My Manila

Our office trip to Bantayan Island (see yesterday's post) wasn't only for rest and recreation. The more important objective was team...

One of the brick walks of Eastwood Central Park, flanked by the colorful Eastwood Mall and the 1800 Building (an office building), leads t...

For as long as I can remember, this was the location of the Infant Jesus Kindergarten School. There is no longer any sign, so I assumed tha...

When these concrete animals appeared in front of a house in our neighborhood back in 1974, all the children—me included—were absolutely del...

Back in January, I posted a photo of the overgrown yard of a house across ours that had stood empty for more than a year. A week after tha...

One of the places we visited in Bangkok last November was the Jim Thompson House . James Harrison Wilson Thompson was an American soldier wh...

Similar in style to the house yesterday, and probably built around the same period, this house caught my eye because of the varied yet neat...

The textured, unpainted concrete used on this house is typical of buildings in Metro Manila constructed during the 1970s, but I like the ad...

The house across ours has been empty for about half a year now. It was supposedly bought by a developer who was going to build row houses, ...

In the Philippines' rural areas, bamboo huts are still widely used for homes. Traditionally, the roof is made of nipa palm leaves. Tho...

CITY DAILY PHOTO THEME DAY: MY STREET • This used to be quite a lovely clapboard house when I was younger. Then the original owners immigr...

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

In my limited sphere in a tiny corner of the world, I do not often get to visit the homes of other nationals living in Manila. This is the ...

From May 12 to 24, my husband and I went on a road trip through the Central Luzon and Ilocos Regions, stopping at cities and towns that we...

This collection of home accessories and art pieces caught my eye at Tatung's Garden Café . I'm not crazy about how they're all ...

A pair of hands on driftwood welcome guests to Tatung's Garden Café .

The workshop of sculptor Carlito Ortega (see yesterday's post) is open to his extensive garden, and so is the study beside it.

We recently discovered yet another lovely restaurant near our house: Tatung's Garden Café . Chef Myke Sarthou converted the ground floo...

At Resurrection Furniture and Found Objects Gallery (see yesterday's post), reused and recycled objects are not only found in the piec...

The driveway of yesterday's 10-A Alabama Street, New Manila, Quezon City. P.S. This teapot was etched on wet cement by Robert Alejan...