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	<title>The Islander GirlThe Islander Girl | The Islander Girl</title>
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		<title>Where the island girl goes on vacation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 17:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Macy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So. I already work on an island and most people go to islands when they go on vacation. So where does an island girl on vacation? In an area with freezing cold temperatures of course! Am currently on a Seattle stopover before proceeding to Alaska. Wish me luck! Looking forward to seeing humpback whales and glaciers instead of bottlenose dolphins and sand]]></description>
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		<title>The Fully Booked-RCBC Bankard MasterCard &#8211; the booklover&#8217;s credit card</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Macy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The booklover&#8217;s credit card is finally here! I was invited to the launch event last April 17 but was unable to go because of work commitments. Much sighs of disappointment were expended. But the important thing is that they finally released it - the Fully Booked-RCBC Bankard MasterCard! If you consider Fully Booked as your second home, then you&#8217;ll definitely like this card. What&#8217;s so great about this credit card? First up: a year-round 10% discount on regular items! You probably already have Fully Booked&#8217;s in-store discount card but this card limits you to a 5% discount on credit card purchases. The Fully Booked-RCBC Bankard card is the only credit card that gives you 10% off the regular price. Please note that the discount is not applicable to magazines, office supplies, CDs, DVDs, consigned items, gift certificates, and sale items. Second: up to 10% rebate on your Fully Booked, Bibliarch, and Sketchbook purchases when you charge at least P20,000 elsewhere per billing statement! You also earn a flat 0.5% rebate on all of your outside purchases, such as restaurant meals, groceries, airline tickets, utility bills, and the like. You can earn as much as P1,000 worth of rebates per monthly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise is clear blue water and flippers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Macy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to beat the summer heat? Grab a mask and flippers and dive into El Nido&#8217;s clear blue water. It doesn&#8217;t get any better than this.]]></description>
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		<title>What does it mean to win Tourism for Tomorrow?</title>
		<link>http://www.theislandergirl.com/2013/04/tourism-for-tomorrow-win/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tourism-for-tomorrow-win</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Macy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Travel &#38; Tourism Council&#8217;s (WTTC) Tourism for Tomorrow Awards are one of the highest accolades in the travel and tourism industry. The Awards were established to highlight and promote sustainable tourism best practices worldwide. On behalf of the company, my boss received the Tourism for Tomorrow 2013 Award for the Community Benefit category last April 9, 2013 during the WTTC&#8217;s 13th Global Summit in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Philippines is ahead of Abu Dhabi by a few time zones so I actually found out that we won at around 12:15 am on April 10. My boss posted the simple status message &#8220;We. Won.&#8221; and a photo of the trophy. A flurry of internal screaming (my roommate was asleep and would have killed me if I woke her up), furious tweets and retweets, and Facebook shares later, I called Aids and said &#8220;We won.&#8221; Took me another hour and a few games of Temple Run to slow my brain so that I could sleep. A good couple of hours later, the sun is up and I&#8217;m back at work but my brain is still on a high. Luckily, my Facebook and Twitter contacts have been very patient and understanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fishies and phoneography</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Macy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, a big WHOOHOO!!! for being included in The Daily Post&#8217;s phoneography favorites for March! The staff chose my &#8220;My Neighborhood&#8221; post to include in the roundup of their favorite entries. It always feel good to be recognized Second: one good thing about working in an island resort is that the water is only a couple of meters away Beat the summer heat this afternoon by diving our house reef. I used having to download my water temperature sensor data as an excuse. Heehee. That and I volunteered to take photos of one of our guests doing his Bubblemaker course Aside from taking pictures of a 9-year-old during his first scuba experience, I also got to take some pretty good pictures of our resident bigeye scad (Selar crumenopthalmus). Swimming through a school of fish who totally ignored my presence was a surreal experience. I tried moving away so that I could take better wide-angle photos but nothing doing. The water was just too shallow and the school was just too big! Fish in the light Window through the darkness Just might become one of my all-time favorite photos. I said on Facebook that I wish I had extra-clear water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloc Party Live in Manila: the concert experience everything else will be measured against</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Macy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last