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4	Under the stairs This collection of home accessories and art pieces caught my eye at Tatung's Garden Café. I'm not crazy about how they're all put together (there's no unifying theme that I can see), but I do like the inlaid chest and the framed matchbooks, individually. ... 0 Published 20 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
6	Not real It is summer in the Philippines and Eastwood Mall's central atrium is decorated with gigantic sunflowers. Red sunflowers may not be real, but their fiery color is most appropriate, with Manila's temperatures already hitting—and going beyond—36˚C (98˚F). F... 0 Published 23 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
14	One THEME DAY: BAKERIES • Banapple opened its first tiny kitchen and café five years ago along Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City. In those five years, it opened four other branches in others parts of Metro Manila, and the one along Katipunan Avenue is so popula... 0 Published 24 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
5	Fancy The lobby and snack bar of Eastwood Cinemas. 0 Published 25 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
4	Terminal Since the Manila Metro Rail Transit (MRT) System's last northern station is beside TriNoma mall (see previous post), the mall's management converted a portion of its outdoor parking lot into a transport terminal for jeepneys and their air-conditioned cou... 0 Published 29 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
5	Mentor In 2001, the Ateneo High School Class of 1950 installed a sculpture of one of their beloved mentors in a small garden in the campus. Fr. John Patrick Delaney, SJ was born in 1906 in Liverpool, England and came to the Philippines in 1928 as a young ... 0 Published 32 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
8	Plastic planets Globe-shaped floor lamps are installed around the UP-AyalaLand TechnoHub's central plaza (see yesterday's post). The lights change colors every few seconds. Needless to say, kids love them. Adults too.Don't make the mistake of leaning on one, however. The... 0 Published 38 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
3	But of course! The UP-AyalaLand TechnoHub (see previous post) has a small public plaza surrounded by maybe a dozen restaurants and a few other retail establishments. Ayala Land calls this tiled plaza a park, but without any grass, I just can't. 0 Published 39 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
4	All-nighter In 2008, the University of the Philippines–Diliman and property developer Ayala Land teamed up to create an information technology park in a section of the state university's unused land. Located in the northern-most side of the campus, the 38-hectare UP-... 0 Published 45 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
6	Baby balls If the zorbs that were temporarily available at Eastwood Mall were bigger, I would have loved to try them. Alas, they were only for children. 0 Published 46 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
7	Discernment The sculpture of St. Ignatius of Loyola at the Ateneo de Manila High School is by artist Julie Lluch, who works both in terracotta and bronze. He is depicted as holding a book, which represents his Spiritual Exercises. Both the book and his kneeling stanc... 0 Published 54 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
3	I am Made by sculptor Juan Sajid Imao, seven of the eight bronze panels on the doors of the Ateneo de Manila High School's St. Stanislaus Kostka Chapel represent the seven "I am" statements of Jesus in the Gospel of St. John:I am the bread of life.I am the l... 0 Published 58 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
6	Peek-a-boo Looking out towards the garden…and looking in towards the pews and retablo…from one of the wrought iron windows of the St. Stanislaus Kostka Chapel of the Ateneo de Manila High School. 0 Published 59 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
7	Crazy drivers Have I already mentioned that Manila's traffic can get really horrible? This is at the corner of North Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA), where two large malls are located—SM City North EDSA and Trinoma. 0 Published 63 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
3	Touch me A pair of hands on driftwood welcome guests to Tatung's Garden Café. 0 Published 78 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
6	Natural light The atrium of Robinsons Galleria mall. 0 Published 82 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
4	Inside outside Aside from interior halls dedicated to various restaurants (see yesterday's post), Robinsons Galleria mall also has a wing whose restaurants have direct access to the outdoors, which lets them stay open later than the rest of the mall. Called "Veranda," t... 0 Published 87 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
4	Pick one East Lane on the second level of Robinsons Galleria mall is a corridor studded with restaurants on both sides. 0 Published 88 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
1	Caution: low headroom What does a city do with the low but wide space under the ramps of flyovers (elevated highways)? Turn it into a parking lot for motorcycles! An eminently practical use at the heavily congested corner of EDSA and Ortigas Avenue in Quezon City.... 0 Published 90 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
8	My home is your home We recently discovered yet another lovely restaurant near our house: Tatung's Garden Café. Chef Myke Sarthou converted the ground floor of their house in Sikatuna Village into a warm, intimate, and quite romantic setting for diners to enjoy his delectable... 0 Published 94 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
6	Fashionable plants At Resurrection Furniture and Found Objects Gallery (see yesterday's post), reused and recycled objects are not only found in the pieces that they sell. Everything at No. 10 Alabama Street is old, refurbished, recycled or repurposed. I couldn't help but n... 0 Published 97 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
9	Something else Number 10 Alabama Street in New Manila, Quezon City (see the previous two posts) is the home of Resurrection Furniture and Found Objects Gallery. They sell a few original vintage pieces, like the vanity and ornate mirror, but their strength lies in giving... 0 Published 98 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
5	Tea for me The driveway of yesterday's 10-A Alabama Street, New Manila, Quezon City. 0 Published 99 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
6	Blue bird of happiness At 10-A Alabama Street, New Manila, Quezon City. 0 Published 100 days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
2	Gayuma Noun. A love spell, either in potion form or a charm. Gayuma ni Maria. A restaurant in Sikatuna Village in Quezon City with some of the naughtiest names for food I have ever encountered. And if you need some assistance during this day of love, leave... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
