It’s unmistakable. Bacolod is the most laid-back the word ‘laid-back’ could get.  I like Bacolod City. Try googling Bacolod and you’ll find out that it once ranked Number 1 as the Most Competitive Mid-Sized City in 2005 and was named as the Best Place to Live in the Philippines last 2008 by Moneysense magazine, with Makati as second and Manila down at 11. If one believed in signs, a flight delayed for 7 hours might have been the end of it.

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I’m writing about this because the sun is scorching hot. And this humid weather reminds me of this: The 4-km long, powder-fine, white sand beach of Boracay!  When I first visited the island, I did all things the Boracay way — got myself a henna (and almost had my hair braided), did the zorb, ate a lobster, drooled on cakes and shakes, and bought sand art and wood carvings from the lucky peddlers who happened to ask me, the eager

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