Siquijor + Camiguin + Moalboal – Best August Family Adventure WITHOUT Crowds – by Emzetwelt Travel & Tours by SATT

Looking for an authentic Philippines experience in August without mass tourism?

At Emzetwelt Travel & Tours by SATT – Elite Franchise, we created this special route for families with teenagers who love beach, adventure, snorkeling, and cozy beach bars.

Your Route:

South Cebu Moalboal → Siquijor → Camiguin

What’s inside:

Moalboal, South Cebu – Sardine Run snorkeling right from the beach & Kawasan Falls canyoneering (teen-favorite!)

Siquijor – Hidden waterfalls (Cambugahay, Lagaan), quiet beaches, sunset beach bars in San Juan, Apo Island snorkeling

Camiguin – The Island Born of Fire:

White Island sandbar, Mt. Hibok-Hibok hike, hot springs, sunken cemetery

Why this route is perfect in August:

Visayas region = short afternoon showers, then sun – much better than Palawan/Boracay in August

Low season = fewer tourists, more authentic island life

All connected by short ferries – no need for multiple domestic flights

Family-friendly, safe & not overcrowded

Emzetwelt Service:

We organize everything from one hand – private drivers, ferry tickets, hand-picked boutique hotels with pool, private boats for dolphin watching & snorkeling, and local English-speaking guides (German-speaking on request).

You have one contact: us.

Price: On Request – depends on travel dates, number of persons & hotel category.

We create your personal quotation in USD/EUR – no hidden fees.

Ready for your August escape? Send us a message via Facebook or WhatsApp and we’ll send you a free example itinerary with realistic driving times!

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What are some of the best life tips?

 

Venkata Rohith

 

Btech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (Graduated 2020)

1. 7 hours of sleep is the perfect one. Go to bed at 10 and wake up at 5.
2. Do exercises for atleast 5 days a week.
3. Brush twice a day.
4. Drink 2 glasses of water at morning daily ( after exercises ).
5. Try avoiding drinking water while eating.
6. Never procrastinate.
7. Eat slowly so that you can enjoy the food.
8. Never try to impress anyone.
9. Invest in yourself.
10. Stop using social media and try to spend much more time with your parents.
11. Never give the chance to waste your parents money. They suffered a lot to make them.
12. Respect your relatives and enemies.
13. Instead of doing several pujas, you can donate the money to orphans or beggars. Even god may feel happy.
14. Don't compare your skills with others. Think you are unique.
15. Don't waste time. Time is the only thing which we can't get again after losing it.
16. Don't get depressed for your failure. You have more than 100 chances for success.
17. Never tease anyone. It leaves a big impact on you after some time.( I think you got the point).
18. Improve your communication skills. They are surely very useful.
19. Don't think about the problem you have, think about the solution for it.
20. Having some best friends is the best thing than having a hundreds of friends and followers in social media.
21. Read books daily. It will definitely change you.
22. Don't go in search of love, when the time comes it will come to you. Until then follow your goals.

Fault lines

 

by

James Brian G. Garay|

September 16, 2026

It was 7:37 a.m., the 8th of June, 2026. I opened my eyes, heart racing, not to my alarm, but to the world around me tilting violently. Things were flying off shelves, the walls were groaning, and the cries were deafening. It was a moment of plight for God’s mercy.  As I rushed to the door, my legs could barely keep up with the trembling ground beneath me. At that moment, all I pleaded for was another day to live.

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit General Santos City. Outside, people poured into the streets. For a brief moment, strangers no longer felt like strangers. The catastrophic situation brought the community together in prayer. And fear erased every difference between us.

However, in the midst of our apprehension, it was supposedly a day different for others. Workers were preparing for another day of earning a living. Students were preparing for their first day back to class. New notebooks. Fresh uniforms. Reunions with classmates. Yet, as I opened my social media, I happened to see their horrified expressions in frames.

Official reports from different agencies may detail the physical damage, the hundreds of millions in infrastructure repairs, and the suspension of classes. Politicians may show up, cameras in tow, practicing their usual brand of televised altruism. They may tell the public that the city survived a 7.8 magnitude tremor, boxed in AI prompts. But they cannot measure the invisible damage that followed. They cannot record the child who now panics whenever the floor vibrates, the families who choose to sleep outside despite the rain, or the hesitations before entering buildings that once felt safe. Long after the aftershocks fade, the fear remains.

