My Manila

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." ~Phil Jackson, American retir...

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." ~Muhammad Ali  My Filipino-American c...

"My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story." ~Johnny Depp, American actor A cousin whose family moved to the U.S. w...

Meet Maria Lourdes Sereno , the 24th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She is the first female to head our judiciary a...

It all started with the shocking discovery earlier this month of a scam headed by one woman involving fake non-government organizations (NG...

Ernest Escaler is the president of Gourmet Farms Inc. , the producer of the delicious lettuce and pesto chips in yesterday's post. He ...

Rafael C. Lopa, better known simply as Rapa, is the Executive Director of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) and concurren...

Because of the presence of the President of the Philippines during the Ignatian Festival (see yesterday's post), all participants (and t...

My husband and I attended the Ateneo de Manila University's Ignatian Festival last Saturday, which was keynoted by the president of th...

I've already posted a photo of the grand central fountain of Liwasang Bonifacio (Bonifacio Park) with the Manila Central Post Office ...

The Aetas are an indigenous people who live in the mountainous regions of Luzon , most notably in the province of Zambales . They are usua...

Portraits of violinist Ramon Corpus hang at the entrance to the music hall (see yesterday's post) in Casa San Miguel in Zambales whic...

The lady selling balloons just outside the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish church was nice enough to pose for me when she saw me trying to...

Last Thursday, my husband and I went to the wake of the mother of a friend who, it turns out, is a good friend of the President of the Phili...

Last week, I posted a photo of one of the more-than-life-size cut-out figures being used in the Ateneo de Manila University to prepare peo...

Dolphy , whose real name was Rodolfo Quizon, was a consummate entertainer, actor, singer and comedian who passed away in July just a a coup...

The children from the poor communities served by the Ateneo de Manila University —and this big little kid—who attended this year's Ligh...

Amanda Burrell, current Director of the British Council Philippines, reading poems by George Gordon ( Lord Byron ) at the Ateneo de Manila...

September 28, 2012 marked the launch of my husband Exie's first book, a collection of creative nonfiction titled "Trafficking in N...

Abby Clutario, of the bands fuseboxx and HUMANFOLK , with her 10-string Chapman Stick. It was my first time to see one and I found it so f...