I just came back from my visit to the Philippine Embassy in The Hague. It takes a bit of time to get to Den Haag from Amsterdam due to the traffic. The distance from Amsterdam to The Hague is probably like Makati to Sta. Rosa, Laguna or even Tagaytay. When I arrived there, there was [...]

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We visited several housing developments in the South of Metro Manila, between Paranaque and Tagaytay. I had two goals: first, is to visit the house and neighborhood where I grew up and second, is to look around for places where we want to live.

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The only place I remember vividly was going to Picnic grove in Tagaytay. However, when we went inside I was ready to turn back immediately. It’s not really just the fact that they charge us entrance fee per head when getting in but also the fact that it now looks ugly. I had fond memories [...]

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We spent a weekend going towards South of Metro Manila. Starting from Paranaque, passing Alabang, Santa Rosa then to Tagaytay. Overall if we went there without stops it’s probably only 45 minutes from Alabang. The breeze was not as cool as I expected it. I was still sweating! Anyway I was able to see countryside [...]

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I was fortunate to be able to have time to come back to this new area several times. I particularly like the fact that this place is a product of well-thought out urban planning. Prices of land have already gone up for the past few years. This wasn’t there when I left in 1996 and [...]

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