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Post-lockdown travel plan: Dream destination push

yAn A.L. — Mon, 25 May 2020 09:12:08 +0000

At first glance, I thought it was a just another crawler or insect slayer. When I stare at the ceiling, my eyelashes are still entangled with the sticky eye discharge. Out of discomfort, I closed my eyes, and then I gently massage my upper eyelids with my fingertips, stroking down my eyelashes. It eventually removes […]

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Change the Way You See Love

yAn A.L. — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 03:49:23 +0000

With my work station facing the west, only the glass wall separated me from the sunset. I was seated at a perfect vantage point. At first, the sunburst drapes from the stratocumulus openings. It gave an alternating shade of light and dusk to the mountain ridges that bedeck the foreground. Then, as the sun disappears […]

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How to Understand She Is Into You

Team FW — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:23:52 +0000

Even in our modern world, women remain perplexing and mysterious. Before, to actually approach a girl you like, you wish to know if she feels the same. In this article, we decided to outline 10 signs that a girl likes you. Discover with Dating Brides! 1. She is eager to communicate This is, by all […]

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Shwedagon and the Unexpected Friendship in Yangon

yAn A.L. — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 06:09:01 +0000

Upon our arrival at Yangon’s Aung Mingalar Bus terminal, taxi touts swarmed the few travelers who disembarked the bus to offer their services. I was observing the ruckus when I heard two of my co-passengers were going downtown. I approached them if it is okay to share the ride. Luckily, they both agreed. Kai, who hailed from the US, was […]

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Bagan, Myanmar: A Display of Vast Structural Wonders

yAn A.L. — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:48:33 +0000

Touts approached every single individual alighting from every single bus that arrives in Bagan terminal. They offered taxi services with exceptional persistence. The sun was almost up and it was their major selling point—the guarantee of getting you at any available pagoda where the view of the sunrise is stunning. No other available cheaper transport that […]

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A Short Visit to Thiri Zaya Bumi Bagan Golden Palace

yAn A.L. — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 02:44:05 +0000

Here’s what happened when I visited the Thiri Zaya Bumi Bagan Golden Palace: But before everything else, let us talk about the photo above. The first thing you’ll probably notice is the wet section of my shirt that formed a triangle. I couldn’t control my sweat, people! Perhaps, the RealFeel® is 45°C in ‪#‎Bagan‬. What […]

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A Stroll in Pattaya and the “Massage with Everything”

yAn A.L. — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:51:40 +0000

The red and orange tint of the sky was slowly turning blue. The sun just hid itself below the horizon. The lights started glimmering, changing the face of the Beach Road, Pattaya’s most popular avenue, into something neon, slick, and slinky. The lights of different colors exhibited good visual elements, making every dark corner of […]

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Almost a Love Story in Malacca City

yAn A.L. — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 03:18:22 +0000

My sweats were dripping fast. My shirt turned darker with the pretty obvious wet discoloration. Though it was late in the afternoon, the tropical heat radiated as if it was high noon. And so, I took a break from my stroll. It was almost two hours since I started exploring by foot though. I found this […]

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My Love Affair on the Road

yAn A.L. — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:29:21 +0000

Valentine’s Day has passed but it is still a love month. So I guess, it isn’t too late for me to share my love story, a story that isn’t all about what you are thinking. It is a love affair that hopeless romantics could not get an inspiration with – but, I wish, globetrotters do. […]

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Surviving Sagada: I Was Never Alone

yAn A.L. — Fri, 31 May 2013 21:44:56 +0000

After looking for the best way to spend a weekend, I made a last minute registration with Travel Factor’s Conquer Sagada tour. I was a solo joiner. I boarded a bus with group of strangers, all with the same destination. I had minimal expectations during that moment and my primary goal was to, at least, enjoy […]

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A Certain Place to Find

Lyndi Cylet Ramos — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:22:37 +0000

In a relationship, it requires more than just understanding everything but more importantly to understand the things that don’t make sense at all. Somehow, the only way to make sense of what is going on is to just understand it the way things are, no further analysis. People sometimes pursue so many arguments so as […]

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Anchor of our Life

Lyndi Cylet Ramos — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:48:15 +0000

When we are challenged by our deepest fears and frustrations, we anchor on love to keep us above the fears and frustrations we have. Love for our craft, love for our parents or family, love for God, love for someone special, love for friends, love for the simple things, love for everything we have and […]

