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Birthday Trip 2009 - Yangshuo, China
Yangshuo, situated in Guangxi Province, China, is well-known for its breathtaking karst scenery. As lovely as the vista is, it's also the manner by which you experience it that makes it all the more unforgettable.
I feel so blessed to have been able to journey through the countryside via air (hot air balloon), water (bamboo rafts), and land ( ( Read more... ) -
I like Yangshuo in June. How about you?
T minus 2.5 days before I board the plane for Hong Kong to meet up with Joon aka the bandmate for our Birthday Trip to Yangshuo and Guilin, China. Well, technically, I'll be staying in HK for a day and half before we leave for China, so I'll be spending my birthday in the city. But it's not only a birthday, it's a birthday week, right?
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Worming through Books
I am proud of having finished three books in 1 1/2 months considering my hectic work and social schedule! I guess my life isn't as off-kilter as I thought it was. :)
I finished The Player of Games, my introduction to Iain M. Banks, and from which I concluded that I love his storytelling and adorable Culture drones! Then I devoured (pretty quickly) ( Read more... ) -
Take it Away, +/-
Draw the poison out, please.
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Snowblind
All the things that upset you
Swirling round and round
In your head
It’s up
And down
It’s enough to fill the oceans
This uncertainty
Expectant doubt
You can’t reroute
And all the things that direct you
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Food Adventures
Something I've decided recently was that I'm going to avoid eating at my usual haunts and that I'm going to try something new if I can help it. Why? Because life is short and our tummies would appreciate a sense of adventure every now and then.
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I've always been a conservative diner, only treating food as body fuel. But that's not to say that I ( Read more... ) -
I was a cheetah blazing through the verdant foliage of acacia trees
Well, maybe not so much a cheetah but a limping, tired, old hyena.
Yesterday, I went for a late night walk/jog in UP. Got there almost 9pm with some apprehension: I didn't know if there would be many joggers there at that time or if there would only be a handful, and the paranoid me was kinda worried about security--I have never jogged that late in ( Read more... ) -
I must be a bionic cat with more than nine lives
Hearing a song with the perfect melody and lyrics feels like being shot in the chest by a cannon. Not that I've ever experienced it. Being shot by a cannon, I mean. Okay fine, enough with the overly dramatic analogy ( Read more... ) -
Curry-zy Over Indian Food
Indian food is DELISH! Ahh... (rubs tummy)
To decompress after a stressful two weeks at work and whatnot, I met up with Mikah for dinner at Swagat, an Indian restaurant on Rada Street, Legaspi Village, Makati. It's a quaint, cozy place with an exotic, anachronistic appeal. From a passerby's POV, the restaurant's lettering is akin to that of a black- ( Read more... ) -
Lunchbreak Looting
Didn't feel like being cooped up in the office today so I decided to work at Starbucks. Company airborne access rocks! :D
After a late lunch, I decided to window shop some. My main agenda was to visit Astroplus and look for the P100 Mirrormask DVD that Fatal Kris was raving about in Plurk. I wasn't able to find the Mirrormask DVD but I walked away ( Read more... ) -
Busted!
My mom just found out this afternoon that I smoke--after 19 years of withholding the truth from her! Well, maybe 14 because I quit for about 5 years. How'd she find out? She was looking for an uneaten sandwich that I left in my bag. Apparently, she looked through the wrong bag and saw a pack of Sampoerna that a friend gave me. Then she said, matter ( Read more... )