A few months ago, my father in law wanted to see Manila’s Chinatown. In my previous visit to Binondo, I didn’t exactly use the correct directions. I ended up first in the wrong side of it and had to drive through a very narrow and slow road. This time, I made sure I know how to get there. I was glad to find several blog posts and articles about going to Binondo. Most of the directions was using LRT1 all the way to Carriedo or taking a Jeepney from Maria Orosa St. in Malate. My conclusion was that, the tour of Chinatown starts on the roundabout with the Fountain that dates to Spanish Times and the Sta. Cruz Church. This area is called the Plaza de San Lorenzo Ruiz.

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Last weekend was indeed a happy one. Finally, we found our dining table and living room set!  Guess where.. at the 3rd Floor of Market Market. As usual I found it accidentally while searching the yellow pages.  While I was looking for furniture I noticed that there were several furniture stores showing up with the [...]

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This weekend, after googling about “GPS Devices in the Philippines” I came across several good leads.  The first one was the article from Yugatech and it revealed a new GPS device called AVT 800.   It uses a very good map provider called Accu-map.   We are already familiar and quite satisfied with this map provider, their [...]

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My father in law arrived last weekend and today we planned on taking him to see old Manila, right at Intramuros. Being the expected tour guide, I did a bit of research on how to approach this day tour. Since we live in Mandaluyong, I have decided to have a combined Pasig River Ferry “tour” [...]

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Last January, we were in Baguio for a short trip. MrC was able to video the whole scenic stretch of Kennon Road coming down from Baguio. To everyone who is not familiar with Kennon Road, this is the most scenic winding road to take if you are going Baguio. There are other alternative roads which [...]

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