What should have been a fun ride through the mountains and forests of the Bulacan hinterlands didn't quite go as planned when I made a wrong turn. Then things started to get...interesting. Full idiot doing

Dry season in the Philippines, or what we refer to as "Summer," officially ended last June 14 when our weather agency announced the start of the monsoon season. Dang. I didn't even get the obligatory

Found this nearly demolished building in Manila city earlier today. Turned out to be a protected heritage site. The outgoing Mayor of Manila, the convicted plunderer Joseph Estrada, ordered it to be torn

Lately there's been some controversy among certain "Pinoy Pride" circles over the Department of Education's move to incorporate Hangul as an elective subject in high school. Many were quick to

I regularly go to Cebu and Bohol. On a recent trip I discovered a new attraction, so new you may have to jump over cement puddles and dodge uncut rebars jutting out of walls. The place wasn't finished

mymalabon.com The statue has been placed in a cage because in spite of its reputation, drunks and druggies who do their business in the cemetery like to throw stones at it. At one point in the 1960s it

mymalabon.com The statue has a heartbreaking origin. Its owner was a man called Simeon Bernardo. He was a middle-class Indio who lived during the late 1800s as Filipinos were fighting for their independence

Here's something I wrote a long time ago and didn't know exactly what to do with. Happy Halloween/All Saints/All Souls, everyone. In the municipal cemetery of the City of Malabon in the Philippines is

Peterson was walking along the beaten path, whistling his favourite tune of Oriental Brothers International music. He was barely four feet tall with all the features of a little boy. His face was hairless,

Mt. Ulap (Itogon, Benguet, Philippines) reverse trail hike. Brought 5 Dri-fit shirts with me thinking I'd be changing a lot. Turns out I'd be wearing them one on top of the other. 😄 Commenced hike from

Pusuk Buhit Mountain is a mountain in the district of Sianjur at the beginning of Samosir Regency. The mountain that is not too high reaches around 1972 meters above sea level. It can take around 3-4 hours

'Castle On a Hill' Recently I've published a small scale model of castle Karlštejn. This is the real castle. I mean the front walls. Walking by the old stone walls felt as if I went to the past for a little

*Names have been changed. Again. Automated outbound collection call, or what we call Vorely call after the subcontractor. Vorely’s computer system calls a delinquent borrower, then tells him that it’s

*Names have been changed. My first ever foray into the call center world began with telePerformax’s ePal account. telePerformax is a US-based call center with an office in the Philippines. They screw their

Every time I visit my folks in Bohol, there's a street that I frequent, not for its glitz and glamor but for its character. That street is Borja Street, in Tagbilaran City, Bohol. It's the one with the

When I was in college, I had the fortune of being a Program A scholar of the Department of Science and Technology for one year. Under the terms of the scholarship, DOST paid for your education and a few

I can't really think of anything to post right now, so I'm posting a picture of the last thing I ate while at a Binondo restaurant. Behold the adobo, prince charming special.

Hey hey. I’ve been in the Internet for so long but I haven’t really used it the way I wanted to. When I was a kid in the 1990s, I always dreamed of becoming an editor. Not that I knew what an editor was;