Category Archives: random writings
in memoriam: Manong Pepe’s Karinderia
I originally never thought of writing an entry about this little fastfood chain called Manong Pepe’s Karinderia. Besides, I thought it’s going to be some success for a long while and I can get into writing about it at some point in time. To think that this fastfood chain only got its start in 2007 …
Well what do you know? It’s been a year already!
As I was writing the next installment of my series on the Quezon Memorial Circle, I realized that it has been a year already that I have been writing about my chronicles in urban roaming. It was on August 15, 2009 that I first embarked on a journey that I never thought would go this …
Araw ng Maynila
Today we celebrate the city that is the City of Manila. And for all what’s been said about the state of the city today, it has been and will always will be “the distinguished and ever loyal city” as we hope and await the city’s retaking of its old glory. Mabuhay ang Maynila!
visit the “Manila: a city beautiful?” exhibit at SM Supermalls
It is rare that you can get to have a glimpse of history in a place as busy, commercial, and modern as a shopping mall. So I must commend SM Supermalls and the Metropolitan Museum of Manila for making such a thing possible as an effort to enlighten and hopefully educate mall-goers about Manila. The exhibit is called …
