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No more Manila Amsterdam direct flights starting April 2012

October 31st, 2011 · No Comments

I have bad news for European visitors and Filipinos who travel to and from Europe and the Philippines.  We have lost our last direct flight service to Europe: the  Manila Amsterdam KLM direct flight will end by April, 2012. The main reason for KLM’s decision is the high taxes and exorbitant fees imposed on them [...]

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US Visit 2010

August 19th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Mission Impossible: My US Visit

July 1st, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Career · Travel · Uncategorized

I spent Autumn in Three Countries

November 19th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Six Months in the Philippines Update

May 29th, 2009 · No Comments

We are now here for almost six months. Time flew by so fast — it felt like a roller coaster ride.  Here is an update of our life here in the Philippines: We arrived on the first week of December last year and moved in directly to our two bedroom apartment in Mandaluyong my mom [...]

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Tags: Milestones