Experiencing bliss at Chocolate Mint Spa
After three days of the exhausting madness that was Toycon 2012, I spent two afternoons last week trying to de-stress. My very generous mother gave me her coupon for a free Swedish aromatherapy massage at Chocolate Mint Spa, as well as the use of the other coupons in the booklet. The first thing you need...
Book review: “The Enchantress” by Michael Scott
After five years in the making, we finally have “The Enchantress”, the final book in Michael Scott‘s series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. The official book description: The two that are one must become the one that is all. One to save the world, one to destroy it. San Francisco: Nicholas and Perenelle...
Rocking out with “Rock of Ages” by Atlantis Productions
So. The reason for the conspicuous lack of posts for the past 10 days is because I’ve been on my days off and didn’t have the energy to write. Haha. Ironically, I rarely get to rest on my days off because of the so much stuff I have to do. Haha. Case in point: June...
Dive El Nido (part 2)
Also known as Entry to Ailsa’s “Oceans” Challenge Part 2. Here are three more photos from the past week of diving we did. I can finally sleep now!
Hawksbill sea turtle in El Nido!
Today’s post was going to be one long entry for Ailsa’s “Oceans” photo challenge in honor of World Oceans Day. However, it’s going to take me some time to sort through my favorite photos taken during the past week so I figured I’d be better off making it a series of posts instead Presenting the...
Dive El Nido (part 1)
So. The reason behind the lack of decent posts for the past week is because I’ve been accompanying an underwater videographer during his dives here in El Nido. It may not look it but diving three times a day is exhausting, made especially so by strong currents in the dive sites. The upside? I took...
Travel Challenge: Manila’s music
Here we go again with another photo challenge from Ailsa, this time for the rhythm of travel. (Dear Ailsa, keep giving out these challenges. They’re fun ) I’m going to cheat a bit here and keep my “travels” close to home because frankly, I don’t need to go far to experience great music. Filipinos are...
Flying high
The view from the window of a 19-seater Dornier 228-212 aircraft as it makes its way to El Nido, Palawan, Philippines. Even though I fly in and out of El Nido once a month, I rarely get to take photos from the aircraft window because I almost always fall asleep after takeoff and wake up...
Manila from the air
Dear Metro Manila, I have a love/hate relationship with you. Well, that was a quick 10 days. Haha. Quick but full of activities. Strangely enough, I don’t get to actually rest on my days off. I spend each day running around doing errands, going out with friends, working on my thesis (really now?), and basically...
