Travel – Page 2 – Random Detox

Strawberry Farm of Baguio

March 17, 2012 Baguio, Featured by Flisha Leave a Comment

It isn’t funny how real climate change is. You can feel it in the weirdness of the seasons, how the rains come so much earlier, how hotter than normal it is when it’s the sunny season… Take the time we went to Baguio, first week of March. Five years ago,...

Jotie’s Birthday

March 11, 2012 Baguio by Flisha Leave a Comment

It was my friend Jotie’s 29th birthday on the first of March, and we celebrated by having dinner in Gerry’s Grill in Baguio City. (Yes, he’s the youngest in the group and while all of us are turning or have already turned 30 this year, he will stay 29 for...

Landscaping Art in Baguio

March 11, 2012 Baguio, Featured by Flisha 1 Comment

A wonderful thing about living in Baguio, aside from the soothing cool climate, is the abundance of flowers. They grow everywhere, anywhere, in Baguio! Even the weeds sprout flowers, amazingly! That’s why I don’t counter who says Zamboanga isn’t really the “City of Flowers” anymore – because I can see...

Strawberry Shortcake

March 10, 2012 Baguio, Featured, Foods by Flisha 1 Comment

This is possibly the best cake I have ever tasted in my life. Strawberry shortcake. Let me just say that I am not fond of cakes. So much so that when my friends decided to get a cake for share, I decided to get a slice of strawberry tart instead...

Cuteness

March 17, 2011 Japan by Flisha Leave a Comment

Let me show you two cute things I brought home from Japan. The above picture is of my cute phone accessory! It’s a squirrel! So kawaii! 🙂 Japan is the home of the cute – I could hardly stand it and I wanted to buy everything I saw. This is...

Osaka Castle Park Bairin Plum Garden

March 9, 2011 Featured, Japan by Flisha 2 Comments

There aren’t any Sakura blooms yet in February, but thank goodness for plum blossoms, the earliest trees that signal spring. While we were in Osaka, my sister and I, with our friend Erlyn, visited the Osaka castle (or Osaka-jo, they call it). My most favorite part was walking through the...

Japanese Coins

March 6, 2011 Japan by Flisha 1 Comment

If you’re looking to buy silver coins, I’ve got a whole lot of them! Just recently, I came back from my 7-day leisure trip to Japan. Shopping around, one tends to accumulate coins. I had intended to use them all up, but in the end I still had about 1...

Travelling to Japan

February 22, 2011 Japan by Flisha 1 Comment

I have to get myself some acne products by tomorrow, because come Thursday I am flying off to Japan! 🙂 It’s the middle of winter in Japan right now, and last I checked the temperature in Japan is around 3°C to 17°C. Yikes!!! I am definitely bringing boots, a coat,...

In the Land of Smiles 5: Dinner and Condoms

August 18, 2010 Thailand by Gim Leave a Comment

Population growth. The scourge of the developing world. The root of that famous vicious cycle that causes impoverished countries like the Philippines to be stuck in their respective economic quagmires. Not so for Mechai Viravaidya, who founded Thailand’s most successful non-profit, non-government agency, the Population and Community Development Association (PDA)....

In the Land of Smiles 4: Chatuchak Market

August 18, 2010 Thailand by Gim 2 Comments

Ah, the famed weekend market of Bangkok; Chatuchak market wasn’t all that hard to find. All you have to do is ride the BTS Skytrain all the way to the last station, Mo Chit and follow the crowds. Yes, the crowds. Occupying a huge plot of land adjacent to Chatuchak...