Archive for 2011

HONGKONG December 02, 2011

Hong Kong - The Disney Day

A few weeks ago, E and I went on a 3-day Hong Kong holiday. With us were my girl friends Pat, Jes and Riri, plus Riri’s mom. We shopped at every corner, ate whatever looked interesting and toured until our feet hurt. The

HONGKONG November 27, 2011

Hong Kong – The Peak

As I mentioned in my earlier blog post, E and I (together with my favorite girls Pat, Jes and Riri plus Tita Ceres) went on a Hong Kong vacation early this November. On our second day, our itinerary included a trip to The

HONGKONG November 27, 2011

Hong Kong – The Grand City Tour

Early this month, E and I went on a Hong Kong vacation with my favorite girls – Jessa, Pat, Ria – and Ria’s mom. Pat’s boyfriend Mar was also supposed to join us but unfortunately, after a sudden turn of events, he had

LAGUNA November 01, 2011

Countryside Brunch at Nuvali

We didn’t really plan anything for the long weekend because we wanted it to be very low cost, in preparation for next weekend’s trips. It just so happened that we saw the Nuvali ad right before the screening of Puss in Boots. Since

Music October 21, 2011

Jet Lag

Last month, I was on business trip during the week of our 4th anniversary. Today, I am in Costa Rica for business and will be missing again our monthsary in a couple of days. With the 14-hour time difference, it is definitely hard

Lifestyle October 10, 2011

Awesome Anniv Surprise: Feature on CreativeCouples.net

This is a slightly delayed announcement, but Y and E recently received a super cool anniversary present. Last September 23, we got an email from Kotone of CreativeCouples asking us if it was okay if they feature our blog on their site. How

Lifestyle October 05, 2011

Myth of the Human Body

After our friend Gia’s very convincing endorsement earlier this year, Yza had always wanted to visit The Myth of the Human Body exhibit. We just couldn’t find the time to do it. Fortunately, my sister was in town last weekend. This gave us

CHINA September 28, 2011

794 Miles Apart

...spent another anniversary outside the country...without her. =( Cheers,

Lifestyle September 23, 2011

The 4th Year Anniversary Post

If I were in high school and my future self came to visit and told me that in 2011 I’d be in a committed four-year relationship with Eliel, I’d probably roll on the floor laughing. For one thing, he was this emo, freaky-genius

CEBU September 06, 2011

CeBOOM!

Our free round trip tickets to any domestic destination c/o Cebu Pacific were about to expire (recall our free tickets from our Coron trip). The August long weekend was the last good opportunity for us to book these or else we’d have to

Music August 21, 2011

Good Life

Inspired by the youtube covers of Tyler Ward / Heather Janssen and Olivia Mitchell / Landon Austin, we took a shot at creating our own rendition of One Republic's Good Life.♪♫ please tell me-e-e-e what there is to complain about. ♬♩ Cheers,

August 14, 2011

A Trek To Remember 8 (Aklan) - An Invitation

Last summer, we joined the Kabataang Inyong Dapat Suportahan (K.I.D.S.) Foundation on their 7th Trek To Remember at Tanudan, Kalinga. You can read about it here. Needless to say, we had an awesome travel/volunteering experience. So anyway, the K.I.D.S. Foundation holds these kinds

Home and Family August 12, 2011

Something Good

Somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good. XOXO Have a romantic Friday night, Yza

Lifestyle August 08, 2011

Forever 21

Because growing old is optional. Cheers,

Lifestyle August 07, 2011

Reduce Heat. Stop Moving.

A couple of weeks ago, a friend posted a link in Facebook. It was linked to a blog unlike any other. At first glance, you’ll think it’s just your ordinary photo blog but after a few seconds, the photos just suddenly move! Be

SINGAPORE July 03, 2011

Singapore-fect Weekend

Last February, an international seat sale was announced by Cebu Pacific. We wanted to book a flight to Singapore because of 3 things: (1) Yza is excited to have her new passport stamped for the first time, (2) I haven’t been to Singapore

Lifestyle July 02, 2011

"Filling" Good!

Two rainy Mondays ago, it was a holiday so Yelie and I decided to have a nice "date day." We didn't want to waste away the beautiful day so we went out for brunch, coffee and a movie. :) We decided to eat

Lifestyle June 30, 2011

Movie Review: Insidious

Yza watched this movie about a month ago and wanted me to watch it right after. However, due to reasons not really important to detail here :), I was only able to watch it a week ago and wasn’t even able to finish

Lifestyle June 21, 2011

Someone left a drink for U.S.

