Zamboanga – Page 8 – Random Detox

Airplanes and Cemeteries

July 11, 2006 Featured, Zamboanga by Flisha Leave a Comment

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...

Da Vinci with the Jesuits

May 20, 2006 Movie by Flisha 4 Comments

Thursday night the Jesuit priests of the Ateneo de Zamboanga, dressed in simple white shirts and pajamas, determinedly marched up the aisle in Mindpro Theater to watch the Da Vinci Code. As they entered, the packed moviehouse stared in pleasant surprise and grinned. In an instant, the crowd got livelier...

Zamboanga’s Worst Fire

April 7, 2006 Zamboanga by Flisha 3 Comments

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...

Almost Vitali

January 23, 2006 Zamboanga by Flisha 3 Comments

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...

I Have a Camera!

December 31, 2005 Gadgets by Flisha 7 Comments

I am so happy. This is the best gift I have ever given myself, even better than the Crypton bike or the (late) 7650 phone. I bought for myself the Canon A410, with 3.2 megapixels and 3 point something optical zoom and lots of other useful features. Yehey!!! My close...

Happy Feast Day!

November 25, 2005 Personal by Flisha 1 Comment

Today I woke up and there was no light nor water. It was a city blackout! Of course, the absence of water shouldn’t follow the absence of light, but it seems, in Zamboanga City, living a mere 5 kilometers away from the city proper necessitates the use of a water...

My Advanced MySQL Seminar is Dunzo!

November 8, 2005 Work by Flisha 4 Comments

It’s Ovah! The seminah is ovah! That’s how Allie (Rachel McAdams) from the Notebook would so say it. Just an interesting piece of info, she and Ryan Gosling (the guy who played Noah) are actually true-to-life sweethearts. Aren’t they totally cute??? (The pic on the right is a still from...

Blogging Out the Stress

October 16, 2005 Work by Flisha 1 Comment

These days I’ve been so busy I’ve absolutely no time for myself – or blogging. I’m giving a MySQL seminar next week but I still have to come up with exercises for the attendants, whoever they are. It’s actually the local government that’s giving the seminar but they’ve decided to...

The Hunt for Potatoes

September 20, 2005 Homecooking by Flisha 2 Comments

Gim and I, we love to cook. Well, really, the truth is that Gim loves to cook for me and I love to eat what he cooks. (Over the span of only 3 years, he has developed the man’s intuition for what the woman wants for dinner.) That’s really the...

A Look Into the Life of a Medical Student

September 16, 2005 Academics by Gim 5 Comments

“You are the resident on duty at the ER and an eleven year old boy is wheeled in. He was stung by a bee fifteen minutes ago, and is now in severe respiratory distress. His blood pressure is 40/50, pulse rate is 140 beats/minute, and has a respiratory rate of...