Thank You 2020

Grateful for...

• keeping me and my family safe during this pandemic.
• having a job that transitioned to a work from home setup quickly.
• the company I work for for deciding to continue the WFH setup throughout the year. Saved me a lot of time on the road!
• the time to catch up with my blog (in other words, reminisce about past trips):
• finally finished my Kansai Diaries Series, a solo trip I did in autumn of 2016.
• Day 5.5: Tofukuji, Kawai Jinja, Shimogamo Jinja
• Day 6: Ginkakuji, Ryoanji, Ninnaji
• Day 6.75: Gion Night Walking Tour
• Day 7: All Day in Arashiyama
• Day 8: Last Day in Kyoto
• Day 8.75: Dizzying Dotonbori
• Day 9: Osaka, Over and Out
• wrote about my visits to Nagoya, Inuyama, Toyota, Chino and Suwa Cities...some of the cities I visited in the Chubu region of Japan in autumn of 2017.
• started and finished (woohoo!) my Hokkaido Series, a solo trip I did in the scorching Japanese summer of 2018.
• wrote about the sites I visited in Seoul in autumn of 2018.
• started and finished (double woohoo!) my Taipei 2019 Series.
• published blogposts about Tokyo, just a portion of the Kanto exploration that happened in autumn of 2019.
• Food for the Eyes and Food for the Mouth at Asakusa
• A Day at Ueno Park
• Tokyo Sights Using the Toei 1-Day Pass
• Teamlab Borderless
• Escape to Mount Takao
• I have to work harder though: I still have a lot of backlog!
• more time to read, which prompted me to resurrect the Go Read section of this blog.
• discovering delicious home-cooked food, which inspired me to write a QuaranEats Series.
• the readers of this blog...are you still there? :D

What's in a (Business) Name? Ciento Uno

Books and coffee. Perfect combination.

Spotted along National Highway, Moalboal.

For more amusing business names, please visit Go Random.

The Best of Lola Basyang

The Best of Lola Basyang
Severino Reyes

The Best of Lola Basyang includes twelve Filipino fairytales from the creative brain of Severino Reyes—yes, Lola Basyang is a guy! Although one or two of the fairytales have similarities with western ones, this book is still interesting and entertaining. Maybe kids nowadays have no idea who Lola Basyang is. It is time for them to hear (or read) Lola Basyang's stories.

For more book recommendations, please visit Go Read.