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PINO
carlo and i wanted to have a not so ordinary dinner one night so we headed off to pino at teacher’s village. this is near the bayantel office in maginhawa street. we’ve eaten here before when i steered...
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Rocci Chocolate Kitchen
Our favorite preshoot dinner tradition is eating bagnet at Stoops in malugay street, Makati. Fat and full one night, we noticed a new cafe in the strip 2 shops down from Stoops. Glad we decided to stop...
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on the boat
im pleasantly surprised the effect of sea breeze and being on a ship have inspired me and afforded me time to write! In the last 24 hours ive posted 3 articles with photos and currently reviewing and...
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Food and Art Part 1
Last week we had an interestingly artsy fartsy series of events we didnt see coming. On february 7, thursday night, bianca balbuena, production manager and assistant director in some of jerrold tarog’s...
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temple run
i thought i had it down pat. on a whim and circumstance, i decided to purchase tickets for the whole family early last year so my dad’s wish to see cambodia would be granted. at that time, my dad was...
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i would like to thank the academy…
the oscars show is fast approaching. and on the eve that we arrived in cambodia, i learned that my friend, jerrold tarog, was nominated for his musical score and editing work in chito rono’s the...
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luna resurrected
here was luna when i bought her in august 2008. she’s a mac book pro 4,1 a1260 model with 2.5Ghz intel core 2 duo, 250gb hd and at that time, i stuffed her with 3gb 667 MHz DDR2 sdram. we had a great...
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wherein we were being educated at the war museum
the war museum in siem reap, cambodia, was nothing like the one in ho chi minh in vietnam. it looked like some plantation grove from outside and one could see it was really a war tank graveyard once...
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wherein we wander into artsy fartsy territory
when i was looking for hotels to stay in siem reap, some friends suggested 1961, an art cafe hotel gallery space exhibit space slash slash slash artsy fartsy place. this is owned by loven and faith, a...
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A MAP FOR SATURDAY (2007)
this is A MAP FOR SATURDAY, a 2007 documentary written and directed by Brook Silva-Braga, about backpacking solo around the world and living an unending weekend for 365 days. unlike most of us who...
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Shooting just below the clouds
it’s day 9 for our shoot of pepe diokno’s above the clouds with protegé’s ruru madrid and philippine rock legend pepe smith. we started with about 5 days of shoot in baguio before moving to sagada,...
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the yoghurt house
one of the charming places we’ve gone to in sagada is the yoghurt house. famous for the quaint interiors and their home-made yoghurt, this resto is included in trip advisory’s roster of go-to places...
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surviving mount pulag
still shooting pepe diokno’s above the clouds in the mountain province with a trek up mount pulag to culminate the shoot. i cant post most of the photos yet as we are still shooting a few more scenes...
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shooting just below the clouds 2
the second leg of shooting above the clouds brought us to sagada, a quiet little town in the mountain province. we’ve spent about a week here shooting exterior scenes of the forest, burial sites, and...
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bored me
now that i actually have material to post on my blog i get really bored. there were too many events that happened when my family and i were in cambodia that i decided to post about it in segments....
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bana’s cafe and resto
although the yoghurt house might be the more famous cafe in sagada, the smaller bana’s cafe would take the prize for best coffee AND best yoghurt. found along the same road where yoghurt house is...
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pogiboy in the morning
Every morning pogi boy wakes up and looks out the bedroom door waiting to be unchained from his spot. We chain him up by our bed during the night because he developed a bad habit of fishing out stuff...
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antique and modern mash-up
A few months ago, we were on the search for furniture to rent for a tv commercial and found ourselves at our suking tindahan antique furniture store again. the items we wanted were not in the shop so...
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wherein we temple run the temples
we ran through the temples at siem reap in cambodia. here’s proof the first day of touring the temples in siem reap cambodia was spent on exploring angkor wat, perhaps the most famous of the temples...
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