just another personal blog of a bisdak
In Bautzen, there is a map that shows a “romantic tour” that takes you on a panoramic walking tour around the Spree. The kids do not care about any “romantic” garbage yet so we told them that we are on a playground hopping trip. It worked well. And luckily, Bautzen did not dissapoint. The boy…
Brought our bicycles and scooters for the first time on a trip and it worked surprisingly. I mean, we did not talk or plan about it in details. We just knew that parking in the city near a festival will be bad so we brought our rides, found a free parking spot and just started…
First expenditure in Singapore is to buy an EZ-Link for $5 for the card alone + $5 stored value to be used for the MRTs with a total of $30 for three of us. My 8 year old girl is counted as an adult while my 5 year old boy got his card and ride…
Staying in the resort and be absolutely lazy would be boring for the kids. I have in mind to try the stand-up paddle but with a 5 years old, we settled with a bangka instead for 500 pesos per bangka per hour. We enjoyed paddling ourselves along the loboc river from one resort to another….
My Google phone shows me a memory reminder with a question: Remember this day? It was taken in 2010 when mom and I travelled to Leyte so she could visit her mom (my granny Cresencia) at the cemetery. On the way, mom showed me how to sew Nipa leaves together which is what she did…
I checked the pension department and asked for a Summary of how much monthly taxable pension I will receive when I retire at the age of 70. And the feedback was depressing. Unlike some Filipino parents who made their children as their retirement plans, this is not the case with my parents. And I would…
In Philippines where I came from, we enjoyed eating Green Mango with a dip which could either be salt or even better, a bagoong. Simply put, Bagoong is a salted fermented shrimp paste and they smell so deliciously stinky but it gives a nice rich umami olala flavor. No other words can describe the taste….
We found ourselves walking around shops in a civilization on Saturday. Living in a remote small town most of the days, I really appreciate going to the city once or twice a month. The kids asked what we were doing there and I said “Lakaw-Lakaw lang”. Or in German we say Spazierengehen or simply go…
