My Cebu Expedition
Friday, August 15, 2008
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I went outside first to watch the scenery outside. It's the Manila Ocean Park's view outside that I can see. After a few moment, I went back to our room to take a nap. I turned on my Phone's Mp3 player and went to sleep and woke up around 10:00 pm and noticed that my phone's battery was empty. I decided to move up my ass and go to the charging station and was shocked of the people who waited there to charge their cellphone also.
It is a bit scary thinking that the wires might cause a fire and will burn the whole ship out since there's a lot of chargers that are currently plugged in. Luckily, nothing bad happened until I finished charging my phone. I went back to our room to sleep again.
I woke up very early and went outside to see the beauty of God's gift. But everything outside was wet and thought that maybe it was raining here awhile ago. The sky is clear and I was waiting for the sun to shine on me. Its not only me who waited for him to come out but also all the other early birds currently on board.
It was a beautiful morning when I saw the sun coming out and I immediately took out my phone to take some photos of it. After I was satisfied of the shots that I got, I went to the other side of the boat to see if what's extraordinary scenery that I can see there. I was amazed of the beauty of nature that I am currently seeing. Its a jaw-dropping full sized rainbow. I pulled out my phone again to catch this one of a lifetime experience. I haven't seen a huge rainbow like this before.
I even thought of the pot of gold at both ends of the rainbow that the myth my grandpa told me when I was just a kid. Is it really real? Do I need to swim and dive there just to get that pot of gold? I just ignored all those legends and concentrated on the scene that's in front of me at that very moment. It so disappointing that I can't took the whole size of the rainbow maybe because of the distance and my current position. After spending a lot of time watching the beautiful rainbow, I felt like my tummy is vibrating so I went to the pantry to take my morning meal and was shocked how do people sacrificed to fall in line just to claim their food at the counter.
I told myself if do I also need to do the same. Yes, the answer is yes. I could not imagine falling in line for the food ration. It seems that I am a victim of calamity. After a very long wait in line, I got my food and ate it like there's no more tomorrow. After breakfast, I went outside to feel the morning breeze again and I was lucky to see another wonder God have given me. There's a group of dolphins that is having a small feast from afar. Thoug I can't see it clearly, Iknow it was dolphins coz some of them were jumping and I think I know how to differentiate dolphins from octupus. Then I heard the announcer on the speaker telling about the tragedy at the Sibuyan Island, the Princess of the Star tragedy. People listened and when the announcer told that the island beside us is Sibuyan Island, I went to that side of the boat again and see if I could get a chance of taking a picture of the sunked boat but the boat was too far and it is impossible for me to take a picture of it. So I just simply say a short prayer for the souls of the victims of the tragedy. We can really never tell when will God take our lives. I just hope that our trip will be safer than ever. My life in that boat was some kind of boring though there are some spices with it. I feel very happy when it was rumored on the boat that we only have to spend 3-4 more hours on that boat and then we will now reach our destination. We reached Cebu City around 8:00 pm and people were like on a race of taking off of the boat. I was really mad when we got out of the boat because when I claimed my motorcycle, the back tire was flat and I need to go to the vulcanizing shop for it to be fixed. The good thing is that there's a nearby vulcanizing shop 2 blocks away from the Cebu Sea Port. After my motorcycle was being fixed, we went home and then that's it, I took a bath and then take a rest. And that's how we travel by the sea from Manila to Cebu.
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