Achua
Albino Chua Joined: January 17th 2008
Logged in: August 14th 2009
Logged in: August 14th 2009
Travel Blog Posts
Mosque in BSB
Yesterday, I boarded a flight from Singapore to Manila with a 7-hour stopover in Brunei. I could have easily booked a direct Singapore to Manila flight but as I've never been to Brunei before, I decided to give it a try. Anyway, the ticket price was higher by only SG$100. I figured that since I would be unlikely to book a separate trip to Brunei in the future, this was a good method of going there. A few days before the trip, I learned about the haze which was especially bad in Brunei. Singapore was affected as well, but in Bandar Seri Begawan the visibility was as low as 2.5 kilometers during some parts of the day. I reckoned this was unfavorable for picture-taking, and hoped that the skies would be clear during my visit. And ... read more
another building
The flight from Manila to Bacolod had a few quirks. Although sleepy from having to wake up at 5AM, I was perked up by an inflight bring-me game, or in our case a raise-your-hand-if-you-have-the-object-game. It was my first time to encounter something like that on a plane. The flight took barely an hour. I arrived in Bacolod at around 10AM but didn't go to Silay until about 4:30PM. The few hours before that were spent traversing through Bacolod's sprawling Central Market, browsing through the scrap metal/coin galleries in the hopes of finding something rare for my numismatic collection. I left empty-handed, though it was interesting to see the sort of coins they had for sale. I managed to catch a jeepney from Bacolod going to Silay and it cost me just 12 pesos (around 30 US ... read more
