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One of the most heartbreaking things for a writer is to lose his or her journals. Typhoon Ondoy managed to get to 5 years worth of my personal journals. Although they were kept safe in a big wooden chest that kept the mud out, the water seeped in anyway, leaving me with a collection of [...]

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Typhoon Ondoy may have taken away almost all our furniture and appliances but we are all safe and sound, including the smallest kitten in our Marikina household. Yesterday, one of our Edge Radio volunteers, Byron Abaca, came over to check our wiring. Together with his assistant Rosendo he had almost all our sockets working by [...]

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There was ONE semi-bright spot in my hellish day. There was mud but not the scads I thought there would be when I finally saw what Typhoon Ondoy did to the insides of my home. The most shocking thing: the Piano which my husband grew up playing on was flat on it’s back in the [...]

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8:30PM, Balay Indang, Cavite. September 26, 2009. As I type this post, I am praying. I am praying for my two helpers at our home in Marikina. Typhoon Ondoy has inundated our lovely homestead and floodwaters have reached the mezzanine level. That was the situation some 6 hours ago when I lost contact with my [...]

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NOTE: HANNELLY QUINTERO OF VENEZUELA WINS THE MS INTERCONTINENTAL 2009 TITLE! CLICK HERE FOR THE LIST OF WINNERS… How I envy Hector Joaquin who is in Minsk, Belarus covering the Ms Intercontinental Pageant 2009. But he is most deserving: Hector runs one of the top beauty pageant blogs which covers all the big beauty pageants [...]

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Wow, so this is where Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda hung out when they were in their home province of Ilocos Norte! The tree-lined driveway could fit about 10 army tanks in a row. Of course it had to be IMPRESSIVE; this was where the Marcoses entertained their hoity-toity guests – they had the Paoay Lake [...]

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Don’t ask whose rear end is walking toward Paoay Church, the oldest church in the region of Ilocos. We only had 15 minutes to spare in our tight schedule so I high-tailed it into the church after taking a few shots of the exterior, which I was told, is the original facade. The inside, on [...]

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Members of the Media Pillar team (which I am the secretary of) placed a collective order of like 200 pcs of TUPIG at this little tupig bakery in Batac, Ilocos Norte. Now, 200 pieces is A LOT because these delightful little banana leaf-covered rice cakes are made one at a time, by hand, and then [...]

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One of my co-judges in the La Bulaquena 2009 leaned over and told me: “It looks like you take these beauty pageants seriously!” and I said, “Oh yes, I definitely do! Because I know how it feels like to be on stage high on adrenaline and scared as a rabbit.” It does takes an extreme [...]

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