Tech. Trek. Talk.

Part I

I can’t get enough of my summer fun activities so I went to Samal Island to experience the unique Tarpaulin Slide at Aqua-fun Adventure Maxima. Indeed! I had maximum level of fun with their aqua-fun activities!

First, we tried the 40 meters long, 1 meter wide tarpaulin slide. There are 3 people who assisted us. One guy helped us wear our life vest, the other one is giving out instructions and the other guy is waiting for us around 2 meters below the edge of the tarpaulin slide. He is the one that signals the lead guide to let the second glider to slide as soon as the first one reached the port steps.

When sliding, you need to keep your hand crossed on your chest to prevent you from constantly changing your gliding position. Also, you need to keep your feet together so that you’ll get the perfect splash and won’t hurt yourself. You can perform different dives though soon as you get used to it.

You need to take a shower first before sliding for you not to create friction with the tarpaulin. Wait until the tarpaulin gets wet and never slide without the signal from the lead guide to avoid accident.

The edge of the giant slide is 5ft above sea water if it is high tide, but it could reach up to 12ft if it’s low tide so it is more challenging. If you want to try dropping with longer extent then you might as well go there around 4pm. The sea water is 120ft deep but there’s nothing to fret because your life vest will help you float up in less than 5 seconds. Exciting? Experience it yourself and post your comments here :)

Part II

After we satisfy our itch for tarpaulin slide adventure, we rented sets of snorkeling gadget. The area where the giant slide was mounted is also a good area for snorkeling because they don’t allow fishing that can destroy the corals and fishes on that area.

There are bunch of beautiful hard corals with different shapes and sizes and the fishes are plenty too! So don’t miss the snorkeling activity at Aqua Fun Adventure Maxima! It’s worth trying…

Part III

After the snorkeling activity we went straight to Maxima – The home above the sea. It is owned by the Dizon family and out of their kindness they share one of their most valued properties to the public. It is their objective to share the same feeling of serenity, pleasure, and fun that they experienced every time they spend a holiday at maxima.

Maxima cottage has 3 bedrooms that can accommodate up to 10 persons. There are several activities that you can enjoy at maxima at the price you can absolutely afford! You can use the supplied life vest to go snorkeling and witness the beauty of the fish sanctuary right below Maxima Cottage.

You can also cook your own food as they intentionally set a kitchen so that you can decide the best meal for your family, friends or loved ones. What’s so amazing is that you can also use the cottage speedboat and get entertained at Maxima billiard hall!

The first time I heard about Zip city is from my friend but I saw the real video when I watched the program Sports Unlimited. I was thrilled.

Of course I just don’t let the excitement fade away without even trying it. So there you go… We went to Hill Top Davao where the famous Zip City can be found. It’s just around hundred meters away from Dencio’s Restaurant so it’s really simple to locate even if it’s your first time to go there. It’s fairly accessible!

When we get to their reception area, they collect 200Php from us for the zip then they help us wear our safety harness and helmet. They will let you choose if you will zip alone or go with a partner. We decided to embrace the challenge single-handedly. So I climb up to their spiral stairs and bear the fear and excitement myself while I’m on my way to get on to their zip panel.

The edge stander is waiting for me. He clipped a secure hook in my body harness and checked all the details of my safety gear to ensure that I will land on their unloading panel and not on the ground which is 120ft. under. Hahaha!

They set my expectation that I will only glide for approximately 35sec. and traverse through zip cable which is 320 meters long. So I gather all my strengths and jump from the edge of the panel at the count of three and woooohhhhhooooooooooo!!!! It feels like heaven!

It’s different from my first zip above water experience because the panorama is the entire Davao City. Though it’s more risky, it’s really worth trying because the flying sensation over trees and cliff is truly magnificent!

I’m in a vacation mode right now. I’m quite sure most of the working people can relate to this feeling. You know the feeling of wanting to spend more time at home or somewhere else where you can relax and enjoy and forget about the pressures at work.

Cruise ship vacation! This sounds so fascinating to me. Seems like I can do two things at a time and that is to relax while enjoying different places in one exciting trip. Well, there are lots of cruise packages like romantic cruise, destination oriented cruise, family friendly cruise and some is designed for ocean adventure cruise only (Minus the adventure of being captured by Pirates hahaha!)

Having this thought, I tried to research some of the important things that we need to do, bring or the things that we can expect for a cruise ship vacation. One important thing to acquire first is a passport as it’s practically needed for any international travel or international cruise travel for this matter. The next thing that you might want to consider is the amount of money that you can spend for this vacation. The usual package would include passage, sleeping arrangement and meals. Apart from these things everything else should be purchased by you.

I found out that there are also cruises that would let the passengers control their schedules. This is far different to the usual set up where the travel guide will be the one to control meal schedules, events and destinations. If these things concerned you, then you may need to ask first your travel agent about how they run the entire travel.

Of course we don’t want to disregard our outfit. You might want to ask your travel agent about the activities while sailing, the destinations and the climate just so you can pack the right attire for the whole duration of travel. Also, don’t forget to bring your cameras to capture superb moments. Whew! I guess I would try cruise ship vacation within this year :)

With all those blu-ray technologies, there is one product that stands out from the other and that is the Panasonic’s DMP- BD30 blu-ray disc player. Amazingly, this device really made a leap from other devices with a price just right for its quality and capability. This one’s a new kind of optical disc format with larger gigabytes that reached 50 GB capacity on dual-layer disc which can handle HD movies and can also store several videos and video computer games.

The DMP-BD30 can provide excellent HD entertainment experience even if you are just at home as you can just easily connect and play with this thingy on other devices such as plasma Televisions, receivers or any other blu-ray disc players. Not only is that, blu-ray is also known for its superb picture quality.

Another amazing fact about Panasonic DMP-BD30 Blu-Ray Disc Player is that it has the ability to receive additional flash memory and it can read MP3’s and videos that are in JPEG or AVCHD format. It also goes in a chic and slim design that fits almost anywhere.

The overall impact of this device really reached the benchmark of blu-ray technology that would suit the needs of an average movie viewer or a movie buff as you might say.

Listen guys, these are the tips that I could give you. I will talk about girls in general okay? If you do know what your girl really like then that’s great! But if you don’t, you might wanna consider this. We love it when we feel we are taken cared of, thus a romantic dinner with a bonus effort will be much appreciated. Dancing together would be a plus too especially when we know you can’t dance but you really exerted effort just to dance for us!

Also, daily chores are such a stress and if you could make the world revolved just for you and your baby that is more than a bang! What am I trying to say here? There are many places that you visit everyday, why not pick the most romantic and suitable place that none of you ever visited. One that is not crowded to make it more personal, then you can surprise her with flowers or a good choice of jewelry as most women oh-so-love jewelry (Need not to be expensive, but if you are pretty serious about your relationship with her a valuable one would be momentous). Make her feel that she’s the only person that exists on that day and the only person that you want to be with. It should be her and her alone.

Try this and I’m sure she’ll never forget that day that you make her feel extremely special! Want to have more of the best Valentine Gift ideas? Read on…