Tips When Playing Host to Visiting Family and Friends

Over the holidays, I played host to family and friends who flew in from all over.  My relatives just recently flew back home to Toronto and Los Angeles, but I also helped out some friends with their own balikbayan challenges. This situation isn’t new to me.  Plus given the fact that I now stay in […]

10 Things I’ve Missed About The Philippines

appreciating Metro Manila and the Philippines, with Renzie Baluyut. It’s been more than a month since I flew in from Los Angeles, and if anything, my being away for an extended period of time has made me appreciate a lot things in the Philippines even more. Sure I wrote about this last year, so I […]

Jupiter Suites Makati: For the Business Traveller on a Budget

from the business and travel notes of Renzie Baluyut. As a blogger who does quite a fair amount of travelling, I can tell you right away that while getting yourself booked at a swank 5-star hotel room is a great way to go, sometimes you also may want to consider more cost-friendly alternatives. Makati City […]

Renzie’s Metro Manila Food Cravings, circa 2009.

food adventures in Metro Manila with Renzie Baluyut. Every Filipino who’s been away from the Philippines for a fairly extended period of time (like myself, while I was in L.A.) will always have a craving for Pinoy food. I’m talking about the kind of food you can only get in the Philippines.  I consider myself […]

Buy and Sell in the Philippines – Online!

Website-hopping with Renzie Baluyut. One of the first orders of business for me coming back to the Philippines is looking around to check prices on all kinds of things- groceries, fast food items, PCs and laptops, even pieces of real estate. Not only because I had wanted to see how things (and by things, I […]