Hello to all the readers of my blog. I apologize if I’m posting an entry that veers away a bit from this blog’s focus, but I need your support guys. You see, I have joined the OnAssignment contest sponsored by KLM for the prize of a trip to Toulouse, France. Being the wanderlust that I am, I just found it so hard to resist. But what really got my attention to join this contest is that writer contestants are being asked to write a topic about “Rediscovering Manila.” Yup, right up my alley there.
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3 years of urban roaming
It feels like yesterday since I mustered up some courage with the little that I know about the ins and outs of blogging to start this project that I proudly call “my baby.” Looking back, I cannot believe at how far I have come in this journey as I got to visit a lot of places in the city, learning things that I have known before, and most importantly, gaining a deeper appreciation of the city I have lived and have come to love even more. At the same time, I realize that even after such a long period, there are still places in this vast metropolis that I have…
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reflections on the Manila monsoon floods
Almost 3 years have passed since Metro Manila has last suffered from intense rain and flooding brought about the typhoon Ondoy. For those of us who have managed to have lived through that disaster, we have hoped that a disaster of such proportion would not happen again in our lifetime at least. But here we are at this point time, having managed again to live through another similar disaster, this time brought about not by a typhoon but by some strong monsoon storm that has ravaged not only Metro Manila but other parts of Luzon as well. It is a scene that has become too eerily familiar to us now:…
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in memoriam: Manong Pepe’s Karinderia
I originally never thought of writing an entry about this little fastfood chain called Manong Pepe’s Karinderia. Besides, I thought it’s going to be some success for a long while and I can get into writing about it at some point in time. To think that this fastfood chain only got its start in 2007 with a branch at the EDSA Central Complex, (at the EDSA Central Market building to be exact) the fact that Manong Pepe’s got to a network of 20 branches (all in Metro Manila) throughout that 3+ years of operations is a testament to its growing popularity, not to mention the potential it has of being…