We were told that the reason the earthquake happened was due to the subduction of the Cotabato Trench. However, I realized then that this earthquake exposed more than fault lines. No “duck-cover-hold” happened. The evacuation plans exist only on paper. Some communities were left to improvise while waiting for help. The tremor lasted less than a minute. Our unpreparedness has lasted for decades.

For a country whose geographic location sits in the Pacific Ring of Fire and the Western Pacific Typhoon Belt, why do we continue treating disasters as unexpected interruptions instead of inevitable realities? Preparedness should not begin only after buildings collapse or when we are struck by the A-to-Zs of typhoons. Preparedness cannot remain an afterthought. It should be woven into our schools, communities, and most importantly, our government, long before the earth begins to shake.

I am no stranger to catastrophe. Born in the shadow of the Asian financial crisis, my life has been bordered by climate disasters and a global pandemic. But this was the very first time I ever packed an emergency bag with my treasured rosary in it to leave by my bedside, ready for flight. I hoped I would never need it. As I lay in the dark in the days that followed, I wondered how tomorrow could ever be promised to those of us who, just hours prior, were looking forward to an ordinary day. For a generation already drowning in the anxieties of an uncertain world, the earthquake was a violent reminder of just how fragile we really are.

Yet amid this deep uncertainty, I witnessed something that gave me hope. As vulnerable as we are, the “kapwa” in us never died. As electricity was interrupted and water became scarce, it was the youth who stepped forward first. The very generation criticized for spending too much time on their phones transformed those same devices into lifelines. Messenger group chats became coordination centers. Social media posts and stories turned into calls for rescue and donation drives. Information traveled faster through students than through official channels. While institutions struggled to respond, young people found ways to connect communities that desperately needed one another.

We often praise Filipinos for being resilient. It is a word thrown around so heavily after every calamity that it has begun to taste like an excuse for systemic unpreparedness. But true resilience should not mean forcing everyone to be brave in the face of terror. It should not mean accepting government neglect just because we are strong enough to endure the aftermath.

As the ground finally stilled, I looked around at my community. We survived the shaking, yes, but the real tremor remained inside us. Moving forward cannot simply mean rebuilding homes, roads, and bridges. It must also mean building a country where preparedness is never left to chance.

The earthquake shattered more than buildings. It shattered our illusion that resilience alone is enough to survive in the Philippines.

On the morning of June 8, all I asked God for was another day to live. No one should ever have to begin an ordinary morning with that same prayer.

Uncommon Sense

 

By Klaus Döring

While common sense is considered conventional wisdom, uncommon sense is a re-examination of that conventional wisdom. In our business and personal lives, following common sense is usually the safe way to go.

Uncommon sense is a high-level form of reasoning and practical judgment that challenges conventional wisdom, looks past standard assumptions, and solves problems using non-obvious or specialized insights.

Most users on Quora agree that while common sense relies on basic, everyday expectations shared by most people, uncommon sense requires deeper thought, diverse life experiences, and an awareness of long-term or second-order effects.

As I ponder the back and forth and the ups and downs in my surroundings and the whole world, a book from my library falls into my hand: Peter Cochrane’s “Uncommon Sense,” with the subtitle “Out of the Box Thinking for an In-the-Box World.”

“Peter Cochrane is one of our most farsighted visionaries, and brings brilliant clarity and focus to our understanding of ourselves and our technologies, and of how profoundly each is transforming the other,” writes Douglas Adams, author of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”

In “Uncommon Sense,” Peter Cochrane’s follow-up to the radical “108 Tips for Time Traveller,” Peter explains how very simple analysis allows the prediction of such debacles as the 3G auction and the subsequent collapse of an industry, while simple-minded thinking is dangerous in the context of a world that is predominantly chaotic and out of control.

People balked when Peter suggested a wholesale move to e-working, the rise of email and text messaging, and the dot-com regime mirroring the boom-and-bust cycle of the Industrial Revolution. His predictions of the use and growth of mobile devices and communication, the use of chip implants for humans to replace ID cards, passports, and medical records, and iris scanners and fingerprint readers were all seen as unlikely. Today, they are a reality.

