Philippines

Strong typhoon hits Philippines

December 18, 2011

The photo sets at Facebook is so heartbreaking not to mention disturbing. Flash floods devastated a southern Philippines region unaccustomed to serious storms – Cagayan de Oro City in Northern Mindanao. My beloved hometown. In all my 19 years there, we never experienced strong typhoons, just rains as the area is not a typical typhoon path. [...]

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Unjustified ‘offloading’ of Filipino travelers

October 17, 2011

My old post: New Rule for Filipinos Traveling to Dubai discussing the pains of Filipinos traveling from the Philippines to Dubai has been getting a lot of  attention lately from people wanting to travel to Dubai but faced a lot of problems with the immigration officials in Manila. Despite having proper documents, Filipinos still face [...]

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Palitaw, traditional Filipino snack

May 29, 2011

Hello. My successive posting about food has nothing to do with pregnancy. I think. It’s just that I haven’t had the time to post about stuff that I cook recently along with all the other things I have not found the time to do. There are many, I could cry. I miss blogging about cooking. [...]

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WW – Goats!

October 1, 2008

Goats came to greet me when I came out from our house in the Philippines! The last time I was there, there were cows…now it seems to be goat invasion time.

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Enjoying the last bit of vacation time

September 15, 2008

I’m nearing the end of my 45 days vacation though I had fun and really satisfied with it, it’s not without a bit of sadness that I find myself saying goodbye to no alarm clock days, sleep all you can days, spend all day in pj’s days and climb trees all you want days. The [...]

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praying for those wasted souls

June 23, 2008

By now you must have known in the news that a powerful typhoon lashed the Philippines, flooding cities, killing people, including 800 believed to have perished when M/V Princess of the Stars sunk in central Philippines two days ago (Saturday). Why did the ship sail even with the imminent arrival of the strong typhoon? Why [...]

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