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Guilty Pleasure: An Idiot Abroad

The Science Channel calls it a practical-joke-turned-social-experiment. An Idiot Abroad is the best reality show there is since The Amazing Race. Like The Amazing Race, An Idiot Abroad showcases the magnificent beauty of the world, and its historical and cultural (sometimes, idiosyncratic) richness. The latter, however, allows the “cast” and the viewers more opportunity to [...]

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Music and Lyrics: Life is a Highway – Rascal Flatts

Parent-Teacher Conferences were held last week, Thursday and Friday, giving Captain Awesome and Little HRH two extra days for the weekend. We wanted to maximize the kids’ days off and take them out. Um and I originally thought of going on a day trip to Monterey, but Faja suggested that, with Captain Awesome and Little [...]

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Blinks: Spanish Alley

As I organize and back up millions and millions of pictures, it’s allowed me to catch up on posting on Blinks, which I have not done in so long since last week. I freaked out when I found that my back-up of our Spain pictures were corrupted. I thought, that’s okay, I have burnt them [...]

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Blinks: Fori Imperiali

It’s taken me 2 weeks to organize my Italy pictures. And now I’m almost done. I have so much yet so far, I’ve only posted one picture of Italy on Blinks. Tsk tsk tsk. Shame on me. So, here’s one, of Fori Imperiali, the Imperial Forums of ancient Rome, the center of the Roman Republic. [...]

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Wanderlusting for Resorts

Yesterday, I was watching House Hunters International and a lady was buying a property in St. Thomas. One of the things on her list was of course, a gorgeous view of the Atlantic Ocean or the Caribbean Sea. Ms C is really more the beach person between the two of us, but I must say, [...]

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Blinks: Banka

Once in a while, I like to take somber pictures. A lot of times, somber settings are picturesque. Sure this picture has a somber tone but what it also has, like many somber pictures, is that it somewhat denotes peace. The tranquility of this lone banka takes me to small towns all over the US [...]

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Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: Angèle Restaurant & Bar

Angèle Restaurant & Bar 540 Main St Napa, CA 94559-3353 (707) 252-8115 In truth, I am easy to please when it comes to food. But you know what, this meal we had at Angèle has been one of the best meals of my life. It was the most perfect thing because every dish, basically, everything [...]

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Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: Universal Café

Universal Cafe 2814 19th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Tel: 415.821.4608 For an early 1st church wedding anniversary celebration, Chef spent the night in San Francisco courtesy of his sister and brother-in-law, who was also one of our principal sponsors. Sometimes, it seems that Chef and I have been together forever that things like this, [...]

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Wanderlust: New Year’s Eve in Rome

Up until 6 years ago, I welcomed the New Year in the Philippines. It was loud and chaotic, with people throwing firecrackers. In larger places that can afford P5,000 a pop, there are fireworks displays. The idea is to make noise. And plenty of it. The next day, there would be a number of people [...]

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Blinks: Colosseo

Chef and I are back from our Roman holiday and there’s so much to write about, including why not to go to Rome for New Year’s Eve. Unfortunately, I caught a cold when we took the open tour bus in Florence and since we came back, I’ve suffered days and days of migraine attacks. So, [...]

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Road to Rome – Our Adventures So Far

Oh boy. I’ve heard so much about the difficulties of traveling during this time. So I knew that we had to tackle this with much persistence. We really want to spend the New Years in a new place. And, our road to this new place has been nothing short of adventurous. I felt that all my discipline, resourcefulness, and whatever [...]