a first: Winning an Online Raffle Contest!

And I was like OMG this morning when I confirmed my suspicion that I won!

For quite sometime now I have been immersing myself with travel blogs to compensate my frustration with foiled, botched or no travel days. It is wonderful to just read about the places that these people went to and daydream about them.

In searching for Batanes info I came across Ferdz' site: ironwulf.net. I subscribed to his page via FB, and before new year I saw his congratulatory post to the Philippine Blog Awards winner, Nina Fuentes of justwandering.org. Out of curiosity I checked out her site, and from there she became a regular in my everyday blogroll.

Sometime early this month Nina held a contest were she posted questions about her travels. Of course, I hopped onto the band wagon, I will lose nothing by joining. I subscribed to her RSS and twitter. I painstakingly researched her questions throughout her blog. After weeks, what do you know?

I won!

yay for me!

 
Some of the prizes included in the lootbag that she will be giving me are:

• 1 Lonely Planet Southeast Asia on a Shoestring guidebook
• 1 Sea to Summit 8L Dry Sack
• 1 Aquazorb Ultra Thin microskintec towel
• 1 Travel Essentials Small Packing Cube
• 1 Travel Essentials Pack It packing list
• 1 box Ziploc Storage Bag (Quart size, 25 pieces)
• 2 packs travel and cushion compression bag
• 1 Team Manila passport cover
• 3 pcs Team Manila bag tags
• 1 Universal power adaptor
• 4 pcs Muji liquid container (may differ from what is pictured)
• 1 foldable ecobag

Wow! And I intend to share these stuff with friends who will be backpacking Southeast Asia this February-March.

Also, I got inspired with Claire Raborar's (Lakwatsera de Primera) 100 Things To Do Before Dying so I enumerated my own. Included is:

     #29 Win raffle/contest with awesome prize

Guess I can cross out that one already. Hihihihi.

Thanks to Nina Fuentes for the basketful of goodies! I really enjoyed answering the questions, especially the video part. Credits to a friend who helped me. (BTW, I think she deleted/hid some posts for the purpose of her bonus questions.... Hmmmm)

And I am really overwhelmed. =D 

UPDATE:

I got my prize, and they're soooo awesome! Thanks again Nina for going all the way to Ayala Triangle to hand me my prize! And for the additional freebie of Binondo DIY trip map by Ivan Man Dy. And of course for the countless tales and tips you've shared, it's really nice meeting you personally!

oh boy... goooodddiesss!!!

my fave? LP book, bagtags, and her freebie Binondo map