“Uncommon Sense” guides you to unique, little-known, and commonly misunderstood strategies that generate lasting revenue and sustained results by going against the tide.

I don’t know how you feel nowadays, my dear readers. As a Christian, the Bible — and here, especially Proverbs — helps me a lot. As I mentioned in one of my previous write-ups, Proverbs is probably the most down-to-earth book in the Bible. Its teachings prepare you for the street and the marketplace — somehow out-of-the-box thinking for an in-the-box world, too.

Proverbs offers the warm advice you get by growing up in a good family and for successfully making your way in the world. It covers small questions as well as large ones: talking too much, visiting friends and neighbors too often, or being unbearably cheerful too early in the morning. Proverbs simply tells how life works most of the time.

People — and count me in — love to quote Proverbs, which often expresses the truth about life in an elegant, witty kernel. You’ll find more humor in Proverbs than anywhere else in the Bible. And humor often seems to have passed in this day and age.

So common sense is not common because many people have differing views on all the same things, making it uncommon sense instead of common sense.

This is the principle of asymmetric knowledge — that is, any situation when somebody in a market knows something that nobody else in the market knows and then has the courage to act on that knowledge. We call this type of knowledge “uncommon sense.”

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BEST WISHES AND GOODBYE

By Klaus Döring 

WHEN letters were the only form of written correspondence, signing off was obvious. Actually, I still follow that old tradition, whether it comes to letters or emails. It is simply a matter of respect and good manners.

If addressing a sir or madam, the convention was unambiguous: you concluded with “Yours faithfully.” When writing to a specific person — for example, a Mr. or Ms. (hey, ladies first!) — it was equally simple: your letter would always be signed off with “Yours sincerely.” Only missives to family members or close friends would ever end with “Love from” or “With much love, yours.”

For many people, there seems to be a weird status thing when it comes to how blunt you can be in emails. I ask myself: Why? An email is still a letter — just an online one.

Sad to say, the arrival of email has disrupted this etiquette, making the rules far less obvious. Indeed, for many of us, there are no rules anymore. A whole subculture of personalized email sign-offs has emerged, ranging from “TTFN” to “peace out.” And, of course, it is not just what we say but why we say it. This is true not only in English but in other languages as well. I encounter the same thing in German emails, letters and even text messages.

“Emails have become the medium of business, leisure, family, love and everything,” says children’s author Michael Rosen. When we sign off emails, we try to give off the “right vibe,” he adds. He says it is all about how we want to come across to the recipient: “Thoughtful, grateful or just very, very busy?” Oh sure, we are all so very, very busy….

Some of the most successful business people are notoriously blunt in email communication — if they even bother with a sign-off at all.

“There’s a weird status thing when it comes to the more blunt you are in emails, the more you can be (blunt) because you’re senior in the company,” says author Emma Gannon, recalling the editor of a famous newspaper whose response to pitches was often just a curt “yep” or “nope.”

Although being succinct can convey a certain authority and status, it can also communicate a dose of self-importance or arrogance. And we have all dealt with bosses who fire off email edicts such as “Is this done?” or “Update me on that.”

Even if they are not quite so direct, many emailers like to convey a sense of being busy by using or adapting abbreviations. Thus, “kind regards” becomes “KR,” while “yours” may dispense with those pesky vowels and become “yrs.” Heaven forbid!

“When someone signed off ‘BR’ for ‘best regards’, I just thought they were cold, brrr,” says Gannon. In my opinion — sorry to say — I sometimes do not even reply anymore after receiving such correspondence. Oh sure, we are all busy, but there should at least be a minimum level of respect when communicating with someone, whether in business or in our personal lives, and whether by letter, email or text message.

Then there are those who pare things down to the absolute minimum, signing off simply with their name or even just the initial letter of their first name. Others might omit a sign-off altogether. While this may come across as peremptory or rude, at least it avoids misinterpretation.

Emails are nearly formal, but not totally formal. At the same time, they are not quite as informal as “CU in a MNT on bus OMW.”

