I’m back. Here’s a really late posting which includes some photos I took from my trip in the US. I didn’t really take a lot of photos then.
I attended an oath taking ceremony for an old friend of mine in Philadelphia.
She, like several others here regained their Filipino citizenship back. I saw several [...]

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I then went over and stayed at my friend’s house in Pennsylvania. During that time we went to the outlet stores to do holiday sale shopping. This outlet store was built right after I left the US. It had all the brands I wanted to see plus stuff I am not so [...]

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I just arrived yesterday here in Jersey.  I called it Mission Impossible because I am trying to do something which I have really no clear idea how to accomplish.  So basically, this visit is a mixture of a sojourn or a visit to my old friends and seeing old places where I used to live.  [...]

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Contrary to what you might think, I did not spend the last 1.5 years in the Philippines hopping from resort to resort.  However, I have seen quite a number of them in different places.  The following is my mini-guide to Philippine resorts.
Types of Resorts your would find in the Philippines

Family resorts – these resorts should [...]

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I don’t usually post on holidays.. but here  I am!
How has it been the past few days? We gave our staff a nice Christmas dinner treat at Harborview by the Bay after a toast in the office for a job well done the past few months. During the weekend, we were able to finally buy [...]

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It’s hard to believe that yesterday was our One Year anniversary here in the Philippines.  How time flies!
Here’s a month by month rundown of what happened to us.
December:  We arrived at the airport in the morning and was picked up by my Mom and uncle.  Since we had an apartment ready for us we were [...]

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Yes, I am not joking.  I just came back from my trip that includes a visit to 3 Countries namely Netherlands, USA and Canada.   No, this was not done on a whim. This has been planned for sometime.  Originally, I wanted to just go to the US to renew my drivers license, see some old [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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