It took one double-decker bus ride from HKIA before we found ourselves right smack in the middle of   Kowloon, in the busy Tsim Sha Tsui (TST) district. TST is too lively that resting is unthinkable, so as soon as we found a cheap place to stay for the next couple of days, we left our bags and explored the area.   Boutiques were lined up on the streets, shopping malls sprawled all over the place, wares sold on the street (I

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Last Tuesday, I found out that I still had 3 days of vacation leave that I needed to use, else it’ll end up forfeited. All of a sudden I had 3 days off from work. On Wednesday morning, I sat and wrote down my errands and things I wanted to do.  By the end of Wednesday, I crossed out half of the items on my list. On Thursday morning, I finished some more of my errands and added a chore

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I thought about this wish list/to-do list last night and I felt that I needed to write this all down. Hopefully, I’ll cross some, if not all of the items out by next year! No such thing as world peace and good health here! travel more be a morning person! read more – Finished 9 books this 2011. More for the next year. lose weight – I wish the whole world will conspire to stop tempting me with food. write

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This is my attempt to recount the details of my 4-day Mindanao and Visayas trip that felt like two weeks. Due to a(n) (un)fortunate event, Typhoon Biring blew our plane bound to Cagayan de Oro City and landed us in Cebu instead. At Mactan, the crew gave the passengers their options: either disembark at Cebu, wait until the weather clears up then take a ferry to CDO or travel back with them to Manila.   Back to Manila? No way! What the

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It all started on that trip earlier this year. No one mentioned that we were going around in a bicycle until we got there. Up to that point  I didn’t think that knowing how to bike was such an essential skill. The ending? I went around in a carriage which charged 10 times the rent of a bicycle and made me feel like a total wimp. Back from that trip, I knew I had to learn how to bike.  Luckily,

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