Our third day in Cebu is a Sunday! We woke up a bit later than planned because of how we were so tired the day prior. I haven’t really checked out our resort so I spent the morning go… Read More

If you haven’t read Day 1 yet, click here! So, for Day 2, I decided to take my friends for a road trip down south to try Carcar lechon and visit Simala. I also wanted to bring them… Read More

Last November 2023, I visited Cebu with my office friends for a short weekend trip. We arrived Friday afternoon and went back to Manila Tuesday 1AM. So, this is to share what we did over tha… Read More

One of my recent favorite past times is watching reaction videos of SB19’s Mapa, especially those where the reactors have no idea what was going to hit them. Mapa was released May 16… Read More

This is a late post from my first time eating in Krapow! in BGC. I believe this branch just opened around the first quarter of this year, so when we visited last March, the place was packed… Read More

A couple of months ago, after one Windows 11 update, my laptop’s default language switched to Japanese and I can no longer change it. Basically, Windows is saying that my license on… Read More

I may have found my new favorite Japanese restaurant in BGC. Wasshoi looks unassuming on the outside, reason why I pass it by without considering trying their food out. It’s really onl… Read More

Binondo, the world’s oldest Chinatown in the city of Manila, is a famous destination for food! For this trip, my friends and I hit some of the lesser-known spots. Not to say that they… Read More

It’s still February but I’m already claiming XG’s Shooting Star as the best song of 2023. Ironically, the song is entirely in English and it’s from an all-Japanese… Read More

And indeed, it was my FIRST movie (in the cinema) since the pandemic started. I grew up watching Slam Dunk. It was one of those iconic anime that was shown on Philippine television back… Read More

Hey guys! This is it, the first of my regular updates. *cross fingers* Obviously, it’s not going to be a daily blog, I’ve accepted (as we should all), that life is not going t… Read More

Hey guys! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m doing fine – I can’t say life’s been perfect but it’s not bad. I do feel guilty about not posting here because… Read More

Let me back track. I discovered SB19 that same night they blew up on Twitter with the dance practice for Go Up. It was the first time for me to see a Filipino group dance so in sync, to a so… Read More

Hey guys, what’s up?! I know it’s been a while since I posted over here. I just wanted to quickly share that I got a new camera! Well, it’s not exactly new – I bought… Read More

Boracay – one of the country’s ultimate summer destinations. Last April, I was finally able to go back with friends. My last visit was in 2019, before the pandemic. This time, it… Read More

An anime that has Utada Hikaru singing for its opening/ending theme is always worth watching. Fumetsu no Anata E (To Your Eternity) was released on Netflix a few months ago. And to my surpri… Read More

Backtrack to December of 2020, I decided to finally switch to a Pixel after being on Samsung because of three main reasons: There’s not a lot of Pixel phones in the Philippines beca… Read More

It has been over a year since I left Manila to work from Cebu, which is my hometown, given everyone is working from home anyway. As offices are already planning to implement their return-to… Read More

Last February, my college friends and I attended a wedding of one of our classmates in Panglao, Bohol. It was a destination wedding that was well-welcomed after the stress of the past months… Read More

After over a month since the typhoon struck, we still didn’t have electricity and stable internet at home. This really made working from home a challenge. I tried working from my siste… Read More

A strong super typhoon called Odette (international name: RAI) hit us just a week before Christmas. Cebu has always been “lucky” in terms of typhoons. They normally slow down aft… Read More

Cebu’s bamboo forest is located at the northern tip of the island, in a town called Medellin. This just recently gained attention because of social media. Since I’m here, I had t… Read More

I thought my Spotify Wrapped for 2021 would be a bit more diverse vs. last year as I tried to listen to more artists, playlists, and even more Original Pilipino Music (OPM). Alas, to my surp… Read More

So, I’ve finally found a replacement for the empty space in my heart that used to be occupied by Terrace House. As someone who lives vicariously through the lives of others, reality sh… Read More

November was a breeze. Here’s a rundown of the month in photos! Click one and scroll to see the captions! November was a perfect mix of business and pleasure. I managed to go ou… Read More

This isn’t really news given the actual purchase happened back in 2017. A friend of mine (and you’ll see him later in the video below) who is a real estate broker showed me some… Read More

