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Eating the Philippines
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 17 April 2010
Much to both of our surprise, Z and I last night enjoyed a healthy Filipino meal. And discovered the most amazing seaweed: lato. A type of Caulerpa which sprouts succulent, grapey, bubbles in long tendrils like fresh green peppercorns, lato has all the translucent gorgeousness of fresh salmon roe. And it’s probably the closest a [...]
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Mega-Malls
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 15 April 2010
Yesterday we said goodbye to Granny and Grandpa, who are off to Hong Kong for a week of sybaritic luxury with an old friend, then back to sunny England. To ease the parting, Z and I made like Manileños. That is, we spent the day at the mall, shopping, scoffing junk food and abusing the [...]
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Review: “No More Divisions”
Blog: First-time Traveler - 15 April 2010
He’s a French guy in the Philippines. He participated in one of our organization’s volunteer activities. I can’t resist sharing the video he made. He shot most of the scenes in Manila Bay and the University of the Philippines Diliman campus. From Julien’s Youtube description: “No More Divisions” is a song I wrote on my [...]
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First-time in You Jie Xiao Chao Restaurant…
Blog: First-time Traveler - 12 April 2010
…and Manila’s other hole-in-the-wall eateries It was another holiday in the Philippines as we commemorated the Day of Valor, celebrating the bravery of Filipino soldiers who fought during World War II. Supposedly, my friends and I were scheduled to go to Corregidor Island, the fortress of Japanese soldiers. Unfortunately, the cruise liner called the day [...]
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First-time Holy Week in Quiapo Church
Blog: First-time Traveler - 6 April 2010
For a predominantly Catholic nation, the Philippines, time and again, has observed holy week religiously. Work often stops as early as midday of Holy Wednesday and everyone shifts to holiday mode. Even regular TV programming halts replaced with religious rites or spiritually-inspired shows. The workforce takes advantage of the long lull without using up their [...]
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Out & about in Metro Manila
Blog: PocketCultures - 29 March 2010
The capital city of the Philippines is Manila. It is part of a large entity called Metro Manila. The easiest way of putting it is this: Manila is the beginning, Metro Manila is the result. Metro Manila has 16 cities and 1 municipality. It has more than 10 million people living in it and I’m one of them. I live in a city called Mandaluyong where it’s highly accessible to shopping malls and Makati City, the country’s central business district. With such a large land area, the question comes up:
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Photo of the Week – Philippines
Blog: Ottsworld - 12 March 2010
Puzzle of Green – Banaue Philippines In honor of the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day – I thought I’d go GREEN with Photo of the Week. These are the luscious Rice Terraces of Banaue Philippines (UNESCO World Heritage Site). People think the Philippines is only about beaches – well think again. This northern part of the Philippines [...]
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Impressions of the Philippines
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 25 February 2010
I love it when a place surprises you. I turned up on a bit of whim thanks to seeing a few nice photos and a bargain flight in the Air Asia January sale, with not much of an idea what to expect. It turned out to be right up there with Mexico & Peru as [...]
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Of Chicken and Men
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 18 February 2010
By Ujwal Kharel, KF9, Philippines Today is my last day here at CCT. I can’t believe how soon it’s ending. I have been largely absent from the blogosphere for more than a month. I blame that on two work weeks I missed being bedridden with chicken pox. I found it ironic (?) that I spent 19 years [...]
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Manila: The Forgotten City
Blog: GoBackpacking - 8 February 2010
Manila is a beautiful city that boasts arts, leisure and entertainment.Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a blog.
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Family & Friends in the Philippines
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 5 February 2010
by Lianna and Nick Unlike most backpackers, we had the opportunity to experience Manila the way of a local…a local Canadian diplomat that is. We originally decided to get over to the Philippines when I remembered my Dad’s cousin John and his wife Aileen, live there to work for the Canadian government. Staying four days in their gorgeous house, sleeping in, doing laundry and appreciating the delicious (western!) food was great downtime to get us back in the mood for traveling. Manilla comes as quite a shock from the other ...
