Cagayan de Oro.

I've never been in Cagayan de Oro, not until April 26, 2011-the first time I stepped into the portal of the city known to be the City of the Golden Friendship. Now, in my 2 months of living in this place, I learn to love it here. The place where I came from was not as merry and vivid as Cagayan de Oro.

I learned that the city has what they called "Nigh Cafe" every Friday and Saturday nights. If you are fun of collecting ukay-ukay and bargaining stuffs then you will love it here. There are bunch of ukay-ukay stalls in the streets. Your budget will really be budgeted.

Every night, street vendors are every where selling streets foods such as siomai, proven, tempura and kwek kwek. The "proven", I do not really have the idea where they get the name, is the one that caught my taste buds. I became addicted to it! It's somewhat an internal organ of the chicken coated with flour. For those who are not so fan in eating street foods then try in Magic Kainan. There is no much sharing of sauce there because it's a small karenderia. The proven they sell are really delicious. I tell you, I become an addict of the food especially theirs. As in super addict that I could eat proven every night if only I could.

Night life is everywhere. We had strolled around the city and I could observed different KTV bars and disco bars at the left and right of the roads. Restos and hotels are also very visible. You won't surely find it hard to look for a place to eat or to stay. It's everywhere.( By the way, most of the kainan here offer chicken servings-fried chicken, lechon manok, etc. That's the first thing we observe here. Maybe CDO has a lot of chickens. Hehe.)

Of course, the malls! When we first arrive here (with Kriza, Arizza and Yue), we went straight to Gaisano Mall. We ate in their food court and left our luggage in their baggage area. So nice because they didn't ask for additional fees which some of the malls in our city do. We really have big bags, what would you expect for a 2 months stay?

The next mall we went to was the SM Megamall. I call it "malayo sa kabihasnan". It's not really near from the heart of the city and the location is in the upper area. You have to ride a jeep to go up there. If you have good budget, then you can go for taxi. There are a lot in the city, just prepare hundreds of pesos. While you can pay 10 pesos if you ride in a jeep.

Then the Limketkai. Surprisingly, half of the mall is the Robinson. When, we went there the mall's aircondition was down. So we did not really stayed long there.

The funny thing is, when we went to these malls, it's not for shopping. We directly head to the fun time area, kids area or something just to have some fun. We spent money just to play some games there and we sang in their KTV stalls. We usually go there on Sundays because this is our day off from our on-the-job training. We need fun, fun, fun!

The last but not the list, I mean least, that really captivate our interest is the white water rafting in CDO. WEW! It's the most highlight tourist attraction in the place. However, since we are penniless then-we have no salary from our training, only spend, spend and spend- I am afraid we could not try this most exhilarating adventure in Cagayan. Huhuhu. But the days are not ending yet. I am still praying that someday, and I mean while I am still here, I would have money so that we could go and try it. I swear, it's a lovely adventure so if you have the budget and if you are looking for adventure, COME HERE IN CAGAYAN, SHOP AND RAFT, okay? So that's all for now. I still have 12 days in approximate to live here in Cagayan de Oro. While after that, I am going back to Ozamiz and start my senior year as an IT student in La Salle University.

By the way, I am here in Cagayan de Oro for OJT. Did I mention that? Oh well, ciao for now.

-JOY

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Thanks to my bestfriend Mariel for letting me write in here blogging site. She's my bestfriend here in Cagayan de Oro.