In 2020, a few months back before the Pandemic hits the country and the world, we were busy in our small lot in Batangas province. The area is like the size of a basketball court, with nothing but grasses and a small Ipil-Ipil tree. I was like thinking then, where do I want to go from here? Until I started something great. The process is not easy, but painstakingly challenging and complicated. We were still residing in Cavite that time. What we only have is a motorcycle and it takes about two to three hours of driving from Cavite to this remote place in Batangas province, my hometown. I remember the quarantine protocols induced by Covid-19 restrictions posed a lot of difficulties in putting up this small lot from dry land to now a thriving farm and garden of lively creatures. In the beginning, we plant whatever plants we have grown in Cavite. So early Saturday morning, as early as four o'çlock, I am all geared up and my motorcycle all packed up with these plants. The driving adven

 We walk. We climb. We run. We drive. We paddle. We fly. We travel. In some occasion, we stretch out our feet and arms to the limits just to reach places that we'd love to be in. Our adventure-seeker mindset brings us to places, and we feel the excitement going there. There is something in that journey that makes us fulfilled, be it travelling in foreign lands or just in the nearby towns and cities where we live. What about that experience? Could there be something deeper behind it? Well, let me tour you to the places I've been into over the past couple of months and let me share something about the experience of being there. Pagbilao, Quezon Province It's a hell of a ride! Driving through the mountains of Pagbilao town in the province of Quezon is truly a scary but exciting one. We start the journey from my home town in Taysan, Batangas. Then we cross the boundary of Quezon and Batangas right in the towns of Sariaya and San Juan. Ads by ProjectPilipinas Click Image to Lear

It is great to live our lives in the way we want it, that's true. However, more often that not, it doesn't really happen based on our plans, even from our brilliant ideas. Life as I learned it, works differently in this world. There are factors that makes life happier, sad and sometimes beyond our expectations. But why don't we look at it in a more positive and engaging way, despite the odds out there. I mean, if something makes you happy, why don't we focus on it rather than on the ones the stops you from doing so. Let me share my experiences as an example. In 2019, everything is just a dream. Like on this first photo, this is just the simple dream - a simple house in the bukid. The First Papaya Then about 4 years later, this red ripe papaya was the first of its kind to be harvested in our mini farm here in Taysan, Batangas. A lot of things, good and bad, happen in between. And this cute little dog we named "Oki" or "Okee" or "Owky" sudden