Places
Worth the trip
Vivere Hotel Premiere Suite Review: A Spacious Temporary Living Space in Alabang
We stayed in the Premiere Suite, a 60-square-meter, one-bedroom suite, for two nights, at Vivere Hotel in Alabang.…
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Travel
11 Reasons to Travel to Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is the national capital and largest city of Malaysia. Best known for its iconic skyscrapers, primarily the Petronas Twin Towers. —
A bucket list is not a list of everything.
It's the short one — the places, the gear and the eats that actually earned it. Every piece here ends the same way: worth it, or not.
The three buckets
Gear
Worth the weight
LUMOS DOMINATE Action Camera + Travel Bundle Review: Is It Worth ₱7,999?
I don’t think you necessarily need to spend substantially more on an action camera if the job is…
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Worth the table
Coffee N’ Chill Fest Brews Up Coffee Experiences Across SM Malls in the East Metro
Coffee lovers have another reason to plan their next mall visit as Coffee N’ Chill Fest brings a…
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I keep a list. Most of what I try doesn't make it, and the ones that don't are usually more useful to write about than the ones that do.
Before this I was a segment producer and writer at ABS-CBN, then spent most of my working life in marketing. The first taught me not to publish what I had not checked; the second taught me exactly what a bought recommendation looks like.
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