My Manila

"Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff." ~William Thorsell, past Director & CEO of t...

"My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road." ~Beatrice Wood (1893–1998), American artist a...

"Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hob...

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." ~Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Sco...

"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long...

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." ~ Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other ...

Bonifacio High Street has many fantastic restaurants and is, therefore, very popular as an evening destination. Because of this, even the s...

I've only just noticed the small rocks on the tracks of the Metrostar light rail system—better known as the MRT (Metro Rail Transit)—a...

On New Year's Eve, my husband and I stayed overnight in Hotel Céleste , a small boutique hotel at the corner of Makati and Arnaiz Aven...

The Ayala Museum 's very elegant interpretation of the traditional Filipino parol , or Star of Bethlehem.

Makati City has been hosting a New Year Countdown street party for quite a few years now, but it was the first time that my husband and I ma...

One of the towers of The Residences at Greenbelt , highrise residential condominiums integrated with Ayala Land's shopping and dining c...

CITY DAILY PHOTO THEME DAY: THE WATER'S EDGE • A toddler trying to get out of the kiddie pool of the Makati Shangri-la Hotel without...

I do not know if the lanterns and string lights hanging from the trees of the Jaime C. Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati City are ...

One small block—that's the size of the Jaime C. Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati City. It is one block of prime real estate,...

A one day art fair open until midnight with food and drinks and live music in an al fresco setting—that's what Art In The Park is. The...

Santuario de San Antonio in Forbes Park, Makati City, is dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua , a Portuguese Franciscan friar who died in Ita...

That's the nickname given by the students and faculty of the Ateneo Professional Schools to the diamond-shaped bridges crossing the cen...

The lovely landscaped gardens and fountains of Greenbelt Park at the center of several malls which are, in turn, surrounded by the high-ri...

Two more luxury residential condominium towers in Rockwell Center, and the last of the series for now. On the left is Hidalgo Place, which i...