Sa aking paglantaw
Ako ay may nabatid..
Tunay ngang napakaganda
Ng ating daigdig..

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I got an unexpected message from Parmina, a nun I met 2 years ago and who is now based in Indonesia, that she is in town until June 3 and would very much love to see me. So I visited my holy friends from the Daughters of St. Anne and had a nice lunch, sharing stories and catching up. It's always nice to be surrounded by people of faith with their ( Read more... )

I gave another lecture for the field of neuroscience last Wednesday. Compared to the other lectures where my heart was pounding like crazy, and my palms all cold and sweaty, I was unusually calm for this lecture and even ate the buffet dinner prior to the lecture.

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Because my Tres Marias climb was cancelled in the last minute, I took up on Gid's invite to his "twin dayhikes" gig for Trail Adventours. Together with Farah, Dan, and Martin, and 15+ participants, I again marveled the beauty of nature.


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After Kilimanjaro, the plan was to train in other high altitude mountains just in time for the now foiled plan of climbing Elbrus in August. One of our training climbs is Mt. Syue/ Snow Mountain/ Hsuehshan, the second highest mountain in Taiwan, and was dubbed to be the most beautiful mountain there.


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Farah and I had been planning to climb this mountain since March, and finally, upon Carla's insistent pleas, we did it yesterday!


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The long ride from Manila to Baguio to Mountain Province brought a lot of memories flashing back. It was the around the same time three years ago where I took the same route to meet someone dear to me and unexpectedly, the Sagada-bound buses just brought a slight pricking pain right through the left side of my chest.


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I didn't know that Cebu had any mountains so when I saw Farah's picture at the summit of Osmena peak, I fell in love with it and wished to climb it someday. Two days after, my cousin told me she was visiting her partner in Cebu for a week, and a light bulb suddenly lighted in my head. Talk about the universe paving the way right??


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Now this is what I call entertainment! After seeing the ads in NYC last year, I had been lusting to watch this show ever since. So when I saw the ad along Roxas Boulevard I immediately asked Glends to watch it with me.


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