Just the musing of a writer and traveler
The kids just love Bingo cookies, well in the Philippines they are called biscuits, but that’s another story. They are cookies, kind of like Oreo cookies and they taste good. It’s a good snack for the kids in the morning. I like them with milk, but good milk is hard to find in the Philippines.
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Smart, a leading cellular network in the Philippines, offers a nice feature called PasaLoad. It allows you to send mobile phone credit from one phone to another phone. If you have talk or text credit, you can send some of it to your friend so that they too can use it. It’s a nice little feature great for when you need to communicate with someone and you know they are low on cell phone load.
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Some people call Zamboanga City, Ciudad Hermosa. After a lot of traveling in Zamboanga City, I wouldn’t call it a beautiful city and I wouldn’t a city of flowers(its other nickname). Nevertheless, Zamboanga City is a city like no other in the Philippines. Whether its the language, the culture, or the frontier, Zamboanga City is different.
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Pawn Shops in the Philippines are found in cities and even in far flung barangays. Whenever you go in the Philippines, you are never far from a pawn shop. A pawnshop can be a little whole in the wall or a big nationwide chains like M Lhuillier. Lots of needed services are offered in a typical pawn shop in the Philippines. The pawn shop is pure Filipiniana, at least since the 1980’s.
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Baguio City is in the northern part of the Philippine island of Luzon. It sites high up in the mountains and served as a R&R retreat for US soldiers and US government workers during the US colonial period in the Philippines. The air is cool and fresh in Baguio with the tall pines trees nearby. It surely is a rest from crowdy, humid, muggy and polluted Manila.
I love fries and I love cheese. What better combination than cheezy fries. After many years in Thailand, I always hungered for something as delicious as cheezy fries but alas, cheese is hard to come by in Thailand. The excuse? Cheese makes you fat…..but then again, they said ice cream didn’t make you fat. It has more to do with tastes I suppose, anyways, Jollibee has cheezy fries and I can tell you, they taste even better than they look on this video.
Ever wonder what prisoners do in a Cebu jail? Here are some inmates at Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center who are dancing to Micheal Jackson’s Thriller in their spare time. Nice to see prison time in Cebu, Philippines can be such a nice time.