tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53302918453740970942014-10-13T15:58:45.054+08:00More than the lust to wander, I enjoy the thrill of discovering myself, in peculiar places. I see me in strangers and in familiar faces, in street corners, in bizaare circumstances, in nature, in technology, in light, in motion, in inaminate things. Each new travel brings a wealth of experience - some surreal, some undeniably real.Rheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598090236725193192noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330291845374097094.post-48108537682766879372012-12-20T08:50:00.001+08:002012-12-20T08:53:44.389+08:00

      Midnight. Blackest sky Outside my window I can see A stranger's tongue wagging and winding its way through its native streets.      But this is not my home.      I am the stranger here, with no language but my pen.      Sex fills the air. It is humid and ancient. Many lovers have been taken down exalted, fallen, risen kissed by the purple finger that seeks the plum blossomed Love.      I

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The smell of corned beef, sizzling in the pan and the thought of eating it with plain rice is making me drool.   I didn't have blogging in mind when I came home tonight - got in at quarter past 11.  However, while browsing through my archive of blog photos, I came across this image of my unsuccessful attempt to fold over an omelet with the yummiest corned beef of all time (by Delimondo

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2nd March 2012, 9.30am or thereabouts, I officially land in Muscat.  I was dead tired and dead to the world as the plane landed so my first glimpse of the city or the country wasn't at all an aerial view.  I swiftly go through immigrations and out into the world.  Imagine my surprise when I stepped out and thought I was in India.  That was because a good part of the Omani workforce

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PreTEA - Pretty tea from the amazing JBS Notice how I'm trying to creep in silently by dazzling you with this collage of the prettiest tea that I (or maybe you) ever did see.  It's what I call a blooming tea. Because it blooms...literally. Hah, how very clever of me. So, the tea was a present from my amazing friend JBS who has just recently gotten back from his Beijing sojourn.  Amazing

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A little more than a week ago, I was walking the streets of London with my best friends, PA & WA.  I found myself incredibly lucky because of a few reasons:  1) I was in the UK, a new country to pin in my mental map of world and where I've been.  2) I've finally been able to visit my best friends' home after years and years of meeting "just outside", in Amsterdam or Lisbon but never London.  3)

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I took these photos, today, in memory of Steve Jobs, the revolutionary genius who has changed the landscape of personal computing. Here is a photo of the Apple 1, a groundbreaking supercomputer, along with the captions that came with it. Taken at the Science Museum in London. Check out a young Steve Jobs, far left, in a bowtie. The Apple 1, labelled as a 'Groundbreaking supercomputer' at

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As they often say here...'Are you ok?' Nope, not that I think anything's wrong with you. That's just the way they (the British) greet, instead of saying 'Hi, how are you?' So anyway, I am sat on my bestfriends', PA & WA's,couch, somewhere in the outskirts of London, thinking I'd pop in after X months of silence. Here's a few photos from my mobile that I thought I'd share. Blow by blow

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New office friend DKC and I were on a business trip, just recently, to KL.  I've been to KL several times before but I didn't realise the last time was 3 yrs ago.  So on this trip to KL, I found a lot of new things - it felt like reacquainting myself with an old friend. DKC took me to Ben's one evening, saying that this was one of her favorites.  It is located at the 6th floor of Pavillion Mall

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2011.07.11 Bukit Bintang, KLView from my window I've always thought I was familiar with KL after years of coming and going, coming and going, coming and going because of my job.  When I went back, just last week, as the car drove down Bukit Bintang where my hotel (thankfully!) was, I realised that the last time I was there was most probably....3 yrs ago! Imagine my surprise. That. Was. A long

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Golden Opulence Sundae(edited version of photo from DailyOlive.com) You can either buy Serendipity 3's entire menu or you can get yourself a Golden Opulence Sundae. It's basically tahitian vanilla bean ice cream decked with edible 23 carat gold leaves, Madagascar vanilla bean, gold coated nuts, gilded sugar flower, candied fruit and Amedei Porceleana, the most expensive chocolate in the world.  

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Honeybees - 2008 I was watching this episode on TV tonight and found the conversation between the Greek beekeepers and Jamie Oliver on how bees mate terribly hilarious! Listen carefully at about 01:00 mins. How educational!  Just never thought honey-making was so incestuous! Heehee.

