“Music saves the soul.” Play softly while you read. After my first day of wandering in the streets of Yangon, I flew to Heho wanting to be immersed in the water-world lifestyle of the Intha people in Inle Lake. Upon arriving at the airport, many cab drivers were waiting for tourists they can bring to … More Water World – Inle Lake, Myanmar
“Music saves the soul. Play softly while you read.” April 26, 2046 Dearest Denice, How are you? I hope you’re doing well. I know you hated your gray hair plus the obvious wrinkles on your face. And the saggy skin of your neck makes you grumpy at times. I hope you’re in a good mood today … More Dear Old Denice, I Hope You Found Bliss (featuring Bagan, Myanmar)
It was actually my last day in Myanmar when I flew back to Yangon from Bagan. I met the same taxi driver I hired on my very first day (he patiently waited for me outside the airport) and hired him again to see other Yangon wonders that day. I arrived Yangon airport in the late … More Roaming with Carte Blanche: Myanmar Solo Trip – Yangon Part 2
“Music saves the soul”. Play softly while you read. It was Christmas day last 2014 when I traveled to Asia’s Golden Land via Singapore Airlines. I was feeling mixed emotions of exhilaration and fear, timidness and confidence, all at once. I felt like I was missing the joy of gatherings and festivities with my loved ones and friends, … More Roaming with Carte Blanche: Myanmar Solo Trip – Yangon Part 1
“Music saves the soul.” Play softly while you read. Nope! I didn’t go to Maldives in a boyfriend-girlfriend situation. I wished I were but that fantasy seemed far from possible during the first quarter of 2015. It was actually far from possible for the last 3 years. Lol. And I just can’t wait for that … More It’s not you, it’s me. . (featuring Maldives)
“Music saves the soul.” Play softly while you read. . 🙂 I found that the Airport Express train from Incheon International Airport to downtown Seoul has fixed departure times with around 30 minutes interval, I booked a ticket for the next trip and used the waiting time to check which station should I alight. I had … More A Perfect 10-hour Layover in South Korea Part2 – Seoul
“Music saves the soul.” Play softly while you read. 🙂 I finally decided to explore the world further by booking a trip to US last August 2014. Apart from my body’s very need to travel, I felt like I needed some time alone, to ponder on things, to breathe, to breathe heavily. But before I made … More A Perfect 10-hour Layover in South Korea Part1 – Incheon
“Music saves the soul.” Play it first. . 🙂 I’ve known Rachel to be a restless traveler who, like me, worships the beach while embraces the pricking rays of the sun as if this combo is the best thing God has ever created. We’ve been planning our beach trip together for a very long time and for some reasons … More Trusting Buoyancy in the Raging Sea – Windsurfing in Anilao, Batangas
I had a day to wander around the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the major reason of the visit is just to see the famous Petronas Towers and be stunned by how it glows like an infrastructure full of swarovski crystals at night. I was somewhat not a fan of city tours around South East … More Admiring the Dazzling Twin Towers of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
And there I was, letting my family experience the inexplicable euphoria I get when I see places I’ve never been. Last December of 2013 (I know this post is a year toooo late, haha), my family and I flew to Puerto Princesa, Palawan. It was a year after the Underground River got all the fame it deserved when this … More A Paradise in the Philippines – Puerto Princesa, Palawan
The next day after our majestic trip to Agra for the famous Taj Mahal, we roamed around New Delhi where we booked our hotel. It was on a Monday and little did we know that most of the tourist attractions in the city are closed every first weekday. Charge it to spontaneity and laziness, we didn’t … More The Adventures of the Overly Paranoids – New Delhi, India
It was during the first quarter of 2014 when all the news about rape cases and abuse of women in India were accentuated to the world that we had the sudden urge to book a flight to this South Asian country. We were very much aware that this trip is gonna be disquieting as supported by opinions of other tourists I … More Don’t-Tell-My-Mom Travel Diary – Agra, India
After my second trip to Bali, my friends and I had a short visit to Yogyakarta, where the Borobudur and Prambanan temples are just a few hours drive away. Yogyakarta, sometimes called Jogjakarta, is located in Central Java province of Indonesia. Both the Borobudur and Prambanan temples are in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. These … More A Short but Magnificent Trip to Yogyakarta, Indonesia
“Music saves the soul.” Play it first. . 🙂 My mind has been preoccupied by a lot of things upon reaching the young professional age. Things that have reduced the melatonin in my brain and caused me sleepless nights which my future self will probably regret. There are so many things I wanna do but got so … More Quarter Life Crisis – A Swift Escape (with a Clouded Mind) to Bali, Indonesia
FAILED. Yup, I went to Da Nang, Vietnam without checking the whether around October or November of 2013. Thinking that Da Nang, Vietnam is almost at the same level of Manila below the equator, I expected the same sunshine on that trip. I was wearing shorts and beach button up top plus my new pair of … More The Sun-kissed Tan I Dream to Get in Da Nang, Vietnam
We had a chance to stay in Saigon after our a-little-too-freezing-for-me trip in Da Nang; we took advantage of the one-night and half a day to explore Ho Chi Minh City. My friends had a good drinking session at night while I suffer from a painful dysmenorrhea (urrggghhh!). The next day, we made sure we … More Astonished by the Cu Chi Tunnels of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
If you could remember my pretty friend I traveled with to Siem Reap, Cambodia, I have known Vennus to be someone who’s familiar with awesome 5-star hotels and resorts around Singapore. . So there we were again. . 🙂 We hit the nearest beach from Singapore one weekend when we got bored. Rawa Safaris Island Resort is … More Prima Donnas’ Pulau Rawa, Malaysia Photo Diary
My roommate and I were talking (on one random night sometime in 2013) about how we missed flying out of Singapore to shortly escape all the stresses caused by the engineering world. We thought why don’t we do that again and ask other colleagues to come too. I scouted for a place to go while she SMSed … More A Glimpse of Hanoi and Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
Every girl loves flowers. Be it on a bouquet or planted on the ground, flowers mesmerize me for some reasons. Who else loves flowers? Rachel! When my very pretty and good friend Rachel visited Singapore, we checked out Singapore’s famous Botanic Garden. We took pictures which sole purpose is to make our moms jealous for seeing a wide collection … More Chickie Sunday at Botanic Gardens, Singapore
On my first day in the office in Singapore in 2011, I asked a colleague, a Filipina too who arrived in Singapore just a couple of months before me, to which beaches she had been to around Singapore. She said, she’d been to only one yet – Pulau Tioman. . From that day, I had … More That Tranquil Little Island in Malaysia – Pulau Tioman
The Restless Firefly 