Tweet “Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.” Henry David Thoreau
To my dear daughters,
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Each wedding anniversary that my husband and I face every year deserves to be celebrated in any memorable way.
Every celebration symbolizes our annual renewal of our vows to each other —
“to have and to hold
from this day forward;
for better, for worse,
for richer, for poorer,
in...
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TweetCebu, my hometown how I missed my birthplace, the city where I grew up till I left for Manila at the age of 17 years old to study at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.
I spent seven days in Cebu with my two girls to celebrate the Sinulog 2012 festival. If I remember right, this has been the longest I have ever...
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TweetIs there a perfect plan? Maybe but sometimes things don’t go as planned. It is one lesson I have learned when making travel plans. It was Lao Tzu that said “a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
When my daughter made plans to take a short vacation back to the Philippines,I started to...
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Tweet“FUN is a very simple word that everyone in the world understands.” Secretary Jimenez
My husband and I hied off to Boracay last Summer. We had so much fun. It was just the two of us having fun. Our children are all grown up and it gives us the chance to travel places in and out of the Philippines. Just the two of...
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I feel bad when I leave my hubby at home whenever I travel. Not that he doesn’t want to travel with me, it is just work sometimes prevent him from being with me. Well, no excuse this time because my next adventure is just around the corner. It feels like an out-of-town trip considering the one hour travel time.
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My beloved Cebu is my hometown, the city where I grew up till I moved to Manila in 1975 for college yet my childhood memories leave a soft spot in my heart. These days, I travel to Cebu for business or meet up for high school reunions. I often stay at hotels or at a friend’s place since our family sold our home in...
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Tweet“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
Lao Tzu once said “a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” He must have...
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TweetThe ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. ~Jules Reynard
I am not easily impressed with celebrities, whoever they may be—actors, actresses, politicians or what not. But meeting Marzipan was different. It was my daughter who told me all about Marzipan when she watched a movie at the elegant Astor Theatre. If you are in...
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I never really knew much about the animal kingdom outside of my country not that I was indifferent. I was just unaware of the endangered species of other countries. I knew our Monkey eating eagle is one of our more endangered species but other countries? I never even knew much about Tasmania until I visited my daughter in...
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TweetArt is not what you see, but what you make others see. Edgar Degas
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) at Hobart, Tasmania is just amazing and thought provoking. It is not art for arts sake. The MONA is a $200 million, quixotic project of Tasmanian businessman David Walsh. He commissioned the Museum from architect Nonda...
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TweetI am fascinated with native Australian animals. I know this peculiarity has something to do with its location in the Southern hemisphere. The best place to see these animals is Healesville , well known for the Healesville Sanctuary, a nature park with hundreds of native Australian animals displayed in a semi-open natural...
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TweetTime And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. – Denis Waitley
Riding a train on our way to Abbottsford, I pondered over my vacation to Melbourne. It has been a week since I arrived here and all I could think of at first is how expensive this vacation...
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TweetA woman is the full circle.
Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. ~ Diane Mariechild ~
Rica and I go back when we were little kids romping around the school grounds of St. Theresa’s College Cebu. I thought we graduated in the same high school. It dawned on me that we had not seen each other for the...
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TweetSlow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. – Eddie Cantor
I find it amazing how much time I can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. That’s what I did yesterday as I took the walking tour to the Secret...
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TweetIt is my third day in Australia and my daughter took a day off from work to give me a treat to the Great Ocean Road. I didn’t expect much from day tours. They can be boring but the itinerary was exciting . It helped that Ash, our Aussie tour guide/driver was so funny. The Great Ocean Road is a 243-kilometre (151 mi)...
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TweetIt is better to be “unfashionable” than to freeze to death Lauren, in San Francisco
That is the quote of my eldest daughter who is right now in San Francisco and gave some tips to the stylish tropical native visiting San Francisco . It is supposed to be summer over there but well, it takes time to get used to cool...
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Tweet“I have always loved the beach. The smell of the salty water, the wind in my face, the gentle roar of the waves all combine to create a sense of peace and calm.”
–Anonymous
Our second day in Boracay. An island hopping is something I wanted Butch to experience including snorkeling and helmet diving. Wearing a life...
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