GET SOLITUDE IN PUNTALAWI

March 31, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Avoiding the crowd‘s brimming noise and you just want sheer peace of mind come summer this year? It’s second quarter now so you gotta gear up for the heat. And with heat I mean the hottest but cheapest Instagram ready destinations.One of the best islands in the country is of course my very own home, […]

48 Hours in South Korea

February 19, 2018.Reading time 10 minutes.

There is something about South Korea that grips my spirit – something that pushes me to go back there. When I reached Incheon International Airport after a 5-hour plane ride from Kalibo (invaded by the Chinese – the rowdiest people I have ever met), there I realized how fascinating this country is, from the efficient […]

NAGPATONG ROCK IS A KILLER

January 19, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Not because of the death defying experience going up, Nagpatong Rock Formation is a real killer – not the extremely unpleasant thing but a bad-ass, majestic trekking site to behold.Over the weekend, I flew to Manila with the purpose of clearing my mind from all the stresses of my life (too much workload and more); […]

Check-Your-Ipon Challenge 2018

January 12, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

I have seen a post online about a simple matrix on how to make your ‘ipon’ or savings more challenging but at the same, strategic. So here’s my own version of Check-Your-Ipon Challenge 2018. In here, you can separate one coin or bill and note from the other. While you get to save one, you […]

Travel Recap 2017

January 11, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

I guess the most important thing I have learned this year is how to objectively answer people who ask me why I love to travel.The last time a friend asked me, I told him: “I love to travel because it restores my emotional margin like a computer that got rebooted”. And he is like, “Ah, […]

Broken Hearts in Bantayan Island

January 6, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

An island in the Philippines that breaks hearts and heal them? It might be true in Bantayan Island, Cebu.I have known some friends that labelled Bantayan Island in Cebu as an island that breaks relationships. Or if you are lucky, you get to enjoy it at first and eventually, you will break up the time […]

PH Hot Air Balloon Fiesta Up High

November 17, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

When I was a kid, I used to daydream about flying up high Jack’s Beanstalk using a hot air balloon. Now that I am a little older (by that I mean just passing by a quarter-life crisis), I realized it is expensive to just watch them fly at a distance let alone getting in the […]