I go, my classmates just keep posing and flooding the frame. haha

Fourth Stop: International Academy of Film and Television (IAFT)

IAFT is a sister company of Bigfoot.

Fifth Stop: Dimsum House

The tour of the Bigfoot Studio took too much of our time that I barely enjoyed my lunch at the Dimsum House. To be honest, I cannot even recall the complete name of the buffet where we had our lunch.

Sixth Stop: Gardenia

Due to time constraints (after Bigfoot has eaten all the time, haha) we had to shorten our tour in Gardenia :(

The aroma of fresh bread is so delectable.

We took the plane to Kalibo and bus to Iloilo because our booking in the ship got canceled due to some stupid reasons and we wanted to watch the last HASA of our college life and support Arlan. The ceres bus was moving like turtle so we only got to watch the part where Ms. HASA 2013 is announced. Arlan was fourth though, so somehow the efforts we expensed in sharing ang liking his photo and support went not in vain.

Cebu Tour Day 2: Too Many To Mention

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I want to put the places where we went for the second day but if I do, the title of this post would be tooooo long, that's why I ended up with 'Too Many To Mention'. haha.

Room 434 Girls

Picture taken at the lobby of Sarrosa International Hotel

First Stop: Ding Qua Qua Dimsum House

That was one heavy breakfast!

Second Stop: Taoist Temply

On the way to the Taoist Temple.

Third Stop: CEFEDCO

Thanks for the ice cream and Milkee!

Fourth Stop: Cabalen at SM Cebu

I'm so full from the breakfast that I had that I wasn't able to eat P370 worth of lunch :(

Fifth Stop: Puyat Steel Corp.

Sixth Stop: Chapel of San Pedro Calungsod at South Road Properties

The chapel looks like some 100 walls sprouting out of nowhere from afar but they architecture and design was just so awesome no matter what distance you look at it. I was really amazed by the walls of the chapel. Try to knock on it when you're there and you'd understand what I'm talking about. :)

It just happened that when we arrived there was a an exchanging of vows, so we didn't get close enough to the altar.

This chapel is worth more than a hundred million. This was built through the efforts of Henry Sy. Talk about extravagant huh. But the atmosphere was very serene and peaceful in this chapel.

Seventh Stop: Sto. Nino de Basilica

Cebuanos are really religious, aren't they? At certain scheduled days, the mass is held at a wider venue (just in front of this church) to accommodate the large number of people attending the mass.

Once again, we couldn't get close to the altar because there was a mass.

Eighth Stop: Magellan's Cross

Ninth Stop: Dinner Buffet at the Royal Concourse

Cebu Tour Day 1: Guitar Factory & Lapu-Lapu Monument

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I probably have not mentioned anything about my Operations Management class aka Ilahas in my past posts, not that I have plenty of post for this semester anyway. So this class is by far the most demanding, inconsiderate and tiresome MINOR subject I had taken. There's way too many things to do for a single meeting and the teacher is not even teaching at all. He's sort of like another student in the class who does nothing. He required us to have a field trip at Cebu, that he even got as far as saying that he will give us an incomplete grade if we are not going to attend. The original price for the fieltrip was nearly 13K, which included a Bohol Trip, which we all believed has nothing to do with the objectives of the course. We ended up paying 8500 for the trip. If you are planning on getting Smallville Travel and Tours as your tour agency, I suggest not to, especially if you have financial constraints and want someone more responsible (though the hotel accommodations they prepared was really good). We had BUFFET for EVERY MEAL. Seriously, do they think we eat like pigs? We could have saved much if we only had buffet for chosen meals.

Enough with the rants. The trip was for 3 days and that included 5 companies that we will be making a company study as part of the requirements for this course. For the first day, we only did some sight seeing. Great. The tour guide, Ms. Zeny(?) was really good, if only, my classmates could have given more effort into cooperating with her.

First Stop: Alegre Guitar Factory