Things To Do And Be Aware During Sinulog

One of the most celebrated festivals in the Philippines would be Sinulog. And a lot of things you should prepare if you want to enjoy it. One of it would be preparing physically and faithfully. Don't forget to light a candle in Basilica del Santo Niño and say your prayers.

Before you go out crazy over the street party because a lot of things that will be there to entertain us. This things might be considered for safety purposes:

• Wear Shoes  - Let's face it and lets be practical about it this one. Expect the streets to be crowded during day time. So wearing shoes would be the best thing to do since random accidents like someone would stomped your feet. Shoes would protect your feet at the same time giving it comfort. Especially during night time when the streets are getting wet and wild due to the parties happening everywhere.

• Bring Extra Clothes - Bringing extra clothes is really a necessity when it comes to Sinulog. Rain or shine you need to bring extra. And yes you are attending a party but not that casual type. You are attending a city party were in the entire city of cebu is attending. So bring some extra clothes for hygiene purposes just in case you will be sweating badly. Or in worse cases some random drunk dude would puke on you.

• Bring Extra Pocket Money - Practically the purposes of this one would be for emergency reasons. Since you can never tell the things that might happen so it would be better to be prepared.

• Walky Talky - Sounds new right? actually it's not but this would be the best and effective way to communicate to others. If you will rely on your cellphone to contact your friends forget about it. Networks would be busy and your messages would arrive at their inbox with no ETA. Although you can use your tablets and login to facebook or other social media to contact people. But then again your a first target to those people who have bad intentions on your gadgets.

• Bring a camera - I did say above that you will be the target of those culprits that would have interest on your gadgets. But at least we should be very careful of our things and don't just leave them unattended. Having a camera during this occasion would be the best thing to have since you can capture memories. Pictures and videos would be the best thing you can retrieve after the party is over.

And the best thing to remember is to enjoy the celebration!

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Google Maps Street View Update - Walk on other countries streets in an instant

Some new changes and features of Google maps had been implemented. One of them would be the street view of a certain location you want to check. Want to know how? since it's really cool and you can travel to other places in an instant.

As soon as the map loads it gave me command options on my left screen: (Please see pic below)

• The zoom in and zoom out button -  This command allows you to zoom in and zoom out the current map that you are viewing. And it's quite useful when you want to see the overview of a certain place. You can zoom out a certain location when you want to look at things more wider.  While the zoom in allows you to focus and increase it's function. It allows you to zoom in to a specific location when you want to know a certain street or address.
• Yellow Peg man - You can drag the yellow peg man on the current location you want to gain a street view. If you do this this will give you a street view result(please see pic below).

A street view from Paris France in front is the famous Eiffel Tower

Now you can go to those favorite places you want by just typing the address and search it on Google. Take a walk and be able to see the places you have not seen. 

But it only works for limited countries at the moment. Some places/countries haven't had this street view, I think Google is still having an ongoing development for this. So that other countries can have a street view feature just like others.