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Sunday best | Explorer Trails
https://explorertrails.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/sunday-best-2
Exhilarating experiences, discovery and adventure. As in most Filipino homes, this meant dressing your best on that special day of the week to visit the house of God. As a child, this meant frothy dresses and bows at the back. It meant my parents would get up early and hustle us through breakfast then off to get ready. I never asked my mother that question. She was always dressed well. Even on a bad day, she had pearl earrings on and a bit of make-up. Sans the make-up, she still had an arrest...Because l...
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Walking forwards and backwards | Explorer Trails
https://explorertrails.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/walking-forwards-and-backwards
Exhilarating experiences, discovery and adventure. Walking forwards and backwards. The independent republic of Downtown. A sense of walking backwards whilst moving forward. I’ve been here before, but always for a different ride. Today, we were mere barefoot travellers soaking up whatever the sunshine lay on. Under the same sky that stayed bright and blue as we sauntered towards a teahouse with no doors. The beckoning buzz of servers moving smoothly around the tables was hypnotic and rhythmic. Dark wooden...
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Coffee country | Explorer Trails
https://explorertrails.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/coffee-country
Exhilarating experiences, discovery and adventure. Someone once said the Philippines was not a coffee drinking country. While my tongue itched at a retort, I bit onto it. The AE in me would not allow such an insolent reply lest the agency lose this client. It was practically our bread and butter in this small bakery of an advertising agency. The discussion sprung during a presentation on a product relaunch to revive the ailing brand. Needless to say, the Philippines was Nescafe. Among the few other nips ...
