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Beset by the winter blues and a strange restlessness during the last few weeks of January, I felt a change was in order. While leafing thro...

After two days of skating on the Amsterdam canals, it was time for a change of scene. Thanks to a friend's Dutch partner and his family,...

Marlon and I sprung our Valentine surprises one night early (since it's all about not riding with the herd). Here's a partial peek a...

... or in English, skating on the canals. Yay! Just as winter doesn't automatically translate to snow, it also doesn't necessarily ...

This week on MangoJuiced, I make a case for the stay-at-home Valentine date . If I was living in Manila, I could wrap up the argument for a ...

After knitting a very long scarf that I didn't like very much, I finally completed a knitting project that I actually like. I found a pa...

Thanks to my obsessive monitoring of the weather reports (which are always accurate here), I was prepared for a cold snap this week—temperat...

Holly Becker’s blog  Decor8  is one of the most successful interior design blogs in the blogosphere today, and one of my regular sources of ...

Tangerine Tango won't let me go just yet, it seems. While looking through my archives for photos of my tangerine accessories ( featured ...

Pantone has announced that its Color of the Year for 2012 is Tangerine Tango . I don't know how they decide these things, but consider m...

I stayed in this Istanbul apartment last October—and I loved it so much, I "stole" something to take home with me. Can you guess w...

I first discovered The Twist on Pinterest . I thought it was cute, neat and perfect for those days when I just don't want to deal with m...

You know you're getting old when you start giving and getting appliances for Christmas. This is a little late, but we only opened Chr...

Last fall, I enrolled in Blogging Your Way, a blogging e-course  by Holly Becker of Decor8 and Leslie Shewring of A Creative Mint . The fou...

Everyone needs a number one fan. The Ateneo College Glee Club already had its own when I joined it as a freshman in 1999. His name was Dr....

I've been searching for something graphic, bright and fun to perk up our mostly neutral living room. Turns out all I had to do was look ...

Inspired by the recently launched Department of Tourism campaign , I looked through two years worth of photos ( without the help of Google,...

Vacation's over, and I'm back in Amsterdam! Marlon welcomed me home with so much love—a handwritten sign at the airport, a sparklin...

What did you do in 2011 that you'd never done before? LIVED IN EUROPE. (This is the big one!) Traveled in Europe without having to ap...

Marlon and I celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary with five days in Boracay. Holing up in our own little world is just the kind of thin...