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Entries Tagged as 'Philippine Facts'

Fort Bonifacio Global City

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

I was fortunate to be able to have time to come back to this new area several times. I particularly like the fact that this place is a product of well-thought out urban planning. Prices of land have already gone up for the past few years. This wasn’t there when [...]

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Tags: Philippine Facts · Travel

Food Adventures

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

The Balut has gained notoriety all over the world as one of the “grossest” and scariest looking food. However, it tastes good actually. You can also skip the chick and just eat the egg yolk but don’t forget to slurp the soup that goes with it.

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Tags: Philippine Facts · Travel

MRT Ayala to North Avenue

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Going to Quezon City from Makati my aunt strongly recommended that we use the MRT or the Metro from Ayala to Trinoma (North Ave).

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Tags: Discoveries · Philippine Facts · Travel

At Work with my Husband

May 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

This week I have a 5 day weekend! I decided to spend 1 day of these working with my husband as part of our trial phase to see and feel how it is to spend a day working with him.
Yesterday was a holiday here and it is called Queen’s Day but he wanted to [...]

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Tags: Milestones · Philippine Facts · Planning

Hard to Translate Tagalog words

March 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

For all of us who have English as our second language, we would sometimes have a concept or word that we try to translate but we find ourselves having a hard time giving it an exact word to replace it and instead we end up explaining the concept or dictionary meaning to the person we [...]

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Tags: Language · Philippine Facts