Manila Ocean Park

cable car

The summer I turned 10, my dad took me on my first airplane ride to Hong Kong, and part of our trip was a visit to the Ocean Park. It was the ultimate theme park in South East Asia at that time. I vaguely remember the whole thing except for riding the cable car and [...]

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Walking Down the Nostalgia Lane

In 2007, I accompanied my father to Hong Kong where he had a business to attend to. The business wouldn’t take more than a day, but we decided to stay a couple more to visit his brother. My father was from Hong Kong before moving to the Philippines to marry and raise a family. viewed 5693 [...]

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This is Singapore

singapore tour

We began our last full day (DAY 3) in Chinatown for yum cha 飲茶, literally Cantonese for “drinking tea” but the term is commonly used to refer to drinking tea with dimsum. I suppose this term originated in Hong Kong but is famous in Chinatown all over the world. viewed 5518 times par 1086 visitors

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So this is Singapore

universal studio singapore

Some were really surprised that it’s my first time to Singapore. A lot of people I know absolutely adore it and I can understand why. It’s clean and modern and bright and systematic. People are nice and everyone speaks English. It just never interests me much because it’s a young country, hence, not so rich [...]

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notes on Boracay

boracay white beach

This is the first time I’ve been to the “sunrise” part of Boracay, the Bulabog beach. On this side, luxury condotels and retirement/ vacation residents are sprouting left and right. I also got the chance to be shown around one of the splendid suites of 7stones Boracay. So technically, we only had 2 full days [...]

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