Goddess, I Am.

If you follow me on Twitter, then you’re probably one of the many people I’ve bored senseless with details and updates of our trip to Malaysian Borneo. Sorry about that. Some things just cannot be helped! I’ve been back in the Philippines for 6 days now, and I’m still reeling from the experience. It was that GOOD!

The Husband and I have been talking about taking a trip to the Borneo jungles for as long as we’ve known each other, but it was only this year that we really went for it. I always plan our trips, but never as carefully as this one. I suppose I was a bit apprehensive about going ‘into the wild’ that I just couldn’t leave anything to chance. So I planned everything from the obvious (accommodation, transfers, etc.) to the not-so-obvious (travel insurance, including Medicare part D plans). It didn’t help that there really wasn’t a lot of real information online on the places we wanted to go to.

All my hard work paid off, though. (If I may say so myself.) We had an epic holiday, we saw almost everything we set out to see, and we had some really priceless close encounters. I just wish we could’ve stayed longer because there were some things that we wanted to do that we just didn’t have enough time for. But, at least, we now know that we’re going to need a minimum of 15 days in Sabah if we’re going to go the whole hog.

We’re not done with you yet, Borneo! Not by a long shot.

I’ll blog some more about the trip once I muster the energy to edit my photos.

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So for the past hour or so, I’ve been frantically booking flights on Cebu Pacific. They’ve got a special sale going on for the day to mark 10-10-10 (October 10, 2010), and, well, let’s just say I’ve never been one to let a good seat sale pass!

I’ve managed to book ridiculously cheap flights for Manila in January with The Husband and Singapore at the end of March with The Sister! Of course, it’ll cost more if you have check-in baggage, travel insurance in case of travel emergency, or pre-picked seats. But we skipped all of that, so it only worked out a little over $100 for all the flights! That’s beyond the realm of coolness, methinks.

I am tickled pink right now. Nothing makes me happier than traveling – that’s a fact!

Okay, I haven’t really been reading up on Thailand much, so I can’t say I’m updated with what’s going on thereabouts. Come to think of it, I barely know what’s happening in my own country, let alone elsewhere. But I digress.

It’s hard not to be the slightest bit curious, though, when the place I called home for nearly a year and half made the headlines yet again. From what I can surmise, the people in red are unhappy that the people in yellow got their way barely 4 (or so) months back, and have decided that two can play that game. After all, if the yellows can do it, why not they?

And so they will demonstrate and riot and maybe take over airports until they get their way. And when they do, it’ll be the yellows’ turn again. Hmmm . . . does anyone see a pattern here?

Ahhh . . . the Thais never learn, don’t they? But then, stupid is as stupid does – no surprise there. Yes, the rest of world can think that we (The Philippines) are pretty bad in the politics department, but, really, we’ve got nothing on Thailand. Enough said.

On a side note, I hope those tourists unfortunate enough to be there right now have travel insurance. Or, at least, cushy sleeping bags for those hostile airport takeovers that the Thais do best.