Day 4 – 13 March 2024, Wednesday Today was D-Day…the day we would be Together Again with Janet, or Miss Jackson, if you’re nasty! I woke up excited at 6:45am and had breakfast at our Airbnb apartment, consisting of Flosss bun that we bought from BreadTalk last night, and instant coffee from home. As the […]
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Day 3 – 12 March 2024, Tuesday For our third day in Manila, we decided to go on a day trip to Tagaytay, a popular weekend getaway located about 60km south of Manila. We looked at a few tour operators on Klook and Tripadvisor but they were pretty expensive, so the ever-resourceful WY trawled the […]
Day 2 – 11 March 2024, Monday Woke up naturally this morning at 7:45am. The best thing about staying in an Airbnb apartment is that it comes with a fully-equipped kitchen so we can prepare simple meals at home and not eat out. WY heated up the cheese & garlic pita bread that we bought […]
How It All Began When Janet Jackson announced on 15 November 2023 that she would be bringing her Together Again Tour to Hawaii, Manila and Japan for a handful of dates in March 2024, I knew I had to go for it. I had already missed the original US leg of the tour in the […]
19 September 2017, Tuesday Day 3 in Boracay, and it’s raining again. It’s not called the wet season for nothing. Because of the rain, I decided to have my breakfast at the hostel café. I ordered a full English breakfast set and coffee and it cost PHP 380 (S$10.34), more expensive than the eatery outside. […]
18 September 2017, Monday This morning, I had a very important piece of business to settle, and that was getting my mobile phone repaired. The front and rear cameras were not working anymore after I dropped my phone last night. I felt extremely handicapped without a camera so I made it my number one priority […]
Prelude Boracay is a tiny island in the Philippines, often portrayed as a paradise on earth, famous for its white sand beaches and raucous nightlife. In the past year, it has been in the spotlight because the Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte branded the island a “cesspool” due to the lack of proper drainage systems, resulting […]