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The sign that cannot be denied I've driven past the ID sign a few times, along Pasong Tamo Ext.  How can you not notice the bright apple green sign - it just cannot be ignored.  So now that I am in the market for furniture, I was only too happy to give in to curiosity and made my first visit today. B&W There are actually 2 furniture stores in this complex.  The first of which is B&W, found

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The guards holding the flag high as we sing the national anthem We celebrated Independence Day early, this year.  As it falls today, a Sunday, we had a big celebration at the office on Friday - bigger than we've ever had the past years.  This year was extra special as the offices at our building jointly celebrated our 113th year of Independence.    Ramon Obusan Folkloric Dancers decked in

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Thought I'd share how things are coming along.  It doesn't feel quite like home yet, though.

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The rains have started their relentless, torrential pouring.  It'll be wet season once again.  For days on end. Look at what I dug up (from my boxes of boxed up stuff).  Yet another impulse purchase, made a couple of years ago.  One which I have not used.  It was almost in mint condition, except that I took it out of the box to get myself this shot. On this rainy night, I thought, if I couldn't

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I've been home decor-minded the past few months for reasons that I stated in this blog entry.  The latest installment in my snail paced project is lighting decor. I've been asking friends to get me Ikea table lamps the past 2 months.  These, I think, are merely going to be accessories rather than centerpiece lighting, if you know what I mean.  But centerpiece lighting, I need.  Something that

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It is 11.59 PM as I am typing this.  Sunday night.  The last minute of  the weekend.  The last minute of days where it is your right to languor in bed and to stay there if you so wish.  The last minute of days when people understand if you don't reply as fast to all forms of mobile proddings.  The last minute of days when you can be a hermit, hibernate, curl up with a book all day and feel like

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Hello? I've been silent for the longest time.  It isn't because I have nothing to say but because I've been exhausted.  Mentally.  For a good part of 3 months now. Housing projects, I learned and I've been told, they're never easy.  They're never a lot of things - never on time, never on budget, never the way you expect them to be, never un-stressful, blah blah.  Sometimes I wish I could just

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Lately, I've had a hankering for all things chicken wing.  It all started with Sunrise Buckets at Mercato, then Manang's Chicken (who claims to be like BonChon but better), then...this.  The mother of all chicken wings - BonChon Chicken. BonChon Chicken just opened in Manila with 2 stores, to date - Greenbelt 1 and Ayala Triangle Gardens.  I'm not sure which opened first.  And in true foodie

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There is nothing like brunch on a weekend morning.  My sister Little B and I find ourselves in Salcedo Market once in a while to fill ourselves up with fresh and delicious food. Much to our delight, another fresh and delicious haven has sprouted nearer to where we are.  Mercato Centrale opened its doors November last year at the Bonifacio Global City, right behind Bonifacio High Street B8.  My

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New year, new changes. We're 3 wks into the new year and, already, we've been bombarded with changes that nearly rocked our world (or mine, at least). 1  The New Zodiac Do you know what your sign is? I never saw it coming.  I never even thought that it would ever change.  Or maybe most of us didn't? Err...excuse me - I am no zodiac expert and not even remotely close to being an astrological

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This year, the city of Muntinlupa is taking a leap towards greening the city. From the 18th of January, all supermarkets are prohibited from providing shoppers plastic bags for their purchases. Instead, they are encouraging shoppers to bring their own shopping bags through a campaign called "BOB = bring your own bag/bayong". In preparation for this new legislation supermarkets have been

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Dear Readers, It is with a heavy heart that I bring you this news.  Marnie Anne Lopez, the little girl whom I featured a few months ago (Refer to MARNIE the Brave) who has been battling AML, has quietly left our world at 3AM this morning.  Almost 3 weeks ago, Marnie was taken home after her condition was declared terminal by her doctors.  Her family has, since then, concentrated on making her

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Nefeli sits at the highest point of the island and faces the sea. 300m above sea level, majestically high on a cliff sits Nefeli Homes.  The pictures from their website alone made me excited about coming to Santorini.  I was fresh off booking our hostel in Paris where the rates are absolutely sky high.  Nefeli Homes, in comparison, was super cheap - considering that these were suites and it had

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Santorini is perhaps the most popular of the Greek Isles.  It has been featured in several movies - Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Mama Mia - and has been a subject of many a calendar spread.  It belongs to a region called Cyclades, together with other islands - Mykonos, Naxos and Ios.  To the Greeks, it is officially known as Thira. Like the other islands, Santorini also features rugged

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