Some people swing the other way and end their emails on an altogether friendlier note. While most would consider kisses to have no place in a business environment, they often creep into emails — sometimes from people the recipient has never even met. For some, an “x” at the end of an email is a friendly endnote; for others, it is totally inappropriate.

Even simply calling someone by their first name is not always the way it should be in business.

What is clear is that some British terms used to end emails simply do not translate well. A casual “cheers” is frequently used as a sign-off in UK emails but can be utterly perplexing to other nationalities. That is hardly surprising when a hearty “cheers” can also accompany the clinking of glasses at the pub or be used to thank a checkout person at the supermarket. Here, too, we have to deal with the differences between British and American English.

For author Michael Rosen, emails now occupy a halfway house between text messages and traditional letters.

“The key thing is that emails aren’t the same as letters. I position them in my mind as a sort of halfway place between texts and hard copy letters: nearly formal but not totally formal, but they’re not as informal as ‘CU in a MNT on bus OMW’,” says Rosen. I strongly agree with him.

And, he adds, given their place in this ambiguous no-man’s-land of communication, it follows that there will continue to be a whole raft of ways to say “goodbye.”

Perhaps that is the point. To say goodbye with deeper meaning, use words that honor the bond you share, acknowledge the sadness of parting, or simply wish someone peace and happiness on the road ahead. Sometimes, a thoughtful farewell can say far more than a simple “bye.”

Television's A-listers glitter on Emmys red carpet

Frederic J. Brown, Susan Stumme - Agence France-Presse

September 15, 2026 | 10:36am

AFP / Lisa O'Connor  

LOS ANGELES, United States — The brightest stars in television hit the red carpet Monday for the Emmy Awards, television's equivalent of the Oscars, and they certainly gave fashion fans something to talk about.

The women of Hollywood know that under the bright lights, a bit of shimmer goes a long way.

Zendaya, who often turns heads with her red carpet flair, glistened in a custom silver Prada gown featuring a plunging neckline and plenty of bling — crystals embroidered into the dress and diamonds in her ears.

A sassy short haircut completed the look for the actress, a past winner who is again a nominee for her work on "Euphoria."

Selena Gomez, a nominee for best comedy actress for "Only Murders in the Building," oozed glamour in a strapless gold column gown from Louis Vuitton, her hair long, loose, and curly.

Host Mariska Hargitay, already a two-time Emmy winner this year for her documentary "My Mom Jayne," looked radiant in a glittering fire engine red, curve-hugging Monse gown that cascaded to the floor in a fringed train.

Her daughter Amaya wore a matching look, with both appearing to channel the spirit of Hargitay's mother, late movie icon Jayne Mansfield.

Other stars at the Peacock Theater opted for softer looks, in dreamy hues of green, lavender, and pale blue.

Elle Fanning, the star of Apple TV's quirky "Margo's Got Money Troubles" who is nominated alongside Gomez, rocked a sleeveless sparkling green Ralph Lauren slip dress with a shoulder tassel that trailed to the floor.

Katherine LaNasa, last year's winner for best drama supporting actress for "The Pitt," and a nominee again this time around, was a vision in a simple sky blue Louis Vuitton gown with spaghetti straps.

And Sarah Pidgeon, a nominee for the much-talked-about limited series "Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette," stunned on the peacock blue carpet — in celebration of NBC's 100th anniversary — wearing a purple Chanel slip dress with silver bead and pearl accents.

The Emmys usually does not deliver an adventurous red carpet, especially for the guys, but a few stood out.

Colman Domingo, a double nominee for his work on "Euphoria" and "The Four Seasons," is always raising the fashion bar for Hollywood's men, and he did not disappoint.

He wore a soft brown Valentino jacket with a Mandarin collar and knob buttons, a sassy fuschia sash belt fastened with an elaborate silver brooch and fluid cream trousers.

Noah Wyle, who won for the second year in a row for best drama actor for his gritty medical drama "The Pitt," donned a tan tuxedo jacket with silky lapels and black trousers from Brunello Cucinelli.

If you want to win an Emmy, you need to...dress like an Emmy?

For Meg Stalter, a nominee for best comedy supporting actress for "Hacks" who is known for zany red carpet takes, that appears to be the plan.  

BY WEDNESDAY UNTIL FRIDAY (SEPTEMBER 16-18)

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