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Archive for May, 2008

Bull Races

Posted in Pakistan, tagged , , , on May 18, 2008 | No Comments »

“Welcome! Welcome!”
I went to the bull races for the first time last Friday. This is an exciting event held in villages all over Pakistan, and as luck would have it, this one was held at a village just 30 minutes from Islamabad. We couldn’t believe our eyes when we drove to the site, where about [...]

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Free international seats from AirAsia

Posted in travel, tagged , , , , , , , on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »

AirAsia was always the first airline we checked when we planned our trips while we lived in Thailand. This budget airline is simply hard to beat. Given that you plan well ahead of time, their tickets are cheap, service is fuss free (minimal but effective), and the schedule is not bad either.
Today it just got [...]

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Visa Tales

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »

As a Filipino living in Pakistan I quickly learned that applying for a visa to other countries has become more and more complicated. And I’m not even saying that applying for a visa in my own country was easy either.
When I lived in the Philippines, and when the US still had bases in Clark and [...]

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Cultural Fair at Said Pur

Posted in Islamabad, tagged , , , , on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »

I didn’t take this picture, my friend Monica did. She e-mailed an announcement about this event happening in Islamabad two weeks in advance and I totally forgot about it. So here I am, banging my head every time she uploads another batch of photos from that event: the army dogs exhibition, bull race, archery, sword [...]

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Saying goodbye to Fotopages

Posted in Photography, travel, tagged , , on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »

I had a photo blog in Fotopages since 2004, when we lived in Thailand. This blog was so easy to update because we traveled a lot to so many different places even during three-day weekends and for week-long holidays. That was just one of the nice things about being an international school teacher in Bangkok: [...]

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Flashback May 11, 2004: My first photo blog post

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »

Took this photo on my way to sign my work permit at the Thai Ministry of Education. Weeks later I saw the green croc again on the way to a Thai friend’s house and exclaimed “hey, I’ve been here before.” Patiently she explained that these sculptures are found wherever a road is under construction, sort [...]

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