Archive for the ‘Philippines’ Category
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
One of the stumbling blocks to just travelling is the fear of different places. I have been asked numerous times, and now again as the travel season starts, to act as a tour guide all over Manila by friends from the province.
For example you are a tourist from Northern Luzon ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
I was researching a sponsor's (Shasta Pools ) promotion when I chanced upon the businesses of my neighbors in the yellow pages. They own mini-resorts, which in our community, simply means more affluent families in the neighborhood renting out their pools and gardens to other families who don't want to ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
This photo was taken from my parent's farm in La Union, Northern Philippines. See the furnitures, they're made of solid narra wood. We have always been mahogany furniture addicts and sometimes we even order them with specific instructions. We have tables, chairs, mini-chairs and mini-tables all made of the same ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
We have a globe at home and I've been pointing out some countries to AJ. Is it too obvious that I enjoy using it more than he does? XD
I've been talking to people who migrated to the USA and they gave me a brief overview of the quirks related with ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
If you've been reading tabloids and hearing rumors after rumors of missing children in the Philippines, you may be aware of the fact that the media did nothing to make a big issue of it. And that just maybe, someone who doesn't want bad press on our country during this ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Mommy on full paranoid mode! Yes, my friends, I am on hyper-paranoia. I know I shouldn't be watching too much bad News on tv and should refrain from viewing cop sites that discuss missing kids, rape victims and pedophiles that taint our society.Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
We all know how it's March and at least hundreds of thousand Filipinos have graduated from college or high school. We now have more skilled workers to fill the companies, more resumes printed, more applicant lines forming in streets around big companies. It's recruitment time and new graduates are scrambling ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
I've always been a fan of languages. In fact, I speak 4 in total: my dialect (ilokano), Filipino, English and French. The last one was a bit of a big move for me. It took a lot of effort to learn, and a lot of resources. Language courses in schools ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
The title is inspired by a comment on this post discussing the abductions that have become rampant all over the Philippines' largest island (Luzon) in the past weeks. My family told me that the broadcast was sent over the local station in our province 2 weeks ago, but it wasn't ...
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