I’m stopping in Manila for an hour. It’s so short, but I know...

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Coming through Manila Airport. 

Stepping off the plane and entering the humidity. Walking across the dotted floors that make the luggage go KAKUNK KAKUNK KAKUNK! (His neighbors couldn’t stand it)

Lol. Seeing all the boards with the beautiful tourist spots. I like seeing those.

I like that for some reason. 

Just coming to Philippines is a good amazing feeling.

So much Filipino Youtube sensation awesomeness in one video!

Cannot handle it.

Ivan Henares' Dictionary of Philippine Street Food:

• Abnoy - unhatched incubated duck egg or bugok which is mixed with flour and water and cooked like pancakes
• Adidas - chicken feet, marinated and grilled or cooked adobo style
• Arroz caldo - rice porridge or congee cooked with chicken and kasubha; see also Lugaw
• Atay - grilled chicken liver
• Baga - pig’s or cow’s lungs grilled or deep-fried and served with barbeque condiments
• Balat ng manok - see Chicken skin and Chicharon manok
• Balun-balunan - grilled chicken gizzard
• Balut - hard-boiled duck egg with fetus
• Banana cue - deep-fried saba (banana) covered with caramelized brown sugar
• Barbeque - marinated pork or chicken pieces grilled on skewers
• Batchoy - miki noodle soup garnished with pork innards (liver, kidney and heart), chicharon (pork skin cracklings), chicken breast, vegetables and topped with a raw egg; origin traced to La Paz, Iloilo
• Betamax - curdled chicken or pork blood, cubed and grilled
• Bibingka - glutinous rice flour pancakes grilled with charcoal above and below in a special clay pot
• Biko (also Bico) - glutinous rice cake with grated coconut topping
• Binatog - boiled white corn kernels, sugar, grated coconut and milk
• Bopis - minced pig’s heart and lungs sauteed with garlic and onion and seasoned with laurel, oregano, bell pepper and vinegar
• Botsi - chicken esophagus, deep-fried or grilled
• Calamares - deep-fried squid in batter
• Calamay(also Kalamay) - glutinous rice cakes; varieties all over the country
• Camote cue - deep-fried camote (sweet potato) covered with caramelized brown sugar
• Carioca(also Karyoka, Karioka) - deep-fried glutinous rice flour cakes served on skewers
• Cheese sticks - deep-fried cheese wrapped in lumpia (spring roll) wrapper
• Chicharon baboy - pork skin cracklings, made from pork rind boiled and seasoned, sun-dried and deep-fried
• Chicharon bituka - pork or chicken intestine boiled, seasoned and deep-fried
• Chicharon bulaklak - pork omentum boiled, seasoned and deep-fried
• Chicharon manok - chicken skin cracklings
• Chicken balls - balls made with chicken meat, deep fried and served in skewers with a sweet, sour or spicy sauce
• Chicken skin - chicken skin battered and deep fried
• Cutchinta - see Kutsinta
• Day-old chicks - literally day-old chicks deep-fried to a crisp, served with sauce or vinegar
• Empanada (Batac) - pork longganiza, egg and grated green papaya in a rice flour shell, deep-fried and served with vinegar
• Fishballs - balls made with fish meat, most often from pollock, deep fried and served in skewers with a sweet, sour or spicy sauce
• Goto - rice porridge or congee cooked with beef tripe
• Halo-halo - translated as “a mix of many things” or “an assortment,” it is a dessert topped with shaved ice that may contain sweetened saba (banana), camote, macapuno (young coconut), kaong, nata de coco, pinipig (rice crispies), gulaman (agar), sago (tapioca balls), brown and white beans, garbanzos, ube (purple yam), and leche flan (creme brulee), with milk and sugar; Pampanga has three popular versions in Guagua, Arayat and Angeles which may include pastillas, crushed white beans and corn
• Helmet - grilled chicken head
• Hepalog(also Toknonong) - hard-boiled duck eggs dipped in orange batter and deep-fried
• Isaw - collective term for different types of grilled chicken and pork innards; varieties include isaw manok, isaw baboy, atay, goto, botsi, balun-balunan, and tenga ng baboy
• Isaw baboy - grilled or deep-fried pork intestines on a skewer, served with sweet, sour or spicy sauce
• Isaw manok(also IUD) - grilled or deep-fried chicken intestines on a skewer, served with sweet, sour or spicy sauce; also referred to as IUD because it resembles an intra-uterine device
• Iskrambol(also Scrambol) - frostees; shaved ice, diced gulaman, sago and condensed milk
• IUD - see Isaw manok
• Kakanin - collective term for snacks made with kanin (rice), particularly malagkit (glutinous) rice; varieties include puto, kutsinta, calamay, sapin-sapin, suman, palitaw, biko or sinukmani, and espasol among many others
• Kalamay - see Calamay
• Kamote cue - see Camote cue
• Kikiam - the special ones are made of ground pork and vegetables wrapped in bean curd sheets, deep-fried and served with sweet, sour or spicy sauce; those in the street are seafood-based, usually made of fish meat and cuttlefish
