I struggle to find the right adjectives to describe the place but it’s how I imagine the land of the elementals would look like. Entering the place felt like stepping into another world, it was both fascinating and confusing, a maze of some sort where each turn had me wondering what could be waiting in…
I don’t start feeling the holiday season until I get a whiff of that smell in the air which I like to call, the scent of Christmas. I’d like to be more descriptive but I can’t and I don’t even know where it’s coming from. All I know is that I only smell it when…
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More than the panoramic views, the thing I loved most about traveling is discovering the way of life of people from different parts of the world. The denser the display of their culture, the more fascinated I become. Human behaviors and peculiarities, origin story, why people do what they do, these are the things that…
Based on online tests I am an ambivert; a person who is both introverted and extroverted. There are times when I want to shut the world and just be on my own; no phones, no Internet, zero interaction with people. Then one day I’d wake up ready to go out, wanting to see my friends…
Summer is the best time to visit the Philippines; it’s when the sea is the bluest, the sky the clearest, and the trees the greenest you will ever see. Indeed, it’s a tropical paradise that most tourists could not resist. But summer heat can also be the cruelest thing. Hence, it’s the time of the…
Last year, on May 16th, I decided to become a vegan or switch to an all plant-based diet. You can find the reason and how I did it in my other blog post, How I Quit Chicken To Become A Vegan. To be honest, I doubted I’d be able to write this given my history…
zIt was a case of try and try until you succeed. The first time I attempted to visit Davao was in 2016. I had bought the flight tickets, but I suddenly got hired by a company where I applied. Although new hires are automatically eligible for annual leaves in said company, I decided that it…
The ruins make for a beautiful background for an OOTD. Had I known it would be this beautiful, I wouldn’t have listened to my friend, Cai, who told us to pack light. Though I do not bring my entire home with me, I don’t identify with light packers. But in Guimaras — I’m not sure…
Beautiful but expensive are two words that could kill a dream. The wanting of a copious bank account, constantly depleted by responsibilities, lattes, fatty food, and other things born out of a whim, did not make me hopeful that I would ever get to Japan, at least not anytime soon. But if there is one…
I was feeling stressed because my friend was questioning why we traveled so late in the night. She was already at the venue of a music festival called, Banahaw Tugtugan in Quezon. She had company, but she was waiting for us, hoping to hang out. I told her that I wouldn’t leave my other friend;…
Five years is a long time, but it never dulled my fondness of the place. To the outsiders Malacañang Park may seem a hostile zone; constantly guarded and cannot be entered as one pleases. It is so because it is the headquarters of the Presidential Security Group, the unit that protects the president of The Philippines. But…
My guestimate is that we left Vigan to get to Ilocos Norte somewhere between 10:00 and 11:00 in the morning. By then the weather was oppressively hot. The sky was blue and cloudless, the air was dry, and the only shades you can count on were from infrastructures, trees, or in my case, an umbrella….