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		<title>Laiya Coco Grove (San Juan, Batangas)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer. The most wonderful time of the year, for some. It&#8217;s also the time when El Nino throws an extra punch. Low in water, which in turn means less electricity supply and more blackouts. The heat . . . well, could you say more except people are dying from heat stroke? We need an antidote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Getaway at Laiya, Batangas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have a confirmed reservation. I know this much and my wife made it a point to remind me every hour or so before we headed towards Laiya, Batangas. We haven&#8217;t taken a break for some time now and my sense of adventure made my whole body itch. Just go, I thought. And so we embarked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Grace Cheese Roll: Love at First Bite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A cheese roll is, well, just a cheese roll. A cheese roll that you buy from any bakery would contain the same basic ingredient, cheese. Nothing new. Or so I thought.
Then I met Mary Grace. My wife introduced me to her, actually. I don&#8217;t need a conversation to keep me awake on the wheel in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vacation, Beach and Tsunami: Aftermath of Chile Earthquake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All work and no play isn&#8217;t good. So, from time to time, we take vacations on weekends to unwind and get ready for more work on the weeks ahead. This time we chose Laiya, a coastal haven found in San Juan, Batangas.
Saturday, 27 February 2010: We had a nice, leisurely drive towards the place  and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sing at your own Risk: &#8220;My Way&#8221; of Frank Sinatra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re supposed to write mainly about the good things about the Philippines in this blog, but I find myself revisiting this rule when I read about a recent article in The New York Times about a particularly significant song. It reminds me of a previous article I wrote, reproduced below. Consider this a reminder: When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Unknown&#8221; Clark Cemetery and Death March Marker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.”
Sounds really deep, huh? These are the words of a wise tortoise, named Master Oogway in the animated movie Kung Fu Panda (kids seem to have this tendency of watching the flavor-of-the-month cartoon over and over again, wait till you have your own).
That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cebu Dancing Inmates: Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;They Don&#8217;t Really Care About Us&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahhh . . . Cebu. When you say Cebu what comes to your mind? Sinulog? Lechon Cebu? Otap? Sutokil? Lapu-lapu and Magellan&#8217;s Cross? The Edge Coaster? Badian Island? Mactan Island? The nice beaches? We could spend the whole day sharing what we remember most about Cebu. But you probably don&#8217;t realize that the world-famous Dancing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Jolly, Red Bee known as Jollibee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He dances. He jumps, giggles and give high fives. He goes around the entire area with the same level of high energy. He hugs everyone and that smile never leaves his face. He’s round and always jolly. He’s a bee but he’s red. And he doesn’t fly.
Jollibee!!!!
That would be the answer of my 4-year old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year Mist at Agas-Agas Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The rain, I thought, would ruin my chance of finally witnessing the whispered beauty of a bridge down in Southern Leyte. The province of Southern Leyte, a one-hour flight from Metro Manila, is the lower half of the Leyte Island. (And if you think that the other half is called Northern Leyte, which is but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s your Ghost Story?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They say that the spirits of the dead return to where they lived during Halloween (All Hallows&#8217; Eve). It is said that witches and demons become active during this time, which is the last day of October. The evening before All Saints&#8217; Day.  That&#8217;s now.
We didn&#8217;t have Halloween parties in the province, back when I [...]]]></description>
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