Travels and Stories
My online filing for the SSS maternity benefit application (MBA) is easy and approval is fast. Thanks SSS for the quick and easy processing of claim. I’ll be sharing on this post how to apply for the maternity benefit and other info like how much contribution to get the maximum amount. A short background - I gave birth last May 2021 to a 5 lbs. baby girl; a first-time mom at 40 years ...
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 ...
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…
One of the top tourist destinations in Luzon and the whole Philippines is Baguio City. Almost everyone I know wishes to travel to Baguio to experience its cold weather even for a single moment. Baguio is a lot different weather-wise compared to the rest of the Philippine archipelago. Those who live in Manila and North Luzon provinces…
Heads-up! Bantayan is not Boracay. This famous vacation destination in Cebu is laidback. There are no loud all-nighter parties, no lines of restaurants meters off the shoreline, no regular sighting of celebrities. You will even find it difficult to find beach resorts that offers a wide array of aqua-adventure facilities like jetskiing, parasailing, kit-surfing, bananaboat…
Excited na for Paskong Pinoy! Like in the previous years, when the calendar turns ‘ber’, we go to Paete. Little did we know what we thought was just a sight-seeing adventure to an uptown town in Laguna has morphed into a Christmas tradition for my husband and I. It started last 2012, and every year…
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…