Tri-place Hotel Quezon City

... divine reason for allowing all these to happen.

I can only surmise what it was. And my guess is this. Perhaps He was trying to send a message to some people — corrupt and overstaying government officials, unscrupulous businessmen and others whose depravity and excesses must have reached their quotas. I can only wish the intended recipients got His message loud and clear and mend their ways before it’s too late.

... the main drag just had a few tourists so we ignored those hehehe. The suitcase had a combination lock and I tried to get Flora to buy a padlock instead, she ignored me and two days later forgot the combination hahahaha so we trecked back to chinatown (about 2 1/2 hours from our apartment) got the thing unlocked and had an even more sumptious meal in the same place that took us over 2 hours to eat so who cares about the travelling!! She even ...

... I learn't how to make Avocado ice-cream so now I am busy making my own. I guess there was enough to feed 25 but there were only 9 of us adults and two babies!!

We spent all day mostly swimming and messing around in the water slides, of course the water was warm, we got a thunderstorm in the afternoon but so it's warm rain right!! The fishermen amongst us tried there hand unsuccessfully, I think the fish are wise to ...

... onion or onion powder in the meat and "Lots" of mayo, it just doesn't meat (pun intended) the criteria. We've tried (Russ) Brother's Burgers which is another chain here but still just doesn't make the grade (good burger but still with the filipino touch). We've tried the burger at Friday's and although it was close, it was actually a bacon cheeseburger but the cheese was not cheddar or american and ...

... Time always attaches people to places, and in six days, I felt that in China. It's a long and storied attachment that grew ever since I stepped on Taiwan soil three and a half years ago. And now that my journey has taken a full circle, I couldn't help but be swept by a wave of nostalgia. When the airplane took off, I stayed near the window seat, closed my eyes, recited a prayer of thanks, and saw an aerial view of China for the last time. Up there, things appeared to be tiny, and ...

... to the family and went for small walks. Tintin's Mum had 7 kids in total and they lost the father 15 years ago making bringing all 7 of them up extremely tough for her. But with the help of the kinship group system of helping each other it was a bit easier. Lunch was spaghetti 'Filipino style' which means the tomato sauce was sweet (anything to do with a tomato sauce seems to be highly sweetened here). There followed the traditional viewing of an afternoon horror film (the 5 ...

Hi, this is the continuation of my travel blog in part I of the Beijing 2008 Olympics. When I was in Macau, the Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. From it's boarder called "portas" by the locals and other foreigners, directly outside right after you exit from it is the Gongbei, Zhuhai City. There are many ways to go Guangzhou City, also in the Province of Guangdong. You may take bus from there,(Gongbei terminal)to ...

... offer affordable trips. You can consult your travel agent about this or ask me directly or you can visit some websites that offer on line bookings. But for me again as a traveler who wants to explore many things and wants to know more about their culture and beliefs, I believe this is one of the best ways to learn from them, mingle with them from the poorest not exact the richest men. But I can learn more from the middle class and those with ...

... it until I tried to walk. It was more than 3 km, but I had to zig-zag around all of the obstacles on the sidewalks, like shops, customers outside of shops, people waiting for transport, the odd tricycle that was driving along and road construction. At about a quarter of the distance I had to go, I tried to take the metro. I got a P 12 ice cream cone and McDonald's for fortification (for 30 cents) and toddled up flights of stairs among a crowd of Manilans, to get to the top and discover ...

... we will all remember fondly when we look back on our Peace Corps service. ENCA Farm has had two more sets of WWOOFers the last month as well. Three wonderful, spunky Spanish ladies from Barcelona were at the farm for one week, Maria, Sarai and Laura. While things were often times lost in translation, due to language barriers Auntie Olive and I both so enjoyed their company and spent our nights laughing about bad (as they called it) Spanish music, and they even taught Auntie ...