The streets of Metro Manila are one big marketplace for vendors. From the sidewalks where pedestrians have been effectively ejected to the intersections where peddlers race one another to the middle of busy streets where traffic bottlenecks are rampant.
In a country where cell phone chargers to hand puppets to pot holders are sold in the [...]
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These photos of a garbage truck were taken late one afternoon along North Avenue in Quezon City on our way to TriNoMa Mall to attend a birthday dinner. I was trying to capture the contrast of the silhouettes of the garbage collectors and the truck against the setting sun.
The inclusion of the Philippine flag in [...]
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The 66-foot memorial monument to the President of the Commonwealth Republic, Manuel Luis Quezon, stands on an expanse of 27-hectare circular lot (numbers from WOW Philippines) that had been developed during the last two decades as a park complete with restaurants and flea market.
Made from Carrara marble, the three pylons represent the three main geographic [...]
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TriNoMa is a mall owned and developed by Ayala Land, the same company behind Glorietta and Greenbelt in Makati. As to why it is a triangle, Wikipedia has the details including a physical description of its location.
A mall is a mall, shops are shops and the restaurants at TriNoMa aren’t that different from restaurants in [...]
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I don’t remember the last time I went to a shopping mall where there was an ongoing mall-wide sale and bought nothing. I don’t think it ever happened before. Well, until last Sunday. We only had time to eat, have coffee and watch Transformers.
My daughter Sam enjoyed herself immensely though. Taking photos.
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A street sign I wish to see in all the streets in the Philippines.
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The Sunken Garden of the U.P. Diliman campus is located within the academic oval. It is surrounded by the Main Library building, the College of Law (Malcolm Hall), the Student Activity Center (Vinzon’s Hall) and the College of Education (Benitez Hall).
I have a lot of happy memories of the Sunken Garden — putting up a [...]
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A third of what’s been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I’d better let me, rather than them, tell you about me, this blog and a few irrelevant things as well.
