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Asia » Philippines » Negros » Dumaguete March 17th 2007

The title of this entry is more than a little misleading. First, we will visit our friends Jean-Christophe, Tinna, and Gilles in the city of Taichung (Taiwan) before taking off from the capital Taipei to go home to Canada. So, we do have a brief visit in one more country before heading home. Second, the Philippines is anything but a single stop destination. The tourism industry is the least developed that we've seen, and we have had to make several overnight stops in cities we would never choose to be in. That said, the title stands as this was the last place we had earmarked for touring. But let's take a step back to March 9th... Jen and I left flew out of Hanoi on March 8th. We landed in Hong Kong for a 26 hour ... read more
Spoon-Feeding the Chicks
Side Street Market
Flower Street

Asia » Philippines » Negros » Dumaguete December 20th 2006

After wandering in the world, it gets pretty lonesome despite all the people you meet. You engage in what they call the pursuit of happiness. And for some people, happiness is found in that perfect person. At an early age, I was already searching. I was lucky to have met Valerie when I was just 15 years old. But, never did it start romantically because my eyes were fixed elsewhere. After two years of friendship, I realized how much I liked spending time with her. Yes, I could not admit love, I just got jealous of the thought that she can’t be mine until I say so. So I must say love. Love is such a possessive thing. It justifies illogical thoughts like committing yourself to one person for the rest of your life. I finally ... read more
ES 2 Jacuzzi
Infinity Pool
Finally Married after 9 years 9 months!

Asia » Philippines » Negros » Dumaguete April 20th 2006

Hello again all! There are new subscribers that are people we have only recently met (hello!) and some new subscribers that should have been on here the whole time and have a lot of reading to do to catch up - sorry Charlie and Ben! A large part of travelling seems to be waiting around. Waiting for planes, trains, buses, accommodation availability etc. etc. and we seem to have become far more patient for it (don't have a choice really as you'd go mad otherwise!). Our previous journal entry ended with us in Luala Lumpur where we had a good night of drinking until 4:30 am with Clare and Nev from UK. The next night we spent the night in the airport as a 7am flight meant getting up early and we weren't prepared to waste ... read more
Amber and Clare
Homeless!
No cracking jokes about bombs!

Asia » Philippines » Negros » Dumaguete May 10th 2004

our friend in law school was running for an elective post in siquijor. he invited us to give him support during the election with free board, lodging and transportation. we went to dumaguete thru air philippines and after an hour flight, we arrived in dumaguete. the place is so peaceful. we went around the city and visited a local mall where we looked for a souvenir t-shirt. we then went to silliman university and the architecture inside the campus is great. after lunch, we went to siquijor where our friend waited for us. he showed us around the small town of siquijor, siquijor before we proceeded to their place in lazi. Lazi is a small coastal town which is very rural. we visited the church and the local museum run by nuns. the next day, we ... read more
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