• Kudil - deep-fried pork skin
• Kutsinta - steamed bahaw (boiled rice) with lye and brown sugar; has a gelatinous consistency
• Kwek kwek - see Quek quek
• Lomi - noodle soup made with thick fresh egg noodles or lomi
• Longganiza - pork sausage grilled or fried on a skewer
• Lugaw - rice porridge or congee; varieties include arroz caldo (with chicken and kasubha) and goto (with beef tripe)
• Lumpia - spring rolls; varieties include lumpiang basa; lumpiang hubad - fresh spring rolls wothout the wrapper; lumpiang prito; lumpiang sariwa - fresh srping rolls; lumpiang shanghai; lumpiang ubod; and turo
• Mais - boiled sweet corn seasoned with salt, butter or margarine
• Mais con yelo - sweet corn, milk and sugar topped with shaved ice
• Mami - noodle soup
• Manggang hilaw - green mango served with bagoong (shrimp paste)
• Mani - peanuts either boiled, roasted or deep-fried and seasoned with garlic and salt
• Maruya - banana fritters
• Nilupak - mashed kamoteng kahoy (cassava) or kamote (sweet potato) with brown sugar and served with butter or margarine
• Palitaw - glutinous rice flour pancakes topped with grated young coconut, sugar and roasted sesame seeds
• Panara - deep-fried crab and grated green papaya empanda sold in Pampanga during Christmas season
• Pancit - noodles; varieties are batchoy (Iloilo) - see Batchoy; batil patung (Tuguegarao) - local noodles topped with hot dogs, chicharon, ground meat, fried egg, and vegetables; pancit bihon; pancit canton - a kind of pancit guisado flavored with ginger and soy sauce; pancit guisado, pancit habhab (Lucban) - sautéed miki noodles served on and eaten straight from banana leaf sans utensils; pancit lomi - see Lomi; pansit luglog (Pampanga and Tagalog Region) - it has a distinct orange shrimp-achuete sauce and is topped with chicharon, tinapa, wansoy and shrimp; pancit malabon (Malabon) - made with thick rice noodles tossed in shrimp-achuete oil topped with shelled oysters, squid rings, suaje or hipong puti and wansoy; pancit molo (Iloilo) - clear chicken broth with wonton, garlic and crushed chorizo; pancit palabok; pancit puti (Manila); and pancit sotanghon among many others
• Pandesal (also Pan de sal) - breakfast roll; rounded bread
• Pares - translated as “pair,” means the pairing of rice with beef; beef pares is characterized by very tender meat, usually with a lot of litid (ligaments)
• Penoy - hard-boiled duck egg without fetus
• Proven - hard portion of chicken entrails that is either marinated and grilled, battered and fried or cooked adobo style
• Pusit - squid grilled on skewer
• Puto - steamed rice cake
• Puto bumbong - purple glutinous rice snack cooked in a special steamer
• Quikiam - see Kikiam
• Quek quek(also Toknanay) - hard boiled chicken eggs dipped in orange batter and deep-fried; also used for quail eggs but some say the correct term for the quail egg version is tokneneng; the balut version is sometimes referred to as hepalog
• Sapin-sapin - layered glutinous rice and coconut milk cake usually topped with grated coconut and latik (residue from coconut oil extraction); different flavor per layer such as ube (purple yam), macapuno (young coconut), kutsinta and langka (jackfruit)
• Scrambol - see Iskrambol
• Sinukmani - see Biko
• Siomai - steamed pork dumplings
• Siopao - steamed pork buns
• Sisig - roasted pig’s head, chicken liver, onions and chili, chopped and flavored with calamansi served on a hot metal plate
• Sorbetes(also Dirty ice cream) - street ice cream made with local fruits and ingredients; common flavors include ube (purple yam), mango, avocado, queso (cheese), chocolate, langka (jackfruit), buko or macapuno (coconut); strawberry is common in Baguio City
• Squid balls - balls made with squid or cuttlefish meat, deep fried and served in skewers with a sweet, sour or spicy sauce
• Suman - glutinous rice snack steamed in banana or coconut leaves; varieties include binagol (Leyte) made with glutinous rice, gabi (taro), coconut milk and chocolate; budbod sa kabog (Tanjay, Negros Oriental) which uses millet instead of glutinous rice; Taho - bean curd snack topped with arnibal (liquefied raw sugar similar to molasses) and sago (tapioca balls)
• Tenga ng baboy (also Walkman) - marinated pig’s ears grilled on skewers; see also Kudil
• Toknanay - see Quek quek
• Tokneneng - hard boiled quail eggs dipped in orange batter and deep-fried; also called kwek kwek by others
• Toknonong - see Hepalog
• Tupig(also Itemtem) - glutinous rice, grated mature coconut, coconut milk and molasses rolled in banana leaves and grilled; varieties in Pangasinan, Ilocos Norte (Batac) and Isabela
• Turon - saba (banana) with with sugar and sometimes langka (jackfruit) wrapped in lumpia (spring roll) wrapper and deep-fried
• Walkman - see Tenga ng Baboy