March 22 finally saw Bloc Party playing a concert in Manila: the culmination of years of wishing, hoping, and crazy dreaming of even going abroad just to see them play. I was introduced to this band back in 2007 (they&#8217;d already come out with &#8220;Silent Alarm&#8221; and &#8220;A Weekend in the City&#8221;) and they&#8217;ve been a favorite of mine ever since. Considering that &#8220;Banquet&#8221; is the only song of theirs I&#8217;ve heard on mainstream radio, I didn&#8217;t hold out much hope that they&#8217;d ever come here and play. You can only imagine the happy dance that went on once it was confirmed that they&#8217;d be playing here. I planned my March days off by late December to make sure I&#8217;d be able to watch it. The concert was supposed to start at 8pm, with the gates opening at 6:30. Adrian wanted to be there by 5pm and I&#8217;d join him by 6. I hitched with Danes and her sister going to World Trade Center but despite our best efforts, we ended up getting there by 7pm due to traffic and someone who arrived late. Adrian also got there by 7:15 because of last-minute work issues. It turned out okay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Macy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can I just say how much I LOVE this theme? Because seriously. FOOD! I love food! Our family&#8217;s life literally revolves around food. I love smelling it, I love watching people cook, and most of all, I love eating it! Confession time: I don&#8217;t cook This week&#8217;s phoneography challenge was to document &#8220;lunchtime&#8221;. Another confession: I don&#8217;t like taking pictures of cooked food. Once food is served on the table, it&#8217;s meant to be eaten. I give the Glare of Death whenever my dining companions make me wait while they use their smartphones to take photos of our food. So how do you document &#8220;lunchtime&#8221; without taking photos of your lunch? By taking photos of what goes in it, of course! The resort I work for grows its own salad greens! We have around eight greenhouses on the Palawan mainland where we grow Red Rapid lettuce, Curly Green lettuce, and arugula. These are the baby lettuce. Give them 30 days and they&#8217;re good to harvest and serve! We also prefer to buy locally caught fish. Of course, the fish shouldn&#8217;t be of the endangered variety and should have been caught using passive gear, like nets and fishing lines. I took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoneography challenge: my neighborhood</title>
		<link>http://www.theislandergirl.com/2013/03/phoneography-challenge-my-neighborhood/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=phoneography-challenge-my-neighborhood</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Macy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this week&#8217;s photography challenge is &#8220;My Neighborhood&#8221;. To make it even more interesting, all the photos should have been taken using a mobile phone. At present, my &#8220;neighborhood&#8221; for most of the month is Bacuit Bay in El Nido, Palawan, Philippines. It&#8217;s got to be one of the most beautiful places in the world. They say that the best camera is the one that you have with you, and my iPhone 4S hasn&#8217;t left my side since I bought it last year. So behold &#8211; Bacuit Bay as seen through a smartphone&#8217;s lens The view from up top (Matinloc Island). This was taken using the iPhone&#8217;s Panorama option. [minor tweaks in levels using Photoshop CS6] Same view, different boat and focus (Matinloc Island, El Nido) [minor tweaks in levels using Photoshop CS6] Miniloc Island Resort&#8217;s water cottages (Miniloc Island, El Nido) [minor tweaks using Snapseed] Breakfast for two at the Miniloc Island Resort clubhouse (Miniloc Island, El Nido) [minor tweaks using Snapseed] Outrigger boat &#8211; the only way to travel (Bacuit Bay, El Nido) [no editing] Bacuit Bay as seen from the seat of a kayak, taken using the iPhone&#8217;s Panorama mode (Bacuit Bay, El Nido) [no editing] What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How reducing food waste means saving the world</title>
		<link>http://www.theislandergirl.com/2013/03/how-reducing-food-waste-means-saving-the-world/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-reducing-food-waste-means-saving-the-world</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Macy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[World Environment Day 2013 is coming up and UNEP is again holding a contest to find the green blogger who will keep the rest of the world updated on the WED festivities in the host country. They started the contest in 2010 but this was the first time I&#8217;d heard of it. The challenge was to write an engaging 400-600 word blog post on the impact of food waste on the environment. Of course I joined! You can find my blog entry here on our work website. If you found it interesting and engaging, please share, Like, and tweet it! UNEP and Treehugger are judging the first round and while content matters, popularity matters too. The prize at stake: the chance to live-blog and tweet about the World Environment Day activities happening in Mongolia!]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting outside</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Macy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the water level gets too low, large boats can&#8217;t get into the Big Lagoon anymore. The boats end up outside the Lagoon and tied to a mooring buoy while their guests either kayak or snorkel + walk in. &#160;]]></description>
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