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You Are Their Mother

yAn A.L. — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:05:13 +0000

Ms S, a mother, often made a squabble with his elder teenage sons. Reasons include; scolding them when they came home late or not allowing them to attend friendly gatherings of their age and for not giving them the liberty to decide on their own. One day, the youngest followed the same footsteps of his […]

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Outside this world

Lyndi Cylet Ramos — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:38:40 +0000

We live day by day carrying the consciousness that our individuality may somehow make other people hate or love us. Somehow, it will reach a point that we will begin to care for those people who are willing and brave enough to accept us – for all that we are and all that we can […]

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It’s Over

Lyndi Cylet Ramos — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:37:43 +0000

There comes a point in our life when you need to say it’s over for you. It’s over for the dreams you want to achieve, it’s over for the plans you have planning for the longest time, it’s over for the times you have been waiting for something to happen, and it’s simply over for […]

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Dumaguete: Where the City meets Tranquility

yAn A.L. — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:45:02 +0000

I was born and raised in Negros Oriental and I spent my first 16 years of existence in the province. I finished elementary and high school in a remote but populated village, just 70 kilometers (1 and a half hour ride) south of Dumaguete, Barangay Bonawon. In 16 years, I can count the instances that […]

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Opportunity and the Poor

yAn A.L. — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:13:22 +0000

Studying for free and receiving a monthly allowance to finance my school requirements were just few of the privileges I received in my three years and eight months (7 semesters and 4 summer terms) of stay in Ozanam Study Grant Program (OSGP) of Adamson University. The basic requirement is hardwork and the basic tool is […]

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Redefining her love

Lyndi Cylet Ramos — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:35:00 +0000

It has been three years since my grandmother’s death. Love has always been synonymous to her existence. I had lived twenty-two beautiful years of my life because of the reality that she had loved me so much beyond words can ever explain. I guess it is the kind of love that transcends through time and […]

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2011 was a Tough Year

yAn A.L. — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:59:00 +0000

2011 was the most challenging year for me. If ever someone would be interested to know my biography, I would highlight such year to be the toughest year. I couldn’t count the intances that my heart beat faster than normal, the nights which I hadn’t get enough and restful sleep, and the workdays where I […]

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Classification of Friends

The Observer — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:46:00 +0000

How many classifications of friends do we have? Theres a NODDING friend, TRUE friend, BEST friend, and OLD friend. When you set foot on a strange place…everyone becomes a NODDING friend. Eventually, you pick some people as TRUE friends. Then you get to choose one or two as BEST friends. As time goes by, you […]

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Ripping the band aid off

pattiness — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:06:00 +0000

We are humans. As humans, we feel. When we are happy, we smile, we laugh. When we are sad, we cry. When we hurt, we bleed. And when I bleed, I put a band aid on wherever the wound is. I don’t like seeing the wound, I don’t like seeing the blood. I don’t want […]

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Follow your pain

Lyndi Cylet Ramos — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:44:00 +0000

Follow your pain is the contrast of the famous line follow your bliss. Most of our pains in life ought to tell us something or rather to teach us something. But sometimes, we tend to miss the lessons because pain as path to follow is never ideal. We even tend to do away from it […]

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Vacuum

Lyndi Cylet Ramos — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:45:00 +0000

We are a race capable of great compassion and of great violence. “Optimus Prime” (Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen) Humans have been born with two specific tendencies, to be good and to be evil. Our freewill has always been challenged with these tendencies. True, sometimes it is easy to fall into temptation and just […]

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Too Much

Lyndi Cylet Ramos — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:27:00 +0000

Feeling too much sometimes make us afraid of what may come next. To feel too much especially for someone makes us vulnerable since it threatens our own protective instinct for our own existence. It makes us aware that one strange person in this entire world manage to matter in our life. It makes us crave […]

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Easter and Passover: Destined to Coincide?

yAn A.L. — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 03:45:00 +0000

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Blue

yAn A.L. — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:11:00 +0000

Would there be bracing mornings would there be brighter futures would there be just dealings would there be still hopes should there be more sunrise to behold should there be more dreams to hold should there be more crumbs to taste should there be more mist to savor could there be greener pastures could there […]

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What is Before God

yAn A.L. — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:13:00 +0000

Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν. “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth”. Scientist never stop researching and studying to solve all mysteries in the world and derive concrete explanations for the origins of every living. Theories were plotted in order to arrive the facts, measure the tendencies […]

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