Riding a tricycle to get to school!

Sorbetes!

I’m stopping in Manila for an hour. It’s so short, but I know that it’ll feel great just to be back home, even though I’ll be stuck inside the airport and it’ll be just for an hour.

“i have tried beer for the first time. i like it but can...

Not bad, I guess.

(L-R) Puerto Princesa City Mayor Edward Hegedorn, Philippine President Benigno Aquino, New 7 Wonders of Nature Organization President Bernard Weber, and Johnpaul De La Fuente pose for photos at Malacañang palace in Manila. The bones of a likely extinct sea cow that lived about 20 million years ago have been discovered in an underground cave, a rare find in the Far East, the expedition head said.

hella traffic right now in c-5 and im late for class. :/

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Sunrise. Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines (via).

On Sunday night, my cousin and his family came over to visit my grandma briefly as it was her last night in New Zealand. My parent were away at the laundromat to use the dryers so I was asked to watch over everything that’s being cooked.

Five minutes after my cousin arrived, his dad (my mum’s brother) arrived with his youngest son. Okay, so we knew that my cousin was going to come over with his family, but we had no idea that his dad was coming too.

My grandma told me to set the table and she then proceeded putting the food in serving dishes - and then she invited our guests to eat. Regular Filipino hospitality, yes, but I got quite anxious (and even a little bit angry) since that dinner was meant for my family alone. I know sharing is caring, but they really should’ve phoned before coming over.

