My Manila

"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...

The Wedding Lounge (see previous post) is a boutique which gathers all the services one needs for a wedding—or any large party, for that ma...

Aside from the miniature Eiffel Tower at the 2013 Philippine Wedding Summit (see yesterday's post), the lobby also had sample table setu...

Visitors to the 2013 Philippine Wedding Summit at the (unfortunately-named) World Trade Center in Pasay City over the weekend were greete...

Our neighborhood is full of small businesses located in converted houses. Aside from restaurants, spas are also very popular. One of them i...

How our utility men can make sense of this jumble of cables—power, phone, cable TV, internet—I have no idea.

For only Php700 (US$17.25) a year, Wheelers Club International assures members of 24/7 road assistance, towing, and ambulance service when...

Two of the Philippines' most popular mobile phone service providers have cell sites inside the Quezon City campus of Ateneo de Manila ...

Near the entrance of an alley which leads to a poor community, the water meters of a row of apartments are locked in a metal cage whose bas...

At the Blue Market social enterprise fair where I took yesterday's photo, I was immensely gratified to learn about Quezon City's Si...

The Bangui Wind Farm is the first of its kind in the Philippines. Its twenty turbines are arranged in a single row along a nine-kilometer ...

The Development Bank of the Philippines , which is a government financial institution, primarily finances the medium- and long-term needs o...

THEME DAY: ELECTRICITY • Metro Manila still has some old utility poles (which now carry telephone, cable television, and internet cables, ...

According to its website , the architecture of the five-story Ascension Columbary in Quezon City is supposed to "suggest a heavenly as...

Let there be lights in the vault of heaven. The central chandelier at the new Commonwealth branch of the Loyola Memorial Chapels , where th...

Metro Manila sorely lacks clean public restrooms. Even in the much-visited Rizal Park (and in most of our malls too, for that matter), if y...

BPI Family Savings Bank is a subsidiary of the Bank of the Philippine Islands , the oldest bank still operating in the country. It is owned...

Miss Fit. A dress and alteration shop. The business had closed but the sign was still there. "I love to hate puns," says Hilda i...

Only a quarter of a century old, Puno & Puno Law is one of the best-known law firms in Manila. Like most other law firms in the country...

The Philippines' answer to UPS and FedEx: LBC . Its international destinations are not quite as extensive but its fees are much cheaper....