by Erica Jahn

Escape to the Queen City of the South: Taoist Temple

November 29, 2012

Another must see in Cebu is the Taoist Temple. It is situated on top of a hill in the wealthy residential suburb of Beverly Hills. For me it’s not that historic nor significant because I’m not a Taoist but it’s worth visiting because of the ostentatiously ornamented structural design and the excellent view of the city.

Here are loads of pictures:

we went there on a Saturday afternoon…

we saw many tourists– Filipinos, Chinese, Korean and Japanese

hmmm.. this statue…

this is a funny pic

we have to pay some respect

I like this design

oh this landscape!!!

there are 99 steps they say… i am in the 40 something i guess 🙂

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Erica Jahn

Erica is a former PR pro turned entrepreneur. Her greatest joys are family, blogging, music, skin care and social justice. As a Muay Thai enthusiast, Erica prides herself on working with increased focus, humility and diligence. She believes in living a fit life doing everything with a flair of creativity and love! Stalk her social channels @thegirlwiththemujihat

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Phone and PC Monitoring App: TheOneSpy Review

In Lifestyle, Uncategorized

January 18, 2019

TheOneSpy guarantees you for the protection of your business and as well as your children and teens from all digital vulnerabilities. You can use it on your company’s owned cell phones, gadgets and computer machines running with android, windows and MAC operating systems respectively.

Moreover, the user can monitor each and every single activity of employees at workplace and kids and teens activities whenever you want to within no time.

It empowers you to perform monitoring on the company’s owned phone and PCs secretly without letting the targeted employees that you are keeping a hidden eye on them. It allows you to measure the productivity of your employees and set parental control on your children online activities.

You can use a mobile phone and PC tracking software powerful features with complete efficiency, accuracy, and get access to the information in real time. There are a number of monitoring apps that are available on the web claims to the best tracking software for mobile phones and computer devices.

Why TheOneSpy is so popular among users?

The reason behind its popularity is its powerful hundreds of features and its user –friendly and exciting interface. The best part of the cellphone and computer spying app is its real –time tracking features both for tracking employees and to set parental control on kids and teens activities on cellphones and on laptop and desktop computer devices.

You can track text messages, phone calls, emails, text conversations, multimedia, and Voice messages logs of social media apps and even you can remotely control cell phone with Android spy app. Furthermore, you can track widows and MAC laptop and desktop computers in terms of block websites, listen to the surround sounds, keystrokes applied and remotely capture screenshots and also you can get user –friendly reports.

How phone and PC spy app works? Installation process

First and foremost you need to visit the official website of TheOneSpy and then you need to subscribe for the cell phone or computer tracking app. Then you will be able to get passcode and ID of your chosen spy product of TheOneSpy.

Moreover, you need to get physical access to the target cell phone or computer device. Once you have the access to the target device you need to get started with the installation process. After you have ended up with the installation process then activate it on the target device. Now use the credentials and get access to the online control panel and visit the multiple features of multiple cellphone and computer monitoring products of TheOneSpy. Let’s discuss all the spy apps and their features one by one.

Android monitoring software Features

Surround Monitoring

You can record and listen to the surrounds with the use of three bugging features such as for audio and video bugging and capturing photos.

Call recording

End user can record live incoming and outgoing calls on the target android device with use of cellphone spy app for android. However, after you have record and listen to the live calls you can save the recording over the internet.

Live Screen recording

You can perform live screen recording by making short videos of the screen. It means you can do screen recording of all the social media activities, chrome activities, emails, SMS, Password used and plenty pf other activities in real –time.

GPS Location tracking

You can track GPS location, location history and can mark safe and dangerous areas for the target device holder.

Remote Android Controller

You can remotely view installed android apps, block messages, incoming calls and last but not the least internet.

IM’s Social Media

You can get the logs of all the trendy social media apps such as text messages, text conversations, shared media and Voice messages and audio and video conversations.

Windows spy app Features

Block websites

You can out the ULRs of all the inappropriate websites visited on windows and place it into the filters to block the websites

User –friendly reports

You can get user –friendly reports of windows laptop and desktops in terms of activity logs, alarms logs, emails, visited apps and websites.

Real-time and invisible Mods tracking

You can track all the activities happen on the windows computers secretly in real –time and secretly.

