• Havaianas Playback at the Bonifacio High Street

    Before there were cellphones, the Internet and Wii, there was piko, sipa, tumbang preso, lakad lata, Chinese garter and patintero. Byahilo jumping over the Chinese garter   Havaianas turned part of Bonifacio High Street into a playground for kids and the kids at heart, with game stations for different Filipino games that we played when…

  • Meet Viktor

    This is Viktor. He’s a Victorinox Sorbonne backpack. I met Viktor at Bratpack. I had just made the decision to go backpacking in Thailand, and I was antsy to start my preparations for the trip. I thought buying a backpack would be a great start. I chose Victorinox because it’s a brand you hardly see…

  • Travel Expenses: Davao 2008

    My to-blog list is so long, I have pending entries from JUNE -_-; BUT! I’m slowly going to work my way through the list, provided I can still remember the details of each trip >_< Anywhoo, I finally dug out my notebook and tallied my expenses from our Davao trip last August. This is fairly…

  • Let’s Wii!

    Red Box is going out of the box and has installed Wii Game Consoles in select rooms in their Greenbelt 3 and Trinoma branches. Now you can play Wii games in between your karaoke repertoire. What’s even better, you and four other friends can try it out yourselves for FREE just by answering one simple…

  • Do you love your Mother?

    I’m not one for fads, but one fad that I do like is the switch from plastic bags to reusable bags (which I’m hoping wouldn’t just be a fad). Before, there was just Envirosax. Then retail stores followed, offering their own branded reusable bags in lieu of plastic, often for a fee. These bags are…

  • 1st Pinoy Backpacking Festival

    The 1st Pinoy Backpacking Festival kicked of yesterday with its first round of forums at the Trinoma Mall. One of the sessions last night was Backpacking 101, where Robert Alejandro and Jetro Rafael shared their 3-month backpacking trip through Southeast Asia and parts of China. It was the same story as the one they told…

  • An afternoon at Ace Water Spa

    I have been going to Ace Water Spa since 2005, and it’s still the place I love going back to when I want a massage. What’s not to love? It’s just a short taxi ride away in Quezon City, and it’s basically just one big swimming pool. Unlike other spas, at Ace, you don’t just…

  • After the 2nd Philippine Blog Awards

    I was a mere spectator during the first Philippine Blog awards. I wasn’t even that interested in the local blog scene then. While the movers and shakers of the Philippine blogosphere was converging at the RCBC Tower for the awards night, I was busy catching up with friends, as I just arrived in Manila after…

  • I vote for Filipino Voices

    …because they sure as hell deserve it more than I do XD Believe me, it’s hard to choose among the 41 blogs competing for the award. I know this for a fact because I went through ALL 41 blogs. What won me over was Jester‘s entry on Sinfully Good Sex: So here we are going…

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