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I have always wanted to go to Marikina! I heard a lot of good things there and how clean it is. I would really like to see it myself. The restaurant we visited today was recommended by my boss and I am eager to taste their famous pancakes! + Rustic Mornings + They do have an indoor setting. This is just where we chose to sit. The serving that we got was HUUUUGGEEEE. I don't know if we're allowed to share but I wish we could because it was hard to finish. I even had Reagan clean my plate. I am not to complain, I just hope that I could take in all of those lovely deliciousness in my stomach. + Marikina Shoe Museum +  A few steps away is a museum that houses what Marikina is most famous for: shoes. It's a really small building and inspite of it, not as cold as I would hope. The aircon barely works sadly. There were not a lot of people in that day so we were able to look at the displays without waiting for others to finish. They have a small ...

(I feel like I'm making a mess of my timelines. I still have a lot of blogs (Bataan and Lion King to name a few) left unwritten and I'm writing this first out of everything!) I still remembered that day. I've just wiped out all of the remaining credit card balances I had. Out of nowhere I suddenly thought of visiting philippineconcerts when I saw it. My heart stopped. No. Why didn't I heard of this earlier? Fast forward to yesterday. Ahh. This is the second time we've got seats on the elevated sides and hell yeah I am not going back. An experience 3 years ago with my favorite band will forever hurt me. It was the worst feeling I had of all the times I've been to the concert of The Script  (for the opening at least, the rest of the night was superb) and I just don't want to waste money on that anymore, nor at any concert I will attend to the future come.  Now two things:  1. I was able to enjoy Paint the Town Green with 0 ha...

Two days before our Japan flight my phone started to suddenly turn off. What's worse is it won't connect to wifi or data at all. A day of this and I decided to buy a phone a day before our trip. I am already going to spend money for 10 days and I just want something decent to use. Plus, my re-contract is only a few months away anyway so no need to splurge on a new device. I didn't research that much and just went on with the first phone that I found that's decent. Motorola 5GS. There's a pricier version that I was told to have a better camera but at that time I can't see the difference so I got this instead. So anyways the specs that I am looking for are simple. Anything more than: 2000mAH battery, 2GB RAM, 16GB. Moto 5G have the ff: 3000mAH, 4GB RAM and 32GB. So far so good. Like all of my gadgets the first thing I always do is get a case. I've gone to St. Francis and almost gave up that I would get a case. I even felt offended w...

+ Odaiba +  For our last day we decided to go to Odaiba first. Our flight is still at 8 PM and we don't know it at that time but thought it was a good idea to be further away from Narita Airport. Odaiba is a tech island and is really modern. I was planning to see more of the island like do the ferris wheel or see the the small liberty statue but we found out there is not much time. We did get to see what we came for here-- the Gundam Unicorn! Our timing was also perfect because we only had to wait for a small time for the changing to Destruct  mode.  For lunch we headed over to Hokuriku Toyama Kaiten Sushi Premium. It's a restaurant we found on the top floor that has a sushi train. Come to think of it we've been here for a long time yet have not eaten any sushi. The experience was not as fluid as I expected, our plates come late, sometimes wrong. Even our bill was incorrect! One thing that I noticed though is that the restaurant doesn't loo...

+ Tokyo Skytree + Currently the highest tower in the world, it is no wonder they get a ton of visitors each day. Today we managed to get here àt a good that we didn't have to wait for too long in line nor pay extra for the exclusive line for foreigners.  There are two observatories according to height: 350M and 450M. We only got the lower end because we do not think the additional 1000JPY is worth it for now.  The elevators have varying light themes to maybe entertain the passengers but it was so quick you could barely notice you're already there. When we reached upstairs there are already A LOT of people. I really thought we're the first ones! The morning is a bit hazy that we weren't able to see Mt. Fuji. But with the wide range the observatory offers, it's still fun finding different landmarks on the view up top. Skytree has a shopping mall downstairs so you won't go hungry nor have any reason to not add shopping b...

That moment when our first visit at St. Marc's is at Japan! + Bunkyo Festival +  Our visit is at the edge of winter onto spring. Which means we are too early for Sakura but just in time for the very first blooms of Plum to show.  From what I've read, there are a lot of bloom watching that happens in Japan only that the sakura / cherry trees caught on as the most popular. When we arrived at the Bunkyo Festival's first day, indeed there are some plums available but not as much as I imagined nor hope to smell. I remembered a blog saying other than having different shades of white, pink and violets, plums emit a sweet smell when in full bloom unlike sakura. Next time I would like to time our travel that is within the two blooms. But I won't complain as much since we are gifted with a few trees with initial blooms.  We've arrived too early though, hence not much stalls that are open. We did get to see a performance from a guy and h...