MAC Monitoring app Features

Website blocking

Block all the time wasting and bad websites in term of adult content. Just put the URLs into the control panel filters.

Screen recording

Monitor all the activities happen on the MAC laptop and desktop computer device screen activities in real time.

Keystrokes logging, camera Bug & MIC bug

You can get all types of keystrokes applied on MAC device in terms of passwords keystrokes, messenger keystrokes, messages, and email keystrokes. Moreover, you can remotely get control over the camera to view device user and get control over MIC to listen to the surround sounds and conversations.

Parting Words

TheOneSpy cellphone and computer monitoring spyware is an ultimate tool for digital parenting, employee monitoring and as well as to track adult affairs.

What do you think of this review? Have you used this app before? Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below!

Estimated Budget for Japan Trip

In Travel, Uncategorized

February 15, 2017

Sika Deer in Nara Park

How much pocket money do you need for a decent travel to Japan?

A lot of my friends have been asking me about the cost of my
Japan trip and about how much money they need to prepare to visit Japan, and I’ve always replied: it depends.

The travel cost can be sky-high or on a shoestring depending on where you want to go, what activities you want to try, how long you wish to stay, where you’ll stay and the kind of food you prefer to eat.

But to give you an estimate, I’m sharing a table of expenses and suggested itinerary below. So ready your pens in case you plan to tick Japan off your bucket list real soon!

So you got your VISA approved (congratulations!), booked your plane ticket, the next thing to do is finalize your itinerary—Where is the best place to visit? What activities should you try?

Usually, first time travelers in Japan want to visit Tokyo and Kyoto, the current and old capital of Japan, respectively. If you ask me which place is better, I’d say both can offer unique travel experience. Aside from these two historical sightseeing spots, however, it’s important to note that there are nearby places that are equally worth visiting.

SUGGESTED ITINERARY

Tokyo – Osaka – Kyoto – Nara

You can arrive at Narita airport and dedicate the next full day in Tokyo Disneyland/ Tokyo Disneysea. Take a train to Tokyo the following day and spend a photo walk around the city. Take pictures in Akihabara, visit Ueno park, observe the cityscape from the SkyTree observatory, eat and shop at Tsukiji Market or Ginza, visit the Imperial Palace, drop by the historical Tokyo Station… At night, you can board on a Yakatabune or Japanese Houseboat, drink and dine with your friends while cruising in Tokyo bay. If night photography is your thing (or you don’t want to go on a cruise) you can opt to watch romantic night views from the top of some prominent buildings in Tokyo.

I’m telling you the first 3 days in Tokyo can be real packed but fun, you better ready your feet and foot wear!

You can also try other popular tourist spots in this map

photo from JR EAST website

On the fourth day of your trip, you can take a Shinkansen to go to Osaka or if
you are feeling frugal and you want to take things slow, take a night bus. You can stay in Osaka and
travel by train to visit neighboring prefectures like Kyoto, Nara, Hyogo, Shiga, etc.

See the cute school kids on the left? This is in Otsu City in Shiga

Trains in Japan are very convenient because they’re always on time. In fact, you can depend on the arrival time to know when to get off. I found this life-saving especially when I couldn’t read the map or understand the train announcement/ electronic prompter. But basically everything is translated to English so you need not worry.

Upon arrival to Osaka you can visit the Dotonbori, take a picture with Glico man, eat soba (in a bowl that’s as big as your head) and then go to Osaka Castle.

I still feel I could drown in this bowl in case. . .

On the fifth day, you can begin very early and take a train to Nara. Visit
the Todaiji Temple with the biggest Daibotsu, feed the deer, check out Nara Museum, trek Mt. Wakakusayama till dusk and spend some time in the summit. The view from Mt. Wakakusayama summit at night is spectacular because of the bright city lights.

You can also spend a day in Kyoto. Visit (a friend in) Kyoto
University. Dine at a famous tonkatsu restaurant nearby the university. Take the bus to Kinkaku-ji and Ginkaku-ji. Visit
Fushimi Inari in the afternoon and try to finish hiking the 1000 toriis before midnight. Have dinner at the busy big Kyoto
Station then head back to your hotel in Osaka.

If you still have another day to spare, you can go
to USJ or spend a day walking in some parks, visiting manga cafes, shopping
in Namba or Shin-saibashi.

