My friend Roni was in Manila for a vacation and begged for an out of town trip so when my officemate Liza mentioned that she and her hubby and some friends of theirs were planning on going to Puerto Galera, I asked if we can hitch along and she said yes. She also invited our […]
Dakak Park & Beach Resort {Deetour}
Last December 29, Chu, Jefrey, Ruth and I met at the bus station to ride a bus to Dipolog, because we were headed to Dakak, one of the more popular beach resorts in the Philippines. We had breakfast at one of the carinderias before getting into an air conditioned bus, where I discovered that my […]
Hong Kong Stopover {Deetour}
On my last day in Korea, I went to the airport early in the morning and was met there by two office mates who had also been in Korea but I didn’t know about until the previous night. I contacted Anabelle and she told me their connecting flight from Hong kong to the Philippines was 8 hours […]
Solo in Seoul: Winter Sonata {Deetour}
I was up early on Wednesday packing my bag for yet another trip to Korea. The night before, I had fever and the beginnings of a cold, so I couldn’t prepare then. I needed to conduct another training, this time to a bunch of Gillette folks in Seoul. A private car picked me up at home […]
Planting Trees in Hundred Islands {Deetour}
When I found out that Romi Garduce, my officemate who is the third Filipino to climb Mt. Everest, had organized a Mangrove tree planting activity in Hundred Islands in consortium with EcoRescue, I jumped at the chance to do a civic duty and at the same time go out of town. So I emailed Romi […]
Sojourn in Seoul {Deetour}
My road to Korea was definitely NOT easy. First there was all the overtime I spent in the office fulfilling new responsibilities that my new role entailed. Second was the problem with my visa – I was scheduled to leave last Sunday with Mina and Jo but my visa was not released on time. In […]
People’s Park in the Sky, Tagaytay {Deetour}
Thom initiated a crazy plan out of the blue, and the rest of us, bored on a Saturday, decided to go along with his plan. We soon found ourselves posing for crazy “concept” pictures in People’s Park in the Sky in Tagaytay. Most of us can definitely be actors, right? 😝 Then we had dinner at RMS […]
Boracay Getaway {Deetour}
After four long months of waiting, July 8 finally rolled around and found me and four of my housemates headed for Kalibo inside a Cebu Pacific airplane. It didn’t start out well, though. Since it’s July and not exactly summer, it was raining on the morning of our departure, that’s why during the first part […]
Summer in the Summer Capital, Baguio {Deetour}
Summer found Chu, Maya and me in the summer capital of the Philippines, Baguio City. All three of us slept through our 3am alarms on Friday, April 14, so we decided to extend our original one-nighter plan to two nights. So we reached the Victory Liner bus station just in time to board the bus minutes […]
Puerto Galera: Poor Man’s Boracay {Deetour}
Poor man’s Boracay. That’s what Puerto Galera is called, said my friend. So since Boracay is three whole months away, Chu and I thought we’d get a sneak peek by hitching along with Gay and her cousins in their Puerto Galera outing. Early Saturday morning, the three of us rode a bus to Alabang, where […]