tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317935362024-02-25T06:36:17.532+08:00I am the Sexy NomadOld and new confessions, travels, adventures, wishes and dreams of a nomad, a bookworm, a Wiccan, a fashionista, and alas, a super sexy mommy wannabe! Into my world I welcome you, come take a peek. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger490125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-24828464473756874642016-07-26T22:06:00.002+08:002019-02-28T17:35:49.650+08:00Goodbye Sexynomad, Hello Momtraneur!
I thought of writing a very long detailed post on why I decided to no longer update this blog and open a new one instead but I don't want to dwell in the past as much as I already have and I just want to fully move on... so I'll just summarize my reasons here:
1. The term "Sexynomad" was coined by my ex and I just want to let everything about him go.
2. I can no longer relate to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-90767752613877109422016-05-08T05:57:00.000+08:002019-07-20T07:44:00.346+08:00A Mother's Day Message
I want to shout to the whole world, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, to all mommies, nanays, mamas, mothers, inangs out there most especially sa mommy ko, Erlinda M. Adams. I never really quite realized how much sacrifice, pain and hardship being a mother entails until I became one myself. It's no walk in the park, it's the hardest thing in the whole wide world and yet here is my mom, surviving all Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-88430855838317083532016-04-30T10:19:00.000+08:002019-02-28T17:36:59.980+08:00Review: NWorld, Black Pearl, Jericho, Proactive, Bio Oil --- My Facial Skin Journey
The following is a detailed account of the experiences my facial skin went through from February 18, 2016 up to present (April 26). This is not to generalize the effects of the various skin products I used because there so many factors concerned which is why effects on skin may vary from person to person depending on existing variables like skin type, age, hormonal changes, genes, etc.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-11329094157148000842016-03-24T08:46:00.000+08:002019-02-28T17:37:49.872+08:00Holy Week Last Minute Plans
The Plan
We had plans of spending the Holy Week at the beach with my parents and nephews. My mom suggested Calaguas and since we haven't been there yet, I got excited at the thought of it. Since I couldn't anymore find the time to handle the planning for that trip, I delegated it to Bebeko Hanz. He was doing a great job researching for everything, from hotels we can stay at, to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-62907733073806090962016-03-16T19:58:00.000+08:002019-02-28T17:38:08.295+08:00My Life List. What's Yours?
I've been asking myself where am I getting all this energy I have day in and day out? Despite feeling oh so tired at times, I always feel excited about life. Then I thought about my life list. I started listing stuff I wanted to do with my life back in college. I was 18, around the same time I began watching Oprah on TV and had this little mantra in my head that I'd recite every morning Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-39189850462207849732015-01-12T03:02:00.001+08:002019-02-28T17:38:53.589+08:00New Year, New Me! My Resolution for 2015 and Beyond!
Happy New Year, everyone! Even after the Three Kings and the celebration of the Black Nazarene have gone by, it still feels like the first day of the new year for me. Hehehe.
So, how did the first 12 days of the new year treat you so far? I hope this year of the sheep is turning out the way you wanted it to be, or if not, I hope you're all coping very well and getting yourself ready for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-47868997495786528232014-10-06T15:13:00.002+08:002019-07-20T07:45:55.822+08:00Adventour Magazine Features Sexy Nomad
I was surprised to receive a copy of Adventour magazine last week! It was actually delivered to my home Wednesday evening just before I went out to do the groceries. I didn't have the time to read it though until Friday late afternoon and boy oh boy was I surprised to see myself featured on 7 full pages!!! I was so ecstatic!!!
Adventour is a backpacker's lifestyle guide Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-33579010907713974342014-10-01T13:50:00.003+08:002019-07-20T07:51:04.634+08:00Barefoot Travels Magdalena Whitewater Rafting Adventure
This white water rafting photo above was taken at Ayung River in Indonesia back in 2009.
Bebeko will be here soon and we're joining Barefoot Travels in their white water rafting adventure. Weee!!! This will be my third time to do such an adventurous thing. The first time I did whitewater rafting was back in 2006 in Padas River in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The second was in AyungUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-72172263616808173242014-08-14T01:27:00.000+08:002016-02-12T04:37:57.921+08:00Buri Resort and Spa - Answer to My Prayer
This was the exact room I was provided with during my stay!