Kobe Port Tower

Try to squeeze in a visit to Kobe and Shiga in your itinerary. You can go to these beautiful places within a day too.

On the 9^th day you can check out of your hotel, go to the airport and travel back to Manila.

Kinkaku-ji

ANOTHER ITINERARY

OSAKA – MIE – NAGOYA – YAMANASHI – TOKYO

You can also choose KIX (Kansai International Airport in Osaka) as your point of entry. You can spend a day or three in Osaka before heading to Mie.

In Mie, you can visit the Nagashima Spaland or Nabana No Sato in Kuwana. You can spend two days in Mie. Visit unique theme parks – try the Steel dragon 2000! You can also take a lift to Mt. Gozaisho.

Lake Kawaguchi

On the 6th day you can take a train to Nagoya. Attend a Christian Church near Sakae Station.Visit
Nagoya Castle. Take a night bus to Yamanashi and go to Kawaguchi Lake or Fuji Q
highlands.

After that you can head to Tokyo and spend 2 or 3 days there. On the 9th or 10th day you can take your flight back to Manila.

Dinner with Japanese firends

ESTIMATED BUDGET

Here is a table of expenses (in Philippine Peso) to help you finalize your itinerary.

I included the converted cost of accommodation, transportation, food, and activities I tried in Japan. Check the items that you wish to include in your travel list and do the math.

Exchange rate is JPY 1.00 = PHP 0.35

(AGAIN, YOU CAN USE THIS TABLE AS REFERENCE. PLEASE DO THE MATH FOR YOUR TOTAL EXPENSES.THIS IS JUST A ROUGH ESTIMATE)

	Cheap	Average	High
Accommodation (per night):
Dorm-type (/pax)	750	900	1000
Hotel	1000	3500	20000

Plane Ticket:
(RT) Manila – Osaka/ Tokyo	3500	8500	20000
(ONE-WAY) Tokyo – Osaka	1000	5000	7000
(ONE-WAY) Tokyo – Sapporo	1500	3000	10000

Food:
Meal	100	350	1000
Snacks	35	100	200
Milk Tea	35	100	200
Unlimited buffet dinner	700	700	1000
Green Tea (Pack)	70	250	800
Kitkat Chocolate	74	100	350
Coke in can	46	46	46
Beer in can	60	70	120
Ramen bowl	135	350	500
Sushi (2 pcs)	70	120	300
Mcdonalds value meal	35	100	350
Takoyaki	125	175	203

Bus Fare:
Osaka to Tokyo	1200	1200	1200
Unlimited day pass around Kyoto	175	175	175
KIX to Umeda	550	550	550

Train Fare:
Subway	65	65	350
Normal Train	50	50	312
JR Osaka station to JR Kyoto Station	196	196	196

Shinkansen:
Tokyo to Osaka	4200	4200	4200
Aomori – Tokyo	7700	7700	7700

Activities:
Tokyo Disneyland	2500	2500	2500
Temple Entrance Fee	245	500	500
Zoo Entrance Fee	300	500	500
Universal Studios	2600	2600	2600
Karaoke	175	500	1000

Souvenirs:
Ref Magnet	250	300	500
Shoes	250	500	1000
Clothes	350	500	1000
Capsule Toys	35	70	150
Bag	350	700	1000
Cosmetics	100	350	1000
Perfume	750	1000	3000

Locker	35	145	250

Coin Laundry:
Washer (/4.5kg)	105	105	105
Dryer (/30min)	100	100	100

You see, with proper budgeting, your trip to Japan can be economical, fun and productive. In fact, based on the table above, you can enjoy 10 days in Japan with less than 20,000.00 pesos.

Thanks to the current foreign exchange rate, you can do a lot with your Peso!

(READ: Where to buy Japanese Yen in Manila)

MORE THINGS TO DO

You can shop durable and fashionable shoes in Namba in Osaka~

I bought a pair of boots from this shop! It was 750 JPY

You can eat plates of sushi in revolving sushi restaurant~

Sushi per plate is JPY 100 in Sushiro Kaiten Sushi Restaurant

Or dine at a local restaurant and try authentic Japanese food~

…if you wonder about what to eat~

You can also shop for clothes~

End of season sales are the best… I got a pair of pants with 90% discount

…again if you wonder about the cost, here are the tags! Most shops in Japan conduct clearance sale so you can purchase items with about 40-90% discount!