This gypsetting mum thrives in clutter. My hybrid trolley could attest to that. If I’d be ambushed by a fellow travel blogger for a what’s-in-your-bag interview, I’ll sprint away no matter how weighty my backpack is and never look back. Or I’ll agree to it but will warn the interviewer, “Open at your own risk!”….
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The Forgotten Ten: Photography Exhibition By Jacob Maentz
For two weeks they’re not the forgotten. They’re the stars. And it was a privilege to be there on the opening night to see them twinkle. “The exhibit entitled ‘The Forgotten Ten’ will showcase a year and a half of Jacob Maentz’s documentary work from various indigenous communities around the Philippines. In partnership with Asia…
The Linden Suites, Ortigas: Sweet Suite Review
Faces, battered and blooming/raucous and reserved trickled in past meetup o’ clock. I was one of them late birds who arrived looking befuddled after tearing my way through the rowdy check-in crowd at the under-refurbishment lobby. When introduced to The Linden Suites’ Marketing Communications Manager Michael Sagaran in Mesclun Restaurant and Café, I waved a…
2013 Year-Ender: When Travel Turned Into A Black Hole
And I got sucked in. In 2012, we were armed with all sorts of excuses: Extended honeymoon stage. A break from the mundane. Discounted airfares for tots. “Still saving up for a house (and/or still haven’t decided where to buy)“. Backpacking while young. Living in the now… The list went on and echoed through the…
2013: The Last Quarter
On some occasions, it feels good to eat your own words. Especially when your words are in such sequence: We’re not traveling for a while. About three months ago, hubby and I went about talking to skeptic minds on the subject of finally settling down. And we were thrown with the response “That’s what you…
Hotel 878 Libis: Loft And Cafe 878 Review
There was a festival of dangerous party ideas that eve. Ideas which we knew will never materialize, but we had a ball playing with our imaginations anyway. I gasped for breath as Ron of fliptravels.com descended the loft’s stairs while hip-thrusting with his tongue sticking out. Not the most ridiculous Miley Cyrus impersonation I had…
Kalinga, Philippines: How To Get To Buscalan
I was still reeling from the effects of the eighteen-hour bus+jeep rides and the one hour hike. But with one look at the tinay’talu (rice bundles) pattern in Lane Wilcken’s book Filipino Tattoos: Ancient To Modern — which we borrowed from mambabatok Whang-Od/Fang-od — I knew I unintentionally found a mark that will finally represent…
2013 Thus Far: The Third Quarter
Woke up under an argentine sky. On my almost two decades-old, Peanuts printed sheet. Philippine home now, and will be gone again all too soon. Where to? Hopefully to a shack sitting on a Byron Bay trailer park which we’re eyeing to live in for months. You read that right. Months. We’re quite traveled-out. And…
Book Sharing Project 2012: Three Flights To A Library
Pink Manila Hostel Review: The Hostel Of Awesome
It must have been my fourth bottle of the night. I bummed a smoke off an American and invited myself to a circle of conversation about Caucasus and how blatantly Middle Eastern the other American guy’s nose is. The guy himself revealed his Armenian heritage later on which led us to the touchy discussion of…