It’s always a treat to see my country through the eyes of foreign visitors. I needed to see this video today, especially now that everyone seems divided over the national elections. I needed a reminder of how beautiful my country is and how absolutely lucky I am to be living here right at this moment…
The past few years have been very kind to me. I’ve set some personal and professional goals which I have somehow accomplished (with a lot of help from family, friends and collaborators, of course). But there’s one dream that remains elusive to me. If you’ve been following this blog, you’d know that I’m talking about the…
If there’s anything I’d like to do RIGHT NOW, it would be to sit on a tiny stool while hunched over a big bowl of hot beef pho at a side street somewhere in Ho Chi Minh City. Considering that I’ve been to Vietnam quite a number of times already, I can’t seem…
We’ve been attempting to heed London’s call since my sister-in-law Dean got married more than five years ago and moved to that part of the world. But the few chances that we had were slim to begin with, what with Ignacio always getting in the way. 😉 This year seems more promising, though. We…
When I started travelling solo some 25 years ago, it was still uncommon to see a woman on her own. Men would leer at me and ask me uncomfortable questions just because I was alone. Once, on a 4-day bus trip from Manila to Davao, I was left behind by my bus during a stopover…