If you want to know me (really, REALLY know me), you must step inside my home in Aslum. Maybe then you will be able to understand why I yearn for home more often than what is probably normal. A place surrounded by water, it stands between the Aslum River and the big blue sea. It…
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Photo Diary: Mushroom Travels to Aklan
Over the Holy Week, Hubby and I travelled to Aklan with our two brothers, my mother-in-law, and our four-year-old nephew Dmitry, or Mushroom as he is lovingly called by our family. It was Mushroom’s first time to ‘ride a big white boat’ aptly called St. Ignatius of Loyola (the patron saint of Ateneo where Hubby…
Baguio: Dining at Hillstation Restaurant
If you’re headed for Baguio, don’t miss dining at Hillstation Restaurant. Set in the old ballroom of the newly renovated Casa Vallejo, the fine dining restaurant serves traditional Pinoy comfort food as well as colonial classics. The grand staircase leads down to the old ballroom which was frequented by Baguio socialites back in the day….
A Thousand Reasons to Go to the Philippines!
So you’re contemplating on seeing some of the 7, 107 islands in the Philippines, yes? Well, we can’t blame you. There are a thousand reasons why you should come here. For one, we have fiestas. Lots of them! And everyone here… We also love playing with words… Let’s face it. What you really want is…
1,000 square meters of Tubbataha Reef Damaged by USS Guardian
If you have been following the news lately, you’d know that the US minesweeper USS Guardian has run aground the Tubbataha Reef last January 17. Today, initial assessment by the US Navy and Philippine divers reveal that about 1,000 square meters of the reef has been damaged. The minesweeper has been stuck in the reef…