A week ago, Yza and I both received emails from an anonymous friend inviting us to claim a free drink from Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Last weekend, we decided to claim 1 of our 2 free drinks at CBTL-Greenbelt 3 (just one,

Lifestyle June 13, 2011

Movie Review: Hangover Part II

Our friend, Chino, celebrated his birthday last June 11. The tropa met up at Glorietta, had dinner at Max’s (chicken all-you-can!) and then watched Hangover 2. Below is our personal review of this movie. This is a spoiler-free review. The Trailer

LA UNION June 06, 2011

L.U.K.E.: La Union Krazy Escapade

“The best vitamin for making friends: B1.” Photo by: Eliel Sarmiento The last two weekends of May have been make-new-friends weekends for us. A couple of weeks ago, we volunteered with the K.I.D.S. Foundation for a trek/medical mission in Kalinga (view post here).

KALINGA June 05, 2011

Trek for a Cause: Tanudan, Kalinga (aka “the best part of Y-and-E’s summer”)

Funny how life leads us somewhere unexpectedly. We initially wanted to go to Sagada so we went on sites that featured the place. We stumbled upon a post on the Visit Sagada site inviting individuals to join K.I.D.S. Foundation’s Trek For a Cause.

Music May 01, 2011

Lazy Song

Yza went home to Cebu this weekend for work. It may not seem obvious but an Yza-free weekend is a boring and lazy weekend for me. So I looked for something to do and stumbled upon Bruno Mars' Lazy Song music video. This

PALAWAN April 24, 2011

Coron Nation!

After waiting for so long, we finally pushed through with our tropa summer getaway at Coron, Palawan. I've long wanted to visit Palawan, and I was not disappointed. :) Must go back to Palawan someday to check out the famous Underground River and

METRO MANILA April 23, 2011

Visita Iglesia

Every Holy Week, it has been an ongoing tradition of the Filipino Catholic faithfuls to do the visita iglesia, Spanish for church visits. This practice, most probably introduced by the Spanish colonizers, goes way back to the time of the early church where

Lifestyle April 19, 2011

Tapsi-Love

Nothing spells comfort food like Rodic's. It was my go-to place back when I was a UP dormer:) Their Tapsilog (tapa-sinangag-itlog) is an institution. Back when I was in college, E would visit me on campus and we would go to Rodics when

Lifestyle April 05, 2011

Top 10 Ways To Spot An Yza - The Response

And so Yza went on to imagine that cloning has become prolific around the world by the year 2020 (view post here). If she has identified 10 ways to spot the real me, I might as well come up with my own list

Lifestyle April 05, 2011

Top 10 Ways To Spot An Eliel

It is the year 2020. People are being cloned left and right. Why? I don't know. Some government experiment, maybe? Anyway, this got me thinking. What if there were 1 gazillion Eliels running around in the world? How will I know who the

CEBU March 28, 2011

South Cebu Road Trip

"Celebrate the happiness that family and friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living." - Amanda Bradley Photo by: Renwick Sarmiento Last weekend, we went home to Cebu to celebrate my mom's birthday in advance. Yza and Donna performed

Music March 23, 2011

This Is Where The Music Starts

When boredom strikes, music is our fallback... Cheers, Eliel

LAGUNA March 21, 2011

Happy US!

E and I have been craving for more “productive” weekends. You know – get some air, see new things, build new memories. ‘Coz even though we love our “mikla” days (ordering take-out, mindless Facebooking, watching our never-ending list of TV series, watching movies

ABOUT US

HI! We're Eliel and Yza.

Welcome to our blog!

We are newlyweds trying to figure out life. We've been together for 9 years before getting married in 2016.

On our third year as a couple, we started this blog to document our adventures, milestones, dates, and random thoughts. Throughout the years, it has mostly become our travel diary. Because we're very forgetful people, this has helped us relive some of our favorite memories. Now that we're married, we're on a new adventure and we can't wait for what's in store for us.

Someday, we plan to compile these blog posts into a coffee-table book in case one of us gets Alzheimer's (The Notebook) or amnesia (50 First Dates). *knocks on wood*

ABOUT US

HI! We're Eliel and Yza.

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