I had to search for the actual meaning of the word and the first definition is “something done or made in a hurry”. So no, it’s not what you think. Haha! After almost a… Read More

The pandemic has deprived us all from traveling to our favorite places and countries – mine being Japan. I consider myself lucky though that somehow, there are places in my hometown th… Read More

Instagram finally deployed its latest features to this side of the world and despite eagerly awaiting for them to do so, I ended up hating it. I found myself scrolling through Reels and basi… Read More

This weekend, I booked an overnight stay at one of the best resorts in the island. My sister’s birthday was a perfect excuse to splurge because otherwise, my mom would complain about s… Read More

I am in the process of cleaning out my photos from Flickr and transferring them to Google Photos in order to save money. Because of this, I’ve rediscovered some old memories from a tim… Read More

This post is inspired by the latest Banana Q Podcast episode entitled Why Do (Most) Cebuanos Hate to Speak in Tagalog. As a true blue Cebuano who happened to end up in Manila right after uni… Read More

Getting vaccinated in the Philippines is quite challenging, especially if you’re not part of the prioritized groups. For the past few months, the government has been prioritizing senio… Read More

Last May, I took my mom and sister to a flower garden in Mantalongon, Dalaguete called Mt. Talongon Flower Garden. It was a spontaneous trip really, we decided to go for a road trip to Manta… Read More

So, I will be reviving my recommendations section with things I’ve recently watched and enjoyed, starting with this Japanese movie that’s based on a novel series, that also has a… Read More

I’ve started going back to a Keto diet again because of the quarantine weight I’ve gained the past year. So far, I’ve lost a little over 3kg for the past 2 weeks! I gained… Read More

You might be seeing a pattern here – I’m actually creating blog posts for vlogs I’ve already posted on YouTube! But this is for a reason! I also want to promote Filipino cu… Read More

Last January, I took the family to our first real vacation since the pandemic started. Some of my friends also decided to take their families with them on vacation that same weekend, so it w… Read More

I just wanted to quickly update that I was able to go home to Cebu (yay!). I needed a change of environment because I really was getting super depressed in Manila. I missed my family, and I… Read More

Hey guys. So, I’m flying back home to Cebu soon and in order to do this, under the current situation, I have to get a Travel Authority from the PNP office. This document is required in… Read More

Last week, I had quite an anxious experience with trying to send my car from Manila to Cebu via rolling cargo. I’ve tried searching the internet for a step-by-step guide but I couldn&r&hell…Read More

So, I started a YouTube channel. I needed a different venue to channel my mental energy. This came about on my fifth day of Twitter hiatus. I just picked up my phone, recorded myself making… Read More

Our second to the last day was gloomy – we were expecting this weekend to be rainy and were lucky enough to have had bright sunny days to tour around. But on this day, there was no cha… Read More

I finished reading The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch over the typhoon when we had no electricity. It was the perfect way to spend a sleepless night over. I’ve started… Read More

Hey guys! Wow, what a month it has been so far – just when you think 2020 is almost over, the world (at least the Philippines) has turned upside down again with at least 5 typhoons in… Read More

13 years ago Exactly 13 years ago, this guy left the comfort of home, hopped on his first airplane, and started an adventure in a land quite familiar, but still a bit foreign. Leaving Ceb… Read More

As a long time fan of Japan and Korean pop, it’s really only now that I feel like Filipinos finally have a legit pop group we can be proud of. SB19, made up of Sejun, Ken, Josh, Stell… Read More

I have to admit, I didn’t like this song much when it first came out. I was still attached to the album Traveler – but after several plays, I have come to appreciate this song, m… Read More

Our third day in Taiwan was mostly spent walking around parks. We started at the Taipei Expo Park where there was a weekend market going on. Before this, we stopped by Starbucks for a quick… Read More

Our agenda for the second half of the day was Shifen. Famous for its wishing lanterns (among other things), one has to visit Shifen after coming from Jiufen. Shifen The best seat on t… Read More

This post is long overdue. I have been super lazy with updating this blog so here goes another attempt to just put out a post! The pandemic has also had me itching to travel, so for now, I&r&hell…Read More

Japan Sinks: 2020 is an animated series available on Netflix about – well, Japan sinking. Having watched the below video about the great earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan in 20… Read More

