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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

It was off to Batangas for me and my P&G friendz last Friday night. We split up and rode Dom’s and Jerome’s cars. Janice, Gelle, Jerome and I rode with Doms in his car while Yen, Drew, Arni and Rich rode in Jerome’s new CRV which was driven by his brother. We met in the office […]

To celebrate Boss Ed’s promotion to partnership level and Feb’s passing the CISA as well as his birthday, we Laya Mananghaya pips (Boss Ed, Feb, Chu, Reylyn, Mhiles, Donna & Jade) went on an outing in Laiya beach, Batangas. On Saturday morning we met in Mcdo Paseo and piled into Boss Ed’s car. He drove […]

I am not particularly fond of heights. Scratch that…I hate heights. I fear them so much that I used to have falling nightmares all the time. You know, the one where you’d fall off from somewhere (sometimes from some not-so-high place, even) and go hurtling towards the ground for what seems like forever and just […]