Vacation Here I Come!

2 more weeks and I’m off to my most awaited time of the year – vacation! hooray!!! After 10 months of hard work with my students, we finally reached the end to reap the fruits of our labor. Yes, it’s sad to think that my favorite students will not be in my class anymore but I know that they’ll be heading to a better place. I will miss them so much!!! Going back to my vacation, I’m pretty excited because my father’s coming over for a short stay with us, so he could be with his grandchildren just before he goes to China for work. And since we already have a car (though I still don’t know how to drive) I’m planning to have a little swimming treat with my family, somewhere in Sihanoukville. I think it’s the best...

Phnom Penh Demolition

Loud pounding noises woke me up this morning. Startled where the noise is coming from I looked out of my window and saw hundreds of men wearing green shirt, hammering the small houses in front of the building where my whole family live. Immediately I called Nestle to witness the commotion and cover the event. It’s my first time to encounter scenes like this and it sent goosebumps all over me. There were lots of police men guarding the site and hundreds of spectators from their homes watched how their fellow Cambodians ruined other people’s houses in a small span of time. One by one the houses are torn down, I have seen smoke from afar but dunno if it’s teargas or fire extinguisher. I have seen residents standing with their houses shouting...

family vacation

ang saya ng naging bakasyon ko sa pinas and now it’s my family and nestle’s family’s turn to vacay here in cambodia and vietnam! last april 21 we flew from manila going to ho chi minh city, vietnam to have a couple of days vacation at my pap’s crib, we weren’t able to roam much and enjoy the city for we don’t have much time and to think that we haven’t gotten enough sleep! boohoo!!! what we did is palengke tour at cho tan binh in the morning with mama, mami deng, inah and nica. mami deng enjoyed the fruits that’s sold and even bought a lot becoz of their gigantic sizes, hehe! they even enjoyed the food trip that we had. They tasted bun bo hue (which is one of my fave noodles), local taho na merong coconut milk,...