Inori no tsuyosa ga owari no imi wo kaeta shunkanSore wa subarashii mono datta Saikai no shinnen ga jibun wo ookiku kaetaKore wa kore wa sono kurikaeshi no jinsei no kiroku da Daij… Read More

Maku ga orireba bokura otagai ni hanarebanareHiniku na mon da na konna toki dakeAtto iu ma ni sugisaru nante sa “Mata ne” ga areba donna owakare mo mashi ni naru neItsu ie… Read More

This is the song that catapulted Higedan into the charts – cementing their position in Japan’s music industry in 2019. I fell in love right after the first listen with the piano… Read More

But, as we are in the middle of a pandemic, I can’t spend it with friends or family. I took the day off and I’ll figure out what I’ll do later – but for now (it&rsqu&hell…Read More

Chotto tooi kuni e itte burari pen wo kajitteMachi no itonami ni tokete inakunatteShimau no mo ii na shashin no SAPPHIRE Sore ja atarashiki chizu wo katteWarukunai basho e GO desuDou… Read More

Hitotsu toshite ADVANTAGE nante nai“muite nai” “sense nai” daremo ga sou itte waratteru Nante koto nai bibiru hitsuyou wa naiKekka ippatsu de hyaku hachi juu d… Read More

Ryoko Yonekura. I did not know her until recently, when I started binge-watching Doctor-X on Netflix. All six seasons of it. Ryoko Yonekura plays as Japan’s (and maybe even the world&r&hell…Read More

You’ve made it to the last set of unique Hiragana characters! Good job! There are remaining sets but you’ll find that they will use characters you’ve already learned in the… Read More

Our next set of characters are the R-series. RA, RI, RU, RE, ROJapanese pronounces the “R” like it’s somewhere in between “L” and “R”. Your tong… Read More

Today’s set only has three characters! The Y-series is made up only of YA, YU, and YO. YA, YU, YOPlease check the video for how to pronounce and write these characters. Credit… Read More

Here is the next set of characters – the M-series. MA, MI, MU, ME, MOPlease watch the video for the stroke order and the pronunciation. Credits to Learn Kanji on YouT… Read More

Hello again! Today’s lesson is on the H-series. HA, HI, FU, HE, HONote another unique syllable in this set which is FU. HU is pronounced similar to how we pronounce FU in English… Read More

I know, I’ve said this many times for different songs – but I can’t help that all the songs in this album are good! This is one of my favorites. Kuchigenka nanka shi… Read More

I can’t exactly remember when I started liking Japanese pop culture. Was it the first time I watched Voltes V or Dragon Ball back when I was just 7 years old? However, I vividly rememb… Read More

Saigo no koiwazurai wo hajimeyouNando mo “kore ga saigo” tte ii aou Me o tojitatte miotosenai darouHibi no kokyuu ga midaredasu shunkanMaa ikka nante houtte oitaraMassaka… Read More

Here is the next set of characters for you to learn. NA, NI, NU, NE, NO Please watch below video on how to pronounce and write down the characters correctly. Credits to Lear… Read More

This is another fun song, about that one person who’s bad for you – you have so many reasons to stay way…but you go back to them in the end. Sounds familiar? Enjoy sin… Read More

Konnichiwa! We’re now on our 4th set of Hiragana characters! We have two “special” pronunciation for the T-series, CHI instead of TI, and TSU instead of TU. Again, no s… Read More

This is another one of my favorite deep tracks from the album! I find this song very relaxing, not a lot of the usual high notes and high energy coming from Satoshi’s voice or the inst… Read More

Here are the next set of characters for your to learn. Note that the 2nd character is not SI but SHI. Why? Because the syllable/pronunciation SI does not exist in Japanese! SA, SHI… Read More

This is one of my favorite tracks on the album. I remember putting this on replay on the commute back home from work, before this pandemic started. I wish they made a music video for this on… Read More

Here is the next set of Hiragana characters for you to learn. KA, KI, KU, KE, KOYou can refer to the video below for the stroke order and the pronunciation. Credits to Learn Kan… Read More

Hi guys! So, my site has been getting a lot of visits from the romaji lyrics I posted of a few Higedan songs so I thought to myself, why not transcribe the rest of the other songs on their l… Read More

