Category: Philippines

  • Seair’s Batanes Winter Promo

    Batanes easily tops my list of favorite places in the Philippines. It’s remote, there’s no crowds and the landscape is just stunning. Not a lot of people get to travel to Batanes, mainly due to the expensive airfare going there. Actually, I love the fact that Batanes is quite inaccessible, because mass tourism will ruin…

  • Germany and China at the World Pyro Olympics 2009

    Germany and China faced off last Saturday to open the first night of the five-day World Pyro Olympics 2009. Rain seem to follow the Pyrolympics, as it rained pretty hard last Saturday. Still, the rain did not stop the spectators, nor did it stop the two countries from displaying their firepower. Fireworks display by Nico…

  • Manila themed eco bags from Kultura

    Kultura, since its launch several years ago, have been a favorite haunt of my sisters and I. Selling different kinds of Filipiniana items, they stock more than the usual tacky tourist souvenirs. There are a lot of chic homegrown products made with indigenous materials that made Kultura a favorite stop of ours whenever we’re shopping…

  • Breakfast in Tagaytay

    It was just one of those spur of the moment things, you know? Rey had this sudden urge to head up to Tagaytay to watch the sunrise and to have breakfast. I was more than willing to go — I’ve been cooped up inside the house for a week and I’m only to happy to…

  • World Pyro Olympics 2009

    [UPDATE] The Executive Committee of the World Pyro Olympics (WPO) 09 announces the postponement of the WPO originally set on November 28, December 5, 12 and 19, at the Bonifacio Global City to a later date early next year. The incessant rains and flooding during the past months have rendered the firing area almost unfit…

  • Livin’ la vida Imelda with Carlos Celdran

    Mention Imelda Marcos’ name, and the first thing that comes to mind are shoes. Lots of them. But there was no shoes in Carlos Celdran’s tour; just a mention of them. What’s in the tour are two gorgeous buildings designed by National Artist for Architecture, Leandro V. Locsin. The unmistakable shape of the National Theatre.…

  • My Manila

    I’ve just left the CCP Complex, after Carlos Celdran‘s Livin’ la vida Imelda walking tour. I’ve been meaning to take his tour for the longest time, and it’s only now that I finally decided to go for it. All it took is to NOT plan for it at all. It couldn’t be at a better…

  • How to be a National Hero

    …but not die trying. That was printed on the front of the notebook I gave my sister as a birthday gift. The notebook was a red hardbound, with blank white paper inside. The perfect notebook for plotting world domination writing down your inspired thoughts for making positive change in the world (yeah right). Notebook from…

  • Letting it all out at Redbox

    The first three weekend of October has been spent in three different places, so last weekend, I was more than happy to just stay put in Manila. Saturday was spent with grade school classmates whom I haven’t seen in years, while Sunday was spent with high school friends whom I haven’t seen in months. Posting…