Category: Everything Travel

  • Another food trip!

    The lovely people at the Filipinas Heritage Library are hosting a food & photography workshop through the provinces of Bulacan and Pampanga on September 29, 2007. Filipinos love to travel and to eat. Whenever we go on a trip, we consider not only the sites we can visit but also the local delicacies we can…

  • flickr is LOVE

    I’ve been a flickr user since October 2004. I actually didn’t like them that much then because it takes too long to load (it was mostly flash-based then), and it doesn’t work well with Opera. Of course, back then I’m on a crappy dial-up service, so loading the site is just torture. Eventually I warmed…

  • Taste Asia at SM Hypermarket

    August 23 marked two firsts: my first time to go to the Mall of Asia, and my first “major” blog meet. I’ve attended a couple of blog events before, but never with over 400 bloggers! Thank you, Clique Booth! It was really overwhelming; I found myself suddenly getting shy and anti-social, as I do in…

  • Of blogs and cookies

    It’s been a busy week for me, which is a welcome change from the two weeks I spent moping around the house due to a pesky cold that wouldn’t go away, sleeping problems and typhoons. First to happen this week was the formal launch of the Blog and Soul Movement, and of the Mrs. Fields…

  • Search Query of the Day

    I’ve gotten a fair amount of traffic from people who Googled for “walking naked” “naked Berlin” “walking naked in public” “naked Germany” or its variations, thanks to posts about naked tourists. I was also surprised that I ranked so high when Googling for “Why I’m Proud to be Malaysian.” Searches for Cebu Pacific is one…

  • Cebu Pacific’s Puerto Princessa Sale

    Cebu Pacific just delivered some good news to my inbox: Make way for an exotic adventure when you fly from Manila to Puerto Princesa (or vice-versa) for only P98! Visit the Philippines’ last frontier, Puerto Princesa and experience an adventure of a lifetime in one of the country’s prime tourist destinations. Experience the Subterranean River…

  • People really win on MTV

    I’ve always wanted to say that. But this one isn’t from MTV, it’s from LakbayPilipinas.com. Inside, Ms. Zafra has written: “You’re acceptable to Melo, so you’re acceptable to me.” How sweet. I haven’t finished reading it yet, but I’m liking the three pages I’ve read so far. The book starts in Indonesia in 1996. I…

  • Best headline ever

    MSNBC.com brings us this wonderful article (with accompanying slideshow!) Where animals eat you At these destinations, one misstep and you’re dinner After barely surviving a lion attack, explorer David Livingstone wrote one of the most vivid descriptions of what it’s like to have the jaws of death literally clamped around your neck, an animal bent…

  • Why it’s important to know the law in the country you’re visiting

    Because otherwise, you might not be able to take home your precious “souvenir.” CAIRO, Egypt – Security officers at Cairo airport were horrified when the search of a Saudi passenger’s carry-on luggage revealed a mass of live snakes, baby crocodiles and chameleons, police said. Police became suspicious of the 22-year-old man’s pair of carry-on bags…