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Macau – Day 1
We started our day with breakfast from McDonald’s in Hong Kong’s international airport. I had the Grilled Chicken Twisty Pasta, which cost me HK$ 22.50 and it was my worst breakfast ever. I did not expect it to have some sort of soup, which tasted weird (like water with a little salt, pepper and other…
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Three-Dimensional Miniature Quilled Pot and Flowers
My first attempt at 3-D quilling. The pot is quilled. So are the flowers, with the green and dark blue ones made using the fringe technique. I glued each flower on sticks then carefully arranged them. I used dark blue, light blue and white sand to cover the base of the sticks and give weight…
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Almost Heaven
I found the above photo while I was backing up my online accounts/photos to my external hard drive. Isn’t it such a beauty? All the photos in this post were taken while onboard the plane on my first trip from Manila to Hong Kong in October 2010. Thanks to my window seat, I was able…
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Los Angeles: Palms Thai Restaurant
I have low tolerance for anything spicy so I’m not really a fan of Thai cuisine. In 2008, my company sent me to Bangkok, Thailand for a convention and food-wise, that was one of my unhappiest trips. All our meals were provided for by the organizers and I had to make do with sandwiches and…
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Taal, Batangas: Nuestra Señora de Caysasay
Our Lady of Caysasay is a celebrated 17th century image of the Immaculate Conception. It was canonically crowned in 1954 and was later given the title the “Queen of the Archdiose of Lipa. It is said that a man named Juan Maningcad found this while he was casting his net in the nearby Pansipit River, as…
Thoughts, Tales, and Whatnot 