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Airplanes and Cemeteries
Saturday, your favoritest couple (uy! self love!) decided on a whim to visit the runway. I wanted to go through the airport or the airbase (Gim just told me there’s a difference. Airport is the part where the commercial planes take off, airbase is the part where government air transportation...
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Zamboanga’s Worst Fire
March was supposed to be National Fire Prevention Month for the Philippines. I even saw a banner in front of the Zambo Fil-Chinese Volunteer Fire Brigade heralding the event.
Thus, it is painfully ironic that Zamboanga’s worst fire in history happened last month.
This is the aftermath of a huge...
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Creamy Euphorbias
As euphorbia buds, they’re not that beautiful. But strangely, there’s something about this picture that whets my appetite.
Perhaps it’s the creamy swirls, they kinda remind me of ice cream. And not just any ice cream, specifically the Selecta brand.
And that’s weird because I much prefer Nestle (formerly Magnolia,...
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Food of the Gods
By that, I mean the fruit, not the boy. Although the boy is also very tasty. (Reservations go through me.)
Gim is holding two cacao fruits (scientific name is Theobroma Cacao), from which my most favorite food of all – chocolate – is made. Last week, we went to...
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Insect Slavery?
Humanity has long since recognized the evils of slavery. In the span of a century, reformists and activists have campaigned against it, wars have been fought for or against it, and countless lives have been lost in man’s bid to end it. Today, various groups such as Anti- Slavery International...
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Visiting Nangka
This huge patch of barren land used to be a network of caves, one of those visited by my boyfriend Gim and his partner Marvin during their senior thesis. They’ve presented their data to countless people in the city, in the pursuit of the preservation of our treasured caves. But...
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Kung Hei Fat Choi
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, the Dragon pauses mid-dance to scratch his itchy behind against a stack of chairs in Manang Terry’s Chicken Inato.
The Chinese believe that if the Dragon pays a visit on New Year’s Eve (January 28 for this year), the host is blessed...
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Almost Vitali
Saturday is go – out – and – explore– the – world – day for me and Gim. We’ve been to Limpapa (the westernmost point of Zamboanga), and now we wanted to reach Licomo (the easternmost point of Zamboanga). As usual, Paopao was our ever reliable ride. He brought us...
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Discovering Woodland Resort
Last Saturday, Gim and I had another one of our spontaneous within-reasonable-budget -time-and-city-limits afternoon getaways. Having just finished watching the weepy, yet strangely emotionally light, movie Just Like Heaven starring Reese Witherspoon (yeah, I know, sooo late but our one and only decent movie theater has a penchant for showing...
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