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Manila made me a mallrat
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 24 January 2010
Mallrats is one of my favourite films ever, mainly because it’s pretty damn funny, but also because it gives an insight into one of the those baffling American pastimes that mean little to a Brit like me – I mean, I couldn’t imagine why anyone would you want to spend all their time hanging around [...]
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From the Office of the President
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 11 January 2010
By Prem Thomas, KF9, Philippines After spending over three months in Manila working in the Center for Community Transformation Credit Cooperative’s (CCT) head office, I thought it would be interesting for the Kiva family to hear from CCT’s President and Founder Ruth Callanta and meet my coworkers. Ate Ruth, as she is called by her coworkers (Ate, [...]
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Happy Birthday Balloons at a Christmas Party? Whose Birthday is it?
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 19 December 2009
By Prem Thomas, KF9, Philippines I thought my coworkers at the Center for Community Transformation (CCT) were just recycling balloons from the last birthday party to save money, but a coworker told me that “It’s Jesus’s birthday.” As I prepare to celebrate my first Christmas away from family, the Christmas spirit has become overwhelming with carols [...]
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Another young boy!
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 9 December 2009
By Ujwal Kharel KF9 Hello everyone! My name’s Ujwal and I started as a Kiva fellow for CCT, Manila on Monday, December 07. For those fans of Prem, don’t worry he’s still here, and will be here for at least another month . I left Atlanta on November 23rd and flew to Kathmandu for the best detour [...]
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These are Former Street Dwellers?
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 1 December 2009
By Prem Thomas, KF9, Philippines They look like happy kids to me. As I mentioned in my first blog post, at the Center for Community Transformation Credit Cooperative (CCT) it’s not all about microfinance. I had the chance to take a look at some of the work CCT is doing with street dwellers (homeless) throughout the Philippines. Many [...]
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The Show Me Game!
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 30 October 2009
By Prem Thomas, KF9, Manila, Philippines One of the great parts of being a Kiva Fellow in the Philippines is the access it gives you to other countries with relatively inexpensive domestic and international flights. Cebu Pacific is one of a handful of budget airlines in the Philippines that allow you to fly internationally to places [...]
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A Violin Lesson in Geppetto’s Workshop
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 27 October 2009
By Prem Thomas, KF9, Philippines I haven’t picked up a violin in over 12 years despite playing for most of my childhood. But when I saw that CCT had made a Kiva loan to a violin-maker 3 hours outside of Manila, I knew I had to visit. Evelyn Gabute and her husband Angel recently [...]
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“Filipinos are like Bamboo…
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 14 October 2009
By Prem Thomas, KF9, Manila, Philippines We bend, but don’t break.” These are the words Lala, the Kiva Coordinator, at the Center for Community Transformation Credit Cooperative (CCT) used to describe the Filipinos who have and will bounce back from the flooding caused by Typhoons Ketsana and Parma. My name is Prem Thomas, and today is [...]
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Daily Travel Photo - Manila, Philippines
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 5 May 2009
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Follow me as I travel around the world. [...]
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Manila - Glazed or Filled?
Blog: Ottsworld - 17 April 2009
View snapshots of the softball tournament Manila offered something that was totally unexpected; a western diet. When I left NYC last August to head to Vietnam, I left behind McDonalds, Chipotle, Starbucks, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, and Dairy Queen. None of this exists in Ho Chi Minh City which is probably why I have lost weight [...]
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Getting To Your Destination
Blog: Ottsworld - 30 March 2009
I’m out of practice. I forgot what it was like to have a long travel day; planes, buses, taxis, negotiating the unknown on your own. Getting to your desired travel destination can be like running in a travel obstacle course! Granted, I think I am pretty skilled at this, but it’s been about 6 months [...]