Studying Japanese is not easy. But, with enough motivation and resources, you can definitely learn at least the basics and slowly progress into fluency with actual usage. But, where does one… Read More

The latest Animal Crossing game arrived at the most perfect time, when the entire world was basically in lock down due to the pandemic. It helped me cope up with being stuck at home, and I&r&hell…Read More

This is an unpopular opinion, and I was actually hesitating about posting this. But this is why I think we should not do mass testing yet. Our doctors and medical practitioners are not th… Read More

Hey guys! Wow, 2020 has been crazy, right? We started out with a threat of World War 3. Then where I’m from (Manila, Philippines), a volcano erupted causing people to evacuate and thos… Read More

Bokura wa majikku de kioku wo uwagaki shi atta “Hajimete” wo hitorijime shitakute Kimi wa itta yo ne ato kata mo naku nuritsubu shite Hontou ni “Hajimete” ni nar… Read More

E-gang, or Eyeglasses gang, is what we used to call ourselves back in our Villaruel Tower days. It’s been a while since we’ve hung out together since Darl’s has moved to C… Read More

MAP stands for Mahjong Association of the Philippines – no, we’re not an official association – we just called ourselves that several years ago when we played mahjong almos… Read More

It’s Christmas day – but for Filipinos, most of the celebrations and parties happen during Christmas Eve. December 25 is when things slow down and people take a rest from all the… Read More

Every year, my college barkada (a.k.a., Azure Society) has an annual gathering for Christmas. It used to be an outreach program, followed by a Christmas Party – but for the past two ye… Read More

Romaji Lyrics Ai suru kimi no koe ga donna uta yori kikitakunatta Sore dake nandayo Hanasu koto mo daishite kimechanainda yo Koi suru dake no boku no aite wo chotto dake shite hoshiinda… Read More

Hey guys! It has been a while. I noticed that I’ve been getting a few visits from my Romaji lyrics transcriptions, so I decided to make more! This is the first of many! I may get into… Read More

So, where were we? We just finished up with Liberty Square and were starving from all of the walking. It was finally time for lunch. Little did I know that after this, the rest of the day wa… Read More

Last May 2, 2019, I visited a place I have never been to for the first time. Taiwan is a controversial “country” because of its complicated history with China (which I won’… Read More

I have become a big fan of this band since I started listening to them just a month (or two) ago. On the first listen, I didn’t really like Shukumei that much – and it was probab… Read More

Hello guys! I haven’t been posting daily like I said I would (again), but I won’t dwell on my failure and will start catching up on posts from here on. July was super hectic but… Read More

Weathering with You (Japanese Title: Tenki no Ko, literally Child of the Weather), is Makoto Shinkai’s 12th film. I loved Kimi No Na Wa, and was lucky to catch in in the cinema –… Read More

I said over at Twitter that there’s going to be some major changes in my life this month and so this is my first official announcement of one of those changes – I’m moving… Read More

I love this song. I’ve been listening to it non-stop since YouTube algorithm brought me to it yesterday. I immediately searched for the band and downloaded all of their songs from Spo… Read More

While summer has just recently started for the rest of the world, it’s done for the Philippines. We’ve had no sun for the past two weeks. It’s been raining non-stop, with c… Read More

It’s the end of a fiscal year at work, and I’m also nearing the end of another year in this world. July to me is like New Year’s – I feel inspired to change, to start… Read More

Here’s my second Japanese romaji lyrics, another request from the brother. I am liking the Lucky Tapes and I am actually regretting not booking the first day of Fuji Rock 2019 because… Read More

My brother asked me to come up with the romaji lyrics to this so I’m posting it here so that my hard work doesn’t also go to waste! Check out the song, it’s very cool and… Read More

One of the best things to do when in Singapore is to eat. In our short weekend trip last March, I had to suspend my Ketogenic diet because how can one resist all of the amazing food this co… Read More

Last March, we visited Kristi for a short but fun weekend in Singapore. This was already my fourth time in the country and so I didn’t have any specific place to see or thing to do &nd&hell…Read More

People normally go to Baler to surf. Sabang Beach, the main beach where people go to surf doesn’t exactly have the best sand quality in terms of color or texture. But, 8 kilometers awa… Read More