Nuffnang is an online blog advertising community in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Australia. Basically, I sign up with the site, post their ads, and earn from them. But the earnings are not that lucrative. It’s not enough to buy me a new pair of running shoes yet.

Every month, Nuffnang features a blogger from their network. For October, I get to be the Nuffnang’s Blogger of the Month. I got a chance to share my blogging experience with them and also promote Takbo.ph and running.

Read the feature here at Nuffnang and get to see my picture of my first running event in 2006.

Thank you, Nuffnang.

The ber months has started and I should have money.  But again, I lost my wallet.  It was also in September last year that I lost it.  Read it here.

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I had my atm card there.   So until now, I don’t have my weekly allowance.  My credit card is there too.  Good.  I have no reason to buy thing I want.  My IDs.  Only the school ID was important but I haven’t been to school for a year.  Discount cards.  Damn.  Calling cards.  Tsk.

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What is it with September that I get to lost my wallet on this month?  Does it mean to remind me not to spend too much and start saving for the holidays?  Or it just reminds me to always keep my wallet safe.

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Speaking of things to spend.  It’s Quennie’s birthday in a few more weeks.  I don’t have my wallet.  No ATM card.  No Credit Card.  Now I do have an excuse not to buy her a gift.  Again.  Hehehe.

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Ey!  Finally wrote something in my personal blog.

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But, really.  What can I give her on her birthday?

Here are the videos that we have shown during the wedding ceremony.  It took me several days just sorting out the pictures and editing them to a video.  See Jinoe and Quennie like you have never seen them before.  Hehehe.

Quennie’s AVP

Jinoe’s AVP

Prenup shot by Vinz

When Quennie and I announced that we are getting married, Vinz and Jery started to offer the idea of shooting the pre-nup pics for us.  Quennie and I didn’t have a pre-nup included in our wedding photo package so their offer was welcomed.  They are even willing to go to Bacolod to shoot the pre-nups and our wedding as well.

Vinz, Jery and I took the same flight to Bacolod last April 15, five days before the wedding.  My father fetched us from the airport and instantly we scouted for locations of the shoot.

The locations I had in mind are those that will show something about my hometown or about Negros in general.  The first idea were the ancestral houses in Silay or the Capitol Building in Bacolod.  Then, take shots at our place in Pontevedra.  However, moving from Silay to Pontevedra in one day will be a waste of time.  So we ended up looking for locations just in Pontevedra.

We wanted to take pics near the residense of the Conjuancos.  However, we were not able to get any permission.  Thus we ended up looking for locations just along the road.  I was able to familiarize myself with the area after having a runabout last January.   Thus, the next day, we set off early to take the pictures.

April was a big month for me.  Aside from getting married, I also got to run in three great places in the country.  Boracay.  Bacolod.  Baguio.

Boracay

Que and I stopping over for a pic in Boracay

I never imagined myself going to Boracay this year.  But when Women’s Health invited Quennie to the magazine launch in Boracay last April 4-5, I was able to tag along.  Women’s Health had a lot of activities prepared for the women, yet part of our agenda was a run in the shores of Boracay.  I am so excited that I even asked Patcon aka Runningshield for advice in running in Boracay.

The main shore of Boracay was about 5kms long.  Running on the sand is difficult.  My feet gets buried in the ground with every step.  That is why Patcon adviced to run where the sand meets the sea.  This part is a bit leveled and the sand is more packed.  But water gets in the shoes and makes the shoe heavy.

But it didn’t stop us from running.  We love the shores.  We just run slow and enjoyed the view early in the morning.  Dingdong aka Runmd was also in Boracay on the same day.  I run a 7km with Quennie first then another 8km with Dingdong.

with Dingdong aka Runmd in Boracay

Thanks to Women’s Health and Summit Media for inviting us.  More about the Boracay experience in the next blogs.

http://connect.garmin.com/player/3518466
http://connect.garmin.com/player/3518467

Bacolod

Three days before the wedding, I managed to have a 10K run in Bacolod.  It was raining and got us worried that it will also rain on our wedding day. Good thing it didn’t.

I followed the same route I run the last time in Bacolod.  I wanted to do an airport-to-airport run which would be about 15kms from the old airport in Bacolod to the new Bacolod-Silay Airport in Silay.  But I wont take that risk with the wedding in a few more days.

The route was a bit slippery due to the rains.  Upon reaching the Capitol Lagoon, I can still see a lot of runners in the area.  Made a few rounds to complete a 10km and headed back home on a jeepney.

http://connect.garmin.com/player/4342237

Baguio

With Team Logan in Baguio (Jinoe, Que, Michelle, Craig)

Team Logan invited us to go to Baguio and stay at their place.  Upon arriving in Manila after the wedding, we immediately started packing to leave to Baguio on the same evening.

This was my second time to run in Baguio. But this time, I had a different and more challenging route.  Craig, Michelle, Quennie and I started from SM and went to Camp John Hay then back to SM.  It was a good 10km run.  The uphills are a killer.  Quennie is excited to go back on May 24 for the Baguio Run.  It wasn’t that cold.  We even had out Takbo.ph singlets for the run.  No thick clothes or jacket needed.

The hilly, long and winding roads of Baguio

Thanks to Team Logan for the invitation and for the hospitality during our stay in Baguio.  More about our stay at Team Logan’s HQ in the next blogs.

http://connect.garmin.com/player/4342245