God
works in mysterious ways and he does answer our prayers whether we see
it or not. In my case, with my work being home-based, and myself being
home alone most of the time (if I'm not traveling), I do get lonely. Usually, this feeling of loneliness is manageable but there comes a time, like a few days after my bessy Hanz Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-16265602774264151962014-07-29T14:22:00.002+08:002017-07-29T13:07:39.504+08:00Taiwan Buddha Memorial Center and the 2012 International Youth Seminar on Life and Ch'an Day 3.
Hi guys! Si here's the continuation... Like I said in my previous post (Taiwan FGS Buddha Memorial Center Tour: A Prologue), so far, the third day of the youth camp has been the most fun of all. Aside from the usual protocol done during early morning meditation, breakfast and lunch, we did Sutra Calligraphy, listened to a talk about Life and Ch'an, witnessed Buddhist chanting, did a Dharma HuntUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-23282378794797544842014-07-23T04:15:00.002+08:002017-07-29T13:07:36.958+08:00Taiwan FGS Buddha Memorial Center Tour: A Prologue
I've been doing a lot of meditation and contemplation as of late that it made me think back to my 2-week trip to Taiwan when I was lucky enough to be chosen as one of the Philippine delegates to attend the International Youth Seminar on Life and Ch'an.
Then I realized that I've been doing so much traveling (almost non-stop for several years now)
that I've been seriously Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-59615732393377828182014-07-14T14:40:00.001+08:002016-02-12T04:39:01.561+08:00Heading to Real, Quezon with Barefoot Travels... Who wants to join?
*Due to typhoon Glenda and Henry recently, this trip was re-scheduled to Aug. 2 and September 6.
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Just a quick post... I'll be going with Barefoot Travels this Saturday, July 19, 2014. There are still a few slots left. Who wants to join? Please read the details below:
Surf and Trek Adventure
Real, Quezon
Real is a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-27308488812503330952014-03-19T11:52:00.002+08:002016-02-10T04:59:33.972+08:00Berjaya, Petronas and Menare KL Tower: Kuala Lumpur Walking Tour
It's been a week since it happened and my days have been a roller coaster ride of varying degrees of extreme emotions. In order to get out of my funk, I thought I'd do other things that I enjoy like blogging. In this particular post, I'd like to just share with you that time Jayme and I did our Asian trip in January 2010. I never got to finish that series because life took over and as they say, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-69995525178641974132014-03-13T04:37:00.001+08:002014-03-14T07:45:44.715+08:00Of Endings and Beginnings
I've been feeling the blues and it's been going on for a while now (severe depression which has been on and off since 2012). I was pretty ok last half of 2013. The NLP / Neurolinguistic Programming sessions I took in September helped a lot. In a way, the emotional baggage I've been bringing with me since I was a kid got healed somehow. Plus the non-stop travels I did the past two years did a lotUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-7913414789827101152014-02-04T11:43:00.001+08:002016-10-20T20:05:08.885+08:00Summer Travel Schedule w/ Barefoot Travels
Can you feel the heat? Yep, I think summer is here! After that cold spell we all experienced in January, I'm ready to welcome the warm and sunny weather coz that means more beach trips and more travels!
