Category: Destination

  • Travel Expenses: Bangkok part 2

    Continuing on with my post-trip series, here’s my travel expenses for Bangkok, Thailand. Like the previous post-trip accounting posts, this only include the land transfer coming into the country. Also, I did not include the costs for the doll things I hoarded in BKK. For five days and four nights in a major city, this…

  • Travel Expenses: Vientiane, Laos

    Throughout July, I’ll be writing about my post-trip accounting and evaluation of my Southeast Asian month-long backpacking trip. This includes the costs of each leg of the trip and reviews of accommodation and transportation. First up is my travel expenses in Vientiane, Laos. I planned on staying in the capital for four days, but I…

  • Not quite home yet

    I’ve been back in the Philippines since Monday evening, but I’m not quite home yet. My sister from Melbourne also arrived on the same day with her family, and I’ve been bunking with them since I arrived. View from the 19th floor

  • Day 38: Goodbye, Singapore

    Yes, I’m still alive. I enjoyed my one week reprieve from blogging. Towards the end, writing a daily account of my trip became too much of a chore. Even finishing up my last couple of days in Singapore to finish the 30 days weren’t enjoyable anymore. I’m going to miss this view

  • Day 30: The end is not really the end, is it?

    Unofficially, the backpacking trip ended last June 25th, when I returned to Singapore from Kuala Lumpur. Still, I wanted to end it on the 30th, as I originally intended, since I’m still on holiday until today, even if I am suitcasing, rather than backpacking. Admittedly I have been taking it too easy when I got…

  • Day 29: Ready to end

    I woke up at the usual 8am, bleary eyed yet fully awake. There’s something about this day though, that makes me just want to stay at home and curl up in bed with my book. Matches my mood perfectly

  • Day 28: The old and the new

    I set out just before lunch to catch the bus to Orchard Road. I needed to change some money, and I’ve been told that Lucky Plaza is the place to go. Since I was already in the area, I thought I’d have some fried prawn noodle at Wistma Atria, and check out the Kinokuniya bookstore…

  • Day 27: Lechon Liempo and Chicken Joy

    I really did plan on resting on my first couple of days back in Singapore. But as you can see, just after the first day, I was bored out of my mind. I didn’t have plans today as well, so I thought I joined my brother and his family at their hotel for an afternoon…

  • Day 26: The wonders of sinangag

    I wanted to wake up at 10am, but woke up two hours prior. I stumble out of my niece’s room, and the first thing I see is the CNN headline that Michael Jackson has died. Great way to start any morning. Oh the irony.