It's been raining for almost the entire week now and it's the flu season once again. In the Philippines, one of my favourite comfort food, when I'm feeling under the weather, is the Tinolang Manok. This really nice chicken in ginger soup is perfect for cold, wet days. Tinolang manok traditionally uses green papaya, chili [...]
The past month came in like an avalanche. From back to back travels to Turkey and the Philippines for work to a hand surgery. The next thing I knew, it's 16 days before Christmas and 21 days before our long-awaited holiday in the Philippines. After a very long year, it's been hard for me to [...]
Who says roasts are only for weekends? It has been a long week for me. As we entered the last quarter of the year, I also entered the busiest time of the year for me. I've been preparing for my travel and 2 trainings in Istanbul this coming week, coordinating 5 more trainings in Manila [...]
Three weeks ago, we had the Jeune Genevois holiday on a Thursday. We took the opportunity to do our (potentially) last holiday travel for this year (excluding Christmas holiday) by taking a long weekend in Amsterdam. I fly KLM a lot. When I say a lot, the KLM app reminded me that I have flewn [...]
Last weekend was the Geneva Street Food Festival. I don't know where have I been in the last 8 years that it was actually my first time to come to this fun event. Sure, this is probably the most expensive street food festival in the planet - Aaron and mine's bill at the end of [...]
So, we had our challenge to clean our fridge and minimize throwing anything that is still edible last week. What’s amazing with this challenge is that out of our usual 500-600 Swiss francs weekly food budget (welcome to Geneva!), we only spent 197 Swiss francs for the whole week and that was from a 3-course [...]
After 6 months of saying our I Do’s in the Philippines, we finally had our honeymoon. We’ve always wanted to do a balloon safari in Maasai Mara and I’ve always wanted to go to Zanzibar. So, for our honeymoon, we decided to do a Beach to Bush adventure. My husband, Aaron, grew up in Kenya. [...]