If you're "nomadic" like me and have this immense thirst for traveling, you might be interested in what I want to share with you. Even if you're not the wanderer type, but you've been Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-7081711475051050592014-01-28T15:01:00.000+08:002016-10-20T20:05:19.662+08:00Barefoot Travels Baler Surf and Trek Adventure
Baler Adventure
Hey gais! I'm still here in Cebu, in Oslob in particular. I've been traveling non-stop so to speak since last year and now that I'n resting a bit here at my bessy's place (my flight back to Manila is early tomorrow at 3am), I decided to make time for another blog post, this time about Baler. I was just there last Jan. 11-12 when I joined Barefoot Travels in their Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-35527303193112961332014-01-08T14:33:00.002+08:002016-02-10T04:59:52.973+08:00Barefoot Sagada Package Inclusions
Below are the details you need to know if you want to join one of Barefoot Travel's future Sagada trips. I got these details from the primer they sent me a week before my scheduled tour of Sagada. You will receive one too should you decide to join them. You can also read my introductory post about Barefoot Travels and my Sagada excursion with them. Just go to this link here: Sagada with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-74069772076185321262014-01-06T00:29:00.000+08:002016-02-10T04:59:58.476+08:00Sagada with Barefoot Travels: An Introduction
Sagada Rice Terraces
Sagada has always been one of my dream destinations ever since my younger sister told me that she's been there during her UP days (about 15 years ago) and it was such an awesome experience for her. She was telling me all these wonderful stories of heading there atop a jeepney squeezed between her friends traversing the dangerous and steep sides of the mountainous BanaueUnknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-5416267464536867272014-01-01T20:51:00.000+08:002016-02-10T05:00:06.459+08:002014 Philippine Holiday Schedule - Plan Your Vacations Now!
Happy New Year!
taken in Similan Island, Phi Phi, Phuket, Thailand
It's the year of the Earth Horse and I feel like this year is going to be luckier than ever for me. Life just gets better and better, doesn't it? Just when I told myself (a few months ago) that I'll probably stop travelling so I can focus on other aspects of my life, travel opportunities came left and right that I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-41493845893201920722013-11-30T13:47:00.000+08:002014-01-02T00:27:55.858+08:00Tours & Things to Do in Sharm el Sheik
Sharm el Sheik is a place that not many Western travellers have
the chance to visit. However, there are many fascinating experiences to have on
you trip to Sharm el Sheik. Fantastic diving, colourful deserts, and exotic
dancers will surely create a memorable experience.
One of the biggest activities in Sharm el Sheik is diving. The corals are alive
and well here, and haven't Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-17268077361223803192013-10-31T21:59:00.000+08:002013-11-01T01:32:25.839+08:00ATC, Sky Ranch Tagaytay, Glorietta 4: a Busy but Relaxing Long Weekend with Baboo Peter
I booked a flight to Cagayan de Oro earlier this year for Oct. 26-31. I was thinking that since baboo is always busy with work, I might as well spend time with some of my friends I rarely see. The thing is they live so far away. But what's an hour of plane ride and a few hours of commute to the City of Golden Friendship if only to see them, right?
Well, a lot of things happened in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-82199133567458755172013-10-24T04:15:00.001+08:002013-10-24T04:15:55.904+08:0028th Visual Arts Competition: “Scenes from My Hometown"
It was on Oct. 16, 2013 when the Directories Philippines Corporation (DPC) and the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) launched the the 28th edition of their annual Visual Arts Competition (VAC 28) in Gateway Mall, Cubao, Quezon City.
Representatives from VAC 28 partner institutions—the Department of Tourism; Canon Marketing Philippines, official imagingUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-76614196024231956112013-10-02T07:10:00.000+08:002013-10-03T08:54:59.308+08:00Breaking Through My Barriers Part II
Yesterday, I blogged about how I got into this amazing training program called Breaking Through Barriers (BTB) conducted by Train Station and how it has been changing my life since (slowly albeit surely). Before you read this blog post, head over there first to give you a little background then go back here to read the personal barriers that I have broken down so far since attending the BTB Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-46022840963447111542013-10-01T06:34:00.000+08:002013-10-03T16:17:24.664+08:00Breaking Through My Barriers Part I
It's the last quarter of the year, the last chance I have of fulfilling one of my resolutions when this year started and that is to blog some more (God knows I got a ton of travelogues lined up for this!) I used to find solace, comfort, happiness and wisdom in writing my thoughts and experiences here and in my other blogs as well. But due to time constraint, overflowing responsibilities andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793536.post-32072954258194200202013-08-28T20:49:00.000+08:002013-08-28T20:49:23.672+08:00Plan Your City Break to Prague
Prague is one of the more vibrant and
exciting cities in Europe with loads to do to fill your holiday to the Czech
capital. It is very easy to visit this beautiful location without a definitive
plan and spend the time wandering and enjoying the sights and sounds of the
enthralling little streets and town squares.
But
often it can be useful to have a plan to give your holiday some Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0