The worst part was, they didn’t even politely refuse. They didn’t even say, “Ay, salamat! Busog pa kami, mamaya nalang kami kakain.” (“Oh, thanks! We’re still full, we’ll eat later!”) Instead, they took their places at the table and feasted! After they finished, my grandma asked me to bring the pavlova out. That was the last straw. I just told her, “Gran, the pavlova is for us.”

By the time my parents arrived I was a bit of a mess. I just wanted them all to leave. My dad, who doesn’t get on too well with the personalities of my mum’s brothers, didn’t say much. We ate whatever was left of dinner, which wasn’t very much. And then we did all the dishes before folding all the clothes they brought home from the laundromat.

What were our guests doing? Watching television and changing the channel however they please. My mum ended up serving them coffee and dessert.

Last night at dinner, as my grandma had already left, my mum told us how my cousin’s wife (who is Pakeha) came up to her at work and apologised. She said she told her husband that if they were going to eat dinner at our place, they had to buy food to contribute, however her husband reassured her that they were going to be there briefly. My mum brushed it off and said it was just a really bad habit of her brother to show up unannounced and expect to be fed, and she would expect nothing less of his sons.

It was nice how she apologised. I really like how she’s part of our family. I think I like her better than my cousins. :/

Boracay Sunset
Summer 2011 

coron, palawan

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was AMAZING. I love that island! I couldn’t believe that in that small island, the population there is almost over 1 million! I loved my experience there, the mission trip was eye opening and I have grown and learnt a lot from it. Such a blessing it is being there and serving God for the Childrens Camp!

Got lots of pictures to put up, but that shall be for another day. Right now, all I’d wanna do is just knock out and catch up on much needed sleep. Transiting 12 hours in the airport with no airport rooms is KILLER. But thank God the team and I got through it all =D

Til next time, God bless!

Hello @TeamManila, are these available in SM outlets? Especially the tote bag. I really really like!

Lovin the sky :) #sky #orange #igersmanila #Philippines #eunheegalaxy (Taken with instagram)

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view of the lunar eclipse in The Philippines.

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Just checked out my Flag Counter for my Blog and saw Someone from Philippines check my blog out. Many thanks to whoever that person was :)

Meet, Makati. :) A skyview of the famous business centre of the Philippines!

Say for example, if someone commits the crime of rape before the age of 18, the person will not be imprisoned, however, the person will undergo a specific “program” as deemed appropriate by the DSWD. What’s the basis? It’s R.A. 9344 or Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006. This act was authored by Sen. Pangilinan. As what was said by our Constitution Professor, after the suspect is pronounced guilty, the person will be returned to the parents or nearest guardian. Then the DSWD will just make visits to their home.

That act is just stupid. They should revise that act and add that a Juvenile Delinquent facility/prison will be established. This way, the criminal will know what it’s like committing a crime at a very young age. Hey, they have those such facilities/prisons in the U.S.

LUNCH. Pizza Hut’s Spaghetti al Pesto- an all Italian pasta perked up with chopped black olives and topped with almond flakes. YUMMY!

Miley in Eat Bulaga

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 Miley in the Press Conference at Madarin Oriental Hotel in Makati City

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Miley arriving in Manila at the airport

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Lunar Eclipse

June 16, 2011

Carriedo, Manila.

Caaan’t wait!! Oh My, I can’t even eat!

Super tagal ko itong hinintay simula nung nag-start siya sa Hannah Montana, Super Love ko na siya. 

Justin Bieber= DONE! 

Miley Cyrus= !!!!!!!! 

Too bad, I didn’t go to Taylor’s concert. UGH! But My sister went. So siya na, Siya na ung nakapanuod ng concert ni Justin at Taylor, tapos bukas naman kay Miley. 

Super dream come true un. Kasi I’m a Belieber and I also have Cyrus Virus. 
Ung ayoko lang, nung nag-punta siya sa EB kasi alam mo un, magpapakahirap akong manuod ng concert eh. Aysos. Basta. :| 

Handa ako mag-absent para lang kay Miley. :)

view of the lunar eclipse in The Philippines.