Jacqkie | Travel and Lifestyle

Remember that time when I was telling you about Philippines being underrated? Boracay is that one place where a lot of visitors and other newcomers like myself can agree that IT IS definitely not underrated. I'm sure some of you might have heard of Boracay , but what is it or where is it really - this is where I come in and help you out :)   To start with, let's get acquainted with our Philippines map since this is the first post on the nation I've come up with. Just like Malaysians, with our West and East Malaysia segments, t he Philippines a nation with over 7000 islands, too is rightly segregated to three types of areas ; Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.   The capital city of Philippines is Manila, a prime area that is the central of all businesses and main headquarters' offices (like most countries) are situated at. I will have a blogpost on Manila itself, tons of things to write about :)   Boracay  is a small  island  of the...

At 12 noon over the hustle and bustle of the colorful traffic when I just reached as I walk around the Ermita Street (also) trying to eavesdrop the few tagalongs words that I could, a kid, maybe around 4, sneaked up at me from behind, possibly saw me from a mile away in my obvious as a sore thumb touristy outfit, he reached his right hand out to me in a scoop like position, dark brown dry skin, big brown eyes, unidentified gender freckled and dirtied from the sun and the smoke, long untrimmed musky hair, shoeless feet, torn sleeves, muddied shorts, not a frown, not even an expression, he looked at me and looked back at three more of his possibly friends of the same fate he made from the streets (about a block away), a practice he'd do every second, and after nearly 10 seconds of softly nudging me (while I could do was pray and evidently ignoring him) he finally ran off somewhere else and left me. There was no sigh of sadness, no anger, let alone giggles, it was as if that was a j...