While this post is long overdue – blame it on the numerous this and that’s I needed to attend to these past few days – posting this at the beginning of what is considered the ‘month of love’, February, is fitting in so many more ways than one. Although I’ve been fortunate enough to be [...]
Categories: Food
I’ve long been wanting to try to cover a real, honest to goodness festival – which our country is filled with, all year round. And I think there was no better way to induct myself (and my wife, incidentally, who this early, I will say, got much better images than I did) into the wonderful [...]
Tagged: Culture and the Arts
It’s an understatement to say that it’s challenging to keep a restaurant afloat, especially in times like these. Customers have so many other options, and frankly, tastes change faster than you can say Jack Robinson. One thing is in this month or this year, another the next month or the next year. During the couple [...]
I’m finally capping off the Palawan series, which I began just after me and my wife’s honeymoon last year, with a post about our Honda Bay (island hopping) tour. You get to visit only 2 islands, really, but the first stop is to a sort of outpost in the middle of the sea where you [...]
Categories: Landscape and Travel,Personal
Inspired by the memes about our new tourism slogan, I came up with a few of my own using a couple of my own images.
Categories: Uncategorized
“As the Wheel turns, the Ages come and go, each leaving memories that fade to legend, then to myth, and are forgotten by the time that Age comes again. The Pattern of an Age is slightly different each time an Age comes, and each time it is subject to greater change.” – Wheel of Time, [...]
Categories: Landscape and Travel,Personal
I have no idea how American diner food tasted back in the 80’s, but if it was anything like our recent sampling from Mr. Jones, then it must have tasted very good indeed. The next OpenRice Eat’s a Date me and my wife attended had us a fairly new dining establishment in the fairly new [...]
And, the crowd went wild. Well, I did, at least, when Wolfgang took the stage, frontman Basti Artadi his usual angas self. Call me old, but Halik ni Hudas will always be one of my favorite rock songs of all time. Of course, the Y! Rocks event last December 8, featured other great bands like [...]
Categories: Events,Music,People and Portraits
I’ll keep things brief today: I wish I could shoot more landscapes. ————— Taken at Laurel, Batangas Canon 7D + 10-22 | LEE GND 0.6 & 0.9 (stacked) | Generic ND8 *inspired by an eponymous song from Oasis.
Categories: Landscape and Travel
Let me say this at the beginning: I’m not a big fan of sandwiches. That being said though, I was pleasantly surprised when I got to sample a couple of ‘slabwiches’ from Chuck’s Deli at the Eat’s a Date event sponsored by OpenRice.com. I’ve eaten at couple of high-end sandwich / deli shops before, but [...]
Categories: Events,Food,Personal
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