Travels and Stories
There are now many ways to pay for credit card bills aside from visiting a bank and processing payment over the counter. Today I again paid my BPI credit card charges using Paymaya. Paymaya is convenient to use in paying for credit card dues because you can do it anywhere as long as you have funds in your Paymaya eWallet and you have internet connection. There is no transaction fee or ...
The Social Security System (SSS) grants sickness benefit to qualified members. For this year, most branches requires applications and claim filing via dropbox, instead of walking-in on a branch. This is a sharing of my experience in filing a sickness benefit claim under voluntary status, the list of documents I submitted plus how many days it took for the medical evaluation approval, and ...
One can earn from blogs, yes that’s true! So much time have passed since this personal blog first seen the light of day. This domain was the very first one I registered way back in March 2010. Then right after domain registration, a friend helped me build my very first WordPress blog, this here, Penfires….
Gulay. Veggies. Pho. Bahn Mi. Bun Cha. Bun Rieu. Spring Rolls. Rice Noodles. Iced Coffee. Food trip in Vietnam! It’s fascinating to see just how the Vietnamese love to eat their green leafy vegetables. Different kinds of leaves and herbs piled mountain high on plates, and they ate this with much gusto. No wonder the…
I have become familiar with both Carcar, Cebu and Liliw, Laguna’s footwear industry. And if I compare the produce of these two towns, when it comes to any abaca laced sandals or wedges, I have to give it to Liliw made. When it comes to espadrille I think they are at par with each other in design and quality wise. Liliw ladies espadrilles’ price range is from P230 to P300 comparable to that of Carcar made espadrilles.
Carcar famous espadrilles!
I am a proud Cebuana but I just have to lament the fact that Carcar produces so many cheap sandals that easily disintegrated, these are the ones you see all
For many years, local tourists from other provinces shy away from visiting the tiny island of Siquijor. Blame the stories that for years gets pass from one person to the next which effectively shrouds this Visayan island in mystery. Who would want to plan to get to a province where everywhere you turn, your elders…
Plantitas and plantitos, do you already have Anthurium jenmanii in your collection? Are you interested in buying one? Some say this plant is a collector’s item for its rarity and its eye-catching giant, lush leaves.. A ‘must have’, some will push hehe. Is this plant really rare? The Anthurium jenmanii is ultra rare but only…
My backyard garden and house plants collection is growing day by day. Aside from purchases from the public market, via online plant sellers, and also during plant exhibitions and fairs, there are now a fair amount of growing plants from own propagations and offshoots. Yey, yeyyy! Happy dance! I’m becoming a certified plant tita more…
For those into gardening and ornamentals, chances are the plant Monstera deliciosa is part of the bucket list, if you don’t already have it, that is. Instagram is where I go – to look at pictures after pictures of this beautiful plant. I love foliage. I like big leaves. Monstera with its huge green leaves…