Our flights to and from Hong Kong were from Cebu, so I had around a couple of days to enjoy the city. On the first day, we didn’t do much, just had lunch and rested for a bit. We had lunch at Mang Inasal in Robinson’s mall. I had chicken inasal with rice and halo-halo […]
Nurture Spa @ Tagaytay
Ngangi decided that we needed to de-stress and pamper ourselves and booked us massage appointments at Nurture Spa, highly recommended by Chi who had been there before. This is in Tagaytay, one of my favorite places to visit in the Philippines. This was last month during my vacation there. So after our fantastic late lunch […]
Sonya’s Garden, Tagaytay
Last March I finally got to go to Sonya’s Garden in Tagaytay, thanks to Candy, my friend from the review days. When I found out that Tyne had the same dream as me – to visit the famous Sonya’s Garden – I suggested we go there with Candy, who had gone with me to Tagaytay […]
Villa Escudero Plantations and Resort {Deetour}
The TG’s were itching for an out of town getaway, and so February 24 morning found us inside Thom’s car enroute to Villa Escudero somewhere in Laguna. For an entrance fee of 1,250 pesos per head we had a free run of the place and had an activity packed day. Museum. This housed all of […]
Santa Cruz Island {Deetour}
On the morning of December 29, a Saturday, I was the earliest one in Lantaka hotel, our designated meeting place. Of the 16 who confirmed, only ten made it – me, Raquel, Ja, Ira, AJ, Pei, Aeneas, Jotie, Brian and Shane, Brian’s friend, and we rode one small boat along with a tourism police – […]
Cagayan de Oro and Camiguin Island {Deetour}
After my stint in Cagayan of the North, I visited the Cagayan in the South…Cagayan de Oro, the city of golden friendship. This trip was booked months in advance, and there were supposed to be eight of us, but two of our housemates, including the one who started this all, have gone off to other […]
Laoag, Ilocos Norte {Deetour}
Laoag was about two hours away from Vigan, and we checked into Fort Ilokandia hotel. Kes paid for our room, and Ems and I were so tired from all the daytime excitement that we just ordered the Ilokano specialty bagnet from room service for dinner. We also ate some of the bibingka which was supposed […]
Vigan, Ilocos Norte {Deetour}
I have an officemate whose hometown is in Vigan, and he was expecting us in town at 10am on the day we drove off from Tuguegarao, and he had offered for us to have merienda in their home when we got there. Unfortunately we miscalculated the time (it was 7 hours to Vigan), so when […]
Tuguegarao, Ilocos Norte {Deetour}
On November 2, Gelle and I rode a plane to Tuguegarao, where we were met at the airport by Kes and her friend JL. They drove us to Keso’s house, and on our way there, we discovered that the L in JL’s name stands for Lesli and so Gelle decided that we would call him […]
Summer in Subic {Deetour}
I was supposed to go mountain climbing last Saturday, but some friends told me it’s dangerous to do that during election time, so I switched plans and early Saturday morning found Rome, Caloy and me in Thom’s car headed for Subic. We arrived close to lunchtime and checked in early at Courtyard Inn, where our […]