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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…
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Good eats in Cebu
Aside from the Philippine Blog Awards’ Visayas Leg, we had another mission in Cebu: to eat, and to eat well. Lucky for us Cebu has a lot of great homegrown restaurants that not only serve good food, but are also quite affordable. Abuhan’s beef pochero. Photo from file because I couldn’t be arsed to take…
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Cebu, revisited
This is actually the fourth time I’ve been to Cebu, but there’s still a lot more that I haven’t been to in the city. I was alone when I first set foot in the island, there were two of us when I returned a a few months after, and there were three of us when…
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4:23pm, NAIA Terminal 3
I’ve been back in Manila since Monday morning, and I’m now waiting for another flight out. I’ll just be gone for the weekend, to attend the Visayas leg of the Philippine Blog Awards, since I missed the main event in Manila. But this post is not about this trip, it’s about my last weekend in…
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Walking in Georgetown
My work week has ended at 6am this morning, so I checked out of Sunway to move to a more budget friendly accommodation. I’m now in my room at the Hutton Lodge, a beautifully restored colonial-style house. Ironically, despite the huge price difference, my Internet connection here at Hutton (wireless, very low reception) is heaps…
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Rain or shine
Penang was shrouded in gray when I looked out the window. I went back to my book, resigned to the fact that there’s nothing I can do to change the weather. The plane’s descent seemed to take forever, the landing bumpy and for lack of better term, swerve-y. Soon enough, I was stamped back into…
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11:48am, Suvarnabhumi Airport
I’m sitting here at Mango Tree at the Bangkok Airport, waiting for the overpriced Thai food that I ordered. Cheap food at Suvarnabhumi meant fast food, and I’m in no mood for Burger King today. Pretty but overpriced airport food I am leaving Bangkok today, alone once more. The girls took the red eye flight…
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Bangkok pwns us. And we loved it.
Bangkok is evil. This is my third time in Thailand and I still can’t seem to leave unscathed. My wallet cries every time. We love our toys so much, we take them with us when we travel. That’s my Sayuri and Caine with Cla‘s Addie and Baby Treeson and Rotch‘s Makoto. Mind you, Bangkok isn’t…
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8:17am, NAIA Centennial Terminal
Here I am once more in another airport. You’d think that after going through the process several times, I’d have everything down pat. Apparently, I don’t. I made the wrong assumption that my ticket already includes the Philippine travel tax. It wasn’t so I had to pay the Php 1,620 at the counter. Luckily, I…
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