Ahnnabanana has been my online home for the last six years. But it's time to grow up and move on to a new site. I'm proud to announce that http://annaoposa.ph is now up and running. It's alive! To quote Gold, "I'll miss ahnnabanana, but I'm happy you're legit!"

Many thanks to Rich, who's been doing ( Read more... )

Gold, Maisa, and I made it to the finals held last Tuesday, June 22 over at Strumm's. We couldn't perform "Alive" which can be viewed here (or in my previous post) so we put together a medley of "Get This Party Started," "Umbrella," and "Walkin' on Sunshine" for the finals.

We landed 1st runner up, but our judges compared us to the Supremes, the ( Read more... )

My open letter to the future DOT Secretary has been published over at the POC:

http://www.thepoc.net/commentaries/7809-dear-future-department-of-tourism-secretary.html

My best friends Gold, Maisa, and I have decided to join the Dove ( Read more... )

This is by far the funniest yet sweetest write-up ever written about me. I LOVE YOU WITH THE FIRE OF A THOUSAND SUNS, Ria Fernandez. I will post a response to this soon.

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Exactly a year ago today I was staring at the stars, freezing under a blanket, piss-ass drunk and declaring my love for Anna Oposa. A person who, to be honest, at that point, I ( Read more... )

I first heard the term "bucket list"* from the movie with the same title. Basically it's a list of things to do before you die. I have several written in my head, but the very first one I made on paper was a Wow Philippines Bucket List. You see, while other Filipinos dream of vacationing in a winter wonderland, my daydreams are located in my ( Read more... )

My 9-year-old cousin Roxy is my favorite little girl in the whole wide world. There may be a thirteen-year gap between us, but every time I talk to her, I learn something new. Here are the most valuable lessons she taught me:

1) Like the song from Into the Woods goes, "Careful the things you say, children will listen." Last week, I had dinner with ( Read more... )

When we found out that Mikki was going to work in Disneyland Hong Kong, my family ditched the plans of going to Turkey-Greece. Apparently, seeing Mikki perform was more important than Santorini and ancient civilization--Turkey and Greece will always be there, but Mikki ain't gonna be in Mickey Mouse World forever.

Instead of going to Macau for the ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, I will have been blogging as Ahnnabanana for six years. SIX LONG YEARS! Ahnnabanana has become my alter ego in a way and we have gone through so much together. 2.5 relationships (AHAHA), half of high school, all of college, many many trips around the world and in the country and so on. My blog has given me opportunities I never even ( Read more... )

I am proud to say that we are a family of licensed scuba divers. My dad, my three brothers, and I all learned under Dive Instructor Extraordinaire Ziggy Abella. My mom, however, would never ever dive, even you paid her. I think she was secretly trying to talk us out of it.

uli: i haven't dived since... dec 2007.
mom: baka hindi ka na marunong. DON'T ( Read more... )

Camiguin is the second smallest island in the Philippines, made up of only five districts (Cavite alone has seven) but seven (!!!) volcanoes--thus the nickname "the Island Born of Fire." On the way there, this is what we found in the newspaper:


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