Saturday, October 30, 2010

Personal Victory on a Conflicting Schedule

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I was tested on the 1st habit of the 7 Habit to win my personal victory. I needed to improve on being proactive. There were 2 conflict...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Maculot Revisited from another Perspective

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T his 2010, I had a chance to view Mt. Maculot from another perspective, that of a traveller. Maculot was seen from 2 angles, ...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Cesar and Gideon

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L ong before Gideon Lasco ( pinoymountaineer.com ) dominated the information highway, my source of narratives for climbs and the extreme s...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Balimbing the fruit

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A Philippine fruit unfamiliar to today’s generation is the balimbing . Decades ago, it just grows at the backyard for picking when o...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Shawn and Resa Nat Geo

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T hey are younger now. Shawn Low and Delazad are travel chroniclers of Nat Geo’s Lonely Planet The Road Less Travelled and A Childhood Mem...
Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Global English

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  I enrolled in Global English , an online learning activity. The teaching approach follows a logical sequence similar to the traditional...

Three Movies on CInema One

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T hree movies in the  Top 100 Filipino films by Critic After Dark shown on Cinema One (Channel 56 on Sky Cable) this September dragged my s...

Nat Geo Top Fotos

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National Geographic recently shown on Cable TV (Channel 41 on Sky Cable) the Top 10 photos of 2009 printed in the National Geographic Magaz...
Sunday, September 19, 2010

Nat Geo Shocking Videos

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V ideos that shocked me: 1. Locked up Abroad on the kidnaping and captivity of the Abu Sayyaf of Martin and Gracia Burnham was aired in...
Saturday, September 18, 2010

Can a travel book do all that?

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A rticles in Mind: Banaue Car Repair and Peddling where expert mechanics are all over the place (middle men and hustlers too!), parts in...

I will not be able to write like him

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N ot yet or not even in the near future. Edward Rothstein describes the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming as “A Cathedral to the Shri...
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Two Travel Books

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I recently purchased travel related books on the Philippines at the National Bookstore in Cubao. Some were on bargain and two recently laun...
Sunday, September 05, 2010

Reboot

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E ach time I reboot, a pop up message prompts me after I log in “Preparing to install Realplayer.” This shows up despite the un-installatio...
Thursday, September 02, 2010

Writing in any piece of paper

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A n article a day keeps Dementia away An article whether long or short is a result of insight generation. Insights are drawn from obse...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Revisiting the UP Theatre

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C elebrating Dulaang UP’s 35th Anniversary, a theatre group founded by Professor Tony Mabesa, I dropped by the UP campus on a weekend to ...

Nat Geo Coffee Table Books

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In between chores in a commercial center, I dropped by a Booksale outlet to check what’s in store. These interested me: National Geogra...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

N. Ramirez Car Wash

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T he car wash stretch of N. Ramirez in Quezon City This stretch is a convenient short-cut from Espana to E. Rodriquez avoiding the traffic...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

St. Lukes and Burger Kin

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Burger King in E. Rodriquez beside St. Luke’s Medical Center wowed me. Not with their product but with a service I did not expect from a fa...
Monday, August 23, 2010

Garden Shots

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Shooting natural or a structure? Private domain or public property? Attribute it on the surging ownership of SLR cameras and the visibility...

Top View Araneta Shots

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A raneta in Cubao is repositioning itself. The upgrading of facilities and infrastructure is not happening though as fast as other emergi...