iPod Touch from My Sweet (Adapted from Blog-O-Rama) The last iPod I had was the Mini, so you can just imagine the excitement I had when I got the 16 GB iPod Touch from my Sweetheart for a gift last New Year's. It was an elegant black box with the picture of John Lennon in it. Inside was one of the most beautiful machines I've held in a long time, black with chrome glass in front and a mirror-like silver at the back. Most of all, My Sweet had the words "Please keep me close to you.." especially inscribed at the back which all the more took my breath ... Continue Reading...
Only in Batanes…. the Honesty Coffee Shop
The coffee shop that honesty built. Honesty2. This is one coffee shop where no one mans the store. Softdrinks, instant coffee, candies, biscuits, noodles, chips and other snacks on sale. Write what you bought on a notebook and deposit your payment in a makeshift drop box. No change allowed. It is so-called because this place expects your total honesty. I was tempted to pay for more than what I got. I felt like Papa Jesus was behind me :P Nice tourism pitch actually. If the government put up more stores like this, then ... Continue Reading...
Love letters from Batanes: “Of This And That” Store
DSC00824. DSC00895. I wonder what other people mean when they say "Batanes makes you feel like you're in a foreign country." This is part of our country, the way it should have been before neon lights and rowdy karaoke bars took over. Mr. Z calls it "the place that time forgot." I thought so too. Once sybaritic spas and swanky resorts take over, Batanes will never be the same. store owner Lily Garcia. There was no Jollibee in Batanes. We were craving for pizza and saw a place that ... Continue Reading...
Beautiful Camp John Hay and other Baguio landmarks
One of my earliest visits to Baguio was not a pleasant one. I was a young cub reporter covering the aftermath of the disastrous July 1990 earthquake where more than 400 people died. I remembered that it took forever to reach the city because the major highways were closed. Session Road looked like a picture of devastation and most pitiful of all was the Hyatt Hotel ( also the site of a casino) which crumbled like dominoes and buried scores of people. The stench of death was clearly palpable above ground where we were and heard stories of who tried to escape, who died ... Continue Reading...
Mines View Park : One of the best places to have a (cheap) photo-op in Baguio
Back to the city groove after a mercy flight from Asian Spirit that got us out of rustic Batanes. Now it's time to continue with snippets of my neglected travelogue on Baguio City. I wish I can say am tired of Baguio but it certainly was a changed city when I got there this time around. The change was evident in Mines View Park, a famous tourist landmark near Hotel Elizabeth which has this splendid view deck for admiring the city landscape. Mines View Park was so called because it was here where one can see the gold mines of Abra and Benguet from a distance. It ... Continue Reading...
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