Breeze Cafe

After a week since it opened, we finally had the chance to lounge at Breeze Cafe (according to the waiter), the newly built cafe at the Lantaka Hotel by the Sea in Zamboanga City, southern Philippines.

The cafe and the roof deck function are additions to the old but still very popular hotel. They have also renovated the rooms at the hotel's second building.

The cafe is nice. The earthly colors accentuate its ambiance. More importantly, the food is superb.

But I feel lounge music eventhough its not in the local tounge will be great. And, we didn't have any table napkins when we dined.-cs-

Pancake Day

We had hotcakes with sausage on pancake sunday at McDonalds.-cs-

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No Phone

Hi guys. My photo blogging using my mobile phone will be on a halt as I have sold my sonyericson k800i recently. That phone uses Smart Telecom here in the Philippines which has superb internet and mobile web browsing capabilities. Globe telecom however is a bust. I can't even email using pop or Gmail's java applet. I will start posting photos as soon as I'm capable. -cs-

Disaster Risk Reduction

Training participants tour a local weather station in Dumangas, Iloilo province. -cs-

Agro-Meteorological Station

Weather observer Gloria Betito checks the wind gauge at the local weather station in Dumangas, Iloilo province. Farmers in the municipality of Dumangas are using scientific weather forecasting to plan which crops to plant for better produce. -cs-

Iloilo Cathedral

Built in 1874, the cathedral is the church where Philippine hero Graciano Lopez Jaena was christened in 1854. -cs-

Good Friday

Religious cult leader Winie de Vera is nailed on the same cross he carried more than 20 kilometers across Zamboanga City to a hill where Catholics observe the station of the cross at Abong-Abong park on Good Friday. -cs-

Regional Journalism Workshop

More than 80 high school student journalists attend a forum on current trends in mass media as part of the Ateneo Masscom week celebration in Zamboanga City. -cs-

Protest

Students hold a picket protest infront of Plaza Pershing in Zamboanga City to denounce the Arroyo administration. -CS-

We Can Pay Too

Western Mindanao Command chief Lt.Gen. Eugenio Cedo (L) together with his deputy Brig.Gen. Juanch Sabban (C), prepare to hand out some 6.6 million pesos to six informants who was material to the neutralization of top al Qaeda linked Abu Sayyaf members and their leaders, during ceremonies at Camp Navarro in Zamboanga City, Philippines. -cs-

Praying for Bossi

Hundreds of students together with various church leaders of different religions and tribes, gathered together at Plaza Pershing in Zamboanga City in the Philippines to pray for the safe release of kidnapped Italian priest Fr. Giancarlo Bossi who was abducted by armed men in Payao, Zamboanga Sibugay at dawn last June 10, 2007.-cs-

New Gimik

Catribo Complex can be compared to the mini version of The Venue or Matina Town Square in davao. It is located along Buenavista Street in Zamboanga City. It features a new club called Halo. There's also a cafe called Mr. Bean where the pizza is goood. Although not all the shops are open - only an indegenous bar called Ryan and a small Family Fried Chicken resto are in addition, I hope it gets better. -cs-