4	Beacon Circular and with open grillwork rather than solid walls to bring the outdoors in, the parish church of Santa Maria Della Strada (Our Lady of the Way) in Quezon City was inaugurated in 1983. 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
7	100% Happiness I've never bought shoes from TOMS. And it's not because I think they're expensive or I don't like them. Unfortunately for me, the local distributor doesn't carry the women's styles in my size. I like their outdoor shop in TriNoma mall and its colorful mur... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
8	White and brights With just a few more tables outside and in our low-ceilinged corner, tiny Ted P's along Maginhawa Street in Sikatuna Village isn't the most comfortable place to eat in, but it's bright and cheerful, and the only place we know that serves whole-wheat pizza... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
2	Leading nowhere I've always wondered about these white steps on Temple Drive in Quezon City. They just lead to an empty lot, which you can't walk through anyway because it's fenced in. 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
2	Gentle The stepped water feature around the Ateneo de Manila University's Rizal Library. 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
3	Soon Back in May 2009, I posted a photo of this enormous building that has stood unfinished for ages at the back of Quezon City Hall. I still don't know anything about its original owners or what happened, but it has finally been bought by Suntrust Properties ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
1	Under the Christmas tree A new toy for Christmas, anyone?Liteware Computers is an authorized Apple seller and service center, and is housed in two small converted apartment units along Kamias Road in Quezon City—a rather noisy and dingy area full of tiny shops selling hardware an... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
4	For the greater glory of God The Loyola House of Studies is the home of Philippine Jesuits-in-training (through their Juniorate, Philosophy, Theology, and Tertianship years), and their faculty and formators. This iconic facade of the building, which was built in 1965, overlooks the M... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
4	To stay together A rosary made up of Christmas parol surrounds a Filipino family praying together in a nipa hut, at the lawn in front of the East Asian Pastoral Institute. 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
7	There must be a better way …to cool a medium-sized building than this. 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
10	Upper-middle Modern, upper-middle class houses in Quezon City typically stand on 200 to 300 square meter lots with hardly any room for a garden. 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
6	U In an effort to ease the flow of the metro's badly congested traffic, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) decided to close off most national roads' intersections and put U-turn slots instead. Their positioning are trial-and-error experime... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
7	After the party Ateneo de Manila University's school color is blue and the Class of 1986 graduated right after the People Power Revolution, hence the name of this year's grand alumni homecoming: RE BLUE TION. 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
9	A rainy Sunday in December When you just want to stay in bed the whole day. 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
11	Burberry No taxi driver in the Philippines can ever afford a real Burberry jacket on what they earn. 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
20	And life goes on A typical scene near major public transportation hubs in Metro Manila, with jeepneys, vendors, graffiti and glued-on announcements on footbridge pillars, thick and tangled utility cables, and people texting. 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
9	Open steps If I studied in either Ateneo de Manila University or Miriam College and had to cross this footbridge everyday, I would never wear a skirt! Bridges around the world: Sunday Bridges 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
8	Light show The building across Eastwood Mall—which looks to be specially made for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies if the staff dining areas in the round tower are any indication—has multi-colored lights running horizontally across its entire facade.... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
2	The worker Saint Joseph, the carpenter, the worker and the earthly father of Jesus, lends his name to San Jose Major Seminary, a diocesan seminary located inside the Loyola Heights campus of Ateneo de Manila University. It is under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuba... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
8	New life? According to its website, the architecture of the five-story Ascension Columbary in Quezon City is supposed to "suggest a heavenly ascent due to its unique form patterned after a Bishop's miter." When we asked for directions to the place, however, people ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
2	Wheel of life The colorful, playful, paper cut-out style artwork in the second floor lobby of the Philippine Educational Theater Association's PETA-PHINMA Theater provides a whimsical contrast to the equally colorful but much more serious mural on its ground floor.... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
12	Asong Pinoy A new sculpture in the plaza of Eastwood Mall pays tribute to the Aspin, short for Asong Pinoy or Filipino Dog. The Philippine native dog was called Askal—Asong Kalye or Street Dog—until the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) decided to take up its ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
13	D.I.Y. burgers Another new little eatery in our neighborhood is The Burger Project. Choose your bun (whole wheat, potato, sesame seed), patty (tofu, chicken, beef), cheese, toppings and sauces. Quite innovative since most burger places here, franchise or independent, le... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
14	Rat Pack As Francisca pointed out in my DQ ice cream cake post, Halloween is gaining a foothold in Metro Manila. Especially in the South, villages decorate for the holiday and kids go trick-or-treating. And what's driving it? Commercialism, of course. Hotels have ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details
12	Don't ask Not only is there no consistency to the design of Metro Manila's footbridges or overpasses, some of their locations aren't very well thought out either. But the one at Philcoa, the same one with the cute anime graffiti, has got to be the worst. It's the o... 0 Published 100+ days ago in My Manila: Profile, Details

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