Tag: water
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Day 20~ August 20th~ Boracay
When our children are very young we try to shelter them from the world, we introduce them to it gradually and with so many filters to protect them from what we perceive as harmful. We guard their innocence with all our might even down to the language that we allow them to hear. Then comes…
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Day 17~ August 17th~ Boracay
If you had to fly almost all day to reach your holiday destination, then drive in a bus for more than 2 hours, followed by a rough ferry ride and finally climb in a rickshaw to reach your hotel, what would be the first thing you think of doing upon arrival? Normally adults would want…
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Day 16~ August 16th~ Boracay
I grew up near the sea and spent almost 5 months of every year swimming, waterskiing, windsurfing or snorkeling in its waters; but when it came to big waves, I was always facing them with a bit of terror that I tried so hard to hide. I am therefore always amazed at the courage of…
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Day 15~ August 15th~ Boracay
Imagine if you will a place where children can grow fully supported to become who they were meant to be, a place where competition and the fear of failure do not hinder their growth, where only encouragement and guidance hold their hands. Can you picture a place designed only to further their growth, where helpers…
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Day 14~ August 14th~ Boracay
Being alone in our world today is a luxury that my soul yearns for everyday. There are so many parts of ourselves that need us to check in with them that not doing so can cause so much undue stress. The alone moments I take for myself everyday cause such a great sigh of relief…
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Day 12~ August 12th~ Boracay
A very strange phenomenon I have encountered repeatedly is with the fear islanders have of the sea or it might be a great awe of the mysterious waters. I keep finding out that locals that live near the sea or ocean never really go into it with the exception of fishermen and sailors. Even in…
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Day 10~ August 10th~ Boracay
It is so curious how we sometimes obsess about making things straight when in fact almost everything is curvy on this feminine planet. Even a straight line curves to make a full circle if its ends were to meet. My apologies to readers and photographers who love to see a perfectly straight horizon, but the…
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Day 22~ July 22nd~ Vietnam
When fire meets water, when legends merge with life, when mystery overshadows skepticism, when fantasy touches your heart and you fly with the dragons…
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Day 10~ July 10th~ Vietnam
Since the 11th century, when the rice fields would flood in Vietnam, the villagers used to fashion wooden puppets over the water creating shows for story telling and entertainment. This tradition survives today through the Thang Long Water Puppet Theater in Hanoi and is a marvel to witness. Dragons, kings and queens float in lacquered…