My apologies for taking so long in writing this continuation of my Cambodia trip series. To answer the question from my previous post, the grandest attraction inside Angkor Thom is the Bayon Temple which stands enigmatically at the very center of the walled city. (Sacred Destinations) To initially unlock its mystery, the strategic location of […]
Year: 2016
Saving My First Kiss
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Being a teenage girl with raging hormones – I missed out on that. Going to the prom with a date – I missed out on that. Receiving love notes, flowers, chocolates – I missed out on that. Having hatid-sundo – I missed out on that too. Oh, there are just so many things that I’ve […]
Feature Friday: Re Café Misamis Occidental Coffee Shop
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Photo Grabbed from Re Café Feature Friday highlights businesses, people, fashion, and basically anything under the sun! Word of mouth has it! The rumored homemade burger in Circumferential Road is indeed a bomb! The news has been spreading all over town since August but I had a hard time looking for the place ‘coz it […]
Familia Olandesca Thanksgiving Celebrations
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2016 is a great year for us in the family since we celebrated three big occasions for the first 2 quarters of the year! As a middle class family, it is rare for us to host parties or even just to invite friends over for lunch or dinner at our house. Though me and my […]
Whimsical Wednesday: Taste of Asia
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Whimsical Wednesday shows my fancy in a myriad of beautiful things. Asian cuisine epitomizes a bomb of spices, herbs, condiments, and seasonings! Every meal is a complicated mix of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, incorporating all the go, grow, and glow foods which are meticulously prepared. Each country in Asia boasts a specialty dish or dessert. To […]
Feature Friday: SM Skating
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Feature Friday highlights businesses, people, fashion, and basically anything under the sun! “Please don’t let this feeling end, it might not come again…..” There goes the song as Lexie glides gracefully on ice in the 1978 romantic film, Ice Castles. How could I ever forget that movie! At the peak of VHS films, we watched […]
The South Gate of Angkor Thom
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Gods on the left and demons on the right – these are the guardians of Cambodia’s “Great City”, Angkor Thom. As you may look closely, bad-looking heads with eyes piercing on you lining up on one side and kind-looking ones smiling at you on the other side. (Some of the heads here are only replicas […]
The Other Side of Mae @ 5!
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Five years ago, I started a blog. A blog not grand, a blog unnoticeable, a blog intended only to document my simple life. But to my surprise, along came people reading me. With their sweet words, I got inspired to write more. Their encouragement propelled me to take on another step. So here it is! […]
Feature Friday: Puesto, Misamis Occidental Restaurant
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Photo Grabbed from Maria Suzanne Saulong Feature Friday highlights businesses, people, fashion, and basically anything under the sun! Puesto is the Spanish word for post. Since we have been under the Spaniards for more than 300 years, we had adopted their words into our language. So puwesto in Tagalog and Cebuano means post, position, rank, […]