Today marks the 118th anniversary of Philippine Independence Day. On June 12, 1898, the revolutionary armies of the Philippines, led by Em...

For last week's Travel Tuesday post, I salivated over the best chocolate on earth.  This week I'm traveling to the other side of ...

photo credit: CAFOD on Flickr In the Philippines, typhoons are a way of life.  Every June, classes started.  Every June, the rains came...

photo courtesy of Carlos Celdran's Facebook page For about a month now, I have been planning to write a post entitled "Only in...

What does Manny Pacquiao have in common with Michael Jordan, Michael Johnson, Charles Barkley, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Wayne Rooney...

Have your heard of CNN Heroes ? Every year, CNN gives $100,000 to the winner (from a field of ten finalists---winnowed from 9,000 nominees ...

I finally got around to watching the Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations: Philippines episode that has been lying in my DVR for weeks. ...

Two weeks ago we returned from a month-long trip to England. For a whole month, we were so completely immersed in the English culture that m...

For this week's Photo Hunter's theme, I'm digging into my Philippine travel archives for the second time in a row, for two reaso...

The last party we held was to celebrate 3Po and CleanBoy's 4th birthday. The game the kids are playing is pabitin , a popular Filipino p...